Web Browser - Favorites

[Para]

Hi All,

Ok im a real n00b at this and im still in the "getting to know the prgm" stage.

At the mo im just trying to create a simple we browers like the ones on the templates. Im using the template and just custominzing everything so i can see how it all works. During this process i wondered if i could create a "Favorites" button/drop down.

Im not to worried about adding sites to the favorites list, just having sites that i put in there is good enuff.

Is this possable ? If so can someone help me out on the details.

Thanks

[JimS]

If I understand what you are after, it’s real easy. Here’s a quick project to get you on your way.

(F Stand/I ? U wnt it s EZ Here s a qwk prjk 2 hlp)

[Para]

sweet ty ty

Thats good enuff ... would be better if there was a drop down box option but oh well

Thanx again

[TJ_Tigger]

If you know flash, you could make a drop down box using that and have it load a page in a web browser.

Or you could have several items appear On Click or On Mouse Over. Then when you click on them they load a web page.

Tigg

[JimS]

Here it is with a drop down list. It uses a little JavaScript, and two web browser objects.

[Para]

i dont know flash :(

Thanks again .... im messing about with it and trying to get my head round it lol ... ill get there one day.

That dropdown was just what i was thinking of ty

Once i get a half decent browser togetehr ill throw it up here for you guys to see

[Corey]

JimS that is a superb sample. We should start a read only forum where I can move samples like that until we can get a user exchange up. Very well done, that's exactly how I would have done that... As always I am impressed by your sample file...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[JimS]

Blush, blush, thanks. I figured that you would have done it in Flash. It probably would have taken you half the time, and one-third the code. I don’t know Flash, so I’m stuck using HTML and JavaScript. It’s probably not the most elegant way, but it works.

[Corey]

I like the simplest solutions usually. Lately I've been using more Javascript and less Flash just because of the whacky state of the Flash player right now. Every time they update their player like that there's a wierd adoption hump for a couple months. I wonder why they don't make the architecture itself extendable and then just add to the engine with each release rather than release an ostensibly new player each time. Macromonkeys.

Anyhow in short I'm into the K.I.S.S. method. Also I don't know if you realize this but Flash components cannot exceed the stage they are on unlike an HTML dropdown which can extend past its window to accomodate lists. So in Flash all your drop downs have to be short enough to stay within the flash object, not every useful, and certainly nowhere near as easy as your sample. The great thing about your sample is you can add or take away a few links in just a minute or so without messing up the entire page design.

All in all a much superior solution to Flash in many ways in this case... I'm definitely encouraging all readers to download your sample and check it out, that is the reccomended method for sure. Also with your method peopl can use the dropdown project wide, not just for web links. That exact same sample can easily be extended so that the item choices trigger any action(s) you like OR interact with any number of additional drop downs to create elaborate selection schemes. Therefore it is a very powerful method for creating easy to maintain complex navigation schemes, selection schemes, file management schemes, etc...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[JimS]

I didn’t realize that Flash had that limitation, I don’t know anything about Flash. I agree that the drop down lists can be useful for all types of things. I’m a bit embarrassed though, because I threw that example together pretty quickly. It’s easy enough to follow if a person has a bit of experience with HTML and JavaScript, but if they do, they probably don’t need my example. I should have taken a bit more time and added comments, and more appropriately named variables.

It’s funny, the project that I uploaded that I think was the neatest, was one that nobody ever commented on, and only a couple of people downloaded, that was my Presto-Change-O. Then again, it was sort of cool, but had no practical use that I can think of. At least someone might find this latest project somewhat useful, I hope so.

[Corey]

Join the club Jim. My HUGEST moment was when I discovered how to use a local connection in flash so that one could easily implement, seamless, high speed .exe to .exe, .swf to .exe and .exe to .swf communication into their projects, and even extend that into HTML to .exe or .exe to video, or whatever. All kinds of stuff can now be made such as remote control applications such as the ones you seeing floating control for huge apps like Roxio CD CReator and Camtasia Studio, etc, etc, etc...

No one really noticed or ever used it. Not even me truth be told actually. Har.

Anyhow I think my most popular one has been the thing where I noticed we could use named anchors to trigger actionjs with web links in our web browsers. In my mind that was nothing huge really.

So the moral of the story is that you just throw it all out there and as long as 50.1% of it sticks, you're OK, I've learned not to get too attached to the other 49.9%...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software