I've gone ahead with the change to the navigator widget to maintain the "current-tiddler" field on the history list object:
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/9bb600299f237f566e8aba6379c7bcdc8ed5e236 Best wishes Jeremy. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]>wrote: > > ... which basically means to create a new feature request at github, to > allow the list filter to understand the HistoryList content. ... I'd need > to have a look at the source, if it does already. > > The problem of course at the moment is that the history list is a JSON > tiddler containing an array, and so is not parseable by the current text > reference mechanism. > > One way around this would be to extend the text reference syntax to be > able to navigate more complex JSON structures. > > But a quick and dirty solution would be for the navigator to update a > field on the history list called "current-tiddler" that contains the title > of the tiddler at the top of the history stack. I'll have a look. > > For the "open" tab of the sidebar I'd like to have a slightly different > behaviour: to highlight the tiddler(s) that are currently visible, taking > the scrolling of the story river into account. That would match the > behaviour of many docs sites (such as > https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs). > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:03 PM, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:11:20 PM UTC+1, Leo Staley wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:50:51 AM UTC-7, PMario wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:13:17 AM UTC+1, Leo Staley wrote: >>>>> >>>>> ...... If you open a new tiddler, the previous one is hidden, but its >>>>> title is visible in the TiddlersBar in a greyed out color, as if they were >>>>> in tabs. >>>>> >>>> >> >>> If you open the "right sidebar: Tools:" menue and activate the "zoomin" >>> view, you basically have the single page mode. >>> Changing the "tab button" colors will be trickier. At the moment, there >>> isn't any CSS class activated, to do different styling. >>> >>> So, I've been doing hours of digging, and perhaps you could help. >>> >>> So after installing breadcrumbs and selecting Zoomin, the goal is to get >>> breadcrumbs working so that the breadcrumb for the currently open tiddler >>> has a different color than the other breadcrumbs. >>> >> >> As I wrote. Any mechanism, that does the selecting of visible tiddlers, >> would be needed to add a class eg: tw-xxx-selected to the button of the >> active tiddler. This class is needed to create propper CSS rules. >> >> Ton's _breadcrumbs tiddler is created with a list of buttons. ... If you >> have a look at the "ButtonWidget" description, you'll see that there is a >> "selectedClass" parameter. But for me it seems it is intended for a >> different usecase. .... but anyway ... experimenting needs to start there, >> if you want to find out. >> >> Or you'll need a completely different approach. >> >> Since you want to style the active tiddlerXXXButton differently, you'll >> need to have a look, which existing TW5 mechanism is similar, to what you >> want. .... As you wrote, it's the "right sidebar tab" handling. ... So the >> starting point is: $:/core/ui/SideBarLists ... it uses the "<<tab>>" macro. >> ... So I think, it could be used to create something that could be very, >> similar to the "TiddlerTabsMacro" ... but you'd need to create everything >> on your own, since Ton's approach is different. >> >> So it would be needed, to dynamically create the tabs for the <<tab>> >> macro or create a new "breadcrumbs" widget / macro ... , that uses the >> $:/HistoryList >> tiddler >> >> >> The tiddler's which should help us seem to be $:/core/ui/SideBar/Open, >>> $:/HistoryList, and $:/StoryList. I can't understand any of the stuff >>> beyond seeing that those would be where to start. >>> >> >> For me the StoryList is not the right info, to be used for a >> functionality named " breadcrumbs". I'd use the $:/HistoryList to populate >> the breadcrumbs. >> >> So it should be possible to write something like this: >> >> <$list filter="[list[$:/HistoryList]limit[10]]">...</$list> >> >> ... which basically means to create a new feature request at github, to >> allow the list filter to understand the HistoryList content. ... I'd need >> to have a look at the source, if it does already. >> >> I know, this are no solutions, because atm for me some low level theme >> functions are more important. >> >> At the moment, I'm removing probably "redundant" CSS rules from the >> "vanilla" theme. I think the rules used there are way to specific, which >> makes modding harder than it should be. Also switching / copying from one >> theme to an other may destroy the layout. (As you saw already) >> >> eg: If you open the $:/core/ui/SideBarLists tiddler in the "story river" >> and select the "Open:" or "More: Tags" tabs. Also open them in the right >> sidebar. You see, the results are different. .. Which for me points out, >> that there is a consistency problem. >> >> But to prove my ideas, I need to have something that looks exactly like >> the existing vanilla theme, and is easier to modify. I also want to have a >> responsive % based CSS layout for my desktop. So I can do a browser zoom to >> modify the text size without changing the proportions of the overall theme. >> A second theme needs to be optimized for mobile devices and an other one >> for presentations. All of them need to be perfectly "switch-able" >> >> In TWc I'm using my own percentage based themes. _All_ of them are >> compatible enough to switch between them without breaking the >> functionality. But those themes are kind of "old school" with super >> complicated StyleSheets. So using "new school" html5 and TW5 stuff will >> need some more work, if it should be easy to use too :) >> >> have fun! >> -mario >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. 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