LJ Juggler Update!

[rushin_doll]

Google Chrome has continued to move along, adding new features, and finally LJ Juggler has caught up. With a few of the new Chrome APIs, I've been able to massively overhaul the extension. It now uses the same authentication methods that ljlogin for Firefox does. (Again, huge thanks to the people behind that for being open-source. Bouncing

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[lienne]

Troubles with that shiny new bit where you can add accounts on multiple sites:

I have lienne on LiveJournal on there. I notice I can add Dreamwidth accounts now. I add lienne on Dreamwidth.

Now I have lienne (Dreamwidth) and... lienne (Dreamwidth).

I add lienne on LJ again just to see what happens.

Now I have lienne (LiveJournal), lienne (LiveJournal), and lienne (LiveJournal).

I will now see if these various incarnations all log into LJ or what...

Pretty sure this isn't what you meant to happen,
Pyth

[rushin_doll]

The first thing is intended. We're still working on GUI stuff to handle the multiple services thing.

The system has never checked to see if you've already registered an account, so the duplication thing is a long-standing issue. We haven't fixed THAT problem because, so far, it's never been a big deal.

If that makes sense,
Ana

[lienne]

Further to this: of my three lienne accounts, I can only log into one. The other two are null and void (i.e. unclickable) in the drop-down list.

Effect: I cannot have two accounts with the same name on different sites.

Which part of this is intended again?

[rushin_doll]

Ah! I misunderstood your issue. Fixed if you want to update (though you'll have to delete and re-add the accounts do to a data corruption issue).

Hope that helps,
Ana

[custom_magnum]

Hi. First, I want to thank you for writing this program that let's me abandon Firefox and go to Chrome, which works much better for me already.

But I've noticed an issue, and that's that if I add to many accounts, some of my options go below the usable area of the page, before the option to scroll kicks in. And even when it does, because of my max monitor resolution, I still can't access every account.

I'm using a netbook with the maximum height on the monitor being 600 pixels, which is where the problems coming from. I was just wondering if you knew of anything I could do on my end besides getting a monitor that could fix that, or if it would need to be done on your end in the program itself.

[rushin_doll]

Actually, I haven't run into this yet. I've got a netbook, but I do most of my work on a large-monitored desktop. I suspect that there's nothing you can do about it, sadly. The scroll-bar has never appeared for me, but it's appearance/disappearance is controlled by logic internal to Chrome itself. I could include some code to make it always appear, but that'd require some code changes in the plugin.

Still, now that you've brought this to my attention, I can poke at it and do some testing. Maybe I can figure out a simple solution to put in the next version!

Feedback is awesome to have!
Ana

[custom_magnum]

I figured that was going to be to case. And even if you do make some code for the scrollbar to always appear, I'm still going to get the same issue with some of the account options not being selectable as it seems to go off the monitor for some reason.

[rushin_doll]

They're going off the top/bottom of the monitor? Like the box is stretching out farther than the screen allows? If that's the case, it might be best to simply add some code that sets the max size of the window rather than letting Chrome try to figure out the proper size by itself...

Ponder-ponder,
Ana

[nashidesei]

I have a weird issue with this.

I just recently switched over to Chrome from FireFox specifically because of the development of this extension, and have since uninstalled the other program as LJlogin was the only thing keeping me with it.

It works fine, hasn't had any login issues or anything--except for one VERY weird error. If I try to preview an entry, it shows it as though I'm logged into a different account, and ALWAYS this account.

This account isn't even programmed into my Juggler, but it WAS at the top of the list on LJlogin. But...I uninstalled the program. I don't know what could be causing the crosscontamination. It posts to and from the right account, but the preview appears to be stuck on this account no matter what I do.

Help?

[rushin_doll]

That is very weird! Since Chrome is a separate browser from Firefox, there shouldn't be any way for account cross-contamination (this isn't strictly true, but it's true for LJ purposes). Have you ever logged in manually with Chrome?

That's all I can think of, and I'm perfectly willing to admit that it's a totally blind stab at a solution since I can't think of anything off-hand that would cause that. One thing you might try is clearing all of your cookies in Chrome. It's possible (I don't know for sure) that there's some non-standard cookie that LJ looks at for Preview that the extension doesn't clear since it's not part of the standard login system.

Totally guessing here,
Ana

[nashidesei]

I tried the manual login last night, same thing. Preview is attach to an account I haven't touched in months. Cleared my cookies, same thing. Restarted the computer, same thing.

It's really, really strange. o_O

[rushin_doll]

Very, very strange. I honestly don't know enough about the way LJ's Preview system works to even suggest a solution. If you cleared your cookies it's entirely possible that it's something wrong with LJ's servers themselves rather than the extension. I just... huh.

Boggled,
Ana

[rushin_doll]

There's not currently a way built into the system. The code IS open-source, though, and you could just make your own version (which is relatively easy). But, sadly, at the moment that would make it something of a pain to keep up-to-date if/when new versions come out in the future.

Sorry not to be more help,
Ana

Re: RPing Account

[rushin_doll]

I'd be glad to walk you through it since it's actually quite easy. (Surprisingly so.) But it IS some amount of work, and that may be more than it's worth.

Extensions are surprisingly easy,
Ana

[proxyanon]

Is there a reason why the Interface link goes to metanomaly and not rushin_doll?

As far as I can tell the two accounts are unrelated to each other.

[rushin_doll]

Yes, as it turns out. metanomaly is the one who actually did the interface design. Which is a good thing since I absolutely suck at design myself. This means that the extension doesn't make you want to claw your eyes out whenever it loads.

Hope that makes sense!
Ana

[proxyanon]

Thanks! Sorry; should have checked the changelog before asking.

Now I can finally move to Chrome!

[rushin_doll]

Haha. No problem! And, yes! This was the one thing holding me back from moving, so I took care of that problem ;)

Let me know if you have any problems,
Ana