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Posted by WillFa   USA  (525 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #15 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 07:49 AM (UTC)
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side note: I really like the logo.png any thoughts about updating the exe's icon?

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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #16 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 03:31 PM (UTC)
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I think this is a pretty nifty feature :-)


Now that the forum tags are detected for you (whether or not you check the button), maybe the button should indicate "do *not* use forum codes"? I guess that would be complicated for editing old posts vs. making new posts, where you said the detection logic is different.
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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Posted by Hanaisse   Canada  (114 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #17 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 07:50 PM (UTC)
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First time I read this post they were just plain text. Now with the boxes/colours etc it looks much more professional (and pretty!).

Constructive criticism time :) I noticed in another post someone already used one of these templates. That's great, I think they're very useful, however, the larger ones with a lot of text tend to make the post a little clunky looking. If they were maybe wider instead of fixed width it might look better and not cause the entire reply to look so long? Just my thought on the matter.
aka: Hana
Owner in Training of: Fury of the Gods
alm-dev.org:4000
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #18 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 09:36 PM (UTC)
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Quote:

First time I read this post they were just plain text.


The look improves when the stylesheet reloads. If anyone else is not getting nice boxes, refresh the page in your browser, which forces style.css file to be reloaded from the forum server.

Quote:

... the larger ones with a lot of text tend to make the post a little clunky looking.



I know the one you mean. I fixed up the [codetag] tag because I think that will be used a lot, and it is quite wordy. I made a forum page to explain in detail what it was getting at, and changed the tag to point to it.

Also I made the boxes slightly wider. Without any width at all they tend to look a bit big.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Hanaisse   Canada  (114 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #19 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 09:54 PM (UTC)
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It looks great. You really do a wonderful job with this forum and the support to the community who use it. :)
aka: Hana
Owner in Training of: Fury of the Gods
alm-dev.org:4000
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Posted by WillFa   USA  (525 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #20 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 10:07 PM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 19 Aug 2009 10:28 PM (UTC) by WillFa

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Would you consider changing the width: 450px; to margin-right: 4em; ?

When looking at the page in a maximized browser window, there's so much dead space to the right of the tag, making you scroll more to get to the actual content.

For example look at the [regexp] template. There's a lot of text that can wrap with the browser.

Template:regexp Regular expressions
  • Regular expressions (as used in triggers and aliases) are documented on the Regular expression tips forum page.
  • Also see how Lua string matching patterns work, as documented on the Lua string.find page.

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #21 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 10:19 PM (UTC)
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Hmmm, OK, try that (refresh the page).
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by WillFa   USA  (525 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #22 on Wed 19 Aug 2009 10:30 PM (UTC)
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Thank you! Much Better. :)

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #23 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 03:14 AM (UTC)
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Quote:

I really like the logo.png any thoughts about updating the exe's icon?


It's roughly the same icon. Do you mean the .exe icon is a bit rough? It's old, maybe it is feeling its age.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by WillFa   USA  (525 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #24 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 05:15 AM (UTC)
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http://cid-73890baf188d56e7.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/MCForum/mcicon.png

Yea, the matting doesn't scale up well now.

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #25 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 05:53 AM (UTC)
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Ewwwww!
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #26 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 06:00 AM (UTC)
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Actually that doesn't look like the icon I have defined in the code for the 48x48 pixel icon. I think my development environment might be too old.

I know, we can say it is a "retro" look, because MUDs are so old. ;)
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Blainer   (191 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #27 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 11:28 PM (UTC)
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Can I suggest a new tag for a direct link to a forum post.
This came up because my latest plugin uses another plugin that a user may not have and I wanted to put a link to that plugin's forum post.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #28 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 11:37 PM (UTC)
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Template:post=9650 Please see the forum thread: http://gammon.com.au/forum/?id=9650.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #29 on Fri 21 Aug 2009 01:57 AM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 21 Aug 2009 01:58 AM (UTC) by David Haley

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One thing I like in some forum software is that you can quote a message with attribution. The forum code looks like this:

[quote=David]Hello there[/quote]

The rendered text is something like:

Quote:
David said:
Hello there


I think it would be kind of nice to have something similar here, and the templates would make the quoted text stand out very nicely from the poster's text -- sometimes it gets hard to tell who wrote what (even with the indent). Also, having a name in there makes it easier to quote several people in the same post, as you can attribute each paragraph correctly.

If this isn't hard, I think it'd be nifty. :-)
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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