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Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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lugnet.admin.database
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Sun, 13 Feb 2000 02:32:38 GMT
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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 QuickSet and you can launch it right from your browser:
http://www.lugnet.com/quickset/
Its mission statement is to be the fastest possible way to look up LEGO sets
online. Basically, it is simply a miniature web browser window (launched via
JavaScript) which runs independently of the main web browser window. There
are four different main ways to launch it (shown at the URL above), each with
additional launch options to include various browser widgets such as the Menu
bar, the Location bar, the Status bar, and so forth. I like to run it as
small as possible and keep it in the corner of the desktop, so I leave these
additional options unchecked when I launch it.
Notes:
- Best results are had with a browser which supports JavaScript, as JavaScript
is used to create the special itty bitty window. (It will still work OK
on browsers without JavaScript, however...just not as nicely.)
- Mac users probably will want to make sure the Menu checkbox is ON, because
of the way MacOS menus work (being shared at the top of the screen and not
per-window).
- This isn't necessarily a final interface for the utility, but the better it
performs for people, the less likely it'll be to change. So speak up if
anything about it is annoying. (You could consider this a "beta.")
- There's also a nifty way to add this to your personal toolbar in Netscape
Navigator, where it pops up a search prompt when you click the button from
wherever you happen to be and even if you're not already running it. I'll
post details about that later.
--Todd
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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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)
| | | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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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)
| | | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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| (...) QuickSet seems like a nifty thing. I have one big problem with it, unfortunately. This is with IE5. Once launched, the QuickSet window becomes the target window for any URL that gets launched from a non-browser application. For example, if I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
| | | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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| (...) what it probably is, I don't thin IE honors the "_blank" name for new windows. Unlike NN, which opens a new window every time the target is _blank, IE must not do that. So every time an app tries to open a new window, IE thinks it means the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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