[tw] no viewing remote fields with view macro?

2010-12-29 Thread Dave Parker
I haven't been able to find info on this. I'd have thought this should work: <> I.e. to view the field "wt" in the tiddler "weight" but it doesn't. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just not a currently available function? thanks, Dave -- You received this message because you are subsc

[tw] rounding wikiCalc values

2010-12-29 Thread Dave Parker
Hi, My WikiCalc value gives a number with a lot of decimal places. Obviously this doesn't work to round it: math.round(<>*10)/10 and if I surround that with ... the wikiCalc macro doesn't work. Any suggestions? Other than some direct method either by script or some aspect of the WikifyPlugi

[tw] Re: visual confirmation of script button / label click

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Parker
Thanks FND, that's perfect! Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more op

[tw] visual confirmation of script button / label click

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Parker
I have a script: code goes here that works just fine, except there's no visual indication that the script has run (it writes something to a remote tiddler). I don't want a message window opening that I'd have to click, but is there any way to "animate" the button/label clicking event? Maybe s

[tw] Re: how to modify / change input box in EditFieldPlugin

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Parker
ps, that's a cool TW you have there - didn't know that was possible -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubsc

[tw] Re: how to modify / change input box in EditFieldPlugin

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Parker
how embarrassing. :-O I forgot that if you want to use the stylesheet tweaks you have to actually paste them into the stylesheet. At least no one can see how red my face is... :) thanks octw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To po

[tw] Re: trouble using store.getValue

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Parker
thanks Mans, I tried this: var left=+store.getValue(tiddler,"left.rotation"); var txt=t.text+ "\n" + "left rotation " + left.text; and it didn't work, but then I tried just putting it in the other one like this: var txt=t.text+ "\n" + "left rotation " + store.getValue(tiddler,"left.rotation");

[tw] Re: how to modify / change input box in EditFieldPlugin

2010-12-17 Thread Dave Parker
I tried it and it doesn't work for me. Left rotation{{twochar{<>}}} gives the same size as Right rotation<> I even copied your StyleSheetShortcuts in case I had an older version. My TW is 2.6.1. Are there any known conflicts? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

[tw] trouble using store.getValue

2010-12-17 Thread Dave Parker
I have this script: [[cervical rotation]] Left rotation<> Right rotation<> var t=store.getTiddler("cervical rotation Hx"); if (!t) return false; var left=store.getValue(tiddler,"left.rotation"); var txt=t.text+ "\n" + "left rotation " + left.text; var who=config.options.txtUserName; var when=new

[tw] Re: how to modify / change input box in EditFieldPlugin

2010-12-17 Thread Dave Parker
thank you Eric, I'll try that. On Dec 17, 8:11 pm, Eric Shulman wrote: > On Dec 17, 6:42 pm, Dave Parker wrote: > > > I'd like to use EditFieldPlugin for inputting short numbers (eg. > > 0-90), but the box you get with this: > > > <> is quite wide, muc

[tw] how to modify / change input box in EditFieldPlugin

2010-12-17 Thread Dave Parker
I'd like to use EditFieldPlugin for inputting short numbers (eg. 0-90), but the box you get with this: <> is quite wide, much more than I need. Is there a way to specify this on a per tiddler basis? (I imagine the current width is probably based on some generic setting somewhere and I certainly

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-28 Thread Dave Parker
Thank you Mans for doing that up for me. There are multiple things in there that are a bit (hopefully) over my head, so I'm going to try to digest it, and when I figure it out for my purposes, I'll post back here for those who are closer to my skill set and may need a similar thing. :-) Dave --

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-28 Thread Dave Parker
these didn't work either: return "++...@[peek]\n"+t.text+"<\>\n===\n"; return "++...@[peek]\n"+t.text+"<\>\n===\n"; return "++...@[peek]\n"+t.text+"<\> \n===\n"; -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-28 Thread Dave Parker
by the way, I just tried this: return "++...@[peek]\n"+t.text+t.tagging+"\n===\n"; and didn't get an error, but the popup contained the tiddler body and the word "undefined". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group,

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-28 Thread Dave Parker
Hi again. I tried to use your idea, but with "tagglytagging" instead of "tiddler" (as the way I've modified it so far does work for displaying the tiddler contents.) I just wanted to tack on the tagging after that: return "++...@[peek]\n"+t.text+ {{story.findContainingTiddler(place).getAttribute

