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- Rexy - 01-25-2004
Hi.
I got a brilliant idea for a new plugin. This new plugin will be a web comic strip reader. It will fetch images through http and display the image as the button itself (so you can just put it in a menu).
The idea is that the plugin will read INI files that contain definitions for every comic you want. The syntax will be simple. It will only require a label/title for the comic and a string for the path to the image. The string can include tags like <yy>, <yyyy>, <dd>, and the likes to be replaced with by the relevant data according to time/date formatting.
Also, due to the irregularity of some online comic strips' image naming, another way to define the path would be to supply a web page address, one bounding string, a secoond, and a path. The html of the web address will be retrieved by the plugin and in the code the plugin will find the string that is between the two bounding strings. Within the supplied path it will replace some preset tag with the string to form the path to the image.
Allowing these two ways to define a comic one can define most if not all web comics.
What do you say?
- HorusUK - 01-25-2004
Sounds a lot like this post... :0
- Bob Freeman - 01-25-2004
Quote:This new plugin will be a web comic strip readerI am sure there are F-A-R more important and useful things to be done on True Launch Bar before implementing a Web comic strip reader.
- Rexy - 01-25-2004
Bob Freeman Wrote:Do you care to elaborate as to which features are more important?Quote:This new plugin will be a web comic strip readerI am sure there are F-A-R more important and useful things to be done on True Launch Bar before implementing a Web comic strip reader.
I'm sure there are some bug fixes to do and some features here and there. But this plugin is very simple and I think would really add to the functionality of TLB.
- Q Section - 01-26-2004
Perhaps it could be modified to fetch the news from news pages. This would be something different then a News Ticker which we mentioned and Yuri says is coming out soon.
- Bob Freeman - 01-26-2004
Quote:Do you care to elaborate as to which features are more important?More important than a 'comics reader' - ooohhh tough how about These
- BlueHeaven - 01-26-2004
Samurize can download just about anything and put it on your desktop. Best of all, it's free.
I made a script that displayed Dilbert on my desktop, although I don't currently use it.Rick.