Temporary Forum Oddities

[grymmjack]

Option B: Deal with it. Put on your slow animated GIF sunglasses and have a big glass of copium.

Lol

@grymmjack  I am testing where we are today with the at button.

I also want say keep up the good work, the response time between report and fix is fantastic.

I hope this is not a chore for you but something even better than a daily crossword puzzle for a challenging mind stimulating/growing exercise.

Update: Crap @ isn't working at all for me!
@grymmjack  this is copy/pasted from last @ that worked for me to notify you. I now saved it into text file.

I am attempting to get underlined link with at and while the popup comes up and I can select from it, it does not do the notify link underline thing. My little backspace trick for popup and save changes no longer works. Now I wonder if I can notify anybody??? without resort to copy/paste from txt file.

Here is screen shot for this post before Update:...

Thank you. I think we should probably remove this one then. It's really flakey.

[bplus]

For the record, the @ button never worked correctly for mini-mods which was a b... until I finally memorized mnrvovrfc 's peculiar arrangement of 9 letters.

[grymmjack]

Testing at button for Steve to see if it is broken for everyone.

@SMcNeill

Well that worked using the trick I discovered yesterday.
@grymmjack did you just change something?

@bplus LOL! no.

I didn't change anything, besides being awake. I woke up because my English bulldog Stanley was barking at me. He yips at me quietly then he starts barking until dad gets up. He's funny, but annoying AF.

Then I rubbed my eyes, after that hopped on discord and saw the missing buttons reports.

Besides that, no nothing changed. I just finished eating breakfast. My coffee process is running.

About to run the fruit cup process. (docs orders)

questionable morning humor aside, seriously did nothing on the forum besides fixed the 404 missing images for the editor, and shared that video of how buggy the plugin is.

[bplus]

Ah! then flakey perfectly describes the at button

Hi @mnrvovrfc

Update: My backspace trick + save while name is showing in popup is still working for me then in the Quick Reply editor.

Curious even calling the "at" button switches to @ which then shows the popup at the first instance of it in post. I then selected mnr... and it showed up 3 times!
First where I had bare at word then where it was supposed to be then repeated again!

F L A K E - EEEh but I am so glad not to have to go to members listing and have to look up proper spelling of someone's name, that can be grim jack!

[mnrvovrfc]

I just saw the following error while commenting (it works, but you don't see any icons):

I was going to report on this last night, instead of my actual post, but I thought it was a problem at my end. (Manjaro Linux MATE, Firefox AppImage, probably I'm the only one with that combination.)

Everything is all right now.

Ugh, spell checker! How to turn it off in Vivaldi... maybe I have to update my files about other programs...

[Kernelpanic]

Now everything works again. The plugin in question is like a Stardiva. 

In connection with websites, the only plugins I know of are ActiveX controls that I used to work with at the time; a good three years as a web designer and web programmer (Java Applets). It was actually a great thing, ActiveX, but a lot of people didn't understand it, and unfortunately MS wasn't as violent as usual here, and it doesn't work that way anymore - this also applies to VB-Script.

The source text of the page looks clean, not a mess like with Dreamweaver & Co. What kind of editor was it created with? I have always worked with Homesite, the best there was in that regard.

This is an ActiveX control in a website that calls a Java class file in which the calculation is carried out and is returned to a VB script on the website.

Code: (Select All)

<TD>
        <APPLET CODE="EffuntZinsAufgeld.class" CODEBASE="../ClassDateien" ID="effZinsAufgeld"
         WIDTH=80 HEIGHT=29>
        </APPLET>
        </TD>
        <TD>
    <OBJECT ID="Label1" WIDTH=38 HEIGHT=19
     CLASSID="CLSID:978C9E23-D4B0-11CE-BF2D-00AA003F40D0"
        >
      <PARAM NAME="ForeColor" VALUE="8388736">
      <PARAM NAME="BackColor" VALUE="16777215">
      <PARAM NAME="VariousPropertyBits" VALUE="276824091">
      <PARAM NAME="Caption" VALUE=" %">
      <PARAM NAME="Size" VALUE="1164;494">
      <PARAM NAME="SpecialEffect" VALUE="1">
      <PARAM NAME="FontEffects" VALUE="1073741825">
      <PARAM NAME="FontHeight" VALUE="200">
      <PARAM NAME="FontCharSet" VALUE="0">
      <PARAM NAME="FontPitchAndFamily" VALUE="2">
      <PARAM NAME="FontWeight" VALUE="700">
    </OBJECT>
        </TD>

And this is the class file.

