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satpak77

satpak77

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Just got Hacking Windows XP book for X-mas and came up with this (no life)

It will auto-refresh every 5 minutes and is set for DFW. Go to the "K---" airport identifier in the weblink below and change it to whatever airport you want.

Cut and Paste the below into NOTEPAD, then SAVE AS whatever file title, with an .htm extension.

Then, close all windows, and right click the desktop. Then Properties-->Desktop--->Browse--->(insert this file) and hit OK/APPLY.

code below....I believe it requires a space between lines, so you may need to re-adjust it when you paste it to NOTEPAD. In other words, it should look EXACTLY like the code below.

<html>

<head>

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="300">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#0066CC">

<p align="center">

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Verdana">

</font>

<br>

<img src="http://map3.flightaware.com/airport_map.rvt?ident=KDFW;key=2bdea312eb6c2429bbd3344c4883b8e944f9e189;height=600;width=1000">

</p>

</body>

</html>
 
GrnClvrs said:
Cool program, thanks. Any idea why the position function is disabled? I have a 15.4" screen on my laptop and want to stretch it to cover the whole screen.
Click to expand...

go to the end of the link, "height" and "width" and carefully readjust the values until you get it how you like it.

you can cut and paste the link itself directly into your browser, with the modified size settings, once you get it how you like it (its hard to get it perfect perfect) then save it into the desktop file
 
If you are having problems getting it to fit perfectly in full-screen try this...

just above the </head> tag, place the following:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-color: #6699FF;
}
-->
</style>

Then you can change the width and height to match your screen size (1024x768, 800x600, etc). Should be a perfect fit except for the small part hiding behind the menu bar.

If you want it to refresh more often, just change the "300" to something smaller. It's measured in seconds, so 60=1 min. Cheers-

FB
 
Any of you techie types know how to make it fit to both screens of a dual monitor system? I tried changing the width to 2560 to fit 2 1024x1280 and best I can do is a small strip down the center of my left monitor. If it makes any difference, it's a nvidia quadro fx1400 card.
 
mine quit working

It worked until last night when I tried to show somebody the same saver. I get the map without the traffic update. Wondering if I need to register at flightaware. Anybody?
 
It seems as though the url to get the map changes regularly.

The original post used a url of map3.flightaware.com...etc. When I set mine up the url in the original post did not work. I went to the website and brought up IAH, when I checked the url of the map it had changed to map1.flightaware......
Today I got back from a trip and It was not working so I checked and see its map3.flightaware..... again.

Anyone know how to work around this?
 
Flightaware had some data feed issues a few days back, try to "new" URL and see if it works. Bring up the map/"radar" image and right click on it, go to properties, and the URL is listed there
 
Anybody know how to "tweak" the code so it follows a particular tail number/ flight number? That would be sneaky.

JJ
 
May be a dumb question, but I can't find the answer. What is the difference between the green and blue data blocks?

Thanks
 
Green are aircraft in the AREA of the airport you have selected. Blue are aircraft that are arriving or departing at the airport you have selected.
 
Its great!
but there must be an Air Hold in place at DFW because I typed in 5 seconds and I don't see any motion.

Also still have a stripe at the top of my screen that changing the height does not fix (it just adds more off the bottom of the screen I think. (I have pasted in the fix code mentioned earlier)

Thank-yuh!
 
GravityHater said:
Its great!
but there must be an Air Hold in place at DFW because I typed in 5 seconds and I don't see any motion.
Click to expand...
Well first of all, the sweep on the radar is probably at least 5 secs. I would think updating any less than 20 secs would not show any changes....
 
Nice

Nice guys, with this my wife can know where I am at all times!! :laugh:
 
hope everybody likes it, I run the KDFW display with DFW ATC real audio in the background

that makes me an official nerd
 

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