Attn: Mr. J. Cricket - per your request

[Caskbill]

<I><B>From Mr. J. Cricket from other post:</b></i>

Go ahead and do it as long as you meet 4 conditions:

1) Post the code here first outside of your signature and get the "OK" from one of us before you put it in your signature.

2) You are responsible for the mass of people that ask about it after you show it off (yes, it will happen ) They will have to follow the same rules as you did to put it into their signatures too. This means that they need to understand the changes and not just how to "cut" and "paste" them.

3) Know that we will not support it now, or in the future. If it causes a problem, we will pull it without warning or explanation.

4) Notify Jim that you are doing it (if he hasn't seen this already). That's just polite.


This really goes to any custom coding, and not just you, so don't think we are picking on you or anything. We talked about it and it would be unfair to disallow you the custom code when the fact is the regular countdowns wouldn't be there if we disallowed coding to begin with (which we did do for a while).

Good Luck!

Thanks:

(1) Agreed, and here it is. As you're aware, I didn't just want to do it without getting your OK. Let me know once you've seen this.

(2)Agreed. That makes sense also. I'll take that on a case by case basis if asked. Of course, if someone is not able to read JavaScript, then I'd say they're just out of luck as it could be too probable to make a mistake in the code if they didn't know what a line of code actually meant.

(3)Absolutely fair enough. If by chance it caused a problem, I would also want it pulled. It should be OK though. I even kept the random generator in the code for the safety feature.

(4)I agree also. I'll send him a message to refer to this post. He can display the source code if he wants to see it. I kept his name in there as the original author, and added my name to the modifications.

Per your remark I never thought you were picking on me. You have a board to protect, and you don't know everybody's programming capabilities. In your original post about 'get your countdown timers here', you clearly state not to make changes in the code. This is understandable, and that's why I definitely wanted your OK before doing anything. It would be wrong of me to simply do this and not say anything.

Had you said NO, I would have been disappointed, but would have understood. Thanks for your understanding on this.

Bill


Here is the code for my signature as I would like to use it. As you can see, I tried to keep it simple and clean looking.

<img height="100" src="http://www.wdwinfo.com/sites/caskbill/usflag.gif" border="0" alt="U.S. Flag"><font face="Comic Sans MS, Arial" color="blueviolet" size="4"><b>Caskbill </b></font>

<Script language='Javascript'>var rndNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);eval("var CDTDate" + rndNum + " = 'June 7, 2002 9:59:59 AM EDT';");eval("var CDT2Date" + rndNum + " = 'December 30, 2002 4:00:00 PM EST';");document.writeln("<form name='CDTform" + rndNum + "' action='Javascript:void(0);'>");document.writeln('<font size=2 color=red>Our last stay at OKW was....&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp</font>');document.writeln('<font size=2 color=blue>and our next stay will be at BCV in only:</font><br>');document.writeln("<input type=text value='' size=40 name='WrittenByJamesMVenglarikII'>");document.writeln("<input type=text value='' size=40 name='ModifiedByBillNeth'>");document.writeln("</form>");if (theFunction) theFunction += "var d = new Date();";else var theFunction = "var d = new Date();";theFunction += "var c = new Date('" + eval("CDTDate" + rndNum) + "');";theFunction += "var c2 = new Date('" + eval("CDT2Date" + rndNum) + "');";theFunction += "var tzo = (d.getTimezoneOffset() - c.getTimezoneOffset()) * 60;";theFunction += "var tzo2 = (c2.getTimezoneOffset() - d.getTimezoneOffset()) * 60;";theFunction += "var diff = ((d - c)/1000) + tzo;";theFunction += "var diff2 = ((c2 - d)/1000) + tzo2;";theFunction += "var days = Math.floor(diff / 86400);";theFunction += "var days2 = Math.floor(diff2 / 86400);";theFunction += "var rem = diff - (days * 86400);";theFunction += "var rem2 = diff2 - (days2 * 86400);";theFunction += "var hours = Math.floor(rem / 3600);";theFunction += "var hours2 = Math.floor(rem2 / 3600);";theFunction += "rem = rem - (hours * 3600);";theFunction += "rem2 = rem2 - (hours2 * 3600);";theFunction += "var minutes = Math.floor(rem / 60);";theFunction += "var minutes2 = Math.floor(rem2 / 60);";theFunction += "rem = rem - (minutes * 60);";theFunction += "rem2 = rem2 - (minutes2 * 60);";theFunction += "var seconds = Math.floor(rem);";theFunction += "var seconds2 = Math.floor(rem2);";theFunction += "if ((days < 0) | (hours < 0) | (minutes < 0) | (seconds < 0)) ";theFunction += "var out = 'Now living easy at BCV';";theFunction += "else ";theFunction += "var out = ' ' + days + ' days ' + hours + ' hrs, ' + minutes + ' mins, ' + seconds + ' secs. ago.';";theFunction += "if ((days2 < 0) | (hours2 < 0) | (minutes2 < 0) | (seconds2 < 0)) ";theFunction += "var out2 = 'Now living easy at OKW';";theFunction += "else ";theFunction += "var out2 = ' ' + days2 + ' days ' + hours2 + ' hrs, ' + minutes2 + ' mins, ' + seconds2 + ' secs. ';";theFunction += "document.forms.CDTform" + rndNum + ".elements.WrittenByJamesMVenglarikII.value = out;";theFunction += "document.forms.CDTform" + rndNum + ".elements.ModifiedByBillNeth.value = out2;";setInterval(theFunction, 1000);</Script>



Real current signature follows below......

 

[Chris C]

You know Bill, I was rather skeptical of the up/down timer thing when I read your initial post... but seeing it for real I rather like the concept!

Of course I can't speak for J.C. and I can read Java about as well as I can read Greek.... but here's hoping the code is approved. I just may have to add one to my own signature.

 

[Psiklops]

Bill,

It looks ok to me...

You might want to check one of the lines of your code:
theFunction += "var tzo = (d.getTimezoneOffset() - c.getTimezoneOffset()) * 60;";

Check the logic on this again and see if the c and d variables shouldn't be switched back. I could be wrong in my logic, but I think you might be losing some time with it this way if you were in a time zone other than the one where the event ocurred.

- Jim

BTW, thanks for the PM...

 

[Caskbill]

Thanks for your reply Jim.

I looked at the timezone offset several times and each time convinced myself it should be the other way around. I'll look at it again.

In any case it doesn't make any difference in the code running, but might make the time off a little. Here in Indiana we stay on EST year round, so right now we're the same as CDT and in the winter we're back with the East coast. That may have confused my thinking.

Anyway, since you're the original author, I'll take your OK that I can go ahead and put it into my signature.

Thanks Jim, and everyone else involved.

<i>Guess I should just play with the timezone offset on a piece of paper with a timeline on it instead of trying to do it in my head trying to figure out which is up and which is down.....DUH</i>