Hi Jed It might be the case that two special purpose action widgets are called for -- one to manipulate arbitrary ordered lists, and another to manipulate tag-like lists. It appears these functions are used for for very different things. What must be born in mind in what the list is used for once created - for example, for tag-like lists, the most useful facility is to search for an instance of a tag -- multiple tags are redundant -- and the order is often irrelevant.
I have used standard methods for manipulating lists from the core -- arbitrary ordered lists will require custom coding or modifications to the core. That seems to justify a whole new widget (or set of widgets) for manipulating and using such lists. regards On Monday, 12 October 2015 12:04:23 UTC+2, Jed Carty wrote: > > -- 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. >> > > I disagree with this. I think it is very important to support arbitrary > ordered lists. One of the bigger problems I had making my demo was that the > parseStringArray function in the core removed duplicates from the list. > Since the idea is to move toward using polymorphic fields I think that the > basic operations need to be as flexible as possible. Trying to code for > more restrictive operations and then relaxing those restrictions is going > to be harder than going the other way. > > A simple example of where this would be useful would be for tracking items > sold where if arbitrary lists are supported you would just need to click a > button that adds the item name to the list. You could then use the count > widget to get display how many of each item was sold. > If this gets added to the core than doing something like that would > require almost no knowledge and nothing outside of the core tiddlywiki to > create. I think that is important. > -- 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/c53d1a49-98e1-4ef2-87f0-05fbb762a022%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
