Hi Martin > Would that make sense/be possible to, when drag and dropping a non-text file > (a pdf, an image, etc.) to a tiddler that is currently being edited, have an > option for copying the content of the file to e.g. ./media/data/whatever.xyz, > and only inserting a link within the tiddler? Would be very useful. Thanks! > Martin
Unfortunately, there’s no general way to save arbitrary files. A TiddlyWiki can save it’s own HTML file, but it can’t save other files. Best wishes Jeremy > > On Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 1:07:16 PM UTC+1, Blake Blacksmith wrote: > Ok. Thats unfortunate but I appreciate your effort. For now I'll stick to > dragging and dropping the absolute path from my file explorer. > > Thanks for your continued great work with TW5! > > > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > Hi Blake > > 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)? > > I've done some more tests with dragging a file from Finder/Explorer into a > text editor in the TiddlyWiki browser window. The default handling on Chrome > is to navigate to the incoming file. We can prevent that navigation, but we > still can't access the path of the file, and so we can't paste the relative > path of the file. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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 > <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 > > <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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:jeremy...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > -- > 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 > <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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:jeremy...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > -- > 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 > <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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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 > <mailto:tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cb888f77-ec90-4ea6-9693-ff806cf8ce4e%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cb888f77-ec90-4ea6-9693-ff806cf8ce4e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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