Whirlpool

This thread continues from:
forum-replies.cfm?t=351268&p=90#r1784

Please whim me if there is important information to add to this initial post, and I'll put it in.

Useful Link: Whirlpool Last Read (Firefox Browser Add-on) wlr

Meat Sack, could you put my avatar in the wlr.css file? (Is that still how it works?)
members.dodo.com.au/~the...dale/TNtp365.jpg

thegooddale writes...
Meat Sack, could you put my avatar in the wlr.css file? (Is that still how it works?)

Done, had to shrink it down some though sorry.

For everyone who wants an avatar:
For future reference I think about 80px as the width is what I'm going to aim for. Also if you want to save me some time, please upload to a 3rd party image hosting site. This is so people can't change what their image is after I add them to wlr.css. (this is to stop people from changing their avatar to an inappropriate image; I'm not trying to be annoying.)

Meat Sack writes...

please upload to a 3rd party image hosting site

Like imageshack?

Don't those sites have a time limit on them?

Resident Evil writes...
Don't those sites have a time limit on them?

Yes, one year of inactivity, so that timer gets reset every time the image is accessed. (at least that's how it use to work, may have changed.)

This is from the Imageshack FAQ. It seems it's ok to use Imageshack to host avatars.
How do I hotlink an avatar on a forum or message board?

Paste the "Direct Link" code, available at the bottom of the upload-done page, into the "Avatar" location field on your forum or message board.

Some more info:
How much bandwidth can I use?

ImageShack allows each image 100 megabytes of transfer per hour. If an image exceeds this amount, it will be rendered inaccessible.

Few thoughts about avatars....

- With Aus Leo's one, his avatar is next to his name?
- Maybe the text should be aligned top for tall avatars?

Bah only 8 avatars.... C'MON PEOPLE MORE AVATARS!!! :D

Resident Evil writes...
With Aus Leo's one, his is next to his name?

Yeah, it's too small for the way I insert them, though he asked for it to be changed which I forgot to do, I'll have to go dredging through the old thread and try to find his new image, that should fix it.

Maybe the text should be aligned top for tall avatars?
It would be a bit fiddly to do that on a post by post basis based on avatar size; and applying it to all the posts seems like a bit of overkill. If you want it for your version though, here is the css for doing it to all posts (I know not exactly what you asked for):
.bodytext {vertical-align:top !important}
You can put that in your usercontent.css files (should be in your firefox profile directory.) Or you can add it to the wlr script (just insert it in one of the first addGlobalStyle functions.. )

Also I think I will shrink some of those larger avatars anyway, so it won't be much of a problem in the future.

Meat Sack writes...
I'll have to go dredging through the old thread and try to find his new image, that should fix it.
Maybe you should make a temporary wiki for all the image URL's. People without avatars could also add their avatar addresses.

Just a thought.

I just noticed something else... you don't have any icons for Penalty Box and Banned people. :)

Edit: As in those little twirly stars....

Resident Evil writes...
I just noticed something else... you don't have any icons for Penalty Box and Banned people.

Eh, they don't really deserve on; anyway the odds of actually seen a banned user are very low, there are only a few, about two I know of.

Damn I was hoping we'd be able to take the first thread over 100 pages without anyone noticing.

EDIT

Meat Sack writes...
I'll have to go dredging through the old thread and try to find his new image, that should fix it.

I like the reduced size of the Marlin for my Avatar :) much better than that annoying animated homer I had.

Resident Evil writes...

When I do a reply to and then on the next screen, type in everything and hit preview. The preview text comes up as per normal but the text in the form field that I just typed into disappears??

I've also seen this happen. running 0.63 i think. with GM 0.3.3

Hey! I just noticed Johnny Bravo has my avatar! I had to edit the script to get it back. Get yer own Johhny..... oh, you have :/

If someone has tested the latest versions of GM and the WLR script can they let us know please? I've messed around with all versions of both and the only way I can get it working satisfactorily is to use GM 0.3.3 and the latest script but I've just noticed that JB's Whirlcode buttons are missing again in the Whim Reply box, uhhh...

Oh no, avatars aren't working at all now, it's a bit higgledy piggledy.

