Greetings to the TW Community.
How can one do this:
I’ve tried to see how it works by editing the tiddler itself and looking at its “innards”, so to speak, and also at the tabs macro documentation but I couldn’t figure it out. Please help.
Thank you for this @linonetwo!
Try this (no plugins needed):
- In your tabs macro usage, add
buttonTemplate:"TabLinkTemplate". This indicates that the tab buttons should be custom rendered usingTabLinkTemplate - Then, create a tiddler named
TabLinkTemplate, with the following contents:
<$text text={{{ [<currentTab>get[caption]else<currentTab>] }}}/>
<$button to=<<currentTab>>
style="display:inline-block; width:auto; border:0; padding:0; background:none;">
{{$:/core/images/link}}
</$button>
Notes:
- Line 1 displays the caption or title text of the current tab
- Line 2 creates a $button that, when clicked, opens the tiddler for the current tab.
- Line 3 overrides the default tab button styles so the link $button appears as a simple inline clickable image, without any border, padding or background color.
- Line 4 displays the TWCore shadow “link” image
- Line 5 ends the $button widget
enjoy,
-e
Link-to-tabs is a plugin, that can be used without restarting the wiki. So it’s possible to import it into any existing wiki, that contains tabs and get the behaviour shown in the OP.
I personally use and created it as a development tool, to examine tabs from 3rd party plugins / wikis
So for example: If I want to have the link-to-tabs in the TW ControlPanel I can import the plugin from the browser bookmark toolbar into tiddlywiki.com or any other wiki, where I do not have write access and the functionality still works.
I’m using FireFox with a Bookmarks Toolbar, which contains several of my plugins
If the plugin is active it works with all existing tabs
There are several settings to customise the behaviour
That’s an old one. link-to-tabs v2.3.0 is latest atm
Bookmarks can be created from eg: the plugin overview by
- dragging them onto the bookmarks bar
- Rename it
- Important: They do not work without renaming
