RE: [DQSD-Users] Here goes, give it a try

[Daniel Martin]

My apologies.  I updated the zip and forgot that Win2k resets the permissions.  http://danknows.com/snippets.zip should be fine now.

 

Thanks,

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn Carr
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 8:35 AM
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Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Here goes, give it a try

Dan,

 

The site wouldn't let me pull snippets.zip.  I was prompted for a username/password:

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel
> Martin
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 2:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [DQSD-Users] Here goes, give it a try
>
>
> Okay, here goes.  This is VERY alpha.  It won't mess your DQSD,
> but there is
> one obvious bug that I can't figure out, and about 10 things I want to do
> before this is even close to going public.  However, I'd like to
> share what
> I'm working on so that I can get feedback, and most of all HELP.
>
> For those of you who don't mind alpha testing, this modification
> requires IE
> 5.5 or higher:
>
> http://danknows.com/snippets.zip
>
> Download and extract that into C:\Program Files\Quick Search Deskbar.  It
> should work fine without reboot, but does require a ! reload of
> dqsd.  There
> is only one file that will be overwritten, helpmenu.js.
>
> Once you've got it, the main part of the addition is found in the popup
> menu.  Find the "New Snippet" in the menu.  Now, you may ask "What is a
> Snippet".  To test it out, go to any web page, select (highlight) part of
> that web page and hit CTRL-C, and then open a new Snippet and hit CTRL-V.
> Trust me, you'll get the idea pretty quickly - the RTE is a neat bit of
> javascript.  Edit your snippet however you want, and save it.  Now you
> should see it in the menu.
>
> Things that I plan to do/fix:
> -Yes, I know when you return from editing an existing Snippet it spawns an
> error.  I just haven't figured out how to fix it.  One of you may know
> better than I do.
> -I plan to NOT show the .html extension in the menu.
> -The snippets folder should be made a preference.
> -The xml file could use alot of work.
> -showModalDialog is probably a poor choice to spawn the window - it locks
> the window up front.
>
> If you have answers to any of these PLEASE share - I'm banging my head on
> some of them.
>
> I should add that 99% of this mod is not my own - I make direct calls to a
> javascript RTE found at  http://richtext.sourceforge.net which is released
> under LGPL.  I'm not a licensing guru - I don't know what, if any impact
> this has on dqsd.  Since I haven't altered the RTE in any way, I
> think there
> is none.
>
> This will be my first open source contribution.  I hope you guys like it,
> but I will understand if you don't.  I've written it knowing full well you
> might consider this outside the dqsd scope - and that's fine -
> I'll leave it
> up to you whether you want to actually add it in.  I work in Research &
> Development.  For me, finding research is only half the battle.  Recording
> it is very important.  This modification will greatly help me do my job.
> But, I am a bit nervous that you guys will say "boy, this is stupid".  So,
> if you don't like it - be gentle.  :)
>
>
>
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