Congrats, Jeremy. Nice to see multi-instance support added - an issue which had led me to turn away from TD in the past. Is there any hope that other "standard" browser features may be added? Cmd/Ctrl-F perhaps? (Reading the github issues, it doesn't seem likely).
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 3:16:13 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > I’m happy to announce a new release of TiddlyDesktop, including new > features that support creating external attachments via drag and drop — in > other words, it lets you drag a .JPG file into your TiddlyWiki and have it > appear as a tiddler with a _canonical_uri field pointing to the original > file. > > I’ve had reservations about TiddlyDesktop for some time: particularly that > the understandable pressure from users to make it as good as commercial > browsers would become a Sisyphean task. Things change; like many others, > I’ve been relying on TiddlyFox for all my personal work with Dropbox-based > single file TiddlyWikis on my Mac. With its demise I plan to switch to > TiddlyDesktop; if it works out, it should help encourage me to keep it up > to date :) > > This release is mainly about integrating the latest version of the > underlying NW.js platform. Significant changes to the code were required > because of many deep changes in NW.js itself. New features include: > > • Latest Chromium features (e.g. integrated PDF viewer) > • Resolves bugs related to window positioning (e.g. quitting while windows > are minimised) by using NW.js new built-in window handling > • Updated visual appearance for the main toolbar > • New, more distinctive application icon > > You can download the new release here: > > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop/releases/tag/v0.0.9 > > As usual, please exercise caution when upgrading: take careful backups and > don’t rely on it for anything important until you’ve tested things > thoroughly. > > The support for external attachments takes the form of a new plugin on the > TiddlyWiki side. I did it this way around because the external attachment > support isn’t actually dependent upon TiddlyDesktop — it will work with any > browser environment that provides a “path” property with the “File” object > created during drag-and-drop operations. There are no such alternatives > right now, but it gives us room to get things working on platforms such as > Quine on iOS. > > The new plugin is included in the latest 5.1.15-prerelease: > > > http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftiddlywiki%2Fexternal-attachments > > <http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/external-attachments> > > Note that the plugin requires the matching version of the core to operate > properly; it can’t be used with older versions of TiddlyWiki. > > Feedback and questions are welcome, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8cd873d5-87f1-4f1c-9866-e2d73233ab25%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
