jan I would like this as well, If we could only access the content of an external text file we could easily interrogate the status of something that say a server process set or another user deposited.
I believe using the html object to display a file should provide us the opportunity if not with a button click or trigger, it is after all on the screen in front of us, I can use the mouse to select and copy it so why can I not get a TiddlyWiki process to capture it. I believe a refresh of the tiddler does refresh the file from disk. However not withstanding the value I see in this, Perhaps there is another way to achieve what you are after. Have you considered importing the text file, or giving each student their own wiki and exporting/importing tiddlers created by their username? Importing from external resources Try this - Go to TiddlyWiki.com then use import and rather than provide a local file provide the following url https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/index.html This will open the whole prerelease wiki and you can select one or all tiddlers to import. I tested also importing a text file such as https://psat.com.au/tiddlywiki/Readme.txt and it worked The Browse widget also works for html/tiddlywiki files but not for txt files Perhaps you could build an independant process to collect all the students text files and create a local copy then use <$browse multiple> and select all the text files and import them in one step Also In the pre-release there is a local storage and an Innerwiki plugin that may solve a number of related needs. Regards Tony On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 7:44:45 AM UTC+10, Jan wrote: > > Hello, > I still was not able to solve this problem... > Should I use a macro or a widget to display external .txt-files > I want to > -display txt-files configurably > -use them in widgets (like converting them it them into tiddlers) > -and it would be great it I could make them refresh on click. > > I made an attempt on http://szen.io/Test/ to solve the Problem but I am > stuck... > > best wishes Jan > > > Am 29.03.2019 um 23:44 schrieb Jan: > > Hi Jed, Hi everybody! > I am beginning to grasp the difference of widgets and macros which I mixed > up on http://szen.io/Test/ would you propose to make a widget or a macro > to display refreshing txt.files... > Have you found a solution? > > Best wishes Jan > > > > Am 27.03.2019 um 17:54 schrieb Jed Carty: > > My last post may be almost completely wrong. It is one way that you could > handle the problem but I think that your example is not far from working. > One problem you have is you are mixing a javascript macro with a widget, > the two are different and having pieces of both is causing trouble. > > I will look at this for a bit longer and I may have something to help a > little at least. > -- > 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/93e8c566-ece0-451d-80f9-40d998b6b9ef%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/93e8c566-ece0-451d-80f9-40d998b6b9ef%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/3dfc4c75-ee7b-4566-8a0c-8bdbebb424e0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
