Set the fill of a note to an external image

[webline (Detlef Beyer)]

@mwra

I’d ask “but why are you doing this”? If you look at these notes on $File you’ll see it simply links to a file. If viewed in Displayed Attributes or Get Info:attributes/General you see a folder icon. If clicked, Tinderbox asks macOS finder [sic] to open that file with the associated app.

Easy to explain: I would like to use Markup to include an external image. I don’t want to manually copy the path in the Finder and paste it into the note. So I simply use the $File attribute. With an empty $File attribute I can click in the folder icon and select a file. The result is a string with the path to this file and this value is what I use in the markup. Very easy to integrate an external image that way. No need to copy&paste the path.

Now I expected that the path I got from the $File attribute could be used in the $Fill attribute too. Both attributes use strings. The limitation here is the special “fill” folder.

@satikusala that’s a nice approach. Will try this too. Did you compare the speed if you have a container with many notes containing an image as fill pattern to a collection of notes using inline images?