This thread is moving somewhere useful, using alternate Drop Zones for different responses to drag and drop.
If I may make a small brain dump for consideration. I do not yet have the skills to do so but it seems to me we need to generalise this somewhat. You could think of it as providing a drop zone for a number of importers that respond differently. Alternatively and even better would be if we could open a drop importer in its own window, so that onscreen we place this window next to our filemanger to collect and import all the files we want, if necessary supplying the folder path seperately. Personally I can imagine opening a tiddler full screen perhaps called the drop importer which would have a number of coloured tiles with the different importer methods as the title. Including custom importers such as anything you drop here will be tagged foo as well as imported. The importers could simply import a link, create the canonical URI, drop the filename only, import the item by filetype etc... A custom value would allow one to specify a path eg; /images such that if one drags a set of filenames into tiddlywiki it will import the filename such that it can be combined with the path to point to the file(s) folder. This requires the files are intentionally placed in the /images folder by the user but this is trivial to not being able to drop references to the files in tiddlywiki (or has this already being solved?) Every drop importer should have a matching Importer for the Import button as well, and being able to set a filter for the files you can select say to "images only" would be helpful to make it clear what can be imported via that importer. I would like to create importers to drag and drop say .bat and .cmd files and have them tagged WindowsBatch for example. Or .php files, tagged wordPressPHP Further, I have raised the use of iFrames for inter Wiki tiddler transfer here https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/tiddlywikidev/xauAqz1Eu0w It would great if such importers would include dropzones that are in fact windows to other wikis so lets say I dropped a plugin into an importer called "CorePlugins" the plugin would effectively be dropped on the External Wiki called "CorePlugins"which is my plugin repository, if we could only have the target wiki not ask to confirm import this would be helpful (but not essential). Even better would be an importer that imports the plugin here and into CorePlugins in one step. Another type that would be helpful is to select a folder name and or path (if Possible) to save in a tiddler. Whilst this could be used to say set the images location it could also be used to point to a folder containing other wikis, or to a wiki file itself. Also as you may guess I would think every importer should have a matching exporter. I would love to be able to provide a button that exports a .bat .cmd .php file as a .bat .cmd or .php file. Thus TiddlyWiki can be an integrated tool for documenting and generating scripts in multiple formats, especially where the content is effectively plain-text. For the security concerned remember I have to use the interactive export/save dialogue so such files can not be installed surreptitiously. However allowing (sometimes small) executables would also be helpful, so that tiddlywiki could become an interactive set up and install platform. Imagine if TiddlyServers settings.json could be automated in tiddlywiki with the result exported (Jed does something like this in Bob). I believe there are no technical limitations to getting the above, only a need for a clarity of purpose. Regards Tony On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 09:32:08 UTC+10, Zachary Storer wrote: > > Hello, > > I wish that there was a more intelligent [import] button that could link > to external images without the need > for manually inserting the _canonical_uri field. This is a feature > request(?). I don't know how difficult it would > be to add this. Perhaps I can learn some JavaScript and make a plugin for > it, or perhaps there already is a plugin? > > - > > Zak > -- 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/f6173f42-3272-4374-95ea-406c9aa3caf0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
