[tutorial] Notes on the keyboard-driven-input macro

[clutterstack]

Hi all,

I was interested in building a tool to select a tiddler from a dropdown, or to create a new one using a text input element if desired (much like the tag picker). I quickly discovered that this is quite involved, but that a lot of the work is encapsulated in the keyboard-driven-input macro.

I didn't find it trivial to wrap my head around it, so I tried to make the simplest functioning thing I could make with this macro, and wrote up the process on my workshop wiki here: Exploring the keyboard-driven-input macro

Comments welcome; otherwise I hope this helps someone down the road.

Best,

Chris

[TW Tones]

Chris,

Thanks for sharing this. It is fairly intensive to get fluent with this feature and your example.

Thinking about what people may want perhaps showing how one can simultaneously see a drop down list of search results  and other common requirements may be helpful. For example the tags you refer to come with the dropdown to click select. I imagine a separate macro could make use of the same search filters as used on your example to keep it modular.

I suppose most peoples needs are based on a number of features from keyboard navigation, dropdown list, mouse click etc... all combined.

But thanks for this;

Tones

[coda coder]

Thanks Chris.

It just so happened that yesterday I "fixed" an extension I'd made to the TW Search field (which no longer worked as expected in 23) and discovered much the same. For a given grouping of tiddlers, I want to search their subtitle fields rather than title/text so I soon bumped into userInput, first-search-filter et al... (Got it working by creating another tiddler tagged $:/tags/SearchResults and a search-filter field containing a filter for subtitle)

But your expose' goes much further. Great documentation and Good job!

I hope that wiki and tiddler stay around - I'm linking to it! :)

[clutterstack]

Thanks for looking and kind comments, Tones and coda.

Tones, the reason I didn't include the dropdown stuff was that I haven't got that far yet! I agree that this is (probably, unless I'm being unimaginative) what most use-cases would call for.

Coda, I see bits of the search repurposed in other macros as well, but haven't followed all the threads. There's an interesting exploration to be done there, which I hope to have time to do at some point.

Best,

Chris

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Chris

This is great, I think it would be helpful to add it to tiddlywiki.com (perhaps without the sliders for consistency). Would you be able to prepare a PR?

Many thanks,

Jeremy

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[clutterstack]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll have a go at an appropriate version for a PR.

Best,

Chris