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Old 9th June 2005, 08:51   #1  |  Link
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[code] functionality (lack) in new vBulletin

Are there any options to change the behavior of the [ code ] operator in this version of vBulletin. These horrible new little fixed width window are absolutly useless. You cannot read the relevant piece of code someone is disscussing as a whole. You cannot resize them. You constantly need to scroll the little winow left and right. You can't even easily select all the code text to cut and paste it into a Notepad to read it sensibly.

If possible please put it back the way the old version had it.

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Old 11th June 2005, 01:57   #2  |  Link
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And even worse. (Quote from here)

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Oh my Lord, heaven help!

We now do have the new vBulletin software version!

I mean ... that one that destroys all posted scripts by injecting spaces everywhere, if the written code contains character sequences long enough without spaces.

I consider this a serious malfunction in the handling of <code> content.
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Old 11th June 2005, 02:43   #3  |  Link
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This is how you do a code block with this version.

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Old 11th June 2005, 03:41   #4  |  Link
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That's of little help for the hundreds or thousands of scripts & scriptlets already posted in the past. Functional before, all of a sudden many of them became junk.
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Don,

You have a truely evil streak in you a mile wide

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P.S. Didée, try to swipe the text (it's a picture)

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Old 11th June 2005, 06:59   #6  |  Link
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Whoa, chill out... It's early on a nice saturday morning. (If just the sun would break through)
But, more important, there's a new option i vBB3 that had this 'sideeffect' and I've of course reset it due to this. I hope this is to your satisfaction.
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Old 11th June 2005, 11:27   #7  |  Link
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@Swede,

Nope, still seems the same, nasty fixed width windows, do we need a reboot or something???
Code:
TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.
TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.
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Ah, the windows will remain, I've just removed the totally useless '90-chars'-add-some-spaces thingy.
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Ah, the windows will remain, I've just removed the totally useless '90-chars'-add-some-spaces thingy.
Is it posssible to make it wider on large resolution(1600x1200)?
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Thank you so much, Swede.

Interestingly, no one ever managed to do that change on the German Gleitz forum. Posting longer code is big fun there.
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Old 12th June 2005, 11:03   #11  |  Link
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Ah, the windows will remain, I've just removed the totally useless '90-chars'-add-some-spaces thingy.
Can you give Michael Gleitz a hint where to edit which file? He is so heavily busy, he won't be able to search for hours...
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Sure, in the admin-panel, vbulletin options, Thread Display Options, set "Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text" to 0.
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Old 20th June 2005, 18:03   #13  |  Link
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Thank you guys for also being frustrated with the CODE functionality.

While we are on this subject, the boxes where PM's and Posts are typed is also very small and doesn't scale with screen resolution. (especially PM's, but it would be very nice if both scaled!)

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Old 21st June 2005, 08:45   #14  |  Link
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I'm still trying to find out how the settings affect the forum and just found out that if I turn on the 'autosize' for the code block (as I've now done) IE wont honour the width-limit but "if you do, Internet Explorer will stretch the width of the block rather than inserting a scrollbar."
Well, let's try this for a while and see if the IE-users hate it too much

Regarding the PM/Post widths I'm still doing some small experiments.
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@Swede,

Congratulations and well done, normal service has been resumed.

Look Ma, no scroll bars.

Thanx
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Old 21st June 2005, 16:47   #16  |  Link
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hm i think there now is a problem or things have gone worse from my point of view:

eg if you look at this thread
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96159 or even at this thread here
you see that the posts get very long horizontally, which is very ugly imho

i think it is better when the the scrollbars get used
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hm i think there now is a problem or things have gone worse from my point of view
I guess you're using IE?....
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"if you do, Internet Explorer will stretch the width of the block rather than inserting a scrollbar."
Well, let's try this for a while and see if the IE-users hate it too much
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Old 22nd June 2005, 05:32   #18  |  Link
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why are you even using IE?...
thats abig comprimize ot security, all your fancy firewalls and anti-virus apps are usless with that,, thing

anyways swede, everything looks good now, I was avoiding coming for a couple days because of it ><
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Old 22nd June 2005, 17:21   #19  |  Link
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Nup, looks like I spoke to soon, I should have said, Look ma less scroll bars. We still seem to have some sort of crappy vertical limit.
Code:
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Which on my screen comes out at about 30.5 lines.

Geez why can't vBullitin just leave [ code ] block unmolested.

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A vertical limit is okay in my opinion: Some people post logfiles directly into the reply text even without wrapping it in a CODE block; in such cases it would have been wise to attach such huge logs as files to the reply, instead of into the text. Code blocks with limited heights at least reduce the risk of unreadable replies due to their length.
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