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A Tinderbox Reference File

Install, Uninstall, Support and Registration
- To what does 'TB' refer?
- Technical Requirements
- Licence & Registration
- Installation
- Uninstalling Tinderbox
- Demo & Viewer mode
- Tinderbox documents
  - TBX Documents
  - What does a Tinderbox document contain?
- Support
- Image formats for embedding
Objects & Concepts
- Objects
- Concepts
- Coding conventions
Preferences & Document Settings
- Preferences
  - Register
- Document Settings
- Attributes: inheritance of preferences & settings
Windows
- Document Window
- Secondary windows
- Inspector
Dialogs
- About Tinderbox dialog
- Add Displayed Attributes pop-over
- Attribute Browser Action pop-up
- Attribute Browser Export
- Attribute Browser Query pop-up
- Badge pop-up picker
- Browse Links pop-over
- Chart Settings pop-over
- Cleanup view tab
- Column view, column format pop-up
- Create Link from alias pop-over
- Create Link pop-over
- Crosstabs view axis configuration pop-over
- Crosstabs view secondary configuration pop-over
- Custom Color colour picker dialog
- Customize Toolbar panel
- Dance pop-up
- Date picker pop-over
- Define new Displayed Attributes pop-over
- Edit Background dialog
- Emoji & Symbols pop-over
- Error List pop-over
- Explode pop-over
- Export as Outline panel
- Export as Text panel
- Export HTML progress bar
- Find results pop-over
- Find results stand-alone dialog
- Fonts dialog
- Get Info pop-over
  - agent tab
  - attributes tab
  - book tab
  - info tab
  - map tab
  - repetition tab
  - similar tab
  - text tab
  - url tab
  - words tab
- Get Info stand-alone dialog
- Grid Properties pop-over
- HTML Export folder dialog
- Link parking space (empty) click pop-over
- Link parking space click pop-over
- Link widget context pop-up
- List panel
- Map Settings pop-over
- Multi-window close confirmation pane
- Outline Settings pop-over
- Roadmap pop-over
- Roadmap stand-alone dialog
- Spelling and Grammar dialog
- Substitutions dialog
- Summary Display Properties pop-over
- Table dialog
- Text pane with $Text selection, Link parking space click pop-over
- Text pane, Link parking space click pop-over
- Timeline Settings pop-over
- Tinderbox Help dialog
- Treemap Settings pop-over
- What's New dialog
Menus
- Main menu bar
- Menus & sub-menus
- Pop-up menus and lists
Visual Styling
- Text Markups
- Shapes, borders, patterns and fills
- Tinderbox built-in fonts
- Map of Tinderbox's defined colours
- Map of shapes, borders and patterns
- Note Colours
Misc. User Interface Aspects
- Age Colouring of Notes
- Agent's AgentPriority Status shown in Icon
- Anonymised Data Sharing
- Autocompletion of input
  - Displayed Attributes value autocompletion
  - Attribute name autocompletion
  - Action and query code
  - OS text auto-complete
- Automatic Geocoding
- Automatic re-open of last-used TBX
- Automatic Saving
- Badges
- Blind typing in view window
- Built-in (export) Templates
- Built-in composites
  - List composite
  - Expense composite
  - Lecture composite
  - Task composite
- Built-in Prototypes
- Closing pop-overs
- Composites
  - Composite masters
  - Roles for composite items
  - Join actions
  - Suppressing formation of composites
  - Composite action codes
- Container Sorting and Transforms
- Content/Type Dependent Icons
- Copying/Moving notes within Tinderbox
- Copying/Moving text within Tinderbox
- Creating Footnote notes
- Current attribute: shared by Quickstamp and Get Info
- Default note colours & patterns
- Display Expressions
- Displayed Attributes replace Key Attributes
- Dragging notes between TBXs
- Embedded image fills
- Features needing more recent OS versions
- Finder Quicklook
- Focus View, Expand View
- Full Screen mode
- Hoisting view on childless containers
- Hover Expressions
- Hover Images
- In-place title editing
- Link creation and parking tools
  - View pane link widget
  - Text pane link widget
  - Tab bar link parking space
- Link Indication in Note Icon
- macOS Dark/Light modes
- Markdown preview rendering
- Naming of duplicating notes
- Navigating via links
- Outline vs. Map Interface
  - Things seen in only one type of view
  - What is OutlineOrder?
  - What is SiblingOrder?
