Even though I see a "remember my serial number" checkbox on the member forum login screen, I'm not comfortable entering my prduct serial number as a login password - I typically use a particular scheme/pattern for my passwords. The serial number is very different, and not one I can easily remember...and I'll be darned if 6 months from now I'll be able to find my original registration email to do a copy-and-paste...
SO: since FF3 already knows my serial number, if I could just go to the Help Menu and select "log in to Member Forum", FF3 could handle that for me...
Please?
Or else provide a "copy serial number to clipboard" button on the About screen?
Thanks,
-John
P.S. Why does the forum's message-editing textbox jump around so much when my message gets this long? It's impossible to see what I'm typing, or to easily edit it... II'm guessing that the last line number of the short pane is remembered and after every character is trped, the textbox is repositioned to that line,. Anyway, it's very frustrating...
Quote from: John Montenigro on November 07, 2009, 04:00:36 PM
SO: since FF3 already knows my serial number, if I could just go to the Help Menu and select "log in to Member Forum", FF3 could handle that for me...
Maybe. Interesting idea. I'd have to learn how to integrate/pass information from the FF3 program directly to a browser.
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P.S. Why does the forum's message-editing textbox jump around so much when my message gets this long? It's impossible to see what I'm typing, or to easily edit it... II'm guessing that the last line number of the short pane is remembered and after every character is trped, the textbox is repositioned to that line,. Anyway, it's very frustrating...
I have never, ever, had any trouble with the message editing with the Simple Machines Forum software. Definitely have never seen any textbox jumping around. :) What kind of browser do you use? Internet Explorer? FireFox? Opera? I expect that it should work perfectly on those browsers.
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You might add Google's Chrome to the list of browsers that work fine.
Rolf
Add the following to the end of the URL given to the browser;
?name=Haakon Birkeland&serial=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
... and use the appropriate code in the web page to pick it apart and insert it into the fields of the form. I'm not much help there as I don't speak PHP, but in ASP you would get the information from the URL by using;
str_UserName = Request.QueryString( "name" )
str_SerialNum = Request.QueryString( "serial" )
Quote from: TechSupport on November 07, 2009, 05:42:59 PM
I have never, ever, had any trouble with the message editing with the Simple Machines Forum software. Definitely have never seen any textbox jumping around. :) What kind of browser do you use? Internet Explorer? FireFox? Opera? I expect that it should work perfectly on those browsers.
I'm using IE 8.0.
When I start a reply and the textbox is at the bottom of the screen, and as I type and the lines fill the box, once the last line tries to scroll, something keeps trying to re-position the field to the first line (or something like that). The problem is especially evident if I am typing on the last line and insert a couple of arrriage returns...
I can re-position the thumb and read OK, but as soon as I start typing at the end again, the jumping continues.
I'll keep trying to identify the problem's conditions, but even as i type this, I'm fighting the bouncing textbox...
-jhm
The "bouncing text" that you're seeing is a bug with IE8 in how it's calculating the scroll position based on wrapped text. The workaround is to change the forum code so the textarea width is not specified as a percentage (i.e.: width: 70%) and instead either specify it as an absolute value in pixels, or use the min-width and max-width styles instead.
Edit: I checked, and the other option that you have is to switch to the WYSIWYG editor; it doesn't seem to have the problem. You can do this by selecting Profile > Modify Profile > Look and Layout and check the "Show WYSIWYG editor on post page by default" option, then click Change Profile.
Excellent - thanks Michael for investigating a fix to this IE8 problem. I have never used IE8.... I always use Opera... and occassionally FireFox.
Quote from: Mike Stefanik on November 09, 2009, 01:55:37 PM
The "bouncing text" that you're seeing is a bug with IE8 in how it's calculating the scroll position based on wrapped text. ...
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switch to the WYSIWYG editor...
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that info!!! It works perfectly, and I don't have all that aggrevation!!
Thanks, Mike!