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Title: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 26 Oct 2015, 02:09:48 am
You may have noticed that there was an outage of these boards a few days ago. I fixed it eventually but I actually have no idea what exactly fixed it. It was showing a PHP error. The error is because the server is running a newer version of PHP than this forum software was designed to run on. But the this error is actually being thrown constantly in the background so I don't know why it suddenly caused an outage.

However this highlighted the fact that this forum is running really, really old software. I know there have been problems with posts being blank. I have no idea why that is happening and I don't see any errors in the logs. I suspect it is another PHP version problem. While trying to fix the outage I looked into upgrading to the newest version of SMF. I actually performed the upgrade and you can see the rather poor results at http://test.lunatics.kwsn.info/.

First of all you will notice that the custom theme is completely broken. That can probably be fixed with some effort. The bigger problem is that the upgrade disabled all extensions. This reset the site back to being nothing but a forum. The front page with the download links and news feed is all gone. That functionality is supplied by an extension named Enigma and this extension is no longer maintained. There might be newer extensions available now that provide similar functionality but I'm not sure.

Is anyone else around here by chance familiar with the SFM software or have any other ideas for how to get this site running on a more modern system?
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 26 Oct 2015, 02:28:11 am
And in making the above post I actually ran into the blank post problem. Wow, that is indeed weird.  In this case it seems to have gone away when I removed a double space in the middle of the post. But I can't replicate the problem now by intentionally using a double space. Sooo... I have no clue what's going on there.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 26 Oct 2015, 07:02:29 pm
I would be the person who is most familiar with SMF as I run the Sister site for this place at Crunchers Anonymous (http://www.arkayn.us/forum/index.php)

I am running SMF 2.0.11 and Tiny Portal (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=97) over there, which has a built in download manager.

There is also EZ Portal (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1461). I recommend Download System (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/?mod=992) for use with that.

EzPortal is the only one that has been updated to work with the upcoming 2.1 release of SMF.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 26 Oct 2015, 11:44:08 pm
Of course the theme is not compatible either.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 27 Oct 2015, 12:56:08 am
Thank you for your suggestions. I've been tinkering with them tonight. As you pointed out the custom theme is totally broken so I just completely disabled it. Other than that I've managed to replicate a fair bit of the functionality of the current setup... I think. Definitely not a finished product and I'm guessing I will need to redo it all anyway once it is decided to do the upgrade for real. But please go look and let me know what you think. http://test.lunatics.kwsn.net
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 27 Oct 2015, 06:13:23 pm
Thank you for your suggestions. I've been tinkering with them tonight. As you pointed out the custom theme is totally broken so I just completely disabled it. Other than that I've managed to replicate a fair bit of the functionality of the current setup... I think. Definitely not a finished product and I'm guessing I will need to redo it all anyway once it is decided to do the upgrade for real. But please go look and let me know what you think. http://test.lunatics.kwsn.info

Fixed the link...
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Raistmer on 28 Oct 2015, 04:32:48 am
What was very useful place for SETI-related cooperation/development recently became pain in the *ss actually.
My posts longer than 1-2 strings disappear. And now I'm always on 13-th page (of 16) in "New ways of signals logging" thread. Please do smth with boards software or at least I will be forced to abandon this site despite of all sorry about this that I feel.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 28 Oct 2015, 10:38:58 am
The test site is running just fine as SMF 2.0.11 works great with the current version of mysql.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Raistmer on 28 Oct 2015, 12:18:00 pm
The test site is running just fine as SMF 2.0.11 works great with the current version of mysql.
Where it resides? Cause very this board still lose posts!
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 28 Oct 2015, 12:28:15 pm
The test site is running just fine as SMF 2.0.11 works great with the current version of mysql.
Where it resides? Cause very this board still lose posts!


http://test.lunatics.kwsn.info/
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 28 Oct 2015, 04:20:19 pm
Just don't use the test site for anything "real" yet. It is a clone I took last weekend so it is missing new posts and such so I will need to wipe it out and start over after I figure a few more things out.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Raistmer on 28 Oct 2015, 05:51:09 pm
Just don't use the test site for anything "real" yet. It is a clone I took last weekend so it is missing new posts and such so I will need to wipe it out and start over after I figure a few more things out.
Heh, this site missing new posts too :/
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 28 Oct 2015, 11:45:37 pm
Just don't use the test site for anything "real" yet. It is a clone I took last weekend so it is missing new posts and such so I will need to wipe it out and start over after I figure a few more things out.
Heh, this site missing new posts too :/