  - Map co-ordinates
  - Maps, stacking and overlapping
  - Adding / Moving Items
  - Hiding the map icon viewport in containers and agents
- Pane focus indicator
- Pasting notes: creation and modification dates
- Pictures in notes
- Pre-populating Displayed Attributes pop-up lists
- Selecting notes
- Setting a prototype
- Suggest Attribute value lists
- Tear-off windows
- Text for multiple selections
- Title Strike-Through
- View filters
- Wrapping of long titles
Formatting
- Command Line
- Copy to Clipboard
- Date Formats
- Dragging text within $Text
- Number Currency Formats
- Duplicating items
- Last-used OS folder
- Linking to local files (File-type attributes)
- Negative Dates (i.e. years BCE/BC)
- OS Services
- Quick Lists
- Reset $Text formatting
- Spotlight support
- Smart Dashes
- Smart Links
- Smart Quotes
- Smart URLs
- Support for other app-specific formats
  - Bibdesk
  - Bookends
  - Calendar
  - Delicious Library
  - DEVONthink
    - DEVONthink Item ID
    - DEVONthink URL pseudo-protocol
    - Mapping Tinderbox and DEVONthink URLs
  - Evernote
  - Finder
  - FreeMind
  - IAWriter
  - Microsoft Word
  - Notes
  - OmniFocus
  - OmniOutliner
  - QuickCursor
  - RIS files
  - Scrivener
  - Simplenote support
  - Storyspace
  - TaskPaper
  - Tot
- Text line endings
- Time - Displaying and Setting Seconds
Import
- AutoFetch
- Drag from $Text to Outline/Map to create a note
- Dragged folder links
- Dragging a URL from web browser
- Dragging Address info into Tinderbox
- Dragging emails to Tinderbox
- Dragging HTML files to Tinderbox
- Dragging text from a web browser
- Dropping Text files into Tinderbox
- Exploding Notes
- Formatting dates for import to Tinderbox
- Importing from other file types and applications
- Inserting images into note $Text
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- OPML Import
- Pasting a child to childless notes
- Pasting and Text Margins
- Pasting into Tinderbox and line ends
- Pasting into views
- RTF (rich text) import
- Setting up for Tab-Delimited Import
- Spreadsheet (Tab-Delimited Text) Import
- vcard import
- Watched folders
  - Evernote
  - Finder
  - Notes
  - Tot
- Watched Groups
  - DEVONthink
- Working with $Text: support for styled text
Export
- Aliases in HTML Export
- Attribute Browser Export
- Built-in Export Templates
- Copying from Column view
- Default Export Location
- Default export template
- Dragging from Tinderbox
- Email from Tinderbox
- Export - managing source code white space
- Export - name collision for created files
- Export - RSS and Atom feeds
- Export - splitting content and utility notes
- Export and links to page includes
- Export: 'envelope and letter' technique
- Exporting code samples
- Exporting Folders
- Exporting images
- Exporting Set-type data
- Export templates are notes
- HTML Entities
- HTML Export & Unicode non-UTF-8 characters
- HTML Export - exporting folders
- HTML Export - page(s) based on multiple notes
  - Where source pages also export as discrete pages
  - Inbound links
  - Planning a many-note-to-single HTML page
  - Setting in-page HTML anchors
  - Considerations for aliases
  - Traversing non-exporting notes
- HTML Export - points to consider
- HTML Export - exporting only as an include
- HTML Export: ^^value^^ vs. ^^get^^
- HTML Export - alternate mark-up processor
- Moving Stamps
- OPML Export
  - OPML-wrapper
  - OPML-item
- Outline Export
- RTF (rich text) export
- Support for other app-specific formats
- Tabs, Quick Lists, Fonts and Export
- Text styling that does not export
- Tinderbox metadata in pasted Tinderbox data
- UTF-8 Export
- Working with LaTeX
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts: keys and symbols
- Individual Shortcuts
- Reverse Look-up Map
- Unicode Codes for Keyboard symbols
- Conflicts with other apps
Attributes
- System Attribute List
- Attribute Data Types
- Attribute Groups within Tinderbox
- Attributes grouped by purpose
- Editing attribute values
- Attribute Naming
- Determining the data type of an attribute
- Setting/resetting an attribute's default
- Using attributes as global variables/constants
- Attributes - $ prefix notation
- Setting an attribute to (no value)
- Setting an attribute to re-enable inheritance
- Renaming an attribute
