I figured out how to do a macro for an image text link!

[Suzanne McHale]

I am no good at programming, so this took about half-an-hour of repeated typing, saving and frustration in my Tiddlywiki! I just wanted to create a macro for a text link to my images subfolder (rather than embed an image) which I want to do sometimes. I eventually got this to work:

1. Create a new tiddler and name it (imageTextLink, for example). The only tag for it will be $:/tags/Macro.
2. The syntax below defines the text that will be linked, the url to be linked to (an image inside an images/ subfolder for my Tiddlywiki) and the image itself.

\define imageTextLink(text,url,image)
<a href="images/$url$">[ext[$text$|images/$url$]]</a>
\end

In a tiddler in which you want the link from, call the macro thus:

Image: <<imageTextLink "Example image" "image-name.jpg">>

Hope that makes sense! I'm just feeling pleased and accomplished (which is a feeling I have rarely) at figuring this out - I could not find any documentation for this on the Tiddlywiki.com site (unless it is hidden somewhere?).

[barro...@gmail.com]

Excellent!  As I admitted elsewhere, I don't know enough other than make me dangerous, so hopefully more knowledgeable individual will speak up.  But I am looking over your work to see if its an improvement over what I use-- my TW I have a multimedia manager of all my collected work on drive...  (bring them all and in the darkness bind them huh? : ) )

Off hand, another way to do a text link for an image on local drive is use your browser to find the image in a new tab (Firefox does it with a Windows Explorer type interface), right click on image or file and copy link location-- it returns a string like this file:///D:/00/1fkit/xoxo.jpg which in an tiddler acts as a link (to open image in a new tab)

[TonyM]

Suzanne,

Thanks so much for contributing to the community. You can feeling pleased and accomplished, and contributions are seen by newcomers and experts alike.

Regards

Tony