Happy Saturday, cj.v! I've read your preceding post several times and I remain unsure which way you are leaning on "sql.jg".
Can you clarify? Cheers, Hans On Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 9:13:47 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > G'day Jeremy, and thank-you ! > > I have sql.js <https://sql.js.org/#/> on the brain, and am not quite sure > I really want to even dip a toe into that kind of self-inflicted pain. > > Although I was in a soul-searching "should I shouldn't I, could I couldn't > I, to be not to be" stretch of waffling over it, I'm pretty sure I've > entered an "oh hell no" quick retreat to the safety of a thumb-sucking > fetal position. > > My loathing of javascript makes it kind of hopeless for this kid. For all > of the great things that can be done with it, as much as I am impressed > with capabilities and end products, the language irritates the living > daylights out of me. > > Silly me: I may have been thinking "throw a wildly interesting project at > it, and maybe it will grow on you?" Not so much. > > Thank goodness for the slew of folk with brains wired to work with > javascript ! > > > > > On Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 6:27:33 AM UTC-3 [email protected] wrote: > >> I'm not having much luck searching the web, and I'm hoping somebody can >> put me on some kind of "for white belts" reading material. >> >> Say one finds a small javascript library one wants to use with >> TiddlyWiki, what are the options and the processes involved? >> >> Does one include the libary (if so where?) in TiddlyWiki, then access the >> libary functions via javascript macros ? >> >> Total newb here with the whole concept, and not particularly >> knowledgeable about javascript, so please be gentle ! >> >> >> It depends what the JS library does. >> >> If the library does pure text manipulation (eg an anagram engine), then >> it should be fairly easy to wrap it up into a JavaScript macro. There are >> some examples here: >> >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/master/core/modules/macros >> >> If the library converts markup to HTML, then it can be wrapped to be a >> parser - see the Markdown parser or the KaTeX parser for an example: >> >> >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/katex/latex-parser.js >> >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/markdown/wrapper.js >> >> Things get much trickier if the library manipulates the DOM. One >> fundamental problem is that many libraries are written on the assumption >> that they will be used on a static page, and don’t automatically cater for >> dynamic content. In many cases, such libraries are old jQuery libraries >> that do things that can now be done with plain HTML or wikitext. >> >> The simplest case is a library that produces output in a single DOM node. >> These can generally be turned into a widget. For example, the CodeMirror >> widget: >> >> >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror >> >> That is not an exhaustive list, what kind of library are you looking at? >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/83ad6d61-615e-4a20-9323-0fdf8d8f8b8bn%40googlegroups.com.

