Some Archive Tweaks


joyrider said:
the problem is that showpopup want's an url and not an <img> tag to be supplied.
for example showpopup(this,'http://archive.gp2x.de/cfiles/screenshots/screenshot-1.jpg');
so not showpopup(this,'<IMG SRC='http://archive.gp2x.de/cfiles/screenshots/screenshot-1.jpg'>'); like it's doing now
Aaaah, that's easy to fix, gonna do that tonight :)


Sphinxter said:
Excellent, good eye, that should be a very nice feature.
A copy of tidy wouldn't hurt ED.



Well, easy said, if it would be simple html, I'd tidy it up... but messing up a perl script which is 100kb without having much ideas about perl is not that easy :/
 
Last edited:
Okay, got it working now :D
I put it when hovering above the images, makes more sense than hovering links.

However, it kinda flickers (at least with Opera) when moving around.
Any fix for that? :)
 
EvilDragon said:
Okay, got it working now :D
I put it when hovering above the images, makes more sense than hovering links.

However, it kinda flickers (at least with Opera) when moving around.
Any fix for that? :)
ah yes, i see what you mean, well it only flickers because the mouse cursor goes over the div and the showpopup / hidepopup is being continually called. The only way to fix that is by making sure that the div is never over the smaller image (link). Try changing the following lines :

popup.style.left = curleft+15;
popup.style.top = curtop+20;

change the +15 and the +20. to for example +85 and + 35. (since your actual image with the link is 80 pixels wide this will show the "big picture" / div on the side of the smaller picture, and i use 85 pixels to have a gap of 5 pixels between the smaller and big picture. +35 is a guess the height is 60 but i'm trying to get the image to show under the actually name line. Could be you have to play a little with the values to get the effect of your liking. Just make sure the div with the greater image is never over the div with the smaller image.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Hi Dragon,

Looking good so far! again not sure about that wierd purple colour at the top of the lists for "most downloads "and "latest files" can you not change the colour to the same as the top bar. Otherwise fantastic!

I have an idea if I may.
If you go into gp2x applications for example, you have 3 tabs "audio...", "launchers", and "misc stuff" underneath your thanks to antiriad there are a selection of files. Would it be possible to limit the list to say 3 as that will level out to the bottom of the lists, and to put a next page button. Could those also be sorted by most downloads?

If not I'll bugger off and shoot myself, I can't bring myself to read perl, let alone a 100k file of the stuff.

Anyhew Good luck with it and pandora, both look good so far!
 
EvilDragon said:
joyrider said:
the problem is that showpopup want's an url and not an <img> tag to be supplied.
for example showpopup(this,'http://archive.gp2x.de/cfiles/screenshots/screenshot-1.jpg');
so not showpopup(this,'<IMG SRC='http://archive.gp2x.de/cfiles/screenshots/screenshot-1.jpg'>'); like it's doing now
Aaaah, that's easy to fix, gonna do that tonight :)


Sphinxter said:
Excellent, good eye, that should be a very nice feature.
A copy of tidy wouldn't hurt ED.



Well, easy said, if it would be simple html, I'd tidy it up... but messing up a perl script which is 100kb without having much ideas about perl is not that easy :/


I once wrote an entire fax server for AIX serial terminals in perl. b-) You run tidy on the output then find the offending print statement, definitely a job for the patient.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Ooookay, fixed the flickering and applied all those changes to the good ol' GP32 File Archive as well :D
 
EvilDragon said:
Ooookay, fixed the flickering and applied all those changes to the good ol' GP32 File Archive as well :D
You are a king :) Thank you!
 
Last edited by a moderator:
New changes are excellent ED! I wondered why the hell I was getting a big blue box popping up yesterday. It's great now, just what the doctor ordered.

Glad to see the ratings gone too. When I first got my GP2X (and before I got involved in the forums) I was trawling the archive and trying things out based on high ratings... I've seen the error of my ways thankfully.

One thing I'd love to see is a "reminder" system for giving feedback. I tend to do things in batches, ie I'll grab a heap of things from the archive at once, dump them all on the GP2X, test, and cull. Ideally I'd go back and leave feedback for each item at that point, or over the next few days. But unless I've bookmarked every page, I have to search them out again by name. What would be very handy is a list of my recent downloads, with links. This could turn up via email (daily/weekly, but only if I've downloaded something), or to a personal inbox on the archive:

YOUR RECENT DOWNLOADS:

Amiga OS Gmenu2x
Amiga OS skin for Gmenu2x - updated to reflect ... [view page]

AROS OS skin for Gmenu2x
Skin of the new Amiga 3.1 compatible operating ... [view page]

Atari ST TOS Gmenu2x skin
Skin of the old green screen Atari ST desktop ... [view page]

BeOS skin for Gmenu2X
Following hot on the heels of my FW 3.0 BeOS ... [view page]


I know the devs appreciate constructive feedback or just a quick thanks, and this could get more people doing it. Maybe it's too much work to implement though.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Gruso said:
Glad to see the ratings gone too. When I first got my GP2X (and before I got involved in the forums) I was trawling the archive and trying things out based on high ratings... I've seen the error of my ways thankfully.
Yep, you've been missing a lots of good stuff much of the older games have low ratings because a while back there used to be someone who regularly gave 1/10 to the top rated games to keep his stuff in there so a lot of games that are around 5/10 were really 7/10 or 8/10.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I've tried to change my avatar image and it's stuck at scaling upward. Anybody know how to make it leave the damn image alone? I upload a new one of any size and it just stretches it out and declares it 80x109, tragically broken. That image at left is supposed to be 64x64, least it was when I set it.
 
Back
Top