On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 2:37:54 AM UTC+1, TonyM wrote: ... Without "special" field modules registered at startup we should have an > easy to use date field mechanism, >
> after all we would expect this to be a common requirement for tiddlers, > such as due, review or expiry dates etc.. > As a developer you'll never know, how your users will use your software. Most of the time in a completely different way as you expected it. ... So because you as a user need "your own special handling" for the problem you want to solve at the moment, you expect it, to be there and it should be easy to use. That's ok. On the other hand, as created, modified and so on where developed, Jeremy implemented just enough code, to solve the problem he wanted to solve at this point in time. The implementation is done in a "relatively" modular way, so it can be extended. ... BUT ... The code hasn't been cleaned up, since then. So the implementation is not as polished as other functions in TW. ... That's the status quo, atm, because nobody made an implementation, that is "generic enough" to be easily used. ... There have been some discussions at github about "typed fields" see issue: lookup-fields (or relationship-fields) #1324 <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1324> a relatively long discussion, and the condensed version: typed fields #1331 <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1331> So it's not only the type of a field, that is important. .. eg: If we have a type: date, we also may want to have UI to view/edit the: date, checkboxes, option fields, tag-like fields ... as described in the issues. So it will be easy to be used ;) have fun! mario -- 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/2f36c380-29d7-49a0-930a-6913d250c576%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
