How to link DROPBOX files on Tiddlywiki,

[azurikai]

I sync my TiddlyWiki across dropbox, its my favorite. But I'm running
into a problem.

Say I have a powerpoint presentation sync'd on dropbox, I want to link
to it in my TiddlyWiki.

The problem i'm running into is that where the location of my dropbox
is on the two computer's I use is different ( different location on OS
X, and different on Ubuntu).


Is there ANY WAY to get around this?

Thanks :D

[Tobias Beer]

How about using the "public link" dropbox provides for each
file? ...assuming these files indeed are public.

Cheersm, Tobias.

[Måns]

Hi Azurikai

> I sync my TiddlyWiki across dropbox, its my favorite. But I'm running
> into a problem.
>
> Say I have a powerpoint presentation sync'd on dropbox, I want to link
> to it in my TiddlyWiki.
>
> The problem i'm running into is that where the location of my dropbox
> is on the two computer's I use is different ( different location on OS
> X, and different on Ubuntu).

I use local (relative) links - and I even have fckeditor running when
viewed on http!! (not that it does much good, when I can't use it
locally, however it's proof of concept)
Checkout: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3105342/TW/ProtoTyper/HUSLIDE/HU.html#TestSlide
click on the middle(more) button and choose wysiwyg....
I've used this as a prototype for http://tiddly.bplaced.net - which is
a little more intricant......

Relative links: http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Relative_Links

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

[Anthony Muscio]

I have delt with similar issues as follows;

I may not be of different OS's but different versions of Windows OS versions where I face this issue for drop box.

But what I have done is map the DropBox location to a drive letter and do this on each device eg;

Machine A
subst M: "D:\Data\My Documents\My Dropbox"

Machine B
subst M: "C:\Documents and Settings\c924965\My Documents\My Dropbox"

Surely this can be done on Linux ?
Then drop box files can always refered to the local copy at M:

TonyM


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[Tobias Beer]

Would you agree that relative paths as Måns suggested do work? At
least they seem much more simple to use than my initial suggestion of
public links... which were somewhat superfluous if relative links
would work with respect to public documents.

Although, it seems a rather interesting question how DropBox actually
resolves relative paths when starting with one of its public links.
Never investigated on that, but I'd suppose that their server is
"smart" enough to translate to the path relative to the documents
internal URI, rather than the public one.

Cheers, Tobias.

[Måns]

Hi again

> Would you agree that relative paths as Måns suggested do work? At
> least they seem much more simple to use than my initial suggestion of
> public links... which were somewhat superfluous if relative links
> would work with respect to public documents.

Here's another example - images as relative links - shown via a
template:
http://tinyurl.com/325ovok
i.e.
First tiddler [[ImgTp]] is the template referring to a relative link-
"[img(95%+,auto)[./$1.png]] <br>//shift/ctrl click to fullsize/
restore//"
Second tiddler is an image exposed through the template via the
tiddler macro...
"<<tiddler ImgTp with: instance>>"
Cheers Måns Mårtensson

[Måns]

Here's another exercise:
http://tinyurl.com/38v3bps
Modify [[SiteUrl]]
from "./index.html" to ./HU.html..
Then open [[Hent adresser]] (means "get addresses" in Danish)
and click any link....

Cheers Måns Mårtensson