Modifying OcUK

robmiller · 3 May 2006 at 13:47

Oh yah whoops :cool:

Dunno, my current code is so far removed from the one I uploaded up there that it could be anything. Uninstall for now and install the final one when it's released

SwishSpencor · 3 May 2006 at 18:37

robmiller said:
Oh yah whoops

Dunno, my current code is so far removed from the one I uploaded up there that it could be anything. Uninstall for now and install the final one when it's released

ok cool

will the final have the css in it too so i dont have to edit any files?

robmiller · 3 May 2006 at 19:12

SpankLikeThis said:
ok cool will the final have the css in it too so i dont have to edit any files?

Yep but probably just in a lazy way - ie, you type in a bunch of hex values yourself, no kind of colour-picker or anything.

suarve · 3 May 2006 at 23:04

hehe rob just nticed you live kinda close to me.

|Show| · 5 May 2006 at 15:57

Rob - legend! this plugin looks rather cool

what are the limitations though?

robmiller · 5 May 2006 at 16:29

suarve said:
hehe rob just nticed you live kinda close to me.

|Show| said:
what are the limitations though?

What do you mean :confused:

|Show| · 5 May 2006 at 16:59

well what i mean is obviously you can make all these edits to web sites, but also you wont have their source, so whats the limitations to the edits you can make...and what code can you write things in?

i was just wondering how else it could be used thats all.

robmiller · 5 May 2006 at 17:11

Well most of the things you can hack around. Take finding the thread's ID, for instance; it's not always in the URL, so I use this code:

Code:

ocuk.threadId = selectSingleNode(doc, doc, "//input[@type = 'hidden' and @name = 'searchthreadid']").value;

to get it out of the search form's hidden input. It's mainly stuff like that, hacking around the problems you find. Most of it's pretty straightforward though.

As for the language, all Firefox extensions are coded in Javascript and XUL. This is the biggest thing I've ever written in pure JS but I've been pretty comfortable with it for a while. It's just getting used to the things that are different between writing JS for content and JS for XUL and content.

robmiller · 6 May 2006 at 18:41

SpankLikeThis said:
ok cool will the final have the css in it too so i dont have to edit any files?

I've changed my mind: probably not. After coding it, it's too annoying to see the flash of default colours before the stylesheet is applied.

Flanders · 6 May 2006 at 18:49

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2108/

Stumbled across this today, saves manually editing files.

SwishSpencor · 8 May 2006 at 16:39

Flanders said:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2108/

Stumbled across this today, saves manually editing files.

cool using that now, i just need that extention to work or the css to change the images

Deathwish · 8 May 2006 at 17:42

Rob,

Installing your extension plays havok with the OcUK Forum menu I made (sig), possibly because its got the same tool name? "OcUK"

Just a heads up.

G-MAN2004 · 8 May 2006 at 17:49

Nice one! Will try it. So if you change it then you want the original back what do you do? (I'm a noob

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Flanders · 8 May 2006 at 19:26

Been playing a little with the Blue/Grey scheme Rob posted, and the only thing stopping me using it is this really annoying border. It seems that darker schemes "hide" the problem, but even knowing its there does my head in, so having it shoved in my face with a lighter scheme is painful

. I've tried a few work arounds, but nothing works, or it works but creates more problems. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

lozza · 15 May 2006 at 09:41

robmiller said:
Oh yah whoops

Dunno, my current code is so far removed from the one I uploaded up there that it could be anything. Uninstall for now and install the final one when it's released

Any up date on the buttons as the extension in the first post gives me a huge start bar as well

robmiller · 15 May 2006 at 14:04

Uploaded the latest version but I can't guarantee it'll work. Everything's ok for me, but just remember that it's alpha-quality

lozza · 19 May 2006 at 00:04

hmmm still gives me a massive task bar, shame really as the buttons would have looked so much cooler than the current blue ones lol

Sic · 9 Jun 2006 at 08:41

haven't had a chance to check it out, but i'll let you know how it goes later.

do you have a copy of the source for ocuk-but-better.xpi that i could peruse? quite interested to see how this is done

Augmented · 9 Jun 2006 at 10:31

Sic said:
do you have a copy of the source for ocuk-but-better.xpi that i could peruse? quite interested to see how this is done

Just open the xpi with some kind of archive manager like winzip, and it's all there for you

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Sic · 9 Jun 2006 at 10:53

Augmented said:
Just open the xpi with some kind of archive manager like winzip, and it's all there for you .

ah cool...is there a special way to zip it back up? (i might want to alter one of the stylesheets if i can figure out how to do it

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