Bug: LeftBar scramble outut recipe

jypre · October 8, 2021, 3:36pm

Here’s a simple recipe to get a scrambled output from the LeftBar plugin of TWaddleunder firefox linux (78esr debian).

Take an empty tw (the fr-FR one in my example). Add the LeftBar plugin by drag and drop import. open the LeftBar menu by clicking on the icon now in the upper left corner. go to the LeftBar plugin, select content and here click on the Toggle tiddler. And now appreciate the doubled rendering of the menu with slight offset. Close the Toggle tiddler, and everything is back to normal. Make a permanent copy of the shadow tiddler and the problem is now always on. Close the menu and see that even the hamburger icon is affected.

Same problem with chromium 90 under linux

Birthe · October 8, 2021, 3:57pm

This is what you get when using $:/tags/PageTemplate
Try to go to Tiddlywiki.com and look at the sidebar

saqimtiaz · October 8, 2021, 4:22pm

My quick fix for custom templates to avoid double rendering when they are open in the story is to wrap them in a list widget:

<$list filter="[<storyTiddler>!is[blank]]" variable=null>

TEMPLATE HERE

</$list>

There is a related Github issue:

github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5

[IDEA] Prevent double rendering when $:/core/ui/PageTemplate is open in the story

opened 05:09PM - 28 Nov 20 UTC

saqimtiaz

It can be quite disconcerting when a user has `$:/core/ui/PageTemplate` open in …the story, that the page appears to have a double rendering and in some cases the sidebar becomes unusable. In particular this is a barrier to users that want to edit and customize the page template in the browser via the TiddlyWiki UI: See for example this report: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/6c98bb706a15b353a92895529a69bece11f613ff#commitcomment-44594409 We should consider hiding/preventing the rendering of the `$:/core/ui/PageTemplate` tiddler when open in the story. One option would be to add the field `hide-body` with a value of `yes`.

jypre · October 8, 2021, 4:55pm

@saqimtiaz Alas, this is not useful for LeftBar/Toggle as the result is that the menu is alway on display even if the left menu is closed. I suspect a css problem, but I have problems with the css of this plugin.

@Birthe I had not even spotted thas special tag!!! Thank you for the tip! But the official doc is rather terse and I can’t make any good use of it for the moment. These matters seem quite complex and over my current knowledge.

My effort at simplyfiing LeftBar are not making real progress. I’m unable to get it work. So, if I can’t have a left menu for my wiki, how could I add one in the right side, as an other submenu of the current menu? I’m thinnking of menu like “Tools” or “More” whose content would be the LeftBar/Menu tiddler I currently have.

saqimtiaz · October 8, 2021, 4:59pm

This might be helpful to get you started, pay attention to the sidebar related tags: https://tiddlywiki.com/#SystemTags

jypre · October 8, 2021, 5:09pm

Well, I found out for my menu on the right: I just have to tag this menu tiddler with $:/tags/SideBar to make it appear on the menu. And I can have the label setup with a “caption” field on that same tiddler.

I should have investigated sooner, but I was lured in believing I could hack LeftBar. Well, not yet!

Than you @saqimtiaz, I can see all the system tags and a small explication. But this is not enough for my liking. I could go back there in some time though.

Birthe · October 8, 2021, 5:10pm

Have you seen Ton Gerners guide TW5_topleft
He has lots of examples for the content of the leftbar also.

jypre · October 8, 2021, 7:51pm

@Birthe I didn’ know of this possibility. I shall have a closer look, these are also valuable examples as well as convenient solutions. Thanks!