Plugin Development Resources

[Simon]

Hi All

I am hoping somebody can point me in the right direction here. I've been playing with TW for a bit, getting acquainted!

I've built a VERY simple plugin that just spits back text (to try and understand the basics)

now I want to go a little deeper.

Basically I'm looking for some resources that explain the different components of plugins. For example how do templates work?  CSS?

I don't need to get super deep I'm just trying to create a unique dashboard on top of TW5 for my pers use and want to style it with columns, rows etc, throw in some filters etc

I've plowed through a bunch of existing plugins but am missing some key info I suspect...

As always any hep is much appreciated!

Simon

[Atronoush Parsi]

Not exactly what you want, but a good tutorial for beginners.

Sistan is a tutorial for creating plugins in Tiddlywiki. It was written as a small chapter to be used in a book developed by Luis Gonzalez.

To get the online latest version visit: http://sistan.tiddlyspot.com

It has a link to Luis' book which is also a good reference to learn Tiddlywiki. I know Jed also has some good examples and notes on this.

Atro

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[Simon]

That was helpful thanks - certainly picked up some info

Much appreciated

Thanks

Simon

[TW Tones]

Simon,

I get a feeling from your question here, that you want to know how to create plugins to ;

" create a unique dashboard on top of TW5 for my pers use and want to style it with columns, rows etc, throw in some filters etc " 

My point here is this can all be done with wikitext, filters macros and widgets, in many cases, or if you like to, using a high degree HTML and CSS.

For example your experiment "just spits back text" is something we can do out of the box.

I am all for supporting you to write plugins, its good to have plugin writers, but do be carful you are not going down that path because you do not know how to do it natively.

• Sure lots of dummy plugins are the learning process but perhaps ask the community if you want to write a plugin we need eventually.

So, please ask if you want help by describing the "actual requirement" not just the details of half a solution, if you understand what I mean?

Regards

Tones