The suggestion I promised (with demo)
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You have been warned... cheers, Chris Maunder
Yee gods, and I parked under a tree today! *slinks away looking up* :laugh:
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Jason Jystad wrote: This is something I wanted to talk to you about. The modified InsertText function does this because I have noticed that some smilies require spaces around them before they will parse correctly. Is this by design? Or have I just been smokeing crack again? If the smiley parser doesn't require them then I'll be happy to remove the spaces The spaces are because some smileys need spaces around them to ensure they aren't mixed up with legit words (eg : D needs a space after the 'D' so that something like ::DestroyWindow isn't turned into :D estroyWindow) Jason Jystad wrote: So do you want me to go ahead and implement the other suggested features and make the whole thing as fully cross-browser as possible? That would be sensational. I'll probably replace the button bar you have with a VS.NET style (I can hear the groans) menu bar. Thanks Jason!! cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: The spaces are because some smileys need spaces around them to ensure they aren't mixed up with legit words (eg : D needs a space after the 'D' so that something like ::DestroyWindow isn't turned into estroyWindow) Ah, I thought it was something like that. I will add this to my list of things to look over and fix. Chris Maunder wrote: That would be sensational. I'll probably replace the button bar you have with a VS.NET style (I can hear the groans) menu bar. Groans, what groans? *looks around confusedly* Why would anyone groan? I was originally planning on doing it that way myself, it was just easier to prototype it this way first. (great minds do think alike I guess :) ) I will get started on finishing this up asap, but right now I am going home to bed. :yawn:
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I am proud to announce the completion of the prototype for a suggested enhancement to the message composition pages of the CP forums. With important input from Nish and much cursing at my buggy Internet connection, I bring you the Code Project Posting Toolbar. :trumpeting fanfare: :) I took a snapshot of the html produced by the reply function in the forums to demonstrate my suggestion. In practice it would be available on any page where message composition is performed. To my knowledge, the full functionality of the prototype is only available in IE4.0+ on win32 platforms. If Chris decides to implement this feature, I have a method in mind that should make it fully cross-browser. The code is just a bit more involved and I did not want to spend the time unless Chris was going to use it. ;) I did a modification to the InsertText() function that also affects the smiley insertion functionality. This causes it to insert the smiley at the cursor position in the textarea when run in IE4.0+. When used under other browsers it will still just append the smiley to the end of the textarea's content. I believe I can also make this fully cross-browser if Chris decides to use it. Consider this a sub-suggestion. :-D
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--Larry Wall (Programming Perl)Very nice. The interface is a little unfriendly at first but the work it does is very impressive. Nice one. Michael :-)
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I am proud to announce the completion of the prototype for a suggested enhancement to the message composition pages of the CP forums. With important input from Nish and much cursing at my buggy Internet connection, I bring you the Code Project Posting Toolbar. :trumpeting fanfare: :) I took a snapshot of the html produced by the reply function in the forums to demonstrate my suggestion. In practice it would be available on any page where message composition is performed. To my knowledge, the full functionality of the prototype is only available in IE4.0+ on win32 platforms. If Chris decides to implement this feature, I have a method in mind that should make it fully cross-browser. The code is just a bit more involved and I did not want to spend the time unless Chris was going to use it. ;) I did a modification to the InsertText() function that also affects the smiley insertion functionality. This causes it to insert the smiley at the cursor position in the textarea when run in IE4.0+. When used under other browsers it will still just append the smiley to the end of the textarea's content. I believe I can also make this fully cross-browser if Chris decides to use it. Consider this a sub-suggestion. :-D
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--Larry Wall (Programming Perl)Jason Jystad wrote: I bring you the Code Project Posting Toolbar.
<a href="http://" target="_blank">http://</a>
*sigh* Not even my friends support me :laugh: Very cool toolbar Jason. An "instant preview" (done client side, no server call) would be nice. Not hard to do with IE's HTML features. Shout if you want the code. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America),
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Jason Jystad wrote: I bring you the Code Project Posting Toolbar.
<a href="http://" target="_blank">http://</a>
*sigh* Not even my friends support me :laugh: Very cool toolbar Jason. An "instant preview" (done client side, no server call) would be nice. Not hard to do with IE's HTML features. Shout if you want the code. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America),
Paul Watson wrote: *sigh* Not even my friends support me Ok, what'd I miss? I sense a missed thread here. Fill me in. :)
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Very nice. The interface is a little unfriendly at first but the work it does is very impressive. Nice one. Michael :-)
I suspect Chris is going to change the interface, but I would be curious to know if there is anything you would do different to solve the issues you noticed? I am always looking for different views and trying to improve my skills, especially usability.
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I suspect Chris is going to change the interface, but I would be curious to know if there is anything you would do different to solve the issues you noticed? I am always looking for different views and trying to improve my skills, especially usability.
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--Larry Wall (Programming Perl)I'd have prefered the cursor to have been placed between the tags rather than at the end because thats what I'd expected to happen. The buttons looked a little silly, different sizes and the one with combination of upper and lower case. Didn't look right to me. These are all issues that would probably have been sorted out in the real implementation rather than in your test page. Nothing major, just me being picky. ;-) Michael :-)
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I'd have prefered the cursor to have been placed between the tags rather than at the end because thats what I'd expected to happen. The buttons looked a little silly, different sizes and the one with combination of upper and lower case. Didn't look right to me. These are all issues that would probably have been sorted out in the real implementation rather than in your test page. Nothing major, just me being picky. ;-) Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: These are all issues that would probably have been sorted out in the real implementation rather than in your test page You are correct, the presentation is something that Chris is going to make quite different anyway so I was being silly and the cursor between the tags is something I am working on it is just being difficult. ;) Michael P Butler wrote: Nothing major, just me being picky. Not at all, these things are important. Thanks. :)
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Paul Watson wrote: *sigh* Not even my friends support me Ok, what'd I miss? I sense a missed thread here. Fill me in. :)
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--Larry Wall (Programming Perl)There's a thread somewhere in the lounge where Paul posted a link then Nish got upset that it didn't open in a new window. Long story short, Paul thinks all links should open in the same window (so those who want it to open in the same window can, and those who want it in a new window can as well) and Nish thinks links to a different domain should open in a new window. James Simplicity Rules!
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There's a thread somewhere in the lounge where Paul posted a link then Nish got upset that it didn't open in a new window. Long story short, Paul thinks all links should open in the same window (so those who want it to open in the same window can, and those who want it in a new window can as well) and Nish thinks links to a different domain should open in a new window. James Simplicity Rules!
Ah, that makes sense then. Thanks James. I guess I am going to have to respectfully disagree with Paul on this one. :) Actually I would agree with him, except I frequently use a browseing hider service that makes my right click to open a link in a new window not work right. It does handle links that open new windows correctly though. This is really the only reason I disagree. In case you're interested the service I use is orangatango [new window] ;)
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