Code: (Select All)

//Effektivzins von Wertpapieren mit unterj. Zinsperioden und Aufgeld
//Die Argumente werden durch ein VBScript in der HTML-Datei übergeben.
//Ausgabe erfolgt dort in einem Textfeld. - 17.9.1997

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;

public class EffuntZinsAufgeld extends Applet
{
    TextField txtEffZinsAusgabe = new TextField(11);    
    String s, str;
    String vor, nach;
    
    public void init()
    {
        add(txtEffZinsAusgabe);
    }

    //Parameter lassen sich nur so übergeben
    public void berechnen(String arg1, String arg2, String arg3, String arg4, String arg5)
    {
        Float d1 = new Float(arg1);
        double nominalZins = d1.doubleValue();
. . .

The good old times!   

[grymmjack]

Now everything works again. The plugin in question is like a Stardiva. 

In connection with websites, the only plugins I know of are ActiveX controls that I used to work with at the time; a good three years as a web designer and web programmer (Java Applets). It was actually a great thing, ActiveX, but a lot of people didn't understand it, and unfortunately MS wasn't as violent as usual here, and it doesn't work that way anymore - this also applies to VB-Script.

The source text of the page looks clean, not a mess like with Dreamweaver & Co. What kind of editor was it created with? I have always worked with Homesite, the best there was in that regard.

This is an ActiveX control in a website that calls a Java class file in which the calculation is carried out and is returned to a VB script on the website.

Code: (Select All)

<TD>
        <APPLET CODE="EffuntZinsAufgeld.class" CODEBASE="../ClassDateien" ID="effZinsAufgeld"
         WIDTH=80 HEIGHT=29>
        </APPLET>
        </TD>
        <TD>
    <OBJECT ID="Label1" WIDTH=38 HEIGHT=19
     CLASSID="CLSID:978C9E23-D4B0-11CE-BF2D-00AA003F40D0"
        >
      <PARAM NAME="ForeColor" VALUE="8388736">
      <PARAM NAME="BackColor" VALUE="16777215">
      <PARAM NAME="VariousPropertyBits" VALUE="276824091">
      <PARAM NAME="Caption" VALUE=" %">
      <PARAM NAME="Size" VALUE="1164;494">
      <PARAM NAME="SpecialEffect" VALUE="1">
      <PARAM NAME="FontEffects" VALUE="1073741825">
      <PARAM NAME="FontHeight" VALUE="200">
      <PARAM NAME="FontCharSet" VALUE="0">
      <PARAM NAME="FontPitchAndFamily" VALUE="2">
      <PARAM NAME="FontWeight" VALUE="700">
    </OBJECT>
        </TD>

And this is the class file.

Code: (Select All)

//Effektivzins von Wertpapieren mit unterj. Zinsperioden und Aufgeld
//Die Argumente werden durch ein VBScript in der HTML-Datei übergeben.
//Ausgabe erfolgt dort in einem Textfeld. - 17.9.1997

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;

public class EffuntZinsAufgeld extends Applet
{
    TextField txtEffZinsAusgabe = new TextField(11);    
    String s, str;
    String vor, nach;
    
    public void init()
    {
        add(txtEffZinsAusgabe);
    }

    //Parameter lassen sich nur so übergeben
    public void berechnen(String arg1, String arg2, String arg3, String arg4, String arg5)
    {
        Float d1 = new Float(arg1);
        double nominalZins = d1.doubleValue();
. . .

The good old times!   

I remember those days! Allaire Homesite was great for sure. The forum is MyBB and is a PHP backed dynamic web app. The pages are dynamic. They also use templates. The forum itself is very good. Plug-ins will never be as good unless made by same caliber of developer as that which they plug-in to.

[grymmjack]

The automention plugin with @ stuff has been removed; too buggy.

Maybe some day when I have more time I will return to making such a plugin myself, or modifying and fixing the bugs of the existing one.

For now though it's way too buggy, to bother with it.

Thanks for your patience and understanding!

[SMcNeill]

The automention plugin with @ stuff has been removed; too buggy.

Maybe some day when I have more time I will return to making such a plugin myself, or modifying and fixing the bugs of the existing one.

For now though it's way too buggy, to bother with it.

Thanks for your patience and understanding!

That's the same conclusion me and Pete came up with the last time we tried to install the autocomplete mention plugin.  If one thing works, it breaks two others!  In the end, we ended up making the same call as you @grymmjack, so don't feel the least bit disheartened over it.  What you've worked up in the last week has been a great addition already for us, and sooner or later, we'll find an autocomplete which isn't quick as pernsinicky as the one we've stumbled across right now, which will work ages better for us. 

[bplus]

@grymmjack or @SMcNeill
(grymmjack notification link worked, Steve's I had to copy paste from txt file I started.)

It appears now today, the only way to get the New Post signal cleared is to "Mark this board read".

It no longer works to go up the chain of boards to Main Home Page.