gaby de wilde

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Sunday, 21. June 2009, 20:31:59

Here are some instructions/tips on how to use this widget I wrote

After installation:

First use the drop down menu to set the button size then close the button resizer.
Drag the toolbar to the desired location (I keep it at the top of my monitor)
Flip the widget and delete the services you don't plan to use.

To create your own custom buttons:

Flip the widget to the config side.
Chose the custom tab
Add button code

The code should be in this format:

button name@search url part 1@search url part 2@normal href@image url##

Example:

my opera@http://my.opera.com/community/forums/search.dml?term=@@http://my.opera.com@http://www.opera.com/favicon.ico##

Don't use line breaks or space, each button ends with ##

Here are some more examples:

wikipedia@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=@&go=Go@http://en.wikipedia.org/@http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico##yahoo@http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=@@http://www.yahoo.com/@http://www.yahoo.com/favicon.ico##ask.com@http://www.ask.com/web?q=@&qsrc=0&o=312&l=dir@http://www.ask.com/@http://about.ask.com/sh/i/s/media_logos/ask_xsml.gif##widget search@http://widgets.opera.com/search/?search=@&scope=all&x=0&y=0@http://widgets.opera.com/@images/widgets.jpg##

You can paste that into the box and click [save config] to see what it looks like.

Step by step:

Chose a search engine you want to add
Type some text in the box and search
Copy the search page URL
Open a text editor
Paste the URL into the text editor
Type the name you want to use for this search
Put @ behind the name
Now put the URL from the search page behind it
Replace the test word you typed with @
Put another @ behind the search URL, if the URL ended with your search word there should be 2 times @ at the end.
Put the website front page URL after that
Again put @ behind it
Now put the image URL you want to use behind that.
End the code with ##
Copy the code to the clipboard (be careful not to copy any line breaks)
Go to the widget
flip the widget using the small button at the left bottom
Mouse over the [custom] tab
paste the code into the box
press [safe config]
flip the widget back
Your button should be there now

If you have problems, just ask.

Lets have an example:

Say, I want to add http://www.cuil.com
I type some text in the box "blablabla" and search
I Copy the URL http://www.cuil.com/search?q=blablabla
I open Textpad
I paste the URL into the text editor
I type: Cuil
I put @ behind the name Cuil@
I put the URL behind it: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=blablabla
replace the test word with @: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=@
add another @ behind it: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=@@
put the website front page URL after it: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=@@http://www.cuil.com
again put @ behind it: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=@@http://www.cuil.com@
now the image URL. Most websites have a favicon.ico file http://www.cuil.com/favicon.ico jep, it's there, so we get: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=@@http://www.cuil.com@http://www.cuil.com/favicon.ico
end the code with ##: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=@@http://www.cuil.com@http://www.cuil.com/favicon.ico##
I copy the code to the clipboard.
go to the widget
flip the widget using the small button at the left bottom
mouse over the [custom] tab
paste the code into the box: Cuil@http://www.cuil.com/search?q=@@http://www.cuil.com@http://www.cuil.com/favicon.ico##
press [safe config]
flip the widget back
My button is there, o joy it also works!

You are now a toolback hacker.

If you have a good idea feel free to tell me and I will get right to it.

Enjoy,

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Comments

Anonymous # 26. July 2009, 12:40

Clive writes:

Is it possible to add the Google log in button?

gabydewilde # 30. July 2009, 18:59

Perhaps but I will have to think about that for a bit.

I don't want anything that appears dubious on the widget.

Hope you understand.

Thanks for the feedback

Anonymous # 6. August 2009, 19:28

Justin writes:

It would be great to have a Google Bookmark icon in the bar. I have manually added it for now.

Anonymous # 24. August 2009, 16:26

ron7gray writes:

wont work for me. google toolbar

Anonymous # 3. September 2009, 14:16

Anonymous writes:

It doesn't work on Opera 10.00

gabydewilde # 4. September 2009, 03:24

my apologies I haven't figured out what exactly went wrong with my widget.

If I strip the widget from it's code it obviously works. But if I change the code (trying to fix it) it doesn't show up.

Then it gets weird.

After that the stripped widget also doesn't show up.

So there has to be something wrong in the html, config file or the zip archive (the stripped widget) AND there has to be something wrong with the script running in it.

I should first fix the version without script but that requires loading the broken widget, before I can simulate the bug, deleting it and restarting opera every time I try to change something.

I'm not even sure where the bug comes from.

I have an Opera preview on my pc that I've upgraded and there the widget continues to work. However, downloading it a second time gives me an invisible widget again.

So I'm a bit confused about the whole thing.

Specially since other widgets all seem to work fine.