Thanks for the reply Evan this seems like a really useful feature
On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 3:24:58 PM UTC-6, Evan Balster wrote:
>
> Hey, Diego —
>
> I've been interested in supporting "cascading" in a single widget in
> formula-vars, but there's no way for a widget to know the order in which
> attributes are written with certainty. For that reason and because I've
> now implemented "cascading" in formulas' LET construct, I've been thinking
> about adding an idiom for constructing key-value objects in formulas, and
> making it possible to export one of these as a set of TiddlyWiki variables.
>
> That would look something like this:
>
> <$formula-vars $dict="""
> dict(
> t1 = 0,
> t2 = <<newVal>>,
> t3 = 3+1,
> t4 = t3+20)
> """>
> ...
> </$formula-vars>
>
> At which point the primitive objects usable in formulas start to look a
> lot like JavaScript's! Hashmaps (aka "objects" aka "dictionaries") are
> useful for lots of things...
>
> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:07:36 UTC-6, Diego Mesa wrote:
>>
>> Update:
>>
>> This cascading does indeed work:
>>
>> <$button >
>> <$formula-vars val1="2+3">
>> <$action-setfield $field="t1" $value=<<val1>>/>
>> <$formula-vars val2="<<val1>> + 10">
>> <$action-setfield $field="t2" $value=<<val2>>/>
>> <$formula-vars val3="<<val2>> + 100">
>> <$action-setfield $field="t3" $value=<<val3>>/>
>> </$formula-vars>
>> </$formula-vars>
>> </$formula-vars>
>> Do it!
>> </$button>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 2:57:44 PM UTC-6, Diego Mesa wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Sorry a better example of what Im trying to accomplish:
>>>
>>> <$button >
>>> <$formula-vars val1="2+3" val2="<<val1>>+6" val3="{{!!t2}}+12">
>>> <$action-setfield $field="t1" $value=<<val1>>/>
>>> <$action-setfield $field="t2" $value=<<val2>>/>
>>> <$action-setfield $field="t3" $value=<<val3>>/>
>>> </$formula-vars>
>>> Do it!
>>> </$button>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can understand why it wouldn't work, but it seems tobias' excellent
>>> setvars plugin will allow you to do something like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> <$setvars
>>> _attr1=<<currentTiddler>>
>>> _attr2={{!!title}}
>>> _attr3="1 2 3"
>>> _attr4="[all[current]tagging[]]"
>>> var1="attr1 \ = literal = \ attr2"
>>> var2="attr3[n] \ \ [attr4[1,2][when-empty]] \ \ [attr3[][][ - ]]"
>>> var3="if(attr1 ? [attr4]) || attr3 attr2"
>>> var4="if(attr1 == attr2 ? attr3[1]) || [attr3[2]]">
>>> * <<var1>>
>>> * <<var2>>
>>> * <<var3>>
>>> * <<var4>>
>>> </$setvars>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does formula let you do this type of cascading?
>>>
>>> On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 2:32:34 PM UTC-6, Diego Mesa wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to use this plugin in button actions like so:
>>>>
>>>> \define updateActions(newVal)
>>>>> <$action-setfield $field="t1" $value="0"/>
>>>>> <$action-setfield $field="t2" $value=$newVal$/>
>>>>> <$action-setfield $field="t3" $value=(=3+1=)/>
>>>>> <$action-setfield $field="t4" $value=(={{!!t3}}+20=)/>
>>>>> \end
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <$button actions=<<updateActions 10>> >
>>>>> Do it!
>>>>> </$button>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to make a spaced-repetition system like this. Any help
>>>> would be greately appreciated!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, January 19, 2018 at 2:44:29 PM UTC-6, Evan Balster wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Both formats look good, so I'll take the best parts of each:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Unit tests:
>>>>> - Tiddlers tagged with FormulaTest.
>>>>> - Text is expected to render to TRUE
>>>>> - Advanced: If the field match is present on the tiddler,
>>>>> text is instead expected to render to the same result as
>>>>> rendering
>>>>> match.
>>>>> - Name using a prefix scheme based on the test subject
>>>>> - Bugs: FormulaTest/Regression/<Test Name>
>>>>> - Functions: FormulaTest/Functions/<Function Name>/<Test
>>>>> Name>
>>>>> - Function names in ALL CAPS
>>>>> - Language: FormulaTest/Feature/<Feature Name>/<Test Name>
>>>>> - Feature names being things like "Let", "Function",
>>>>> "Closure", "Transclude"
>>>>> - Syntax & Compilation: FormulaTest/Compiler/<Feature
>>>>> Name>/<Test Name>
>>>>> - Miscellaneous Tests: FormulaTest/Misc/<Test Name>
>>>>> - Additional tiddlers used as data in unit tests:
>>>>> - Tag with FormulaTestData.
>>>>> - Prefix with the unit test's fully-prefixed name, with an
>>>>> additional slash and name.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideally, unit tests and bug repros should be submitted on GitHub (see
>>>>> my call for unit tests there
>>>>> <https://github.com/EvanBalster/TiddlyWikiFormula/issues/17>) but
>>>>> uploading JSON files in this thread is OK too.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, 19 January 2018 10:37:43 UTC-6, Diego Mesa wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey Evan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was going to start adding some more, but the format you described
>>>>>> above is slightly different than the previous one:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://evanbalster.com/tiddlywiki/formulas.html#UnitTest%2FFunctions%2Fnth%2Fsorted-return
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which do you think we should stick with?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Diego
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, January 19, 2018 at 1:28:44 AM UTC-6, Evan Balster wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bug(s) confirmed — array and date formatting aren't working
>>>>>>> correctly. Need to investigate why.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is also an issue with parsing block comments in Formula 0.2.1,
>>>>>>> which has been fixed in the repo.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Suggested format for unit-test and bug-repro contributions:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Tag with "FormulaTest"
>>>>>>> - Prefix "Test/"
>>>>>>> - Text comprises a single formula construct (of any type) whose
>>>>>>> result should render to TRUE, *or* match the result of rendering
>>>>>>> field
>>>>>>> "match" of the tiddler if present.
>>>>>>> - Submitted as JSON files here
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:18:55 UTC-6, Mr. Mal wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think the now and date function not working in this release. May
>>>>>>>> be others can confirm this "bug".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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