Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Skuzzy on January 01, 2017, 06:19:38 AM
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I am not sure why, but most of you skinners are *not* using the bulletin board to host your images. Is there a reason why?
I assume you are aware you can upload them to this forum.
The reason I ask, is I would like to show them off on our Facebook page, but cannot be assured they will always be there if they are not linked to our forum.
Right now I will copy them from your hosting site and then save them to our server so I can post them, giving full credit to the skinner, of course.
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I am not sure why, but most of you skinners are using the bulletin board to host your images. Is there a reason why?
I assume you are aware you can upload them to this forum.
The reason I ask, is I would like to show them off on our Facebook page, but cannot be assured they will always be there if they are not linked to our forum.
Right now I will copy them from your hosting site and then save them to our server so I can post them, giving full credit to the skinner, of course.
You mean are NOT using the bulletin board, right?
People seem to use Flickr and such because hosting here only puts up a link to click on rather than the image. That's my experience any way.
Many folks don't bother to click the link so the skin is never seen.
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Yes, "not".
When you create the link with the upload, right click and copy the URL of the link, edit your post and insert the URL. That way it shows up as an image and a link.
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Yes, "not".
When you create the link with the upload, right click and copy the URL of the link, edit your post and insert the URL. That way it shows up as an image and a link.
Ah, cool. :aok
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As Vraciu said its mainly because it only showed a link in the post, I hadn't considered editing the post with the attachment address.
Perhaps a "post screenshot" button would be more intuitive though. Just enable it for this, the films and screenshots, the TE and the bugs forums.
Should the maximum size of screenshot be 1280 by 720, as per the skins submission page?
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As Vraciu said its mainly because it only showed a link in the post, I hadn't considered editing the post with the attachment address.
Perhaps a "post screenshot" button would be more intuitive though. Just enable it for this, the films and screenshots, the TE and the bugs forums.
Should the maximum size of screenshot be 1280 by 720, as per the skins submission page?
Editing SMF's PHP code to add buttons is a royal pain, especially when they patch the module you edited and you have to manually add the patches.
As far as the size goes, use whatever size you like on the bulletin board. If you decide to use a large image, I would make a thumbnail, put the URL for it into the post, then add a link to the URL to the larger image.
Example:
{url=http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/big_image]{img]http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/small_image[/img}[/url}
I think that will do the trick.
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Editing SMF's PHP code to add buttons is a royal pain, especially when they patch the module you edited and you have to manually add the patches.
As far as the size goes, use whatever size you like on the bulletin board. If you decide to use a large image, I would make a thumbnail, put the URL for it into the post, then add a link to the URL to the larger image.
Example:
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/small_image) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/big_image)
I think that will do the trick.
I would also suggest posting the direct link below the image. iPads don't always show the placeholder so it appears as if nothing is there.
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I'm on my desktop, and I don't see anything. :headscratch:
Editing SMF's PHP code to add buttons is a royal pain, especially when they patch the module you edited and you have to manually add the patches.
As far as the size goes, use whatever size you like on the bulletin board. If you decide to use a large image, I would make a thumbnail, put the URL for it into the post, then add a link to the URL to the larger image.
Example:
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/small_image) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/big_image)
I think that will do the trick.
But the quote box shows me why. :)
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It was an example. No image actually in that link, which I had forgotten would be eaten by the SMF processing engine. Fixed now.
Just replace the '{' and '}' with '[' and ']', respectively.
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Ah! Okay. :)
Thought I was going nutz or something, or my browser was acting up. :noid
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Yes, "not".
When you create the link with the upload, right click and copy the URL of the link, edit your post and insert the URL. That way it shows up as an image and a link.
The upload link doesn't point to anything. What am I missing?
Here is the link for a file I uploaded:
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=384183.0;attach=26378)
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You forgot to wrap the URL in img tags.
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You forgot to wrap the URL in img tags.
I tried that before with the same results. It appears to be an IE issue as Safari displays it properly. Go figure.
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As the image tags are digested by SMF, and never reach the browser, it should not make any difference.
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As the image tags are digested by SMF, and never reach the browser, it should not make any difference.
Well, IE won't display them. Chrome and Safari will. There is a setting somewhere that got blown up when I reinstalled Win7. Another reason why I've simply no choice but to move away from it.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&ei=gmRyWInjFMeA0wL3nqjIDg&q=microsoft+explorer+images+not+showing+black+box+white+x&oq=microsoft+explorer+images+not+showing+black+box+white+x&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.3..33i160k1l2.9664.14772.0.15061.19.19.0.0.0.0.561.2881.0j16j0j1j0j1.18.0....0...1c.1.64.mobile-gws-serp..2.15.2097...0i22i30k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i21k1.1U0Gq-IyPvE
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What would be required for the following?
Posting a thumbnail, when clicked on would open a small screen that gave you a view of the picture full sized. From there you can either copy the image or close the screen.
It's a setup they use on the WoWs Forum.
I'm just curious if it's feasible for AH Forum. :headscratch:
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Like this thread?: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,384260.msg5111269.html#msg5111269
When you click the thumbnail it allows you to open the image with your own software and you can do what you want from there.
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Every time I click on an image, it opens a new tab with a small box and has me choose from either viewing the image or download it. I missed the view bit... :o Sorry bout that one.
