Re: FN-FORUM: status bar text

date posted 18th May 2007 14:40

Firefox and latest Explorer. I guess that's a no then!

Claire.

David Leedham wrote:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/02/13/Zones-and-Default-Settings.aspx
> says from IE7 on we can't modify the status bar.
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> Claire, what browser are you using?
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> David
>
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> Leedham
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> Weird.
> It works in my editor and also in opera
> (http://leedham.com/statusscroller.htm) but not IE7 or FireFox.
> I'll keep on thinking.
>
> David
>
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> I know: I was hoping nobody would notice... ;-)
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> I tried the code but it does nothing at all now (displays nothing). Not
> sure why that is...
>
> Claire.
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> David Leedham wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> I think you can stop it looping if you change the wiper function like
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> this:
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>> function wiper()
>> {
>> if (stcnt> {
>> if (stcnt > -1) str = wmsg[stcnt]; else str = wmsg[0];
>> if (stcnt-- < -40) stcnt=31;
>> status = str;
>> clearTimeout(timeID);
>> timeID = setTimeout("wiper()",100);
>> }
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>> }
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>> Incidentally, this mentions nothing about missing children, bad parents or
>> journalism so slightly of topic!!
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Claire
>> Sent: 18 May 2007 11:37
>> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: FN-FORUM: status bar text
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
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>> I am trying to use some code I found on javascriptkit to display text on
>> the status bar. It animates slowly and then stops which is perfect.
>> But it then loops. I don't understand the code to work out how to stop
>> it from looping. Does anyone know how to do this with the below piece of
>> code please?
>>
>> I will be eternally grateful!
>>
>> Claire.
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