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Cross Sticker

By diego.devita — Last update Jul 31, 2008 — Installed 107 times.

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Nov 17, 2004 1:05am Jesse Andrews Admin	The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)

Jul 31, 2008 8:55am diego.devita Script's Author	I added another script instead of updating this with new features. I decided to start a new branch due to added complexity. the other one, custom sticker, allows you to decide what and when to stick notes. You have to press a key while clicking the mouse so you don't get annoyed with red cross along the page while clicking for other reasons, plus the char displayed is the pressed key.

Jul 31, 2008 8:01am diego.devita Script's Author	ok, I'm following your suggestion actually the name of the script is cross-sticker so the sticky shouldn't be custom at all! anyway I'm going to add the possibility to choose the wanted character to stick pressing it on the keyboard while clicking with the mouse. thanks

Jul 30, 2008 7:57pm JoeSimmons Scriptwright	because innerHTML is a slow access way

Jul 30, 2008 3:41pm diego.devita Script's Author	just to say, now I applied my intended fix I failed this morning. It works nice even where it didn't before. I use the style attribute instead of accessing the top and left properties using dom. for the next versions I'm going to: - add a special key to actually stick the cross - eventually clear the notes - maybe save the annotations in some way - shift the coordinates in a way the mouse cursor stays on the middle - use the greasemonkey custom field to edit easily some vars like the sticky content

Jul 30, 2008 3:14pm diego.devita Script's Author	yes you're right...I forgot something and the code was not correct. I did a correction this morning because I noticed it didn't work in some situations. the correction didn't work and I was busy to fix it again. For now I'm going to restore the first version. anyway, I decided to use the innerHtml because it was easier to modify the div content for the user. I wanted the div to be a general container for a customized sticky. And so I put my default content on top in a var used to fill the innerHtml. It did work in most of the cases, but I couldn't understand why in some special circumstances the div didn't get positioned at the right coordinates. why do you think I shouldn't use the innerHtml?

Jul 30, 2008 8:01am JoeSimmons Scriptwright	Cool but you really shouldn't use innerHTML. You should do it like this... (also you forgot a ); after the second setAttribute command) `function newSticky(x,y) { var name = 'sticky'+getRnd(); var newdiv = document.createElement('div'); var span = document.createElement('span'); newdiv.setAttribute('id', name); newdiv.setAttribute('style', 'position: absolute; left: ' + x + 'pt; top: ' + y + 'pt;'); newdiv.setAttribute('style', 'color:red; font-weight:bold;'); newdiv.appendChild(document.createTextNode('X')); span.appendChild(newdiv); document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(span); }`

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