Only ones made here on the old site after I cloned the database.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 29 Oct 2015, 12:50:26 am
Wow, people. This vanishing post problem is terrible. Anyway, it looks like Josef hasn't been around for a while. I feel like it would be good to get his input on this change
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 29 Oct 2015, 01:33:08 am
Wow, people. This vanishing post problem is terrible. Anyway, it looks like Josef hasn't been around for a while. I feel like it would be good to get his input on this change

We would like to know if he okay as he has not posted anywhere since August, and his computers have also not connected to SETI either.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 29 Oct 2015, 03:32:08 am
Wow, people. This vanishing post problem is terrible. Anyway, it looks like Josef hasn't been around for a while. I feel like it would be good to get his input on this change

We would like to know if he okay as he has not posted anywhere since August, and his computers have also not connected to SETI either.
Hope somebody has some news, or he shows up somewhere soon.
I have been worried about his absence too.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Raistmer on 29 Oct 2015, 04:32:30 am
Wow, people. This vanishing post problem is terrible. Anyway, it looks like Josef hasn't been around for a while. I feel like it would be good to get his input on this change
yeah... but he is missing :/ arkayn phound his allegible phone on white pages. I would suggest someone with fluent english speech and audio recognition to call him.
Really hope it's just his internet connection died and he is totally OK, but would be very goo to know for sure.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 29 Oct 2015, 05:42:43 pm
Well then I guess this is up to me. So here's my plan. I have some time tomorrow. I will put the boards into maintenance mode and do the upgrade for real. Initially I will disable the custom theme because I feel like fixing the vanishing post problem is more important than look & feel. Hopefully the theme can be fixed up eventually. The trickiest part will probably be trying to move the file downloads over. It may end up requiring a lot of manual fixup... we'll see.Any objections?
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 29 Oct 2015, 07:09:12 pm
What is the name of the theme we are running?

Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 29 Oct 2015, 07:30:37 pm
What is the name of the theme we are running?



"Lunatics.at Theme"

Plus the theme template file was modified by the Enigma portal mod. I know the yellow text in a lot of the posts is hard to read on a light background so maybe to start with we should just install a darker theme. But my first priority will be to get the forum and downloads working. If you or someone else wants to poke at themes  stuff, I would be happy to make you an admin  :)
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 29 Oct 2015, 07:57:37 pm
I have used both SKM Night and Lampshade on my board, but have not found any theme that comes close to the custom theme that was designed for here.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 30 Oct 2015, 05:28:25 pm
Looking much better with the black background!  Dark backgrounds and light text are much easier for those with old eyes, ya see....
The sticky subforum lists are almost illegible, due to the light tan background, but hopefully you can do something about that when time permits.
For now, looking good.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 30 Oct 2015, 06:23:29 pm
Just happened :

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to view the Downloads

Waiting patiently...
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 30 Oct 2015, 06:33:13 pm
The contrast on locked and pinned forum threads (to bright background colour) needs to be increased for better readability.  ;)
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 31 Oct 2015, 11:39:47 am
Just happened :

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to view the Downloads

Waiting patiently...

You can't access downloads at all? Or you can't upload? What permissions is the volunteer developer group supposed to have?
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 31 Oct 2015, 06:38:01 pm
We cannot access downloads at all, permissions should be open to all groups to view the downloads.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 01 Nov 2015, 12:01:59 am
I changed the background color of sticky threads. Hopefully that is more readable now?

As for the download permissions, I just tried applying the "View Downloads" permission to all forum groups but I'm not sure it actually changed anything. May need to manually add permissions to each download category... not sure. I know guests are able to access downloads because I tested that using a private browser tab. And of course I can see them as an admin. I guess maybe I should create another user account to test these things with...
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 01 Nov 2015, 01:09:44 am
Downloads are available to everyone once again, developers have upload access.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 01 Nov 2015, 01:12:31 am
What you have to know is.....................

Some of you are just no daysies a all, kids.

Not one of ya.


Purpose and reason................My life has both.
Lacking at times, to be sure, but I poses both traites at all times.

You want history?   I can give you that..............

I  did time.  Hard time.
I did not know when I  would be  be   free again.


I did a major hack back in the day.............maybe the best ever.
Untraceable.


