Quickly Reading The XNA Forums

April 19th, 2009 | 2 comments

One thing that I like to do is keep my unread posts down to 0 on the XNA forums. But it got really annoying to have to ctrl-click every link to get them all open in new tabs, read them (or just let them load), and then close them. Then repeat for the other pages.

I starting thinking and realized that I can use a Javascript bookmark to help me out. So I wrote up this bit of JavaScript here that uses some regex to find all the “Last Post” links on the current page you’re on and open them in new windows/tabs.

javascript:
var myreg = /\<a href="(.+?)"\>Last Post\<\/a\>/g;
var i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
	var match = myreg.exec(document.documentElement.innerHTML);
	if (match.length == 2)
		window.open(match[1], '', '');
}

void(0);

So you can just copy/paste this into the URL bar of your browser while on the Not Read page, but the real beauty is making this a bookmark so you can just click it and have all the posts come up. In fact, you can drag and drop this link to your bookmarks bar and have it easy access. Just like that. :)


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  1. emailtoid.net/i/818a70d3/
    April 21st, 2009 at 05:52
    | Quote | #1

    I think I love you ;) I can’t believe I never thought about doing this and I’m so excited to have this now. Already blasted through my backlog of posts. So stinking awesome.

  2. jconsuelos
    April 22nd, 2009 at 07:43
    | Quote | #2

    Hi Nick, my name is Jesus Consuelos, you can call me JC, I wanto to say tank you for the cideo tutorias and the enormus effort that you gave us in your tutorials (I not from USA and my english could be a little funny, so be patient :) ) I trying to make a game and use your tile game video tutorias, i see to the number 8 video, after that I try to tweak the code to do some like a plataform game, just like prince of persia or patapon and you say in your videios that you need some ideas to create more videos right? well the ideas are:

    - The posibilitty of use tiles and sprites of diferent sizes. by examplem mi hero are 66*66 but the boss the bigg boss is 150*150
    - The posibilitty of use a back ground. Example, I want to usea a gradient background (640*480 png file)
    - The posibility of have diferrent speed for layers. (palaralx)
    - The posibility of tiles modifies the behaivor or sprites. I mean in example a tile with glue and if the hero are over the glue the speed slow…well this is cover in the eight video I think, I dont see the complete video sorry)
    - and finally when the hero reache at the end of screen load another layer instead of stop him.

    Well, what you think? can you do a video adapting your tile game video tutorials? or can you givme some tips to realize this by my self?

    Nick, thanx a lot for you help in advance, and 10x for your time and your work.

    Grettings from Mexico City

    JC

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