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Re: [WikklyText] Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:25:14 UT

Thanks for the link. OK 1.9.3 is out, please give it a whirl. If this
doesn't help with what you're doing let me know.
Here is a complete demo -- I'm using embedded Python code instead of a full
plugin, but functionally there is no difference:
============================== ============================== ===

WikklyText 1.9.3-TEST released

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:19:59 UT

Here is another -TEST version getting ready for 2.0. If you are
running a wiki server and have not yet upgraded, I encourage you to
give it a try. Things are looking stable for me so I may make a 2.0
soon and don't want anyone caught by surprise.
Changes:
* Removed "wik makeboot" command; no need for it anymore with new

Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

jdlrob...@gmail.com (jdlrobson) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:05:46 UT

I've not had any experience myself but it's definitely possible (pip
for install can be installed in this way - pip install pip==dev and
pip install pip both work.
I'm told this might provide a good starting point:
[link]

Re: [WikklyText] Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:53:01 UT

Actually I'm not putting the 1.9.x series on PyPI yet -- there are some
compatibility breaks in how the wiki attaches to Apache and I wanted to give
anyone running the wiki a chance to switchover without breaking it. I'll be
posting the link here instead.
BTW, I'm not familiar with the notation like "wikklytext==dev" -- does PyPI

Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

jdlrob...@gmail.com (jdlrobson) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:51:35 UT

Great.
Am assuming doing pip install wikklytext==dev will give me the latest
version when it is released?
My rss feed is now pointed at [link] as I
am quite blocked in my wikklytext development without this.
Much appreciated.
Jon

Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:46:01 UT

Yes, it is a fairly trivial change ... the subtlety comes in if you
want to subclass WikContext. In that case you have to provide your
own .copy() method since the context has to be cloned at several
points through the parsing/evaluation process, so I'll add comments to
that effect. I'll put out a 1.9.3-TEST version with the changes.

Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

jdlrob...@gmail.com (jdlrobson) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:25:45 UT

Oh sorry, somehow got confused by your post. Yes that would be
something I'd be looking for. Is that easy to do?

Jon

Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

jdlrob...@gmail.com (jdlrobson) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:24:48 UT

But WikklyText_to_InnerHTML doesn't take context as an argument....?

Re: [WikklyText] Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:53:13 UT

Ahh, so you are talking about setting a variable OUTSIDE the
WikklyText_to_InnerHTML() call and having it propogate in. The problem right
now is that the context is created inside the WikklyText_to_InnerHTML() call
and returned as an output-only value once the processing is finished. I did
this for convenience initially, but really there needs to be an extra

Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

jdlrob...@gmail.com (jdlrobson) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:47:10 UT

Sample code might help:
So I run the code below.
My log statement suggests it has done what I want.

However in my macro when I try to get the value
eg. context.uservars["environ"]
I find it doesn't exist. In fact context.uservars is empty. Am I
setting this too early in my code? Where does it get overwritten?

Re: [WikklyText] Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:21:24 UT

This may be clearer looking at it from a wikitext perspective. Lets say I do
this ...

<<set VAR //__some text__//>>

This does NOT store the literal text "//__some text__//" in the variable
VAR. Instead the wikitext is first evaluated, turned into a list of XML-like
Elements, and those Elements are stored in VAR. No matter how simple or

Re: Passing variables to WikklyText macros

jdlrob...@gmail.com (jdlrobson) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:00:55 UT

Sort of.. I'm using raw python code.
What I don't understand is I have a complex python data structure -
environ -(a dictionary containing strings, integers and other
dictionaries) and I want to access it from my macro.

I try
tiddler =context.var_set("environ",env iron)

However when I try:

Re: [WikklyText] Passing variables to WikklyText macros

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:22:38 UT

Hi, I'm not 100% sure if I'm understanding your question and there is a lot
of flexibility here so let me tell you what I'm thinking and you correct me
if I'm off track. You say "global" here but I'm not sure where you are
wanting to set the variables from. If you are setting the variables from

Passing variables to WikklyText macros

jdlrob...@gmail.com (jdlrobson) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:05:21 UT

Hi there,
I'm looking at Wikklytext and designing my own macro. I have got the
Hello World macro running so am set up in this respect however I want
to make some global variables available to the macro.

I am assuming the WikContext would be the best place to do this but I
have no idea how to prep the WikContext variable to contain this

Re: [WikklyText] Re: bug when rendering table headers

fmcingv...@gmail.com (Frank McIngvale) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:00:34 UT

Good info, thanks.

I will probably do that since its a lot easier to change a flag in the
individual table cell as it's being build vs. walking back up the tree and
changing the whole row. I just checked and TiddlyWiki DOES make the THEAD
when |h is used, and TH when not, so I'll make a TODO on emulating the