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Cintaria — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:03:24 GMT

So I finally got my menubar into the main menu bar :P Need to put in a keyboard shortcut so people don't have to just use the mouse >.>

Got the add button checking that the city isn't already in the local file, then it tries to check that it is an xml file. Having problems getting that work. I've given up trying to work out it's file-type as it reads the file - the server generates the file on-the-fly. Lord knows what the starting page type is? Atm I'm trying to take the returned file apart and read the first line, or at least the first word or two, so I can check if it's an xml file or not. This checks if the city exists. If a city does not exist you get forwarded to a page that lets you create the city. So, I want to check that the city already exists before saving the city to the local xml file...
Got the view button as a sub-menu with the cities in the local xml file being loaded as menu-items :) What I want is for them to be loaded as sub-menus themselves. Then I can go about extracting their xml details and showing THEM as the menu items =/

Made a post asking Det if he wants a link in the menu to TF. I plan on spamming mmc 10 or 15 times telling them about it. They then tell their friends, they tell their friends and so on and I think there'll be a push in activity for TF. Not that it needs it. According to Det we're getting a lot of traffic. Still, every little helps :)

mmc-w update :)

Cintaria — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:53:23 GMT

so I've got the program reading from my local xml file and the xml files of specified cities :)
I've changed direction atm. I was focusing on viewing the xml file and creating the links. Now I'm focusing on adding a new city to my local xml list, and from there, to a drop-down menu where the user can select the city and it's available links :)
What I've got atm is a script that will add items to a drop-down menu, but not to a sub-menu of that drop-down menu :( THAT is what I'm working on atm - getting my menu sorted :) Then I'm gonna work on getting the city's xml file taking what needs doing and dumping that in a sub-menu of that city. Then I'll head back to adding the city to the list. And THEN I'll work on taking the item OFF the list >.<

I've also got two pieces of coursework to do (one for today and one for the coming Wed), and my final year project to do serious amounts to >.<

Mmc-w

Cintaria — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:33:36 GMT

Programming of my extension goes on. The main problem I have atm is getting the extension to read/write from/to a local xml or txt file. I have found a link and after my two current courseworks are done I'll take a look at trying that. After that, I'll need it to read an xml file from my minicity as a proof of concept. THEN I need to find a way to do a while loop so that the extension loads each city stored in the local file, fetches it's xml file, sorts out what links it is allowed, and makes those links.
My idea atm is to have a drop-down menu which allows the user to add, view or remove a city (can you guess what add and remove do? ;) ), with view listing each city as a sub-menu. Selecting a city will load a sub-sub-menu listing the links that are available.

Sod knows what advertising I'll put in next to the drop-down menu? Perhaps have it search all <15 rated adverts limited to the country that the minicity is in (so if it's in the uk, you get adverts from the uk, if it's in france you get french adverts and so on). The info is available in the city's xml file.

Something I am interested in, is that the xml file has a 'signature' tag. What the holy hell is THIS used for?

Right, I got coursework to do, so I'm gonna go do that for two and half hours :)

ciao

MyMiniCity Watcher

Cintaria — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:39:48 GMT

I've decided to write an extension for firefox. The idea is fairly simple, yet I've not found an extension for it.
Summary:
A drop-down menu that allows the user to add, view, and remove cities from a list. When a user clicks on a city (from the view command) the extension will get the city's myminicity xml file and determine what properties are required (ind, env, etc). If nothing is needed, it'll just show the pop option.

What I've got atm is a drop-down menu that spawns prompt-boxes saying 'this is the view option', etc.

Atm I'm trying to find out how to use javascript to write to and read from these .xml files (the list of cities that the user creates will be an xml file as well as the city properties files from myminicity.com).

Once I get it working, then I have to work on a logo for the toolbar, then find a way of distributing it to the masses at myminicity.com. I think I might also pop an advert in next to the toolbar icon? Try and get some revenue coming in?

MyMiniCity

Cintaria — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:50:12 GMT

Have created a minicity - http://cint.myminicity.com.
Using proxies I have beefed up my population to 53 people. This may be constituted as cheating, but having found no instructions or terms & conditions I don't feel guilty :P I went to over a hundred proxies and only got 30 of them to work... It is my conclusion that most of the proxies are on the same server. This is rather irksome >.<

I've tried to alter my userbar in my signature, only to find that it is not there. It appears that Detty has removed it. Probably because no-body was using it. I would of had it scrolling through my minicity addresses - one for the population and one for the industry - and just add each new link as it became available. Oh well, will need to find another solution.

My new find

Cintaria — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:26:48 GMT

You'll never guess what...
I found a blogging tool on TF :P
I'm using it RIGHT NOW!!!

I'm so pleased with myself :)

OK, that's it.

toodles ;) :wave: