Twexe and TW5-jsoneditor issues?

Tiddly Novice

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Oct 28, 2020, 4:15:32 PM10/28/20

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I'm trying to get a new TW working with TWexe and the TW5-jsoneditor plug-in working on a windows 10 computer with firefox, but after I drag and drop all the plug-in tiddlers from the plug-in into the fresh wiki (as instructed), save, and refresh I get nothing but a page with an error message that reads:

> "Internal Javascript Error
> Well, this is embarrassing. It is recommended that you restart TiddlyWiki by refreshing your browser
> TypeError: $tw.KeyboardManager is not a constructor"

Refreshing doesn't change anything. I've basically forgotten all the TW knowledge I ever had after years of not using it, so I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Anybody have an idea?

Joshua Fontany

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Oct 28, 2020, 8:50:02 PM10/28/20

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Hi!

Author of TW5-jsoneditor here. :) Json Editor was a proof-of-concept that unfortunately stopped getting updated around TiddlyWiki 5.1.20 .

One of the dependents ( $:/plugins/joshuafontany/jsonmangler ), "patches the Tiddlywiki core" by inserting code on-the-fly when it is booted.

I have a feeling your TWexe instance is at a newer version, and this patching process has gone wrong. What version of TW are you running?

I would get Json Manger from here: https://github.com/joshuafontany/TW5-jsonmangler

Demo wiki (currently on TW 5.1.23-pre): https://chronicles.wiki/TW5-JsonMangler/

And then you can use TW "wikitext" to build any UI templates you need, and target nested JSON data with any "index" needed in widgets, etc.

Best,
Joshua F

TW Tones

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Oct 28, 2020, 8:54:12 PM10/28/20

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Also in addition to Joshua's notes I have a separate wiki for JSON mangling, generating new tiddlers from my import data and transfer the data to my wiki,

ie: So you twexe need not support JSON mangler but will make use of its results.

If using twexe you may also consider making use of TiddlyDesktop instead.

Regards

Tones

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Oct 29, 2020, 2:56:19 PM10/29/20

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The TW version is 5.1.9 in the control panel. I don't know if that's newer or older. I'm open to changing versions and using different things, as I'm not currently locked into any particular version yet. I'm just trying to get a good start right now. I shall look into TiddlyDesktop.

TW Tones

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Oct 29, 2020, 6:06:41 PM10/29/20

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The Current version at tiddlywiki.com is 5.1.22 (find to use now) and the pre-release version is 5.1.23 which may be released soon, do not use until released to tiddlywiki.com, perhaps even wait for a little while for a 5.1.24 if there are bugs.

Tones

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Oct 30, 2020, 7:06:19 PM10/30/20

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TiddlyDesktop seems to be working, though I had a brief moment of panic when it didn't seem able to save. Turned out that it can't save if I use the wiki html files generated by twexe. I guess because they're for older versions? I haven't tested if the Json editor works on the newer version of TW I'm using, but since it isn't getting updated I guess there wouldn't be much point. But I'm not sure I've found examples for how to use the json mangler like I was hoping to use the json editor. Should I start a new conversation to ask for guidance on that?

TW Tones

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Oct 30, 2020, 8:18:02 PM10/30/20

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FYI: You can load TWexe with any wiki including the latest version.

Personally I favour Timimi on Chrome and Firefox for local files that do not need local filesystem access.