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sparks · 2011-07-19 15:21:21

online updated.

comp500 · 2011-07-19 15:31:57

here are some images (PNG) that are perfect (made by me):

sparks · 2011-07-19 15:36:09

Yours do look more like the ones in posts! Can I use them?

Last edited by sparks (2011-07-20 05:37:19)

scimonster · 2011-07-19 15:37:18

They're not showing. (imageshack)

fullmoon · 2011-07-20 00:12:46

This is really cool! I wonder whether you could make a quick addition that simply returns text, even a 1 for online and a 0 otherwise. It wouldn't be very useful in the forums but I'm sure I could find...other...applications for it. tongue

EDIT: What about an option to return a list of all online users?

comp500 · 2011-07-20 02:56:49

sparks wrote:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7972/offlinetxt.png http://blocks.scratchr.org/offlineText.gif

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2933/onlinetxt.png http://blocks.scratchr.org/onlineText.gif

Yours do look more like the ones in posts! Can I use them?

Yep, in fact they're made just for this tongue

comp500 · 2011-07-20 03:09:23

fullmoon wrote:
This is really cool! I wonder whether you could make a quick addition that simply returns text, even a 1 for online and a 0 otherwise. It wouldn't be very useful in the forums but I'm sure I could find...other...applications for it.

EDIT: What about an option to return a list of all online users?

I agree. tongue

and what about a ver for the tbg!

sparks · 2011-07-20 05:09:45

fullmoon wrote:
This is really cool! I wonder whether you could make a quick addition that simply returns text, even a 1 for online and a 0 otherwise. It wouldn't be very useful in the forums but I'm sure I could find...other...applications for it.

EDIT: What about an option to return a list of all online users?

Well the 1 and the 0 is certainly possible. Until I work out how to get php to create images of text on demand I'm afraid "all online users" or other values that aren't a small number of possible values won't be possible... I know that php creating images of text IS possible so I just need to research it and work out how to use it! I'll add a 1/0 addition to the API this morning though as that's no trouble. (they will be images mind, you can't use them for calculations).

Actually, the API could currently return a list of all online users, but in text format, not something the fora can display. Is that something you would like to use? You'd need to use php include() or HTML i-frame to make the results appear on a page.

comp500 wrote:
and what about a ver for the tbg!

That's a good point, I'd forgotten about that. I'm sure I can add a new parameter (providing the TBG have an index page or page where all online users are shown)

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oh, to people still posting here, there's a new API page here which is more advanced than the one documented on this thread!

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ssss · 2011-07-20 05:11:57

Yay! Am adding this to the Rocket front page smile

Can you make it so it shows if a user of one or another account is online? Because I use both
SSSS and wulfmaster. Do you think it could display if either is online, or both offline?

scimonster · 2011-07-20 05:12:15

sparks wrote:
comp500 wrote:
and what about a ver for the tbg!
That's a good point, I'd forgotten about that. I'm sure I can add a new parameter (providing the TBG have an index page or page where all online users are shown)

scratch.mit.edu/tbgforums
;P

sparks · 2011-07-20 05:40:05

ssss wrote:
Yay! Am adding this to the Rocket front page

Can you make it so it shows if a user of one or another account is online? Because I use both
SSSS and wulfmaster. Do you think it could display if either is online, or both offline?

... Yes, I suppose that's possible. It seems like most people wouldn't have a need for that though, you could always just have two instances of the image link in your sig. I'm slightly aware that the more parameters I add to an action attribute, that more confusing the documentation becomes to read hmm

sparks · 2011-07-20 05:43:16

Today's to-do-list:

Create a second parameter that allows all current API action parameters to apply to only tbg or both tbg and main forum. Parameter is left blank for main forum.

Create a 1 or 0 option for online/offline status return.

Look into text-as-images to allow text return for project names and "all online users" return.

Watch that new CSI: Las Vegas episode that was on last night.

