- My First Plugin
- By People, Systems and Things (PSaT)
- Better known in the TiddlyWiki Google Forums as TonyM
- Thanks to all those who helped me with technical issues, and the community as a whole who has inspired my work
- Initially
- Testing, reviews, Comments, Suggestions and Criticisms
- On Going
- I need you to develop and share menus and menu items and send them to me
- So I can build a substantial resource we can all use
- If you find something difficult to explain or fix why not make a menu tiddler that can help?
I will look into it. Thanks
Any links to the steps to do that ?
Tony
Any links to the steps to do that ?Tony
I will research it tomorrow.
I presume we gz the file and tell the server to serve it that way?
Thank Mario
Tony
I presume we gz the file and tell the server to serve it that way?
Looks Like I found it - in cpanelOptimize Website
A whole of site setting.The File is around 2.2 Mb and a test zip compression reduced it to < 500 Kb
Let see if it make a difference
You are spot on there.
It's quite easy to create menus that list system tags, toggle settings, access control panel functions and more. We can condense a lot of systems knowledge into a single tiddler.
I hope to see some problems solved by referring to a menu toddler that has the required features.
Please ask for or give me menus and menu items that address any need and I can publish them.
Regards
Tony
I will look at providing more styling options in comming releases including the menu width.
I will add an edit template option in future however I am hoping a seperate plugin in development will help with bringing field edits into the view template.
Regards
Tony
Thanks for all your observations. I will act on as many as possible in the next version.
Please clarify what you mean by opinionated, I believe have only promoted its capabilities no more or less.
Please tell me what the standard style is for a menu.
Also the buttons you see are almost all simply examples to show where you can place menus and what they may contain. Installing the macro you will only see one menu in the MyMenus tab and you can hide that. The colours are optional and respond to the existence of the standard Color field you can place in any Tiddler. No Color or icon is forced on you.
The stylesheet is available to customise the buttons but I plan to include a set of alternative styles, the method to build your own and assign a default or individual menu styles possibly in the next version.
Keep the comments comming for good or bad and please contribute your own menus or menu items once you build them.
Regards
Tony
The only visual changes, are the menus and a pallet in my standard wiki, perhaps that is interfearing with the visual perceptions?
Should I add the plugin to an empty version and have a seperate site for its demonstration as I often see?.
Tony
Yes, The issues list on the plugin site mentions this problem on the right. My plan is to provide left justification in toprightbar and sidebar contexts. Of course some people will place button only menu items on these. In some ways the menus work better on the top bottom and left allowing the sidebar to be normally closed.
Personally top left bar and in tiddler menus make the most sense, with above story if you are using tabbed Tiddlers.
I have plans to extend these options but open to ideas.
Regards
Tony
No problems despite your impression the plugins has little impact on your themes and settings, it is infact designed to fit in with whatever you do and prefer. All you are seeing is some design choices of my own , example menus that are not included in the plugin and that have nothing to do with the plugin, except for the menu style and you can change that. Not withstanding I will present it differently when I get the chance and add a suit of styling options.
Regards
Tony
To all,
I am currently traveling (portugal) so cant do a full site update.
The mymenus plugin allows you to configure simple or sophisticated menus within tiddlers. Or simply generate a menu of tiddlers tagged by a nominated tiddler title.
On install a sidebar tab is created with a single menu providing access to the mymenus system. If this menu is hidden or the sidebar tab toggled off you would not know it was installed unless you define a menu and choose to display it.
Currently there is one menu style defined which can be changed in the plugins stylesheet. In a subsequent release, backward compatible, you will be able to choose from a range of styles or set custom styles for each menu.
The rest of the site has some simple personal settings such as trafic light buttons and a color pallet that have nothing to do with the plugin.
In time the site will contain smart menus for customisation of tiddlywiki, accessing system settings, controlling tags and fields and more, all obtained by dragging any single menu tiddler onto a tiddlywiki with the mymenus plugin installed.
I hope mymenus will prove to support the tiddlywiki community access to tip tricks and techniques in an easy to obtain way.
Regards
Tony
Hi Tony,
at first I really want to emphasize: I like your MyMenus :-))
Some styling one can adjust already quite easily in your stylesheet (like for example removing the borders).
For the future I'd love to have these possibilities: