Massive Version 3 upgrade

[Darth Wong]

The image alignment feature is back, but in modified form. The old one looked like this:

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[img=right]http://www.photodump.com/blahblah.jpg[/img]

The new one looks like this:

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[align=right][img]http://www.photodump.com/blahblah.jpg[/img][/align]

Or this:

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[float=right][img]http://www.photodump.com/blahblah.jpg[/img][/float]

Depending on whether you want the text to wrap around your image or not. The new "align" bbcode aligns any contained object either right, left, or center, while the new "float" bbcode does the same thing but causes other text to wrap around the block.

So the "align" bbcode would do this, depending on whether you choose "left", "center", or "right":

Notice how the text does not continue until after the picture. Whereas the "float" bbcode would do this:

Notice how the text is now wrapped around the image, so that I have to keep typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing and typing to get past it.

Or alternatively, I could use the new "break" tag to make a block of text which is forced to break past the float. It looks like this:

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[break]text[/break]

or:

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[break][/break]... continuing text

This is a right-justified quote
with two lines of text. I control
the width by breaking lines
manually.

Minor notes:

- The "float" tag can only do "left" and "right", not "center".
- The "float" tag adds a small margin on both sides of the image, to keep text from squashing right up against the side of the image.
- You can also use the "float" tag with non-image objects, like the example at right:

Unfortunately, this means people have to manually edit their signatures, and old posts using the old tags won't work unless I can make the time to write a PHP script that loops through the entire phpbb_posts table and does a regexp replace (the built-in MySQL REPLACE function does not support regexp). But the new system is much more flexible than the old one was.

[Coyote]

I rather like this new version. There's a few difference that require getting used to new procedures (such as the "quote" button location) but nothing some time & experience won't take care of.

Much more versatile.

[Siege]

Is it just me, or is there something off with the [img] tags in signatures? It says those tags are enabled... But then they don't work, at least not for me. As far as I can tell, the tag in my signature ought to work, but for some reason it doesn't?

[AdmiralKanos]

Is it just me, or is there something off with the [img] tags in signatures? It says those tags are enabled... But then they don't work, at least not for me. As far as I can tell, the tag in my signature ought to work, but for some reason it doesn't?

Maybe it's because you mistakenly have an extra right-square bracket in there?

[Darth Wong]

Quote button moved to the top of the post row, as it was in the old days.

[RedImperator]

I feel the need to add, the "Preview" function in the sig control panel is a really first rate feature to have. Saved me a ton of time.

[Siege]

Maybe it's because you mistakenly have an extra right-square bracket in there?

Oh, thanks, I hadn't actually caught that. That didn't turn out to be the issue though: the image I was linking was 110 pixels high; I downsized the image height to 100 pixels and now it links just fine. Hurrah!

[Coyote]

Ahh, excellent-- "quote" and "report" buttons both up top. Now folks, be careful not to "report" someone when merely trying to "quote"! I like the idea of the "report" button-- and the fact that it tells the mod who is making the report & why, so that excessive whiners who "report" anyone they don't like will find that they do, indeed, get Mod attention, just not in the manner with which they'd like.

I'm of mixed feelings on the "ignore foe" ability. It might be good in some areas but in places like N&P one shouldn't be able to stick their fingers in their ears and go "lalala!"... is there a way to make "ignore" selective to certain forums?

Another odd thing-- when I get my e-mail alert that a new post has been made, I have to log in to see even the stuff in public forums. I had to log in to see new stuff in Testing, even.

[Braedley]

Just noticed something nice. When new posts cross a page, the thread won't be marked as read until you go to the last page.

Also, Mike, is your sig s'posed to contian spoiler sized text?

[Beowulf]

The problem is that the changed the font size tag such that you need to add a 0 to end of size.

[Coyote]

Does anyone know why some threads in the forum menus have little orange dots on them, regardless of whether they have new posts in them or not?

[Darth Wong]

The orange dot denotes that it's a thread you've participated in.

[Braedley]

The problem is that the changed the font size tag such that you need to add a 0 to end of size.

Ah, I see.

Also, I now see a flash tag is available, but currently turned off. Could this possibly be turned on for things like OT and Testing? It could be nice to directly post youtube videos and the sort.

[Grandmaster Jogurt]

This version seems to perform the "view first unread post" function better than the last version did. Before, it would go to the first post that I had not read when I'd started the session, whether I've read it since then or not. Now it goes to the first post that I actually haven't ever seen.

[phongn]

The prosilver theme looks excellent - thank you, Mike, for downloading it.

[fusion]

The prosilver theme looks excellent - thank you, Mike, for downloading it.

But, but everything is on the right hand side.... It is just a bit weird....
The similes look better now...

[Edi]

I think the prosilver theme looks like ass, personally. I'd rather have the black pearl and rainbow pearl themes and dark fantasy available as well. All of the available ones make my eyes bleed, it's just a question of degree.

[Soontir C'boath]

Hurray! The quote/edit/delete buttons are back in their proper place.

[Crayz9000]

Prosilver looks nice, but it's going to take me a long time to get used to looking on the other side of the screen for the user information... Plus I prefer dark background themes.

[phongn]

Prosilver looks nice, but it's going to take me a long time to get used to looking on the other side of the screen for the user information... Plus I prefer dark background themes.

Well, the most important information - the poster - is right below the post title. I personally dislike dark themes and light text on dark backgrounds lead to greater eye strain (and generally requires some typographical voodoo to help compensate)

[Darth Nostril]

It's more a case of getting used to SDN being in line with the other boards that already made the upgrade, everything is now where it's supposed to be instead of having to make an exception for here.

Themes? ... they'll get here as and when our Illustrious Leader finds the time to implement them, right now I would imagine that functionality is at the top of the list of priorities (I've lived through this upgrade before, first you get everything working right, then you make it look pretty)

Unfortunately to add to the list of things that aren't working - the "testing posts don't add to post count" stopped working.
No big deal, just another one to add to the list of 1001 things that've got to be updated

[Phantasee]

The quote box is still on the bottom in subSilver, but I'm going to try the new silver theme.

[FSTargetDrone]

Forgive me if this was addressed elsewhere, but will the low bandwidth version of the board be returning? Right now it's 404.

[Sea Skimmer]

I cant remember what its called but I’d really like that black and orange theme we had before from like the very start of the existence of the board, it’s the only one I ever used and I really don’t like any of the current options.

[Stark]

I have a question about the new alignment options. I'm at work so I just used the new commands to repeat my old setup, but I've now got a single space in front of the first letter of the text on left. I imagine this is a part of the margin Mike talked about to prevent it looking naff, but in this case that margin isn't actually where the image is because it's aligned right (technically floated, but anyway). My code looks like this

[ float=right][ img]url here[/img][/float] text etc here

and produces

_ text etc here .... IMG HERE
^--- space here grr!

Anyone got some advice? It's obviously not a critical issue, and the new float options should allow me to actually stack images on the right now which is pretty cool.