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| aargee Senior Member  Joined: 21/08/2008 Location: AustraliaPosts: 255 |
Probably in the wrong forum area, but for the life of me I cant see a "First Unread" button. So for each forum topic, it will jump to the first post unread by me. ... or isn't there one? For crying out loud, all I wanted to do was flash this blasted LED. |
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donmck Guru  Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1314 |
Don't know yet. I am finding a few problems, but it is a great Forum, and Glenn runs a fine ship. I think you can only specify a page URL, and not an individual message. Any Emoticons, and LINK and GRAPHIC URLs always append to the bottom of the current message so you need to copy and paste them to where you need them. I think I recall Glenn saying he would look into that one, so I guess it could be about the finer points in Forum configuration. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
Yeah I'm working on those. The Emoticons work as expected for me, they get inserted at the cursor location within the text. Don can you check they dont work for you, and if not, what is your browser make and version?, it might have a problem with javascript. I'm using IE9. The other buttons, bold, images, etc, get appended to the end of the text, which we know. The javascript to insert these at the cursor location just isn't there, so its never worked. I'm in the process of rewritting some of the javascript to fix this, insert at cursor location. I'll also be changing some of the buttons behaviour, adding CODE for example, something we will use more often. Now, the unread post "request". Yes it can be done. It will involve the forum writting a cookie every time you visit a page. The cookie will contain the forum message id's for that thread. When you revisit the page, the forum will look at your cookie to see what it displayed to you last time, so it will know what to display as "Unread". It will happen, dont know when, sometime soon. It depends on how my paying work load it going at the time. Sometimes I work on the forum as a change of scenery, so it could happen anytime, depends on the day I'm having. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| aargee Senior Member Joined: 21/08/2008 Location: AustraliaPosts: 255 |
Gizmo, Thanks for the reply, I just thought it might have been something *I* wasn't seeing. Or maybe a config bit to set in my settings. I can live with the forum the way it is though.. :-) - Rob. For crying out loud, all I wanted to do was flash this blasted LED. |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
OK, fixed the insert into text issue, if your using IE. If you using firefox or safari or whatever, upgrade! After spending a few hours modifying the javascript, I discovered it only works for IE  Looks like the javascript caretPos command, which is used to get the cursor postion in a text box, isnt supported in firefox based browsers. Just another day in the life of a web developer.
I'll look at the problem in a few days after I've taken a break from it. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1314 |
Thanks Glenn, I'll try one here ->> Cheers Don... 
Nope Appends the bottom of the message. FireFox 5 currently. Mind you it was FF4 a few weeks ago after being FF# for years, then they jumped two complete versions. https://www.dontronics.com |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
Yeah its a Firefox issue. Works OK with IE. There is a hack to the Java to make Firefox behave correctly, I'll get back to it later. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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Greenbelt Guru Joined: 11/01/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 566 |
donmck 
Glenn I use the Firefox Browser and the emoticons do appear at end of Message, I just Highlight it Cut, place the cursor and paste. You probably know this, But some of the Folks on here may not. It was probably 3 months before I was able to put them where I wanted, I noticed that other posts displayed the smiley just anywhere so I started experimenting. Glenn, The Bold Box no longer displays,but the Bracket set does with the B format. I separated the B pair to get bold print(top of this Page. -------Cheers, Roe Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True? |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
OK, made some more changes. I think the "insert into text at cursor location" is now working. IE was easy, Firefox and its mates was a little more difficult. I havn't tested on Safari or Chrome, but since Firefox is working, the others should be OK too. Some of the buttons behave differently now. The Bold, Italic etc just add the tags to the text, without asking you to enter the text first, its up to you to then enter the text between the tag. I've added the CODE button. Spending a few hours editing and troubleshooting javascript reminds me of why these days I do most of my programming in vbscript 
Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Greenbelt Guru Joined: 11/01/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 566 |
Glenn, I like this , Just place the Cursor between the Tag Pair and type,,  Smileys Paste where I want them, Hot link still works, Great Job
Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True? |
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