Start The Cursor on Attack From

[Coleman]

First off I hate my mouse. I really do. Right now the curser is defaulted to the top left of the page, so to tab to anything useful I have to go through Home, Instructions, Scoreboard, Club Forum, Rules, FAQ / Contract and all the players names and their feedback links before I'm on the drop down menus.

I could look up how to default the cursor to the attack from column if you don't know how. I think you can do it in the html even. If not a short java script could probably do it.

Priority: 3?

[wcaclimbing]

cant you just use a mouse and click the buttons?

[Risktaker17]

cant you just use a mouse and click the buttons?

Yeah why wouldn't you just use the mouse. Seems kinda lazy to me.

[Coleman]

cant you just use a mouse and click the buttons?

Yeah why wouldn't you just use the mouse. Seems kinda lazy to me.

Because I shouldn't have to and it only takes one coordinate line (pretty sure) to set a default position for it to something more useful. You know, to make the site slightly more professional.

I'm a programmer, mice are stupid, this site is one of the rare times I touch the darn thing.

[AK_iceman]

And the "Laziest CC'er of the Year" award goes to....

[john1099]

If i read correctly, then you're wanting to create a new tab, in which case, why dont you just CTL T it?

[john1099]

oh!
I misread your post, my mistake.
I agree, why don't you just use your mouse? or if that doesn't work, buy a new one

Edit: Sorry for double post, apparently i hit quote instead of edit

[Coleman]

If i read correctly, then you're wanting to create a new tab, in which case, why dont you just CTL T it?

ha ha ha... no.

What I'm wanting to do is not open a new tab in my browser. I want the first drop down box selected when I'm moving so I don't have to tab down to it every time or use my mouse for the first click.

Edit: Sorry I responded to your first post. But your second one is equally annoying to me. I don't want to have to use my mouse unless I have to, and I don't see any good reason not to implement this. The people that use their mouse all the time aren't going to notice any difference.

[loopinvariant]

I'm a programmer, mice are stupid, this site is one of the rare times I touch the darn thing.

Write a Greasemonkey script to do this for you. About 5 lines of code, if that.

[yeti_c]

focus="true" in the html of the "select"...

Easy to do for Lack...

OR

Easily done in a GM script...

Get "attackDropDown" with getElemenyById() (You'll need to research the correct drop down.

call focus(); on it

Job done. <- might not work in conjunction with jump to map on!

C.

[JMody]

So you want Lack to change around his website because you don't want to use your mouse because your a programmer and you shouldn't have too?

Seems like your a little egotistic to me.

[Dancing Mustard]

Why are people so up in arms against this?
It sounds to me like a really simple change, that'd take all of 5 minutes to do; and would increase functionality for people who:
Do not own a mouse
Find using the keyboard easier (a lot of handicapped people find it impossible to use a mouse, I don't know if you were aware of that)
Have broken/malfunctioning mice

Furthermore, the change would have a grand total of zero impact on all of the other players who do like to use mice (and this includes me).

I agree that this is a really low-priority change for the site; but if Lack could find ten minutes to switch round the default cursor position next time he's updating, then I don't see any reason why not to. I just don't understand why everyone is giving Coleman such a hard time over this...

In summary: Good yet non-urgent idea, which could be easily implemented in the next update (or whenever Lack feels like switching a few lines of code around). Well done Coleman.

Thanks for your time...

[loopinvariant]

Why are people so up in arms against this?
It sounds to me like a really simple change, that'd take all of 5 minutes to do;

I'm sorry if I sounded critical, I was probably too terse. I was just trying to point out that it is easy to do if Coleman wants it fast.

[JMody]

DM, I think people are so up in arms about it is because he is not handi-capped and his mouse is fine. He just wants it to be down so he dont have to tab all over the place to get there.

frankly i think it is a good idea for the reason that you alone stated. not for the reasons he wants it done. So I say well done to you.

[Coleman]

I should learn greasemonkey I take it. I didn't know greasemonkey could do that. All I've seen is people using it to add score boards and forums to sites that don't normally have them.

[JMody]

Coleman. Thats the greatest thing about greasmonkey. It works on any web site you want it to. All you gotta do is write a script for it yourself or find one that works for your needs. A good site to check for scripts for GM is Userscripts.

[yeti_c]

I should learn greasemonkey I take it. I didn't know greasemonkey could do that. All I've seen is people using it to add score boards and forums to sites that don't normally have them.

I bet you could ask stocksr to do it for you - he'll know exactly where you'd want it...

Note of course - you'll also want it done in the deploy & fortification drop downs...

C.