Posts by MidiMagic

Re: Why are My Computer icons changed?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

I have too many files to use thumbnail view. I would be madly scrolling to find the files I need. It is hard to select multiple files when you have to scroll.

Re: New RAM? messed up screen? killed the motherboard?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Most likely the new ram card was upside down in the slot. That makes a big mess of all kinds of parts.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: New Navigation Menu

I had forgotten that it was fixed. I have JS turned off here to get rid of some of the insertion point freezing and a couple of other annoyances.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Page Navigation

Just refresh the page after you go back.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Tobble Plain Text

Tobble: Hitting a key that makes all the characters act like they are drunk.

Re: I cannot access my website HELP

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

This sounds like either the file permission is set wrong, or something is wrong at that host.

Microsoft Windows web-browser

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Microsoft Word Dictionary Problem

Microsoft upgrades often change settings. That's amother reason why Microsoft is at the top of my offender lsit.

Re: Why are My Computer icons changed?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

I already fixed the default browser problem the day it happened. I just mentioned it because both effects started together.

This happened right after an IE update from Microsoft. Nothing else was done to the computer when this happened.

These are the icons I see in My Computer and My Documents.

The icons used to look like these:

Now they look like these (click to open):

The original icon seems to have been shrunk and enveloped inside an image of a piece of paper that says "this is a document."

As you can see, it is very hard to tell the file types apart at a glance.

The strange thing about this this is that these icons do not appear in the list of icons that come with the programs. I don't know where they come from,. But I can't change the icons back to the ones that come with the programs. It goes through the motions, but the icons do not change.

Re: A quick question about "rank"

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

How come mine says "postaholic" instead?

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread78129.html

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: New Navigation Menu

How soon they forget:

Because of this, and the frozen cursor problem, I disabled JavaScript on the forum.

Re: Photoshop "abstract" design

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

I used to make stuff like that with QuickBasic back in the DOS days.

I used the line statement, with a for loop to position the ends of the lines.

Re: What video editing software to use?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

I have Corel Draw for moving graphics.

Re: What is the best place to create website at?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

The only reason I tell people to close the ad is so they can see the page full-width.

I always test the pages to see if they display in smaller windows OK.

Re: 100% table width scrolls left to right in Windows 2000

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

You have an image or a group of images that together are creating a fixed width. Once those images butt against each other, the page becomes incompressible.

I see an image creating the look of a horizontal red bar. I think this is causing the blockage. Use a style to create that instead.

Re: Repeat some javascript code until the row is full

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Those images are predefined, and set to occupy a certain percentage of the width of the page. They contain links to other pages. It's a menu.

You need to do the following. The example is for 10 images:

<html>
<head>
...
<style type="text/css">
.wfl {width: 100%}
.w10 {width: 10%; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0; text-align: center;}
.pic {padding: 2px; clear: both;}
</style>
...
</head>
<body>
...
<table class="wfl">
  <tr>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic1" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic2" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic3" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic4" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic5" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic6" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic7" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic8" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic9" />
    </td>
    <td class="w10>
      <img src=blank.jpg class="pic" id="pic10" />
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>   
...
</body>
</html>

blank.jog is an image the same size, with nothing but your background color in it. This holds the places until js loads the images.

Now use js to insert your random thumbnails.

UI / UX Design java javascript web-design

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: How to draw these borders

I like the borders of the forums like this. Can someone tell me how to draw a border in HTML/CSS as shown in the screenshot.
I would like to have the bordercolor as well. The following HTML does not work perfectly on all browsers :(
I mean, with
FF - The code works fine
IE - Works but displays a thicker border compared to FF
Opera - Does not show the border color
<table border=1 bordercolor="#6E94B7" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr><td>Hello 1</td><td>Hello 2</td><td>Hello 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hello 4</td><td>Hello 5</td><td>Hello 6</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hello 7</td><td>Hello 8</td><td>Hello 9</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hello 10</td><td>Hello 11</td><td>Hello 12</td></tr>
</table>
Please help
Thanx

Use stylesheets instead of the deprecated border and bordercolor attributes of the table tag:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
.tablebord {border: 1px #6e94b7 solid; border-collapse: collapse;}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<table class="tablebord">
 <tr><td>Hello 1</td><td>Hello 2</td><td>Hello 3</td></tr>
 <tr><td>Hello 4</td><td>Hello 5</td><td>Hello 6</td></tr>
 <tr><td>Hello 7</td><td>Hello 8</td><td>Hello 9</td></tr> 
 <tr><td>Hello 10</td><td>Hello 11</td><td>Hello 12</td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Re: Why do PowerPoint templates take long to appear?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Does anyone have a suggestion about the first twelve templates?

