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(...) You could certainly post it right here if you wanted. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) well, the thing is, you need to close the window the pops up before it loads anything at all... if you're too slow, it loads the js that tells it to reopen the window when you close the current one... or, (untested), you could turn off java in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) only kinda related, I wrote a little perl script to do command line lookups to the database... both for windowz and for linux. That way, if I don't have a browser open, I can still lookup sets all the expert WAMALUG people refer to by (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) er, ah, yes. I forgot about those. 4533 is not worthy of being in the 9V line, and 4552 is misnamed, there's no cargo in the set anywhere, all that stuff is MOW related. (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38A72E70.4AD987FB@v...er.net>... (...) speculating (...) One difficulty is having only a single category. Ultimately, what is needed is to be able to have a set of keywords for each set. In this case, 3225 might (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Let's get Joshua to comment, but for now.... I'll put my oar in anyway. (...) That definition ("has trainwheels") matches all three of the categories cars, locos, and train sets. So I don't think that's it. I believe 3225 is the only set across ALL (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I didn't lay out the sub-categories for the train stuff so I'm speculating here, but I'm thinkin' that prolly what Joshua meant by "train cars" was "sets where the main model has wheels that go on train tracks"...? (As opposed to sets which (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Good question, This was one of those sites that relaunched the same window as soon as you killed it so I was so busy trying to figure out how to kill it without taking all of NS down (I had important stuff in other windows) that I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) logo images such that they can be cached). I'd also prefer to see as much space as possible made for the set image (one reason I won't be using the new looker-upper is the smaller image). (...) and (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) IIRC, there are actually 2 layers of the always-on-top property for windows in Win32 -- one which is local to the application and one in which the application itself is entirely above other applications. (I think one of these is in the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I know it's doable in NS because I've seen it done to me by certain obnoxious sites that I had the misfortune to visit. I don't know how, though. (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Oya, definitely. It's partly a prototype and experiment at simpler presentation. Here's a mock-up screenshot, for example, which Suzanne made earlier this year: (URL) she's away at ToyFair in NYC this week I'll be alternating between final (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I don't know of any way, no, but in a former life I used to do lots of Win32 GUI programming, so I'm going to bet that it's possible that there's a tool out there somewhere (something akin to WinSpy++) that would let a user choose a window and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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To me, and to many other Model Railroaders, a train set by definition has to have a locomotive and at least one car. Track and powerpack are optional. That's a canonical MR definition. Most sets DO come with track and or a power pack but don't have (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Great! Thanks for this! Questions: - Do you know how to make the window stay on top under MS Windows? This would be most useful so that whenever I want the window is there. - Do you know how to add a set number typein to the system tray under (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) a more full sized browser window open, and I like the larger pictures). I do like the arrangement of the data better than the Pause DB. Have you considered changing Pause to list the data across the top in a similar format (or at least have an (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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If you find that you are spending a lot of time looking up sets by name or number -- fiddling with URLs, bookmarks, search boxes, etc. -- then here's a little (and I mean little!) utility which might help save you time. It's tentatively called (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Yeah... (...) Well, I'd say try to stay under 200KB and under ~600x600 pixels, and avoid progressive JPEGs[1]. Other than than, not much to worry about. I'll be putting in some scaling stuff to make medium-sized images so that the huge ones (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Ok, thanks for fixing the incoming thing. Dan and I hope to start sending bunchs of "scans" (they're not really scans, their pictures, but i can't tell the difference, i hope you can't :) ) anyway... do you compare ones that we send to the existing (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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