Guest Paul [MVP] Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 If so, here's an Active Desktop element that updates every 5 minutes (please verify), and displays the 5 most recent posts. Suggestions for improvements etc. welcome as always! Add the following as an AD item: http://www.modaco.com/desktop.php P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest casper508 Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Ten minutes and counting. It shows "Last Updated 02 Mar 2003 05:51 am" No change. Had to do a manual refresh and the time changed accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Weird - will investigate refresh, and incorrectly formatted dates! This is currently BETA! :) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest casper508 Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Would it be possible to have a setup where the page updates automatically once five new messages have been posted rather than every 300secs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Not really, that would require a 'push' method of some description... P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest amo Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 I dont normally use active desktop. Would do though if this makes it through beta or into a functional beta at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 I've hated active desktop with a vengence since win98, but i'm willing to give it another go for the sake of modaco...:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Will Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 every so often it goes to a forum view.. but nice! 'so this is what active desktop is for?' The only use of it before was as a reason for 98 crashing! Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Yeah i noticed that too, and the timestamp was 5pm :/ Nice idea, but it'll be better once its working properly :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HelloDave Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 I had a go at making an Active Desktop a few years ago while I was learning javascript; the idea was to put a little notepad, clock, to do list etc on the desktop, and it worked fairly well but slowed my P233 to a crawl so I gave up with it in the end! If anyone's interested have a look at http://desktops.webhostme.com (site's a bit out of date though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 That is the problem with active desktop. Plain wallpapers alone are enough to slow all but the fastest PC's to a snails pace, active desktop was pretty much enough to slow Win98 down so much it just fell over/took 30mins to boot. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chris b.a.r.f. Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 Come on Mono, you're being a little unreasonable - my old Win98 machine takes *max* 20 minutes to boot with a 2.5kb gif as a desktop. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 I just noticed that was you after reading your posts elsewhere all day Chris, like the new avatar ;p. And admittedly 20 minutes is quite impressive....:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chris b.a.r.f. Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 aye, the old cat-skeleton's served it's avatar time. Time for a bit of Barmy Army instead :) (The Exploited, for you knowlessmen) You wouldn't be laughing at Win98, would you Mono? ;) Had to install a load of network stuff on a mate's Win98 system the other day, what a flippin' nightmare. XP Pro, I want to have your babies. Sort of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 Me? Never, i was an avid user for about 5 years...until ME came along (it ~did~ agree with my hardware o/) And as it happens i got my XP home laptop talking to a ME desktop over a workgroup quite happily, even if WinME's auto DHCP config is a little....random... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chris b.a.r.f. Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 I never realized how good software could be until I got XP Pro. I must confess I've never really used WinME in anger, only on a friend's Toshiba Laptop where it seemed to do OK until he replaced it with Win2000 Pro (another stillborn MS OS that never really made the grade, then :) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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