Folks,
I built a Tiddler bundle to display info plugins in Control panel > Plugins
> Info
Attached, just remove the .txt extension before dropping on a test wiki.
Then if you follow the instructions in my last post you can make your own
info bundle.
Only one core tiddler is changed for this
example $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Plugins although others will look as if
they came with the core given I reused the naming standards.
Regards
Tony
On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 10:54:42 PM UTC+10, TonyM wrote:
>
> Jeremy,
>
> For give me for being a bit of a hacker. I have played with making my own
> tiddlers with a plugin-type of info,
> which I note is NOT documented here
> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Plugin%20Fields (perhaps this is understandable)
>
> However I found if I started to import multiple tiddlers, and renamed
> $:/import to tiddlername (Capturing the import json), and modified the
> tiddler type to info (deleting the status field) I created myself a hidden
> plugin - not listed in plugins, containing the batch of tiddlers I almost
> imported. Reloading I had all the shadow tiddlers appearing. Of course If I
> edit a tiddler it looses its bold font in the "info plugin", and overwrites
> the shadow.
>
> Disabling and reloading they are gone, but listed in the new info plugin
> in italics and they open new empty tiddlers. The edited tiddlers from when
> the plugin was active remain in the wiki as regular tiddlers, and can
> actually be deleted, perhaps must be.
>
> Not only has this suddenly shed light on the plugin mechanism but I have
> found away to capture importing tiddlers even from multiple JSON and
> storing them in abeyance and made available when needed by enabling the
> plugin. This has exposed a method by which I can load test data into a
> wiki, or configuration settings.
>
> This info plugin can be dragged and dropped to another wiki. Interestingly
> after importing If I open the "info" plugin (not a plugin title), the
> import mechanism offers to import the tiddlers. If it does so I expect It
> will create standard tiddlers that would override if it where a plugin.
>
> Anyway there is a lot of potential here, even if we were to create a new
> tiddler type of say "bundle", that used my proposed import but not get
> replaced as per the idea documented here;
> Suggested Import mechanisium refactor for hackability #4231
> <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/4231>
>
> I can explain further the value in such an mechanism if you wish, but
> perhaps the possibilities are obvious to you.
>
> - Packed data tiddlers
> - Restorable and removable data with a click save and reload to add or
> remove
> - Canned sets of config tiddlers to toggle multiple tiddler states
> - Ability to drag and drop to other wikis, a bundle defined in one
> wiki to another
> - A method by which to host and distribute json files of tiddlers
> (which are not active in the source wiki) without needing to upload
> independant files to the host.
> - A method by which a developer can commit tiddlers into a plugin
> bundle and selectively overwrite tiddlers to release a new version. Once
> happy commit these changes back into the plugin.
> - A way to distribute macros (excluding javascript plugin code) which
> can be selectively activated and deactivated. Especially good for designer
> tools.
>
> Apart from the import hackability I expect we would need a mechanism to
> optional delete imported or overwritten (shadow) tiddlers, so they do not
> remain in the wiki after the info plugin is disabled or deleted. And
> perhaps a method to list such pseudo plugins. I wonder if the lack of this
> clean up could cause problems already when people add/edit/delete plugins
> because the overwritten tiddlers will remain as a legacy.
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
> On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 11:06:37 AM UTC+10, TonyM wrote:
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> The idea of temporary plugin sounds interesting!
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
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