Quick Reply BBCode Buttons (UBBC)

[Chris]

Mar 8, 2018 8:22:43 GMT -8 Retread said:

Hello Chris

I've just started using this wonderful plugin (v1.0.0). So far, so good. Would it be possible to add buttons that just drop in characters such as µ, ?, and ? (without tags) and if so, would you be willing to talk a code n00b through the process?

ps,
I like the way you named the tabs.

Sadly the plugin only does UBB Code not characters, if you want to insert special characters then I would suggest the Character Map Plugin

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Thanks, Chris

That Character Map plugin seems okay enough.  I'll give that an audition.  It sure would have been nice to drop a character in with a single click, though.  I even had the buttons ready.

       

I was able to get the characters to pass through as attributes.

SPOILER: Click to show

But of course, that creates a bunch of clutter surrounding them.
[ ="µ"][/]   [ ="?"][/]   [ ="?"][/]

I'm still tickled pink about being able to have blockquotes, a couple of flavors of span for highlight and redact and a few divs. But I guess for the greek character part we'll have to call a Code Blue.

Cheers!
Ted

[Chris]

Mar 8, 2018 21:10:12 GMT -8 Retread said:

Thanks, Chris

That Character Map plugin seems okay enough.  I'll give that an audition.  It sure would have been nice to drop a character in with a single click, though.  I even had the buttons ready.

       

I was able to get the characters to pass through as attributes.

SPOILER: Click to show

But of course, that creates a bunch of clutter surrounding them.
[ ="µ"][/]   [ ="?"][/]   [ ="?"][/]

I'm still tickled pink about being able to have blockquotes, a couple of flavors of span for highlight and redact and a few divs. But I guess for the greek character part we'll have to call a Code Blue.

Cheers!
Ted

Ted, I've seen that malformed use of the plugin before and, although quite clever, I cannot vouch for its efficacy since the plugin was not written with that in mind and so no guarantee there would be no side effects of that unconventional usage. If you are going to go that route then I would instead advocate for the special pragma_content attribute which would allow you to drop whatever you want inside a tag such as planting additional inner bbcode within an outer tag or in your case just plain text inside an empty span tag for example.

Jan 19, 2013 9:08:59 GMT -8 Chris said:

Updates

• [ADDED 0.9.0 (beta)] added support for pragma attributes when creating buttons, currently recognized:
  - pragma_noendtag forces the button to not have an ending tag
  - pragma_content allows specifying default text (think "insert code here" whenever code tag is inserted)
  
  Added a replacement ID field when creating custom buttons so they can also now replace existing buttons

Attribute:
pragma_content=?

[adminabp]

Mar 8, 2018 18:45:42 GMT -8 Chris said:

Mar 8, 2018 8:22:43 GMT -8 Retread said:

Hello Chris

I've just started using this wonderful plugin (v1.0.0). So far, so good. Would it be possible to add buttons that just drop in characters such as µ, ?, and ? (without tags) and if so, would you be willing to talk a code n00b through the process?

ps,
I like the way you named the tabs.

Sadly the plugin only does UBB Code not characters, if you want to insert special characters then I would suggest the Character Map Plugin

Yes! I almost requested a Character Map Plugin a while back, but ended up just adding a link to an online version. This has everything I would have wanted!

Two things Chris:

One, would it be possible to corral the button with the Control Freak Plugin? Right now, it's just sitting off to the right by itself.

Two, possibly related, would it be possible to get it to also appear on the quick reply instead of just the full reply?

Thanks!

[JJ]

All of a sudden my Quick Reply quit showing my Custom Smileys, it only shows the default ones. Any idea why? I checked, and I do have the Shoutbox situation handled, changed that code in the Template long ago.

Thanks for your help. JJ

[Chris]

Jun 18, 2018 15:32:31 GMT -8 JJ said:

All of a sudden my Quick Reply quit showing my Custom Smileys, it only shows the default ones. Any idea why? I checked, and I do have the Shoutbox situation handled, changed that code in the Template long ago.

Thanks for your help. JJ

You have to remember that the code in the template only allows you to hide the shoutbox when you have the shoutbox enabled and do not want it to show on the forum. If you do not have the shoutbox enabled then the code really has nothing to do, the code itself does not allow the plugin to see custom smileys but it is the shoutbox being ON instead of OFF that allows the plugin to see the custom smileys.

I went to the hootyowl.proboards.com site and saw that the shoutbox has not been enabled and I got that forum url from reviewing your past posts in this thread (so if different then that would be necessary information). You'll need to go into admin panel and ENABLE the shoutbox so it starts babbling and the plugin can eavesdrop on it.

