Many thanks Tony! Cheers Mohammad
On Friday, July 6, 2018 at 5:10:06 AM UTC+4:30, TonyM wrote: > > Mohammad, > > If I may explain the Qualify macro for you in my way. > > Just as the <<now>> macro returns the time and date > eg: 10:21, 6th July 2018 > > The <<qualify>> macro returns a "unique number" > eg: -85796999 > > and as Jeremy Described "in a way that is unique to the place in the > widget tree that it is rendered" > which I may add includes the title, change the title and the result > changes. > > Now looking at the result returned you can see it is prefixed with a > hyphen, this is a clue that you can add another value > > <<qualify "mykeyword">> > gives us mykeyword-85796999 > > Basically it generates on the fly a unique number based on its context > which you can use with prefixs to generate more than one for the current > context. > > It does not matter if the number changes (Like as the title changes) > because it reliably returns the same number in the current wiki everywhere > it is used. > > I suggest when using the <<qualify>> macro to create temp tiddlers > <<qualify "$:/temp/mykeyword">> > > The world makes a lot of sense (in English), when you think about it, you > are asking it to Qualify mykeyword so it is unique in this time and place, > so you will not accidentally overwrite or use a temporary tiddler from > something else. > > Of course this use of the word Qualify may be unfamiliar to many. > > Now you may be able to see why it is commonly used for the title of State > Tiddlers, this is possibly the only use, however someone may use it in > other ways. > > Regards > Tony > > > On Friday, July 6, 2018 at 1:46:16 AM UTC+10, Mohammad wrote: >> >> Thank you Mark! Thank you Jeremy! >> >> Yes, the name is confusing! I would rather call it getNewState, genState >> or something like that! >> >> Anyway, I learned know what it is. It generate unique state tiddlers! >> >> /Mohammad >> >> >> >> On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 7:40:13 PM UTC+4:30, Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 6:58:34 AM UTC-7, AlexHough wrote: >>>> >>>> Jeremy, >>>> >>>> To see the difference you have to open up the tiddler. >>>> >>>> I think the docuemntation example is possibly a bit confusing. >>>> >>>> For learning I think that perhaps the "try it" feature kind of gets in >>>> the way of opening the tiddler and seeing inside. >>>> >>>> >>> Yes. I agree with this. I want to see (and maybe borrow) the real code, >>> not carefully orchestrated code where I can't see what's really going on. >>> Also, some of the "try this" examples are broken, because they depended on >>> data relations that no longer exist. >>> >>> "Qualify" can also mean something like "to define more carefully", So >>> the qualify macro helps create state tiddlers that won't be confused with >>> each other. Or at least that was my interpretation. >>> >>> -- Mark >>> >> -- 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/530b4663-d6a9-4843-ac10-0e0e1d0eeaf1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
