Just to add a bit more clarification to the issue since I have a bit more time now than I did yesterday, this functionality should have been implemented as a widget and not a macro. I quickly dropped the link in reply yesterday so you would know that there was some follow up on your post.
JavaScript macros in TiddlyWiki5 are supposed to be for simple text substitution and do not have any facilities for refreshing in response to other changes in the wiki, the input of the macro determines the output. A macro should never modify tiddlers. The macro in question both needs to refresh itself in response to tiddler changes, and also modifies tiddlers. Such a macro was never intended to be supported but has worked so far because we were aggressively refreshing entire tiddlers when anything in that tiddler changed. So for example a change to a tiddler "list" field would refresh the entire tiddler in the story. However this is suboptimal both from a performance point of view and in terms of user experience. Some of the annoyances commonly encountered like an edit-text widget in a tiddlers text field not being usable to modify a field in the same tiddler come from this aggressive and unnecessary refresh behaviour. So the question that presents itself now is whether we maintain backwards compatibility for a behaviour from third party macros that was never intended to be supported and holds back improvements, or break such macros as their implementation will trip us up again in unexpected places and limit future possibilities. Your actual need for the functionality offered by this macro could probably be solved with a wikitext implementation as well. It might be worth a search to see if someone has shared such a solution. Regards, Saq On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 6:42:38 PM UTC+2 cmari wrote: > Thanks Saq, that was certainly not the answer I was hoping for, but it's > good to know which way the wind is blowing after so many years (I think the > original dailytasks plugin that got me started 13 years ago came from you?). > cmari (considering changing my name to "offspec user"!) > > On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 1:03:59 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> See >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/5903#issuecomment-898691487 >> >> On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 9:26:33 PM UTC+2 cmari wrote: >> >>> I have been a happy daily user of *Daily Task Macro *( >>> http://togglers.tiddlyspot.com/) for years, so I am wondering whether >>> someone can point me to any tips for how I might update the macro so that >>> it will continue to work in the new prerelease. >>> >>> Specifically, the fields in toggler tiddlers do continue to update >>> correctly when the images are clicked, but the (svg) images themselves do >>> not update in response to the click until the tiddler is opened and closed >>> again. >>> >>> Thanks for any help! >>> cmari >>> >> -- 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/403ef6e8-2580-4497-811c-c4955558fd78n%40googlegroups.com.
