Version 10 of Adding images to local mode wikis

Category Wikit

The following procedure can be used to add a gif image file to a stand alone wikit database (i.e. .tkd file). Note that images may only be viewed using the Tk interface currently.

Assumptions

a directory named dir exist
a wikit database named wikit.tkd is in the directory (see [L1 ] for information on how to create a database)
a gif image file named image.gif is in the directory

Procedure

Open the wikit database using wikit.kit application.
Edit the page where the image is to added and add the following text [http://image.gif] where the image is to appear.
Save the changes to the page and exit wikit
Run the following command in the dir directory.

    % wikit -images scan wikit.tkd
    Scanning 17 wiki pages...
    1 urls added, 0 urls deleted

Then run this command in the dir directory.

    % wikit -images local wikit.tkd
    1 local images copied

The image is now loaded into the wikit database (so try it out :-)

wikit -image Options

tclkit wikit.kit -images scan wikit.tkd: Scans all pages, updating an "image cache" inside the wikit.tkd datafile (this does not fetch images, it just updates that cache) repeated calls are incremental: adds new / deletes unused items

tclkit wikit.kit -images list wikit.tkd: Lists all entries currently in the image cache, with fetch/file dates

tclkit wikit.kit -images get wikit.tkd: This goes through the image cache and fetches any entries which have not been successfully fetched before (only images <= 100 Kb)

tclkit wikit.kit -images local wikit.tkd: Goes through caches, storing all images it can find in [pwd], i.e. updates and replaces what is in the cache with local file copies (can be used to add/replace, and to store images > 100 Kb)

tclkit wikit.kit -images clear wikit.tkd: Clear the image cache (does not compact the wikit datafile, but space will be re-use

Tom Krehbiel

How would you do it on windows? I got the following error when I tried it on windows.

  couldn't execute "C:\dir\wikit": invalid argument

YekSoon

You could do it in a Tcl-script, I'm working on that myself. If you have access to a *nix system you can do the actual scan and add there and just copy the wikit.tkd file to your windows box. It is a metakit database-file and as such platform independent. - VL

30sep03 jcw - You could also use tclkitsh.exe, the command-line version of tclkit, and type "tclkitsh wikit.kit -images list wikit.tkd", etc.