[VS] Active HTML desktop

By madcat75
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zerbe

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blackmartinix, I have the same problem, I first tried making a webpage as my desktop a few weeks ago when I found a tutorial about doing so. I set my html page and it just goes blank. I hit F5 on the desktop and stuff flashes in the background, but nothing happens more than that. Like its trying to refresh, but something is in front of it almost. Very odd problem. It might have something to do with my GPO here at work and I have yet to try it at home.

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zerbe

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I figured out what it was. Its because I have all my icons on my desktop turned off including the recycle bin via TweakUI. I had a friend at work try and he uses windows classic look with all the icons on he desktop, etc. and his worked. So I tried turning on an icon thats what it was.

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lordtinuviel

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need help

i change few things not much as you can see, but i want to lower the position of the weather, cant find how to do it.......besides that i want add some internet shortcuts and yes i manage to do that but i get an annoying script error but the link opens, any ideas?

thanks

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J the Monkey

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WEll I'm glad some people like it.... just because mine is "similar" to some of the other active HTML desktops out there doesnt mean I ripped it off!!!! :angry:

I don't care where it came from, this is my first time seeing it, and I think it's great! Thank You for sharing this, it has truly changed the way my desktop will look for a good while. There are so many ways to customize this to my liking! Again, Thank You! :D

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eatinwokout

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you have to unzip the package and save it somewhere you can remember. then open the html file with notepad and edit the attributes to match your system. save the file. then right click and go to properties. go to desktop. then click browse. find the html file that you just edited. then apply.

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kombolcha

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mmm just a question... how do I use this ????

if you have to ask that.. don't bother trying :p

extract the contents to anywhere you want. ie. C drive

right click --> properties --> desktop tab --> browse --> locate "desktop.html" (the folder you extraced to) --> OK/select --> Apply

about editing it to your likings.. its just like doing HTML.. open the desktop.html in notepad and edit.. its really easy.

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:No-Frost:

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you have to unzip the package and save it somewhere you can remember. then open the html file with notepad and edit the attributes to match your system. save the file. then right click and go to properties. go to desktop. then click browse. find the html file that you just edited. then apply.

Oh thanks... ^^

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madcat75

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Ok everyone here's the addon I have come up with (my own version anyways):

Its a thing called "quicknotes" it allows you to make notes to yourself and save em and reload the next time you load windows etc.

So anyways here's what you do:

1: create a new text file in the main c:\ directory called "quicknotes.txt"

2: open up desktop.html and add the following:

right below:

<!-- Applications Javascript -->

add this:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	function loadFile(path)
  {
   	 var content = "";
  myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
   	 file = myActiveXObject.OpenTextFile(path, 1);
  if(!file.AtEndOfStream)content = file.ReadAll();
   	 file.Close();
   	 return content;
                }

	function setFile(path, content)
  {
   	 myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
   	 file = myActiveXObject.CreateTextFile(path, true);
   	 file.Write(content);
   	 file.Close();
  }	
	</script>

and then scroll down to:

<!-- Console option -->

and add below that code, where the </div> is:

&lt;div id="notes"&gt;
	&lt;span class="title"&gt;n o t e s : : . .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;
&lt;form name="notes"&gt;
&lt;textarea name="qnotes" cols="29" rows="7" wrap="PHYSICAL"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
&lt;script&gt;document.notes.qnotes.value=loadFile('c:\\quicknotes.txt');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;center&gt;&lt;button name="save" onClick="setFile('c:\\quicknotes.txt',qnotes.value);"&gt;Save&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/center&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

Next, open up activedesktop.css and add at the bottom this:

#notes {
	position:absolute;
	left:400px;
	top:450px;
}

Screenshot of what it looks like in action:

http://members.cox.net/compwizard/Desktop2.jpg

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