Folks,
This links to a prototype editor for TiddlyWiki I have been working on. Although this is functional, I have done this primarily as a working proof of concept. My main goal is to put forward some ideas about what the TiddlyWiki internal editor might look like. http://www.teamkimmel.org/TW518Editor.html Because of the security concerns in the design of TiddlyWiki and my inability to figure out a way around them, the editor itself is an external file, editor.html, which is incorporated in the wiki through a borderless iframe. If you are going to play with this on your machine you’ll need both files. You’ll also need to edit the tiddler, Editor, to point to the correct location for editor.html. http://www.teamkimmel.org/editor.html My key ideas then: 1. The editor should have a toolbar above the main editing window which would contain icons/buttons/elements which would be the equivalent of Stefan’s and Ton’s Bookmarklets and Danielo’s keyboard snippets. 2. The toolbar should be extendable to allow additional user specified functions. The last three icons in editor.html are functions that I created to help me convert imported emails (the < and > signs confuse TiddlyWiki), spreadsheets (this function converts the tabs to appropriate pipes, “|”) and HTML files (changing some of the HTML elements to the TiddlyWiki equivalents.) Other folks will have other needs and I’ll probably come up with some myself. 3. The space used by the “Preview” mode could also be used for optional help. If the Preview were one tab and the Help a second tab, the Hide/Show Preview button could hide or show both and the user could select as desired. 4. The specific Help tiddlers ought to be specific enough and short enough that the user can quickly find a specific technique to accomplish what they want. Tobias’ http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Markup%20Reference is a good example of the way this should be though I would break it up into smaller topics. Because I haven’t been able to figure out how to do this in TiddlyWiki itself, there are some kludge work-arounds that I used to make this prototype functional. This prototype relies on the user copying and pasting the tiddler into the editor on the left and the copying and pasting the edited results back into the “Tiddler” tab on the right. In my case, the “Preview” tab is not a true preview but simply a transcluded copy of the tiddler. This does allow the user to see the impact of their changes without scrolling away to another tiddler. <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-mVPqxGwGrWU/VLaFwJ3TGsI/AAAAAAAAA1k/ZAsUJQUzJ6I/s1600/editor.jpg> This is a work in progress and there are some glitches still. Although I’m now using it, I don’t actually suggest others use it instead of the TiddlyWiki internal editor. -- 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.