Meat Sack, just some further closure on running the CSS file off the hard-drive; it doesn't work properly. It won't kill the script, but it does some very funny things with it though. I will experiment a bit more though. Bit of a major problem, sometimes none of the scripts load; not the quick nav and not the wlr, and hence not Johnny Bravo's Whirlcode. Can I assume it is a problem with GM 0.51 and not the scripts?

for me, GM 0.5.1 occaisionally doesn't inject scripts, however it's very rare

as I've said before, I think old slow PC's suffer this non-injection problem LESS than the speed demons out there, it has something to do with timing!

Johnny Bravo writes...

for me, GM 0.5.1 occaisionally doesn't inject scripts, however it's very rare

Yeah I saw of noticed that now and again as well.... rare but sometimes it happens.

Rang Dog Marv writes...

Eh, they don't really deserve on;

True but I think they should have ajail symbol or something :P

anyway the odds of actually seen a banned user are very low, there are only a few, about two I know of.

I wouldn't have noticed it either but when I was browsing last night... I was seeing binned people all over the shop, and they were very recent binnings as well... as in a few hours ago.

AusLeo writes...
I like the reduced size of the Marlin for my Avatar :) much better than that annoying animated homer I had.

Damn right.
:P

BUG! - When I go Settings > User Page it goes to Meat Sack's user page, not mine.

Wonko the Sane writes...
Oh no, avatars aren't working at all now, it's a bit higgledy piggledy.

Just checking Wonko, have you turned the 'small monitor' setting on in wlr? With it off I think the avatars mess up sometimes.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
Can I assume it is a problem with GM 0.51 and not the scripts?

I really don't know. Can't really say one way or the other until it happens to me.
If you look in the javascript console, and look for any errors where the source file is C:\wherever\greasemonkey\is\instal­ led\whirlpoollastread.user.js they could really help.

If there aren't any, then it probably just is greasemonkey itself having hiccups. I haven't had any 'no scripts' running problems. I have had a couple of times where the script ran twice on a page, but those only happened when I used the back button before the current page had finished loading, so I think its just a caching issue.

Resident Evil writes...
I wouldn't have noticed it either but when I was browsing last night... I was seeing binned people all over the shop, and they were very recent binnings as well... as in a few hours ago.

Yeah I saw that too in one of the ItN threads, forget which one exactly, but I remember thinking even the title of the thread was a massive troll.

sir-fart-a-lot writes...
BUG! - When I go Settings > User Page it goes to Meat Sack's user page, not mine.

Yeah I mentioned that one when I released it. I had to release it earlier than I wanted to, so some things that were meant to be dynamic, were still hard coded. If you open up the script and search for var userNum = 37853; and change the number to your own. In the proper version, it will probably just grab it automagically from the 'welcome back' section on the forum pages.

Hey why didn't the spell checker pick up 'automagically', is it an actual word now? apparantely it is an actual word, albeit classified as 'jargon'.

Meat Sack writes...
If you look in the javascript console, and look for any errors where the source file is

I did find one entry in the Javascript console for whirlpoollastread.user.js.
Error: repURL.snapshotItem(0) has no properties
Source File: whirlpoollastread.user.js
Line: 1322
Source Code: 1322
Dunno if that helps.

Meat Sack writes...

Just checking Wonko, have you turned the 'small monitor' setting on in wlr? With it off I think the avatars mess up sometimes.

I can't get to the settings, nothing at all is working under either monitor setting. I'm running the latest GM with the latest WLR script. I've removed and re-installed both GM and WLR but I have a no-go. I tried going back to 0.3.3 but only some settings work.

I will persevere for a while before I trudge out to the shed to get the sledge hammer.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
Dunno if that helps.

What it is basically saying is that it didn't find the 'Post Reply' link. This could be 3 things:
*there is some version of 'replies.cfm' page where, for some reason, the Post Reply link isn't on the page (or is put somewhere the script doesn't look)
* the page didn't fully load before the script ran.
* going by memory, wasn't there one version of Johnny's Whirlcode script where he put a link to his settings next to the 'post reply' link? If so, and you are running it, that might be the problem, (more likely one of the first two though.)

Wonko the Sane writes...
I will persevere for a while before I trudge out to the shed to get the sledge hammer.

If you can post any errors that mention whirlpoollastread.user.js in your javascript console, I might be able to be more help.