It is still taking three minutes before I can use the templates, unless I use the reverse-order click procedure, which still takes time.

Re: Word 2000 Not Displaying JPEG

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Is it just one image? If so, the picture might not be in a real .jpeg format. As an example, it might be saved in a .gif format, but named with a .jpeg extension.

Re: Protection From Virus-encrypted Songs?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

One trick is to save to disk inste3ad of playing. Then scan the file with your virus checker. Finally, play the saved file.

Re: Why are My Computer icons changed?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

I still need an answer for this. It is slowing down my work.

Re: Output Windows Explorer column details to a file

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

First save the page as a file.

Then you can open the page in your browser, or in Notepad, and also open a blank Excel spreadsheet.

Now you can pick out the individual pieces you want and put them in the spreadsheet with cut and paste techniques.

Re: OK, now guess what this is.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

It's a "future car", but what KIND of a future car? And when was it made?

Re: What Bumper Sticker Would Your Car Wear?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

I just saw this:

HANG UP AND DRIVE!

Re: OK, now guess what this is.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Considering that it was made in 1928 (a hint) it is currently unavailable.

Since I am on Geocities, the image would become "currently unavailable" if my website exceeds its download quota. Wait half an hour and try again if that happens. I can't afford the upgrade that gets rid of that limit.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Human chimera

I'd say it is more likely the lab got the samples mixed up.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Richest man in the world

The other question should be:
"Who of the richest folks pays the most tax?"

Considering that the two richer ones don't live in a country with a lot of tax, the question is moot.

It also doesn't matter, because there are so few rich people that even taxing them 100 percent wont increase the amount of money government has.

The real question to ask is, "Why is government taxing people below the poverty level?"

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: New FireFox -vs- New I.E.

I don't like what the last IE upgrade did to Windows.

It changed all of the icons in My Documents so they look like little documents, with the original icon shrunk down so tiny that you can't tell which icon is which. It also fixed things so you can't change the icons back.

Re: If you could take one channel off of the air...

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

The local cable access channel. Not only do they put some obscene material on it, but they put it on the channel we need to run our VCRs and DVD players on. This means that if the player shuts off automatically, we have to look at that channel until we can find the remote and change it or turn off the TV. And it is run by the public library, which hates all forms of censorship.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: What is this thingy?

Pollen.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Query on evolution

If I take the time to answer you points will it make a difference in your beliefs or will you just ignore my post? I take time to make thoughtful responses to such questions but my responses seem to be ignored. If you really want a response to these points, I will provide it.

That depends on whether your answers are based on science, speculation, liberalism, or a hatred of certain religious beliefs.

You will not change my religious beliefs, if that is your intent. Nothing can do that. So I am not interested in any diatribe against any religious belief.

But my other post was not made on the basis of any belief. It was based on an apparent contradiction in fact that is independent of any particular belief. This became apparent to me when I was making a CD backup of the files containing the instructions for using the CD burner I was using to make the CD.

I am interested in any logical error or possibility I overlooked.

I had thought of the possibility of a process that records proteins into DNA, but that just multiplies the paradox, because now I need a source for the recording process.

The real problem is that second cell, when the first cell divides. If the ribosome instructions are not written on the DNA, one of the cells wouldn't have a ribosome, and would die.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Query on evolution

If God created all animals then there would have been no such similarity. we might as easily have found cortex and neocortex in reptiles but instead we only find them in mamal. of course it possible for two different branches to evolve similar characteristics if subject to identical environmental pressures but such similarities tends to be not only rare but often artificial as well. another example. the wing of a bird has far more in common with the forelimbs of the rest of the phylum chordata than with the wings of an insect. similar goes for the flukes of dolphin and whales.

But what if God was using a library, such as the ones programmers use?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: To the C# forum Moderator

I see. The sales they lose are not their own?

