The house-for-sale listings that RMLSweb.com produces are very detailed, and even include a link to show a map for each house’s address. However, this link goes to MapQuest, which I find infuriatingly annoying to use. I wanted the link to at least go to Google Maps instead. Since I live near Portland, I also wanted to search the fantastic Portland Maps site at the same time. That way I could see lot dimensions, crime statistics, etc.
This was clearly a perfect job for GreaseMonkey. The result, after my usual fights with javascript, is my script to override the RMLS address mapping function.
how did you get this to work on firefox? Did you use the IE tab extension? Because thats the way I have it set up on my computer but your script doesn’t seem to work.
Comment by Anonymous — 5/9/2006 @ 3:23 pm
I’m not sure I understand your question. In firefox, via Greasemonkey, it just works. Of course, I don’t know much about rmlsweb.com. Maybe I didn’t set up the script right; I’ve only been using it from the perspective of RMLS search results sent to me by my agent. (I’d don’t have my own account.)
I’d be happy to take a patch if you find a better way to have it work. Right now it just installs an override for the “ShowMap” javascript function, which is used on rmlsweb.com’s search results to pop a MapQuest map.
Thanks!
Comment by kees — 5/9/2006 @ 4:08 pm
since greasemonkey doesn’t start its work until after a page has fully loaded, I don’t think you need an event listener, and you can add functions into the head like this:
/*
linefeeds in the newjs string keep the code readable when you view generated source and can help when you’re debugging in venkman, although line numbers will be a bit off in venkman.
*/
var newjs=’\n’+
‘var foo=”Howdy!”;\n’+
‘\n’+
‘function bar(foo){\n’+
‘ alert(foo);\n’+
‘}\n’+
‘\n’;
var newscript=document.createElement(’script’);
newscript.setAttribute(’type’,'text/javascript’);
newscript.setAttribute(’id’,'myscript’); // optional
newscript.innerHTML=newjs;
var head=document.getElementsByTagName(’head’).item(0);
head.appendChild(newscript);
Comment by Mike — 4/18/2007 @ 4:46 am