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WidgetMessage: tm-modal

23rd July 2023 at 9:54pm
NameDescription
paramTitle of the tiddler to be displayed
{any other params}Any other parameters are made available as variables within the context of the widget message.
rootwindowIntroduced in v5.1.18 yes or true will always display a modal in the wiki-root-window

The modal message is usually generated with the ButtonWidget. The modal message is handled by the TiddlyWiki core.

Fields within the tiddler being displayed in the modal can be used to customise its appearance.

paramObject

The "currentTiddler" variable is set to the title of the modal tiddler, but can be overridden by specifying a different value in paramObject.

Example

Here is an example of displaying a modal and passing parameters to it: (Note how all parameters to action-sendmessage other than $param and $message are available as variables within the modal.)

Your name: <$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/yourName" tag="input" default="Your name"/>

Your message:
<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/yourMessage" default="Your message"/>

<$button>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-modal" $param="SampleModal" yourName={{$:/temp/yourName}} yourMessage={{$:/temp/yourMessage}}/>
Click me!
</$button>

That renders as:

Your name:

Your message:

Tip
Introduced in v5.1.18 if triggered from within a new window, the above examples will be displayed within that window. The rootwindow attribute can be set to yes or true to inherit this behavior and to display the Modal within the root window

Tip
Introduced in v5.1.23 Links to tiddlers within a modal will open in the same story as the widget that sent the tm-modal message. You can override this by specifying values for the variables tv-story-list and tv-history-list when sending the tm-modal message.