TW5 Looking for Mat's side editor

[Jon]

Hi Mat,

I remember you developed a mini editor in the side bar. I've looked through the threads and it seemed that this fastnewdev.tiddlyspot.com, was the latest iteration but the link is broken.

Can you point me in the right direction?

Regards

Jon

[Birthe C]

Are you thinking this gem: http://sideeditor.tiddlyspot.com/

Birthe

[Jon]

That's the one!
Thanks,
Jon

[HansWobbe]

It was a VERY pleasant surprise to re-discover this work by Mat; especially since my monitors are setup in a vertical format to reduce scrolling.

One of the great things about this community is that the nice things that catch your eye and then disappear due to time pressures, actually do come back into focus when they are re-surfaced by someone's questions.

Thanks to one and all.

Hans

[Jon]

Yes, also pleased to have found this again.

Whilst using it, noticed that "Re-size width via the lower right corner" no longer seems to work. Perhaps due to subsequent new editions of TW.

It would be good to get this working again.

Regards

Jon

[Mat]

Very flattering to read this. Thanks for the kind words everyone. 

Jon wrote:

Whilst using it, noticed that "Re-size width via the lower right corner" no longer seems to work. Perhaps due to subsequent new editions of TW.

It would be good to get this working again.

Hm, the re-sizing is not done in the lower right corner but via the "handle bar" in the left corner. Please report if it is not working.

Overall, the SideEditor is ripe for a real update. It was one of my first "major" plugins so hopefully I've learnt a thing or two since I originally made it.

<:-)

[Jon]

Hi Mat,

The gray handles work a treat but it's not possible to move the box upwards and from your instructions, it looks like it was originally possible to resize the box - unless I'm misreading it...?

• Move it via the two gray handles.
• Re-size width via the lower right corner. Height is automatic from typing.

Would definitely look forward to the update!

Regards

Jon

On Monday, 5 August 2019 07:38:36 UTC+1, Jon wrote:

[Mat]

Jon - I think you're right! I suspect this has not worked for a long time and I don't know what might have changed it. I vaguely recall issues,or maybe it was requests, for TW autoexpanding editors to how much content was in them which seems to be relevant for this matter. I don't know. 

An update will come... but, frankly, it might take a loooong time.

<:-)

[Jon]

Thanks Mat.

I'll keep a look out for it!

Regards

Jon

[Birthe C]

Hi Mat,

As far as I remember, you had an earlier version working a little different. I remember fiddling around with your stylesheet to make it work on my small screen. The last version is absolutely the easiest to use and always fit.

Birthe

[Mat]

Birthe C wrote:

As far as I remember, you had an earlier version working a little different.

Aha, I don't remember this, thanks. In the ...eventual... update I should at least remove the drag handle if it is not usable.

<:-)