So I have decided to edit a core system tiddler (gasp) for my current 2
projects. One is a Martial Arts Wiki, with a glossary of over 500
Indonesian, Malay, Sundanese, Filipino, Javanese, Hawaiian, and Chinese
terms with special martial-arts context-specific meanings, and a ton of
Bookmarks (YouTube, etc). The other project is the every-growing UnNamed
RPG Campaign Manager, and one of the biggest roadblocks there was "custom
character/ship/etc sheets".
I think I have a solution for this one. Will it be PR worthy? Let's find
out. The ability to hide/replace the default text field is a bit cumbersome
atm. You can hide the text-body by setting the `hide-body` field to "yes".
And we can add new "sections" with `$/tags/ViewTemplate`, but unless we dig
around and copy the $reveal code from another template section that will
not be consistent with the Collapse state.... Yeah. Complicated.
If I change the `$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body` tiddler slightly, we can
move the "tiddler-body-default" wikitext to a macro in the same tiddler:
```
\define tiddler-body-default()
<$list filter="[all[current]!has[plugin-type]!field:hide-body[yes]]">
<$transclude>
<$transclude tiddler="$:/language/MissingTiddler/Hint"/>
</$transclude>
</$list>
\end
```
And re-write the body of the tiddler like so:
```
<$reveal tag="div" class="tc-tiddler-body" type="nomatch" stateTitle=<
<folded-state>> text="hide" retain="yes" animate="yes">
<$list variable="bodyTemplate"
filter="[all[current]subfilter{$:/config/ViewTemplate/Body}]" emptyMessage=<
<tiddler-body-default>> >
<$transclude tiddler=<<bodyTemplate>> >
<$tiddler tiddler=<<bodyTemplate>> >
<$transclude tiddler="$:/language/MissingTiddler/Hint"/>
</$tiddler>
</$transclude>
</$list>
</$reveal>
```
Then we can use an array of filters to check for tags, type, or any other
way you want to trigger a custom view template, and you can have more then
one resulting templateTitle output and it's all nested in the correct
$reveal widget, etc. Even better, you can use the `<<tiddler-body-default>>
macro ANYWHERE in your own templates to get the default text-field to show
up in that spot. Here is my current `$:/config/ViewTemplate/Body`:
```
[tag[$:/tags/Macro]then[$:/plugins/joshuafontany/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body/
macro]]
[tag[Glossary]then[$:/plugins/joshuafontany/silatglossary/ui/ViewTemplate/
body]]
[match[Test]then[$/plugins/joshuafontany/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body/TEST]]
```
Which as you can see, uses the
`$:/plugins/joshuafontany/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body/macro` tiddler as the
body-template for all Global Macro tiddlers. This template looks like:
```
<pre><code language={{!!type}}><$view field="text"/></code></pre>
```
Which is a bit overkill, but is exactly how, internally, the
`application.javascript` tiddlers are rendered. But this means I no longer
have to click edit on every Macro tiddler just to re-read it for bug, etc.
I'm going to expand this technique to render other custom tiddler types for
other projects.
Oh, yes, final note. The Type field can and will definitely over-ride this
custom rendering, as that's done internally using the wiki's Parser
methods. Also, I'm not sure if this is 100% backwards compatible, but the
only thing I can possibly think of it changing are the Numeric Values
output by the Qualify Macro (as these depend on how many and which tiddlers
the current content is being rendered "through").
I think I will expand this to allow for a tabbed interface in the Draft
Mode UI, with the standard Text Editor in one tab, and other content in
other tabs. I can also use this to extent the Title field to allow for a
custom Name (short & human readable, see plugins) that will display full
size (if present) and which pushes the full Title down to a line of smaller
text.
Best,
Joshua Fontany
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