Was none better.

Zero cool? Google 'hackman'.

ZC was a friend.   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0mGqLkVSXY)
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 01 Nov 2015, 05:11:07 am
Just wanna say that I think this site is looking really nice, and pass along my appreciation.

MEOW!
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Mike on 01 Nov 2015, 06:09:19 am

I`m just missing our nice Lunatics Logo.  :'( ???
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 01 Nov 2015, 06:33:10 am

I`m just missing our nice Lunatics Logo.  :'( ???
Yeah, me too.
And Simon.
He might have had some comments to make.

Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Raistmer on 01 Nov 2015, 03:49:21 pm

I`m just missing our nice Lunatics Logo.  :'( ???

+1  ::) In general new theme not so bad, but logo must have one indeed :)
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 01 Nov 2015, 06:25:07 pm
I will try to get that when I get home
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 01 Nov 2015, 08:25:44 pm
Just happened :

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to view the Downloads

Waiting patiently...

You can't access downloads at all? Or you can't upload? What permissions is the volunteer developer group supposed to have?
I can see downloads and the premature place for uploads, but i can't see how uploads should work.

Attaching a file to a post works and is not ment atm.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 01 Nov 2015, 08:41:47 pm
In the middle of the bottom banner should be some text called add a download. Click on it and it will take you to the actual upload file page.

http://lunatics.kwsn.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=add;cat=9
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 01 Nov 2015, 08:55:13 pm
In the middle of the bottom banner should be some text called add a download. Click on it and it will take you to the actual upload file page.

http://lunatics.kwsn.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=add;cat=9
With your link i get the following result :

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to add a download.

By the way : What bottom banner ? I do not see a banner at the bottom !
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 01 Nov 2015, 09:11:19 pm
In the middle of the bottom banner should be some text called add a download. Click on it and it will take you to the actual upload file page.

http://lunatics.kwsn.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=add;cat=9
With your link i get the following result :

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to add a download.

By the way : What bottom banner ? I do not see a banner at the bottom !

Not a banner, just the location at the bottom. Permissions have been corrected and you should be able to upload anything now.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 01 Nov 2015, 09:19:16 pm
On the Logo, I am not seeing where to locate it within the template, plus I would need to upload it to the correct directory first.

That will most likely have to be a ToeBee fix when he has time.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 01 Nov 2015, 09:33:48 pm
In the middle of the bottom banner should be some text called add a download. Click on it and it will take you to the actual upload file page.

http://lunatics.kwsn.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=add;cat=9
With your link i get the following result :

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to add a download.

By the way : What bottom banner ? I do not see a banner at the bottom !

Not a banner, just the location at the bottom. Permissions have been corrected and you should be able to upload anything now.
OK tested that adding a download works now for me! Even the bottom banner did appear inside the subsections of downloads.

Next step would be to allow the devs to move downloads from one section to another in downloads. That was allowed before the update and should be allowed for devs again. Works if file owners are corrected.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: William on 02 Nov 2015, 05:25:40 am
If you think a few posts have disappeared in the last few hours, that's probably because I took a narrow minded view on drunk off topic posts and removed them.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: William on 02 Nov 2015, 05:35:21 am
Why does the FAQ link lead to the test website? Btw that one doesn't let me log in, but that might be due to the maintenance mode it is showing.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 02 Nov 2015, 07:42:48 am
Why does the FAQ link lead to the test website? Btw that one doesn't let me log in, but that might be due to the maintenance mode it is showing.

Probably because I was adding the links late last night and simply copied and pasted the link.

Fixed now.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 02 Nov 2015, 06:33:29 pm
Hopefully it is possible to move file possessions in downloads back to its original owners ? Want to remove some old apps.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 02 Nov 2015, 09:07:32 pm
Hopefully it is possible to move file possessions in downloads back to its original owners ? Want to remove some old apps.

Yeah, I need to work on this... On Friday I was just glad I could move them from the old download system to the new one without having to do a manual upload on every file because that's what I was afraid was going to have to happen!

The reason I couldn't just transfer ownership is that the old system actually didn't track who uploaded a file. All it has is the "Authors" field which is just text where you can put in multiple names and isn't actually linked to forum users. The new system links each uploaded file to the forum user ID of the person who did the upload. So I'm not sure if I can translate from multiple authors to forum user ID...  Any suggestions? To start, I could probably make you the owner of any file where you are listed as an author. Or are there any categories I should just make you the owner of everything in? Or should I just make you the owner of everything instead of me? I pretty much just picked my user ID because it was handy...
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 02 Nov 2015, 11:09:20 pm
On the Logo, I am not seeing where to locate it within the template, plus I would need to upload it to the correct directory first.

