Resistance Is Futile! We Own Your Lives....

DeVore

Ok, Cloud and I have been playing with this all lunchtime. It is going to crash the economy but who cares.

This is hard to explain so just try it and revel in its utter leetness. Or dont and have a career.

What is it? Its a ticker tape window on your task bar in Windows 98 or higher computer (also works on Windows 95 with IE5+ installed), which will scroll the latest threads for you.

To install the ticker follow these instructions:

Right-click on your Taskbar and go to toolbars->new toolbar

Type "http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/ticker.php" without the quotes in the location box

Click OK

Stretch the new window you see so that its the right size (small enough to be out of the way, but big enough so that it doesnt have a nasty scroll bar).
It helps if you also right click on "Boards.ie Today" and de-select the Show Title option (that will get you some more space....)

So, try it out and let us know what you think... I think it rocks.
One step closer to World Domination Muhahahha *cough*...

DeV.

seamus

THAT ROCKS!!! (it'll work once the members pages are back)

I have it set now as a single taskbar on it's own - is there anyway for the thread title and the posters name to be all width ways instead word wrapped? (I'm just nit-picking)

plyd n1 Lads :D:D:D

Dr. Loon

Can't use it in NT.... I'll check it out at home later, it sounds wicked though.... marvelloush work...

Shad0r

Yeah got it goin on my pc here too,

Takes up half my taskbar but still pretty l33t.

gg

Shad

DeVore

unconfirmed reports suggest it requires active desktop.... works sweet on my 2k machine. We'll be feckin around with the layout and whats on it etc too, we just wanted to test it...

DeV.

seamus

Now that I've been thinking about it.....

It is brilliant. Can it be made customisable, if you continue tinkering with it (as I know yis will )? Rolling from bottom to top in a tiny taskbar can be hard to see, maybe if there was an option to having it scrolling left->right or right->left (Like simcity 3000), and maybe to give certain forums priority? For example if someone posts in my (new ) forum, the ticker shows that straight away instead of queueing the topics. Anyway, I'm UBER-happy with it, I'm just giving suggestions that may no doubt cause some 'Regi says oops' moments in the future

[I love the way it stops scrolling when you put the cursor over the topic - Nice touch ]

[Even more edit: Yes another suggestion (I'm wearing this ticker out I think ) just to put target=_blank for the links, cos as it is, I click the link and then it loads the page in the next IE window I click on, which I'm usually in the middle of typing a reply in ]

WhiteWashMan

works nice and squiffily on XP.

thats just a bloody marvelous idea.
can you put the football scores on there as well?

oh go on!

kayos

OMG thanks for that one lads and hey youcan even turn it off if you want by click on the vbb icon (handy for us in work type peeps).

This rules :cool:

kayos

Bard

lovely stuff... pity I don't have an always-on connection :rolleyes:

I can't drag it off my taskbar to float somewhere like I can with the other taskbar toolbars though... mebbe its just me...

Ronan|Raven

Well ye own my life now anyway! very handy and works like a dream on the 2k machine I use here.

Cloud

Might be some locked option Bard.

Bard

MY TASKBAR IS NOW THREE BUTTONS HIGH!!!

DeVore

Ok, things that need to be changed:

1. scroll right to left if it can be done.

2. Opens in New Window rather then reusing a window. I'll have to argue for this one, but for the moment you can always right mouse-click and click Open In New Window.

3. Customisable. I would like for it to only show threads from boards you have Subscribed to (in User CP). This will take a little time.

4. Change elements on it to: Title, Author, Board. ?

DeV.

MiCr0

and for those of use stuck on NT boo hiss

just load that link into a new browser window
disable all the viewing setting (links/status/buttons/etc)

and make it small

it works out about the same
or maybe some l33+ admin could make ticker-nt.php
with all the setting's done already

hth
MiCr0

Cloud

I'll do 1, 2 and 4 now.

seamus

1 is done, started scrolling right-> left nicely about 30 secs ago, just no threads . I should really give you some time to do stuff before posting and commenting Could also be adjustable speed wise, but I'm not moaning, n1

Dustaz

nice one micro!
im stuck on nt here in work, and i was all a dither about waiting to try it out.....gonna rush off to do that now.

edit: OMFG, You guys may now consider me as your mail order russian bride. this owns me

DeVore

I knew it ... I KNEW you'd post and say that cloud!

GO DO SOME REAL WORK
(but if you could fix that stuff first it would be sweet )

DeV.

Cloud

I've left the scrolling thing for now, I think it was a bit confusing all the text scrolling along one line - maybe some better way to do it.

Links open in new windows, and forum name is now shown instead of replies.

BattlingCheese

It's working great on my work NT(Sp6a) PC

MiCr0

this is what my NT-ticker is like

b20uvkft6m5xwg

OMG...
been away for the last couple of days....

