New View Toolbar icon details do not show in Control Panel

[David Nebauer]

Using the instructions in the TW5 page and tiddler layout customisation page I have created a new View Toolbar icon which generates a new draft tiddler from a template. It all works fine, except that the new icon does not display correctly in Control Panel > Appearance > Toolbars > View Toolbar.

Here is the tiddler defining the button and associated macro:

\define newTiddlerButton()
  <$button class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>
           tooltip=<<iconTooltip>>>

    <!-- Create new tiddler from tiddler titled "$param" -->

    <$action-sendmessage
      $message="tm-new-tiddler"
      $param="$(templateTitle)$"
      title="$(tiddlerTitle)$"
    />

    <!-- Add as toolbar button -->

    <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]">
      {{$(iconTitle)$}}
    </$list>

    <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]">
      <span class="tc-btn-text"><$text text="$(iconCaption)$"/></span>
    </$list>

  </$button>
\end

<$vars
  iconCaption="Create a new tiddler from a template"
  iconTitle="Template Icon Showing a Green Form Regions"
  iconTooltip="Create new tiddler from 'User Standard Tiddler Template'"
  templateTitle="User Standard Tiddler Template"
  tiddlerTitle="Tiddler Title" >

  <<newTiddlerButton>>

</$vars>

As I said, this mechanism works fine, except for the appearance of the button in the View Toolbar button list in the Control Panel (see image below with a red arrow showing the new button) -- it does not display the icon's image (an svg formatted image tiddler), caption or tooltip (assuming those are the values that display for each icon. [Note: Because the image displays quite smaller than its actual resolution, I have attached it as well, but it is the same image.]

The button's appearance in the Control Panel is not a huge problem, but it is annoying. Are there any alterations I can make to the macro/button tiddler to fix the Control Panel display, or do the changes need to be made elsewhere?

[Ton Gerner]

Hi David,

The caption field of your button needs an icon and a hint.
The description field of you button needs a description.

See the discussion at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/GUbRjcWei-c/B2q_pD2RDgAJ

And have a look at my - just updated - Customization guide http://tw5custom.tiddlyspot.com/

Cheers,

Ton

[David Nebauer]

Thanks, Ton. I had to read over your instructions a few times before the light bulb went off, but then I was able to complete the setup very quickly and the button now appears properly in the Control Panel listing for the View Toolbar.

In the end I created five tiddlers as per your instructions and called them:

• $:/core/images/new-from-skeleton
  
• $:/language/Buttons/NewFromSkeleton/Caption
• $:/language/Buttons/NewFromSkeleton/Hint
• $:/core/ui/Buttons/new-from-skeleton
• $:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-from-skeleton

Is there any problem using the system namespace, e.g., $:/core, $:/language and $:/config, with regard to future incompatibilties? Should I be using a different namespace with a parallel hierarchy, in the same way some *nix filesystems assign /usr for system files and /usr/local for local customisations?

Also, I don't get the option to mark my threads as closed. Please feel free to do that if you can see that option.

Thanks again for your help.

David

[Ton Gerner]

Hi David,

Glad you managed to get your button

Is there any problem using the system namespace, e.g., $:/core, $:/language and $:/config, with regard to future incompatibilties? Should I be using a different namespace with a parallel hierarchy, in the same way some *nix filesystems assign /usr for system files and /usr/local for local customisations?

For the namespace I did look at the core buttons (with help of my Exploration guide: http://tw5exploration.tiddlyspot.com/) and just named the new tiddlers accordingly.

Also, I don't get the option to mark my threads as closed. Please feel free to do that if you can see that option.

 

I see a 'Mark as complete' link at the bottom; I'll click it.

Thanks again for your help.

You're welcome.

Cheers,

Ton