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Goodies for your web browser’s “Personal Toolbar”

If your web browser has a “personal toolbar” (sometimes also called a “links bar”) and supports JavaScript, here are some goodies you can add as browser hot-buttons to make your life easier.

Installation takes about 5 minutes -- and once it’s installed, it’ll save you tons of time and hassle. Here’s how to make it go...


For Netscape Navigator
  • First, make sure your personal toolbar is activated (showing). If it’s hidden, try looking for the option to make it visible in your browser’s “View” menu.

  • Next, open up you browser’s “Edit Bookmarks” window (Ctrl-B or Command-B in Netscape). This might be called “Favorites” or “Links” in non-Netscape browsers.

  • Now, from the File menu, select “New Bookmark...”

  • And from here, it’s easy -- just cut & paste the Name and Location of each bookmark (shown below in pairs), then click OK, and then repeat for the next bookmark. (Make sure that you copy the whole javascript line -- each is a very long line, more than 200 characters. If you can’t cut & paste the whole line at once, you can still cut & paste it in pieces, as long as you cram it all together onto one line when you paste it back together.

  • When you’ve got them all added, simply drag them to your “Personal Toolbar Folder” and they’ll magically appear as named buttons at the top of your browser! Now, from anywhere, you can instantly summon up searches, even if some page you’re viewing has no search box. (You’ll see how cool it is once you get it working.

For Microsoft Internet Explorer (or Netscape Navigator for Win32 or MacOS)
  • Drag each link (rather than text) onto the Links (or Personal) Toolbar.

What to Grab (Netscape Navigator 4+)

LUGNET News Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:q=document.getSelection();if(!q)void(q=prompt('LUGNET News Search',''));if(q){u='https://news.lugnet.com/?q=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}

Set Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:q=document.getSelection();if(!q)void(q=prompt('LUGNET Set Search',''));if(q){u='https://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}

QuickSet Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:q=document.getSelection();if(!q)void(q=prompt('LUGNET QuickSet Search',''));if(q){u='https://www.lugnet.com/quickset/ql.cgi?q=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}

Partsref Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:q=document.getSelection();if(!q)void(q=prompt('LUGNET Partsref Search',''));if(q){u='https://www.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/parts/ref/search.cgi?q=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}

What to Grab (Microsoft Internet Explorer)

LUGNET News Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:void(q=prompt('LUGNET News Search',''));if(q){u='https://news.lugnet.com/?q=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}

Set Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:void(q=prompt('LUGNET Set Search',''));if(q){u='https://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}

QuickSet Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:void(q=prompt('LUGNET QuickSet Search',''));if(q){u='https://www.lugnet.com/quickset/ql.cgi?q=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}

Partsref Search   (Bookmark this link)
javascript:void(q=prompt('LUGNET Partsref Search',''));if(q){u='https://www.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/parts/ref/search.cgi?q=';for(i=0;i!=q.length;i++){c=q.charAt(i);u+=(c=='+')?'%2B':(c==' ')?'+':escape(c)}location.href=u}


Notes

The first bookmark is just a shortcut to the main LUGNET news search facility, just like the box at the top of the main LUGNET homepage. The second bookmark invokes searches within the LUGNET/Pause database. The third bookmark invokes a search using LUGNET’s QuickSet utility. And the fourth bookmark (for LDraw fans!) invokes searches within Steve Bliss’s Partsref resource.

Have fun!!!!!

--Todd & Suz
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