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?
No "sticky" BWE Countdown Timer Link?
Sin
Diabolus
*stares with mouth open and drools.......*
Feradin Trueshot
I wish I could make that my desktop.
Loviatar
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I wish I could make that my desktop.
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Diabolus
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I wish I could make that my desktop.
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Sin
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.
*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.
Diabolus
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
edit: I suppose I should of tried putting the countdown on the back first, and then done the screenshot. oh well
Sin
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!
Diabolus
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
Feradin Trueshot
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.
Diabolus
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!
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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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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Lansing Kai Don
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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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Lansing Kai Don
Sin
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
Feradin Trueshot
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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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Diabolus
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.
Lansing Kai Don
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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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Lansing Kai Don
Lansing Kai Don
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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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Lansing Kai Don
Sin
The joys of the simpler windows 98 SE...
Diabolus
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.
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.
Feradin Trueshot
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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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Diabolus
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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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Marksmann
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
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:
to different time zones, i.e. here is a snippet for my time zone (Central GMT -06:00)
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
PHP Code:
var targetDate = new Date("April 15, 2005 08:00:00 GMT");
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var targetDate = new Date("April 15, 2005 02:00:00 GMT");
Lansing Kai Don
Diabolus
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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:
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PHP Code:
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mbecker
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.
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
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.