Holy smokes, Eric, that is a wonderful and meaty buffet of informative
goodness.
*Squirrel* !!! : This is awesome learnin' at TiddlyWiki University
("TiddlyWiki U"? "TWU?")
*Car* !!! : Has anybody ever thought of some TiddlyWiki merchandising to
support and promote the project?
*(If I were entrepreneurial at all, I'd be tearing into that to make it
happen. Beyond just the idea, I'm otherwise clueless...)*
Thanks !
I've just woken up, and still uncaffeinated. Once I *perk* up (pun!), I'm
going over all of this again and getting to work.
On Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 2:44:05 AM UTC-3 Eric Shulman wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 2:58:14 PM UTC-7, Charlie Veniot wrote:
>>
>> I'm still in the midst of setting up my "Products Review" TiddlyWiki to
>> also behave as a "Urban Off-Gridding for Laypersons" TiddlyWiki.
>> Both contexts have much in common (from structural elements to content),
>> and I really did not want to create two distinct TiddlyWikis with a ton of
>> duplication between them.
>> Hence the desire to have one TiddlyWiki with two "contextual" appearances.
>> Before getting into show and tell images (further below), here are the
>> two links that open the same TiddlyWiki file but trigger different
>> "contextual" appearances upon startup:
>>
>> -
>> https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/CJ_ProductReviews.html
>> *?context=ProductReviews*
>>
>> <https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/CJ_ProductReviews.html?context=ProductReviews>
>> -
>> https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/CJ_ProductReviews.html
>> *?context=OffGridding*
>>
>> <https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/CJ_ProductReviews.html?context=OffGridding>
>>
>> For the moment, only Title and Subtitle change based on context. Next: I
>> will start modifying other content to change based on context.
>>
>
> First... let me congratulate you on a good job of combining many different
> technical bits and pieces! It shows that you've really dug into the meat
> of TiddlyWiki! Having said that, I think I can suggest ways to use
> existing TiddlyWiki features to reduce some of the complexities while still
> achieving (nearly) the same results.
>
> Let's start with these two pieces:
>
>>
>> - *GetStartupContext.js*
>> - *Set Startup Context*
>>
>> The result of these two pieces is to, on startup, get the value of the
> "?context=..." parameter from the URL and save it in a tiddler for later
> use. However, you are probably not aware that the TWCore already does this
> work for you by automatically creating a set of shadow tiddlers that breaks
> the URL into its component parts:
>
> $:/info/url/full
> $:/info/url/host
> $:/info/url/hostname
> $:/info/url/origin
> $:/info/url/pathname
> $:/info/url/port
> $:/info/url/protocol
> $:/info/url/search
>
> For your purposes, you would be most interested in the last one,
> $:/info/url/search. Given the URLs you show above, this tiddler would
> contain text
> ?context=ProductReviews
> or
> ?context=OffGridding
> Note that the tiddler includes the URL parameter itself, "?context=", not
> just the value. This is different from your results, but can be easily
> handled later on.
>
>>
>> - *Alternate TiddlyWiki Purposes*
>>
>> Instead of using a custom field, "purpose", you can just set the value in
> $:/info/url/search, like this:
> \define link(suffix)
> <a title="Use this link to bookmark this site's purpose." href="
> https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/CJ_ProductReviews.html?context=$suffix$";
>
> style="text-decoration: none;">🔖</a>
> \end
>
> <div
> style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;margin-left:30px;color:dimgray;">
> <$radio tiddler="$:/info/url/search" value="?context=ProductReviews">
> {{TiddlyWiki Title 1}} </$radio> <<link "ProductReviews">>
> <br>
> <$radio tiddler="$:/info/url/search" value="?context=OffGridding">
> {{TiddlyWiki Title 2}} </$radio> <<link "OffGridding">>
> </div>
> Notes:
> * I retain the existing data value format, including the "?context="
> prefix. This keeps the content of $:/info/url/search consistent with the
> value that was automatically set.
> * I've turned the inline links (for bookmarking) into a macro definition
> using a parameter for the desired suffix, so that it only need to be
> specified once.
>
> By tagging the above tiddler with *$:/tags/SideBarSegment* and adding a
> field named *list-before*, with a blank value, the radio buttons will
> appear above the title in the sidebar. This eliminates much of the need
> for the "Fancy TiddlyWiki Title" tiddler. The rest of that tiddler is
> selecting which title to display, and applying styles to the TiddlyWiki
> title. This can be achieved directly in the $:/SiteTitle tiddler, like
> this:
> <div style="border-top:solid lightgray;">
> <div style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.5">Charlie's</div>
> <$reveal state="$:/info/url/search" type="match"
> text="?context=ProductReviews">
> {{TiddlyWiki Title 1}}
> </$reveal>
> <$reveal state="$:/info/url/search" type="match"
> text="?context=OffGridding">
> {{TiddlyWiki Title 2}}
> </$reveal>
> </div>
>
> Similarly, your conditional subtitle can be achieved directly in the
> $:/SiteSubtitle tiddler, like this:
> <div style="color:darkgray;font-size:90%;text-align:right;border-bottom:solid
> lightgray">
> - Version:
> <$list filter="[!is[system]!has[draft.of]!sort[modified]limit[1]]">
> <$view field="modified" format="date" template="YYYY-0MM-0DD
> 0hh12:0mmam" />
> </$list>
> - <br/>
> <$reveal state="$:/info/url/search" type="match"
> text="?context=OffGridding">
> <div style="color:gray;border-top:solid lightgray thin;text-align:left;
> ">
> //Easy, practical, and budget-friendly experiments/solutions for
> "light" grid independence.//
> </div>
> </$reveal>
> </div>
> Note that the first part (the version text) is only specified once, and is
> always displayed, regardless of which "mode" you are currently showing,
> and the second part (the $reveal) is only displayed when you are showing
> the "OffGridding" mode.
>
> I've probably left out some bits and pieces here and there, but hopefully
> this makes sense to you and you can fill in whatever I've missed without
> too much trouble.
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>
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