"Bet you never did the Kenosha, kid!"

mks @ 25k posts

KenoshaKid — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:48:29 GMT

hohoo - looks like [mks] will see its 25.000th post this or next week. [1]

What a tremendous number of marvelous pictures, ideas and conversations.

Congrats to ya'll

-- KenoshaKid

'redirect' switch

KenoshaKid — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:32:53 GMT

Say, after creating a new story you want to redirect the user to the frontpage instead of presenting the rendered story. Because of editor actions are redirects built-in to the app source we need a snip of javascript to make it work the way we want.

We can use the <% response.message %> macro - it usualy displays status messages above the main content area, depending on the action and the success state of the action. That messages are strings, defined in the 'messages.properties' file of the blog-default language. [1]

E.g. successfully creating a new story sets the response.message to the value of 'confirm.storyCreate'.

This is just what we need to create our own redirect-hook. Whenever a new page is loaded, we check for the value of response.message and let our own action roll.

Example code works like so:

<html> 

<head>  

<script type="text/javascript">   

var msg = "<% response.message %>";   

function check_message() { if (msg == 'The story was created successfully.' || msg == 'Die Story wurde erfolgreich angelegt!') {window.location.href='<% site.url %>'}   

}  

</script> 

</head> 

<body onload="check_message();">  

... 

</body>

</html>

kristof — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:33:17 GMT

Ich lass mich überraschen.

dm42 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:51:39 GMT

im endeffekt wirds nur ein JSON dataset geben, das dann mit scripts frei formatierbar ist

kristof — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:15:55 GMT

Ach, jetzt auch als "today". Wieviele Clouds wird's denn geben?
(Ah, "Yesterday"!)

antville.TagCloud

KenoshaKid — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:18:36 GMT

hey, i wanted to do that since a very long time, but never came around to it.

The antville.TagCloud is currently in beta and while i am testing a few more, tricky features, here is some documentation on the widget.

- - - - - >< - - - - -

The base data is the feeds and change-date information provided by antville.org - so, in a way we are taking the blogs subdomain names for tags themselves. The result is a visualisation of how often a blog is changed over time. The data is aggregated and a Javascript file is written every 10 minutes. That file can be included/called from your skin using a script tag, a user defined stylesheet can be applied to the data, like so....



<style>

#antville_tagcloud {font-family: sans-serif; width: 170px; border: 1px dotted #ccc; padding: 9px; line-height: 9pt; text-align: justify;}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript"   

src="http://d2m.at/~d2m/antville_tagcloud.js"></script>

- - - - - >< - - - - -

That's all for now, a demo is available at the smileys blog - comments are welcome.

-- enjoy

Link to a single day

KenoshaKid — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:30:24 GMT

Layout / Site Layout / Main page of a single day
... Whenever a user selects a single day via the calendar, this skin will be used to display the list of stories of this day.

problem: say you removed the calendar widget from the skin, but you need to create a link to the most recent "Page of a single day" (to get an offset for the built-in day-navigation: "older / newer stories")

solution: in your skin compose the link like this ...

<a href="<% site.url %>/<% site.lastupdate format="yyyyMMdd" %>/">Latest Stories</a>

... that should create a link like this one -- Latest Stories

--
Antville Macros » site.lastupdate

ToDo List - plugin

KenoshaKid — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:07:26 GMT

I've created a small 'ToDo List' app/plugin for antville skins. The items are formatted like:

state	open/closed (the state is color coded)
list	name of the ToDo list
item	text of the list item

The app uses 'jQuery' javascript-library and requires a change to the skin 'Story editor form'.

Showcase is at [smileys] / Some screenshots attached...

Story display: ToDo Items are displayed along with 'normal' stories

Create a story / ToDo Item: combined form at creation time

Edit ToDo Item: reduced form for item editing only

als der anruf

dm42 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:01:53 GMT

hereinkam waren wir gerade mitten im aufbruch.
ich versuche chen die sache auszureden, aber er laesst sich so nicht ueberzeugen - die situation ist nicht einfach. das telefonat endet abrupt.
der mietwagen war bereits vor der tuer. wir fuhren los, zurueck in die stadt.

btw.

KenoshaKid — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:02:03 GMT

just released #:-o smileys into the wild again - check it out while it is fresh...

some more kickin' after 3 years

KenoshaKid — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:56:33 GMT

love the layout, that's why.

good day to ya'll

Während der ganzen

KenoshaKid — Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:47:06 GMT

Fahrt: 'Slow Indian'. Daan at his best. Dazu Heidis Haare im Wind. Lufttemperatur jetzt: 29°C.

dm42 — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:00:37 GMT

my workaround is to use only the first part of the nickname

like: .modzittas will certainly catch 'zittas kind', as the macro renders this
<div class="modzittas kind">...
(using more than one class name inside a css-class assigment is valid)

dieguteseite — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:50:43 GMT

wow! thank you for the updates.
do you also have a workaround for nicknames containing spaces?

dm42 — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:30:19 GMT

observation 2:
i decided to disable the display of <form ...>s for moded users altogether.

Story editor form / Comments editor
<form method="post" action="<% response.action %>">
gets replaced by
<form class="mod<% username %>" method="post" action="<% response.action %>">

You might have to adjust that to your own customizations.

dm42 — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:22:35 GMT

observation 1:
CSS class names are case-sensitive, so
.modescguest, ... {display: none} does not 'work'
but
.modESCguest, ... {display: none} will do.

der nachmittag verging.

KenoshaKid — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:01:28 GMT

der abend beginnt mit dem froehlichen geplapper der asiaten am nachbartisch.

dm42 — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:23:02 GMT

one of the main problems: there is no way to distinguish between stories and comments, there is no macro to retrieve a list of eg. 'last 10 stories'. recentlymodified is nice, but - by mixing comments and stories - useless in that context.
another problem: retrieve a list of stories in a given time-frame (something any weblog product does through the 'archive' function)
to sum it up: antville is a great community-software - then in 2001, not much has changed since...

There are some benefits to a calendar navigation aid

JohnWalsh — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:25:36 GMT

If you read a blog once every few months then you may want to start reading the blog from the last time you read the blog. Another benefit is stories posted by date help one determine how current the information is via a search engine like google, although this isn't navigation in the true sense. Calendar navigation is ideally suited for events, but blogs are normally not event-driven. Basically, I think its horses for courses. I don't think a calendar navigation-aid should be on every page but there should be an option off archives to aid the first need I mentioned.

New skinning - test-it !

dm42 — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:44:15 GMT

I made available the "mms"-layout for your testing

get it here: mms.antville.org

dm42 — Fri, 07 May 2004 11:30:32 GMT

it is, because the text is not removed from the html-source, but parts of it are not rendered by the browser (display: none)

copy/paste functionality transforms the html-source into a textformat regardless of stylesheet settings...

kohlehydrat — Fri, 07 May 2004 11:34:37 GMT

true. i'd never considered that one is actually marking html, not just visible text bits.

kohlehydrat — Fri, 07 May 2004 11:17:59 GMT

funny thing is that if you mark the whole thread with your mouse and copypaste all the hidden texts become visible.

hell, one knows

dm42 — Thu, 06 May 2004 21:57:11 GMT

why this post is of interest to
hirnverbr.antville.org
?

ok, so this

dm42 — Thu, 06 May 2004 21:53:51 GMT

is really some sort of last resort method. i never needed it - but it always gave me a feeling to be "the admin" of my blog.

i like antville security settings a lot, but also hope that the developers will come up with a bit more "selective" security mechanism in the next releases (besides multiple topics, selectable skins, etc. ;)