Yes, I have seen that, thanks. Unfortunately, I lack the necessary 
skills/time to identify the pieces that would need to be adapted to allow 
for viewing (and updating) a running overview of the task status for the 
last 10 days.

On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 10:04:33 AM UTC-7 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote:

> This is one of the first things that came up with a search, perhaps it may 
> be of interest:
> https://rawgit.com/Guitlle/habito/build/build/habito-docs.html
>
> On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 6:54:23 PM UTC+2 Saq Imtiaz wrote:
>
>> Just to add a bit more clarification to the issue since I have a bit more 
>> time now than I did yesterday, this functionality should have been 
>> implemented as a widget and not a macro. I quickly dropped the link in 
>> reply yesterday so you would know that there was some follow up on your 
>> post.
>>
>> JavaScript macros in TiddlyWiki5 are supposed to be for simple text 
>> substitution and do not have any facilities for refreshing in response to 
>> other changes in the wiki, the input of the macro determines the output. A 
>> macro should never modify tiddlers. The macro in question both needs to 
>> refresh itself in response to tiddler changes, and also modifies tiddlers. 
>>
>> Such a macro was never intended to be supported but has worked so far 
>> because we were aggressively refreshing entire tiddlers when anything in 
>> that tiddler changed. So for example a change to a tiddler "list" field 
>> would refresh the entire tiddler in the story. However this is suboptimal 
>> both from a performance point of view and in terms of user experience. Some 
>> of the annoyances commonly encountered like an edit-text widget in a 
>> tiddlers text field not being usable to modify a field in the same tiddler 
>> come from this aggressive and unnecessary refresh behaviour.
>>
>> So the question that presents itself now is whether we maintain backwards 
>> compatibility for a behaviour from third party macros that was never 
>> intended to be supported and holds back improvements, or break such macros 
>> as their implementation will trip us up again in unexpected places and 
>> limit future possibilities.
>>
>> Your actual need for the functionality offered by this macro could 
>> probably be solved with a wikitext implementation as well. It might be 
>> worth a search to see if someone has shared such a solution.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Saq
>>
>> On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 6:42:38 PM UTC+2 cmari wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Saq, that was certainly not the answer I was hoping for, but it's 
>>> good to know which way the wind is blowing after so many years (I think the 
>>> original dailytasks plugin that got me started 13 years ago came from you?).
>>> cmari (considering changing my name to "offspec user"!)
>>>
>>> On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 1:03:59 PM UTC-7 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> See 
>>>> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/5903#issuecomment-898691487
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 9:26:33 PM UTC+2 cmari wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have been a happy daily user of *Daily Task Macro *(
>>>>> http://togglers.tiddlyspot.com/) for years, so I am wondering whether 
>>>>> someone can point me to any tips for how I might update the macro so that 
>>>>> it will continue to work in the new prerelease. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Specifically, the fields in toggler tiddlers do continue to update 
>>>>> correctly when the images are clicked, but the (svg) images themselves do 
>>>>> not update in response to the click until the tiddler is opened and 
>>>>> closed 
>>>>> again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>>> cmari
>>>>>
>>>>

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