Importing old Tiddlywiki plugins

[Marcel]

Coming back to TiddlyWiki after 12 years, and a lot has changed. I'm using version 5.1.15 and would like to start using the CheckBoxPlugin from http://www.tiddlytools.com/. That plugin is fairly old and does not seem to be written for the modern Tiddlywiki architecture.

Importing plugins now works via drag-and-drop, and I cannot seem to find the name of the plugin starting with $:/.

Can someone help me with how to install that old plugin in a new version of TiddlyWiki?

Thanks,

-- Marcel

[Jed Carty]

I think that you can do everything that the checkbox plugin allowed you to do with the build-in checkbox widgets now.

Also none of the plugins from that site will work with the new tiddlywiki. A few years ago we switched to tiddlywiki 5 and for the most part it isn't backwards compatible with old plugins.

[Marcel]

Hmm, okay. Maybe I'm missing something, but what I was looking for is to make todo lists without each item being a tiddler tagged with a specific tag.

I would like to create a simple list of items which I can prefix with '[ ]' turning them into a checklist. Then if I check one of these boxes, have the contents of the tiddler rewritten to '[X]' which renders as a checked checkbox.

I looked into the built-in checkbox, but it seems to require you to write '<<checkbox>>' and an expression that selects tiddlers as items. Can what I need be done with the built-in checkbox? If not, how can I add the old behavior into tiddlywiki5?

[TonyM]

Marcel, As Jed Says

Use https://tiddlywiki.com/#CheckboxWidget

The value of the checkbox can be tags or values in fields, not cookies like in TWC

The Simple form from TWC [_] [X] is not available but perhaps someone can create that. 

But since you are building a todo list in a tiddler search for todo or checklist solutions and you will find half a dozen.

Best wishes,

Tony

[Birthe C]

You might like this plugin http://grosinger.net/tw5-checklist/

Birthe

[TonyM]

In Birthe's suggested plugin

The Simple form like TWC [ ] [X] is available - my error.

Tony

[Marcel]

Perfect, just what I needed!

Thanks,

-- Marcel