makeshift_theory Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I'm working on my first ajax application and this chat interface is part of it. There is no skin on it now, just concentrating on functionality before appeal. Can I get some suggestions to make it better etc..http://www.startrekrpg.com/ajax/text.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshift_theory Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 PS > Will only work on Mozilla type browsers for now, haven't worked some bugs out of IE yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 clicking on any of the top toolbar buttons when nothing selected actually completely replaces all of the text in the box with the selected bbcode. also, with so many lightweight replacements for textareas, that provide a fair amount of WYSIWYG support, I do kinda wonder what the point/aim is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshift_theory Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 I konw I could of used FCKEditor, blah blah but programming stuff is how I learn, and if I'm stealing code not much of a challenge there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 fair comment. original point still stands about the content being cleared, though. Would be good to see more features in terms of formatting the text too - and as it's AJAX, you could have it auto-update the formatted result instead of clicking the button. Failing that, a simplified, stripped down version of TinyMCE/FCKEditor would be a good direction to aim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 * when you click on it erases the other instead of adding htem together. If you click bold, then italics, it replaces the other bold with italics.That is only when no text is entered, it is a very good editor, or could be over time. I think it needs a better layout (maybe move the output over some), and it could use some more features before being made a standalone application. Like bullet's and some other stuff, but so far it's coming along quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshift_theory Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 I just made some big updates to the editor and used you guy's suggestions. I also add some smilies. There are two hidden ones if you can find them =). Here is your hint, they like coding with brackets and there from starwars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 It selects all text after using the buttons. It's a bit annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattd8752 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 To be honest, I don't care for the text editor, but that image at the top is UBER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshift_theory Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 [quote author=Daniel0 link=topic=122977.msg509725#msg509725 date=1169381467]It selects all text after using the buttons. It's a bit annoying.[/quote]It shouldn't select all the text after using the buttons. It should operate very close to the editor in phpfreaks.(EDIT: Sorry, after checking with Firefox I see the issue, thank you for bringing it up.It has been modified differently now.) When you select a item it will keep it highlighted so you can do multipe edits on it. Also the buttons and look is not final it's just for testing purposes =). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Links doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEENFRONT Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 HeyIts pretty bland right now, not many features, try adding a live preview. I started work on a simlair text editor nearly 2 years ago, was great to learn php and just general techniques, http://teenfront.co.uk/eos/eos.php take a look at the live preview box under the main text area. NOTE : this is 2 years old - the formatting buttons dont work, but the smiley inserts do. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshift_theory Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Yea I haven't added any graphics yet. This is actually going into a live chat program so the preview function is basically useless, although I might still add it for future releases. If you find something not working I'm currently working on the live chat portion of it so you might see errors occuring. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superuser2 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 The link is broken, so I can't really say :-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Does it work with ie? mine shows this:Object not found!The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 404www.startrekrpg.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshift_theory Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 Sorry I changed the location due to new implications of features. I haven't added unload session refreshing yet. My current dilemma is refreshing and onunload. With the unload handler it will activate everytime the page leaves (meaning refreshes are affected.) I need to make it so when the window is closed it destroys the session and logs the user out. However I want people to be able to refresh so what I think I'm going to do is add a refresh option to the chat room.PS> The text editor was being used for a chat room so it's no longer just a text editor. It is a chat room via AJAX / PHP and has some features you would find in IRC like /nick and /whois and /w. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshift_theory Posted February 16, 2007 Author Share Posted February 16, 2007 [quote author=Lumio link=topic=122977.msg531131#msg531131 date=1171657916][quote author=Lumio link=topic=122977.msg530170#msg530170 date=1171567666]http://zems.net/js/area.htmlType in some bb-code :Dbut it doesn't work so well[/quote]Adress changed to http://livebb.zems.net[/quote]Why are you posting your application in my beta test thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumio Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 because it's the same topic Oo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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