Allow caption to be used

[danielo515]

Tiddler titles are very important since they told you what is the tiddler about. The title is not always suitable to be used inside a node graph. Allowing caption as the value to be displayed gives the opportunity to have long and meaningful titles with beautiful node maps.

For example

• title: transaction.propertyname
• caption: property

[felixhayashi]

Hi @danielo515

I get your point the problem is I use the node label in many cases to quickly access the tiddler. So before I accept your pull request I need to introduce another field "orignalLabel" for nodes and then use the label for caption.

Anyhow, I think this will work. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just add tickets for all your suggestions. I might not solve them immediately but I will certainly consider them.

Felix

[danielo515]

Hello @felixhayashi

In my pull request (or it should be) I'm using name as an alternative to label. Then I changed the double click handler (not sure if I included that) to use the existing one. Is there any other place where it is used?

[felixhayashi]

Hola @danielo515,

I am heavily modifying the internal code at the moment. Just wait until the end of the week, I try to implement to use a caption as alternate label but I have to be careful because I currently use the label for some operations as shortcut to access the tiddler.

Also notice that my local code is changing at high pace at the moment so accepting pull request at this early stage is not possible but I certainly look at your code suggestions!

Felix

[tobibeer]

because I currently use the label for some operations as shortcut to access the tiddler

sounds a bit direct, but: NEVER do that

[felixhayashi]

:) hehe
@tobibeer I think I didn't expressed myself correctly, I reference tiddlers only via ids but as the nodes label directly corresponds to a tiddler title (up until now), I used it for example to open a tiddler when the node was double clicked. this has an enormous advantage because I do not have to iterate over all fields to find the tiddler with a certain id. However now I removed this code as I will allow captions in the next version.

By the way I am doing a major rework of the plugin at the moment. it will allow API users (not end users) to use $tw.taskgraph.adapter to inject nodes on a graph programmatically (like using $tw.wiki.addTiddler(). Also many other improvements will come ;) I hope its all finished in a few days.

Felix

[tobibeer]

Very promising stuff, Felix, to even provide hooks for other developers. Great!

[felixhayashi]

@danielo515

Captions may now be used (finally!).
See http://wkpr.de/hosting/tmp/tw5/taskgraph/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ffelixhayashi%2Ftaskgraph%2Fdocs%2Fhelp

@tobibeer

Very promising stuff, Felix, to even provide hooks for other developers. Great!

Thanks Tobi!

The API for taskgraph is now accessible and has many features for developers:
I created an example here: http://wkpr.de/hosting/tmp/tw5/taskgraph/#Adapter

[felixhayashi]

@danielo515 @tobibeer

Tooltips can now be used by setting the description field of a tiddler. This can support short titles. if no description field exists, the title is used as tooltip.

The field can be changed from description to something else e.g. I know you use summary @tobibeer. But I still have to outsource this as a config tiddler...

Example at demo site: "How to deal with large Titles"

-Felix

[tobibeer]

Thanks Felix, perhaps open a new dummy issue only to close it ...and perhaps have the description / tooltip topic be a different thing.

[danielo515]

@felixhayashi

This is terrific! Your plugin is getting more and more professional on each update.

[danielo515]

Dear @felixhayashi

Links are dead again

[felixhayashi]

@danielo515,

Your plugin is getting more and more professional on each update.

Thanks!

Links are dead again

Which links? You mean http://bit.ly/tiddlymap?

[felixhayashi]

@tobibeer

Thanks Felix, perpahs open a new dummy issue only to close it ...and perhaps have the description / tooltip topic be a different thing.

Good point.

[rcrath]

The API for taskgraph is now accessible and has many features for developers:
I created an example here: http://wkpr.de/hosting/tmp/tw5/taskgraph/#Adapter

Seems to be down. Very interested in it though.

[felixhayashi]

@rcrath yes, this old url is not in use anymore. please use the following proxy to visit the demo site: http://bit.ly/tiddlymap

and this url to visit the api:

http://bit.ly/tiddlymap_api

The api is not considered stable but you get a good impression on the existing functions and how to use them in plugins.

[tobibeer]

http://bit.ly/tiddlymap_api

slick

[rcrath]

taskgraph=tiddlymap? I thought it was a separate thing. thanks.