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GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)
msgray:
Hi all,
I discovered FARR today by following back a hit on my TiddlyWiki http://sidebarnotes.tiddlywiki.com that came from this Forum. I'm trying to understand the HTML view mode, alias etc. It appears hard coded because I can't find a way to make my own alias as per the Help file maybe I'm missing something crucial to the understanding of this.
That notwithstanding, and although I know next to nothing about any of this, I have read these posts and can see certain misgivings about this HTML viewer growing like topsy into another Firefox or God forbid another IE. There may be a certain validity to these fears as all things seem to continue to grow and grow, possibly because the Universe is expanding for want of a better reason :-)
Needless to say I have already gotten caught up in this and would like to try something. We have a little browser plugin at TiddlyWiki that may satisfy anyone's need for a browser without FARR growing at all, by just loading a TiddlyWiki into the HTML viewer. Except I don't know how to do it.
I've got another little squeezable TiddlyWiki that I use in my Firefox sidebar that I use for listening to the radio that's got this browser plugin in it that we could try if someone could explain how to do it; it's at:
http://sidebarradio.tiddlyspot.com/#[[ABCBrowser]]
http://tinyurl.com/5jkoty
Regards,
Morris
http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com
A TiddlyWiki help file for beginners
http://sidebarpluginvault.tiddlyspot.com
World's largest squeezable TW plugin database
mouser:
Welcome to the site Morris :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Great to see you post here.
I created 2 aliases for FARR that use tiddlywiki and gtdwiki, which are installed by default into FARR.
You can access them by typing: tiwi OR gwp
If you go to the FARR options and the ALIASES tab, and select the gtd_tiddlywiki.alias file you will see this for the gwp result:
--- ---GTD Tiddly Wiki Plus| htmlviewurl file://%FARRDIR%MyLocalData/TiddlyWiki/gwp/gtd_tiddlywiki.htm /ICON=gtd_tiddlywiki.ico
that line is all that is needed to show the self-contained wiki htm file in html view mode. the file is located in the %FARRDIR%MyLocalData/TiddlyWiki/gwp/ directory.
TIWI is:
--- ---Tiddly Wiki| htmlviewurl file://%FARRDIR%MyLocalData/TiddlyWiki/tiwi/MyTiddlyWiki.html /ICON=tiddlywiki.ico
If you want to add your own, what you should do is make a directory in
%FARRDIR%MyLocalData/
and put your wiki htm/html file and any other helper files in that directory.
and then make an alias to refer to it, just like the tiwi and gwp aliases.
an important note:
you need to select the myaliases.alias file to add your own aliases (you can move and manually edit stuff later); it's done like this to make updating safer.
one thing i noticed while getting the tiddlywiki and gtdwiki to work before was that i had to manually create some of the backup subdirs or it failed.
i can help getting your tiddlywiki to work if you get stuck following these instructions -- this htmlview mode is all brand new and the aliases aren't the easiest thing to master, so there's no shame in needing help getting it working!
mouser:
If you do get it working, you may want to "package" a standalone alias pack for your sidebar wiki so others can just download and install it, in much the same way that the gwp and tiwi aliases are packaged, with their own alias file and icon. i can help with that when the time comes :up:
msgray:
I got sidebarradio.html running in HtmlView all right. All the radio stations play and the browser works perfectly. It's quite enjoyable seeing colourful web pages open while listening to Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 :-) I'm not sure what it's all good for but it works.... well you can continue listening to the radio while you work, until you use FARR again then it stops. Which is an undocumented feature since you shouldn't be listening to the radio while you are trying to concentrate on finding something :-)
For the record.....
1: I created a directory in "C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\MyLocalData\TiddlyWiki\sdbr\sidebarradio.html"
2: In myalias.alias I put "Sdbr Tiddly Wiki Plus| htmlviewurl file://%FARRDIR%MyLocalData/TiddlyWiki/sdbr/sidebarradio.html"
Doing a search in FARR for sdbr returns two results:
Sdbr Tiddly Wiki Plus
Alias sdbr
Score 1000
===and===
sdbr
TiddlyWiki\
Score 433
The first opens sidbarradio.html in HtmlView and runs perfectly.
The second opens Windows Explorer to C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\MyLocalData\TiddlyWiki\sdbr\sidebarradio.html
Doing a search in FARR for gwp returns two results:
GTD Tiddly Wiki Plus
Alias gwp
Score: 1000
===and===
gwp
TiddlyWiki\
Score 427
With the same result as above respectively.
However Doing a search in FARR for tiwi only returns one result:
tiwi
TiddlyWiki\
Score: 432
So nothing will open in HtmlView; only in Windows Explorer. I don't believe I disturbed anything. Restarting everything doesn't help.
So there you are, the usual; a good result tempered by a fly in the ointment :-)
I would be interested to learn how to package this as you said so others might try it and maybe do a dedicated TiddlyWiki for some purpose yet to be imagined.
Regards,
Morris Gray
http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com
A TiddlyWiki help file for beginners
http://sidebarpluginvault.tiddlyspot.com
World's largest squeezable TW plugin database
mouser:
It sounds like the reason that its finding the extra results for each is that you might have the actual FARR directory in your FARR search path. Which is an interesting thing i've not considered..
Probably the smart thing to do (and which I should do in the default installation), is add the FARR directory to your list of subfolders to EXCLUDE when searching the PROGRAMFILES directory.
In other words, if you have checked the checkbox to ask FARR to search %PROGRAMFILES% (which by the way i personally have unchecked), then double click on it and add the farr directory to those directories to exclude:
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