How to set your icon with LibraryThing MyIcon

Collectorator asked how to set the icon for aethercowboy's LibraryThing MyIcon script. All you need to do is enter a URL when first prompted by the script. For example, I saved your user icon, resized it to 16x16 and uploaded it to imageshack. So when it prompts you for your icon, enter:

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9890/collectoratorc.jpg

Hey aethercowboy - You should put in a submenu that causes the prompt to come up again. Right now there's no good way for someone to change their icon. I'm sure you didn't do it before because it was mainly for you and you know how to use about:config. :)

Oh, and btw aethercowboy, you got bit by the same "feature" I did. You need to add "http://www.librarything.com/talktopic*" to the Included Pages for any script that modifies talk pages. When you click on the link, you go to a page with the URL form "http://www.librarything.com/topic/*". But when you click in the cell near a link but not actually on it, you get a URL of the form "http://www.librarything.com/talktopic*". Probably just some cruft LT has never noticed or cared enough to change.

My poor little shrunken mule! What I was really asking though,was whether it had to be an .ico file, or if it could be a .gif file. You've made a .jpg, so now I guess I can use anything?

To change it, I think I'll just turn it off and then turn it back on.

Nope. That doesn't work. Will have to wait for the cowboy.

You can use anything that would normally display in your browser. Most browser can display gifs and jpgs. Most newer ones png, too. Ico is less common. When in doubt, just try to open it in the browser.

If you want to change it right now without him adding the option, enter about:config in your browser url bar. Then type
myicon.favicon
in the search bar. That should bring up one result. You can right click on it and edit it right there, or choose reset and the script will prompt you next time.

aethercowboy:

Just for fun (and as part of learning the GM menu command api), I went ahead and whipped up a function. All you need to do is stick it somewhere after you've defined xFavicon.

GM_registerMenuCommand('Reset Favicon', function() {
GM_deleteValue(xFavicon);
window.location.reload();
});

All right, I edited through about:config. But my image is distorted. I need to change the pixel size in the code. I wonder where dat is.

Oh, and a question I had from earlier is must I upload the image to the web, then provide that path to the script? That's what I've been doing, because there isn't a browse yer files button.

You to edit the image using some image editing software (if you're on Windows, you should at least have something called Paintbrush somewhere if you search for it).

You don't have to upload it. But the syntax is a little trickier for files on your local machine.

If you had a file that was at:
C:\temp\thing.gif

You would need to enter:
file:///C:/temp/thing.gif

There's no great way for his script to let you browse for a local file using Greasemonkey scripts. You can do it, but it's a whole lot of trouble.

I know how to edit an image, I just don't know what size the script wants.

It's no problem uploading to the web.

16x16

But how do you know that?

ewww. Animated ones are bad.

I know it because I looked at the script code. ;)

var xSize = 16;
image.setAttribute("height", xSize);
image.setAttribute("width", xSize);

If you wanted to learn some mad skillz, you could actually increase that value in the code to give yourself a bigger icon. Just choose Manage Scripts under the monkey icon. Find the LT MyIcon script in the list on the left, then click the Edit button below that. It should open the script in a text editor. Edit it and save it. Then reload the LT page and your results (for better or worse!) should have taken effect.

Good luck!

Ahhh. Ok. I'm all set. I left it at 16 because that's good. Now I have a nice colored box. (silly smile)

Thanks for all your help, jpierce!

Bugs noted. I'll roll out an update soon!

Do my updates work? I ask myself before I deploy?

Still testing....

Fixed, I think.

http://sites.google.com/site/jacobsilvia/code/ltmyicon.user.js

Let me know of any more bugs/problems/feature requests. Or you can do it yourself (it IS in the CC :)).

Sorry for the long delay. I don't normally visit LT on the weekends. Playing Spore...

To reset the image (thanks to jpierce):

Tools > Greasemonkey > User Script Commands > Reset Favicon