Meat Sack writes...
going by memory, wasn't there one version of Johnny's Whirlcode script where he put a link to his settings next to the 'post reply' link? If so, and you are running it, that might be the problem, (more likely one of the first two though.)

There might have been; although you might be thinking of the image link through script; there is a link for the settings of that next to Post Reply.

FF has been crashing and locking up a bit lately, and it is resetting the lRead values to the values obtained in the previous session. I don't suppose anything can be done about that?

good call on the images script. Looks like I'll have to make wlr be a bit more careful about what link is what.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
FF has been crashing and locking up a bit lately, and it is resetting the lRead values to the values obtained in the previous session. I don't suppose anything can be done about that?

Do you think it's greasemonkey related? Or something else? Are you keeping firefox and all the other extensions updated?

Meat Sack writes...
Do you think it's greasemonkey related? Or something else? Are you keeping firefox and all the other extensions updated?

Yeah I'm quite sure FF and all the extensions are fully up-to-date. I don't really know whether it is GM related. The feedback agent has only popped up a few times; a lot of the time, the PC is just locking up (not the old POS either) and it appears that FF is the problem. Not much I can do.

Rang Dog Marv writes...

I don't really know whether it is GM related. The feedback agent has only popped up a few times; a lot of the time, the PC is just locking up (not the old POS either) and it appears that FF is the problem. Not much I can do.

See if doing a clean install (ie. trash your document and settings as well) fixes it. I had a weird issue when I upgraded from 0.3 to 0.5.1 of GM where it did some weird thing and GM just fell apart. I then did a clean reinstall and everything seems fine.

I rarely if at all have FF crash on me. Usually when ff does crash on people it is because of an extension or because one or more are conflicting with one another.

For those running GreaseMonkey 0.5.1:

bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11423

I'm thinking GreaseMonkey wont be truly stable again until FireFox 1.5 comes out

Either Meat Sack or Johnny (probably Johnny) is there any chance of integrating the image resizing part of the scripts into the avatars; I've warmed to the slightly, but it is quite annoying if people have large avatars and only a small post.

Meat Sack writes...

If you can post any errors that mention whirlpoollastread.user.js in your javascript console, I might be able to be more help.

There are no errors that mention that. Only some errors like:

Warning: The "coords" attribute of the <area shape="rect"> tag is not in the "left,top,right,bottom" format.
Source File: www.whirlpool.net.au
Line: 0
Source Code:
130,172,178,156

Rang Dog Marv writes...

it is quite annoying if people have large avatars and only a small post.

Size isn't everything....

Wonko the Sane writes...
Size isn't everything....

I agree; large avatars waste screen space.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
Either Meat Sack or Johnny (probably Johnny) is there any chance of integrating the image resizing part of the scripts into the avatars; I've warmed to the slightly, but it is quite annoying if people have large avatars and only a small post.

Not with the current setup. I could change it so they were actual <img> tags injected into the script, but with people complaining about speed, it would probably just slow things down further... If you're talking about specific avatars (like the fat controllers) I plan on shrinking some of them soon.

Wonko the Sane writes...
There are no errors that mention that. Only some errors like:

Unfortunately that isn't wlr or greasemonkey related. The warning is just the image map of australia on whirlpools front page isn't coded strictly to standard (still works fine though).

Rang Dog Marv writes...
I agree; large avatars waste screen space.

You know you can have the ranks on, and the avatars off at the same time? That is how I run it most of the time now.

Meat Sack writes...
You know you can have the ranks on, and the avatars off at the same time?
Yeah I know that; I just thought I'd give the avatars a chance. I was previously running it with with ranks on and avatars off. If injecting it using an <img> tag would slow it down, it's probably best not to do it then. And yes I am specifically referring to The Fat Controller's (no offence) but it is really annoying. Maybe anyone who sends in an avatar should be gently reminded to keep it a sensible size.

Meat Sack writes...
If you're talking about specific avatars (like the fat controllers) I plan on shrinking some of them soon.

Yeah, sorry. Mines odd because its skinny yet tall.

I'll shrink it now.
Its even bugging me. I'll edit the oen on my website here (soon):
mjstill.com/files/thefatcontroller.png

Rang Dog Marv writes...
And yes I am specifically referring to The Fat Controller's (no offence) but it is really annoying. Maybe anyone who sends in an avatar should be gently reminded to keep it a sensible size.

