Check Range user script
My first user script for Greasemonkey is Check Range. It lets you check or uncheck a range of checkboxes by clicking the first checkbox and then Shift+clicking the last checkbox. I have tested it with Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. I have only tested it using Firefox 1.0.2 because Greasemonkey does not work on the trunk for me.
April 14th, 2005 at 2:49 am
Great idea. Can’t imagine going back in use of IE. To spoiled by FF and its still emerging capabilities.;-)
April 14th, 2005 at 3:58 am
An even better idea would be to add a contextual menu item on checkboxes and their associated labels to check/uncheck all.
April 14th, 2005 at 10:41 am
Hey Jesse~
I’m too incompitent to learn DHTML, but i’m curious, would it be possible to write a greamonkey script which would turn firefox into a pseudo-text browser? Obviously you’d want it to be toggle-able, but something where text displays where it’s supposed to, frames are fine, but images aren’t even loaded. I’m tired of firing up links/lynx and having to use my arrow keys to navigate. Is that doable? Would a newbie be able to write it?
April 14th, 2005 at 12:06 pm
I have tried this on yahoo mail and http://www.faqs.org/docs/htmltut/forms/_INPUT_TYPE_CHECKBOX.html and it doesn’t seem to do anything. Are there any known conflicts with other user scripts?
Michael
April 14th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
It works for me on Yahoo! Mail and http://www.faqs.org/docs/htmltut/forms/_INPUT_TYPE_CHECKBOX.html.
April 14th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
Works for me on Yahoo mail also, awesome! (paid account) I can selectively check different ranges of consecutive messages to be deleted or moved, so it makes using web-based email much faster. Thanks.
April 14th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Why block gmail?
I tested it and it seemed to work…
April 14th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
So, I’m not the only one who can’t get Greasemonkey working on the Trunk builds, eh? Is that because Greasemonkey fell behind Firefox or the other way around?
April 14th, 2005 at 10:33 pm
I excluded Gmail because Gmail has a similar feature built in.
I just tested my script with Gmail, and doing so didn’t break Gmail. I think it’s still a good idea to exclude Gmail, though.
April 15th, 2005 at 8:05 am
Alex,
Yep, GM dies on nightlies:
http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-April/000767.html
Which was already patched, but hasn’t been released yet. 0.3 is being tested on the list, but it’s a big patch with sort of a migration problem, so we’ve taken a while getting it out.
http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-April/001089.html
Which hasn’t been patched, and looks like a killer (document.getElementById doesn’t work!).
April 16th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Nice little GreaseMonkey script
This is one of the more useful GreaseMonkey scripts that I have found. Check Range, from Jesse Ruderman, allows you to select a range of checkboxes by holding down Shift while clicking.
more about GreaseMonkey…
April 18th, 2005 at 11:30 am
Hi Jeremy — fancy running into you here!
As I run the Firefox nightlies, I’m looking forward to the GM 0.3 release. However, what do you mean about “sort of a migration problem”? Will existing scripts have to be rewritten for the new version?
April 18th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Alex,
No, we’re not breaking compatibility with existing scripts. But the format of the internal config.xml which GM uses to keep track of the installed scripts and prefs (include/exclude/enabled) is changing, and the original patch didn’t include migration for that.
0.3a is looking fairly solid, with a couple more tweaks it’ll be released.
April 18th, 2005 at 8:19 pm
Jesse, thanks for fulfilling my request on the greasemonkey wiki page!
It would be great if you could look into my next one – keyboard navigation for flickr.com and pbase galleries. I am a graphic design/webmonkey by day with a mouse in my hand for 8 hours and clicking those prev/next links is painful. I am sure the community will appreciate it, too.
http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScriptRequest#head-fc904a8dd70c4a77f49f14edbe6de4c95132aad2
Regards
— Andre
July 14th, 2005 at 1:42 am
GREAT! I’ve been wondering for years why this wasn’t a default option in any browser, FF in particular. Got sick and tired clicking all the boxes to select my mails on the university webmail. Thanks! -Leon Brokken.
August 25th, 2005 at 1:39 pm
This rocks, thanks!