Ah yeah, some of the newer features are not there yet.
On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 20:33:45 UTC+1 Si wrote: > >>> what's the details tag? > > It's an HTML element that you can click on to hide/reveal a block of text: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details > > There's a handy TW implementation here: > https://tid.li/tw5/plugins.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftelmiger%2Fdetails > > It was added recently enough that it is not supported by Internet > Explorer. It's just one example, I'm sure there are all sorts of things > that have been added to new browsers which won't work in older ones. > > On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 19:31:48 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com wrote: > >> what's the details tag? >> >> On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 19:04:51 UTC+1 Si wrote: >> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> >>> I don't think it's true that you need Internet Explorer for any of >>> this, it's runs under the mshta.exe which should ship with windows. >>> >>> It seems that mshta.exe relies on the Internet Explorer engine (not that >>> I know what that means...): >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application#Execution >>> >>> Anyway a wiki running as an hta app looks just like it does when running >>> in IE, and more recent web stuff doesn't work (e.g. the details tag). My >>> main wiki won't even open in IE (or as an hta) due to some of the plugins I >>> have installed. >>> >>> >>> if you are still interested i can maybe help look at any issues you >>> are hitting >>> >>> Thank you! Though I've now figured out my mistake: I was using a folder >>> for twexe_cmd that didn't exist! Works as expected now. >>> >>> >>> I don't knoe if this is still needed but i have another plugin >>> $:/plugins/welford/htalink/link.js which makes the wiki open links in the >>> default browser. >>> >>> I didn't install that plugin and it still works, but I only did a simple >>> test. >>> >>> On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 17:40:08 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Si, I don't think it's true that you need Internet Explorer for any >>>> of this, it's runs under the mshta.exe which should ship with windows. I >>>> certainly don't have IE installed on my system - but you will need windows. >>>> >>>> I don't knoe if this is still needed but i have another plugin >>>> $:/plugins/welford/htalink/link.js which makes the wiki open links in the >>>> default browser. >>>> >>>> if you are still interested i can maybe help look at any issues you are >>>> hitting: Excuse the crude picture but setting up a twexe should be pretty >>>> simple. this one opens calc and then is linked to twice in another doc, >>>> first as it is and then a second time with overridden params. >>>> >>>> [image: asdf.png] >>>> >>>> On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 16:17:21 UTC+1 Si wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi James thanks for the reply. Just trying it I actually can't even >>>>> get it to work with a batch file ("The filename, directory name, or >>>>> volume >>>>> label syntax is incorrect"). This doesn't matter however because I also >>>>> now >>>>> realize that .hta will use internet explorer to run the app, which means >>>>> unfortunately I can't use this for my wiki anyway. >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, 13 June 2021 at 20:09:25 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Just tested and unfortunately not right now. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a few places where i call >>>>>> WshShell.Run( "cmd /c " + path + " " + args ); From a quick google >>>>>> making >>>>>> the "cmd /c" part call "powershell -File " maybe with some other >>>>>> settings >>>>>> like -executionpolicy unrestricted. >>>>>> >>>>>> I know next to nothing about powershell though. >>>>>> >>>>>> if you take a look at >>>>>> http://welford.github.io/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fwelford%2Ftwexe%2Ftwexe.js >>>>>> specifically >>>>>> TWExeWidget.prototype.runTiddler = function (event) { >>>>>> TWExeWidget.prototype.openFile = function (event) { >>>>>> >>>>>> and can give me a working string format for powershell scripts i can >>>>>> update the plugin to provide the shell in which it will run via a field. >>>>>> e.g. twexe_shell: powershell, so that we can support both. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, 13 June 2021 at 19:18:45 UTC+1 Si wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks James I did not know this existed! I was looking for >>>>>>> something similar a while ago. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Can you use it to run PowerShell scripts? >>>>>>> On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 13:31:27 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Incase any windows/hta users still use this: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've updated this plugin. the source is here: >>>>>>>> https://github.com/welford/twexe and you can grab a copy of the >>>>>>>> updated plugin from http://welford.github.io/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The big change is that you can run the contents of a tiddler as a >>>>>>>> batch file, which should help keep things portable (between machines / >>>>>>>> environments, not cross platform). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It will create a temporary twexe.bat file in %TEMP% fill it with >>>>>>>> the contents of the tiddler and then run it. You can change the >>>>>>>> default >>>>>>>> temporary location via $:/plugins/welford/twexe/tmpdir >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> in the attached image i have two examples, one will run my local >>>>>>>> node.js tw, the other just an example batch file that prints hello and >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> first arg passed to it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3ba00017-bfbb-48c0-85d7-60fd529736e3n%40googlegroups.com.
