Active Desktop Tutorial

Piett · 20 Nov 2002

hmm i'm not sure where the body command needs to be, or if i do need to move the onload around. matt (or anyone else that can give me a hand), if you have time could you take a look at it? i'm attaching it below, thanks in advance.

madmatt · 20 Nov 2002

skauch, those colors are hot. good job. keep it up.

Making web links open in Opera: links should open in the default browser. You're not using any special code to make a web link open, so they should open in the default web browser. I thought someone already figured out a solution to this; I'm not sure, I only use IE. Sorry guys. The only suggestion I have is setup a exec, VBS that opens Opera and makes it go the URL specified.

Piett, okay, simple fix.

Simply find "ONLOAD". The first one should bring up..

//Calls the init function onload if the browser is ok...
if (bw.bw) onload = newsMenuInit;

Add "//" to the if statement.. i.e.

//Calls the init function onload if the browser is ok...
//if (bw.bw) onload = newsMenuInit;

Copy the "newsMenuInit;" part..

Then go to your <BODY> tag.. looks like this right now..

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" onLoad="loadFile('c:\\windows\\quicknotes.txt');">

Change that to..

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" onLoad="loadFile('c:\\windows\\quicknotes.txt'); newsMenuInit;">

There you go. Yeah.

skauch · 20 Nov 2002

Thanks Matt, but only a little question.

Can i add a quicknote to a menu, like piett did, in dhtml?? If yes, i cant figure how and a little help would be great

madmatt · 20 Nov 2002

You just take the form and place it in the menu, where you want it.

skauch · 20 Nov 2002

But i don't know where to put it. Here is the code to create a menu on my desktop :

myCoolMenu.makeMenu(name, parent_name, text, link, target, width, height, regImage, overImage, regClass, overClass , align, rows, nolink, onclick, onmouseover, onmouseout)

there is a lot of other thinmg before but its for color and other thing like that.

madmatt · 20 Nov 2002

I assume where TEXT appears is where the link would go?

If so, try putting the <form... tag starting there, all on one line. i.e.

<form... ><textarea...> </textarea></form>

Never hurts to try.

skauch · 20 Nov 2002

Thanks Matt. it worked great, now i have a little reminder

Matt, could you send me your code to put messenger on the desktop please.

madmatt · 20 Nov 2002

heh. I will be adding that to the tutorial soon. How soon, that I do not know?

A wise man once said, always keep them wanting more.

skauch · 20 Nov 2002

Could you just email it to me

I really want to ad this to finish my desktop (until a new tutorial comes out). I did a lot of search on other forum to find the code to put MSN on the web.

Thanks

Piett · 20 Nov 2002

wow matt, thanks a lot. i had wondered if i could just comment out that first onload, but it looked rather important. it works fine now, it's pretty sweet. again, let me thank you for all of the help that you have been giving people, and for anyone that hasn't said it yet: Thank you.

Piett · 20 Nov 2002

hmm i'm still getting that IE window poping up for a second. if i change the javascript:window.close(); to javascript:void(0); the IE window just stays open with the "Cannot find server" message displayed. do you think that could be because i embeded the code inside of the menu code?

madmatt · 20 Nov 2002

try this Piett, not guaranteeing a fix..
change the href= to href="#"
I doubt that will work, but give it a go.
if that fails, try href="javascript:HALT"
hope one of those works, if not, I will have to code something up.

skauch · 21 Nov 2002

Can someone tell me what is the link to make a button in the quicklaunch bar that will minimize all the window??

And there is my desktop until Matt create another great tutorial

sKaUcH desktop

Jason Roberts · 21 Nov 2002

Hi everyone...

I've been off changing my desktop a little bit..

I have added my first dymanic menu for the websites links. Will soon add it to the other links to save space for other things you (madmatt) put in to your tut. Please give me that Messenger

I can wait.

Here's my latest desktop look:

madmatt · 21 Nov 2002

skauch, this took some research, but here it is.

Navigate to:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Look for the "Show Desktop" file.

If you do not have it, open Notepad and paste the following code:

Code:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3

[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Save the file as: showdtop.scf

Now you have the file. Simply create a shortcut to it, and set it up following the tutorial.

There you go, enjoy.

madmatt · 21 Nov 2002

Still lookin' good Jason. Keep it up.

NeX · 21 Nov 2002

hey how do you make transparent backgrounds for the dhtml menu?
like how purplesmurf did his ?

skauch · 21 Nov 2002

Thanks a lot Matt, this is working great

madmatt · 21 Nov 2002

Piett · 21 Nov 2002

that looks awesome Jason. could i make a suggestion though? get rid of the recycle bin overtop of your AD. it gives it an ugly thick blue line around it, which detracts from all the yummy buisness that you have going on above.

well matt, they didn't work. changing it to href="#" made it launch my desktop in IE, and changing it to "javascript:HALT" gave me the cannot find server message.

skauch: looking good too

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