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Sildan
09-27-2005, 03:48 AM
On this page is an Allakhazam search engine.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?submitform=Find&category=30

...and this page has Lucy Spells and Lucy Items.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?submitform=Find&category=24

Nimchip
09-27-2005, 05:08 AM
Now.. if only we had one for beastiary and Eqitems!

Matren
09-27-2005, 11:51 AM
Thanks http://pichold.com/Images/Smilies/bowdown.gif.

Bauhb
09-30-2005, 12:40 PM
dont have one for eqitems, but there's one for alka's beastiary on this page:

http://stathol.home.comcast.net/plugins/plugin_installer.html

i know there's one for eqtraders.com, but i have no idea where it's at right now :frown:

Sildan
09-30-2005, 01:40 PM
dont have one for eqitems, but there's one for alka's beastiary on this page:

http://stathol.home.comcast.net/plugins/plugin_installer.html

i know there's one for eqtraders.com, but i have no idea where it's at right now :frown:


Thats a sweet link!!

Nimchip
10-01-2005, 12:39 AM
Found EQtraders...

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/showpost.php?p=136376&postcount=173

I made one for EQTrader. Ordinarily I loathe "extras" in a browser. One of firefox's bigger appeals to me is its lack of fluff. But that little search tab gets constant use from me.

There's one for lucy, allakhazam and illia here made by Stathol.

I chopped it up and took the EQTC small logo and shrunk it. Since it's all derivative work I'd feel uncomfortable presenting it as something I made so maybe one of the web gurus here can finesse or redo it.

Attached is a 2k zip file. Within are two files:
eqtrader.src: flatfile that defines the search (can open it in notepad or anything to peek)
eqtrader.png: .png graphic file of the logo

Extract those two files in your c:\program files\mozilla firefox\searchplugins directory. Close any open browser windows. That's it.

For those without firefox wondering what it does: In the upper right of a firefox browser is a drop-down list of search engines. I have Google, Illia's Beastiary, m-w.com, etc and now EQ Traders. Instead of going to the site and doing a search at one of them, you pick which search you want with the drop-down, enter the text and it goes straight to search results. The engine you last picked remains so it's often a matter of just going up and entering new text without going to eqtraders' home first.

Obviously this bypasses the main page since it goes straight to search results. If it's an issue for folks to bypass the home page it may not be welcome and you're free to nuke the attachment or whatever.

Nimchip
10-01-2005, 01:00 AM
I edited the Allakhazam one to adapt it to EQItems, it is working for now... Need to host it somewhere so people don't get confused when you install it. For now here's the zip file (install same way as the eqtraders one).

Naeyene
10-01-2005, 10:07 AM
Those are really cool! http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/froehlich/a055.gif

Yrys
10-05-2005, 12:33 AM
FYI, if you don't like the search bar, you can do this another way too. Firefox has a feature called "Quick Searches," which allows you to use a keyword and search from your URL bar.

Here's a walkthrough example for Lucy spells:

1. Bookmark the search URL, and replace the search parameter with %s.
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spelllist.html?searchtext=%s

2. Move the bookmark to your Quick Searches folder, and right click it and select Properties.

3. Change the Keyword field to something easy for your to remember. In my case, I use ls for Lucy spells.

4. Now, you can search Lucy for a spell by simply typing something like "ls thorns" on your URL bar.

Here are a few others:
Lucy items - http://lucy.allakhazam.com/itemlist.html?searchtext=%s
EQ Traders - http://www.eqtraders.com/search/search.php?data[item]=%s&min=0&hits=0&menustr=035000000000
Allakhazam items - http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/searchdb.html?iname=%s

Hope that helps someone out. :)