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 Improved_Control_Panel_2.2.2.user.js.txt ( 15.02k ) Number of downloads: 3492


If you're pretty active in the forum, you'll find this very handy.

The short version: automatically refreshes your control panel and gives you an audio alert when someone makes a new post to a subscribed thread, or when someone makes a new thread in one of the subforums you watch.



In other words, you don't have to constantly press Control-R.

• Unread threads are highlighted. Clicking on thread links of subscribed threads will take you to the newest unread post via the very handy "&view=getnewpost" forum parameter. To remove the highlight without looking at the thread, just right click on the link.
• By clicking the eye icon, you can quickly peek at the recent posts in a thread from within your control panel without opening a new browser tab/window. Example
• Threads are now sorted by date, not by subforum.
• Set your subforums by changing the myForums variable at the top of the script. (You'll only have to do this once, probably.) With the subforums you want Improved Control Panel to periodically check, put their subforum numbers into the list, separated by commas. (eg. the main link to General Chat is ...showforum=12, so to add General Chat you would put the number 12 into the list)
• By default, your subscribed threads are re-checked every 5 minutes, and your subforums are re-checked every hour. Updates stop after a bit more than an hour of inactivity. Updates will also stop if a subscribed thread gets highlighted (and the audio alert plays) but you don't respond before the next update. You can also manually start/stop updates using the button at the top.
• Blue outline: updates active. Yellow outline: update has just been requested. (If it stays yellow for a long time, there's a problem; reload the page.) Red outline: updates disabled. The time of the last page update has also been moved to the top of the subscribed threads table.
• Auction threads get too many posts; updates will continue whether they're clicked on or not, because odds are, you don't care. (or you might just unsubscribe from them)

If you want a different sound or color or something like that, customization would be really easy.

This post has been edited by Superlatanium: Jan 22 2017, 20:31

Added to the index. Had not had the time to have a look at it, sorry.

On the other hand I've added a script requests thread. Since you're keen on making useful scripts for EH users you may like the script requests
EDIT: request the request was completed in less than an hour!

This post has been edited by blue penguin: Dec 14 2016, 19:35

Found a bug; the text `Time is now: 1st January 2017 - 01:15` is placed at the wrong place if there's a pop-up of a new PM:

Screenshot:
[my.mixtape.moe] https://my.mixtape.moe/otlmve.png

This post has been edited by FabulousCupcake: Dec 31 2016, 20:16

Fixed a couple minor issues including having to press the button twice to successfully start or stop.

Also fixed the date element identifier for those who get PM popups.

 Improved_Control_Panel_2.2.2.user.js.txt ( 15.02k ) Number of downloads: 3492


This post has been edited by Superlatanium: Jan 22 2017, 20:31

I usually middle click to open links in a new tab in the background, and the script doesn't properly detect this (the links aren't marked as read).
An alternative would be to use Ctrl+Click or Cmd+Click, but sometimes I'm too lazy to use my other hand to hold the key modifier.

It took me several minutes to find a way to detect middle mouse button clicks over URLs.
For some reason click events never get triggered with middle mouse button click.
It does work with mouseup and mousedown though, fortunately.

Here's the slight adjustment I added to properly detect the middle mouse button click on the links:

CODE

a.onmouseup = function(e) { if (e.which === 2) read(a); };

This post has been edited by FabulousCupcake: Jan 22 2017, 20:20

Hello, thanks for the wonderful script. For some reason, the forums stay grey, i.e. marked as unread, even if I read it. It's marked as read once I click on it, but when I refresh or come back to it later, it's marked unread again.

Hello, appreciate your work, but the script has some problem and maybe need some update. It keeps popping up replies that are already read. Today this script completely not working at all. Reinstall can't fix it.