A way of creating tiddler thumbnail views

Charlie Veniot

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Jun 12, 2022, 7:21:51 PM6/12/22

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Download the attached and drag into TiddlyWiki.com

This will add the "Thumbnail HelloThere" tiddler, which transcludes the HelloThere tiddler but displays it as a thumbnail (a pretty big thumb, but still small compared to normal size).

For the giggles, the new tiddler also shows in the sidebar.

Thumbnail HelloThere.json

Charlie Veniot

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Jun 12, 2022, 7:30:51 PM6/12/22

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If you want to disable the content in the DIV (i.e. have the content as display only), I think adding pointer-events: none; (as per the following modification) will do the trick:

```

<div style="-webkit-transform:scale(0.35);-moz-transform-scale(0.35);overflow:auto;width:500px;height:500px;border:1px solid blue;-moz-transform-origin: top left; -webkit-transform-origin: top left; -o-transform-origin: top left; -ms-transform-origin: top left; transform-origin: top left;pointer-events: none;">
<$transclude tiddler="HelloThere" mode="inline"/>
</div>
```

Charlie Veniot

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Jun 12, 2022, 7:56:25 PM6/12/22

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Well, that last suggestion is probematic if one wants to allow scrolling in the thumbnail.

Just because I couldn't let it go for supper break, I think attached is pretty cool for a thumbnail of content that allows scrolling without allowing clicking on any content.

Required double-DIV's.

Thumbnail HelloThere.json

Brian Radspinner

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Jun 13, 2022, 1:56:19 AM6/13/22

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I messed around with your initial attachment to try to get something that could be used as a tiddler gallery, or a way to display tiddler thumbnails inside a PowerPoint-like presentation tool in TW. Here is what I got...

I attached my edited code if anyone wants to play around with it too

CJV-TiddlerThumbnails.json

Charlie Veniot

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Jun 13, 2022, 6:55:00 AM6/13/22

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Hot damn, Brian. You took a rough prototype and made something right frigging lovely, end result and organization of the background code.

That's good stuff.

Charlie Veniot

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Jun 13, 2022, 8:00:26 AM6/13/22

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Just as cognitive helpers for stuff that, strangely, causes me some batpoop silly challenges.

I made just some minor tweaks, as per comments I added in the tiddler:

added ability to scroll the thumbnail content
changed the link to a button, with a link emoji (just to remind me I can click on the thing) and a darker and bold font than the TiddlyWiki default
- the button opens the tiddler in a modal; a moving story river annoys me, so modals help out

Next version: a transclusion mechanism to handle `{{ [regexp[whatever]] || CJV Tiddler Thumbnails}}` for any kind of valid filter.

Yeah, same thing could be done with a macro, but I prefer transclusion syntax for some reason. Don't know why. I think, maybe, because when I read it left to right ("I want this thing, formatted this way"), it makes more sense to me than "I want this format applied to this thing".