You should have whinged at me earlier! Sorry 'bout that.

Anyway, done now. Should be showing up approx same as everyone elses avatars now now.
92 is now the longest dimension. Which is about right, right?

The Fat Controller writes...
Should be showing up approx same as everyone elses avatars now now.

It's not; you'll have to change the image that has been uploaded to ImageShack because we can't edit the CSS file that the wlr script is grabbing from Meat Sack's site.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
grabbing from Meat Sack's site

Oh yeah. sorry, i forgot. I mirror meat sacks css's so i can make a few small changes that i prefer at my end.

And i still have my avatar pointing to its orig location on my server. Gotta burn that bandwidth somehow.

Well meatsack, whenever you can change it over mate, much appreciated.

PS. RDM, it looks about right to you in the link/mid post (if you have show images on) up there?

Rang Dog Marv writes...

is there any chance of integrating the image resizing part of the scripts into the avatars;

yep, meat sacks right. the avatar code would have to change, and there would be a speed penalty ... although, I'm wondering if the :after psuedo element (I'm assuming that's still the way the avatar is being inserted) can be controlled by max-height/max-width properties????

edit:oops, forgot the quote

The Fat Controller writes...
RDM, it looks about right to you in the link/mid post (if you have show images on) up there?
Yeah it's a good size in the link posted, but not on the CSS. Just send Meat Sack a WhiM.

Johnny Bravo writes...
the avatar code would have to change, and there would be a speed penalty
If there would be any speed penalty, I wouldn't worry about it; just make people us sensible sized avatars, or they don't get them.

Just a thought; in the next revision, Meat Sack can you integrate the Whirlcode buttons into edit reply as well?

Rang Dog Marv writes...
Just a thought; in the next revision, Meat Sack can you integrate the Whirlcode buttons into edit reply as well?

Already done in the next version.

What do people think of this layout for avatars in the next version?
img308.imageshack.us/img...2/avatar14fl.gif
Yeah that picture still needs some work, but look how TFC's turned out:
img308.imageshack.us/img...2/avatar25vu.gif

Looking really good meat sack.

I like the new version look you just demo'd for us.

The Fat Controller writes...
I'll shrink it now.

I just noticed you have shrunk and had to read the posts. At first I thought you had been to Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers :D

roflmao..You might need to update your image and hold a flag now so we can see you ;)

edited spelling

finally had a bit of time to catch up.

Looking really good, Meat Sack.

I like the graphical representation right now. Less so the avatars, but the demo you've shown is much better than what it is right now.

Can't wait!

Edit: May just be me, but in the graphical representation of the user Rank, does the star have a singled out coloured dot on the top left right, as in between 2 stars?

OK I think I have it working the way I want:
img354.imageshack.us/img...7883/demo4yv.gif

As you should be able to see,
• there isn't anymore wrapping.
• Long quips have a semi-transparent background that goes over the avatar, so you can still read them.
• I moved the ranks down and 'attatched' them to the vote block. Now it doesn't matter how long a persons name is, the rank will display correctly.
• There's a 'default' avatar, a light grey swirl, for people without an avatar defined.

This solution should work with the current released code. If you want to change to it, change all instances of wlr.css to wlrx.css
and all instances of theme.css to themex.css .

There is a problem with it though, it doesn't actually save space. To get the css to work properly I have to use 'absolute' positioning instead of 'relative'. To fix this I have to insert a 'container' div around the user info. This isn't in the current version, but will be in the next one, and it will get rid of that wasted space underneath the avatar/user-info in short posts.

Meat Sack writes...
Already done in the next version.
At least you were thinking ahead, or reading my thoughts.

What do people think of this layout for avatars in the next version?
Looks better in the second version you got working, probably because it's working properly. Although I personally don't really like it that much, although the grey swirl idea is good. :)

Nice looking new version... not really fond of that quip over the avatar though.... kind of annoying and somewhat restrictive in that you have to have it short or it interferes with the avatar.

Would Avatars look weird on the right side rather then the left side? ie. above the herring, anchor etc.

On the menu system, the list for ISPs needs to be split into connections and isp like in the forum index. There are way to many entries for that one list.