[tw] Re: how to refresh all checkboxes in tiddlers tagged with (something)

2010-11-28 Thread Dave Parker
Thank you Mans, that's perfect! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more opti

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-28 Thread Dave Parker
Yes, but my aim was to be able to see it all at a glance in a popup (text body and tagging in one view) from another tiddler On Nov 27, 4:54 am, Tobias Beer wrote: > Isn't that precisely what the MiniTags - the tags listed on top of the > tiddlers title - using QuickOpenTag from MPTW provide? > >

[tw] how to refresh all checkboxes in tiddlers tagged with (something)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave Parker
Now that I can make a tag cloud that reflects checkbox states across various tiddlers, how would I go about resetting all those checkboxes back to an empty state? In CheckboxPluginInfo (tiddlytools.com) it says this: You can set the default refresh handling for all checkboxes in your document by u

[tw] Re: TagCloudPlugin problems

2010-11-27 Thread Dave Parker
I was misunderstanding it after all. You'd have to have a main tiddler called "Tests" tagged with all the Dx1, Dx2, Dx3 etc. Then when all the other tiddlers that variously get tagged with some of those tags, you can see the cloud that displays the relative frequency of all the tests with <> --

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-26 Thread Dave Parker
Okay, so I got the slider buttons revealing the tagglytagging info using your examples. Then I added the < \><\>==="'>> I thought to myself, wouldn't it be nice to have this behaviour throughout my TW, so I changed my TagglyTaggingPlugin to put this: "++...@["+tiddler.title+"]< \><\>===" for th

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-26 Thread Dave Parker
oops, you're Danish, sorry. Is that as bad as calling a New Zealander Australian? I meant "mange tak" (if google is correct) On Nov 26, 10:35 am, Dave Parker wrote: > thanks Howard ;-) > > that looks promising, and I think I might be able to use this stuff > (may

[tw] Re: how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-26 Thread Dave Parker
thanks Howard ;-) that looks promising, and I think I might be able to use this stuff (maybe) for what I needed in my TagCloudPlugin question ( http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/993851cd9bed9054 ) Danke schön! On Nov 26, 2:12 am, Måns wrote: > Hi Mark > > > Quite often

[tw] TagCloudPlugin problems

2010-11-25 Thread Dave Parker
Hi, I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding the examples at tiddlytools this works: <> (this diplays all the tags) but this doesn't do anything: <> What I was expecting was to get a cloud of all the tags that occur in tiddlers that also have the tag "today" E.g. tiddler "today" has children tiddl

[tw] how to include "tagging" in <>

2010-11-23 Thread Dave Parker
I organize my tiddlers alot by simply having an empty tiddler and using newHere to make a child tiddler underneath it and just let TagglyTagging organize all the sub tiddlers below. Quite often I've wanted to view one of those "parent" tiddlers and their children from a <> call, but of course all

[tw] Re: text box within a tiddler?

2010-11-22 Thread Dave Parker
would this work for you? in TiddlerOne: |<>| in TiddlerTwo: TiddlerTwo (so you can open it from Tiddler One) bla bla bla (several paragraphs) On Nov 22, 5:29 am, Kosmaton wrote: > Hello, > > What is the best way to put some text in a box within a tiddler? I.e. > have the text display in a recta

[tw] Re: Can external *.txt files be used as editable tiddlers without importing?

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Parker
> in that folder. Dunno how difficult, or even if possible, it is to > delete such a text-note once it has been successfully imported into > your TW .. I don't know if you'd necessarily want to delete the text file once imported, esp if you were going to access it from your phone again later (via

[tw] Re: Can external *.txt files be used as editable tiddlers without importing?

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Parker
inormous folder)? Thanks On Nov 9, 12:04 pm, Dave Parker wrote: > Thanks for that Mans, but I'm pretty sure that just allows you to > browse a directory from TW.  What I was talking about would be the > following scenario: > > I am out on the road somewhere.  I have an idea!

[tw] Re: Can external *.txt files be used as editable tiddlers without importing?

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Parker
Thanks for that Mans, but I'm pretty sure that just allows you to browse a directory from TW. What I was talking about would be the following scenario: I am out on the road somewhere. I have an idea! I write it down in the form of a text file on my phone and somewhere in the text file I use som

[tw] Re: Can external *.txt files be used as editable tiddlers without importing?

