Eric, that information is pure gold. Why that isn't in the documentation
could inspire some conspiracy theories.
Those alternative options you offer up, though: man, power to whoever's
boat that floats, but that does not semantically my crank turn.
On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 2:57:04 PM UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote:
> When the `$:/temp/BAM/Settings` tiddler is first created, it causes
> everything following the `$tiddler` widget to be refreshed, which triggers
> the loss-of-focus that you observed. While creating the temporary tiddler
> on startup certainly does fix this issue, there is another solution that
> doesn't require a startup action. Just move the `$tiddler` widget AFTER
> the `$edit-text` widget and add a `tiddler=...` parameter to the
> `$edit-text` widget, like this:
> ```
> <$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/BAM/Settings" field="search_draft"/>
> <$tiddler tiddler="$:/temp/BAM/Settings">
> ```
> Thus, the `$edit-text` widget is no longer subjected to the spontaneous
> refresh when the temp tiddler is first created, but everything else still
> works as before.
>
> Another way to achieve this same result is to replace the `$tiddler`
> widget with
> ```
> <$list filter="$:/temp/BAM/Settings">
> ```
> which has the side effect of setting the `currentTiddler` value to
> `$:/temp/BAM/Settings`, but doesn't cause the loss-of-focus refresh to be
> triggered.
>
> enjoy,
> -e
> On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 10:25:21 AM UTC-8 cj.v...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I've got a search field that only takes effect after clicking an "Apply"
>> button.
>>
>> ```
>> <$tiddler tiddler="$:/temp/BAM/Settings">
>> <$edit-text field="search_draft"/>
>> <$button class={{{ [{!!search_draft}!match{!!search}then[blinking]] }}}
>> disabled={{{ [{!!search_draft}match{!!search}then[yes]else[no]] }}}>
>> <$action-setfield search={{!!search_draft}}/>
>> Apply
>> </$button>
>> ```
>>
>> Every time, the first time entering text in that search field, the focus
>> would move away from the field right after typing the first character.
>>
>> Never any focus issue after that first-time-first-keypress every time I
>> used the TiddlyWiki instance.
>>
>> The problem: the temporary tiddler, which doesn't exist until something
>> is typed in the field, gets created on the first keypress in that field.
>> That causes the focus to move away from the field.
>>
>> What I did: create that temporary tiddler on Startup of the TiddlyWiki
>> instance.
>>
>> Problem solved.
>>
>
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