Resident Evil wrote...
Would Avatars look weird on the right side rather then the left side? ie. above the herring, anchor etc.

They might to people like me who use the Small Monitor setting. Everything is on the left.

Resident Evil writes...

Would Avatars look weird on the right side rather then the left side? ie. above the herring, anchor etc.

I actually think it would look quite good, unless you were using the small monitor setting... (Like Wonko the Sane...)

Using your script v0.6.1, GM 0.5.1

I noted that auto link generation is somewhat odd:

I get forum-replies.cfm?t=389909&r=57976­ 24#r5797624 when q-quoting swine's post above

The anchor value is p=3#r52

Is it just my side?

XIII-Train Heartnet writes...
Is it just my side?

It's meant to look like that. That's the alternate link style so it can still be used when you filter a thread to one persons posts. (I'm thinking of changing it so that style is used only when quoting someone on the filtered pages, as I imagine it takes a little more server grunt to process when someone clicks it.)

Woohoo! All the scripts are working again as normal. Don't know why, I just turned the computer on this morning and there they were. They must have had a week off at the Gold Coast :)

Don't know if its just me, but the whirls (user categories) aren't positioning properly for all the 'odd' user categories... Mods, Conspiracy, Reporters...

And ISP reps (well, at least iiNet ones) are void of all formatting. No align to right or whirls. Mod powers or not.

mjstill.com/files/wp_wlr_bug_whirls.jpg

Yeah I was just testing things out, so I only did it for 'regular' users to get a feel for it. To stop the odd/even bug open the script and find:
var theme_alt =2; and change the 2 to a 1.

but yeah, no mods or CTs etc... till I settle on a layout.

Cool,
Cheers.

Meat Sack just am looking at the modification you made, and it has major aesthetic issues in small monitor view, though it looks better than I previously thought in large monitor view.

Screenshot

Rang Dog Marv writes...
Meat Sack just am looking at the modification you made, and it has major aesthetic issues in small monitor view, though it looks better than I previously thought in large monitor view.

Yeah, it's not designed for small monitor views just yet. Though to be honest, that looks better than I would've thought it would. (not saying it looks good, just that I thought it would be even more messed up than that.)

Meat Sack writes...
Yeah, it's not designed for small monitor views just yet. Though to be honest, that looks better than I would've thought it would.

Doesn't really matter to me; the only computer I use SM view on is too slow to be running avatars anyway. But just an observation for anyone that does; it won't look good. I'm sure with some fiddling I could make it look even worse though :P

I thought this gap in the Smaller Monitor setting had been fixed?
img366.imageshack.us/img366/8589/gap9fa.jpg

Wonko the Sane writes...
I thought this gap in the Smaller Monitor setting had been fixed?

It has been, you have forgotten to turn on small monitor settings in the wlr settings.

I have turned off avatars for the time being.... a little bit messy for me at the moment. :|

Rang Dog Marv wrote...
you have forgotten to turn on small monitor settings in the wlr settings.

Erm... I don't have Smaller Monitor settings in the WLR settings. You see, to get everything going again I had to revert to GM 0.3.3 and it's behaving strangely. Everything is going ok but some things are not where they should be or not there at all. But it's not all the time either. It's freaking me out.

Resident Evil writes...
I have turned off avatars for the time being....

You don't have to change to the 'x' versions of the css files. The old wlr.css and theme.css are still up and working as far as I know.

Um how come some people with avatars also have the user rank stars displayed but other's don't? And the user stars for mods and CTs are stilled centred in the new looking version.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
Um how come some people with avatars also have the user rank stars displayed but other's don't?

Meat Sack writes...
just testing things out

Answers in above post, assuming your talking about the 'x' version.

Meat Sack writes...
Answers in above post, assuming your talking about the 'x' version.

Yep that's what I was on about. I must have just skimmed over that bit, again.

Ugh, please fix up that preview issue (where the text disappears)... it is becoming annoying. :|

Resident Evil writes...

Ugh, please fix up that preview issue (where the text disappears)... it is becoming annoying. for me too. :(

Anyone else using the latest GM 0.5.3 didn't break anything that I can see.

Darkriders writes...
Anyone else using the latest GM 0.5.3 didn't break anything that I can see.

Didn't know it was out, trying it out now, thanks!

