Desktop? - Page 2 - MMOBugs

**Sadge** · #11 July 26th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by thez

Boredom strikes again...

What are you using for your background/desktop? Who are you using, if the answer is relevant?

I've currently got Summer Glau up, with a script of countdown timers...

Here's the difference from being young and being old ...

Instead of a hot girl, I've got a picture of my daughter instead ....

**thez** · #12 July 26th, 2008

Well, until I switched it to Miss Glau, my wallpaper would swap between these pictures I took near my dorm in Santa Cruz...

**JimJohnson** · #13 July 26th, 2008

I like that second picture of the walking trail.

burntbulb · #14 July 26th, 2008

i also like that pic, reminds me of one of those inspirational posters.

CJxthree · #15 July 26th, 2008

I used a SUFI cursor too

**ThunderStruck** · #16 July 26th, 2008

the laptop:

and the desktop:

the second desktop is just the defualt desktop picture for windows.

OldOne · #17 July 27th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by thez

I use an HTML file for a background, rather than a simple JPEG. Inside of the HTML file, there's a part where it loads the image, and there's also a constantly looping Javascript that calculates the timers and prints them in the screen. I can post the file if anyone is interested.

Yup, interested, thanks

**kukmuk** · #18 July 27th, 2008

Mine is a photoshopped 4G eclipse (I drive a 2006 GT Special Edition).

kukmuk

**thez** · #19 July 27th, 2008

Alright, this is the HTML file that I use for the background...caution, I was teaching myself HTML and javascript on the fly as I wrote this, so it's kinda ugly.

Code:

<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body onLoad="countdownloop()" BACKGROUND="s-g2.jpg">
<form name="Movies">
<TABLE class="form" ALIGN=RIGHT BGCOLOR=darkcyan>
<TR><TD>Movies</TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</form>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<form name="Games">
<TABLE class="form" ALIGN=RIGHT BGCOLOR=darkcyan>
<TR><TD>Games</TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</form>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

<form name="TV">
<TABLE class="form" ALIGN=RIGHT BGCOLOR=darkcyan>
<TR><TD>TV</TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</form>

<script TYPE="text/javascript">
function countdownloop() {
    //format: var array = ["String", month, date, year]

    var IronMan = ["Iron Man",5,2,2008];
    var CB = ["Charlie Bartlett DVD",6,24,2008];
    var Wanted = ["Wanted",6,27,2008];
    var TDK = ["The Dark Knight",7,18,2008];
    var Pineapple = ["Pineapple Express",8,6,2008];
    var TropicThunder = ["Tropic Thunder",8,13,2008];
    var SarahMarshall = ["Forgetting Sarah Marshall",9,30,2008];
    var Watchmen = ["Watchmen",3,6,2009];
    var movies = [IronMan,CB,Wanted,TDK,Pineapple,TropicThunder,SarahMarshall,Watchmen];

    var Spore = ["Spore",9,4,2008];
    var SWFU = ["Force Unleashed",9,16,2008];
    var DS = ["Dead Space",10,20,2008];
    var Fable2 = ["Fable 2",10,31,2008];
    var GoW2 = ["Gears of War 2",11,7,2008];
    var PoP = ["Prince of Persia",12,1,2008];
    var games = [Spore,SWFU,DS,Fable2,GoW2,PoP];

    var Fringe = ["Fringe",9,9,2008];
    var Heroes = ["Heroes",9,22,2008];
    var Dexter = ["Dexter",9,28,2008];
    var Life = ["Life",9,29,2008];
    var BSGLost = ["BSG/Lost",1,15,2009]
    var tv = [Fringe,Heroes,Dexter,Life,BSGLost];

    var masterArray = [movies,games,tv];
    for(itor = 0; itor<masterArray.length; ++itor) doprintarray(itor,masterArray[itor]);
    setTimeout("countdownloop()",30000);
}

function doprintarray(formnum,inArray) {
    for(x = 0; x<inArray.length; ++x) {
        var checksign = "-";
        var y = countdown(inArray[x]);
        if(y[1] == 1) checksign = "+";
        //ele[x+1] to counter for title in table
        document.forms[formnum].elements[x].value = y[0]+": "+checksign+y[2]+"d "+y[3]+"h "+y[4]+"m";

    }

}

function getfontstr(inArray) {
    var fontcolor;
    if(inArray[1] == 0) fontcolor = "red";
    else if(inArray[2] == 0) fontcolor = "yellow";
    else fontcolor = "green";
    return fontcolor;
}
function countdown(inArray){
    var montharray=new Array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec");
    theyear=inArray[3];themonth=inArray[1];theday=inArray[2]; inStr = inArray[0];
    var today=new Date();
    var todayy=today.getYear();
    if (todayy < 1000) todayy+=1900;
    var cdsign= 0;
    var todaym=today.getMonth();
    var todayd=today.getDate();
    var todayh=today.getHours();
    var todaymin=today.getMinutes();
    var todaysec=today.getSeconds();
    var todaystring=montharray[todaym]+" "+todayd+", "+todayy+" "+todayh+":"+todaymin+":"+todaysec;
    futurestring=montharray[themonth-1]+" "+theday+", "+theyear;
    dd=Date.parse(futurestring)-Date.parse(todaystring);
    dday=Math.floor(dd/(60*60*1000*24)*1);
    dhour=Math.floor((dd%(60*60*1000*24))/(60*60*1000)*1);
    dmin=Math.floor(((dd%(60*60*1000*24))%(60*60*1000))/(60*1000)*1);
    if(dday < 0 || dhour <0 || dmin < 0) {
        cdsign= 1;
        dday = Math.abs(dday);
        dhour = Math.abs(dhour);
        dmin = Math.abs(dmin);
    }
    var retArray = [inStr,cdsign,dday,dhour,dmin];
    return retArray;
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

Things to modify to make this to your own desires:

Line 3:

Code:

<body onLoad="countdownloop()" BACKGROUND="s-g2.jpg">

The picture must be in the same directory as the HTML file for it to load. You can always use the "..\wherever" way of telling the document where the picture is...I chose to do things simply and just create a directory called "Background" in the root C:\.

Line 43: countdownloop()
This is where all of the data is stored. The format for the variables is this:

var SomeName = ["String", month, date, year]

To place a particular timer in a section, you must do the following:

1) Add it to the array for that section, ie, when I created the array for the Spore video game, I had to add Spore to the games array:

var games = [Spore,SWFU,DS,Fable2,GoW2,PoP];

The timers will be shown in the order that they appear in the array.

2) Each section has a table up above specifically for it. For every timer that you have in a section, you must have one of the following lines in that table, or else you will get an error about form elements being null.

Code:

<TR><TD><input type="text" size="40"></TD></TR>

3) As a final step, you'll need to add 1-2 <br>'s per line to separate the tables so that they don't overlap!

It actually is really easy, once you get everything set up, lol. I'm sure that I could make it work better, but having made my foray into visual/UI type crap, I once again realize why I prefer programming stuff that I can't see...much easier to think about.

**PRWraith** · #20 July 27th, 2008

well i'm 18 so lets be honest there's only one possible background..the self made kind. mods feel free to edit this I don't know how to post mini-images like the previous ones.

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