[code] functionality (lack) in new vBulletin

[IanB]

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.

IanB

[Didée]

And even worse. (Quote from here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=666945#post666945))

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.

[Guest]

This is how you do a code block with this version. :)

http://neuron2.net/misc/code.jpg

[Didée]

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.

[IanB]

Don,

You have a truely evil streak in you a mile wide :D

IanB

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

[Swede]

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. ;)

[IanB]

@Swede,

Nope, still seems the same, nasty fixed width windows, do we need a reboot or something???TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDogs.
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[Swede]

Ah, the windows will remain, I've just removed the totally useless '90-chars'-add-some-spaces thingy.

[tsp]

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)?

[Didée]

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.

[LigH]

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... ;)

[Swede]

Sure, in the admin-panel, vbulletin options, Thread Display Options, set "Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text" to 0.

[Cyberia]

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!)

Thanks
Cyb

[Swede]

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.

[IanB]

@Swede,

Congratulations and well done, normal service has been resumed.

Look Ma, no scroll bars.

Thanx
IanB

[bond]

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

[Swede]

hm i think there now is a problem or things have gone worse from my point of viewI guess you're using IE?....
"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 ;)

[Shinigami-Sama]

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 ><

[IanB]

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.1
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40Which on my screen comes out at about 30.5 lines.

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

IanB

[LigH]

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.

[IanB]

@LigH,

You mean you actually like cascaded scrollable windows. Try swiping the text out of an inner window when it exceeds the size of the outer window, you can't! Try swiping all the text out of scrollable window, you can't. You have to do it in pieces this leads to transcription errors (same line twice/line missing)

IanB

[LigH]

I can - in two different possible ways:

a) Start the selection by dragging the mouse over the text from the top left, hold the left mouse button, and use the scroll wheel until the text went down far enough to complete the selection.

b) Quote the text, and copy out of the quoted source. (I don't use the WYSIWYG editor.)

[IanB]

I can - in two different possible ways:

a) Start the selection by dragging the mouse over the text from the top left, hold the left mouse button, and use the scroll wheel until the text went down far enough to complete the selection.Not all rodentia have wheels....b) Quote the text, and copy out of the quoted source. (I don't use the WYSIWYG editor.)Again a scrollable window....

IanB

[LigH]

Again a scrollable window....
If the full featured WYSIWYG editor is the 3rd option, try instead the 2nd ("Standard Editor - Extra").

BTW: The WYSIWYG editor does not work in Opera 7.5x, anyway...

[Shinigami-Sama]

I can - in two different possible ways:

a) Start the selection by dragging the mouse over the text from the top left, hold the left mouse button, and use the scroll wheel until the text went down far enough to complete the selection.

b) Quote the text, and copy out of the quoted source. (I don't use the WYSIWYG editor.)
select part of it and hit crtl+a
:D
works for me everytime
hmm it was working two days ago...

[bond]

I guess you're using IE?....
yep, i am and it looks indeed crap now :(

[Cyberia]

I think the current situation (no horizontal scrollbars) is an improvement, but all I really wanted was for the CODE window to scale to the width of the page and *then* use a scrollbar if necessary.

Im running at 1600x1200 and that is wide enough for most CODE posts. But the really wide ones should scroll I would think.

However I will defer to the developers in their choice of scrollbars. No scrollbars is better than the previous tiny code window.

[iradic]

did anyone tried to save page as text ... (with code in it)
anyone tried browsing with lynx ...

only links can dump html (with code) to text AND render it properly ... :)

Ecample
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from links
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Code:

function Cdeint(clip clp, clip output, int mode, float n)
{
###### PREPARATION ######
global noisel = default(n,0)

ord = clp.getparity() ? 1 : 0
tmpp = isyv12(clp) ? clp.leakkernelbob(order=ord, sharp=false, twoway=false, threshold=7).duplicateframe(0) :
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from ffox
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Code:

function Cdeint(clip clp, clip output, int mode, float n) { ######
PREPARATION ###### global noisel = default(n,0) ord = clp.getparity() ?
1 : 0 tmpp = isyv12(clp) ? clp.leakkernelbob(order=ord, sharp=false,
twoway=false, threshold=7).duplicateframe(0) : \
clp.leakkernelbob(order=ord, sharp=false, twoway=false,
threshold=7).duplicateframe(0).ConvertToYV12() one = tmpp two =
tmpp.unfilter(-74,-74) three = tmpp.BilinearResize(480,240) global
testclip = (mode==1 ? one : (mode==3 ? three : two)) ###### FRAMES FOR
BLENDPARAMETERS ###### global combing_n0 = testclip.selecteven() global
combing_n1 = testclip.selectodd() global combing_n2 =
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Am I missing something?
Bye

[IanB]

Dear all,

Thanks for the many helpful hints, however none work in all cases.

Bottom line is in the new vBulletin [ code ] et el is stuffed, previously I had no problem interacting efficiently with the interface, even crappy old Netscape 4 under unix didn't have a problem.

Scrollable windows within scrollable windows is a really bad idea, no two browsers seem to handle this case consistantly, hence my heartfelt plea to totally avoid any vestige of scroll bars around a code window.

I really appreciate the work Swede has done in getting us this far. I continue to live in hope.

IanB