That will most likely have to be a ToeBee fix when he has time.

How's that? I modified the theme's CSS to push the user information in the header to the right side of the page and then edited the theme itself to put the old forum logo back in on the left, after moving it into an appropriate directory on the sever.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 02 Nov 2015, 11:32:09 pm
Just attribute everthing to ME.
Everyone assumes it's all my fault anyway...........LOL.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 03 Nov 2015, 12:12:10 am
Note that when I make CSS changes, browsers can hold on to the old version for a while which might result in very odd layout problems. If you see something odd in the layout of the forum header, try dumping your browser cache.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Mike on 03 Nov 2015, 04:38:21 am

Looks nice.

Thanks.   ;D
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 03 Nov 2015, 07:51:45 am
Pretty much everything in the Linux category was uploaded by Urs, Raistmer has done most of the OpenCL Windows apps and Richard is the uploader of the Lunatics installers.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 03 Nov 2015, 08:36:36 am
Uhh...what are the dots about at the upper right hand of the screen?
Something appears to be broken there.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Claggy on 03 Nov 2015, 03:49:14 pm
Uhh...what are the dots about at the upper right hand of the screen?
Something appears to be broken there.
Try Copying and pasteing it, Mine said: Hello Claggy

Claggy
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 03 Nov 2015, 04:02:55 pm
Pretty much everything in the Linux category was uploaded by Urs, Raistmer has done most of the OpenCL Windows apps and Richard is the uploader of the Lunatics installers.
It was a little bit more complex, i guess. At least more people have done uploads over time, Aaron Haviland, JasonG, Joe Segur ... Some are gone others are still active.

Every download had multiple authors, because more than one developer was working on that app version. So, all of these should be able to remove/edit that download.
That could get very complex in terms of rights management, simpler : developer group may add/edit/move/remove all downloads.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 03 Nov 2015, 06:43:59 pm
It does say Hello msattler....
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 03 Nov 2015, 07:27:15 pm
Pretty much everything in the Linux category was uploaded by Urs, Raistmer has done most of the OpenCL Windows apps and Richard is the uploader of the Lunatics installers.
It was a little bit more complex, i guess. At least more people have done uploads over time, Aaron Haviland, JasonG, Joe Segur ... Some are gone others are still active.

Every download had multiple authors, because more than one developer was working on that app version. So, all of these should be able to remove/edit that download.
That could get very complex in terms of rights management, simpler : developer group may add/edit/move/remove all downloads.

That should be how it is set up currently as the developer and above have add/edit/remove privileges.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 03 Nov 2015, 07:29:58 pm
That should be how it is set up currently as the developer and above have add/edit/remove privileges.
But if a Janitor "owns" a download a developer has no other rights than downloading.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 03 Nov 2015, 09:41:58 pm
Set most of the Linux ones to you.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 04 Nov 2015, 03:27:10 pm
Set most of the Linux ones to you.
Thanks. Took the chance to clean up the MultiBeam for Linux downloads as necessary.
Now only the actual NV OpenCL app and the Intel GPU Beta app need to be added.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Claggy on 05 Nov 2015, 05:01:18 am
Uhh...what are the dots about at the upper right hand of the screen?
Something appears to be broken there.
Actually, on my computer with the 24 inch display at 1920*1200 it shows as:

Hello Claggy
Show unread posts since last visit.
Show new replies to your posts.
05 Nov 2015, 09:47:35 am

On my laptop with it's 15 inch display at 1366*768 I can only see the top couple of pixels of Hello Claggy (Hll Cl letters),
the lower pixels are hidden under the Black bar formed by the 'Home Forum Help Search Profile My Messages' etc line,
under the invisible Hello Claggy is 'Show new replies to your posts', the 'Show unread posts since your last visit' is hidden under the Black bar,
While the date and time is sitting just under the next white line down, and partly obscured by it.

Claggy
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 05 Nov 2015, 09:31:00 am
Try adjusting the size of your browser window and you will see it slip under that black bar as well.