Rang Dog Marv quips...
down on my knee for Wonko...

Is there something that should be going up on the wp news page there ladies and gents?







Community Broadband Site Sparks Romance & Marrige Proposal
Phil Sweeney | Sunday, 10:00pm | Australia | got a news tip?
Popular community broadband site, whirlpool.net.au, seems to have sparked a romance that has gone as far as to lead to a marriage proposal...

The Fat Controller writes...
Is there something that should be going up on the wp news page there ladies and gents?

OHHH MY GOD

EDIT: Bloody hell you bastard, you almost gave me a heart-attack; and you owe me a clean pair of underpants. If I ever get my hands on you I'll wring your neck. :D
I thought you were serious that it was a news story. It's only a JOKE between me and Wonko; being that it is an AMUSING QUIP. I thought everyone had figured it was a joke by now.

On topic; Meat Sack would it be possible to add some sort of manual mark as read link, so that if a deleted post is the last post, us Greasers can manually say we have read all posts. It's not a major issue, but it can be annoying if there are threads with deleted posts as the last post.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
AMUSING QUIP. I thought everyone had figured it was a joke by now, or at least had noticed.

Hahaha.

I thought i'd throw in some of my own humour!
:P

PS, am i slow on the uptake? How long have you had this humorous quip for?

The Fat Controller writes...
PS, am i slow on the uptake? How long have you had this humorous quip for?

What quip? I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't consider my quip very funny at all. In fact my quip states my current stance; I don't know what you are talking about. Period. :|

Rang Dog Marv writes...

On topic; Meat Sack would it be possible to add some sort of manual mark as read link, so that if a deleted post is the last post, us Greasers can manually say we have read all posts. It's not a major issue, but it can be annoying if there are threads with deleted posts as the last post.

Yeah, bugs me too.

But then again, thankfully deletions aren't that common... And its usually a short wait till the next legitimate post is posted and read.

What quip?
Its a cover up eh?

Resident Evil writes...
please fix up that preview issue

Poyner writes...
for me too. :(

Are you guys still getting this problem with the new version of Greasemonkey? I hadn't experienced the preview bug, but at a guess it might have been due to the script not firing on some pages, which was a problem of GM 0.5.1 in 1.0+ browsers. While I can't say for sure the problem has been fixed in 0.5.3, I haven't come across it yet. If it is still a problem, can you break down what you are doing for this bug to show, as I haven't been able to replicate a problem from just your general descriptions.

Rang Dog Marv writes...
Meat Sack would it be possible to add some sort of manual mark as read link, so that if a deleted post is the last post,

Actually I just looked at some deleted posts, and they still have their anchors (not the link that says anchor, but the anchor itself) So if I just change the code to grab the reply # out of there instead of the 'anchor' link, the script should do it automatically. though I'm also thinking of adding a 'mark all as read' and 'stop tracking' options for individual threads...

Meat Sack writes...
though I'm also thinking of adding a 'mark all as read' and 'stop tracking' options for individual threads...

Yes that would be fantastic; I have a lot of threads that I have a look at and decide I'm not interested, so it's annoying to have them tracked.

EDIT: My lRead values just rolled back to previous values. Anyone else ever get this. I might try with GM 0.53.

The Fat Controller writes...
PS, am i slow on the uptake? How long have you had this humorous quip for?

Probably about a week or maybe two. I did have something alluding to that as well before, and maybe two months ago, my quip was the same as what you thought you saw. Remember;
YOU DIDN'T SEE NOTHING!

Rang Dog Marv writes...

YOU DIDN'T SEE NOTHING!

in other words, you did see something ;)

Johnny Bravo writes...

in other words, you did see something

Look into my eyes
Look into my eyes
Don't look around my eyes
Look into my eyes...

Meat Sack writes...

