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Omnimaga => Site Feedback and Questions => Topic started by: Darl181 on November 23, 2011, 01:35:33 pm

Title: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: Darl181 on November 23, 2011, 01:35:33 pm
I've noticed, and ran into myself, some random problems when trying to type out calc keys on the forums.  Normally brackets would work, like [ON], but a few of them mess up, such as +,* and some others.
I was looking at the wiki tag and it looks like it might be possible to draw a solid rectangle around the words, [axe]like the wiki tags do the dotted lines.[/axe]

What I'm thinking is of a [key ]tag[/key ], or maybe [k] for short, that would draw a rectangle around the words inside of it so the problems don't happen anymore.
Would this be feasible?
Title: Re: Idea: [key] bbcode
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on November 23, 2011, 01:54:50 pm
That sound pretty ok. :) Would be handy I guess.(or they just could make 'smilies' for each key) :P
Title: Re: Idea: [key] bbcode
Post by: Darl181 on November 23, 2011, 01:58:58 pm
Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on November 23, 2011, 01:54:50 pm
(or they just could make 'smilies' for each key) :P
That might work, if the images from the getkey table (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=ezportal;sa=page;p=21) were used or something.
Tho it might get weird if someone wants to use a key, say, on the 89 that the 83p doesn't have :P
Title: Re: Idea: [key] bbcode
Post by: ztrumpet on November 23, 2011, 02:02:06 pm
Quote from: Darl181 on November 23, 2011, 01:35:33 pm
I've noticed, and ran into myself, some random problems when trying to type out calc keys on the forums.  Normally brackets would work, like [ON], but a few of them mess up, such as +,* and some others.
I was looking at the wiki tag and it looks like it might be possible to draw a solid rectangle around the words, [axe]like the wiki tags do the dotted lines.[/axe]

What I'm thinking is of a [key]tag[/key], or maybe [k] for short, that would draw a rectangle around the words inside of it so the problems don't happen anymore.
Would this be feasible?
Okay.  I made it so "[key]" will turn into "[nobbc]," which will fix the problem for you.  Great idea!
Title: Re: Idea: [nobbc] bbcode
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 23, 2011, 02:05:15 pm
THe key images sounds like a good idea too, but if they are used I think they should be relocated on Omni server (after asking Critor's permission), because the host they're currently on is incredibly slow, if you notice how long they take to load on the getkey page.
Title: Re: Idea: [nobbc] bbcode
Post by: Darl181 on November 23, 2011, 02:06:55 pm
[*]
[test]

Hm, it looks like it changes the text but doesn't..
Cool, it doesn't look like that in the preview window but yay it works :D

Edit: lol it even changed the topic title
Title: Re: Idea: [nobbc] bbcode
Post by: aeTIos on November 23, 2011, 02:10:23 pm
Those images are owned by TI. I hope we do not get trouble as in here (http://tinyurl.com/cpxojwg) and here (http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh) with it...
j/k I was about to post the image idea too.
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on November 23, 2011, 02:13:30 pm
Quote from: Darl181 on November 23, 2011, 02:06:55 pm
[*]
[test]

Hm, it looks like it changes the text but doesn't..
Cool, it doesn't look like that in the preview window but yay it works :D

Edit: lol it even changed the topic title
Eh, I don't see any pic???
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: Darl181 on November 23, 2011, 02:35:28 pm
Notmally [*], [+] and some others (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=help;page=post#bbcref) start doing random bullet points
and this gets rid of it ;D
[key]
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: Darl181 on May 18, 2012, 02:20:18 am
[necro]
I stumbled across this (http://clrhome.org/tutorials/axe/) earlier.
Looking at the css for the keys, they seem somewhat similar to the wiki tags, there's just a few differences.

After messing with firebug, I was able to change
[axe]TEST[/axe]
to
(http://darl181.webuda.com/other/buttonTest.png)
by doing
Spoiler For code:
border: 1px solid #000000;
border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px;
in element:style and taking out the link.


Would something like this be simple and/or possible to put in as the key bbcode? ;D
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 18, 2012, 08:20:38 am
That actually looks pretty nice. I wonder if it's supported in all major browsers though?
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: flyingfisch on May 18, 2012, 09:41:31 am
It's supported in my browser (opera)

UCF has it so if you do something like [+ ] or [)] it automagically changes to an image of the key. I think that is better than [key ][ /key]
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: Darl181 on May 18, 2012, 10:18:33 am
According to mdn border-radius (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/border-radius#Browser_compatibility) seems to work across the board.
If it wouldn't work it would just be a hard-cornered rectangle outline anyway :P
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: Juju on May 18, 2012, 10:56:16 am
TI-Planet does that as well, critor designed key images and added them as smileys. That would be interesting.
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 19, 2012, 09:15:46 am
@Darl181: Ah, ok. That's pretty nice indeed then. =)
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: thepenguin77 on May 19, 2012, 09:48:52 am
On an unrelated note, I still use [+] to make the bullets in all of my posts. I found it by accident one day and it has been super useful ever since.
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: Darl181 on May 19, 2012, 11:46:58 am
Quote from: thepenguin77 on May 19, 2012, 09:48:52 am
On an unrelated note, I still use [+] to make the bullets in all of my posts. I found it by accident one day and it has been super useful ever since.
Come to think of it, I think Quigibo uses them in the Axe updates.
Edit: actually he uses li /li, which looks like it does the same thing.

Maybe it can made so those things only work as list things after list tags?

What I can see wrong with this, tho, is that all the keys would need an image, for every calc that's used around here x.x
With casio calcs they're mostly the same (Casio even provides a font with them) but not so much for Ti.
That's why I was thinking of just having the defined text in there, with a border drawn around it or something.
Title: Re: Idea: [key ] bbcode
Post by: shmibs on May 19, 2012, 04:44:19 pm
ti has a font with their key images and other symbols as well.
no matter how you look at it, though, this is a difficult thing to handle, just because there are so many, and i don't think it's really worth all the effort, since people have found ways to portray most things anyways already.