Something that may work for the original question of opening a random tiddler when a button is pressed, and something that I would like to see if possible, is a simple RNG that gets called by a message (like the 'throw the dice' button that can be called by a widget message). That way to implement the 'open a random tiddler' function you initialize the random value into a state tiddler, and then each time you click the button it opens a tiddler based on the current value in the tiddler and updates the value for the next time. Or updates the value and then opens the tiddler, I am not sure how the widget messages are executed so the order may matter.
Some interface like <$button><$action-sendmessage $message='tm-rng' $state=<<placeToStoreNumber>> $range=[lowerEnd, upperEnd] $stepsize=someValue/>Generate Values</$button> could open interesting options for new uses. A parameter that allows you to select the distribution would be interesting, but probably outside the current scope of TW. On Monday, October 6, 2014 5:37:00 PM UTC-6, Philip Coltharp wrote: > > I envision a widget defined like so.. a list in side a button like so. ( > Imagine this was put in a tiddler on http://tiddlywiki.com/) > > <$button to="<$list filter="[tag[Widgets]] pick-at-random="1">">Go To > Random Widget Tiddler</$button> > > *OR* > > <$button to="<pick-at-random from="<$list filter="[tag[Widgets]]">">">Go > To Random Widget Tiddler</$button> > > The ideal is to get a button to send a user to a tiddler picked at random > from a list. > > I could do this in Classic Tiddlywiki but I want to learn Tiddlywiki5. > How might one do this in TW5 differently than in TWC? > > > -- 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.
