> It would be brilliant if the macrocall widget provided a way to assign its result to a specified variable. You'd then be able say things like this:
Good idea, Astrid; I think it would be worth making a GitHub issue to discuss, if you'd be interested in working on the pull request? Best wishes Jeremy On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Astrid Elocson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Måns, > > I suspect the only way to achieve this at present is to use a JavaScript > macro. > > You can generate the desired string via *<$list > filter="[list[ThisTiddler!!listfield]]">{{!!title}} </$list>*. And if you > define a macro *m* with that as its value, you can then say *<$macrocall > $name="m" $output="text/plain"/>* to obtain the string as plain text. > > But you can't pass a macrocall widget as an argument to a macro, i.e. you > *can't* say: > > *<$macrocall $name="sentences" category="All items" sentences=<$macrocall > $name="m" $output="text/plain"/>/>* > > This is because you can't pass one widget as an attribute to another. > > It would be brilliant if the macrocall widget provided a way to assign its > result to a specified variable. You'd then be able say things like this: > > > *<$macrocall $name="m" $output="text/plain" $variable="sentences">* > *<$macrocall $name="sentences" category="All items" > sentences=<<sentences>>/>* > *</$macrocall>* > > I can think of lots of places where that would be extremely useful. > > The set widget has a filter option which almost does what you want: > > *<$set name="sentences" filter=* > *"[list[ThisTiddler!!listfield]]">* > *<$macrocall $name="sentences" category="All items" > sentences=<<sentences>>/>* > > *</$set>* > > But it has the side effect of wrapping double square brackets round any > items that contain spaces, which rather defeats the point here. > > It would be nice if there was a *join* filter operator for performing > concatenation (with a separator as its parameter), so you could say this: > > *<$set name="sentences" filter=**"[list[ThisTiddler!!listfield]join[ ]]">* > *<$macrocall $name="sentences" category="All items" > sentences=<<sentences>>/>* > *</$set>* > > – æ > > -- > 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.
