Hi Metabele / Jed, > I had a look at your contribution -- I think a special purpose widget for > the manipulation of lists would be preferable to extending the > $action-setfield widget. There is clearly a need for multiple lists with > functionality akin to that of the 'tags' field -- but how to best implement > this is unclear to me. >
As you have seen, I'm all for extending the action-setwidget as the codebase is basically the same and then some... so big chunks will need duplication. Except, I have not studied yet as to how one widget can use another as a base class... then that would be an optin. There are many different possibilities for order in a list -- my proposal > is to use filter expressions to order the list > That sounds like an interesting idea, especially for persist-sorting. -- how many other possibilities for order are desirable? > Whatever core filters are available. > -- can the existing filters be modified/extended to achieve this? > What needs extending? Afaics, you simply work the filter on your list items and that's it. -- are multiple instances of the same string necessary in a list (currently > only one is permitted)? > I would perhaps not start with that for now. Maybe later if someone truly needs a *basket: coffee coffee coffee* field. -- if so -- what for? > It could be a sequence of sorts, e.g. some log of what happened or some instructions of what to do, like moves, e.g. *UP UP RIGHT UP LEFT UP*. -- would users prefer the widget to allow for the addition/removal of > multiple tags (like my $x-setrefs widget)? > With a simple syntax to do that, sure. Perhaps it can be designed to begin with having more of a VarsWidget than a SetWidget approach in mind. For example, if it had a *$remove* attribute this could, by default be interpreted as a bracketedList, so you can tell it to remove a number of tags, same with *$add*. I became bogged down with possibilities and needed some feedback. :-) Best wishes, — tb -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/9457bacf-1089-4b85-ac28-a48e598488c2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
