@ludwa6: Walt:
I made a few tweaks to Eric's code to suit my own uses. I did not put this
into my sidebar, by now, you know that would be relatively simple to do.
On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 9:49:48 AM UTC-4 ludwa6 wrote:
> Thanks @Eric : it does indeed work nicely -only not in the sidebar; after
> the streamlining you've done on Charlie's script, that functionality seems
> to have been compromised.
> @Hans: Have you implemented Eric's script without modification, and does
> it display & function correctly in your sidebar?
>
> Anyway: Without really understanding the code, i'm now using Eric's macro
> definition line at the top, followed by Charlie's UI-related code, and that
> seems to work pretty well, tho the sidebar view doesn't flow so well if
> it's set too narrow; i can certainly live w/ this -happy! /w
>
> 8<------(snip)----->8
>
> \define AddTopic(topic) <option value={{{ [[$topic$]encodeuri[]addprefix[
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]] }}}>$topic$</option>
>
> <$select tiddler={{Wikipedia!!title}} field="curr-topic">
> <!--🔴 AddTopic takes as input tiddler titles from wikipedia.org and
> creates a link to same tiddler at the static site.
> Add/modify/remove items as per the following three examples
> Order the topics as per your preferences
> Add "optgroup elements to group entries" -->
> <<AddTopic "TiddlyWiki">>
> <<AddTopic "WikiWikiWeb">>
> <<AddTopic "Project_Xanadu">>
> </$select> <a href={{Wikipedia!!curr-topic}} title="Open web
> page in a separate window/tab" target="_blank">link</a>
> <iframe src={{Wikipedia!!curr-topic}} height="500" width="100%"></iframe>
>
> 8<------(snip)----->8
> On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 2:07:33 PM UTC+1 hww...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> @Eric: Thanbk you.
>> This works nicely and is, of course, quite extensible to sites like
>> TiddlyWikiLinks.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hans
>>
>> On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 8:30:04 AM UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-7 ludwa6 wrote:
>>>
>>>> PS to my last: have fixed part of the problem: by adding the suffix
>>>> clause back into macro (as below), it now pulls not a system-level error
>>>> msg, but the error msg from wikipedia.org site itself, which seems to
>>>> be objecting to the .html extension only... yet i can't find a way to
>>>> remove that w/o reverting to the lower-level error msg. Any insight about
>>>> this problem would be appreciated!
>>>
>>>
>>> Try this in a tiddler named "ShowWikipediaFrame":
>>> \define AddTopic(topic) <option value={{{ [[$topic$]encodeuri[]addprefix[
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]] }}}>$topic$</option>
>>>
>>> <$select field="curr-topic">
>>> <<AddTopic "TiddlyWiki">>
>>> <<AddTopic "WikiWikiWeb">>
>>> <<AddTopic "Project Xanadu">>
>>> </$select> <a href={{!!curr-topic}} title="Open web page in a
>>> separate window/tab" target="_blank">link</a>
>>> <iframe src={{!!curr-topic}} height="500" width="100%"></iframe>
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>> * The filter in AddTopic needed a closing "]]". Also, the filter uses
>>> "encodeuri[]" rather than "split[ ]join[%2520]". This handles all special
>>> URI characters, not just space.
>>> * The target tiddler for storing the $select widget value is the *current
>>> tiddler*, rather than "Wikipedia" (or {{Wikipedia!!title}}) and the
>>> corresponding <a href=...> and <iframe src=...> params simply fetch
>>> {{!!curr-topic}} (i.e., from the current tiddler). This allows you
>>> transclude the above content as a template (e.g.,
>>> {{||ShowWikipediaFrame}}) and each transcluded instance can be used to
>>> show a different selected topic.
>>>
>>> enjoy,
>>> -e
>>>
>>
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