Hi Tobias
>> You'll see that the current tiddler is blank when the tiddler is >> displayed as the topbar. That's the problem: you're requesting the list >> field of the current tiddler, and the current tiddler is blank when you're >> in the top bar. >> > > That's highy confusing and quite a constraint compared to TWc. > I'm the one that is confused. It sounds like you're expecting "currentTiddler" to have a value within the topbar. What value should that be? Why is it a constraint? > > Are you suggesting that the context is non-existing because we're not in > the story-river? > Yes, that's correct. > Now, if that's the case, how could the widget that is rendering a tiddler > outside the story-river into some placeholder possibly know what tiddler > we're dealing with? > I think you're misunderstanding how currentTiddler works. It's not the tiddler that is being rendered. It identifies the tiddler that should be used as the default tiddler title within a particular scope. > If I look at the *SiteTitle* in TWc, I see a *tiddler=SiteTitle*... Why > doesn't that exist in tw5 to provide a proper context when there's no > story-column for a tiddler to reside in? I can see how you would want to > some simple way to do an equivalent to *story.findContainingTiddler* (TWc), > rather than just get the tiddler context for some widget, but... if there > is no story, this context should be set by the widget to whatever the > context tiddler for it was when rendering. > Again, I think you're misunderstanding the purpose and function of currentTiddler, and I don't really understand what is the issue that you are thinking is a problem. Best wishes Jeremy. > > Not? > > Best wishes, Tobias. > -- 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.
