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Topic: Bug in V3 B2 WWF Forum version

Posted By: dj air
Subject: Bug in V3 B2 WWF Forum version
Date Posted: 18 February 2005 at 2:07pm

hi -boRg-

theres a bug within the new RTE system

justr a mom ent ago i posted a message and then decided to edit.

and the edit returned no content within my post, even though i posted it.

also the edited by section is moved into te post area at normal size, you can see on the topic below

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=13848&PN=1

also when posting i tried without any content and it still alowed me to submit the post (edit version not new topic/post).

im using Firefox on XP SP2

i posted here as its a WWF coding Error

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 February 2005 at 5:26am

I've just clicked on about 30 different 'Edit' buttons on verious posts and they all worked fine.

It sounds like Firefox just didn't fire the initilise for the RTE in time as becuase of the header.asp file I couldn't use the body onLoad event to start the RTE, instead I had to place it just after textarea with a delay on it.

Hitting refresh should solve the problem for the moment till I can find a better solution.

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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 19 February 2005 at 6:05am

ok -boRg-.. i had to edit another of my posts yesterday and it was ok.. it seems to be as you said.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 February 2005 at 7:20am

I can still see there being problems with people with slow connections, as for the RTE initialise function to run the external javascript file needs to be loaded first.

Really the initialise command needs to be an onLoad event in the body of the page, so that it is only fired when all elements and external elements for the page have loaded.

The problem is due to the header.asp file in the forum to make customisation simpler, that the body tag for all the pages is kept in this file.

It then makes it difficult to add the onLoad event required for the RTE into the body tag of just those pages that have the RTE as they are all sharing this same header.asp include file with the body tag being within this file.

It then also makes customisation more difficult as it means if someone customises the header.asp file so the forum fits in better with their site, if they forget to place the onLoad event into the body tag the RTE will fail to load correctly.

Does anyone know of anyway to get around this problem?

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 19 February 2005 at 9:28am

not sure if this is to do with what you was talking about or not but...

just now i was about to post a suggestion

and as i use FireFox, when i typed it put wot i typed in the text box as normal, and also in the "Find" box, maybe i just clicked this box to fast to type, before it had loaded so firefox was confused and thought i wanted to 'find' a word

Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 19 February 2005 at 2:45pm

-boRg- what about using a veriable .

have

if blnRTEActive = True then response.write ("onload='run RTE javascript'")

and on the pages that hold the RTE have the veriable set at the top of the page before the is written/header.asp. that way you can add it to the pages. that require it?

i mean use something like





response.write ("<body ")


if blnRTEActive = True then response.write (" onload='run RTE javascript'")



response.write(">")

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 February 2005 at 4:10pm

It's a bit more complex than that deciding if the RTE will appear in the page and sometimes can only been done after all the other code is loaded, like the reply box on this page.

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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 19 February 2005 at 4:26pm

good point forgot them.

Embarrassed

will keep on thinking.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 February 2005 at 5:38am

Maybe just some sort of pop-up message to the user saying RTE loading please wait so that there is a delay before people try typing in the message box would do the trick

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 20 February 2005 at 5:47am

ummm first time the page loaded, i couldnt type in the box and when i tried i got a pop up box that said something like "object not loaded"

then 2nd time it did the "Find" thing again....

so am typing in NotePad and am gunna C&P this over..

anyway wouldnt a popup box be annoying?

and how would the user know its loaded?

you cant use them "Web Dialog" boxs as people might not be acctually typing, they maybe just viewing the posts

maybe you could have a "Quick Reply" on pages that use the non RTE and then have a special page for posts?

i think VBulletin does that

that way you COULD have a pop up box warning the user as it wouldnt get in the way of anything

Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 20 February 2005 at 3:10pm

What about creating an IFRAME body and set there the onLoad event?

Or, everytime you want to go RTE, post (form) something to be picked up by header.asp, then in header.asp, dynamically create the body tag accordingly, observe:


<%

If Request.Form("GoingRTE") = "YesPlease" Then

  '/* Write here the body with onLoad */

  Response.Write("<BODY ...>")

Else

  '/* Write here the body for all non RTE pages */

  Response.Write("<BODY ...>")

End If

%>

You just have to make sure you are posting (YesPlease) when you want to go RTE.

This is just theory, no tests were made and no animals were injured.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 February 2005 at 12:13pm

For the web wiz forums version of the RTE I've gone back to the old method of opening a pre-existing iframe with the onLoad event to enable the RTE features in the iframe opening tag.

This should hopefully get rid of all these problems that people have had with the RTE in the forum.

I've also made the area that you type the post into bigger, let me know what you think???

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