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Hey Chris, this new version is buggy for me.

Whenever I hit the "N" keystroke for "next", it goes to the next one and auto-submits.

Good point. How about limiting it to one refresh attempt?

This script is awesome. I have a feature request: When the page contains the string "Your request was not completed successfully." the page should refresh and resend any post variables if they exist. I keep getting this error and it wastes allot of time.

Any chance this is going to be updated to support firefox 1.5/greasemonkey 0.6.x?

Greasemonkey 0.6.2 (firefox 1.5 only) is available on their blog: http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/

also, thanks much for the script, it makes work at least twice as fast (and thusly worth my time) :)

Also to prevent memory leaks, see EventCache
http://novemberborn.net/javascript/event-cache.js

Chris, would the memory leak situation improve if you call removeEventListener before you refresh?

(as explained in this thread on the greasemonkey mailing list: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-N... )

Somehow it was working yesterday when I first installed. Now it's not working. Maybe I should try to uninstall/reinstall greasemonkey and the script.

Do you plan on making a new version?

I think it'd be cool if you could make one where the pictures were small thumbnails, instead of being fullsize.

You know.. I'm thinking the hotkeys for moving through the images would be a lot easier to use if they were grouped together.

LIke.. [ for previous
] for next
Enter Submit

This way you can easily and comfortably put one hand on all three buttons as I find the current config a little uncomfortable to use for long periods efficiently with one hand.. and a pain to use with two!.. =-)

Thank you for making the extra frame an option..

Sorry.. I failed to mention my 2 NEC Multisyng LCD 1530V's are limited to 1024x768 i believe.. maybe i'll play around and see

CHRIS: If you want to preview a thumbnail of the a9 blockview image, perhaps this script will help: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1363

COLIN: I have the same video card (Matrox G450 dual head). Resolution can go up to 2048x1536 on the primary head and 1280x1024 on the second head. Unless you're running an LCD limited to 1024x768 you should be able to go higher. Try downloading the latest drivers from matrox.com.

First my disclaimer:
I have never read about programming. Never programmed and I know absolutely nothing about programming..

Having said that.. I was looking through the script and notice that all the functions have names in ().. except:

function() {
var f = form;
var b = buttonNodes.snapshotItem(0);
return function(event) {
b.checked = true;
f.submit();
};
}(),
false);

Now.. this may cause no problems. But it seemed a little funny to me.. kind of like saying there is a string but never defining the string. I don't know if this makes sense or not. But it's the only thing that might contribute to the problem that I (with untrained eye) can see..

One thing for sure though.. the version i got 2 days ago.. caused this problem to occur at a much lower rate. With 2 browser windows i was able to cause an issue in about 30 - 40 minutes. Now it takes about 10 minutes for the same problem to occur.

I don't know if this helps in any way or not. But hopefully.. !

And yeah..t hat was sort of my point. For $0.03 / hit it's not worth it. What's more is no where are they suggesting that you shoudl be doing research. They just say: Do you or do you not see the address or the business. On some of the other types of HITS that were available before they specifically mentioned research and you were paid accordingly.

Chris.. first off .. I'm sorry we're all so demanding.. but you've made a script that helps us all be quite a lot more efficient.

For that.. Thank you.

If we're ever allowed to do inter-account transfers i'll flip you some coin for your efforts cause you deserve it. (I live internationally so i cannot deposit money into a US bank account as that is not my country or i would just paypal you some or money order it)

ULYSSES: I run in 1024x768.. i have a dual head matrox 450 and it does not support a higher resolution. Unfortunately only a little over half of each image is missing but it looks like the new version is goign to have a fix for that.

LINKS TO A9&Google Maps&such..

I'm not sure you should spend too much time focusing on that. The task at hand is to look at the pictures they give you and to answer whether you can see the business or adress in question. The instructions are not to locate the image on a map and report it.. I fail to see why people are using the links anyways. This task is not about researching the area or finding the photo for the business at some other location. Maybe i'm missing the point. But my response to your 'laziness' as you put it.. is.. good for you. You deserve it.. Why implement a feature that is of trivial value!

Anyways.. thanx again and keep up the good work

Colin, what resolution are you at? At 1152x864, I can see 1 entire photo at full screen (F11).

Ulysses i understand about maximizing it and using the keyboard but i can only see appr. 55%-60% of the image I cannot page down to see more and i cannot use the scroll wheel to see more..

If i hit the next button it goes to the next image and again i can only see a little more than 1/2 the image. So this is very inefficient. I have been commenting it out since the first version that included it.

I am more concerned about the same problem you are though. Firefox memory being eaten up by the logging or a memory leak. Something along those lines..

Chris, great script. Thanks.

Can you make it stop writing to the JavaScript console? After a session of 50-100 HITs, the console is filled with pages upon pages of status information.

Also, can you make the (y) key open a popup with just the image from a9's blockview? Or better yet, put the a9 blockview image in an inline frame within the mturk site itself.

Everyone who wants a version without the scrolling window can just comment out that portion of the code.

I used to do this until I found it faster just to make the window full screen (F11) and use the keyboard to navigate the images (n)ext (p)revious (enter).

Myself and another user are having a memory leak type problem with this script. It generally takes a little while for mine to become a problem but it is a problem none the less. Unfortunately i do not know anything about programming or coding and have no clue where to even begin to fix this problem.

Wondering if you can look into it a little.

I can be found on Turk Nation (http://turkers.proboards80.com/index.cgi) if you want me to provide more information.

Also.. is it possible to offer the script without the mini scroll window or re-formatted to work in 1024x768 becuse my window is much smaller than the actual images when i use this script unmodified.

Thank you very much for providing us with this script!

S

This is a cool script but could someone creat a version without the reformatting? I would like to see a script where it just changes the ability to click on the picture instead of the little button.. and I would like to be able to use my mouse scroll wheel and pageup and down.

Thanks.

and for anyone interested here is a mTurk forum: http://youngturk.proboards76.com/index.cgi