Chattin' with George

[KCQuestor]

This thread is continued from this thread because we haven't really mentioned Taze in about 25 pages...

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You turn HTML and BBCode on and off using the check boxed in the posting form.

I noticed that but couldn't work out why you'd want to turn them off. Is this why?

Yes, this is why. HTML uses codes like "<img>" instead of brackets like BBCode. Usually you only need one code language turned on, and BBCode is the default.

which means that the BBCode is a set of strings of symbols, which when used, become active in the message once it is submitted, to make things happen,

and that the strings of symbols used to activate each event are abbreviations of the nature of the event eg. "img" is to do with creating an image,

and that these abbreviations are then enclosed in square brackets because these are seldom used as normal text and so are unlikely to be used by accident

creating a string of symbols which appear in the message, but don't appear in the posting but make something else appear instead,

and that you can either type in these strings of symbols from the keyboard, as do I when activating the quote-thing, or you can have the string written-in for you by clicking on the corresponding box above the message-window -

Pretty darned good description. Sometimes I get the feeling that you are teasing us, George. "Playing dumb" as it were just to get a reaction.

EXCEPT ..... that if you DO

then the string does NOT appear in the text where you're typing, if you're editin', BUT at the BOTTOM of the page, and SO if you WANT the symblols to appear WHERE you're typing then you have to type them in YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!

The buttons are really only useful if you are composing the message from scratch and are inserting the codes as you type. If you are marking up text that is already in the box, then yes, the buttons stick the codes down at the bottom.

OK. So now you've put in the "img" thingeys AND the identity of a pic, which I know how to do, which will appear in THIS message as a pic, because my BBCodes are NOT disabled.

[img]http://web%20address%20for%20image[/img]
ex:


OK. I've submitted to see what I would get and come back thru EDIT and discovered that I didn't get two pics as I expected, but only one, with a fuckin' little box with an "X" in it, infront - so 'ow did that 'appen?

The first one was just an fake image so that you could see the formatting. It pointed to "web address for image", which is obviously not a real picture address. It therefore was presented as a broken picture, a red X in the case of Internet Explorer.

And what's the "ex" above the pic in aid of?

The first line was a sample of the code, the second line was an example of the code in action.

Click here

BLOODY 'ELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I a genius or what????????

See, here is where I think you knew this already and are teasing me. You not only made a link from text, but you made that text red and you arranged ("nested") the codes properly. Pretty good for a beginner.

Another fuckin' "ex" below. What ARE they in aid of??

Just an example of the code presented on the line above.

It's gonna be a clickable "Girl Friday"

followed by a pic from your member's gallery, uploaded from AOL with the filename "fridayp.jpg", presumably of Girl Friday, which is also clickable because it's between the two "url" codes.

Good. Although it isn't my members gallery. Just an address that I found on the Web.

I'll try that. Is this as nifty as it gets?

Oh heck no. You can do all kinds of fun things. The url code doesn't have to point to web pages. It can point to a picture directly. That is handy if the picture is very large and you don't want it to be shown in the Realdoll thread. People will click on the link to the picture instead.

Picture of Friday

But those clickin' never know from the hyper-text, (is that the right word), what they're gonna get - a website or a pic, do they?

Hopefully, the text that you are clicking on will give you an indication of what the "target" of the hyperlink is. The only way to truly tell is to move your mouse over the link before you click it. Look at the bottom left frame of the Internet Explorer window and there should be some text which shows the address to which the hypertext links.

If the address ends in .gif or .jpg or .jpeg it is pointing to a picture
If the address ends in .qt or .mov or .mpg or .avi or .rm then it is possibly a movie
If the address ends in .wav or .aiff or .mp3 then it is probably a sound file
If the address ends in .htm or .html or just a "/" then it is probably a web page

But remember that a Web page can hold all of the above things (movies, sounds, pictures) and more. So you never REALLY know what you are gonna get.

But you knew that, didn't you?

[jackrabbit]

we haven't really mentioned Taze in about 25 pages...

Since this actually has nothing to do with dolls at all, and is concerned with using the forum software itself, I'm moving it to the help forum. This way it can benefit all forum members, not just those interested in realdolls.

[George66]

This thread is continued from this thread because we haven't really mentioned Taze in about 25 pages...

Slight exaggeration.

[George66]

Thanks K, for all your help.

[KCQuestor]

It looks like the only thing you didn't understand was my examples. Here's what I was getting at:


[url=http://yourwebaddresshere]Your text here[/url]

ex:
[url=http://www.google.com]Search the web[/url]

The first line is a generic example of the code in use, with obviously fake variables (there is no such address as http://yourweaddresshere).

Then I say ex:, which is an abbreviation for example. Followed by an example of the code in actual use, with a real Web address.

Seeing as how that has confused you twice now, I won't be doing it again.

KCQ

[KCQuestor]

Although it isn't my members gallery. Just an address that I found on the Web.

It said something about "members" or "gallery" in the string though, didn't it?

Yep. It was the members gallery for some Science Fiction book club.

That is handy if the picture is very large and you don't want it to be shown in the Realdoll thread.

What's the "Realdoll thread".

This is. The thread that you are posting in, I mean. You may not want the picture to show up here. It might be too big, which would make the screen too wide or make the user scroll too much. Or you may want to show lots of pictures and don't want to make the reader have to download them all into this page. So you make links to them to allow the reader to view the pictures at his or her leisure.

I knew that .mpg was a short movie because I can do a 15sec one on my Konica. Would it come out here as a movie?

If you pointed the link to a movie file, then the browser would open the movie file in a program that plays movie files (Windows Media Player or Quicktime or RealPlayer)

KCQ