h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How do you do the nifty thing with the changey colorey links on your page? I really want to know. Tell me how, Pretty pretty please with little crunchy fluffy thingies on top. (insert puppydog eyes here)

Only if you Mosh

Nah, it's ok, just put this HTML in your page:





<!--
function initArray() {
for (var i = 0; i < initArray.arguments.length; i++) {
this[i] = initArray.arguments[i];
}
this.length = initArray.arguments.length;
}

// you may fill this colors array with your colors.
// the script will rotate the links through these colors
var colors = new initArray(
"#ffffff",
"#ffffef",
"#ffffdf",
"#ffffcf",
"#ffffbf",
"#ffffaf",
"#ffff9f",
"#ffff8f",
"#ffff7f",
"#ffef7f",
"#ffdf7f",
"#ffcf7f",
"#ffbf7f",
"#ffaf7f",
"#ff9f7f",
"#ff8f7f",
"#ff7f7f",
"#ff7f8f",
"#ff7f9f",
"#ff7faf",
"#ff7fbf",
"#ff7fcf",
"#ff7fdf",
"#ff7fef",
"#ff7fff",
"#ff8fff",
"#ff9fff",
"#ffafff",
"#ffbfff",
"#ffcfff",
"#ffdfff",
"#ffefff");

pause_time = .3; // in seconds

link = 0; // starting color index (in colors array) for unvisited links
vlink = 4; // starting color index (in colors array) for visited links

function linkDance() {
link = (link+1)%colors.length;
vlink = (vlink+1)%colors.length;
//alert("link "+link+"\r\nvlink "+vlink+"\r\nvlinkColor "+document.vlinkColor);
document.linkColor = colors[link];
document.vlinkColor = colors[vlink];
setTimeout("linkDance();",pause_time*1000);
}
linkDance();
// -->




Seeing as it's HTML, if you've got GuideML on your homepage then you'll have to change the type to HTML, then change it back. Now, I think I'll just go and add it to my own homepage

That's so cool...I wonder if it's worth actually learning java, or if I should just keep stealing other peoples'?

Learn Java? Can you do that?

Does anyone know how to get little scrolling messages in the bar at the bottom of your browser? I asked the guy at a Slayer website who's got it, but his help wasn't very helpful

Thanks anyway, but it took you so long to get back to me that I found it elsewhere. Actually, I got a version that works in Guide ML from BigC, the man with a space station. (at least I think he's a man. could be something else) Anyhoo... If you want to look at his version of it, the forum subject is How do you..., and I think it's still on the active list on my page.
Bye now

Mike-
If I'm really curious, I look at the source and try to figure it out. That's what I did for that other java, before I found this page. I haven't used it yet though.

Hey Buff, is it just me or do your colours change quicker than mine? Maybe it's the amount of stuff I've got on my page...I really should give it a trim.

What's this source stuff, PG?

Not a clue. I'm just barely beginning to learn about this kind of thing. There is a line in the script that seems to specify the pause between color changes on mine though. I've been meaning to change it and see if I'm right.

On your toolbar you have VIEW, so click on this and then on SOURCE. Just nick anything by highlighting, then EDIT - COPY. PASTE it into your own page.

To give you a more technical explanation, source is the raw HTML(including java) of a page. It's just another way of asaying it. My only inspiration so far is to write some anti-popup add java for my old page, but I've killed it since then.

Hey, that's cool. Thanks you three

How is everyone finding this thread so suddenly?

So, I'm going to grab some Java, if I can find the site now!
I noticed on a Slipknot website, I tried to steal a picture. I right-clicked on it and a window popped up saying "So...what you trying to take?" Clever devils

Oh cool...I see a future. It'd probably be easy to hack though. Not that I CAN hack, but it's an idea.
As for how I found the forum, I finally became the official Slushee person of the Rambling Misfits and was poking around the page(s).

I haven't done that in ages. Congrats on joining the team

I really need to poke around more. I poke around a fair deal, but I reckon I could well do it more often. You find some well groovy things...

Thanks. What flavour slushies do you like?

There is a LOT of h2g2 out there. Poking around is good. That's why I actually use the search function, which is pretty damned random. But reguardless, I always run into the same people, mostly from the ML. We seem to be into everything. I was poking through my old forum entries and it struck me that there are an awful lot of them. And I've only been on H2G2 regualrly for a couple of months.

Hey! I tried changing the thingie that I thought might control amount of time the links stay one color, and it worked. Now to find out what colors = what color codes, and where I can learn the codes.

The strange thing is that the people I'm talking to in many different forums now, they're very different to the people I was talking to in many different forums a few months back. It seems strange.
And I seem to go through 'generations' of forums. There's a batch of 30 that I post in, and in a month or so's time the 30 forums will be totally different.
It seems that if I post in a new forum, an older one has to die

Hey, Buff, you worked out how to speed up the colour changes? How do?

Buff-
The codes are called hex codes. I have a really good site of them, but since I'm not at home I don't have it here. Just search for hex codes, you'll find a LOT.

Mike-
I don't really find that they ahve to die...usually they do that on their own for me. I rarely abandon forums unless they're really boring or the kind that are more of a list than a discussion.
One way to speed up color changes would also be to just have less colors. There's a lot of them in that little bit of java, many of which could in theory be taken out.

Guess it's the way I perceive the life and times of a forum. A lot of mine seem to die for no reason whatsoever. I'm sure there's one person who's deliberatly left some of my forums dangling.

That java thing, I dare not fiddle with it, I ain't knowledgable with these things! *^_^*

To speed up (or slow down) the color changes, just find this line

pause_time = .3; // in seconds

in the javascrpt, and change the number. Mine is at .5 instead of .3. I just copied n' pasted the line above from your post earlier in this forum.
Yes, I definitly have experianced forum drift. I don't think that it's that they die, just that people wander away. Someday they will get ressurected. I responded to a forum that was something like 47 weeks old, and it revived breifly.

You don't by any chance know where I could start looking just off the top of your head? Don't go to any trouble. I'm pretty good at finding info, but I always try the easy way first. (which in this case would to be ask you)
Bye now