samo123_uk Posted March 4, 2002 Share Posted March 4, 2002 What happened to the neowin toolbar I heard about a couple of weeks ago. Is it being made? how's the development going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Hi, I have created a basic toolbar for Neowin for a friend of mine however I am trying to find a way of passing a search string to vB and then initiating a search of all the forums. But so far I have been unlucky with this and may end up removing this feature. However if anyone would like to make suggestions of things to include i will look into them and will post a screen shot if required :D. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Osiris Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Hey I wouldnt mind seeing a screenshot of that, im sure the neowin staff already have something in the works this is the first ive heard of it but Id definitely use that toolbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 altezza Veteran Posted April 15, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 15, 2002 I know the Neowin toolbar was once created before. Someone made this before and I downloaded it before too. At first effort, the Neowin toolbar was pretty good enough. Well at least maybe later someone would put this up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 I'll post one when I finaly get home from work tonight, but the thing is basicly there just adding things and killing bugs at the mo. Being I will only release it the once :evil: are there any features anybody may want including? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 15, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 15, 2002 here's something I posted over here View New Posts: http://neowin.net/bboard/search.php?s=&action=getnew UserCP: http://neowin.net/bboard/usercp.php?s= Search: http://neowin.net/bboard/search.php?s= NewThread: java script:location.href="http://neowin.net/bboard/newthread.php?s=&action=newthread&forumid=" + document.URL.substr(53,2); Post A Reply: java script:location.href="http://neowin.net/bboard/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=" + document.URL.substr(52,7); just pop those in as links on the links toolbar in IE and you're all set. The search bar is the only thing that I've found impossible to implement... :D Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 timdorr: Thanks for that but it'sreally not what I was after :D as doing that was not what my friend wanted to do thats why I ended up being stuck with this :ponder: . But thanks any way Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 altezza: Can you remember what the toolbar was called? as if this thing exists then I can stop doing this one :D Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Ok now I'm home heres the screen shot: Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 john smith 1924 Veteran Posted April 15, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 15, 2002 can someone either upload it - or make one and post it here please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Hi Mr magoo Tring to do that at the moment :D But by the look of things nobody wants me to include anything except what I've already included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tai Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 hmmm that looks cool..... like to try it..... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 john smith 1924 Veteran Posted April 15, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 15, 2002 trust me mate- they just dont want to appear to be positive! Ill host it for you - tom@neowin.net mail me! cheers- top job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Ok somebodies asked for it so I've uploaded a try it and see version to some web space. So go and try it and let me know. As always this is beta software at the moment and is likly to have a bug or two in it so watch out for them ;) Oh and the look has changed a bit :) Setup link: neowin.exe Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Mark Otto Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 ok i got it all installed, but how do i move the damn thing so that i can see more than "neowin.net"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 To display the toolbar after it has been installed do the following: In View > Toolbars select "Neowin.Net". This will place a new toolbar into the Internet Explorer window called Neowin.Net If you are running IE6 or WindowsXP you must first unlock the toolbars. Then grap the Neowin caption and drag up or down to move to a different row. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 BeeJay Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 What? No link to the NeoWin.net home page? I wany my news. :) Sorry I didn't see this thread sooner. On the search... upon examining the message board search form, I see the form is being submitted using the POST method. The search query value is sent in a field named "query". You should be able to submit the query value using the POST method in your toolbar application. What language are you programming in? If I can find any examples of how to send a post command to a web page from an application I will let you know. If the search page accepted the GET method instead, this would be as appending a search value to https://www.neowin.net/bboard/search.php?query= BTW... if you do add this search feature. Could you add a drop down to allow us to select between directing the search between the Board and searching "all of NeoWin" (https://www.neowin.net/search.php). BTW... the field on that form is named "searchfor". It looks and works nice BTW. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Mark Otto Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Originally posted by Vader To display the toolbar after it has been installed do the following: In View > Toolbars select "Neowin.Net". This will place a new toolbar into the Internet Explorer window called Neowin.Net If you are running IE6 or WindowsXP you must first unlock the toolbars. Then grap the Neowin caption and drag up or down to move to a different row. Cheers. how can i unlock it? EDIT:>Got it ;) boy am i blind :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 15, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 15, 2002 moved to programming, becuase a) the threads turning in that direction and b) it's not general stuff anyhow.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 No probs I'll jam a link in for the news page :D . Doing the search bits shouldn't be to much of a problem when I find out how to submit the query to the website and the code to switch between has been setup since I started this thing :) Oh and the toolbar has been programed in Delphi6 Cheerio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Mark Otto Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 hey man, im like this toolbar...u did a great job on this. thanks man :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 BeeJay Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 One more idea... ok a couple of more. ;) Is there any way you could add an option for us to remove the text tables? You could use hint text pop-ups to tell us what each button is. Also, if there is any way to remove the Neowin.Net title, that would free up a little more room as well. (Although this is might be a bit of an overkill. ;) It would be really cool if there was a way we could customize which buttons to display on our bar. Just like the "customize" function built-in to IE's default tool bar. Just some friendly ideas. :D You've done some good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vader Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Anormal: To unlock the toolbars in IE6 or WindowsXP what you do is right click on any of the toolbars and choose the "Lock Toolbars" menu item. timdorr: Thanks for moving it (I didn't want the thread to go this way as I had another thead in programming about the search function of the site :)) Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Mark Otto Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 and hey my post a reply and new thread buttons dont work, so sup with it? or this just do to it being a beta? and i found the unlock toolbars thingy vader ;) cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 15, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 15, 2002 not to be competitive, but i'd like to develop such a toolbar (maybe not a neowin one, but a general vB one...) where'd you get the info on making them, becuase i've lost the links by now... perhaps you'd like to colaberate (but you may get frustrated with my programming speed becuase none of my languages beyond java or php are really up to snuff...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 BeeJay Posted April 16, 2002 Share Posted April 16, 2002 Originally posted by Vader timdorr: Thanks for moving it (I didn't want the thread to go this way as I had another thead in programming about the search function of the site :)) For those of you who are interested... here is a link to the Search code thread.I apologize Vader, I was unaware of the parallel thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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What happened to the neowin toolbar I heard about a couple of weeks ago.
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