Prevent Side Bar iframe from Reloading (TW5)

[Nicholas Lacasse]

Summary:

I have an iframe in a sidebar tab but when the user switches to another tab and back it refreshes the page that was loaded preventing actual usability.

Details:

So this is my nearly-minimum working example: http://mwe.tiddlyspot.com/

If you open the 'Class Discussion' tab there's an iframe to the site GoSoapBox. Directly above the iframe is some text telling you what the access code is to the event. If you enter that code and press join, the event loads and you have access to some interactive features. The problem is, if you switch tabs (say to 'Notepad' or 'Contents') and then switch back to 'Class Discussion' it has reloaded the page and the event you were signed into is gone and you need to re-enter the access code.

This is not a problem if the user interacts with this feature from inside a the tiddler itself (if the tiddler is open in the story stream) and keeps the tiddler open. Is there some way I can apply this "non-refresh/don't discard" status that story tiddler's have to sidebar tabs?

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Nicholas,

This modified tabs macro will allow what you want...

1. overwrite the core tabs macro $:/core/macros/tabs with it
   
2. give your tab tiddler a field retain-tab set to yes

Also made a pull request for it...

#2031 allows to retain tab contents
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/2031

Best wishes,

— tb

[Nicholas Lacasse]

Amazing. Works perfectly. Thank you very much!