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ssss · 2011-07-20 05:45:15

sparks wrote:
ssss wrote:
Yay! Am adding this to the Rocket front page

Can you make it so it shows if a user of one or another account is online? Because I use both
SSSS and wulfmaster. Do you think it could display if either is online, or both offline?
... Yes, I suppose that's possible. It seems like most people wouldn't have a need for that though, you could always just have two instances of the image link in your sig. I'm slightly aware that the more parameters I add to an action attribute, that more confusing the documentation becomes to read

Could you make it a seperate thing? Instead of the main thing, it is a side plugin or something like it? Or give me the code, so i can put it up on my site smile

sparks · 2011-07-20 06:08:49

Alright, watch this space... Do you want the circle, the square, the custom images or some or all of the above?

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scimonster · 2011-07-20 06:12:13

Is there a way to do this with IPs? I wouldn't be able to, because I don't want to give out my IP and don't have a site to host the PHP on...
Why are you using blocks.scratchr.org for this anyways?

sparks · 2011-07-20 06:22:44

Because if the images are hosted on a Scratch related site, images are less likely to be blocked, and because it's too late to change it tongue

I don't think there's any reason for IP based online/offline status because we already have the Scratch one and if I start storing IP's in a table or even reading them I'll have to release a privacy policy for the API and it's just so much bother tongue

ssss · 2011-07-20 06:25:06

sparks wrote:
Alright, watch this space... Do you want the circle, the square, the custom images or some or all of the above?

circle.

scimonster · 2011-07-20 06:32:29

sparks wrote:
Because if the images are hosted on a Scratch related site, images are less likely to be blocked, and because it's too late to change it

I don't think there's any reason for IP based online/offline status because we already have the Scratch one and if I start storing IP's in a table or even reading them I'll have to release a privacy policy for the API and it's just so much bother

Well, I guess I actually wanted it to display my online banner if either me or sci_test is online. tongue
And I would also want to have it privately, so that people couldn't see my IP. wink

sparks · 2011-07-20 06:42:06

sparks is on the main fora, on the tbg fora and in general across all fora.

The new parameter "target" can be left blank to search the main fora, set to "tbg" to search the tbg fora or set to "all" to search both.
I think that the new target parameters are working... It marks me as online on the tbg forum even though I've closed the window so that might just be an odd use of session variables because "noone" is not online there...

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scimonster · 2011-07-20 06:52:21

sparks wrote:
sparks is http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?acti … ;type=text on the main fora, http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?acti … target=tbg on the tbg fora and http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?acti … target=all in general across all fora.

The new parameter "target" can be left blank to search the main fora, set to "tbg" to search the tbg fora or set to "all" to search both.
I think that the new target parameters are working... It marks me as online on the tbg forum even though I've closed the window so that might just be an odd use of session variables because "noone" is not online there...

Let me try...

EDIT: Says I'm online when I am.
But still says online for TBG even though I'm not. hmm

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sparks · 2011-07-20 07:01:37

That's what happened to me, which is odd... Try logging out of here and logging into TBG and see what it says then....

EDIT: I've nearly finished that special API that returns "online" if one of several users is online.

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scimonster · 2011-07-20 07:02:57

OK, tell me what it says at 07:03 Scratch time.

sparks · 2011-07-20 07:03:57

scimonster wrote:
sparks wrote:
Because if the images are hosted on a Scratch related site, images are less likely to be blocked, and because it's too late to change it

I don't think there's any reason for IP based online/offline status because we already have the Scratch one and if I start storing IP's in a table or even reading them I'll have to release a privacy policy for the API and it's just so much bother
Well, I guess I actually wanted it to display my online banner if either me or sci_test is online.
And I would also want to have it privately, so that people couldn't see my IP.

You think it's worth adding the parameter to the main API? It wouldn't be hard...

sparks · 2011-07-20 07:05:21

scimonster wrote:
OK, tell me what it says at 07:03 Scratch time.

I missed it. You should be able to view the forums as offline yourself though.

sparks · 2011-07-20 07:12:20

if "online" then sparks, scimonster, MathWizz or Pecola1 are online: .

if "online" then either fake1, fake2, fake3 or fake4 are online:

Up to four users can be checked with the existing API now. Simply add the parameters user 2-4 into the URL. all four do not have to be used, the first user is still called user, not user1.

Code:

[img]http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=onlineStatus&user=USERNAME1HERE&user2=USERNAME2HERE&user3=USERNAME3HERE&user4=USERNAME4HERE[/img]

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