I posted to the Vox wiki concerning a control string. The string starts with a star character and this causes wiki not to display the star but to put the rest of the string in bold text. I understand that this is correct behaviour and documented, but nowhere could I find how to suppress it. Using two stars produces two stars in the text, leading with any other character displays that character too. So I resorted to a backslash and an explanation in the text.
Can anyone tell me if there is an escape character, and what it is?? And can we update the wiki help to include this please?
Many thanks!
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Edit: This bug is now resolved.
Hi, just something I've noticed - when using the Quick reply box on this forum, for some reason (at least on my PC, but I'm pretty sure it's not a problem at my end because no other forum does it) it modifies the input locale to the US English keyboard layout, so if I hit Shift+2 (which on my PC normally produces the inverted comma " symbol) I get an ampersand (@). And of course, to get inverted commas I have to hit Shift and the apostrophe key (which on EN-UK keyboards produces the ampersand, but on EN-US keyboards it produces inverted commas: " ).
This is _really weird_, and it's not the only wrong key mapping: check this out...
Ok, so this is what I get when I hit Shift+number keys (along the top).
I should get (in order): !, ", £, $, € (which is on the same key as $, to get it you type Alt Gr + 4... US keyboards don't have an Alt Graphics key!), %, ^, &, *, (, ) ... What I actually get is !, @, #, $ (for some reason Alt Gr + 4 makes my cursor jump outside of the text box), %, ^, &, *, (, ) - which to me looks like EN-US keyboard layout.
I also have incorrect mappings on some of my other keyboard symbol keys, for example the tilde/hash key (next to the Enter key on the middle row on a UK keyboard) gives \ and | - which on UK keyboards are right next to the left shift key (they also work in this text box, but the hash (pound key, heh) is on the 4 key, which is wrong.
It's really bizarre, and it's never happened to me on any other forum (including other vB forums!) so I can only assume the input locale is incorrectly set on the forum config... Is it set to Unicode, or En-US or another specific locale or what? 1044 is Unicode English if I remember correctly, but I've not adminned a vB forum for a faiiiiiiiiir while so I honestly couldn't give any more help than this :/
It's not a terminal flaw, it's just REALLY. ANNOYING. when you're typing stuff and it screws up all the symbols :/
Can't reproduce it on firefox under linux... my spanish keyboard layout is working perfect: ñññ
Hi Christopher,
I can't for the live of me think of anything that would do this.
Nevertheless I checked the vbulletin settings and changed a setting, although I don't feel it should be the problem (it doesn't need to be on so it's worth a try).
Please let me know if this changed anything for you, since I'll turn it back on if it didn't.
Thanks in advance,
Flar
Dont see an issue with my swiss german keyboard.
IE6 XP
My Keyboard is fine - 2 and " - there you go...
""@@ - working fine on my (new) laptop. Running XP Pro, installed it fresh over the XP Home install (yeuck, why can't vendors understand that sometimes end-users WANT the Pro versions?!)
Just tried loading up the same thread, hitting Quick Reply in both IE6 and Flock, and the problem is fixed now - so I'd love to know what you changed!
All sorted now, thanks for taking the time to investigate and solve whatever it was which was causing this to happen, because it was really driving me nuts.
I ask this again, as my question was embedded in my other posts :
How do you get dead cycling to work ? On my TyTN, when writing an email for example, if I type "e" then "Fn" + "Space" it used to role through the "special caracters", "e"->"é"->"è"->"ê".
Looking at the "eT9DeadKeys.txt" file it looks like this should also work on TP2. What's the key combinbation to make it work ?
Format:
// c0, c1, c2, c3,..ck, where
// characters on the first column (c0), trigger the dead-cycling
// (c1,...,c3,c1..) when Symb + [first column character] on SP,
// or Fn + Space (PPC) and the current character macthes character
// on the first column.
Thanks
Harvey
Does this no longer exist on TP2 ? It worked on TyTN. Does anyone know how to make it work on TP2.