Nov 12, 2013 16:29:32 GMT -8 Chris said:

Perhaps this will be more understandable...

If you have smilies other than the standard smilies defined in your admin panel then those smilies would not be available for the BBCode plugin to access on certain pages. In order to have those custom smilies appear when using quick reply you must enable the shoutbox. With the shoutbox enabled the BBCode plugin can grab the smilies from the shoutbox. If you do not want the shoutbox to display for your members and visitors then the image I posted shows how to edit the shoutbox layout to effectively hide it (but still have it remain enabled)

This has nothing to do with any other plugin or even how you host your smilies. As long as you've told the admin panel which smilies you want to use it will send those smilies to the shoutbox but it will not send them to a plugin. The plugin therefore cheats by copying off the shoutbox's paper when the teacher is not looking...

[JJ]

Wow, who knew, Chris . I never went in there to disable it, I swear, never touched the thing and haven't in years. Yesterday afternoon, all of a sudden, the plugin just stopped working. Something funky was going on, though, because one of my members said she had odd things going on in the theme she was in. Thanks, I never backtracked that far because I "knew" it was enabled. I was smart enough to check the Template area, but not that setting. You saved me a whole lot of head scratching and wondering. I blame everything on V6 prep, of course. LOL

ETA: Just went to check my test site, and yep, it had been disabled there. Hmm...

[nuraman00]

The Quick Reply BBCode Buttons doesn't show all of the emoticons.

It only shows the default ones.

In the full editor, it shows all of the emoticons, especially the newer ones I uploaded.

How can I make the quick reply button show all of the emoticons? Is this something that can be fixed?

[Chris]

Oct 28, 2018 9:59:39 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

The Quick Reply BBCode Buttons doesn't show all of the emoticons.

It only shows the default ones.

In the full editor, it shows all of the emoticons, especially the newer ones I uploaded.

How can I make the quick reply button show all of the emoticons? Is this something that can be fixed?

Jan 19, 2013 9:08:59 GMT -8 Chris said:

Tips

• If you define custom smiley emoticons in your admin panel this plugin has no access to that data so if you wish those custom smileys to show up in the plugin then enable the shoutbox so the plugin can grab them from the shoutbox, you can still hide the shoutbox, if that is what you wish, by editing the shoutbox template so it becomes hidden but remains enabled
  
  
  
  
  
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  Nov 12, 2013 16:29:32 GMT -8 Chris said:

  Perhaps this will be more understandable...
  
  
  
  If you have smilies other than the standard smilies defined in your admin panel then those smilies would not be available for the BBCode plugin to access on certain pages. In order to have those custom smilies appear when using quick reply you must enable the shoutbox. With the shoutbox enabled the BBCode plugin can grab the smilies from the shoutbox. If you do not want the shoutbox to display for your members and visitors then the image I posted shows how to edit the shoutbox layout to effectively hide it (but still have it remain enabled)
  
  
  
  This has nothing to do with any other plugin or even how you host your smilies. As long as you've told the admin panel which smilies you want to use it will send those smilies to the shoutbox but it will not send them to a plugin. The plugin therefore cheats by copying off the shoutbox's paper when the teacher is not looking...
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

[nuraman00]

So if I install Shoutbox, it should just work?

[nuraman00]

How do I install Shoutbox? I've tried a few things but it's not working.

I see it there under Themes-->Layout Templates.

After installing it, I'll then hide it.

[Chris]

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Oct 29, 2018 15:55:56 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

How do I install Shoutbox? I've tried a few things but it's not working.

I see it there under Themes-->Layout Templates.

After installing it, I'll then hide it.

Hello nuraman00

The pic Chris posted will be of assistance to you on this.  If you look at the top of the image you'll see the navigation tree.

Your forum > Admin Home > Settings> Forum Settings > Shoutbox​

Navigate to that page then select 'enabled' in the dropdown ​​​to the right of the word Shoutbox.  It will autosave, so your shoutbox will be enabled at that point.

Jun 18, 2018 19:02:09 GMT -8 Chris said:

EDIT:
Ninja'd by the master.

[nuraman00]

I don't see a Shoutbox tab after going to Forum Settings.

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Oct 29, 2018 16:21:26 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

I don't see a Shoutbox tab after going to Forum Settings.

Are you user/1 on that forum or some other staff member? If not user/1 it's possible the group you're in doesn't have the necessary power to access the shoutbox settings.