Thank you Jeremy for sharing this. It's a fair point and worth taking into consideration (it could negatively sway the cost-benefit ratio in some situations).
Best regards, Hubert On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:46:39 UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Hubert > > Evan’s plugin is the right thing to use if you can; the core doesn’t > include a builtin clock/timer because my early experiments showed that it > can be quite punishing on power consumption/battery life. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > On 22 Jan 2019, at 14:35, Hubert <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > OK, I've found this plugin > <https://evanbalster.com/tiddlywiki/formulas.html#Timer%20Plugin> by Evan > Balster, version 0.0.1 that does exactly what I'm looking for. > > That said, I'd still love to hear your ideas though, especially the > background TW mechanics/limitations/other solutions to this problem. > > Thank you, > Hubert > > On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:14:40 UTC, Hubert wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> If I understand correctly, most content within a tiddler is static. >> Inline javacript is not allowed, so macros will only re-calculate their >> output on user interaction with a tiddler. For example, the <<now>> macro >> or Evan Balster's <<formula>> macro will recalculate their output when the >> built-in "More actions" TW button is pressed (it's located in the >> upper-right corner of each tiddler frame). >> >> What I'm trying achieve is make stuff happen with time being the trigger. >> The simplest example would be building an auto-updating clock using the >> <<now>> macro (this could be faked using SVG animations but that's not what >> I'm looking for). Another example would be a reveal widget that will >> suddenly display content when the current time matches a predefined value >> but without any user interaction whatsoever. Such a solution would need to >> somehow 'see' on its own that the time has changed. Is this possible? >> >> Thank you in advance for sharing your ideas/knowledge. >> >> -Hubert >> > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > 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/fb51bbb5-2009-4c90-9188-819785ac0954%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fb51bbb5-2009-4c90-9188-819785ac0954%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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/749c9162-7a05-42bf-9218-0e4df2c60499%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