Thanks for help, I find this feature really useful, it would be a shame to have lost it.
Harvey
Not sure if it works as I haven't got one yet... but I read that if you pressed and held a key the alternates for that letter would show up (i.e. the accented variants).
give it a try,
wait, here's the bit from the manual:
To enter accented characters
1. Tap and hold a key with accent options (for example, vowels) to display the accented characters bar.
2. Slide your finger left or right on the screen to select the accented character you want to enter.
3. When you have selected the character, release your finger to enter it.
Tip You can also use the Numeric and Symbol mode to enter accented characters.
For more information, see “Using Numeric and Symbol Mode” in this chapter for details.
Thanks, but that is not exactly it... what you describe is on the virtual keyboard, and it works fine (tap and hold then move your thumb onto the one you want and finally realse).
Unfortunatly, this doesn't work on the physical keyboard. If you hold key pressed, it simply repeats it.
Surely some one can say whether this has simply been lost between TyTN and TP2.
Does no one use this feature on TyTN ? I found it great, just type the caracter you want then "Fn"+"Space" to get all the "accent" versions. It alos worked for "(" -> "[" -> "{", and other similar, virtually, you could get any symbol without ever using the symbol pad.
Has any one else noticed this has gone missing between TyTN and TP2 ???
Harvey
Is there any possibility to display only the X characters from a string?
Like the LEFT$ function in Basic for example.
I'm trying to fit a certain string in a box (see image below).
Thank you,
Tikl
I found it!
You have to use a rich text module (I was using only text) and the [tr] BB code will format the text as you will.
It even adds '...' at the end of a trimmed text!
Tikl
Hey, all. First of all, love Zooper and think it's amazing. I'm just starting off with advanced fields and conditionals and have had mixed results. I've searched around for some answers and experimented on my own, but have not been able to produce a successful result with one of my rich text fields.
Essentially what I'm doing is a if then statement for colors for SMS and e-mails (as demonstrated in many great tutorials) and have had success with one, but not another.
My successful conditional reads: $#SUSMS#<1? : #SUSMS#$ I.E. if the unread SMS count is less then 1, display an emoji, if greater, display the unread SMS count.
However, when I extend this to my Gmail formula I run into a problem. Because my I want my unread Gmail to read an accurate count across my default inbox (primary, promotions, updates) I use the math conditional $(#SUG0Primary#+#SUG0Updates#+#SUG0Promotions#)$ which works wonderfully by itself, for example (3+5+1) = 9 and the output reads 9.
But when I try to throw that into a similar statement as above, like $ $(#SUG0Primary#+#SUG0Updates#+#SUG0Promotions#)$<1? : (#SUG0Primary#+#SUG0Updates#+#SUG0Promotions#)$ $ the output displays the math formula twice (3+5+1) (3+5+1), rather than the the desired result of 9 or an emoji.
Basically, I'm trying to find how accomplish the desired effect of my SMS conditional, but the addition of this math conditional is giving me problems and I cannot find the correct solution. Any tips or advice?
You don't need the extra $s around the math expressions because it's already surrounded by $s since its embedded in a conditional statement:
This should work:
$(#SUG0Primary#+#SUG0Updates#+#SUG0Promotions#)<1? emoji : (#SUG0Primary#+#SUG0Updates#+#SUG0Promotions#)$
Hello, I have designed a keyword response app it will search for a keyword in a text, though at times i will receive text over 160 characters and it will split it into two text and the keyword that the app searches for gets split at the 160 character text point so it will only read half the text thus it will not respond to the key word, what I mean is it will search for a word like 'cart' but if it goes over 160 text and the word 'cart' is at the end of the 160 character limit, it will only read 'ca of the first part of the text and then read the next part where it will see rt', i need my app to combine and then read the text message rather than reading it into two. The app is made i just need someone to modify it to work around this issue, have spent ages and ive come to a complete halt its upsetting.