Neowin Toolbar?

[samo123_uk]

What happened to the neowin toolbar I heard about a couple of weeks ago.

Is it being made?

how's the development going?

[Vader]

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.

[Osiris]

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.

[altezza Veteran]

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.

[Vader]

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.

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

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!

[Vader]

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

[Vader]

altezza: Can you remember what the toolbar was called? as if this thing exists then I can stop doing this one :D

Cheers.

[Vader]

Ok now I'm home heres the screen shot:

Cheers.

[john smith 1924 Veteran]

can someone either upload it - or make one and post it here please!

[Vader]

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.

[Tai]

hmmm that looks cool..... like to try it..... :D

[john smith 1924 Veteran]

trust me mate- they just dont want to appear to be positive!

Ill host it for you - [email protected]

mail me!

cheers- top job

[Vader]

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.

[Mark Otto]

ok i got it all installed, but how do i move the damn thing so that i can see more than "neowin.net"?

[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.

[BeeJay]

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. :)

[Mark Otto]

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

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

moved to programming, becuase a) the threads turning in that direction and b) it's not general stuff anyhow..

[Vader]

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

[Mark Otto]

hey man, im like this toolbar...u did a great job on this. thanks man :D

[BeeJay]

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.

[Vader]

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

[Mark Otto]

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

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

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...)

[BeeJay]

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.