[New Plugin] Delay Actions, defer the execution of action widgets for a set amount of time

[Jed Carty]

I needed a break from my other work, so I made an action widget that can add a delay to the execution of other action widgets.

Enjoy.

https://ooktech-tw.gitlab.io/plugins/delayactions/

[Hubert]

Thank you for sharing Jed, amazing work and extremely useful.

Regards,

Hubert

[Saq Imtiaz]

I have a few custom action widgets that could be useful in conjunction with this, will try to post them up sometime soon. I really need to get better at that.

[Rohrreiniger]

Hello Jed,

as a newbie I have to ask, what is it good for? Do you may have an example? Thanks in advance.

BR

[Mohammad]

Wonderful!

 I think it is also useful for tooltips and popups on mouse hover a link!

Thank you Jed!

--Mohammad

[Mark S.]

DON'T RUN THE FOLLOWING CODE! Unless you're prepared to reboot your TW. It gives you a button to start a timer that every 10 seconds posts the seconds to the subtitle. You might want this feature if you were tracking how much timer you were spending on a project. What's critically missing is a method to turn off the timer! It will keep going even if you change the name of the internal macros, so I guess they must be compiled at the start. I'm thinking a reveal widget that depends on the existence of another tiddler could be used to turn off the timer.

If you hit the button a second time, it will start a second thread (not really a thread), and the subtitle will switch back and forth between the two different cumulative times.

\define timer()
<$action-setfield
   $tiddler='$:/SiteSubtitle'
   text=<<cum>>
/>
<$set filter="[<cum>add[10]]" select=0 name=cum>
<$action-delay delay='10' actions=<<timer>>>
</action>
</$set>
\end
\define timerstart()
<$action-delay delay='1'>
</$action>
   
\end

<$vars cum=0>
<$button>
Start timer <<cum>>
<<timer>>
</$button>
</$vars>

[Jed Carty]

I can't really say I am too worried about infinite recursion loops, but it is interesting that it continues after renaming the macro.

For things like this I am planning on making a pulse plugin that gives a periodic pulse that can trigger action widgets. Set it to check whatever conditions you want and use that to set times or other conditions for actions to happen automatically.

[Mark S.]

Added to TiddlyWiki Toolmap under Developer / advanced tools.

On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 4:42:53 AM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote:

[David Gifford]

Mark, you beat me to it by 2 hours. Thank you!

[Jan]

Hi Jed,
this ist great. I could have used for this at least 5 Projects already.
Thank you!

Jan

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[Jed Carty]

It turns out I already made a plugin that runs things periodically about 2 years ago, perhaps one day I will remember what I have made. https://ooktech.com/TiddlyWiki/TimerActions/