picture links (and flash infoboxes)

i know you're crazy busy with new stuff for the soup, but when all that's done, i think you should look into having more accessible links to people's pictures - in their profiles, at least.

you could even change the info bars underneath the names to be little flash animations with popup menus and information thingies. one could be a link to a picture

but that's prob. too elaborate.

anyway, picture links would be nice.

thank you for listening. goodbye.

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<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">[This message has been edited by monsieurjohn on January 13, 2001 at 05:40 PM]</font>

 

You know, that's a great idea! Glad I thought of it! (ducking) .

If the user has a picture link in their profile, it could show a little picture icon in their posts letting you know they have one to view. Sort of like how the Homepage link functions...

Okay, added to list of things to do.

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a good idea? from *me*?? wow!

i just realized how impractical flash infoboxes would be - automatically creating them would be next to impossible. at least i don't know how to do it.

still, i slapped together a cool sample of what it could be like - click on the question mark!!

<OBJECT WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=120><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://208.131.55.1/bluepotato/sentfiles/testinfo.swf"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=exactfit><PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false><PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=bgcolor="#cccccc"><EMBED src="http://208.131.55.1/bluepotato/sentfiles/testinfo.swf" quality=high menu=false scale=exactfit WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=120 swLiveConnect=true TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"></EMBED></OBJECT>

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<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by monsieurjohn on December 31, 2000 at 12:34 AM</font>

 

Is this what the 4th icon is?

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Yes.

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"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
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That is pretty cool, just not sure how to incorporate that. Hmm. I'm pretty sure I can make a flash call from within the cgi scripts, within the if statements or something. Let me think about it some more.

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"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed

 

This'll be one cool addition!

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this is still really rough, but here's more of what i had in mind - i assumed it was impossible, but you know best.

the text is all different sizes and all the info isn't there, but the submenus and transitions are cool. and the button is too small still. i slapped the whole thing into a sample post to show what i was thinking:

http://208.131.55.1/bluepotato/sentfiles/testthing.html

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"...Another casualty of applied metaphysics." - Hobbes

 

That's really fancy work there, I'm very impressed already..

I wonder if I can add that somehow.. I think if I have the source code once it's 'tweaked', I see no reason why I can't make an html flash call within the script.

At least, it's worth a try? No promises. .

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"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed

 

cool. i'll play with it

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Any progress in 'playing with it'? .

Just curious, I think it's a very unique idea and could work.

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"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
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very cool mj

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Yes, I too give my compliments!

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hey. you can't rush genius .

no seriously i am working on it, i'll probably do final tweaks tomorrow afternoon. but now that i'm in school i'm out of time (case in point, i was busy with school from 7:30 this morning to 9:00 tonight)

tomorrow i won't have much homework to do - wednesday is half day

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Heya,

Sure that's fine. Even if you want to do a little at a time, just keep us posted with demos if ya want. .

Whatever is best for you...

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"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed

 

demos it is! .

this is pretty well what i had in mind, but i'm completely open to suggestions. usually a great idea is hiding right under my nose.
http://208.131.55.1/bluepotato/sentfiles/infobox.html

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"...Another casualty of applied metaphysics." - Hobbes

 

In the meantime, how about changing the "Picture" icon (<IMG SRC="http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/pic.gif" border=0>) to the Mona Lisa icon (<IMG SRC="http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/icons/icon25.gif" border=0>)? Personally, I don't think "picture" when I see the current icon.

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i think it can do w/out the "back" text in red

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i wasn't too sure about that text either - it's gone now, and the page has been changed to show the different versions.
http://208.131.55.1/bluepotato/sentfiles/infobox.html

i think i agree with nootch, or at least change the fill color of the frames in the current pic.

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"...Another casualty of applied metaphysics." - Hobbes

 

That's a great idea, nootch.

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