HI Alec,
On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 12:12:46 PM UTC-6, Alec Perkey wrote: > > Hi > > Has anyone made a plugin for datatables already? > > I think to make one using > > https://datatables.net/ > > Specifically, a user (Stephen Kimmel) was asking in the other TiddlyWiki > google group for fixed headers solution, since long html tables in a > tiddler gets lost when the html table height exceeds the viewport. > > I realized I've worked with datatables before and they have a large > community who has already addressed this particular feature request > https://datatables.net/extensions/fixedheader/ > > > 1. Thoughts about this plugin idea? > > it looks doable - the main challenge is to the dynamic nature of tw5 - the call $('#myTable').DataTable(); would need to be called for each table. Maybe you could have a widget <$DataTable> ... table here.. </$DataTable>that would surround a table and call the function after the tables dom elements have been created. > > 1. Is there a plugin package browser planned for the new plugin > manager? > > there is the 'communtiy' tiddler on tiddlywiki.com > > 1. > 2. If not, what is the best reference to figure out what already > exists? Github? > > > You can search github with tw5 To make a new plugin I copy one of my existing ones like https://github.com/buggyj/TW5-visualeditor, and change the strings pointing to the plugin's dir (eg bj/visualeditor) and change them to bj/mynewplugin cheers BJ > Thanks! :) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
