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Forum Information & Policies => Forum News & Announcements => Topic started by: Simon on June 29, 2011, 22:05
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You will probably have noticed a different look to PC Pals. This is due to the forum software being upgraded to the latest version, SMF 2.0.
We also thought we'd take the opportunity to give the forum a lick of paint, which we hope you will like.
Whilst we believe everything to be ship shape, and running as it should, please let us know if you find any errors or anomalies while you are browsing the forums, and we will do out best to rectify them.
The forum works in much the same way as before, but if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
My thanks to Sam for his expertise in getting the new board up and running with minimum downtime.
We hope you enjoy the new PC Pals! :thumb:
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Further to the above, you may need to refresh the PC Pals cookie, if stored in your browser, should you experience logging in problems, and you may wish to reconfigure your Profile, as there are some additional features, such as the WYSIWYG editor.
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Wow a big change
i thought I was in the wrong place at first :laugh:
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Hopefully it will still have that same unique pcpals feel. :crazy:
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Phew! I've only just been able to log in (both here and next door), after clearing my cache. This is likely to come as a relief to Simon especially, as he's been receiving enquiring texts from some weirdo with a number he didn't recognise. ;)
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;D
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I didn't think that should be neccessary. Oh well.
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Can anyone tell me where PC-Pals has gone, please? Oh, hang on... is that Sam I see putting away his Marigolds and Mr Sheen?
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Very stylish, guys :thumb: .
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Ta! We thought it was about time we had a clean up.
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Any danger of a Newsletter then? :o:
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Yes, look out for a newsletter this evening. We just wanted to make sure everything was working first! ;)
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On a day when so many people are on strike, PC-Pals is looking to make sure everything is working. Typical!
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:lol2:
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Yes, look out for a newsletter this evening. We just wanted to make sure everything was working first! ;)
Ermm... the "Show unread posts" facility isn't working properly for me (Firefox 5.0). Also, some posts display BBCode verbatim, rather than render it. Here's an example (http://www.pc-pals.com/smf/index.php/topic,35243.msg248488.html#msg248488).
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the later is a result of the new WYSIWYG editor - not much we can do about that without allowing other tags.
The previous, I'm unsure about.. I haven't looked at the site with Firefox 5 - but that shouldn't be browser dependent I didn't think. I'll have a look.
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I've a sneaking feeling that it's possibly to do with the way the 'Unread Posts' page is now being cached. I may be wrong, why should today be any different?
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I think its all done in the database, so should be browser independent. But I'll take a look.
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like every change on any site it takes time to adjust to it.
so far all I can say i'm not keen on is the new/no new posts icons.they are a bit 'samey' bar the colour which may be awkward to distinguish to some people
and maybe the header bars are a bit too dark on the blue
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you mean the header bit that say PC PALS and has the messages and time?
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yeah those and each individual topic header
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I personally like the stark contrast. I'm sure me other half wouldn't agree though... but we'll take a look at it. All suggestions are welcome, even if we do just ignore them :P
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Unfortunately, we can't adjust the theme to every individual taste. If we make the menu bars lighter, some people won't like that either. It does also take a while to get used to changes.
The new posts icons can be changed, though. What would you suggest, Rod? They would obviously have to fit in with the colour scheme, so banana yellow would be out of the question! ;D
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...so banana yellow would be out of the question!
Philistine. >:(
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;D
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What I'll do is make the 'new' icon more of a green colour, like on the old board, yes?
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I like that idea. Though the banana....
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or like a closed-envelope-never-been-seen-yet type icon, compared to something that has been seen :dunno:
some thing along those lines. old/new etc.
I dont know.not very imaginative me ;D
or just have the words 'new posts' 'no new posts' :D :D :D
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Phew! For a moment, I thought something was wrong with my monitor.
Nice work! :)
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Thanks Dave! :)
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Baz, I'll look at those later. :)
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no rush Simon
as you say it takes a while to get used to changes and im sure we've had this before
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what I have just noticed though is the spell check doesnt work.
Am getting the underlined mistakes but right click on the word just brings up the right click normal context menu, in Firefox, and the spell check button does not check any thing or have any words available or so it seems
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yeah, took them quite some convincing of me that we needed to change... I'm pleased with our results though.
Though you'll be happy to know we avoid the "sheep" theme that Clive wanted. But only just as I think Rik was considering it..... :devil:
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what I have just noticed though is the spell check doesnt work.
Am getting the underlined mistakes but right click on the word just brings up the right click normal context menu, in Firefox, and the spell check button does not check any thing or have any words available or so it seems
hmm - same thing for me. I'd assumed it was my firefox - its been a bit weird as of late. Maybe its the new editor - I'll investigate.
