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Feradin Trueshot · Apr 10, 2005, 04:59 PM // 16:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lansing Kai Don

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.

Lansing Kai Don

I know quite a bit about HTML myself. So if you wanted to make the timers, I could set up a page/tables no problem.

Diabolus · Apr 10, 2005, 05:00 PM // 17:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lansing Kai Don

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).

Lansing Kai Don

yeah that's right. i was just unsure why it didn't say it when i used the original stored on my hard drive. weird thing

Marksmann · Apr 10, 2005, 05:02 PM // 17:02

Thanks for the link, Sin. I dinked around with it a bit and was able to get it to synchronize on my desktop as a window, not as my background, but that's OK. Works for me. Looks great!

Lansing Kai Don · Apr 10, 2005, 05:10 PM // 17:10

That's a great countdown timer. It even has good variable names like milliseconds, if you already created the countdown timer and the style sheets. Why didn't you just change the initial variable:

PHP Code:


			
var targetDate = new Date("April 15, 2005 08:00:00 GMT");

to different time zones, i.e. here is a snippet for my time zone (Central GMT -06:00)

PHP Code:


			
var targetDate = new Date("April 15, 2005 02:00:00 GMT");

As you can see, it's really simple to do. I'm on a computer with a 21.6Kbps, and I can barely open the forums in 60 seconds so if someone already posted this then sorry. Tomorrow I'll be back on my computer, I can do it then if someone hasn't already. Then you can just make "instances" of the timer for each time zone and place them where you want them. I have a thing with editing code that I'm not positive of the origination (i.e. copyrights), nothing against you Diabolus. I just want to be positive you made it before I'd edit it.

Lansing Kai Don

Diabolus · Apr 10, 2005, 05:18 PM // 17:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lansing Kai Don

That's a great countdown timer. It even has good variable names like milliseconds, if you already created the countdown timer and the style sheets. Why didn't you just change the initial variable:

PHP Code:


			
var targetDate = new Date("April 15, 2005 08:00:00 GMT");

to different time zones, i.e. here is a snippet for my time zone (Central GMT -06:00)

PHP Code:


			
var targetDate = new Date("April 15, 2005 02:00:00 GMT");

As you can see, it's really simple to do. I'm on a computer with a 21.6Kbps, and I can barely open the forums in 60 seconds so if someone already posted this then sorry. Tomorrow I'll be back on my computer, I can do it then if someone hasn't already. Then you can just make "instances" of the timer for each time zone and place them where you want them. I have a thing with editing code that I'm not positive of the origination (i.e. copyrights), nothing against you Diabolus. I just want to be positive you made it before I'd edit it.

Lansing Kai Don

no, i didn't. i took it from the url at the top of this thread that sin posted. i didn't think about copyright, but there was no label anywhere that I could see, so i guess it was just taken off a javascript site.

mbecker · Apr 10, 2005, 11:25 PM // 23:25

I just set it as my home page.

By the way, the whole localized time zones thing, doesn't the game just release at the same time? So, everyone can access it at the same "time" but where I aam it'll be 2 am and for other people 3 am etc? I thought that's how it worked. Making a time zone based countdown useless, because the # of hours doesn't change, just what time it is when those hours are up.

Rizzen Khalazar · Apr 11, 2005, 01:57 PM // 13:57

I just saved the page, then went to desktop tab from right clicking on the desktop/properties, then browsed for the file and selected it. Works fine.