That might be an element to eliminate as it is replicated on the right side already.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 05 Nov 2015, 01:22:02 pm
Ah, yeah if the browser window goes below 1400 pixels in width the user section on the right does some weird things... Did I mention that CSS isn't my strong suit?

Looking at the rules, it appears that the user div is set to take up 50% of the screen width so if it can't get that, it will get pushed around by the forum logo on the left. I don't see a reason why it needs 50%. If I turn off the width requirement completely (using my browser's dev tools to play with it) I can get down to about 960 pixels before it flips out. But if you have an avatar that will go up there and take some extra pixels. But I'll try tweaking that and see if it breaks anything else.

I think I did at least get the alternating post background color from the old theme working... although I see it only works when viewing a post, not in the reply interface. Always something.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 05 Nov 2015, 01:59:41 pm
Well, it seems that the dots are gone now..................
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 05 Nov 2015, 02:59:48 pm
Ah, yeah if the browser window goes below 1400 pixels in width the user section on the right does some weird things... Did I mention that CSS isn't my strong suit?

Looking at the rules, it appears that the user div is set to take up 50% of the screen width so if it can't get that, it will get pushed around by the forum logo on the left. I don't see a reason why it needs 50%. If I turn off the width requirement completely (using my browser's dev tools to play with it) I can get down to about 960 pixels before it flips out. But if you have an avatar that will go up there and take some extra pixels. But I'll try tweaking that and see if it breaks anything else.

I think I did at least get the alternating post background color from the old theme working... although I see it only works when viewing a post, not in the reply interface. Always something.

You still know more CSS than me. Still a little bit off though.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 05 Nov 2015, 07:22:46 pm
Code: [Select]
Try to read this text with that background colour.

And if your name is longer only the first part is shown. See pic.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 06 Nov 2015, 12:16:42 pm
Fixed the code block.

As for the user greeting in the upper right I'm kind of tempted to just remove it. The "User" ezblock at the top of the right column has all the same information anyway except for the current time and presumably most of us have clocks of some kind nearby... The only drawback is I think the ezblocks get disabled if you are viewing the site on a mobile device. Thoughts?
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: msattler on 06 Nov 2015, 12:38:46 pm
Fixed the code block.

As for the user greeting in the upper right I'm kind of tempted to just remove it. The "User" ezblock at the top of the right column has all the same information anyway except for the current time and presumably most of us have clocks of some kind nearby... The only drawback is I think the ezblocks get disabled if you are viewing the site on a mobile device. Thoughts?
I dunno, the clock is kinda handy to be sure one is viewing the current page and not something stuck in your browser cache.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 06 Nov 2015, 04:18:18 pm
Well ok... the thing that seems to be causing the layout difficulty is the avatar image. I just commented that out in the header. The image is also put in the ezblock on the top right so it actually looked weird to have that image posted twice so close together at the top of the page. How's that?
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 06 Nov 2015, 06:39:49 pm
Much better.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: William on 09 Nov 2015, 04:19:27 am
Looks good on iPad too.
Any way to reactivate the which members were on in the last 24 h bit?
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 09 Nov 2015, 07:53:49 am
It will probably take a little custom work as the recent members one does not look right.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 10 Nov 2015, 04:34:15 pm
1. Here is another issue of formatting : a quote with a table inside. -> font colour of the table contents should be darker, so contrast to light blue background is higher.

Example table:
Quote
col1 row1 | col2 row1
col1 row2 | col2 row2

2. On creating the table i was missing the create row and create cell buttons.
3. In Post reply the placement of the edit-window should be left-bound not centered. Also try to widen the edit-window ?!

Hope that helps a little to improve the forum usability.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 12 Nov 2015, 12:09:43 pm
Next problem is "important to hell" : VANISHING TEXT !

Example, a line of sourcecode :
Code tags work ok !
Code: [Select]
for(int i=0;i<KERNEL_TUNE(LAST_ELEM);i++){kernels[i]=NULL;events[i]=NULL;}Quote tags do change the text that appears in the forum or as preview :
Quote
   for(int i=0;i<KERNEL_TUNE(LAST_ELEM);i++){kernels=NULL;events=NULL;}
Using a Table does change the text that appears in the forum or as preview :
   for(int i=0;i<KERNEL_TUNE(LAST_ELEM);i++){kernels=NULL;events=NULL;}

If \[i\] has no closing tag \[/i\] please make it appear.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 13 Nov 2015, 02:56:02 am
1. Here is another issue of formatting : a quote with a table inside. -> font colour of the table contents should be darker, so contrast to light blue background is higher.
I have applied a similar style to quotes as existed in the old theme.

