Bigger text entry box...

Troubleshooter · 11-04-2004, 01:09 PM

I know that it would only encourage tw but a bigger text entry box would be nice. It would make selective quoting easier as well.

Undertoad · 11-04-2004, 02:59 PM

Maybe a little bigger but not like horribly terribly bigger?

Troubleshooter · 11-04-2004, 03:08 PM

Half again in each dimension?

Happy Monkey · 11-04-2004, 03:09 PM

While were on the subject, would it be possible to put the hyperlink button on the Quick Reply window?

Undertoad · 11-04-2004, 03:09 PM

How about just the vertical. Most people don't have monitors your size.

Troubleshooter · 11-04-2004, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

How about just the vertical. Most people don't have monitors your size.

That's cool, I run 1280x1024 on my laptop which is where I do most of my cellarizing.

Thanks

BigV · 02-17-2005, 01:39 PM

Sir:

Is is possible that the text input box be permitted to dynamically resize its width like the quote boxes do?

See pic.

Thanks in advance.

--ok, I surrender. I can NOT get the image/attachment thang to cooperate. But I'm certain you understand my description. If not, I will try again. Maybe email the message with the image attached...

Undertoad · 02-17-2005, 02:20 PM

What quote boxes?

BigV · 02-17-2005, 05:28 PM

The boxes that surround the black text on a blue background when composing a post that includes a quote. For example, when I preview such a reply in a window of my browser that is wider than the text entry box, the size of the box that surrounds the quote stretches and shrinks when I change the size of the browser window, but the size of the text entry box does not.

For those of us who talk a lot, a bigger text box would make it easier it compose in the window of the browser, instead of some other offline editor, then clipboarding it into the little window.

I try to compose and format my posts carefully and the preview option is a great one. I use it all the time. But having to traipse in and out of the browser is tiresome.

Not that I'm complaining--I have really grown fond of the discussions in the cellar, both those I've participated in and those I've only read. Thanks!

Undertoad · 02-17-2005, 05:40 PM

Oh. No, text entry boxes can't dynamically resize; it's a browser thing.

jaguar · 02-17-2005, 05:48 PM

Well i'm pretty sure they can, it just requires some very ugly jscript that does things god never intended jscript to do. Wouldn't an easier option be a new option in prefs (Textbox size: small, med, tw&bigv) and a line of php on the form? fairly easy to use the existing config structure (playing with it for the flash mapping app).

BigV · 02-17-2005, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaguar

--snip--(Textbox size: small, med, tw&bigv) -snip--

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11-04-2004, 01:09 PM	#1
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Bigger text entry box... I know that it would only encourage tw but a bigger text entry box would be nice. It would make selective quoting easier as well. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

11-04-2004, 03:08 PM	#3
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Half again in each dimension? __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

11-04-2004, 03:09 PM	#4
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	While were on the subject, would it be possible to put the hyperlink button on the Quick Reply window? __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

02-17-2005, 01:39 PM	#7
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	another text box requests Sir: Is is possible that the text input box be permitted to dynamically resize its width like the quote boxes do? See pic. Thanks in advance. --ok, I surrender. I can NOT get the image/attachment thang to cooperate. But I'm certain you understand my description. If not, I will try again. Maybe email the message with the image attached... __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

02-17-2005, 05:28 PM	#9
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	The boxes that surround the black text on a blue background when composing a post that includes a quote. For example, when I preview such a reply in a window of my browser that is wider than the text entry box, the size of the box that surrounds the quote stretches and shrinks when I change the size of the browser window, but the size of the text entry box does not. For those of us who talk a lot, a bigger text box would make it easier it compose in the window of the browser, instead of some other offline editor, then clipboarding it into the little window. I try to compose and format my posts carefully and the preview option is a great one. I use it all the time. But having to traipse in and out of the browser is tiresome. Not that I'm complaining--I have really grown fond of the discussions in the cellar, both those I've participated in and those I've only read. Thanks! __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

11-04-2004, 02:59 PM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Maybe a little bigger but not like horribly terribly bigger?

02-17-2005, 02:20 PM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	What quote boxes?

02-17-2005, 05:40 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Oh. No, text entry boxes can't dynamically resize; it's a browser thing.

02-17-2005, 05:48 PM	#11
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Well i'm pretty sure they can, it just requires some very ugly jscript that does things god never intended jscript to do. Wouldn't an easier option be a new option in prefs (Textbox size: small, med, tw&bigv) and a line of php on the form? fairly easy to use the existing config structure (playing with it for the flash mapping app). __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

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