-The boards are all loading like google on a T1;)
-The stars are back in the dhtml menus as well
-And now this Taskbar.....WAAAAY COOOOLLL!!!

Word up to all involved....Well Pld:)

Gordon

Well this is just the jiminy cricket, no more having to keep viewing new posts malarky maharjy.

Hey there is but one problem... it disnae wirk on my wee macintosh computer machine, mebbe its coz I'm sco'ish 'n all, an ma wee bairn cannae task it's bar any more. Come on pull the finger out lads, Apple Mac's are gonna take over the world mwohha haa haaaa.

etc.

(well done by the way)

DeVore

nope, it doesnt work on Macs or Linux.
You *can* however just open that url in a small browser and keep it at the bottom of your screen...

DeV.

Gordon

ye but that's just not cricket

seamus

Well, why would we bother with one for the Mac? No-one uses them . I'm sure someone runnign GNOME or KDE could come up with one of those applet yokies to do the same as the IE one

Bard

Originally posted by 80project
OMG...
been away for the last couple of days....

-The boards are all loading like google on a T1;)
-The stars are back in the dhtml menus as well
-And now this Taskbar.....WAAAAY COOOOLLL!!!

Word up to all involved....Well Pld:)

AND attatchments are now working! ... nice one

Originally posted by Gordon

ye but that's just not cricket

yeh... but cricket sucks

Boards.ie is going from strength to strength... fair play, lads.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Niall,

Leave cricket alone or face of the wrath of my willow upside da head:p

Stephen

Lads, that is bloody great

Also, cricket sucks more than a sucky thing on a sucky day in sucksville.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

-Stephen
-Bard

Added to my woopass list:p

Anymore takers!?

seamus

Originally posted by 80project
-Stephen
-Bard

Added to my woopass list:p

Anymore takers!?

Throw me on there too. Cricket sux @ss

amp

Boards.ie ticker 1 - Cricket -10

MindPhuck

hmm

Id like to get it automaticly working on say quake.ie without the users having to click it. ie. just have it automaticly appearing.

amp

Oh the sheer abuse you'd get MP. WAAHHH! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS!! YOUR INVADING MEH PRIVACY! etc. WAAAH!!!

seamus

I have the l33t idea, and now it's an ickle banner across the top of my homepage. Looks liek teh win

for best results it was:

<frameset rows 5, *>
<frame src = http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/ticker.php noscroll noresize >


Now everyone point and snigger at my pathetic HTML skillz

The Cigarette Smoking Man

Very nice.

(If you click on the boards.ie link - the first one that scrolls across, it opens the website in the toolbar)

MindPhuck

Gah,

I still couldnt get it to work within my webby. Im doing something ar$e for sure. I'll play with it over the weekend on the new quake.ie web site (ooh, new look soon).

Ta.

WhiteWashMan

cricket rawks!

Shiminay

That ticker tape is t3h l33+!!!

GG - shots all!

smoke.me.a.kipper

thats only the best ever!!!!

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
cricket rawks!

should I read that in light of the red astericks disclaimer or are you a geniune fan!

Just curious, I know you live in england....
I hear its popular there:p

regi

cricket does rock

Goodshape

amazing. great stuff!

....seems to have a fixed width though. dosint matter what size I make the applet, it still scrolls along the same amount of space.

...plus, (as mentioned above) the first link to boards / vbulletin opens in the applet itself...

...and bah! the other links load IE.. not my wovely default browser (Opera).



I still like it though... very froosh ineed! well done.

Dustaz

Cricket does not Rock. Cricket Souls, or possibly Cricket Easy Listens, but in no way does it Rock

dahamsta

Cricket Daniel O'Donnell's?

Cricket Saves The Queen?

(Actually, I like cricket, but don't tell anyone.)

adam

Lenny

Thats brillant Dev
welldone and thanks!

Lenny

IS it me, or is anyone else having this problem
But when you click on a topic on the toolbar, and it opens up the page, I have to log in again to reply
Gets annoying

DeVore

Nope, have you checked the option in the usercp (I think) to cookie your machine?

that doesnt happen to me...

DeV.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Yeh noticed that too OJ

Also on the most recent posts list on the front page, if you click on a topic with more than 2 pages it automatically goes to the 2nd page as oppossed to the last post on the 3rd page for some reason!?

Possible bug fix?

Lenny

yes my cookies are grand, it logs in auto when I visit board.sie manually
It seemed to actualy log me in auto here when I clicked on the topic from the toolbar

also, how about getting a time of the posts added in there too Dev?

Dustaz

Ive had the re-login bug, just the first time i used it.
I get the other bug all the time, where it doesnt throw you to the next unread post, but 2 pages before that:/