Quote
2. On creating the table i was missing the create row and create cell buttons.
This functionality was removed from newer versions of SMF. I found a mod that recreates these buttons.

I also discovered it wasn't hard to copy over the post editor button styles from the old theme. It kind of annoyed me that the buttons were so bright in an otherwise dark theme so that should be better now too.

Quote
3. In Post reply the placement of the edit-window should be left-bound not centered. Also try to widen the edit-window ?!

The main post edit section had a 12% horizontal padding which seemed excessive. I guess if we weren't running the EZblocks mod that takes up screen space on the left and right it probably wouldn't be a problem. Anyway, I reduced the padding to give the post edit section more room.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: ToeBee on 13 Nov 2015, 03:30:59 am
Not sure if I can do anything about the handling of unclosed bbcode tags. I'm guessing that is a change in the core SMF bbcode parsing code. Glancing at the function I do see some custom options being made available but I don't see anything obvious that would make it handle unclosed markdown differently. I'll take another look this weekend but honestly I wouldn't hold my breath on that one...
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Urs Echternacht on 13 Nov 2015, 11:18:47 am
Racing, who is faster ? Stop the |Marquee| button.
:)
;)

Thanks ToeBee, table stuff looks better now and the edit window has more room for long lines.  8)
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Raistmer on 06 Dec 2015, 08:52:04 am
Could theme be changed a little to allow more rational screen area usage.
Maybe its fine for large screens but on my 11,6" netbook dead fields from left and right severely limit usable screen area.
Even with side columns minimized there is not too good layout for adequate message reading.

Space between avatar and text area is too big too. In short - too much of screen area wasted for nothing.

Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 06 Dec 2015, 05:08:03 pm
How is that?
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Richard Haselgrove on 07 Dec 2015, 05:47:51 am
How is that?

Would it be possible to make the disappearing side-panels a user-selectable feature, say via the profile page? For those of us that use full-size screens, especially now that they've all had the bottom sliced off (i.e. 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio), they're actually rather useful for monitoring the whole picture.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 07 Dec 2015, 07:52:44 am
Right above Home, Forum, FAQ links should be the switches to turn the 2 columns on and off.

That will give the forum 95% width with them off.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: William on 07 Dec 2015, 08:06:31 am
thanks!
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Richard Haselgrove on 07 Dec 2015, 08:08:34 am
Thanks, that works well here for this thread. I think the active 'SETI Multibeam v8' thread is being stretched sideways by a 'pre' or 'code' block, so the right panel is only half visible with my current settings.

Edit - I think it's Mike's quote of Raistmer's 'pre' block in msg59557 (http://lunatics.kwsn.info/index.php/topic,1772.msg59557.html#msg59557) which is doing the stretching (the quote level adds extra width). Could 'pre' be given a horizontal scroll bar where needed? (I don't know how much fine control is possible over things like that).
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Raistmer on 07 Dec 2015, 12:49:27 pm
How is that?
Stillvery big gap between avatar area and text. See pic.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: arkayn on 07 Dec 2015, 05:57:58 pm
Thanks, that works well here for this thread. I think the active 'SETI Multibeam v8' thread is being stretched sideways by a 'pre' or 'code' block, so the right panel is only half visible with my current settings.

Edit - I think it's Mike's quote of Raistmer's 'pre' block in msg59557 (http://lunatics.kwsn.info/index.php/topic,1772.msg59557.html#msg59557) which is doing the stretching (the quote level adds extra width). Could 'pre' be given a horizontal scroll bar where needed? (I don't know how much fine control is possible over things like that).

No setting that I can find to add a scroll bar, I did edit the post to split the name of the test.

How is that?
Stillvery big gap between avatar area and text. See pic.


That setting is buried somewhere in the php code and I did not see anything in a quick scan.
Title: Re: Status of these boards
Post by: Richard Haselgrove on 07 Dec 2015, 06:50:47 pm
No setting that I can find to add a scroll bar, I did edit the post to split the name of the test.

Yes, I found that too, and I've now re-split it at a slightly more natural place. Between us we can tidy up any individual thread (if we notice it) - or posters can tidy their own posts as they go along. I just wondered if it was possible to have the board do it automatically. Not a big deal if not.