New journal button, with $suffix$ and <<now>>

[Lars Solberg]

I am trying to create a shortcut to create a bunch of different journal-types. They will have different template-text, titles and so on.

Mostly, the title will contain a suffix coming from an <$edit-text, but they also a macro <<now>>.

Below is what I got so far, it works, but the text-box looses focus after a keypress. I think I am hitting the issue @ https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/341 (from 2014), but I'm not sure.

Anyone got any idea how to solve this? Or maybe there is a plugin around that does what I want instead?

\define journalLogButton()

<$edit-text tiddler="$:/state/new-journal-log-title" tag="input" default=""/>

<$button>

<$action-sendmessage

  $message="tm-new-tiddler"

  title=<<now "YYYY-0MM-0DD $(titleSuffix)$ ">>

  tags="Journal"

  journal-type="log"

  year=<<now "YYYY">>

  month=<<now "0MM">>

  day=<<now "0DD">>

/>

New log

</$button>

\end

<$set name="titleSuffix" value={{$:/state/new-journal-log-title}}>

<<journalLogButton>>

</$set>

[Eric Shulman]

On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 5:20:10 AM UTC-7, Lars Solberg wrote:

I am trying to create a shortcut to create a bunch of different journal-types. They will have different template-text, titles and so on.

Mostly, the title will contain a suffix coming from an <$edit-text, but they also a macro <<now>>.

Below is what I got so far, it works, but the text-box looses focus after a keypress. I think I am hitting the issue @ https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/341 (from 2014), but I'm not sure.

Anyone got any idea how to solve this? Or maybe there is a plugin around that does what I want instead?

Every keystroke in the $edit-text widget changes the value of $:/state/new-journal-log-title,

which triggers an automatic refresh of everything inside the <$set name="titleSuffix" value={{$:/state/new-journal-log-title}}>

This includes the $edit-text widget itself, which causes the input control to lose focus after each keystroke.

To fix this, simply move the $edit-text widget outside of the <$set>, like this:

 

\define journalLogButton()

<$button>

<$action-sendmessage

  $message="tm-new-tiddler"

  title=<<now "YYYY-0MM-0DD $(titleSuffix)$ ">>

  tags="Journal"

  journal-type="log"

  year=<<now "YYYY">>

  month=<<now "0MM">>

  day=<<now "0DD">>

/>

New log

</$button>

\end

<$edit-text tiddler="$:/state/new-journal-log-title" tag="input" default=""/>

<$set name="titleSuffix" value={{$:/state/new-journal-log-title}}>

<<journalLogButton>>

</$set>

enjoy,

-e

[Lars Solberg]

yay! It worked!

And thanks for the explaination.

If you don't mind, I'll update the github issue with your explanation as well in case other are looking around as well