Hi Jeremy, Do you mean dragging from Finder or from Safari's file browser? I see the > same behaviour of navigating to the file when dragging a file from Finder > to Chrome on OS X. I haven't explored whether dragging a file into > TiddlyWiki's text editor can be made to consistently insert the path, I'll > investigate.
Yes. To be more clear dragging a file into the edit-text region of a Tiddler (and not into the import active-region of the TW) will tell the browser to open the file instead of pasting the file's path. Is it possible to have TiddlyWiki have an active drag and drop region in the edit-text window that will prevent the browser from opening the file and instead paste the files relative path(or absolute path is unavailable)? On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mark > > My quick test on a Chrome browser suggests that links dragged from a >> Chrome tab used as a file browser also may contain the full file path name. >> To me, dragging from a browser tab would be the most universal way of doing >> things, since a plugin would have to be specific not only to the browser >> but also the operating system (it's likely that Linux and Mac are going to >> present link drag/drops differently than Win OS). >> > > You may have convinced me. I'd forgotten that other browsers also provide > a directory viewer for file: URIs (I nearly missed it on Chrome because it > doesn't actually let you drag a folder onto the Chrome icon or window). > > I've created a ticket here: > > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1067 > > > >> On the old TW, with the Javscript plugin, I would probably just have >> written a routine that grabbed a list of files and created a tiddler for >> each one containing a link of the right type pointing to a local relative >> path. I'm finding it harder to get into coding in TW5. >> > > There's a lot more code in TW5, and it can be hard to track down where > things are done. In this case, the area of interest is here: > > > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core%2Fmodules%2Fwidgets%2Fdropzone.js#L87 > > > On a related note, I recently tried dragging a file into TiddlyWiki's > text editor on a Mac+Safari and the file-path was inserted as desired. This > is unlike in Windows with Chrome, Firefox, or Safari where the dragged file > redirects the web-page to the dragged file. > > Do you mean dragging from Finder or from Safari's file browser? I see the > same behaviour of navigating to the file when dragging a file from Finder > to Chrome on OS X. I haven't explored whether dragging a file into > TiddlyWiki's text editor can be made to consistently insert the path, I'll > investigate. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > >> >> Thanks! >> Mark >> >> On Friday, November 7, 2014 8:36:20 AM UTC-8, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >>> >>> \Ah, OK, yes, in that case the browser exposes an URL link as text, and >>> so we could do the global-to-local transformation etc. The trouble is that >>> I'm not sure that it's worth it, given that it would only work with the >>> Firefox file browser. I think it would be more useful to spend the effort >>> on getting TiddlyFox/TiddlyClip to make it possible to drag files from the >>> OS Finder/Explorer and get a relative link made automatically. >>> >>> >>> -- >> 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:jeremy.rus...@gmail.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/k-cMEGkOV-8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
