Multiple displayAreas

[Trey]

I would like to be able to define two or more displayAreas and then
tell each tiddler which one to open in via a tag.
For my project, I'd like to also be able to tell certain displayAreas
to only show one tiddler at a time, but that's gravy.

Is this possible using modern tiddlyWiki technology?

[wolfgang]

2 years ago I experimented with available methods for creating a
second display area:

http://menuflex.tiddlyspot.com/

you have to click the dot after the 'extra' menu button to make it
visible.

As a learning user this became quite complex. Should be much easier
for a developer to implement.

Regards.

[Tobias Beer]

http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/4f23e836f588c0c0

Hello Trey,

This doesn't sound impossible. However, I don't think I have come a
across a solution that provides this out of the box.

Would those second(ary) displayAreas (have to) be "full featured"
ones? For example, would they also have (to have) a toolbar, a tagging
box or a tags box, and would one have to ensure that it is being
visible when opnened, etc... ? If not, it seems straight forward to
implement a plugin/macro that would allow one to wikify any tiddler's
content into a preconfigured DOM-node ...which would also cover your
"only one at a time" scenario.

Something like...

<<ibox InfoTiddlerA infobox>>

..which would render a link that when clicked wikifies "InfoTiddlerA"
into a div or span with an ID of "infobox", which - if not specified -
might fall back to some default called "ibox".

Would you mind expanding on your precise usecase? What I mean is not a
description in TiddlyWiki lingo about how you think of implementing it
but rather what exactly it is you are trying to achieve and why. For
example, as in the example above, I could imagine a kind of "infobox"
or "helpbox", into which related info were rendered upon clicking a
certain link, or maybe automatically once a certain tagged tiddler
opens, etc...

Cheers, Tobias.

[PMario]

Hi Tobias,

I think Jeremy has a nice approach in TW5 [1]. May be one could steal
from there :) It's an alpha, but anyway. It's about ideas.

-m

[1] http://tiddlywiki.com/tiddlywiki5/

On Apr 26, 10:46 am, Tobias Beer <beertob...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/4f23e836f...

[Trey]

I would expand on my specific usage, but after the first response (I
am definitely not at developer level) I modified my approach a little
and discovered I can get most of what I want with a
ShowTabsForTiddlers macro. I am probably going to have some questions
about it later! Thanks for all the responses, and Tobias, I think
your solution would work perfectly if I was still using that method.

Trey

[Tobias Beer]

> I modified my approach a little and discovered
> I can get most of what I want with a ShowTabsForTiddlers macro.

Are you talking about the generic tabs macro or something on top of
that? If there is one, consider posting a reference to what you're
having in mind.

Cheers, Tobias.

[wolfgang]

Wow, what a nice vision.

Does anybody know how far we're from release?