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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
The text and image formats are equally easy - it's just a setting.
But I was hoping for some feedback about text buttons, because for a new website I'm working on I'm not planning to have any image buttons - the free online tools I used to design our current image buttons met their demise many, many moons ago, and graphical design is not my strong suit anyway.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined:
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Reply to Stile and AZPaul3:
Maybe it's nothing, but after having image buttons forever I was worried that text buttons would not be well received. EvC Forum is very long in the tooth. When it first opened in January of 2001 MySpace was still a thing, nobody had heard of Google, and Twitter, Facebook and YouTube didn't exist. While the design has had incremental changes/improvements, for the most part it looks exactly as it did 20 years ago. The new website I'm working on will be using state of the art user interface software, and if that experience goes well I hope to migrate that technology back to EvC Forum.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Thanks everyone for reporting this. Peek problem is fixed. I'll get on my testing department.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
I've just released some minor cleanup changes. I combined a couple button routines to simplify the code. I've checked all the buttons and they seem to work.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
On the member Settings page there's a setting called Signature Display. It can be set to "Display signatures" or to "Do not display signatures." If you select "Do not display signatures" then signatures in messages will no longer be displayed.
This feature has been available for a long while, but I just discovered that I broke it a few years ago when I made changes to the CSS rules. I've just released code that fixes the problem and restores the lost function of being able to turn off the display of signatures. To use the feature you will have to do a hard reload.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Also, [noparse] has an abbreviated form, [np].
[noparse] turns off most of the parser - almost all text goes through untouched.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
All buttons except the ones at the top and bottom of the page now have the same appearance. Please report issues/problems here.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined:
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The most recent button changes didn't require any changes to CSS or Javascript, so no hard reset was required.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
You found a real bug, thanks for letting me know. There was a tiny problem that I made worse by trying to fix it, then I saw your note and fixed it properly (hopefully) just before rushing out, just got back.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Needed a break from what I've been working on, so for fun I've added a new [img] feature: spin. It's probably useless, but implementing it was a welcome distraction since it was easy, fun, and I could code in the old and familiar. See dBCode Help for details, but here's how to make an image complete one rotation every 5s in a counterclockwise direction for 3 rotations:
[img=spin:5s:cc:3]https://evcforum.net/Images/Avatars/00000356.gif[/img] Demo:
You'll have to do a hard reload to see it. Edited by Admin, : Fix rotation direction.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined:
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My other project is still a tough slog, so I took another break and made some minor improvements to [qs]. When you include a member's name, that name becomes a link to his list of threads and has a hoverbox. E.g., this:
[qs=Percy]Needed a break from what I've been working on.[/qs] Produces this:
Admin writes: Needed a break from what I've been working on. If you instead use a message number then it includes a link and a hoverbox for that, too. E.g., this:
[qs=52]Needed a break from what I've been working on.[/qs] Produces this:
Admin in Message 52 writes: Needed a break from what I've been working on. The message number must be from the current thread.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined:
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I just discovered that when I changed over from image buttons to text buttons that I removed the ability to shift-click to open in a new window. I've just restored this ability, but buttons will not work until you do a hard reload.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Hmmm, people with positive integers for names. It would be nice for there to be a non-klugey way (i.e., not "07" or "7.0') to specify you mean a message number and not a member. I'll give it some thought.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
That's a good idea.
I just remembered that a friend had a brother who legally changed his name to "3". I met him once at a wedding and that's how he wanted to be addressed.
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Admin Director Posts: 13132 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Tangle writes: I just spent 25 minutes trying and failing to post an image I can do in seconds with most other sites by snipping, copying to my clipboard and posting directly. But adding (img) copied image (/img) is no hardship. Was the problem that the image was only on your machine and not accessible from the Internet? If yes then I understand the issue, but if no then I need to understand this better.
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