hi, lovely people - i'm quite new to the tiddlywiki community. i've already thanked jeremy ruston, but would like to take a moment to thank all of you who have made so many plugins, macros, written so much documentation, answered questions i didn't even know i had on your various websites, showed me so many things that tiddlywiki can do, welcomed me into this community without even knowing i was here yet, and so on. i love how tiddlywiki basically solves all the issues of what i want a computer to do for me all in one place, and i love that there are so many ways to tweak the file to make it even more how i want it to look and work.
i started my first tiddlywiki file (and now have two already!) 20 days ago, and have read through a lot of the tw beginner documentation all over to have a pretty good base to be starting from. i've fiddled with my tiddlywikis to the point where i've been through every shadowed tiddler and tweaked the contents (except for the don't-mess-with stylesheets) such that the layout and the aesthetics are basically to my liking. but(!), and you could probably see this coming, now i want more! i feel like at this point that i want to be able to do things to my tiddlywiki that i'm not finding how to do in the beginner documentation websites. i've been to tiddlywiki.org and have not been able to find the answers to the now-current questions i have, so i thought i would post them here, and see what answers you all might have. first off, i am currently (sadly) running OS X 10.3.9 and will be able to get to my update discs soon, (to be running at least 10.4 or maybe 10.5) but for the moment i am traveling, and am not able to update this computer yet. because of the old OS, i've been running into some script problems when i visit some of your sites... for instance, when i go to tiddlytools, i get a warning error saying one of the scripts won't work, and do i want to continue or stop the script? either way i do it, i am still able to view the site and find the plugins i am looking for, but that is one example of how some javascript stuff isn't working for me on this old OS. google docs also can be read, but not edited, for instance. second off, i have basic html skills/knowledge, and have built websites from scratch before, but am totally unfamiliar with javascript coding (except that i think that it is the coding that has a lot of if/then variables, and has periods in front of command lines?). in the plugins, i have been able to successfully edit some basic things like the background color of the hover menu buttons, but have been unable to figure out other things that i want to change (like how to get the togo text field to be the same pixel length as the search text field). even when i don't touch the plugin to try to change anything, i've only been able to get some plugins and macros to successfully work for me (is this possibly due to the old OS?). [plugins i have been able to get to work: Goto, HoverMenu, IntelliTagger, SuppressEmtpyTags, TagCloud, Tagger (kind of), TiddlersBar, ToggleSideBar, and FontSize ... plugins i have not been able to get to work ForEachTiddler, Calendar, Drag, Splashscreen, and some others i don't remember because i deleted them when i couldn't get them to work.] so, with all of that in mind, my questions are: + can anyone recommend good tutorials or documentation for a total (but reasonably bright and interested) javascript beginner to better understand what (the heck) she's looking at when she is in the back of the plugins and source codes? at this point i'm not really interested in trying to write my own plugins, but would like to be able to know what they mean, at least generally. + does anyone know about any good tiddlywiki intermediate documentation? the tiddlywiki for the rest of us 'advanced users' information is already stuff that makes sense and is familiar to me, and i am having a hard time navigating the tiddlywiki.org site to find what i am looking for... my plan is to (continue to) go through the table of contents there, and just skim or read each entry for new information, but that will be a mishmash of beginner, intermediate, and advanced documentation, as well as beyond-advanced (developer) documentation... so it would be nice to find a spot that is specifically for people who understand the tiddly toddler stage, but who aren't playing tiddly basketball yet. as it were. + i am wanting to get my new tiddlers to open with no text prompt in them. i can't find a way to do that in the shadowed tiddlers, though i found the command that seems to reference the text prompt. where can i edit that command? the search function didn't find it for me... is that something i would have to do from the source code? i have yet to look at the source code... can i open my local tiddlywiki file in an html editor so as to change the source code without messing with my text content? or ?? + i am also wanting to get certain new tiddlers to open with certain text prompting already in it (basically an 'open new worksheet' link that would open a new tiddler that already had certain text i'd written, and then blanks i could fill in, which would not be text field form boxes, but would just start a new line, if that makes sense). i assume i would have to do something like find where the 'new journal' command lives, copy that, call it something else like 'new worksheet,' copy the code but change the default text to have the content i want, and then put a <<newWorksheet>> command in the sidebar. is this in the source code also? is there a plugin that does this for me? i kind of thought i'd seen something that does this the first time i was perusing tiddly vault, but since then, i haven't been able to find it. i guess the 'add contact info' plugin(s?) would also be similar, but twab seems pretty complicated, at least in that it has multiple tiddlers to import. + i am able to get the sidebar to toggle, but am unable to get it to default to 'hide.' i followed what i understood of the documentation, but it hasn't worked for me so far. is this the kind of thing i should ask about here, or is it better protocol to email the person who wrote the plugin code directly? + i'm not getting the 'embed twitter feed' script to work, even though i am using exactly what twitter spit out for me when i followed their instructions... is this likely due to my old OS, or do i need a special plugin to get something like that to work properly? + i am sure i have loads of other questions, but for the moment, that seems like a plenty long enough start. :) hope you all are well! thanks so much! sanna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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