2010-11-08 Thread Dave Parker
h (I guess) to do it up to now (as far as I know) On Nov 8, 12:59 pm, Dave Parker wrote: > I've used ArchivePlugin to store tiddlers as text files.   All you > have to do is find in the plugin where it writes the filename and > change "html" to "txt".  Then, for t

[tw] Re: Can external *.txt files be used as editable tiddlers without importing?

2010-11-08 Thread Dave Parker
I've used ArchivePlugin to store tiddlers as text files. All you have to do is find in the plugin where it writes the filename and change "html" to "txt". Then, for text files you already have you'd need FileDropPlugin. You should be able to find them by searching this group, or at tiddlyvault.

[tw] Re: tiddlyspace comments?

2010-10-22 Thread Dave Parker
thank you both :-) On Oct 22, 9:00 am, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > So if I //did// want my better Wordpress (I've always wanted the > > flexibility of TW in a "true blog" setting - wordpress plugins don't > > measure up to TW plugins) do you think it would be easier to pursue > > the comment functio

[tw] Re: tiddlyspace comments?

2010-10-22 Thread Dave Parker
Thanks Jeremy, So if I //did// want my better Wordpress (I've always wanted the flexibility of TW in a "true blog" setting - wordpress plugins don't measure up to TW plugins) do you think it would be easier to pursue the comment function within TiddlySpace, or would it be better to install TiddlyW

[tw] tiddlyspace comments?

2010-10-21 Thread Dave Parker
Hi there, forgive me if this is an obvious question, but I have not been keeping up with the whole tiddlyspace phenomenon. 1. Is tiddlyspace pretty much a "tiddlyweb version" of tiddlyspot? i.e. I could plunk my tiddlyspot TW right in there and it would just work, and its planned to be there for

[tw] Re: weird text characters (€) showing up usin g FiledropPlugin

2010-10-19 Thread Dave Parker
Yay I figured it out. Here's the script that worked in the off chance that others out there might want to use it (need linux and autokey), especially since tiddlysnip doesn't seem to be working these days. keyboard.send_keys("+c") #import time #time.sleep(0.1) contents = clipboard.get_selection()

[tw] Re: weird text characters (€) showing up usin g FiledropPlugin

2010-10-19 Thread Dave Parker
Thanks Eric, my firefox was already set as utf-8, so I suppose if I want to fix it I'll have to fix it with some sort of string replace script in the original Python (or track down tiddlysnip and see if it works with current TWs) On Oct 19, 1:47 pm, Eric Shulman wrote: > FYI.. here's a good refe

[tw] Re: weird text characters (€) showing up usin g FiledropPlugin

2010-10-19 Thread Dave Parker
Hi, thanks both of you for looking into this (even going so far as installing Autokey - that's dedication!) not sure where we're at now with this, but here's the file and a screenshot of the original and what it looks like in the TW: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2161814/10%2009%2015%20centurion http:/

[tw] Re: weird text characters (€) showing up usin g FiledropPlugin

2010-10-15 Thread Dave Parker
sure, here it is: keyboard.send_keys("+c") contents = clipboard.get_selection() retCode, item = dialog.input_dialog("name the file", "What would you like to call this read-file?") output = system.exec_command("date '+%y %m %d '") filename1 = output+item longfilename = "/home/david/Dropbox/MainDocu

[tw] Re: weird text characters (€) showing up usin g FiledropPlugin

2010-10-15 Thread Dave Parker
g generated > with UTF-8 character encoding. I don't know enough Python to know how > that's done I'm afraid. > > Cheers > > Jeremy > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Dave Parker wrote: > > sometimes when I paste the characters i

[tw] weird text characters (€) showing up using Fi ledropPlugin

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Parker
sometimes when I paste the characters in places, they change, so I'll describe what I'm seeing: they're little squares with "00" on top of "80" inside the box, e.g.. They seem to be in place of things like quotes and apostrophes. I have an Autokey (python) script that, once I select any text, cop

[tw] Re: Timed Sliders

2010-09-28 Thread Dave Parker
D'Oh! you were nice to assume I'd have known that at first, because I should have figured it out. Thanks Tobias, thats exactly what I was needing. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddly

[tw] Re: Timed Sliders

2010-09-28 Thread Dave Parker
I tried it on both version 2.5.3 and 2.6.0 On Sep 28, 1:50 pm, Tobias Beer wrote: > What version of TiddlyWiki are you using? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To un