Actions & Rules
- Basic action code syntax
- Operators
  - Full Operator List
  - Action Operator Types
  - Action Operator Scope
  - Action Operator Functional Types
  - Listing of dot operators
  - Listing of operators honouring link types
- Compound Actions
- Conditional Actions (if clauses)
- Conditional statements using multiple arguments
- Expressions in Action code
- Expressions in paths
- Problematic Characters for Action code in $Name and $Path
- Delaying code execution in prototypes
- Delaying code execution in notes using prototypes
- Stand-alone expressions
- Actions as expressions
- Designators in actions
- Left side expressions
- The 'dot' operators
- Chaining 'dot' functions
- Look-up tables
- Stamps
- Link Actions
- Actions, Stamps and Quickstamps
- Setting an attribute to (no value)
- Setting an attribute to re-enable inheritance
- Short Boolean form
- Self-Cancelling Rules & Actions
- Query back-references
- Using long sections of code
- Using .each() for loops
- Constructing $Attribute references in loops
- Concatenation versus addition
- Parentheses as a guide to code execution
- Updates and cascading actions
- Optimising code for performance
- Checking and setting Time correctly in Date data
- Debugging user Action code
- Getting section number via Action code
- Working with $Container to move notes
- Pre-populating Displayed Attributes pop-up lists
- Using designator values as note titles
Agent & Queries
- Query Syntax
- Simple Queries - equality and inequality
- String Attributes - comparison operators & case sensitivity
- Querying Lists and Sets
- Controlling Agent Update Cycle Time
- Sorting Agent Results
- Fine-tuning searches using $Searchable
- Using the 'agent' designator
- Regular Expressions in queries
- Agents and intrinsic attributes
- Query back-references
- Self-referring agents
- Date Comparisons - Date vs. Date/time
- Unparse-able queries
- Querying for aliases - agents
- Querying for aliases - find()
- Aliases, children and descendants
- Manually triggering agent updates
Export Codes
- Export Codes - Full Listing
- Export Code Types
- Export Code Scope
- Using Export Code
- Altering mark-up for Export Code generated lists
- Debugging user Export code
- Export Code Arguments
- Export codes honouring link types
Deprecated Usage
- References to deprecated aspects of Tinderbox
Tinderbox Application Support folders
- analytics folder
- backups folder
- badges folder
  - Custom Badge artwork
- color schemes folder
- config folder
- favorites folder
- fill folder
  - Custom Fill artwork
- Markdown folder
- prototypes folder
- templates folder
Tinderbox File Types
- Tinderbox program icon
- Data (TBX) Files
- Colour Scheme Files
- Tinderbox Preferences
- Stamp files
- Configuration Files
  - colors.xml
  - config.xml
  - html_helpers.xml
  - linkTypes.xml
    - linkTypes
    - link
      - name
      - label
      - visible
      - showLabel
      - color
      - style
      - required
  - menus.xml
  - stoplist.txt
- Other Support Files
  - Lock and sticky icon artwork
  - RSS Import Templates
Syntax Library
- The v7 TBX format
- Applescript
- Web Timeline customisation
About aTbRef
- Origin of aTbRef
- Creative Commons Licence
  - Attribution
  - Waivers
- Errata
- Techniques & demos hidden in the TBX
- Updates to aTbRef
- Obtaining the aTbRef source TBX file
- Colophon
Tinderbox Documentation And Other Resources
- The Tinderbox Manual
- Release Notes
- Shoantel's Tinderbox Tutorials
Change Log
- v8.9.2b496 (11 Feb 2021)
- v8.9.1b486 (12 Jan 2021)
- v8.9.0b485 (30 Nov 2020)
- v8.8.0b479 (6 Oct 2020)
- v8.7.1b467 (22 Jun 2020)
- v8.7.0b464 (21 May 2020)
- v8.6.2b452 (14 Mar 2020)
- v8.6.1b451 (13 Mar 2020)
- v8.6.0b448 (11 Mar 2020)
- v8.5.1b437 (26 Feb 2020)
- v8.5.0b434 (20 Feb 2020)
- v8.2.3b426 (21 Jan 2020)
- v8.2.2b421 (28 Dec 2019)
- v8.2.1b416 (26 Nov 2019)
- v8.1.1b410 (31 Oct 2019)
- v8.1.0b405 (3 Jul 2019)
- v8.0.6b384 (3 Jul 2019)
- v8.0.5b383 (2 Jul 2019)
- v8.0.4b382 (26 Jun 2019)
- v8.0.3b374 (31 May 2019)
- v8.0.2b373 (29 May 2019)
- v8.0.1b366 (8 May 2019)
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Made in Tinderbox 8. Content, Tinderbox export and web template design all by Mark Anderson, (Shoantel Limited).