Discussions on scripts by Neil Lall | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by lyxus

lyxus — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:11:26 +0000

Hi Neil,

Webct is relally a PITA....

Just have a quick question they change their go_to_file for something else

Here is an example
Solution-Laplace

For this file the adress is GEN9593zarema01/scripts/Solution-Laplace.pdf

Is there any way you can update it, i can do it by hand but sometimes i have more that 150 files....

you can contact me at franck110 at gmail dot com

Thanks!

Archived Comments, replied by Jon Wright

Jon Wright — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:53:36 +0000

Can't get this to work. I enclosed the block beginning "for (var i=0; i<candidates>

Archived Comments, replied by Albert Bachand

Albert Bachand — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:47:20 +0000

Thanks for the script! Now I despise WebCT a tiny bit less. Now, if only there was a way to bypass that totally useless "Dropbox" feature... Oh, and a way to download every submitted file of every student for a particular assignment, all in one step. Now, that would cool.

Sigh, WebCT is such crap.

Archived Comments, replied by Gaurav Manchanda

Gaurav Manchanda — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:14:51 +0000

My class sites have a few links that didn't convert right. A bug: somehow the following link did not convert into giving the option to download the file.

javascript:go_to_file('TiVo, Cable, Satellite? Choose That Smart TV Wisely ', '/mba840wi2006robinson/', '0', '3', '0','TiVo%20Cable%20or%20Satellite%20NY%20Times.doc')

The following link converted the script fine.
javascript:go_to_file('Minding the Store: Analyzing Customers, Best Buy Decides Not All Are Welcome ', '/mba840wi2006robinson/', '0', '3', '0','Minding%20the%20Store%20Best%20Buy%20Decides%20Not%20All%20are%20Welcome%20WSJ.doc')

Archived Comments, replied by Gaurav Manchanda

Gaurav Manchanda — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:38:47 +0000

Thanks for the script! Saved me from going back to IE. A tip: you could add the class.osu.edu web site to the default web sites for the script since this is a university wide problem; will make the script more useful for the tech challenged. :)

Archived Comments, replied by N. Seitler

N. Seitler — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:27:10 +0000

I'm not sure what the definition of a "key word" would be, but I'm noticing that the only words that seem to be made into links are either abbreviated words or their unabbreviated counterparts (NHC and National Hurricane Center are both links). Is this the intended use of this script, or should all it make all words with Wiki entries become links?

Archived Comments, replied by Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 05:34:01 +0000

Oops, it seems to have interpretted my last comment too literally. what i had was (ignore the ^) "let x=orig_style <^a sty^le="x;">Linkified text</^a>"

Archived Comments, replied by Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 05:31:10 +0000

Neil, is there no way for greasemonkey to "read" the style of the text before it linkfies it, and then set the style equal to that for that particular link? E.g., in pseudo-code: let x=orig_style;Linkified Text. This could then be modified by doing something like, maybe, style="x;color:red;" instead.

Archived Comments, replied by Neil Lall

Neil Lall — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:09:24 +0000

rob - i agree that this is a problem, but i'm not sure how to fix it. i can either give the text a set color value, or let it go with the page's designated value for links. i could alter the code to make these links pop up as gray text over white background regardless where they are - it would increase visibility but might look strange on certain sites. any thoughts?

Archived Comments, replied by Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:34:18 +0000

This is a really great idea. It works especially well on websites like BBC news, who are really poor at linking within their articles to external sources. One problem is that is seems to give the new link text a style based on the style of the anchor tag on the host website (e.g. blue text 10px). This doesn't look very good for words that appear in headings (e.g. look at some of the New Orleans stories on the BBC new site). Is there a way to make it keep the original text size and font, but maybe just change the color or add an onhover underline? I tried this but I'm afraid it was beyond my rather poor skills.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:38 +0000

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Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:20 +0000

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