Meta DaniWeb c#

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: New Navigation Menu

I'm still working on a solution. In the meantime, if you're in a subforum, other sibling subforums are available. So, for example, if you're in one of the Windows forums, you can get to any of the other Windows forums within one click via the dropdown menu.

Not if you have the maddening tooltips disabled.

Re: School Teacher needs help with website

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

All you have to do is:

1. Have a separate page for each tab selection.

2. On each page, set a class for the white background and a class for the gray background.

3. Within the tag for each tab, put the proper class for the color you want displayed for that tab.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: To the C# forum Moderator

I think the advertisers would find it insulting.

They would find it insulting to find out that the viewers don't like the ad because it is driving them crazy with repeated movement or a frozen mouse? I would think that, if they weren't total idiots, they would want to find out how effective their ads are.

I find ads offensive only if:

- They take control of the browser to keep you from leaving the page.
- They take so much CPU time that the user can't navigate or scroll.
- They have a lot of movement, keeping me from reading ANY part of the page.
- They are not accessible to the impaired.
- They hide the navigation controls.
- They disable the BACK button or destroy the browsing history.
- They contain profane language.
- They promote wrongdoing.

Meta DaniWeb c#

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: To the C# forum Moderator

I don't think ads are evil.

I think ads that take control of the user's browser are evil.

And ads that do things to disrupt the vision of a dyslexic person are not accessible.

And ads that lie are evil.

The advertisers might be advised that I would automatically read their ad through normal automatic visual scanning - IF I am not trying to regain control over my browser because the ad is using 100% CPU time.

Meta DaniWeb c#

John A commented: Kindly shut up. Thank you. -3

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Replicate Image

You could put in 10000 img tags. But that would be overkill.

Why not just define a background color in css?

Re: What video editing software to use?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

The stuff that came with the camera.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Menu Bar container width

Use widths as percentages of the page width, so it works in different resolutions.

Re: What is the best place to create website at?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

You can click on the trapezoid at the top of the ad banner and close it.

Re: 100% table width scrolls left to right in Windows 2000

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

That will always happen with tables if the content won't fit in the browser window.

If the display is 600 X 800, you images are already too wide. Either reduce the image sizes, or let the page scroll with the small screen resolution.

Also, don't put size styles (width, height) and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same tag or css definition. Nest two tags, one with the sizes, and the other with the surrounding styles.

Re: Child div's (faux columns) showing irregularly in FF

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

I saw that one immediately.

If you want pages to render identically on different browsers, then do NOT define size styles (height, width) and surrounding styles (margin, border, or padding) in the same tag or css style.

- Firefox puts the surrounding styles OUTSIDE the defined sizes in the same tag when it renders the page.

- IE crams the surrounding sizes INSIDE the defined sizes. This does NOT follow the W3C definition. So it is IE that displays things irregularly.

For compatibility, nest two tags, one with sizes, the other with surrounding styles. This way, you control the order, and all browsers render it alike.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: HMTL Email

Your client should be taught why not to send html emails.

This could be:

- An ISP restriction on file size.
- An email client rendering the container too small to show the image.
- A firewall acting.
- An accessibility setting is suppressing backgrounds for text legibility.

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Margin Problem - HELP!!!!

I don't understand what you want.

Do you want the page size rigid, so you have to scroll it if the browser window is too small?

Or do you want everything to get smaller when the browser window shrinks?

Rearranging the page is the default behavior of most browsers when the layout does not fit in the window. So you have to do things special if you want the page to not rearrange itself.

If you want the content to stay in the same relative place, with the page scrolling when the window is too small, you must use tables for laying out the page. But this has its drawbacks, because reading machines for the blind give the person the wrong impression of what the page looks like.

If you make the page content small enough to fit on a 640 X 480 pixel screen, and use relative (percentage) object sizes, then the page will expand to fill a larger screen.

Also, for browser compatibility, don't put sizes and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) on the same tag or css style.

Re: School Teacher needs help with website

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Please forgive my ignorance, but how does <p> tags around each paragraph help me show a selected tab?
I am using this person's code:
http://kalsey.com/tools/csstabs/

They don't. But they keep your text from bunching up like that. It looked awful.