I think I got lost in the isles of your grocery analogy, but Script
Central does provide various means to organize scripts in ways that make
navigating content easier for different tastes, including category and
name sorting, category filtering, language filtering, searching, and
setting the display limit (that's the number of scripts shown at any
given time).
We also provide RSS feeds of the top 10 rated scripts, the last 10 added
scripts, the last 15 updated scripts, and the top 10 commented scripts.
In addition to all of that, you can add scripts to your favorites lists,
and be notified automatically when they're updated. Script authors also
have the option of tweeting their script updates.
Aaron
On 10/9/2010 5:35 PM, David wrote:
Just in line with that one last comment, Chip, I sometimes wonder if
SC should have been a bit more organized. Imagine, going to the
grocery store, and on the same shelf, you will find bred, milk,
cheese, pop, toilet paper, and tothpaste. True, some stores seem to
throw almost whatever, whereever. And, yes, truely convenient, if you
want it all. but, the day your wife asked you to RUN down to the
store, and get her some baking soda for that cake she's already
started out on, - and would you please be quick? :) You'd prefer the
more organized store, wouldn't you?
In the 'childhood days' of Script Central, when there was 20 scripts
or so, throwing it all on one tray, might be nice enough. Now, on the
other hand, we are closing in on 200. Finding a script, might
sometimes be quite challenging. Specially so, when some people seem to
have a bit of fun in making 'funny' names for there script. OK, so far
we haven't seen too much of that stuff, but believe me, - just have a
look at the general software world, and see all the strange names of
the software offered. (Smile!)
Would have been interesting to get things a bit more sorted. That way,
if I was really looking for some kind of 'toys and games', I would
have skipped right over to that section. Here would be the
States-game, Lunar-Landing, and so forth.
Was it, that I was looking for gadgets, I would go there, and find
things that would include scripts like Hourly-Chime, Time-And-Date, or
the like.
Would I happen to need more of increased functionality, maybe there
would be shelfs holding things like the SecondGlass script.
And, would I be in the desperate need for a certain application, or
suite of software, to be more accessible - Well, I would jump right to
the shelf of application related scripts. Here, I would find the
Office scripts, the WinAmp script, well you name it.
Finally - or, should we rather say FOREMOST - there would be the
BASICS shelf. What would you find here? Things like GWToolkit, Homer
Shared, and so forth. Things that other scripts might base themselves
on, and which need to be installed first of all. OK, might as well
throw in the InstallPackages script, on this very BASICS shelf.
What then about all the rest of the scripts? The ones that does not
fit in on any of the above shelfs? You ever seen - in the store - they
have this little 'island' in the middle of the store? Go have a look
up in the baskets there, and it would look more like an Asian market.
All sorts of things have been thrown in there, for a pretty good price
too! There would always be room for such an 'island' on the SC as well.
Yes, indeed, we do have the chance to scroll through all the scripts.
Using the InstallPackages, you even will see the release notes, on
each script. But if I am after a script that will enhance my operation
of Windows Live, I will have to scroll through something like 150
scripts, before I ever hit what I am looking for. Easy enough, long as
I know there is a script for the software, that has the name of - or
close thereto - the software I have in question. Then, I could always
press W, and pretty soon find that Windows-Live-Script. But in the
case, I do not know, what exactly I am looking for, or what kind of
'funny' naming the author has decided to throw on me...
Then there is the times, when I want to check for new things that has
come around. Yet, I don't care about new games, since that is not my
flavor of using the computer. If the SC had been a bit sorted, I could
quickly have skipped the whole 'toys and games' department. If I only
wanted to keep up-to-date on the application side, then I would fix my
attention on that shelf; leaving the rest of the bulk on its own.
OK, this all would mean some kind of reorganizing of the SC. Yet,
another way to work around this, would be if there was a single
instruction added to the GWToolkit. It would be something like
MyScriptGenre. It would be a numeric value, that would be set to one
number, indicating on which line this script would be. I.e:
0 = Basics
1 = Application related
2 = Increased functionality
3 = Gadgets & tools
4 = Toys and Games
9 = Everything else
Things like the InstallPackages script, would then simply read this
line of each script, and would sort out the products you were looking
for.
Just some ideas, likely to be modified, yet would be of great help, as
we see SC grow into the skies. :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 10:20 PM
Subject: RE: a little contest: who's got the biggest script?
thanks for the extra info.
I was just curious as to overall, what people were using scripting for:
extra functionality, accessibility, or writing convenience utilities and
games (the weather script, the states game, etc.).
When I first heard of windowEyes adding scripting, I thought it would
all be
for accessibility only.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Wright [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 3:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: a little contest: who's got the biggest script?
It's enough extra functionality that it seems as much a Winamp plugin
as a
Wineyes one. *grin* I love Jeff's script, but Winamp was fairly
accessible
from day one.
On 10/09/2010 01:26 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
I'm curious Jeff: is this because you add that much extra
functionality for convenience, or is it because it needed that much
work
to be accessible?
In my Word script, it's pretty much all for accessibility.
thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bishop [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: a little contest: who's got the biggest script?
Winamp is almost 9000 lines, actually its over that if you include the
global script that ships with it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allison
and Chip Orange
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 5:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: a little contest: who's got the biggest script?
I'm curious: what's the biggest script out there?
Of course this isn't a fair contest or comparison; now we've got that
behind
us: my Word script is 4000 lines; how about it Jamal, what's the web
client script altogether? What else should be considered?
Chip
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