Hi Jeremy! Thank you for your nice guidance, have looked into the tags tiddler and got me convinced that doing this tiddlywiki extension is beyond the efforts I planed to invest in it, it's not for me :/. For this this project I'll go with a more familiar set of tools.
Best wishes, Laci On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Laci > > I would like to extend the functionality of a plugin called Library > Tracker <http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#My%20Plugins>. so to have an > autocomplete dropdown list on titles with the help of the google books api, > similar to this: > https://www.librarieshacked.org/tutorials/autocompletewithapi . > This would be the final goal, now I just would like to transform the > api_url when the input box is edited so that in the next step I could do an > ajax request... but thats not for today, I have no idea how to do that in > TiddlyWikki but with some research and the help of the community, with > small steps I hope to get there soon. :) > > > OK, you’ve chosen a goal that will be quite demanding :) > > The user interface of TiddlyWiki is built out of wikitext; for example, > the autocompletion of tags in the editor looks like this: > > > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core/ui/EditTemplate/tags.tid > > Off the top of my head, this is what would be needed to build an API-based > autocomplete along the same principles: > > * Introduce a new message handler that can retrieve entries from the > autocomplete API and store them as temporary tiddlers > * Figure out a way to trigger that message whenever the text of an edit > control changes > * Add a dropdown to the book title field in the library tracker that > selects the autocomplete tiddlers and searches for the typed text > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > > > Thanks, > Laci > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy.rus...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> JavaScript macros are intended to generate an output string from their >> input parameters; they are not supposed to have side effects. >> >> What are you trying to do here? It looks like you’re trying to compose a >> search URL for Google books; is the intention to provide a UI onto the >> search, or to search with information drawn from the current tiddler? >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> On 14 Jul 2016, at 12:01, László Zsigmond <zsigmond.88.las...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> I'm trying to start with my first homebrew javascript snippet/macro that >> gets the value of a tiddler's field and replaces two strings inside it... >> I came up with the following not working code that should just return that >> modified string. This script shouldn't run jut once but >> each time one input element (inputterm) is edited. Have no idea how to call >> such a function in Tiddlywiki context, for getElements it >> would be safer to use ids but I just want to see if my plan is doable in the >> first place. >> >> Help please. >> >> >> Laci >> >> /*\ >> title: $:/macros/obeliksz/library_api_macro.js >> type: application/javascript >> module-type: macro >> >> <<libraryapimacro>> >> >> Example: >> <<libraryapimacro>> >> >> \*/ >> (function(){ >> >> /*jslint node: true, browser: true */ >> /*global $tw: false */ >> "use strict"; >> >> /* >> Information about this macro >> Replaces inside the api_url string the inputterm with the more than 3 >> characters >> typed input from the title's edit-text and inputauthor with author edit-text >> default api_url: >> https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?printType=books&q=+intitle:inputterm+inauthor:inputauthor >> >> */ >> >> exports.name = "libraryapimacro"; >> >> /* >> Run the macro >> */ >> exports.run = function() { >> var api_url = {{$:/plugins/inmysocks/LibraryTracker/Library Tracker >> Settings!!api_url}} >> var inputterm = >> document.getElementsByClassName('tc-edit-texteditor')[0].value >> var inputauthor = document.getElementsByTagName('select')[1].value >> var output ="New url: " + >> api_url.replace("inputterm",inputterm).replace("inputauthor",inputauthor); >> return output; >> }; >> >> })(); >> >> >> -- >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/35b77f29-53b6-404d-8b1d-f4b137091131%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/35b77f29-53b6-404d-8b1d-f4b137091131%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/gNlWaoeE6yg/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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/924DF5FD-52CF-4829-BD41-ED3E754D72FE%40gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/924DF5FD-52CF-4829-BD41-ED3E754D72FE%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ9a8aUa7SdsdL6toB3k4XwPHAMaY1-UnfKicV9%2B2x3%2BNEvgvQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ9a8aUa7SdsdL6toB3k4XwPHAMaY1-UnfKicV9%2B2x3%2BNEvgvQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > 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/gNlWaoeE6yg/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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7B86F7D0-9C2B-48B3-AD77-CB8E4F002DE3%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7B86F7D0-9C2B-48B3-AD77-CB8E4F002DE3%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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