Bookmark star and notes indicator

Bookmark star and notes indicator

I see that these two indicator have been moved to seperate functions due to popular demand.

Star

Note

How about integrating these functions with the panel selector buttons in the same way that the mail and transfers panel selector buttons are highlighted when there is new mail or a newly completed transfer? Perhaps even a notification in the same vein as the mail and transfers notification?

Thank you for posting those, where the hell did you find the star button?

hehe I can do one better

button

Works more or less exactly like 9p1's version of the button

But the button sometimes needs reload of page for it to work properly

Originally posted by shoust:

hehe I can do one better

button

Works more or less exactly like 9p1's version of the button

But the button sometimes needs reload of page for it to work properly

Nice

FYI:
If you edit toolbar.ini go to section [Document Toolbar.content] and delete the semicolon at the beginning of the line:
; Button6, 70464="Highlight bookmark | Add to bookmarks,,,,"Missing bookmark""
you might get the "star" aswell, it should show up left of address field.

Is there any way to get the star in the address bar? Or atleast the original size from 9p1? (smaller)

Originally posted by roba5263:

Is there any way to get the star in the address bar?

No -- and afaic that's fine for me!

Or atleast the original size from 9p1? (smaller)

Both images for the bookmark-star-icon (highlighted & missing bookmark) are identical on 9tp1 and 9tp2 standard skins (see the buttons folder of those skins). Of course you might want to resize those from 22px to 16px for example if you want.

Sooo... Will we have this buttons in release? They are very useful.
Make them on anf off through Preferences, and include these buttons in Buttons dialog.

I am so dumb, I found my way here, and forgot what lead me here.

What are these buttons for ?

The star button is supposed to indicate whether a page is already bookmarked, and if it is not bookmarked then you can use it to bookmark the page. The note button indicates that you've used "Copy to note" to copy text from the page to a note, and clicking will focus that note in the panel.

If you've used "Copy to note" to copy text from the page to a note, then a small note button sshows in the address bar, in the place where rss icon is displayed. It's a cool!

Yes, I find myself bookmarking the same page multiple times. Would be nice to have that back.

Didn't know about the Notes thing. Sounds useful too though.

Originally posted by jamesisin:

Yes, I find myself bookmarking the same page multiple times. Would be nice to have that back.

Just add that star button to your toolbar and there you go. It lights up if you have already bookmarked the page.

To devs: why-why you don't want to add these buttons to Appearance/Buttons dialog? Some political decision?..

I am using the 9.5 release candidate, and it works only sometimes. Often times the star won't light up until I refresh the page, and sometimes it will light up when the page is loading, and then it will dim after the page is loaded.

Originally posted by VJgamer:

it works only sometimes.

Try using the following UserJS

/* Fix for Bookmark and Notes detection */
if( self == top ) {
  document.addEventListener('load',function() {
    top.location.replace(location.hash||'##');
  },false);
}

I still don't get the Star to light up everytime. Many times I have to hit refresh. I soon as I press F5 the star lights up.

Right... Javascript files don't end with .txt

It works now, thank you for your quick reply Stoen!

Is there anyway to keep it from adding the ## after the URL, or is that how the fix works?

Originally posted by VJgamer:

Is there anyway to keep it from adding the ## after the URL, or is that how the fix works?

AFAIK, that's how the fix is working...
... but nevertheless - to my limited understanding, I am no JS programmer nor a web-designer - it should be possible to remove it.

AFAIK, the script from /Stoen/ does the following:

/* Fix for Bookmark and Notes detection */
if( self == top ) {
  document.addEventListener('load',function() {
    top.location.replace(location.hash||'##');
  },false);
}

It's replacing in the browser history the original URL by said changed URL, which you see at the end,
namely the original URL with those two hash marks appended.

It should now be possible, espec. with that new delay command, to replace said hash mark modified URL by the unaltered i.e. original URL again, which could be temporarily stored in some cookie. But /Stoen/ would certainly know better.

What is unclear to me is now, why that appended new hash-mark URL is looked up in the bookmarks file and sets the star button relatively reliably now, reflecting the correct status?

Could someone please explain this to me...

I'd LOVE to go back to the way back when having the star in the url bar to bookmark and see if its bookmarked. I see FF3 does this now and imo I don't get why it was removed. It's an awesome time saver!

I'am using opera 9.5.
I want to disable bookmark address in the address bar. I dont want to be bothered with the show up of bookmark address when i type an address in address bar. Anybody can help me?

Thanks a lot:)

@mrd:
Try this button, I found it elsewhere and modified it somewhat:
button

It's the button from /shoust/ from above as modified by /Stoen/...
... thanks a lot for your good work!