[tw] Re: Timed Sliders

2010-09-28 Thread Dave Parker
but nothing happened. I tried deleting a few line endings to see of google groups trashed the code, but no luck. Same result on 2.5 and 2.6. Any suggestions? On Sep 28, 1:00 pm, Dave Parker wrote: > Wow, not just one solution, but two!! > > Thanks Tobias, I'll give them a try. >

[tw] Re: Timed Sliders

2010-09-28 Thread Dave Parker
Wow, not just one solution, but two!! Thanks Tobias, I'll give them a try. On Sep 28, 4:32 am, Tobias Beer wrote: > You could achieve the same without InlineJavascriptPlugin using > evaluated parameters* and the tiddler macro... > > <> > {{welcome{< chkWelcomeSlider > WelcomeTransclusion##MESSAG

[tw] Timed Sliders

2010-09-26 Thread Dave Parker
Does anyone know of a way to have a tiddler start as an open slider, and then after X# seconds have it automatically collapse but allow the slider to be openend and closed manually after that? Use case: collapsing "Welcome" tiddler that gets out of the way after a set time. thanks, Dave -- You

Re: [tw] Re: background image size

2010-09-08 Thread Dave Parker
Wow, thanks for all the tips! It'll probably take a while to get to it now and try it all out, but I'll post here again if I get any of that working. -Dave PS, yes I noticed on my bigger monitor that the background color does show around the edges, but at least it still looks good :-) On Wed, Se

[tw] Re: background image size

2010-09-08 Thread Dave Parker
(http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/ browse_thread/thread/6b57bc4b80fcd66b)... TW is so great! On Sep 7, 10:39 am, Dave Parker wrote: > Thanks Tobias, you are a genuine asset to this community!! > > On Sep 7, 10:35 am, Tobias Beer wrote: > > > > > Hi again, Dave, >

[tw] Re: background image size

2010-09-07 Thread Dave Parker
Thanks Tobias, you are a genuine asset to this community!! On Sep 7, 10:35 am, Tobias Beer wrote: > Hi again, Dave, > > Just in case you want to narrow your css down to certain buttons - > e.g. only those in the toolbar - you could use: > > .toolbar .button{border:1px solid transparent;} > .toolb

[tw] Re: background image size

2010-09-07 Thread Dave Parker
I found it: a.button{ border: 0; } in the stylesheet. I forgot to search google instead of just this group and found it in http://www.giffmex.org/twfortherestofus.html in Dave Gifford's stylesheet. On Sep 7, 8:52 am, Dave Parker wrote: > Yes, that's (http://ringvemedia.com/) t

[tw] Re: background image size

2010-09-07 Thread Dave Parker
Yes, that's (http://ringvemedia.com/) the effect I'd ultimately like... thanks for the link (I guess I'll have to start learning CSS :- ( - caught between website dreaming and my own incomprehension and laziness ;-) Re those buttons - I've spent some time already trying to get the borders to be t

[tw] Re: background image size

2010-09-06 Thread Dave Parker
Thanks Tobias, I tried that out and it certainly does fill out the whole area, but I prefer the image staying still behind the scrolling page. I ended up sticking with my original "body { " in the stylesheet and just enlarging it, and tweeking the tiddler column with to match properly " width: 74

[tw] Re: background image size

2010-09-06 Thread Dave Parker
May be you can use an image a little bit bigger than the one you use > now. E.g. 800 x 600 px in stead of 259 x 194 (golden woods.jpeg). > > Ton > > On Sep 3, 1:21 am, Dave Parker wrote: > > > > > I have this in my stylesheet: > > > body { > > backgroun

[tw] background image size

2010-09-02 Thread Dave Parker
I have this in my stylesheet: body { background-image: url('http://www.cedar-chiropractic.com/images/golden woods1.jpeg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center; background-attachment: fixed; } and it puts the picture in the right place, but I'd like to increase the size to be

[tw] Re: Bar/Pie/Line Charts in TiddlyWiki using g.raphael

2010-08-14 Thread Dave Parker
Hello, > > > You have to import the data tiddler in order to make it workunless it > > frezes (ExamplePieChartData, SharePriceData, ...) > > > FrD > > > On 14 août, 05:28, Dave Parker wrote: > > > > I can't get this working in a vanilla TW (2.6.0).  I

