Hi Mario, Thanks for the help. I will study Stephan's Contacts DB and have a look at the core tiddler you mentioned. If am still confused, I'll post further details of what am trying to do.
Thanks. James On Sunday, 7 September 2014 18:49:54 UTC+10, PMario wrote: > > Hi James, > > TL;DR > I think, it would be easier, if you describe your usecase a bit closer. > So may be there are some existing experiments already, that you can use. > > --------------------------- > > TiddlyWiki edit mode, is an imput form. > It manipulates the "Draft of 'xyz' " tiddler. > When you click done, it takes the content of all input fields and creates > a ew tiddler eg: xyz > If you click the download button like used on tiddlywiki.com it saves a > file, that contains your newly created tiddlers. > that's it. > > If you open the "Advanced search" panel at tiddlywiki.com, select the > "shadow" tab and > use the searchstring "edittemplate" (without quotes) > you will get a list of shadow tiddlers. > > Those, that start with "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate are the interesting ones. > Start your investigation with $:/core/ui/EditTemplate. ,,, > > But be warned: > * TW's UI is built using the core widgets. > * Every widget has its own docs tiddler, but if you want to know, how > they work togeter, you'll need to analyse the TW UI code > * The widgets are very powerful, but are not meant to be used by novice > users. > > So I think, it would be easier, if you describe your usecase a bit closer. > So may be there are some existing experiments already, that you can use. > > eg: "Creating a simple Contacts DB" .. from Stephan Hradeck at: > http://tw5magick.tiddlyspot.com/ > > Despite the word "simple" in the tiddler title, the used mechanisms are > very sophisticated! > ... his site uses TW 5.0.7-beta, which is outdated. So there may be some > incompatibilities with the latest released beta! > But it is a good source, to see, what can be done and how (if you read the > tiddlers source code:). > > hope that helps > 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/d/optout.
