I like last.fm from since back when Pandora became geofenced. One thing, which is kind of annoying, is that you have to jump through hoops to get your favorite tag started. I exclusively want that one tag as station and instead of just setting a bookmark, I wanted to have a go with GreaseMonkey to have a seamless ‘built-in’ experience. And not just changing the window.location but having a button left of the ‘<<‘ (previous) at the always visible player.
With very little exposure to javascript before, I was pleasantly surprised about the ease of finding information. Sadly from multiple decades, different styles, versions, …
Right-click and “Inspect Element” on the player yielded:
Aha, the player is an <ul> (unordered list) in HTML, and is of class ‘media-controls’. The button to play the tag is more interesting:
Three classes, custom attributes.
It took about 30 min. to patchwork something together by searching the web for things like “greasemonkey button insertion” “javascript select by class” and the like. Debugging seems a lot easier today with the browser console, if it were available at the start of this millenium maybe I could’ve had a more thorough dip into JS.
Now, on all pages at last.fm I have an extra button for my alternative-rock-tag. Nice.
// ==UserScript==
// @namespace aoe
// @name lastfm play Alternative tag
// @version 1.0
// @description Add button to play Alternative-tag
// @include https://www.last.fm/*
// @include http://www.last.fm/*
// @run-at document-start
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
//the above comments are interpreted by Greasemonkey, the
//@include https://www.last.fm/* enables the script on all pages
(function(){
'use strict'
window.addEventListener('load', () => {
addButton();
})
function addButton() {
//create new button as list element
let liel = document.createElement('li');
let btn = document.createElement('button');
//add the details learned from inspecting, classes and attributes
//exchange button class with 'player-bar-btn' otherwise it looks
//weird, try yourself to see
btn.classList.add('player-bar-btn');
btn.classList.add('stationlink');
btn.classList.add('js-playlink-station');
//insert link of real button
btn.setAttribute("data-station-url", "/player/station/tag/alternative+rock");
btn.setAttribute("data-analytics-action", "StartStation");
btn.setAttribute("data-analytics-label", "tag");
//grab the player element and put the created button first
let controls = document.getElementsByClassName("media-controls")
liel.appendChild(btn);
controls[0].insertBefore(liel, controls[0].childNodes[0]);
}
}())
@ECHO OFF
IF [%1] == [/?] GOTO USAGE
IF [%1] == [/h] GOTO USAGE
IF %1 NEQ +%1 GOTO USAGE
GOTO PROCESSING
:USAGE
ECHO Sudoku (killer difficulty) downloader, loads from https://sudoku-drucken.de
ECHO and assembles to single file, ready to be printed.
ECHO Dependencies are wget and pdftk, those need to be available on the PATH.
ECHO.
ECHO usage: sudoku [N]
ECHO N - Number of Sudoku pages, default 20 if omitted
GOTO END
:PROCESSING
SETLOCAL
SET FOLDER=%TEMP%\SUDOKU
MD %FOLDER%
CD /D %FOLDER%
SET PAGES=20
IF NOT %1==[] SET PAGES=%1
FOR /L %%N IN (1, 1, %PAGES%) DO (
wget -q -O %%N.pdf "https://sudoku-drucken.de/component/sudoku/?task=print_sudoku&level=killer"
ECHO Downloaded page %%N
)
ECHO Combining %PAGES% to a single PDF
pdftk *.pdf cat output sudoku.pdf
CALL sudoku.pdf
CD \
RMDIR /S /Q %FOLDER%
ENDLOCAL
:END
If using Java11+ thejavax.annotation package is no longer part of the distribution, as per JSR-175 missing annotations do not trigger “missing class” or similar exceptions. So look out when updating from sub-Java11 to there. Solution? Add
Freshly unpacked Netbeans 10 won’t run with either JDK 8 or 11 in PATH and JAVA_HOME.
Solution, either:
run netbeans with jdkhome parameter, pointing to your jdk-base folder, e.g.
netbeans64 --jdkhome c:\jdks\jdk11
for a more permanent solution go to subfolder “etc” and open netbeans.conf search the line with netbeans_jdkhome and set the folder there (also uncomment/ remove hashsign) like so