[tw] Re: Bar/Pie/Line Charts in TiddlyWiki using g.raphael

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Parker
I can't get this working in a vanilla TW (2.6.0). I imported g.bar, g.dot, g.line, g.pie, g.raphael, raphaeljs and TiddlyChartsPlugin. When I put in the GettingStarted tiddler at http://charts.tiddlyspace.com/, my TW freezes up in both Firefox and Chrome. Are there any assumptions with this setup

[tw] Re: A way to do an 'update' button for

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Parker
LoadTiddlersPlugin? from Tiddlytools: # source (required) is the location of the imported document. It can be either a local document path/filename in whatever format your system requires, or a remote web location (starting with "http://"; or "https://";). Use the special keyword, ask, to prompt

[tw] Re: custom field value math

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Parker
Thank you both! this opens up A Whole New World (begin singing now :-) I don't know why it took me so long to find/notice wikiCalc, and those links, Mario, will come in handy when I start getting (trying) into more complicated scripting (by the time I'm eighty, I'll be a whiz - but then there'll

[tw] custom field value math

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Parker
I'm trying to do some math using checkbox generated field values. Using <> doesn't work: {{{ [_(one@)] one [_(two@)] two [_(three@)] three [_(four@)] four [_(five@)] five your score is <> 1+3 is <> }}} the above returns: your score is Error in macro <> 1+3 is 4 presumably because the field valu

[tw] Re: ExternalTiddlersPlugin with sections?

2010-08-05 Thread Dave Parker
Okay, now I'm exhibiting my density, but for the sake of others with a similar search, I've re-discovered Eric's LoadTiddlersPlugin. That allows you to load individual tiddlers at will, singly and as needed from another TW source. Thanks (again) Eric! -Mr Alzheimer -- You received this messag

[tw] Re: ExternalTiddlersPlugin with sections?

2010-08-04 Thread Dave Parker
ite hosting > Like personal Web 2.0 ? seewww.tiddlywiki.com > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 16:11, Dave Parker wrote: > > Is it possible to view specific sections from an external text file > > using ExternalTiddlersPlugin from tiddlytools.com? > > > I tried > > >

[tw] ExternalTiddlersPlugin with sections?

2010-07-31 Thread Dave Parker
Is it possible to view specific sections from an external text file using ExternalTiddlersPlugin from tiddlytools.com? I tried <> and <> but to no avail. Is this even possible? thanks, Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To p

[tw] Re: TiddlyTagMindMapPlugin stalls

2010-07-26 Thread Dave Parker
It must have something to do with firefox. I can never get my TWs to save in chrome so I work in firefox, but just now I opened the link in chrome and it works there (and still not in firefox). On Jul 26, 5:39 pm, Dave Parker wrote: > here's the link:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2161814/ArQ

[tw] Re: TiddlyTagMindMapPlugin stalls

2010-07-26 Thread Dave Parker
it is > possible there is something broken. Are you able to share your > tiddlywiki or an example of another TiddlyWiki where this problem > occurs? Maybe I can find where things are going wrong... > Jon > > On Jul 22, 8:52 am, Dave Parker wrote: > > > > > I have t

[tw] Re: TiddlyTagMindMapPlugin stalls

2010-07-22 Thread Dave Parker
I have to amend point 2 above: sometimes it does open the tiddlers from the page template version if the zoom is set just right On Jul 22, 1:39 am, Dave Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I've been playing around with the TiddlyTagMindMapPlugin found here: > > http://tiddlytagmi

[tw] TiddlyTagMindMapPlugin stalls

2010-07-22 Thread Dave Parker
Hello, I've been playing around with the TiddlyTagMindMapPlugin found here: http://tiddlytagmindmap.tiddlyspot.com/ I removed the reference to instacomments in the MarkupPreHead and got a local version of jquery-1.3.min.js instead of the reference to the jonrobson site (which I haven't been able

[tw] Re: troubles programmtically writing listbox using custom fields

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Parker
thank you Eric. I will repeat to myself ten times "curly brackets are for evaluating parameters" ... unless they're in between and right? Anyway, thanks - that was a nice present to wake up to :-) On Feb 21, 11:22 pm, Eric Shulman wrote: > > <\>]] "b...@here">> > > the <> method has come clo

[tw] troubles programmtically writing listbox using custom fields

2010-02-21 Thread Dave Parker
After spending 2 hours trying and searching here and elsewhere I can't get this to work: <> +++[pick chapter after you pick a book]... script method: var Bk=store.getValue(tiddler,"book") wikify ("<