Thanks Eric. I followed your instructions but the checkbox is sill
empty.
On Mar 1, 11:04 am, Eric Shulman <elsdes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 9:23 am, RA <nameany...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > That's odd. I haven't tested this, but if the respective plugin is
> > > handling it correctly, an existing preference* should not be overridden.
>
> > I'm not sure if it's a "preference". The only reference to it in the
> > plugin is like this:
> > <input type=checkbox class="chk" id="chkSync" ...>
> > Is that enough for it to work as a preference?
>
> Nope. This checkbox is not a 'preference' (i.e., not stored as a
> cookie). It's default value is actually set directly by the plugin
> code, and can be changed by setting:
> config.macros.importTiddlers.sync=true;
>
> Normally, you would simply place this line into a tiddler named
> "ImportTiddlersPluginConfig", tagged with 'systemConfig' (i.e., make
> it a plugin). Because plugins are loaded in alphabetic order,
> ImportTiddlersPluginConfig will be invoked after ImportTiddlersPlugin,
> thereby acting as an 'overlay'.
>
> However, if you load ImportTiddlersPlugin 'on-the-fly' via a
> bookmarklet, the value for 'sync' will be reset to the default
> (=false) when that plugin code is loaded, so any change to the value
> that you might have made (via the ...Config overlay tiddler) is
> superseded.
>
> Fortuately, there is an obvious solution: in order to re-apply the
> custom settings, we need to ensure that ImportTiddlersPluginConfig is
> re-invoked after ImportTiddlersPlugin has been loaded.
>
> To accomplish this, I've made an update to
> TiddlyTools' [[LoadRemotePlugin]] script so that it will accept a
> tiddlername as an additional optional parameter. If this tiddler is
> present, then it will be automatically evaluated so that any JS code
> it contains can be re-invoked as an overlay after the remote plugin is
> loaded.
>
> Thus, to fix your problem:
> 1) create [[ImportTiddlersPluginConfig]] as described above. Note
> that, for this specific use, you don't actually need to tag it with
> systemConfig, since it will be invoked automatically when the remote
> plugin is loaded, but it shouldn't cause any problems if it is also
> tagged and invoked during document startup).
>
> 2) Drag a new copy of the "ImportTiddlers" instant bookmarklet link
> directly from
> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#InstantBookmarklets
> so that the latest code is installed into your browser's toolbar
> (replace the existing bookmarklet).
>
> That should do it. The next time you trigger the bookmarklet to
> remote-load ImportTiddlersPlugin, the custom
> ImportTiddlersPluginConfig present in your document will also get
> invoked and your desired settings will then be re-applied. QED.
>
> enjoy,
> -e
> Eric Shulman
> TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios
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