- paulmarv
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- Exalted Legendary Member
"Once Bungie takes over the world, The Marty Army will take over Bungie and then we'll really have some fun."
-Marty O'Donnell
"Condemnant quod non intellegunt."
Make Bungie.net More Enjoyable: Read & Follow
To burrito:
Get the executable files.
Now, for me, one of the hardest things is getting set up. I want to be able to make a change in the text editor, hit save, reload the page, and see my changes.
Here's how I do that:
1. I have a grand, all-consuming Halo folder in documents (which is actually more like a Bungie folder). In that folder, I have Bungie.net. In Halo\Bungie.net, I have Greasemonkey. It helps to be this organized. Whenever I create a new script, I create a folder named scriptName in Halo\Bungie.net\Greasemonkey.
2. In order for a script to work under GM, the file name need to have the extension '.user.js' instead of '.js'. It wont work otherwise. The second thing you need is the special set of headers at the top. These headers are what tells Firefox about the script, its name, author, etc. It's not efficient to memorize the specific syntax for these headers, so I suggest you download a script and copy and paste it from there. Obviously change 'paulmarv' to 'burritosenior' and 'FooterCollapse' to 'Burrito's awesome script'.
3.Drag that user.js file into firefox. Now here's where it gets tricky. From here, after you make any changes to the script, you'd have to drag it back in every time you make a change. This is because Firefox stores the scripts at some random temporary directory, and those script files are the ones that get read executed, and not the ones in the Bungie.net folder.
So I edit them instead, and copy the contents into the script file in Bungie.net/Greasemonkey every now and then. How do you open the true script file, you ask? Go into Tools-Greasemonkey-(Select Script)-Edit.
It will open it up with the selected editor. If that editor isn't the editor you want to use, find out where the true script file is located. Maybe try 'save as' to see the directory they are stored in.
4. I open the script up in Dreamweaver and get started. You can use Notepad++, which is what I would recommend for anybody that's new, but if you ever get serious, get Dreamweaver.
I hope this helps you.