Dear Tobias, Thank you for kindly taking the time to review this issue. I have quite literally spent the last 4-5 hours trying to get around this issue... in the process I learned a lot about customizing TW5, but ultimately felt defeated as I couldn't reason my way through the macro documentation to a solution.
I'm going to upgrade to the pre-release, and try out your recommendations tomorrow. Your help is much appreciated On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:18:56 UTC-8, Tobias Beer wrote: > > Hi aaron, > > There are a few issues here. > > 1. make sure not to confuse the terms widget and tiddler, i.e. there > are no "draft widgets" in the sense you described it > 2. you can't use the ViewWidget <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ViewWidget> in > a macro like that > - the documentation would probably benefit from mentioning that > - macros simply do text-substitution, no (evaluation via) > wikification > - what you need to use instead is to get the selected option and > save it into a variable using the SetWidget > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#SetWidget> > - and to wrap your create button with all that to make the > variable available to its scope > 3. some examples for the SelectWidget > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#SelectWidget> on tiddlywiki.com specify state > tiddlers that are not system tiddlers, a pattern you adopted > - this is a poor design choice as it pollutes the tiddler space > - any such state should be put either under *$:/temp/some-select*, > or at best: *$:/state/some-select*, never just *some-select* > - so, someone should update those documentation tiddlers > 4. there's a bug in the current release 5.1.9 <http://tiddlywiki.com/> > where > the set widget won't refresh properly, so changing what's selected won't > update any variable assignments based on that > - this is fixed in 5.1.10-prerelease > <http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/> > - which brings me to how your example could / would / should > actually work... > - try the below out with the 5.1.10-prerelease > <http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease>: > > \define the-tags() > foo bar > \end > > \define the-title() > $(currentTiddler)$ — $(selected)$ > \end > > \define create-new(title) > <$button> > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" > title=<<the-title>> > tags=<<the-tags>> /> > <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]"> > {{$:/core/images/new-button}} > </$list> > </$button> > \end > > <$select tiddler=<<qualify "$:/temp/select-profile">> default=''> > <$list filter='[tag[HelloThere]sort[title]]'> > <option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$view field='title'/></option> > </$list> > </$select> > > <$set name="state" value=<<qualify "$:/temp/select-profile">>> > <$set name="selected" filter="[<state>get[text]]"> > <<create-new>> > </$set> > </$set> > > Trying this out has one more *core* problem which is that we do not have > a way yet to tell a filter to not return a string of "listified" titles but > a plain string. What does that mean? It means that if [<state>get[text]] > returns a title that has spaces in it, it will be returned as *[[the > title]]* instead of just *the title*... which obviously breaks your title > pattern in that you do not want any double square brackets in it. > > A solution to the problem is proposed in this issue which thus appears > crucial with respect to the usability of the *SelectWidget*: > > *#2057 list accessors for variables and text references* > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2057 > > Eventually, when all this is fixed and released, the SelectWidget > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#SelectWidget> documentation should show examples > of how to actually use a selected option, e.g. in a macro as you do, rather > than just show how it all writes some selected state to some state tiddler > and how we can display that somewhere else. > > 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/decc87a0-e17d-4f45-8755-47de8ce4a507%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
