exports.startup = function() {
exports.platforms = ["node"];
$tw.wiki.addEventListener("change",function(changes) {
if($tw.utils.hop(changes,"updatebookmarks")) {
runPinboardPlugin();
}
});
runPinboardPlugin();
}
On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 4:07:29 PM UTC+1, BJ wrote:
>
> maybe you can add an event listener:
>
> this.wiki.addEventListener("change",function(changes) {
> if($tw.utils.hop(changes,"updatebookmarks")) {
> runmyupdatebookmarks()
> }
> });
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 12:04:54 PM UTC+1, BJ wrote:
>>
>> ok, what I meant is, if you have a tiddler call "updatebookmarks", and
>> when a button is clicked this tiddler is updated, this update is sync'd
>> with the nodejs instance. In the nodejs instance there need to be a hook
>> that listens for updates to the tiddler "updatebookmarks", and when updated
>> runs a function.
>>
>> You cannot use chrome dev tools as the code should not run in the
>> browser, only nodejs.
>>
>> You can see how to run code only in nodejs by looking at the command
>> strartup -
>>
>>
>> exports.platforms = ["node"];
>>
>> HOWEVER, it seems the hooks are not called in the nodejs instance, so you
>> cannot do it like this - ??
>>
>> You could request a hook be added to the core that will run in the nodejs
>> instance.
>>
>>
>> Hi BJ,
>>>
>>> Thanks very much for the help. Can you possibly explain this in more
>>> depth? I've tried to follow your instructions, and also read up on hooks
>>> from twdocs and looked at the code in `boot.js`, but I still don't fully
>>> understand how a hook function is called.
>>>
>>> The following is my progress so far.
>>>
>>> I wasn't sure where exactly the addHook function belonged or what the
>>> name was supposed to be. My best guess was that they belonged in the plugin
>>> startup module itself. So I took the main function in
>>> `create-pinboard-tiddlers.js` and moved it to a new one.
>>> I tested two different formats of `addhook()` based on what I read:
>>>
>>> exports.startup = function() {
>>>
>>> // $tw.hooks.addHook("reset-pinboard-tiddlers",function() {
>>> // runPinboardPlugin();
>>> // return;
>>> // });
>>>
>>> $tw.hooks.addHook("th-saving-tiddler",function(tiddler) {
>>> runPinboardPlugin();
>>> return tiddler;
>>> });
>>>
>>> runPinboardPlugin();
>>> }
>>>
>>> As you can see I commented out the first one, but I did try both. In
>>> both cases, the plugin worked normally on startup. In neither case was I
>>> able to successfully `invokeHook()`. I tried Chrome dev-tools snippets:
>>>
>>> `$tw.hooks.invokeHook("th-saving-tiddler");`
>>>
>>> &
>>>
>>> ``$tw.hooks.invokeHook("reset-pinboard-tiddlers");`
>>>
>>> depending on which one I was trying, but neither did anything. I also
>>> tried saving tiddlers for the "th-saving-tiddler" test but this did
>>> nothing either.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>
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