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Percy Member Posts: 22947 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
This is on the list, and relatively easy to do. It could easily make 3.0, and if it doesn't it could occur shortly after in an interim release, which I do frequently without any notice when adding minor features or fixing minor bugs.
--Percy
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3971 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 7.1 |
I vaguely recall (as in, I'm probably wrong) that you (Percy) had plans to set up the signatures such that when the signature changes, it also changes on all the old messages, like the avatars do. I personally would not like that system - I would like the old signatures preserved as they were when the message was originally posted.
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Percy Member Posts: 22947 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
I've was persuaded around to your way of thinking the last time we talked about this, particularly as it's not unusual for people to refer to their signature in the body of their message, and changing the signature could make the message unclear or even nonsensical.
It would also add a run-time performance hit. The only place where I think it might be helpful would be in the moderator signatures that contain all the useful links, which change from time to time, but that would be only a minor help. So there are no plans to update signatures in old messages when members change the signature in their profile. --Percy
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1659 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Percy,
I notice that many people have trouble using the msg=, thread= etc links (mostly because they don't take the time to learn it, and for some it is a little to much technasleeze) I also notice that YouTube proves copy and paste html coding to either link or embed the videos on other sites (cool stuff imho) I am wondering if you could not provide a "copy link to this message" coding that would provide the dbcode ([msg=-f,t,-m]) to copy and paste? (sorry inadvertently started a new thread instead of a reply to this one) Perhaps using and then showing the code to copy? Enjoy. Edited by RAZD, : added Edited by RAZD, : improved compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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Percy Member Posts: 22947 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Actually, I'm struggling with how best to do this right now. I'd like to create a drag and drop capability, where you might position the cursor over the "Message 65 of 71" text of the message, hold down the left mouse button, then drag over to the text box and release the mouse button at the point in the text where you wanted the message link, and it would drop into the text "[msgid=184572]".
I'm not sure how to do this yet. I'd also need the equivalent for forums and threads, and since the text for forums and threads are already links, you can't left click and drag, because it drags the link. I could override that and cause it to drag the text, but then they wouldn't be links anymore. So I'll need some other forum-related/thread-related icon or text for people to drag and drop from. Assuming I figure out how to do drag and drop. Drag and drop within the same browser window isn't the problem. It's doing it from one browser window to an adjacent browser window. Right-click then selecting "copy" from the menu would also have to work. --Percy
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
I notice that many people have trouble using the msg=, thread= etc links (mostly because they don't take the time to learn it, and for some it is a little to much technasleeze) Some of us haven't bothered with it because it puts the link in a premade format. I usually prefer to embed links to messages in the text I'm writing. The dBCode doesn't let me do this. Edited by Chiroptera, : No reason given.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1659 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Some of us haven't bothered with it because it puts the link in a premade format. I usually prefer to embed links to messages in the text I'm writing. The dBCode doesn't let me do this. But I'm talking about people that are not familiar with making links and ways to make it more user friendly. You could add a first option (I thought of this just after posting the above) that would make an html link (that could also be used off-site): code is I don't know if this would solve Percy's problem with thread and forum number extractions. I suppose logically you would want just the message link codes with the messages, and have separate link codes in the header for the threads and forums. Enjoy. Edited by RAZD, : last p compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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Percy Member Posts: 22947 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Right, what you want is for something like this to be legal:
[msgid=18732]do this[/msgid] Not difficult at all, except that [msg] is one of the "lone" dBCodes, meaning that it doesn't need a closing tag, and I was intending the new [msgid] code to be the same style. I'd rather not introduce yet another dBCode that accepts a closing tag but is similar in all other respects, but maybe a simple and intuitive approach will suggest itself as I work through the other related issues. --Percy
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1659 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
On the "The Herb Allure Forum Complex" forum there are some "forum extras" that may be useful to incorporate.
The Orbis Vitae Community - Forums powered by UBB.threads You can upload images and resize them to appropriate size, for instance this one was set to 500 pixel width:
You can also manage long links and have them display with titles. This is probably useful for commonly used long urls rather than any you come across, so it may have limited usability. What would be useful for the pictures would be to have the ability to record the source (ie - website, camera, etc) and time where the image was obtained and have this paste with the picture. Being able to resize pictures is good because large pictures are memory hungry and take time to load. Enjoy. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. |
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1659 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Right, what you want is for something like this to be legal:
[msgid=18732]do this[/msgid] What about using the link information as provided by youtube? with a default for "this message"?
To link to this message copy and paste the following:
[url=http://EvC Forum: Feature Requests and Suggestions Thread -->EvC Forum: Feature Requests and Suggestions Thread Message[/url] They make it easy to post rather complicated code. Enjoy. Edited by RAZD, : link to this message Edited by RAZD, : moved video to This Message we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Great ideas, I've added them both to the list. You do realize I'm just one guy, right?
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