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Obliterator wrote:
CP seems to loose my DHTML choice
I've noticed that as well, it seems to be intermittent.
Chris mentioned a problem with one of the servers' browscap.ini files.
Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
Arthur-Anderson, proud sponsor of the Corporate Make A Wish Foundation.
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Obliterator wrote:
However occaisionnaly CP seems to loose my DHTML choice and present me the suggestion I use IE4.0 or Mozilla?
Yep - working to find some time to work on it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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IMHO, there should be a section in the FAQ dealing with posting to the forums. Users are currently expected to understand that they must escape certain characters (& < > ), correctly format code and keywords, HTMLize links, etc. The new toolbar helps, but having some sort of reference might aid users who currently sit sadly at home, waiting in vain for their questions to be answered, unaware that an unfortunately placed < swallowed up all of their code. Not to mention the irritation sustained by the lack of clickable links in the posts of certain people.
Shog9
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Maybe Java is kind of like God, it "works in mysterious ways". It seems like your apps are running slowly, because in the backgroud Java is solving world hunger, or finding the cure to cancer.
- Ryan Johnston, Don't die java!
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Gosh Shog good idea.
We need a Dummies guide to CP.
I'm sure Chris could get the scripts to catch all the posters who have posted less than 10 messages and redirect them to the guide before posting.
Also he could authorize them with a learners license to use CP before make outright fools of themselves.
And instead of a normal head icon they could get a sausage symbol so we all would know that they were new to CP, and need to be treated with kid gloves.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I am sick of fighting with Martin, I think I will ignore his posts from here on in, and spend the time working on articles instead.
Christian Graus
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Good idea! I think earthweb had a FAQ on each section, but why not a article level as well?
Normski. - the next bit of code is self modifying ... jmp 0xCODE
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i tick "Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message".
so i think the replies will e-mail to the message's author as soon as the replies are submitted.
but what will happen if the replies are being modified or deleted?
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zhoujun wrote:
but what will happen if the replies are being modified or deleted?
My understanding of the mechanism is that a mail notification is sent when you reply to a post, but not when you delete it or modify it.
Regards,
Nish
p.s. Sometimes you make a stupid reply, then quickly delete it, then suddenly remember that the original poster has got a mail notify.
p.s. to p.s. Luckily now the mail notifications don't included the entire post, so if we are lucky the embarassing bits might get dotted out 
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
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Nishant S wrote:
My understanding of the mechanism is that a mail notification is sent when you reply to a post, but not when you delete it or modify it.
That is correct. I missed out on an XML book someone was selling because I modified a message to say I wanted it, instead of creating a new one. He was not reading the thread, only the emails.
Christian
come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002
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thanks,Nish.
then suddenly remember that the original poster has got a mail notify.
no,i did not realised that until some strict guys complained in his posting that i basically did not catch what was talking about.
you said"Luckily now the mail notifications don't included the entire post"
what do you mean?the post is filtered??
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Hey Chris,
It's ages since I've nagged ya, so here goes.
Sometimes when you are reading a thread that spans across a page break (i.e. you have click next) it would be nice if each message had a "Reply to thread starter" as well as just plain ol' "Reply" 'cause then if a message gave you a thought but you couldn't be bothered to go to the previous page to post it, you could click on our magical link and hey presto!
Whaddya think  ?
(ps. gotta love the new toolbar thing, even if I haven't had a chance to use it yet  )
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Andrew.
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Nice idea, but what would happen is that people would reply to thread starter when they meant instead to reply to the current message author.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Maybe hide it, in a very small font, placed just next to the [delete] link...
Shog9
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Maybe Java is kind of like God, it "works in mysterious ways". It seems like your apps are running slowly, because in the backgroud Java is solving world hunger, or finding the cure to cancer.
- Ryan Johnston, Don't die java!
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Good point, oh well... I'll have to try and remember to shift click Next instead methinks.
Thanks!
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Andrew.
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A wording change would help that, such as
[Reply to this message] [Reply to the first message in this thread]
--Mike--
Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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You think it would, but it won't.
As long as we get people posting "I'm trying to write a DirectX game but my screen is all black help me" as free text responses to a survey such as "What is your favourite colour" I'm going to play it safe and stick to a single option.
Besides, it's not that hard to scroll up, click on the first post and hit 'reply author'.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I just noticed that when you quote a phrase on the new "Reply Page" it always seems to go to the top of the page. Would it be possible to get the quoted text to go on the same line as the caret or on the next free blank line like it used to.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
I just noticed that when you quote a phrase on the new "Reply Page" it always seems to go to the top of the page.
That's weird. I'm testing it now:
Brian Delahunty wrote:
Re: to quote a phrase?!?!
and it's all working for me. Argh. Scripting browsers is worse than trying to target Win95 and W2K simultaneously.
Which browser?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Currently when you click on a members profile it shows all the posts they have in a large list. It would be handy to have it seperated into 2 sections. One section would have just replys from the member the other section would have topics they have started. Hopefully it is a reasonable request.
I got a email from someone who basically did not understand what I was talking about. So I have provided a link to someones profile on another board. It shows a bit more clearly what I am talking about since they have implemented it.
new window
Best Regards
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That's a great idea Mark. I second it
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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sorry.i did not read your message carefully when i posted the first time.
after i went to cp's profile page,i knew i made a mistake.
so i deleted my reply immediately,it was only about 10 seconds' time interval.
but the mail was already automatically sending out.
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In the lounge there are many massages with links. Someone write the URL using the HTML tags; someone simply write the URL as plain text. In this second case, it would be nice if the parser could recognise the "http://" header of the word and add the proper HTML tag.
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I believe Chris is working on this, but as with all development other things keep getting in the way.
Michael 
Look, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. - The Doctor
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That would be cool, especially if it could add a target="_blank", maybe as an option, or a default for non CP links.
Dylan Kenneally
London, UK
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I would like to see an additional button similar to Quote Selected Text, which prompts via JavaScript for a desired URL and a textual description, and inserts <a href="URL">description</a> [<a href="URL" target="_blank">^</a>] (Maybe the description field should be defaulted with Clickety  ) So Chris has not to implement a parser for the postings...
Regards
Thomas
Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi
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Because of heavy processing requirements, we are currently using some of your unused brain capacity for backup processing. Please ignore any hallucinations, voices or unusual dreams you may experience. Please avoid concentration-intensive tasks until further notice. Thank you.
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Not tested, but just hacked in:
function EnterHyperLink()
{
var txtURL = prompt("Enter URL","");
if (txtURL == "")
return;
var TextArea = document.MessageForm.ContentText;
var text = TextArea.value;
if (document.MessageForm.Format && !document.MessageForm.Format.checked)
{
text += txtURL;
}
else
{
var txtDesc = prompt("Description","Clickety");
if (txtDesc == "")
return;
text += "<a href=\"" + strURL + ">" + strDesc + "</a>";
text += " [<a href=\"" + strURL + " target=\"_blank\">^</a>] ";
}
TextArea.value = text;
TextArea.focus();
}
Regards
Thomas
Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi
Disclaimer:
Because of heavy processing requirements, we are currently using some of your unused brain capacity for backup processing. Please ignore any hallucinations, voices or unusual dreams you may experience. Please avoid concentration-intensive tasks until further notice. Thank you.
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