Hi Jed > 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).
Yes, that sounds right to me. It would make a good plugin. Best wishes Jeremy On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Jed Carty <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