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sheep !!!!!!!!!!!!!
:o :o that would have been BAAAAAD :scoot:
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ive just tried the right click in another forum Sam and it works.I thought the same as you maybe a FF thing but not so
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I like the little drop downs in the top menu/tabs
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but another forum running smf 2?
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good point and no its not still 1.1.14
drag their heels next door they do :o:
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I thought that's where you might have gone :-)
They have a trickier situation with their upgrades, from what I can tell. We have a code base that we have kept clean and documentaed.
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Baz - the spell check works in Firefox if you disable the WYSIWYG editor - you can set this in your profile settings.
It works fine in Chrome in either mode.
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It doesn't work in chrome for me. :bawl:
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I've tried to disable the WYSIWYG editor, but it seems to have had no effect. I'm not sure what we should be seeing instead. :dunno:
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it works fine for me in ff 3.6
Swiftfox 3.6
SWare iron 11.0
Chrome 11
Looks great
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We're getting there! :)
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Urrrggghhhh! Yucky turquoise for new posts! And where have the smileys gone? Just wait until Sam sees, what you've been up to. (I'd temper that last sentence with a smiley, but they've vanished, along with all the other formatting buttons).
Hang on - now I've gone to 'preview', they're back. Oh, I'm going to have a glass of something alcoholic..... you guys are driving me to drink!
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We're still testing! :aarrgh:
Sam will fix it tomorrow. ;D
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Urrrggghhhh! Yucky turquoise for new posts! And where have the smileys gone? Just wait until Sam sees, what you've been up to. (I'd temper that last sentence with a smiley, but they've vanished, along with all the other formatting buttons).
More Urrrggghhhh? Or less Urrrggghhhh?
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Much less Urrrggghhhh :) . In fact, it's more of a mellow Mmmmmmm. Thanks, Simon - I hope everyone else likes it too.
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If not, we'll tell them to pop round and see you, Gill. ;D
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I wonder what I missed out on.
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Just the new post icons, Sam. The green I ended up with was slightly lurid. We can rethink these anytime. :)
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ok :laugh:
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I havent been on the Forum for a couple of days or more; been busy. What a surprise I had today! I dont normally agree with change on anything; bit of a stick in the mud, but I must say I love the new look. Everything all shiny and modern-yes "LOVE IT"
Thanks for the work Sam and all who helped.
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ta - everyone has just gotta enjoy it and keep the posts a flowing now :crazy:
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Thanks DG! :thumb: We've still one or two things to iron out, but all is looking well. :)
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how do you add an attachment again :blush:
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Not sure I can tell you off my head and I'm on my phone and possibly the busiest bus in Brum - I'm sure someone else will be along soon
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how do you add an attachment again :blush:
Hit Reply, then under the posting text box, click Attachments and other options, then browse to the file you want to attach.
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Hit Reply, then under the posting text box, click Attachments and other options, then browse to the file you want to attach.
I already looked at that Simon and all I see when clicking Attachments is tick boxes for Return to this topic and Dont use smileys.
and I guess you cant do it with the Quick Reply function?
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You can only post attachments in the General and Tech boards, not in this one, Baz. Was there something specific?
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ah right that'll explain it then.
it was just a pic of my profile settings after Sam (I think) mentioned how to change something,the spell check prob.i looked and have 2 identical entries for something to do with WYSIWYG
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Yes, I think we all did, but I've now reinstalled the mod, so that may be rectified, but I haven't checked yet. There was three at one point! ;D
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... and then there were three... again! ::)
The mod that puts the smilies in the Quick Reply box does seem a little buggy, particularly in the Chrome browser. I have tested it myself using Chrome, and have started a thread here:
http://www.pc-pals.com/smf/index.php/topic,35279
I have discovered that the mod is being 'adopted' by SMF themselves (currently, it's one written by an independent mod writer), and will hopefully appear by default in future forum upgrades, at which point, it should work correctly on all browsers (:x:), but until then, all we can do is use the functionality available, and work around the bits that don't quite do as we'd like them to.
Alternatively, we can uninstall the mod, but then we would lose the smilies from the Quick Reply box.
So, I guess, the question is, should it stay, or should it go?
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I think smilies are more important than the url box. :)
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If I use chrome and click on the last post of a topic down the right hand side of the forum it takes me to the reply not the topic. :)x
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Holy cr*p, I thought I'd clicked on the wrong bookmark.... :stars:
That'll teach me for going missing for awhile. ;)
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We waited until the coast was clear... :devil: ;)
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Oh, you'll never know when I'll just pop up.... neither will I for for that matter. ;D