EditTextWidget Contradiction?

[Marc J. Cawood]

According to the tiddlywikie.com site's EditTextWidget Tiddler the `tiddler` field defaults to the current tiddler.

However it also says "One trap to be aware of is that the edit text widget cannot be used to edit a field of the tiddler that contains it."

So, why default to an unusable value? Or did I miss something.

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Marc

According to the tiddlywikie.com site's EditTextWidget Tiddler the `tiddler` field defaults to the current tiddler.

However it also says "One trap to be aware of is that the edit text widget cannot be used to edit a field of the tiddler that contains it."

So, why default to an unusable value? Or did I miss something.

Consistency. Defaulting the “tiddler” attribute to the current tiddler is standard behaviour shared by most widgets.

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Marc and Jeremy

There is one more thing that is not obvious at the beginning (or was not obvious to me at least), the concept of the current tiddler which I would translate as the tiddler currently beeing processed (e.g. in a list): “The current tiddler is […] often not the same as the tiddler that is being viewed or edited. ”

see http://tiddlywiki.com/#Current%20Tiddler

Kind regards
Thomas

[Tobias Beer]

Marc,

Also note, that used in some list iteration,
<<currentTiddler>> points to the title being iterated,
so there it makes perfect sense for that widget to use that.

Best wishes,

Tobias.