Not a technical problem, a visual problem. He wanted to be able to leaf
through illustrations without shifting tiddlers, and the tabs approach
wasn't really doing it for him. Mostly: I'm interested here in
understanding how list field differs from tag field, and how they can be
used to accomplish different types of things.
On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 4:17:10 PM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote:
>
> What was the problem with the <<tab>> approach? If it was just the sort
> order, add a field "sortby" to each illustration with a double buffered
> illustration number ("01", "02" ... "31" ....)
>
> Then
>
> <<tabs "[tag[Illustrations]sort[sortby]]"
> \\
>
> "$:/state/tab2" "tc-vertical">>
>
> should work.
>
> -- Mark
>
> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 10:51:27 AM UTC-7, Steven Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Hmm. Let me try again:
>>
>> At
>> http://tombofhorrors.tiddlyspot.com/#Illustrations:Illustrations%20Description
>> the
>> author uses <<tabs>> to present images tagged with "Illustrations". This is
>> ok, but not super ideal.
>> I suggested he create a new tiddler called "Show the Illustrations" that
>> made use of a list of tiddlers so that they could be identified and sorted.
>> The <<tag Illustrations>> was of limited value, so I suggested he might use
>> the list field instead (We ultimately ended up developing a tag-based
>> macro
>> <https://designwritestudio.updog.co/#Navigating%20Through%20A%20Set%20of%20Images>
>> instead
>> of using a list field...).
>>
>> While exploring list fields, it was annoying to manually populate a list
>> field with every tagged tiddler, so we wrote that short one-time use button
>> script that essentially put the contents of the <<tags>> field into a
>> <<list>> field of a specified tiddler. (It was also a way to introduce the
>> use of the ActionListOps widget)(on reflection, there was probably a faster
>> way to copy the contents of the tag field of a tiddler into the list field
>> of another tiddler, but I didn't think of that until now).
>>
>> Our discussion generated some interesting questions about the nature of
>> list fields, as well as the nature of the tags field, and when it was
>> useful / appropriate to use tags and when it was useful / appropriate to
>> use list fields. That's really my question.
>>
>> Thanks for seeking clarification :)
>>
>> //steve.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 12:25:06 PM UTC-4, Stephan Hradek wrote:
>>>
>>> To me it's absolutely unclear
>>>
>>> a) What you're trying to achieve
>>> b) What's your question
>>>
>>> Really sorry for that. Do you think there are filters the student can't
>>> use becaue he used tags and he could have used, had he used lists? So can
>>> you give an example? Maybe publish an example somewhere for us to have a
>>> look at?
>>>
>>
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