Thanks for the addon!

No problem :)
You can pretty much add anything else by simply copy and pasting from the newreply template. I also added the 3 checkboxes below the reply form to support signatures, email notifications and url parsing.

Nice I like it.
and there is a but
I have a win xp so i get an error when I submit a reply
line 356
error object expected

As the man from Mars used to say, "I am only an egg". I tried looking at the proposed change to the showthread template, and when I unzipped the attachment mentioned in the OP, I saw two lines that had "extended ASCII" characters:
and
Those are because the OP was displaying text in a Russian Font I guess? They should be something like "Your reply" and "Submit reply"?

1st mean Your reply
2nd mean Send or Submit

Thank you very much.

Thank you for a nice hack!

I am using Windows Me... and also get an error when I submit a reply... something like "line 325..error, object expected".

Did anyone else get this message and managed to fix it?

I have been around this error message before on another page, and not for vb stuff (it was a geocities page) I then got rid of the error as I had chosen an image, but not included it (there was an empty box showing when looking at the html coding).

I dare not change anything here tho... as I am not a pro!

Yes, the HTML expert at our site managed to fix it. It seems like there is a call to a javascript function called "validate" and she added the validate function to the template. She found the source code of the validate function by looking at the page source for a post reply page, IIRC. If you need more information I can look it up for you.

Thanks, that would have been nice :)
I was almost thinking about un-installing this one until someone else took over!

Appreciate it.

Sorry, I don't check this forum every day. Here's the change made in a template, to avoid the javascript error caused by applying the template change suggested in the original post:

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In Templates -> Show Thread Templates -> showthread

Added

<script language="javascript">
<!--
var postmaxchars = 20000;
function validate(theform) {
if (theform.message.value=="") {
alert("Please complete the message field.");
return false; }
if (postmaxchars != 0) {
if (theform.message.value.length > 20000) {
alert("Your message is too long.\n\nReduce your message to 20000 characters.\nIt is currently "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long.");
return false; }
else { return true; }
} else { return true; }
}
function checklength(theform) {
if (postmaxchars != 0) { message = "\nThe maximum permitted length is 20000 characters."; }
else { message = ""; }
alert("Your message is "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long."+message);
}
//-->
</script>

After the other </script> tag in the head
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Replace 20000 by the maximum post size at your board.