Drop Down Counter

#1

Hello all,
I am trying to make a button that will create or delete a drop down counter and I have the counter code figured out but not the buttons idealy what I would like is to be able to drop some code into a tiddler that when viewed would put a drop down counter in place and if I need 3 i hit the + button 3 times and if i am done with that counter i can click the - sign and remove that counter. I dont know if that is possible to do but thought I would ask. I love this community and I love tiddlywiki!

Thrugar

Counter 1<br>
<$select tiddler="MyTiddler" field="selectedNumber">
    <$list filter="[range[0,100]]">
        <option><<currentTiddler>></option>
    </$list>
</$select>
  • Edited to wrap code in three back ticks by TW_Tones
#2

I would love to help, but I dont understand the question.

  • What is a drop down counter and what does create or deleting it mean?
  • Also it seems rather than putting code into the tiddler you would be best displaying it on tiddlers via a tiddler with the $:/tags/ViewTemplate tag.
    • Within this tviewtemplate tiddler there would be a condition when to display the add counter, and when to display the counter code, and delete counter to be displayed on tiddlers.
#3

TW_Tones.
The code i provided makes a counter you can click on it and choose a number between 0 and 100.
What I am looking to do is to be able to make multiple counters upon request. i.e if I wanted 3 counters that each counted to 100 I could press a “+ button” 3 times to make 3 counters. If I created say 5 counters I would like to delete the extra 2 I created by accident. or any other simple method of making more counts or removing them once created, if they are not needed.
I hope this explains it better I am sorry if I did not explain it well enought the 1st time. Thank you for your assitance it is very much appreciated.

Thrugar

#4

If the counters are stored in fields on the current tiddler, each click of a + could simply create counter-1 counter-2 etc … fields. Then something on the view template can discover that the fields counter-* exist and for each provide a counter button set. including a button to delete the current counter-N field to remove it.

Alternativly one could use the suffix -counter for each field and use what comes before the suffix as the name of the counter eg visit-counter = the visit counter.