Originally posted by dimitriramirez:

I want to disable bookmark address in the address bar. I dont want to be bothered with the show up of bookmark address when i type an address in address bar.

Do you want to turn off the dropdown completely? Uncheck Auto Dropdown, scroll to the bottom and click on Save.

Its working. I am not bother again with bookmarks again.
Thanks a lot sgunhouse.

Originally posted by HaJotKE:

Try this button, I found it elsewhere and modified it somewhat:
It's the button from /shoust/ from above as modified by /Stoen/...
... thanks a lot for your good work!

Thank you.

I find this workaround (star & notes) very useful. I often have lots of tabs open, and need to remind myself of which ones I bookmarked before closing them.

This behaviour, where the star/notes icon don't always work without a reload, is very annoying. I know there is a UserJS workaround, but surely this is a bug that should be fixed... did anyone file a big report about it yet, and does anyone else want it fixed?

Seb

Originally posted by sebt:

... did anyone file a big report about it yet, and does anyone else want it fixed?

Not sure about that, and YES, I would really love to have that fixed...

Reported as bug-349336 - Star custom button does not behave correctly (also affects Note custom button).

I really hope this gets fixed!

Seb

Originally posted by HaJotKE:

Not sure about that

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2234631
Tsk, tsk HaJotKE. A grumbling hyper-critic should not be forgetting that which they grumbled, or where hyper criticical, about ;-)

Uaah...

But you should know, forgetting is the only way to stand all these OPERA bugs...
At least for me.

Thanks!

The notes button seems to be built into Opera 9.51. I have not added one but when I am on a page that I have in notes a tiny little notes icon appears in the address bar near the RRS feed icon. If I click on the notes icon it opens the side bar with that not highlighted. The icon is extremely small and I don't remember seeing it before but it's there now on all my machines and I have NOT added custom button for it.

Notified operasoft of the duplicate bug reports

Originally posted by sebt:

Notified operasoft of the duplicate bug reports

Are you saying it's a bug? I think it's a great feature it just needs a bigger icon.

Sorry for any confusion, but I was referring to Stoen's post above, which indicates that the aforementioned problems with the Note and Star buttons (ie. often not working properly without page reload) were discussed in the thread indicated, resulting in a bug report to that effect in Sept '07. My report is therefore a duplicate of that bug.

Seb

doe anyone has troubles using preview feeds?.


apparently this great user script affects my feeds preview on 9.60.

Originally posted by zikzakatak:

apparently this great user script affects my feeds preview on 9.60.

Use the following

/* Fix for Bookmark and Notes detection */
if( self == top ) {
  document.addEventListener('load',function() {
    if( !opera.feeds ) { location.replace(location.hash||'##'); }
  },false);
}

im sorry stoen but you mean to change this lines for the other user js?.


thanx.

Originally posted by zikzakatak:

im sorry stoen but you mean to change this lines for the other user js?.

Yes

Change

/* Fix for Bookmark and Notes detection */
if( self == top ) {
  document.addEventListener('load',function() {
    location.replace(location.hash||'##');
  },false);
}

to

/* Fix for Bookmark and Notes detection */
if( self == top ) {
  document.addEventListener('load',function() {
    if( !opera.feeds ) { location.replace(location.hash||'##'); }
  },false);
}

The only drawback of that solution is that there are now those sticky two (##) number-signs appended, and I have always to go back in history to get back to the original address -- e.g. for bookmarking -- W/O these signs.
Couldn't that be automated somehow, please?

it works very good for me.


thanx.

In addition to Mozilla Firefox now Google Chrome has acquired "star indicator" of bookmarked page.
Opera, hello! Time to wake up! Why not finish feature that you invented more than 2 years ago?

+1

Bring the star back! Opera competitors have these stars and users are happy!

+1

Firstly, thanks to all that have posted the Star Button. I had recently made a comment on another post about how to improve the bookmarking of sites using Opera by including such button and I was tipped off about this. So again, thanks guys.

Secondly +1 to getting Opera to intergrate this button back in to the browser.

+1

But with wildly configurable options to set how the address bar works, what gets shown and what not. Rather more than less...

Originally posted by Stoen:

Originally posted by VJgamer:

it works only sometimes.

Try using the following UserJS

/* Fix for Bookmark and Notes detection */
if( self == top ) {
  document.addEventListener('load',function() {
    top.location.replace(location.hash||'##');
  },false);
}

Ok, this solution was working for me in v9.6x, but it doesn't work in v10. Pages need to be refreshed again.
Help please