Ok, I added the electron.js file that I pass to electron as the first argument.
https://gist.github.com/Arlen22/45f1a460c9e348fa50ad On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Arlen Beiler <arlen...@gmail.com> wrote: > It may be a bug, and we may need to look into it. > > See my link in the last post, or quoted below, showing how to use NodeJS > data folders with Electron so it saves correctly. > > Please do take all reasonable precautions in using this as well, and I > can't warrent that it is perfect, but it's for your reference. > > Enjoy :) > -Arlen > > > On Dec 24, 2016 20:47, "Dmitry Sokolov" <dmitry.v.soko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I see dropping modified tiddler as a bug. > > I am intensively working with PBWorks at the moment (while preparing > transfer to TW in future). > PBWorks gives you all indicators of the processes taking place. I know, > for example, that saving finished when a URL with no "edit" appeared. Then, > it's safe to close the window. > Another protection measures they have is a warning dialogue on closing > page being edited, before the save button pressed. > > I think, we have to learn best practices from other platforms, collect > them within just one platform, and implement as soon as practical. > Sorry for being persistent with the simple idea: > our team performance depends on how quick particular topics are > found/discovered for reuse. > Please let me know if this mechanism is already realised, and that's just > me who can't see it. > > Thank you, > Dmitry > > > On Saturday, 24 December 2016 10:17:50 UTC+13, Arlen Beiler wrote: > >> I just had an idea. The way the NodeJS server currently works is >> asynchronous. It syncs with the server and then returns to the browser. >> Then the server syncs to the file system and returns. If there would have >> been a time where you closed your draft, waited for the check mark to turn >> grey, and then immediately exited, it is possible that the server could >> have missed writing the files. Try to see if you can replicate it like >> this. If so, that may be the problem. >> >> The way I dealt with that was to hack tiddlywiki (forget how, but I think >> involved some of the first code in boot.js or bootprefix.js) so that it >> would save directly to the file system from the browser. >> >> Here's a gist that I posted https://gist.github.com >> /Arlen22/45f1a460c9e348fa50ad >> >> For electron you would set the data directory in index.html, then open >> index.html in a new BrowserWindow. And your done. The file syncer actually >> takes care of saving changes, so it should stay red until the file actually >> gets saved. >> >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:51 AM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < >> tiddl...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> Not necessarily a bug in TW per se. No one ever promised (that I know >>> of) that it would work on Electron. Definitely no one promised that it >>> would work with a custom version of Electron and if it's on a custom branch >>> of TW5 that depends on sensing its platform --- all bets are off. >>> >>> Just depending on small desktop web/file servers (like node.js) has >>> always been risky in my experience. The hardware and the software may not >>> be robust enough in all situations. Usually, there are time lags. Your >>> machine may prioritize your email or web browsing over the web server. If >>> you shut down your machine or server before a save has completed (which >>> might happen if you have a 3 or 5 page tiddler) then the chances are even >>> greater. The trick in that situation would be to either save your own copy >>> of current work locally or to break the work into smaller chunks. The >>> editing tools in TW5 make working with smaller chunks easier than before. >>> >>> If you check the forum, you will see that reports of actual data loss >>> are fairly rare. The file-based TW seems to save itself reliably. To be an >>> actual bug you would need to see a repeatable set of standard circumstances >>> under which TW fails to save. >>> >>> Have fun, >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 4:30:15 AM UTC-8, Arlen Beiler wrote: >>>> >>>> Nevertheless, this is a bug. TiddlyWiki should never lose changes no >>>> matter how big the Tiddler is. Thanks for the info, though. I hope we can >>>> find any problems that are causing it. >>>> >>>> I have frankly never just used the draft idea before, I always save the >>>> Tiddler when I am done writing. And I would recommend doing that normally. >>>> However, it seems you are supposed to be able to save a draft and come back >>>> to it later. >>>> >>>> On Dec 12, 2016 14:24, "Bruno Loff" <bruno...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes it was. >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, 12 December 2016 19:46:54 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> But, was all that work -- 3 to 5 pages -- in a single tiddler? >>>>>> >>>>>> Mark >>>>>> >>>>>> On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 9:13:45 AM UTC-8, Bruno Loff wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tiddlywiki was running on electron v1.4 on Arch Linux; the server >>>>>>> side was running on electron's server (a node.js process), and the >>>>>>> webpage >>>>>>> was running on electron's chromium process. So all of it was localhost. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I was working on a slightly modified fork ( >>>>>>> https://github.com/bloff/TiddlyWiki5), that included a minimal >>>>>>> change to detect when TW was running under electron. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It also included various plugins that I wrote/modified to serve my >>>>>>> purposes (customized katex plugin, a plugin for managing bibtex >>>>>>> citations, >>>>>>> and a plugin to interface with electron), which is roughly keeping >>>>>>> track of >>>>>>> my mathematical writeups, lecture-notes, etc. but I don't think these >>>>>>> were >>>>>>> to blame. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 14 of work amounted to roughly 3-5 pages. 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