Thank you Jeremy! This is helpful. What I'm struggling with is inability to use the result of a macro as a parameter for a filter, or a value of a variable or a field in the current tiddler. Basically, what I wanna do is a tiddler that shows a list of all tiddlers that were created on a given date (that is chosen by $edit-text widget - but it is in wrong format, so I'm using macro to convert one date string to another).
-- Best regards, Dmitry Ivashkin On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Dmitry > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Dmitry Ivashkin < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Also, where can I find documentation about methods and properties of >> "this" object in javascript macros? >> > > The "this" object in a JavaScript macro points to the containing widget > instance in the render tree. So that means it has the methods described in > widget.js: > > > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core/modules/widgets/widget.js > > >> >> this.getVariable("currentTiddler") >> >> but couldn't find any sort of documentation. >> > > There is some documentation in the source code for widget.js. > > >> Same for *story* object, etc. >> > > There isn't really a "story" object in TW5 in the same way as TWC. > > >> I have a tiddler with a custom field in it, and would like to be able >>> to set its value from macro. Macro will be called everytime some other >>> field of the same tiddler changes >>> >> > Is there a way to achieve that? >>> >> > Macros are just used to return a chunk of wikitext for further processing. > They should not make modifications to tiddlers in the wiki store. The > reason is that you can't control when the macro is called; it may be called > repeatedly as part of refresh processing. So it's important that macros do > not have any other side effects beyond generating their text. > > I've updated the docs a little to reflect the points you've raised: > > > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/fecf3a556fc1e84f5d8a056b08cadff0532dd81d > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > >> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/jeP2-qlpdrk/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/jeP2-qlpdrk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
