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Anonymous
April 16, 2009
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Changing color for "updated"

  • April 16, 2009
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I've just installed the stylish script that changes the color of the "updated" indicator in the Discussion list, from here:

http://userstyles.org/styles/16994

I was wanting to change the red to be a bit brighter, more tomato-red (it looks more like burgundy on my monitor). Don't want to get into calibration discussion, though! I've been looking at this chart to determine a better color,

http://html-color-codes.com/

but if I change the 600 to something else I get quite unexpected colors.

Could somebody set me straight on whether the color numbers in that chart should work, and that it's just a matter of changing the number in this line:

    color:#600 !important;

to, say the number "300", or am I way off in left field.
Thanks much,
Sheila
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    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    April 18, 2009

    Here's a challenge to any GreaseMonkey expert (I'm still learning it):
    Add a new link next to the Updated one that will point to the last page of the comments, like so:
    Read the number of replies for this thread. Get the basic link for the thread, which is something like: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/111111?tstart=0 (111111 being a place-holder thread number)
    And change it to http://forums.adobe.com/thread/111111?tstart=(number of replies mod 10)

    This is obviously not as good as a link to the last read message, but it's better than nothing, IMHO.

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    Anonymous
    April 18, 2009
    Add a new link next to the Updated one that will point to the last page of the comments,

    clicking on the last post time already does that. and as others have said, i'm reluctant ot mess with it until adobe fixes it's own shiete. it's not up to users to be doing this. anything done tweak wise could be undone in a flash if adobe decides to actually do something.

    i say they do the right thing and roll back to web crossing....

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    Anonymous
    April 17, 2009

    quick and dirty stylish for hiding the "(Updated)" and showing the adobe air icon (little red... thing)...

    kinda simulates the old "little red flag" experience...

    http://userstyles.org/styles/17070

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    Anonymous
    April 17, 2009

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    Anonymous
    April 17, 2009

    updated to add the little red flag... whoo! :)


    dave milbut wrote:

    updated to add the little red flag... whoo! :)

    Great! All we need now are a couple of pot plants and it'll be just like home.  

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    Anonymous
    April 16, 2009

    try67 has it correct. The colors go 00 through ff (which is to say the hexadecimal equivalent of 0 through 255 of red, green, and blue with 255 being more rgb).

    #f00 will work too. If both digits are the same, you're allowed to shortcut it down to one character and the browser expands it back out for you.

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    Anonymous
    April 16, 2009

    Aha, thank you both. I thought the color codes should be more than three numbers, but I didn't know about the shortcut syntax so I was trying other three-digit/letter codes and getting very odd results indeed.

    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    April 16, 2009

    I think this color code is wrong. It needs to be a 6-hex digit code, like here: http://www.pagetutor.com/colorpicker/index.html
    I find #FF0000 to do the trick nicely.


    Edit: Another tip: In the Stylish script Full Browser Width, set the background color to #eeeeee, it's more pleasant to the eye than pure white.

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