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Spike
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Initially Posted - 10/22/2003 : 01:18:16

Hello all,
The forum has finally been upgraded to latest and greatest. Please report any problems or good things.
How about the colors? This was an issue for people using certain browsers. Can everybody see the text?
I'm still having some problems with archiving. But I think that will be solved in a little while.
Also, I will test the email function.

If you have anything to report, please remember to put "Catalina" in the subject of any email you send to me. I get about a million spams a day.

Thanks for you patience,
Spike

Life's a blast, let's explode!

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 10/22/2003 : 01:27:44

Congratulations and great work! I think we are going to have to get you a sweatshirt and a decal for your new car from the Ships Store!

Now, lets not stay up too late working on the archives, dear. I've got a sail to mend.

<img src="http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/pictures/icon.jpg" border=0>Indiscipline 1978 FK #398

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Ben
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Response Posted - 10/22/2003 : 07:11:55

Thank you Spike. You're efforts are very much appreciated.

Ben
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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 10/22/2003 : 07:50:44

Spike,

I just looked around the forums, and the colors all look good, and the speed was excellant. Thanks for your efforts on our behalf.

Don Peet
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On the hard

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 10/22/2003 : 08:23:40

Spike,

Are you sure you picked up the latest upgrade? This veriosn is 3.3.05 and the current version in use on the Snitz site is 3.4.03.

The colors are not fixed in this version and I'm surprized not to see the feature of the arrow to immediately jump to the last post in a thread.

Also, the smiley's are not changed in this version to the new format that allows them to be set without the pop up window.

The color problem is confirmed to be corrected in the 3.4.03 version and they even comment in the docs about a change from word color designation to html number designations.

I coppied the code from the version we had been running and simply plugged numbers in where words had been used and doing so confirmed that using hex color definitions rather than word definitions cures the color problems.

Arlyn C-250 W/B #224
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[url="http://www.stewartfam.net/arlyn/"]Arlyn's C250 Mods n Cruising Stories[/url]

Edited by - Arlyn Stewart on 10/22/2003 10:12:22

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/22/2003 : 11:03:57

I just tried to move up from this sub forum to the general forum by clicking on general forum and got this
Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126'

Include file not found

/forum/default.asp, line 41

The include file 'inc_func_secure.asp' was not found.

<img src="http://members.cox.net/fhopper/Catalina25/sigbow.jpg" border=0>Frank and Martha in Wichita KS. Lake Cheney

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Admin
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Response Posted - 10/22/2003 : 12:18:01

Forum upgrade has been downgraded. I am going to try again.

But, I was finally able to archive all forums. I think that is why the forum is faster.

Here we go again.
Spike

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coach
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Response Posted - 10/22/2003 : 12:29:05

Forum looks great! Not that it did not look good before!

Keep up the good work. I am new here and love this forum.

"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years to late" J.Buffet

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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 01:40:01

Upgrade attempt number 3 - looks like it worked.
Problems? Comments?
How are the colors?
Hope everybody enjoys the new assortment of smilies

.

Let's see if some of the problems go away now.
Happy Posting,
Spike

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 07:25:42

Spike, thanks for all your time....

Colors: still can't read the text in the reply box.......

What is the significance of the burning file folder?

If the smileys are this easy....

there's a chance of proliferation......

Oscar
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Edited by - Oscar on 10/23/2003 07:27:19

Spike
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 08:35:54

In the reply box? I can change the colors, but I'm not sure which ones you are having trouble with. Again, tell me which browser are you using.
Spike

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 08:47:07

Thanks Spike,

I am surprized by the outcome however...as this version still uses color names...instead of html code.

Copied are few lines of code from the composer window.

<td bgColor="navyblue" align="right" rowspan="2" valign="top">
Format:</td>
<td bgColor="navyblue" align="left">

So, the color parsing problem is not corrected.

Any thoughts?

