[TW5] Desktop folder remove impossible

[Christopher Mann]

Steps:

Add a folder

Close window of folder wiki

Try to reopen. Does not work. OK.

Click on remove.

Result.

Nada, nitch zip zero.

Expected

Removal of line of the folder in the main window

Environment

64 bit mac

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Christopher

Thanks for the feedback.

The issue is another facet of the same restriction that prevents wiki folder windows from being re-opened once they have been opened and closed. The underlying issue is that there is no communication between the wiki folder window and the main application once it has been opened. That’s because we use a special nwjs feature to create the window in a separate operating system process; that’s what enables TiddlyDesktop to run multiple independent Node.js wikis simultaneously.

Once you’ve opened and closed the wiki folder window it is still marked within the main application as being potentially open because the main application can’t tell when it has closed.

Ordinarily, to remove a wiki from the list that is open, TiddlyDesktop first closes the window and then removes it from the list. In the case of a wiki folder window, the lack of interprocess communication prevents us from either closing the window or verifying that the user has already closed it.

Anyhow, I’ve updated v0.0.8 to display an updated warning when attempting to remove a wiki folder window in the scenario you identified:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop/commit/34ee2679528201a8133e6f379e997a1822ced2b0

I’ll release v0.0.8 in the next few hours.

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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