Open pm64 opened 3 years ago
Sure, the readme file hasn't been updated in a while, and should contain more information.
There are several colors in the scan list:
Colors on the page preview:
Thank you @WaldiPL for this valuable info.
This clarifies things greatly, but I'm still slightly confused on the relationship between the "frequency of automatic scanner startup" and "interval" settings.
My understanding of what you're saying is as follows:
"Frequency of automatic scanner startup" controls how often a page should be scanned, defaulting to 60 minutes. (If my understanding here is correct, then you might consider renaming this setting to "scan frequency").
Interval "specifies how much time must pass before a page can be scanned again". The default here appears to be 8 hours.
Therefore, even though "Frequency of automatic scanner startup" defaults to 60 minutes, a page by default will actually be scanned once every 8 hours, since the scan frequency is being limited by the Interval setting.
Is my understanding of the above points correct?
"Interval" refers to a specific page. Each page can have a different interval set. If a page has an interval: 8h then even if the page changes before that time, those changes will not be detected (applies to automatic scanning).
"Frequency of..." refers to the main extension script. This is the period between scans. If this time is greater than the "interval" (e.g. interval=8h, Frequency...=12h) then the page will be scanned every 12h not 8h. This time is reset after restarting the browser. The first scan takes place 1 minute after the browser is started, the next scans after the time specified in "Frequency...".
This is clearly a great add-on that has required significant effort to produce, with the potential to be extremely useful. However, the documentation seems a little .. non-existent? After reading the project's readme.md, I'm still confused on a number of items:
Answers to the above would be immensely helpful for me, and I'd be more than happy to contribute to any documentation effort once I have a better understanding of this add-on.