Absolutely! I am still in awe of all the excellent people involved! Jeremy's commitment to the community here is a very rare and precious thing! Thank you so much! I was thinking while we are so focused on external files at the moment maybe a better question to ask might be what more integration into tiddlywiki might be possible with them.
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Blake Blacksmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok. Thats unfortunate but I appreciate your effort. For now I'll stick to > dragging and dropping the absolute path from my file explorer. > > Thanks for your continued great work with TW5! > > > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Blake >> >> Is it possible to have TiddlyWiki have an active drag and drop region in >>> the edit-text window that will prevent the browser from opening the file >>> and instead paste the files relative path(or absolute path is unavailable)? >>> >> >> I've done some more tests with dragging a file from Finder/Explorer into >> a text editor in the TiddlyWiki browser window. The default handling on >> Chrome is to navigate to the incoming file. We can prevent that navigation, >> but we still can't access the path of the file, and so we can't paste the >> relative path of the file. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> >> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/k-cMEGkOV-8/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/k-cMEGkOV-8/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 a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/k-cMEGkOV-8/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. 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