TiddlyWiki for other uses?

[ardchoille]

Is TiddlyWiki primarily for text? I have my text info in my TW's, but
my blog is at blogspot and my photo album is at picasaweb. I suppose I
could make another TW and use it just for blogging, but how well does
TiddlyWiki hold up when it's used primarily for a photo album? Is TW
capable of doing things like resizing images, thumbnails, slideshows,
etc?

What I was thinking is I could have a blog TW, photo album TW, info
TW, PIM TW and link them all via links in their MainMenu's. It seems
this would keep from having one huge, sluggish TW for everything. I
need to spend some time at TiddlyTools and gather some content-
specific plugins.

Ian MacGregor

[wolfgang]

Hi Ian,

> ... but how well does TiddlyWiki hold up when it's used primarily for

> a photo album? Is TW capable of doing things like resizing images,
> thumbnails, slideshows, etc?

though there are the needed plugins for creating a custom TW photo
album - an other way would be the use of out of the box Umibozu web
album:

http://umibozu.org/en/index.html#Features

Regards,

W.

[Eric Shulman]

> capable of doing things like resizing images, thumbnails, slideshows,

Resizing images can be done via:
http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ImageSizePlugin
which extends the core's standard image syntax:
[img[...]]
to allow you to specify the desired (x,y) dimensions, like this:
[img(x,y)[...]]

A simple 'slideshow' effect can be achieved using
http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuoteOfTheDayPlugin
by definining a tiddler containing an "hr-separated" list of images
and/or text items, like this:
[img(x,y)[...]]
----
[img(x,y)[...]]
----
[img(x,y)[...]]
----
etc.
and then invoking it via the <<QOTD>> macro, like this:
<<QOTD tiddlername>>
The macro supports optional parameters to enable/disable 'click for
next item' handling, as well as a timed delay for automatic 'advance
to next item'.

While there are other 'slideshow' plugins available from other sites,
<<QOTD>> is also very handy for creating 'news tickers' or an
eponymous "quote of the day" display that present randomly-selected
quotes each time it is rendered. (Examples of both of these uses can
be seen in the TiddlyTools "Welcome" tiddler).

enjoy,
-e

[ardchoille]

Thank you. It looks like TW is fully capable of serving needs other
than text and simple images :)

Ian MacGregor