The Agony Of Visual Buttons --- Part #947

I’m adapting @telmiger’s save & continue button in edits.

I changed it to add to it’s …

  • Overwrite Original
  • Continue Editing

the action of …

  • Backup of the changed Tiddler

My Question: How do you represent these actions in one (button) icon?

A visualization query
TT

If I’m understanding correctly…

\procedure my-button-actions()
  <$action-setfield $tiddler=some-tiddler $field=some-field $value="my-value" />
  <$action-sendmessage $message=tm-something $param=something />
\end my-button-actions

...

<$button actions=<<my-button-actions>> ...> My Button </$button>

Perhaps @telmiger can give you something a little more appropriate – I don’t know the plugin’s details.

Thanks for the reply!

My post was likely unclear.

I was wondering what Button Icon one could use to represent … Save + Continue + Backup.

@telmiger uses Screenshot 2025-10-31 19.46.52 for “Save and Continue”.

I guess my post is partly about frustrations in accurately visually representing stuff under what an icon-button may be doing.

TT

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That’s a huge problem for me, too. Icons (clue is in the name) should be iconic – they rarely are, for me.

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I think the visual language available through Icons in modern computing is generally weak and not thought about enough??

Anyway, for my O/P, I still wonder if one Icon might express .̇…

Save + Continue + Backup

just an idea, replace the checkbox square with a basic representation of the old floppy disc drive?

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