Gamelauncher hack for linux/firefox Options

[crashtime]

I did some screenshots of how to do in FireFox (i am in windows don't kick me for that :P) but the script is easy to configure.

Place the file, for example, in /home/[youruser]/ (to assign easily the chmod)

Then go to a terminal (called in Ubuntu "terminal", in others console or konsole if you are in KDE) and write:

chmod 775 /home/[youruser]etlaunch.sh

There you have the image i captured

P.S: Nice script, it would be improved with a 'selector' of wich ET version is needed (for exmaple i play in 2.55 and 2.6b but i would use it for 2.6b only at this moment)

Attached File(s)

 about_config.JPG ( 247.45K ) Number of downloads: 41
 boolean.JPG ( 258.79K ) Number of downloads: 36
 launcher.JPG ( 96.32K ) Number of downloads: 31
 string.JPG ( 215.75K ) Number of downloads: 41

 

[crashtime]

There you have the file modified by me with the modification i suggested:

CODE

#!/bin/sh

#
# etlaunch.sh launches ET from splatterladder.com
#

ET="/usr/games/bin/et"
ET2="/usr/games/bin/et2.55"

SERVER=`echo ${1} | cut -d "/" -f 3`
PROTOCOL=`echo ${1} | cut -d "/" -f 4`

if [ "$PROTOCOL" = "84" ];
then ${ET} +connect ${SERVER}
else ${ET2} +connect ${SERVER}
fi

As other one, modify ET and ET2 with your own path to ET games, i have added it to mytutorials website

The rest is like BeaTtheMeaT666 said, Enjoy!

This post has been edited by crashtime: Jan 11 2009, 10:17 PM

[Krauersaut]

There you have the file modified by me with the modification i suggested:

CODE

#!/bin/sh

#
# etlaunch.sh launches ET from splatterladder.com
#

ET="/usr/games/bin/et"
ET2="/usr/games/bin/et2.55"

SERVER=`echo ${1} | cut -d "/" -f 3`
PROTOCOL=`echo ${1} | cut -d "/" -f 4`

if [ "$PROTOCOL" = "84" ];
then ${ET} +connect ${SERVER}
else ${ET2} +connect ${SERVER}
fi

As other one, modify ET and ET2 with your own path to ET games, i have added it to mytutorials website

The rest is like BeaTtheMeaT666 said, Enjoy!

I would suggest asking him first for your permission to publish it on your website before you do it.

[crashtime]

Well it is modyfied in part by me and he has credits and redirections to this page... anyway if he does not want to get published tell me and i will delete.

[Psytechnic]

Some people might have noticed that in FireFox 3.5, the network.protocol-handler.app.et designation is depreciated and no longer used, meaning the browser announces that there is no associated application to the et protocol. The way I found to get this to work is using some information here and here. This is based on an ubuntu 9.10 with FireFox 3.5 and requires some gnome libraries.

after following the etlaunch.sh making process, after assigning network.protocol-handler.external.et boolean true, type this into console.

CODE

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/et/command '< etlaunch.sh location> %s' --type String
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/et/enabled --type Boolean true

If you have any comments on this, please message me.