How to launch a desktop application with TiddlyWiki

[dongrentianyu]

It looks like I should have specified the platform I was using ahead of time, so it might not have caused so much discussion. I use the tidgi desktop application to launch TiddlyWiki, not a browser. So I don’t have much to think about in terms of security.

[TiddlyTitch]

@Scott_Sauyet

much more plausible is working with one of the Electron or similar versions with only small changes to the back end of TW apps.

Right. In past I used “Bob” (a node.js assemblage I think) a while. It was great but not portable. Difficult to maintain across machines.

You can twist TiddlyDesktop to launch apps. though it’s not well documented how to. It is great in a dedicated position but very non-portable.

These solutions seem to have huge footprints.

Maybe I could figure out how to have one Executive TW under node / electron in one set place and other wikis set to save commands for it. Dunno.
I’d prefer a browser with a smaller less complex backend.

But thanks for your interest. IMO the lack of a browser that can interact with it’s OS is a serious hole in software needs. I guess they do exist but are locked into specific niches? Dunno.

I just saw @Mark_S comment. That is an approach I should look to too.

[TiddlyTitch]

@Mark_S

We already know what a launch-from-browser solution would look like. It would involve an extension and a native host “server” (which really means an executable).

Here’s one such extension –

Thanks. I’ll see if can get that to work with TW.