Hey Mat,
I must admit, I did have to read up on how shadow tiddlers are actually
treated within TW, but here is my take on your statements:
- Shadow tiddlers exist separately from normal tiddlers and are
therefore effectively marked as "originating from a plugin"
- When you click on a title in a plugins content list, what you see as
the tiddler that pops up, is TW internally redirecting to the separate
shadow tiddler store to determine the contents of the shadow tiddler.
- When the shadow tiddler is closed, TW removes it from the story
list... nothing special here
- There is no create/delete mechanism in place when you view shadow tiddlers
- The important distinction is that the internal shadow tiddler store is
read-only, meaning, if you edit and save a shadow tiddler (even without
modifications), TW saves to the regular tiddler store, thus turning the
tiddler into a "normal" tiddler, since now TW will no longer redirect
to the shadow tiddler store behind the scenes.
I hope this was actually more helpful than it was confusing, feel free
to ask away if any more questions about this arise.
/Andreas
Am 31.05.2017 um 19:10 schrieb Mat:
Someone, please correct the following statements:
Shadow tiddlers don't really exist as individual tiddlers but are
*only *present in the plugin (in JSON format).
When you click on a title in a plugins content list, what you see as
the single tiddler is*created at that moment*.
When the single shadow tiddler is closed, it is *deleted*.
There is some *special mechanism* that prevents the TW from getting
*dirty *from this create/delete (i.e open/close) as long as no editing
is involved.
If the shadow tid is edited, it works as an overwrite because there is
some TW mechanism that, as part of loading a plugin,*runs through the
shadow titles list and compares it* to existing tiddler titles to see
if there is an overwrite to use instead of the shadow.
Thank you!
<:-)
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