How-to?: Make a button in the sidebar for multiple action-possibilities (like the "more actions")

[Surya]

Hi TW-friends :-)

I'd like to build a button in the sidebar (next to the other buttons) for building new tiddlers by templates.

But I want to have several possibilities for new-tiddler-templates in this button.
These should be choosable, when I click on this one button (like the "more actions"-button with the arrow-down).

Does anyone know how to do that?

Surya

[TonyM]

Although not exactly the same you could create a menu button and display in top right bar using the MyMenus plugin.

Regards
Tony

[Surya]

Hi Tony,

I had a look at it, and it seems to be very interesting :-))

I thought before, your plugin would increase the wiki a lot, but it is not so much :-)

I will try it- Thanks!
Surya

[ste...@gmail.com]

Hi Surya,

On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 9:33:54 PM UTC+1, Surya wrote:

I'd like to build a button in the sidebar (next to the other buttons) for building new tiddlers by templates.

But I want to have several possibilities for new-tiddler-templates in this button.
These should be choosable, when I click on this one button (like the "more actions"-button with the arrow-down).

I believe you could use the SelectWidget (simply define all desired actions within RevealWidgets in the "my-actions" macro):

\define my-actions()

<$reveal type="match" state="$:/state/SelectedOption" text="option1">

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-notify" $param="SampleNotification"/>

</$reveal>

\end

<$select tiddler="$:/state/SelectedOption" actions=<<my-actions>>>

<option value="option1">Show Notification</option>

<option value="option2">My Second (Undefined) Action</option>

</$select>

You can try the code above on https://tiddlywiki.com/ 

Cheers,

Stef

[Surya]

Hi Stef,

thanks for your answer!

I believe you could use the SelectWidget (simply define all desired actions within RevealWidgets in the "my-actions" macro):

\define my-actions()

<$reveal type="match" state="$:/state/SelectedOption" text="option1">

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-notify" $param="SampleNotification"/>

</$reveal>

\end

<$select tiddler="$:/state/SelectedOption" actions=<<my-actions>>>

<option value="option1">Show Notification</option>

<option value="option2">My Second (Undefined) Action</option>

</$select>

But... I tried it- it didn't work, not with your example (not edited at all) and also not with my wanted.

I found now a solution with the MyMenu-Plugin from Tony.
And made a very different sidebar  as before the default one :-)

All the buttons you can choose to display on the page toolbar, I have unchecked now. They are not visible there anymore.
The save-wiki-button is now on the top-right-bar together with the MyMenu-buttons (the Jump-Menu, one menu-button for all new-tiddler-possibilities & one menu-button for the several buttons being before on the page toolbar.
I made the top-right-bar with margin-top to come more deeper- now that bar is on the same height as the search on the sidebar (unfortunately only optical, not in "real", because of that the search-field and the advanced-search-button doesn't move with the buttons /menus being on the top-right-bar).

With that solution a saved quite a lot space on the sidebar & it dosen't look anymore so "full with buttons" :-)
To see at http://surya-diy.tiddlyspot.com/

Surya

[ste...@gmail.com]

Hi Surya, 

On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 12:47:15 AM UTC+1, Surya wrote:

But... I tried it- it didn't work, not with your example (not edited at all) and also not with my wanted.

This is odd - it works fine when I paste my code into an empty tiddler on https://tiddlywiki.com/ (I didn't try to include it into the sidebar, though - this might be the biggest challenge).

Stef 

[Surya]

Hi,

hmmm... Well, I want to be honest... I didn't spend long time with your suggestion, just tried it 2 times....

I am just almost happy with my solution with the MyMenus :-)

[Surya]

I meant with "it doesn't work": I could choose the actions, but then nothing happened...

[ste...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 1:19:52 AM UTC+1, Surya wrote:

I meant with "it doesn't work": I could choose the actions, but then nothing happened...

The first action requires the tiddler "SampleNotification", which exists on https://tiddlywiki.com/, but not in an empty wiki (I often use https://tiddlywiki.com/ as a playground, because it has some useful built-in tiddlers, and because anyone can access it). Maybe this was the reason why it didn't work? The second option doesn't do anything because no action is defined. 

Cheers,

Stef

[Surya]

Okay, you're right :-)

I tried it before in my own wiki, on tiddlywiki.com it worked.

But, being honest- I will stay with MyMenus. But, if I will be one time not anymore satisfied with MyMenus I will come back to your solution :-)