This is what I was getting at (image in spoiler):
http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/111086-texas-save-texas/
When I click on the image, it opens a box that gives me an option to either copy or close. I was curious if the system you use now is able to do this. :headscratch:
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Well, I went that link and could not find any images. Do you have to be logged in? That ain't happening.
I get you want our board to act like another board. Question: What is the benefit?
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I'd like it so when someone clicked on a thumbnail the browser opened the larger image by expanding the post or in a seperate window automatically, rather than the user having to open the image in different software. Its just that I feel a lot of people won't bother to do that.
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You can always select your browser application as the program to open the file with, but I'll do some digging on the browser window thingy.
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There is a show box at bottom of OP's post you had to click on to show the image, then click on the image itself. You do not need to be logged in to view it. :aok
*snipped from bottom of OP's post there*
A small reward for all of you that finished reading all this crap
Spoiler-Original Kancolle Texas [Show] <---Click on this over there then click on image. You do not need to double click. :)
I am curious if this is feasible here or not. :headscratch: The only benefit that I can see is that it doesn't open a new tab in your browser and brings up that box that asks you if you want to view or save the image. The down side is if you want to actually save the image, it'll open a new tab in your browser with a full sized image, and you'll need to right click on the image to save it.
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IE 11 doesn't seem to like something about the way this board is hosting images. The 3rd party link Greebo posted appears as it should. The others do not. :headscratch: Is this just me???? (Works in Chrome and Safari just fine.)
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,384307.msg5111806.html#msg5111806
Here is the screenshot of the above link with the errors displayed.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=384124.0;attach=26449)
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There is a show box at bottom of OP's post you had to click on to show the image, then click on the image itself. You do not need to be logged in to view it. :aok
*snipped from bottom of OP's post there*
A small reward for all of you that finished reading all this crap
Spoiler-Original Kancolle Texas [Show] <---Click on this over there then click on image. You do not need to double click. :)
I am curious if this is feasible here or not. :headscratch: The only benefit that I can see is that it doesn't open a new tab in your browser and brings up that box that asks you if you want to view or save the image. The down side is if you want to actually save the image, it'll open a new tab in your browser with a full sized image, and you'll need to right click on the image to save it.
Picture would probably be helpful.. :noid
(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc473/UnkShadow/Forum_zps1rdfsoyj.png)
This is what I meant. :aok
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There is a show box at bottom of OP's post you had to click on to show the image, then click on the image itself. You do not need to be logged in to view it. :aok
*snipped from bottom of OP's post there*
A small reward for all of you that finished reading all this crap
Spoiler-Original Kancolle Texas [Show] <---Click on this over there then click on image. You do not need to double click. :)
I am curious if this is feasible here or not. :headscratch: The only benefit that I can see is that it doesn't open a new tab in your browser and brings up that box that asks you if you want to view or save the image. The down side is if you want to actually save the image, it'll open a new tab in your browser with a full sized image, and you'll need to right click on the image to save it.
Seems rather klunky to me and I am not sure what you are describing as a problem. If you do not click on the link, here, you do not get the options dialog, and nothing will open another tab. If the poster has embedded the image in the post, then you can right-click on it, if you want to save it.
I really am missing what this is supposed to fix. I do not care to have to punch a button to view an image. Seems like extra clicks to me, for no reason, especially in the skins forum where I want to see those images.
IE 11 doesn't seem to like something about the way this board is hosting images. The 3rd party link Greebo posted appears as it should. The others do not. :headscratch: Is this just me???? (Works in Chrome and Safari just fine.)
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,384307.msg5111806.html#msg5111806
Here is the screenshot of the above link with the errors displayed.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=384124.0;attach=26449)
Seems it does not like PHP streaming an image to it.
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Every time on the thumbnails (all of them) in Greebo's updated skins thread; if I L-click, R-click and open in new tab, and R-click and View Image, I get this. I'm honestly not sure if it's a FF thing, an option that I'm honestly missing or if FF just doesn't like it. :headscratch:
(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc473/UnkShadow/Thingy_zpss2o23dwk.png)
On the WoWs Forum, all I have to do is L-click on an image and I get this. I am not signed in to do this.
(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc473/UnkShadow/Forum_zps1rdfsoyj.png)
This is what I am trying to point out. :aok I am curious how this works and if our forum can do it. :)
I don't know why I didn't just show this outright. :bhead Would've saved a lot of trouble from the get go. Sorry about that. :o
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IE 11 doesn't seem to like something about the way this board is hosting images. The 3rd party link Greebo posted appears as it should. The others do not. :headscratch: Is this just me???? (Works in Chrome and Safari just fine.)
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,384307.msg5111806.html#msg5111806
Here is the screenshot of the above link with the errors displayed.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=384124.0;attach=26449)
IE11's default security settings may not allow for active content to be displayed. You have to change the setting in the browser.
1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Navigate to Tools/Internet Options
3. Click on the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the Security section and Enable the option entitled “Allow active content to run in files on My Computer”.
5. Apply the change
And it still may not work until you clear the temp/history caches.
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IE11's default security settings may not allow for active content to be displayed. You have to change the setting in the browser.
1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Navigate to Tools/Internet Options
3. Click on the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the Security section and Enable the option entitled “Allow active content to run in files on My Computer”.
5. Apply the change
And it still may not work until you clear the temp/history caches.
Still no luck. :headscratch: Thanks for trying. I know you have enough to deal with as it is.
May just have to switch permanently to Chrome.
Anyone else using IE 11 having this issue?