pack and unpack few tiddlers internally: A Theme switcher

Mohammad

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Jun 16, 2019, 1:38:51 PM6/16/19

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I am working on Tiddlyshow to finalize it as a plugin!
I have several themes for slideshow. I want to apply themes by a theme switcher!

What I do now is to apply the $:/tags/Stylesheet to bundle of tiddlers in selected theme and remove $:/tags/Stylesheet tag

from previous theme tiddlers (each theme has 5 to 10 tiddlers)

I thought I can use the mechanism by TW itself! so I need a macro/tool to let me unload a theme (by packing internally into a JSON tiddler)

and unpack (load) the new selected one!

How can I do this? I am insisted to not add extra third party plugins to restrict any dependencies!

Mohammad

BJ

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Jun 16, 2019, 4:49:18 PM6/16/19

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maybe you can use the plugin switcher in the core:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core/modules/pluginswitcher.js

Mohammad

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Jun 17, 2019, 2:16:51 PM6/17/19

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Hi BJ,

Thanks, I failed to produce an example!

Best

Mohammad

BJ

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Jun 17, 2019, 2:47:27 PM6/17/19

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not sure what you mean...

you can copy how it is used:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core/modules/startup/startup.js#L81

put your tids that you want to swtich into individual plugins and give then a plugintype - 'mythemes' or something else. then create a startup module and copy the code from startup.js and change the type to 'mythemes' (or whatever you want to call it).

BJ

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Jun 17, 2019, 3:23:10 PM6/17/19

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you can see how the switcher is used in

$:/snippets/minithemeswitcher

Mohammad

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Jun 18, 2019, 3:21:11 PM6/18/19

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Hi BJ

Many thanks for your help. I go through them and will notify you if I could not use them.