New vbcode.js - vBcode and smilie user interface improvement

Hello vB Troopers,

With special permission from the Dev Team I am proud to release an improved version of vbcode.js. Any usage of this script other than in licensed vBulletin driven Boards is a direct violation of Jelsoft copyrights. Any violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!

One MAJOR Improvement(note: only works with IE, NS users are out o luck! But who uses NS anyway?)

vBcode and smilies will be inserted wherever the cursor is instead of at the end of the text.

Installation
Copy the new vbcode.js file over your old one(see "Another small note" below). If you'd like to keep the old file just rename it before copying the new one.

You need to add the following text to the "message" textarea tag:

onChange=getActiveText(this) onclick=getActiveText(this)

It should basically look similiar to this:

<textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="2" 
onChange=getActiveText(this) onclick=getActiveText(this) >$message</textarea>

Please note: The variable($message) may be different in some templates, editpost for example, so make sure to keep the original variable in the textarea attribute "name =". Otherwise the text may be missing in some instances.

This textarea can be found in the following templates:

Calendar Templates

calendar_enterevent

New Posting Templates

newreply

newthread

Private Messaging Templates

priv_forwardmultiple

priv_sendprivmsg

priv_sendtobuddies

and the editpost template

additional template changes

In the vbcode_popup_smilies template you must delete the following code:

<script language="JavaScript">
function smilie(smilietext) {
        opener.document.vbform.message.value += smilietext+" ";
        //opener.vbform.message.focus();
}
</script>

In the vbcode__popup_smiliebits template you must change:

<a href="javascript:smilie('$smilie[text]')">

to:

<a href="javascript:opener.smilie('$smilie[text]')">

small note:If you use the above code pleas omit the space between java and script.


If these changes aren't made the new script WILL NOT WORK!

I hope to hear from those who use it, and please let me know if you find a bug.


vB.org is using this hack. Try it out!

Scott

Latest release date: 20.04.2002
Any version older than this should be updated.

[s.molinari]

Sorry about the java script thingy. That I believe is a special function of the [code] tag in the vbcode parser. It does that to avoid people writing JS in their posts and using willfully or not to mess up vB. I may be wrong though.

For those of you who cut and paste the code out of my directions please do not forget to delete the space between java and script.


Scott

[JJR512]

Mostly this hack seems to work fine, but I did notice one odd thing. When in Enhanced Mode, if you use the keyboard shortcuts for the various tags (like Ctrl+I for italics), the codes do not show up in the message. They don't show up anywhere, even at the end. The really odd thing is that the status window acts as if the code is there; if you hit Ctrl+I twice, for example, on the second time it will tell you that "You already have an open tag of this type".

Enhanced Mode works fine if you actually click the buttons. It's just the keyboard shortcuts that don't work anymore. Can a way be found to get them working again?

[s.molinari]

JJR512,

What Browser are you using? With IE 5.+ it works fine. The keypress doesn't work with NS 4.7. But then again the whole script doesn't work right with NS.

Scott

[JJR512]

It's IE6 beta, updated as far as I know. Windows 2000 Pro, if it helps.

[JJR512]

I just noticed another odd thing.

For the record, what I mentioned earlier was while posting a new thread.

This happens while posting a reply.

In Enhanced Mode, if I click the I button to begin italic text, the tag appears, and I type the text. When I click the Close Current Tag button, the /i tag appears. But if instead I click the Close All Tags button, the /i tag appears, immediately followed by another tag that says /undefined. (This also happens while starting a new thread.)

[s.molinari]

I've recreated the /undefined problem. I'll look into that. Is the alt+i or b or u still not working?

Scott

[JJR512]

No...well sort of.

Here's another aspect of the problem which looks like it's getting weirder and weirder.

If I click on "New Reply", if I'm in Normal Mode, and I hit alt+b and put some text in the pop-up box, the text, along with the bold codes, appears in the message. But if I do it again, after the first time, the popup box will appear, but when I press Enter, nothing new shows up in the message area. It doesn't matter which code I try to use the second time; it just won't work.

It looks to be similar in Enhanced Mode...the first time I use a keyboard shortcut, it shows up where the cursor is. But when I try to close it or begin a new tag, nothing new shows up. For example I can hit alt+b and the b tag shows up, but when I hit alt+x, the /b tag does not show up. If I hit alt+x again, the status thing tells me there are no open tags to close.

[s.molinari]

Hello JJR 512,

There was an error in my logic. I have corrected the problem and the new file is ready for upload in my original post. See if it works.

Scott

[s.molinari]

Hello all users of this hack,

There was a small logic error in the script. I used the same variable twice not knowing that variables in JS are considered GLOBAL. At least I think that was the prob. Anyhow, I believe it's fixed. Please download the vbcode.js file again.

Scott

[JJR512]

Even on your test board I'm having the same problem. That is, (Normal Mode, btw) if I hit alt+i, type in some text in the popup box, hit Enter, the text I typed shows up with the codes around it. So that's fine. But if I do it again, the popup box shows up, I type in my text and hit Enter, but nothing happens. The text I just typed does not go into the message, and no codes go into the message, either. The original text is still there; it's just that the new stuff doesn't go into the message.

So if it works fine for you on your test board, but doesn't work for me, then maybe that means the problem is with IE6? Can anyone else with IE6 try it on the test board?