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#134532 - 12/01/2003 14:02 automatic board refresh...
revlmwest
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Registered: 05/06/2002
Posts: 497
Loc: Hartsville, South Carolina for...
A friend of mine asked me to check a game score on ESPN.com yesterday, when I noticed a link that set the page to auto refresh every 30, 60, or 90 seconds. Since I basically leave the board on my desktop all day, this would be a cool feature for the board. Would someone please comment on the complexity of doing this? It would only need to be on the front page in my opinion.
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#134533 - 12/01/2003 14:17 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: revlmwest]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Is it that hard to refresh manually with F5, Ctrl-R, or the refresh button on the toolbar?

The BBS has to embed the META refresh tag to make this happen... There is kind of a hack you could do using HTML frames, though. If you have an HTML file on your PC that looks something like this, you should be able to browse that HTML file in your browser, which would then pull up the Empeg BBS as a frame. Not sure how elegant this solution is, but it should work...

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Empeg BBS</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="300">
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET>
<FRAME src="http://empeg.comms.net/php/ubbthreads.php?Cat=&PHPSESSID=">
</FRAME>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
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#134534 - 12/01/2003 14:48 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: tonyc]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
[joking]rss feed![/joking]

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#134535 - 12/01/2003 23:44 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: Daria]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
[joking]rss feed![/joking]

Thats not funny. Saying things like that distract me when I'm in the BBS code. :-P

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#134536 - 13/01/2003 06:35 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: tonyc]
revlmwest
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Registered: 05/06/2002
Posts: 497
Loc: Hartsville, South Carolina for...
In reply to:

Is it that hard to refresh manually with F5, Ctrl-R, or the refresh button on the toolbar?


I was actually thinking about going to a two monitor setup with several pages remaining open on the second monitor.
I also find it very humorous that a post that would require very little programming and time with immediate results produced one questioning response and a post discussing attaching a remote controlled airplane fused to a spy camera to a jeep so that traffic could be surveyed recieved serious dialogue. Man, I love this place....
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#134537 - 13/01/2003 07:50 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: revlmwest]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
If you don't mind me asking, why are you green? Just curious...
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#134538 - 13/01/2003 09:12 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: andym]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
Must be envy
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#134539 - 13/01/2003 09:13 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: andym]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Greetings!

Green is 1,000+ posts, I think. There is something abou that here, somewhere...

Meanwhile, the meta refresh is really the best option. The question would be where to implement. Could it be placed in the board itself? Would it be better with a framed wrapper?
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#134540 - 13/01/2003 09:18 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: pgrzelak]
lopan
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Registered: 28/01/2002
Posts: 970
Loc: Manassas VA
but if he had 1000+ posts wouldn't he be something other then "enthusiast"?
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#134541 - 13/01/2003 09:20 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: lopan]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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#134542 - 13/01/2003 10:00 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: wfaulk]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
In that case, I'd nominate DarkStorm for a green, as he's made a significant contribution.
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#134543 - 13/01/2003 10:04 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: JBjorgen]
revlmwest
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Registered: 05/06/2002
Posts: 497
Loc: Hartsville, South Carolina for...
I got it for not hijacking threads....
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#134544 - 13/01/2003 10:06 Re: automatic board refresh... [Re: revlmwest]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
ROFL....touché

back on topic:

I took the liberty of putting the above posted script on your webspace:

http://dynsol.wpc.net/~lwest/forums.html

note: It can be annoying as it will refresh while you are creating or editing a post sometimes...Arg!
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