Thank you that was exactly what I needed. I don't know where those instructions are but this works wonderfully.
Ed On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 1:55 PM Lost Admin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure if you tried this. In case you did not: > > > 1. Open your tiddlywiki in your browser. > 2. Open your file manager and navigate to the folder that contains the > picture you want in Tiddlywiki. > 3. Drag the picture onto the tiddlywiki in your browser. You should > see a green bar at the top of the browser page that says, "Drop here (or > use the Esc key to cancel)". > 4. Drop the picture there. > 5. This should create a new tiddler with with the words, "These > tiddlers are ready to import:" near the top. > 6. Press the import button. > 7. Save your tiddlywiki. > > You should now have a tiddler with a name that is the filename you dragged. > > You can then treat it like a tiddler that is an image. > > Note: The image is a copy of the image file encoded in base64 (I believe) > and is a part of the tiddlywiki file. Adding many large images can make > loading tiddlywiki very slow. > > > > On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 2:30:10 PM UTC-4, Edward Veal wrote: >> >> After further investigation I am still stumped as to how I get an image >> that is local to my machine to display within a Tiddler. I have no problem >> getting online images to display. I don't want to rely on having an >> internet connection to be able to add a photo or other image to a Tiddler. >> This is a deal breaker for me and if I can't figure it out I will be moving >> on to other tools. >> >> Ed >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:56 AM Edward Veal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Mark, >>> >>> Thank you for the information this is finally heading me on the right >>> path. I will review Tony's post as I am using the free standing file >>> version. >>> >>> Ed >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:59 PM 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Those names are confusing, aren't they? The names of various system >>>> tiddlers in TW *LOOK *like file paths, but they're not. >>>> >>>> There's no directory /core/images/video. If you type (or copy) the text >>>> $:/core/images/video into a tiddler and preview it, you will see a link to. >>>> If you follow the link, you will come to a tiddler that has a SVG image as >>>> its contents. >>>> >>>> To get an image into TW, you need to either drag and drop the image >>>> into your TW (not recommended except for very small images), or use the >>>> [img[]] wikitext or the <$image> widget to refer to images that are >>>> external to the TW. There are different ways to do it, and some of them >>>> will depend on how your are running TW (as a free-standing file or under >>>> node.js). See Tony's prior post for pointers what to do. >>>> >>>> -- Mark >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 12:40:03 PM UTC-7, Edward Veal wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I simply want to add an image to a tiddler. >>>>> >>>>> Here is a copy of the code from the tiddlywiki main page that I can't >>>>> seem to figure out. >>>>> >>>>> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/JeremyRuston"; >>>>> class="tc-btn-big-green" style="background-color:#e52d27;" target="_blank" >>>>> rel="noopener noreferrer"> >>>>> {{$:/core/images/video}} ~TiddlyWiki on ~YouTube >>>>> </a> >>>>> >>>>> I presume that I can put images in this dir and then link to them. >>>>> However I am not finding the :/core/images/ path in my install. >>>>> >>>>> Ed >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 7:36:06 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Ed, >>>>>> >>>>>> Perhaps explain a little more what you want to do. >>>>>> >>>>>> To respond to you open question, here are a few notes >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> - Drag and drop images or use the import button to get them into >>>>>> tiddlywiki >>>>>> - Research the canonical uri and more for referencing external >>>>>> images >>>>>> - Add an icon field to any tiddler and provide an Icon tiddler >>>>>> title for it to display with the title >>>>>> - Transclude an image tiddler in your tiddlers text >>>>>> {{imagetiddler}} >>>>>> - Use the image widget https://tiddlywiki.com/#ImageWidget >>>>>> - Or follow these wikitext instructions >>>>>> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Images%20in%20WikiText >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> Tony >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> 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/9b067565-b382-4d66-b3aa-95c57c9dcb95%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/9b067565-b382-4d66-b3aa-95c57c9dcb95%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Edward Veal* >>> Library Technology Consulting: Opening the future together >>> www.edveal.net >>> email: [email protected] >>> Cell: 806-445-6867 >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Edward Veal* >> Library Technology Consulting: Opening the future together >> www.edveal.net >> email: [email protected] >> Cell: 806-445-6867 >> > -- > 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/11dad978-0e40-4adf-93d1-4404cb58b914%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/11dad978-0e40-4adf-93d1-4404cb58b914%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Edward Veal* Library Technology Consulting: Opening the future together www.edveal.net email: [email protected] Cell: 806-445-6867 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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