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This is my first attempt at writing a firefox extension. It will allow looking up information about sets mentioned in posts on various LEGO sites. See screenshots, examples and install it from here: (URL) hope this might be useful! Dan FUT (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.announce.peeron, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !!
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(...) WOW! works fine, but you should add a note telling that firefox could block the installation of add-ons based on your settings. at least I had to allow the installation and had to add peeron to the list of harmless sites. w. (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi Dan, I have 2 questions: 1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see (URL) any idea why that may be? 2. Is it possible to put the counter on the status bar instead of over the page corner? If the page is not scrollable it can obscure text (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 3. If the link is near the right side of the page, clicking the kitty extends the page to the right, often introducing a horizontal scrollbar. But closing the info window does not reset the page width. Is it possible to right-align the info (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Simple - it's only set up to run on certain sites... I'll add yours to the list though. (...) I'll look into that - if I can figure out how to do it, sure :) (...) I noticed that - if you could help me figure out the CSS for the peeron_popup, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Updated. (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well I'm no expert either, but there seem to be right and left CSS properties that may be able to do it. I haven't really played with CSS much though, Tim G would be the guy to ask. ROSCO (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well I was trying to do this and discovered a fairly major bug in the extension. When trying to edit a post on jlug (phpBB) which contained a set number it found the set number and promptly blanked the entire text edit box. Tim (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Whoa! I'll take a look at that tomorrow morning. Probably could just add "textarea" to the tags to be left alone. (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) G'day, Probably just me being difficult, but would it be possibe to: 1) have the window close when the mouse leaves it, instead of relying on clicking the 'X' 2) Have a seperate link in the info area for the inventory and instructions, so that (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That was my original plan - however I found that it actually is somewhat annoying, because too often the window would close by mistake. Also, by leaving it open, it allows comparing multiple sets (popups) at the same time. Maybe once I add (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For some people, this would be considered a positive function of that extension ;-) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Hmmmm, Google ads. Check out the above page now that the extension has been available, especially the bottom left corner of the ad box. Weird. ROSCO (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Interesting. I guess the browser treats the iframe as it's own window. Which I guess is what it's supposed to do. I just released 0.5, telling the extension to ignore googlesyndication windows. Check for updates in your extension window, see (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yup, I think that did the trick. Try the 0.5 update? (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Great work. Playing with it a bit I noticed that it's not consistant with set detection. Take this message: (URL) script doesn't seem to detect any of the set number listed. I'm using the greasemonkey version if that helps. If I get time, I'll (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm, it's saying no updates found, I'm using 0.4. ROSCO (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) G'day, minor niggle number 2 (or is that 3?): When searching the set guide on lugnet, You can't always find the set information from peeron. For example: (URL) a result on only "VW 1200 Limousine with Garage" (set 261)...and the sets found are (...) (18 years ago, 18-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The problem is that it only looks up 4 digit numbers, or numbers in the form of nnnn-n. Oh, and it ignores numbers between 1900-2100. I could easily make it look at 3 digit numbers as well, but you'd end up with that many more false-positives. (...) (18 years ago, 18-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) How about looking for numbers in the nnnn_n or nnn_n in links. At least then the set pictures may trigger recognition in the set guides, and the 1900-2100 range would also be picked up. Alternatively, add an option in a menu that will (...) (18 years ago, 19-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This should work now. Apparently, JS doesn't reset it's RE engine when the input changes. So it would end up returning 'null' after every successful match. Which means it'd skip every other entry. Updated both the Extension and the GM (...) (18 years ago, 23-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dan, FYI, version 0.8 worked fine on the test page using Firefox 1.5 on Linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060802 Mandriva/1.5.0.7-0.1.20060mdk (2006.0) Firefox/1.5.0.7. ) Thanks! A couple things I noticed: 1) (...) (18 years ago, 20-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) There's a version 0.8? I can only find 0.6. BTW, FF 2.0 is out now, and it says the plugin is incompatible - I'm guessing it's just a version number change or something. ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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