Are you guys still getting this problem

I had stop hitting preview for a while but I just tested it then and, yes, I am still getting this problem. I am running GM0.5.3, wlr0.63 and ff1.0.6.

can you break down what you are doing for this bug to show,
Just then I got it to happen by hitting a 'reply to this post' link. I think Hilighted a section of text and hit 'insert quote' i then typed something after the quoted section and then hit 'show preview'. I then get the preview the the 'reply' box losses all of it's text. I'm happy to do more testing if required.

edit: OK.... it seems that i can make the bug happen without inserting a quote. also also without typing any of my own words. in fact. i think it's pretty much happening any time i hit the preview button.

edit2: a little more testing.... it does NOT happen if i use the q-quote button. it also doesn't happen if i press the show preview button after having used the q-quote buttone.
also, hitting the show preview button on an edit screen does not produce the bug

how do we upload our avatars?

heres mine anywayz :)

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CrazyHorse writes...
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Re-posting your link for you:
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Looks like you'll need to make it a bit smaller.
It needs to have a width of 80px.

im hoping this is a bit better

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~philch~ writes...
marvinetch5jl.jpg

Or:
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So i can see it without clicking link. I'm lazy.

The Fat Controller writes...

So i can see it without clicking link.

Direct link to image ~ gotcha :)

I think I updated all versions of the avatar CSS for Crazy Horse and Philch's avatars. I'm running newer code, and it doesn't play with the older CSS so I can't check it without re-installing the older code, (something I don't want to do every time I change an avatar.) If someone can confirm/deny if their new avatars are working that would be great.

Here's my latest take on compact name blocks.
ideatriage.com/avatar/layout_demo2.gif

Features are:
• there is no more empty space down the bottom.
• The quip has been moved to the last line, so long quips don't cut avatars in half.
• User info (User#, online status, # of posts) is invisible unless you mouse over the user block. (image was meant to show this in Philch's block. You can see the user info, but the mouse pointer is hidden due to the way I got the screen capture.)
• User rank in text form is gone (seemed redundant to have the rank image and the text).

Philch's is pretty much busted on mine:

mjstill.com/files/philch.JPG

I also found the bug with the preview 'disappearing bug' and fixed it.

Unfortunately the rest of the code isn't ready to release, so as a temporary work around, you should be able to avoid the bug by having something in the quick quote box when you go to reply to a post. If the quick quote box is empty, then there will be a problem.

Should have an update in a couple of days anyway.

The Fat Controller writes...

Philch's is pretty much busted on mine:

It might not make any difference but you could try this one..

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All good now, cheers meat sack.

Other Q: is it a full version update to have the user titles in text disappear?

Same goes for having the 'special users' whirls aligning on right? all my special users (mods, CT's, reporters) align to middle/leftish (as in pic).

Meat Sack writes...
User info (User#, online status, # of posts) is invisible unless you mouse over the user block. (image was meant to show this in Philch's block. You can see the user info, but the mouse pointer is hidden due to the way I got the screen capture.

Is that an on/off feature (or one i can easily configure in my mirrored .css's) once its released?
I want to always be able to see a users post # and user # (good indication of age/participation at a glance if i don't recognise the user).

sweeet work meat sack yr a legend :)

The Fat Controller writes...
or one i can easily configure in my mirrored .css's

Yeah its all actually done with CSS. The only thing that stops my new version from working on 0.63 is a div wrapper I've added around the user block to help with positioning. So yeah, this is just going to be a 'theme'. I'll update the old CSS 'theme' files to work with the new code, once everyone has it. The new version isn't going to be compulsory or anything.

I think I fixed up the special users, but once again I'll need someone to verify.

my©at™ writes...


Wow, this Greasemonkey is fantastic :)

Just wondering, I've got a photo... how do I turn it into an avatar?

EDIT:

Here's my pic --> img358.imageshack.us/my....image=aaa1on.png

Rang Dog Marv writes...
back on my knee for Wonko...





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I think you better check you're eye sight The Fat Controller, you seem to be missing something. :P

Back on topic, the lRead values for my script seem to be rolling themselves back to earlier session values. I thought I had fixed it by getting rid of FF Preloader and that they only may have been caused by FF crashing. Has anyone else had this problem of lRead values rolling back.

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so what happens if you want to change.

Darkriders writes...
so what happens if you want to change.

Meat Sack will update it for you.

But you have to be nice.

The Fat Controller writes...
But you have to be nice.

I will keep that in mind :)

The Fat Controller writes...

Meat Sack will update it for you.

But you have to be nice.

i will try and stay loyal to my avatar for a while atleast - what will you do if this thing catches on tho? we may have to pay u in beer meat sack :)

The Fat Controller writes...
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