Hi Mark My quick test on a Chrome browser suggests that links dragged from a Chrome > tab used as a file browser also may contain the full file path name. To me, > dragging from a browser tab would be the most universal way of doing > things, since a plugin would have to be specific not only to the browser > but also the operating system (it's likely that Linux and Mac are going to > present link drag/drops differently than Win OS). >
You may have convinced me. I'd forgotten that other browsers also provide a directory viewer for file: URIs (I nearly missed it on Chrome because it doesn't actually let you drag a folder onto the Chrome icon or window). I've created a ticket here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1067 > On the old TW, with the Javscript plugin, I would probably just have > written a routine that grabbed a list of files and created a tiddler for > each one containing a link of the right type pointing to a local relative > path. I'm finding it harder to get into coding in TW5. > There's a lot more code in TW5, and it can be hard to track down where things are done. In this case, the area of interest is here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core%2Fmodules%2Fwidgets%2Fdropzone.js#L87 > On a related note, I recently tried dragging a file into TiddlyWiki's text editor on a Mac+Safari and the file-path was inserted as desired. This is unlike in Windows with Chrome, Firefox, or Safari where the dragged file redirects the web-page to the dragged file. Do you mean dragging from Finder or from Safari's file browser? I see the same behaviour of navigating to the file when dragging a file from Finder to Chrome on OS X. I haven't explored whether dragging a file into TiddlyWiki's text editor can be made to consistently insert the path, I'll investigate. Best wishes Jeremy. > > Thanks! > Mark > > On Friday, November 7, 2014 8:36:20 AM UTC-8, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> \Ah, OK, yes, in that case the browser exposes an URL link as text, and >> so we could do the global-to-local transformation etc. The trouble is that >> I'm not sure that it's worth it, given that it would only work with the >> Firefox file browser. I think it would be more useful to spend the effort >> on getting TiddlyFox/TiddlyClip to make it possible to drag files from the >> OS Finder/Explorer and get a relative link made automatically. >> >> >> -- > 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 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.
