Hi Leo,
the tiddlers of the plugins you are looking at are packed into a JSON
format, therefore there is what you described as "javascripty-syntax"
around it. But luckily there is a plugin that lets you package
individual tiddlers into a plugin (or theme). So all you have to do to
create your theme is to create the CSS/HTML tiddlers required for your
theme, tag them accordingly (so they work) and then use a plugin packer
to form a plugin (or theme).
There is a plugin-packer here: http://twguides.org/tinka.html
Note that when creating a theme, you have to set the "plugin-type" to
"theme" (you would set it to "plugin" when creating a plugin). To
understand all of the involved metadata-field, I recommend taking a look
at http://tiddlywiki.com/#PluginMechanism to familarize yourself with
the mechanism. Also let me know, if you have any more trouble with
creating your theme.
/Andreas
Am 03.05.2015 um 04:31 schrieb Leo Staley:
I've decided to make the TWC "theme" for TW5, but I need a bit of
advice and help with Javascript
If I'm understanding what a plugin is, it is a tiddler whose content
is Javascript code, which (when activated as a plugin) tells the
TiddlyWiki to create the tiddlers described by the javascript code,
and to also execute any additional code of the plugin.
Now, I know both HTML and CSS decently well enough, but I don't know
JavaScript very well at all. When I look at the Tiddler content of
$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla, it looks like there is a bunch of
javascript making commands to 1) declare the titles of the tiddlers to
be created, along with 2) tags, fields, etc, and 3) the text content
in the tiddler's text field.
That's where I get tripped up, trying to analyze it myself:_none of
the CSS and HTML in that tiddler are written in CSS, or HTML, or
tiddlywiki markup language,_ each of which I know reasonably well; but
_rather, they are are mixed in or written with javascript language and
syntax,_ which I do /not /know reasonably well. I compare the context
of the tiddler $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/base, with the
corresponding "text" portion of $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/ for that
tiddler, and I just can't figure out what's making the output so
different.
So, If someone could help me, I suppose, bridge that knowledge gap, I
would be *very grateful. *(or even make a more user friendly interface
to edit all of it! perhaps with a plugin?)
I know (Or will soon be figuring out) all the tiddlers, HTML elements
and CSS rules I want to make, as well as the tiddlywiki markup, but I
don't know how to say them in JavaScript like they are in the theme
plugins. There also appear to be some somewhat complicated tiddlywiki
list and macro rules, but if I can distinguish those from the
javascript, I should be able to figure those out well enough.
Thanks in advance!
Leo
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