Here are a couple of observations

Here is a bit of code from the Snitz forum

<td bgColor="#8199DA" align="right" valign="top">
Format Mode:</td>
<td bgColor="#8199DA" align="left">

It can be noted that html hex is used for colors rather than words

Interesting however, is that going to a boat forum that uses the same
version as you just loaded, it maintains word usage.

sample from same composer screen

<td bgcolor="darkslateblue" background="../forum/images/headbg.gif" align="left" valign="top" nowrap>BoaterEd Forums</td>

<td bgcolor="darkslateblue" background="../forum/images/headbg.gif" align="right" valign="top" nowrap>© © 2000-2002 BoaterEd, Inc.</td>
<td bgcolor="darkslateblue" background="../forum/images/headbg.gif" width="10" nowrap><a href="#top" onMouseOver="(window.status='Go To Top Of Page...'); return true" onMouseOut="(window.status=''); return true" tabindex="-1"><img src="../forum/images/icon_go_up.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0" alt="Go To Top Of Page" title="Go To Top Of Page" align="right" /></a></td>
</tr>

That forum is at http://www.boatered.com/forum/Default.asp

However, that forum comes up great as the only parsing issue that I think exist is the "navyblue" which that forum doesn't use.

Also, the other forums indlude a last post arrow which allows go directly to last post in a thread without the necessity of having to scroll thru previous post to reach. That may be a switch you can turn on?

I'm not saying that there is a need to give up navyblue... but to keep it, it needs to be identified by html hex rather than word. This will become an increasing problem because Mac computers are gaining in poularity as well as the Mozilla and Firebird browsers. Microsoft has used this parsing issue to gig mac and other browsers... but its time to correct this. Mac and Mozilla/Firebird are standard compliant... the issue is Microsoft development tools.

Mystified by Snitz comments that they had adjusted their code ..... to evidently mean on their forum rather than version release... thats crazy.

If your html editor will do a search and replace...then have it search out navyblue and replace with 9FAFDF . That should fix the problem... the rest of the colors I think work ok and leaving them with word designations is not a problem (I hope).

Edited by - Arlyn Stewart on 10/23/2003 08:58:31

Oscar
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 09:48:06

Arlyn's right on.....the blue shows up really dark (I'm using Mac 9.2.1) and provides no contrast with the text.

Also, am I hallucinating or is it fffffaster?

Oscar
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Edited by - Oscar on 10/23/2003 09:49:15

JimB517
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 10:17:01

it should be a lot faster because 1 year of stuff has been archived.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 10:26:56

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Oscar
 Arlyn's right on.....the blue shows up really dark (I'm using Mac 9.2.1) and provides no contrast with the text.
Also, am I hallucinating or is it fffffaster?

Oscar
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I use Mac OS X 10.2.8 and bounce between Safari (mozilla based I think) and Exploder 5.2. I saw the dark blue problem the other night right after the first effort to upgrade but have never run into it any other time. This box is a nice sky/pastel blue with royal blue field lables. I wish there were tool tips for the new buttons. I pause the cursor over a button and get nothing. As a High School teacher I have to assume HR means home room. OK found it in the forum code help<hr noshade size="1">

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 11:27:12

Yep, the dark blue thing has been there all along for me

Safari requires 10.2 or later. I'm running a Wallstreet with a USB pc card and a veritable plethora of USB IO devices. At the moment I have a working equilibrium (read, no X-tension conflicts) I'm afraid to install X and see the whole thing implode. I'm planning on upgrading to a somewhat newer machine...(I missed your I-book

) Then I'll start with X, safari etc etc.

Oscar
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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 12:30:43

Oscar, the flaming file means that the topic has had more than 20 posts in reply to to the thread.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 13:11:28

Oh My!
This upgrade provides posting statistics. When you click on someone's screen namne and go to their profile is shows their average posts per day. I need to get a life.

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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 13:14:45

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I need to get a life.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Me too!

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 13:20:02

Hey...when you reply the posts reverse direction, after the first one.....that saves lots of scrolling.....

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I need to get a life.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I estimate you will be a master marine consultant on March 13 2004......congratulations in advance.

Oscar
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Edited by - Oscar on 10/23/2003 13:22:59

Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 13:37:08

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Oscar

[quote]I need to get a life.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I estimate you will be a master marine consultant on March 13 2004......congratulations in advance.

Oscar

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 13:40:52

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by fhopper@mac.com
 I set an alarm in my Palm

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Now that's handy.

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 13:45:11

Much faster, but how do I put in smileys, etc w/o the pop-up window?

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 14:01:45

Cathy,

The smiley face buttons are now to the left of the dialogue box, when you use the regular Reply To Topic or Reply With Quote functions.

Edited by - Sea Trac on 10/23/2003 14:02:42

Spike
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 14:46:20

You know, this forum doesn't have to use the default color scheme. I could change the scheme and include the red of Catalina. Or does everybody like the blue scheme?
Spike

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 15:00:21

Hi Spike,

Personally, I like the blue. BTW, thanks for the great upgrade!

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