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Old Apr 10, 2005, 01:35 PM // 13:35   #1
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Default No "sticky" BWE Countdown Timer Link?

hehehe....

http://www.msu.edu/~nordhou1/gw/countdown.html

Admins if there is another post somewhere, can't this be a link on the site or temporary sticky?
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 03:51 PM // 15:51   #2
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*stares with mouth open and drools.......*
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 03:55 PM // 15:55   #3
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I wish I could make that my desktop.
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:03 PM // 16:03   #4
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I wish I could make that my desktop.
you can but the timer part doesent work
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:03 PM // 16:03   #5
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I wish I could make that my desktop.
i've never tried, myself, but i've heard of a thing called Active Desktop where you can put HTML pages as your wallpaper. I've seen them before. Take some research into it and you probably can get that as your wallpaper!
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04   #6
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Mine works! I just saved the page with firefox, viewed desktop as web page and set the background as that file, and i am in window 98 SE so i know you all can do it in xp. hehehe

*Edit* Exactly! Active Desktop="view desktop as web page"

I can't speak for explorere but with firefox when you save a site you can save the whole page--all support files too--so I saved it to my documents and the folders for the support files were there. What's funny is it's in sync with the website.

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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:07 PM // 16:07   #7
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I've attached a screenshot I just took. Hope it helps

edit: I suppose I should of tried putting the countdown on the back first, and then done the screenshot. oh well
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:09 PM // 16:09   #8
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Exactly for XP. Click new and it should ask you for the file name and location, just save the site under the file menu to your hard drive so you can browse to it and abra cadabra it's your desktop!
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:11 PM // 16:11   #9
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i think i'm going to be really sad and make a HTML page so i can have the countdown on top of the wallpaper! I'll post what I get
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:16 PM // 16:16   #10
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We should make a desktop with a countdown timer that displays the time remaining for every country. But I guess then I would go insane with envy when it was released in time zones ahead of mine.
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:24 PM // 16:24   #11
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i'm having a little bit of difficulty because of how Active Desktop works. It uses objects instead of an actual page being shown on the back (although i'm not sure for other than xp).
Sin, can you have floating little pages that you can chose the size of? If you can't, I'll make a version for the entire desktop (although it looks a bit tacky with the icons on top).
If you can, I'll make the floating one that I'm working on now. It'll take me a few mins!
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:24 PM // 16:24   #12
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i think i'm going to be really sad and make a HTML page so i can have the countdown on top of the wallpaper! I'll post what I get
Use the wallpaper in my avatar. They would go great together. The picture is on the guildwars site.

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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:27 PM // 16:27   #13
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We should make a desktop with a countdown timer that displays the time remaining for every country. But I guess then I would go insane with envy when it was released in time zones ahead of mine.
Do you perhaps mean a timer set for every time zone in one web page? Kind of like you see several clocks in airports geared to certain major cities? If this is what you mean, I've already created a countdown timer for BWE like the one in that link (minus the purty stuff but I can add that to any flavor people want), and it would be really simple to make what your asking. If you want it tell me, and I'll see if I can work on it tomorrow or the next day (busy today sorry). It'd be really simple to make it for Release date (both of them 27th and 28th as seen on that website where you can change to release date of 28th).

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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:29 PM // 16:29   #14
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diabolus all i did was "save" the counter after i went to the site. I saved it to my documents, then i right clicked on my desktop and it takes me to that screen to set the background and all that, I just selected the counter as my home page, in xp terms. Sorry i can't be more help being i am in windows 98 SE
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:33 PM // 16:33   #15
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Do you perhaps mean a timer set for every time zone in one web page? Kind of like you see several clocks in airports geared to certain major cities? If this is what you mean, I've already created a countdown timer for BWE like the one in that link (minus the purty stuff but I can add that to any flavor people want), and it would be really simple to make what your asking. If you want it tell me, and I'll see if I can work on it tomorrow or the next day (busy today sorry). It'd be really simple to make it for Release date (both of them 27th and 28th as seen on that website where you can change to release date of 28th).

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Yea that is what I was thinking of. It would be cool, but you dont have to take the time to make it. I can get by with the single time zone. Thanks for the offer though!
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:45 PM // 16:45   #16
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sorry, i'm not having much luck. everything i want to try doesn't seem to work, and IE is going nuts over the script. for some reason it says it's restricted because content could access your pc, but it doesn't say it with the original, even if i store it locally. there's no difference in the code either.
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:47 PM // 16:47   #17
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Yea that is what I was thinking of. It would be cool, but you dont have to take the time to make it. I can get by with the single time zone. Thanks for the offer though!
Actually making the counters would be the simple part and I wouldn't mind at all. I just have to change one variable to different starting times (really simple). What I NEED is someone who knows a bit of HTML coding and can make the tables look pretty on a webpage (i.e. tables). I'd also need a list of which time zones you want and the HTML person would need the cities in those time zones(guild wars isn't released for every time zone but I can add them all if you want). Or I could try and slab one together in FrontPage super quick.

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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:51 PM // 16:51   #18
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sorry, i'm not having much luck. everything i want to try doesn't seem to work, and IE is going nuts over the script. for some reason it says it's restricted because content could access your pc, but it doesn't say it with the original, even if i store it locally. there's no difference in the code either.
You have SP2 I bet. If you store the script on your hard drive, a little bar should come down from the top (a friend told me this, don't know if it's true). You have to click on the bar, and it will give you options... you say you want to run it anyway essentially. SP2 blocks out any script running for security reasons. If someone knows a way to permanently disable this feature just for this script, let him know. I'll look for it online but can't promise anything (I'm not running SP2).

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The joys of the simpler windows 98 SE...
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Old Apr 10, 2005, 04:58 PM // 16:58   #20
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ok i made a sort of dodgy version that works. it's designed to float so you will have to resize the active desktop object once you put it on there.

you can change the css to suit your needs. you can easily put a background on it if you wish to, or change the look.
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