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Lazy forum posters!
Are you a lazy forum poster? Are you tired of writing the long url to your website every time you want to post a link? Are you sick of copying the url from google into a bb tag? Then we have the Firefox extension for you!
BBTags
so, whats new? Something I call tags. It works like this. When I posted the link above I didnt write out the url. Instead I wrote \home::tagbb.php::BBTags\ and the extension did the rest. For a link to a Google search for "flashkit I write \google::flashkit\
This is version 0.9 so its only a beta. It still works perfect, as far as I have tested it, so it would be great if you could test it for me and a few comments would be nice too.
So download it now and make Fredis server grind to a halt
Last edited by ihoss.com; 08-20-2005 at 07:55 PM.
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Phantom Flasher...
What? That sounds like far too much typing... can't there be a button that does it?
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I've had this discussion with Fredi too (a long time ago). Lets see which one takes the longest. So you type along like this dadada dumdidumdi dam and you decide to add a link. with a button you have to lift your right hand of the keyboard, move it to the mouse, move the mouse to find the pointer on the screen, move the mouse to the button (maybe you have to scroll a little too) and click on the button. Now a promt message would apear and you have to move your hand over to the keyboard and enter the text again, twice if you want to put a link to your home page. That obviously takes a lot longer to do than to typ \home::::\ (which is what you write excluding what you have to enter in the promt boxes anyways. And if you want to only write \h:index.php:home\ instead the extension lets you edit and make your own tags anyways so its not a problem.
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Phantom Flasher...
Why not make an extension that scans text boxes for urls then adds bbtags around it?
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hang on...couldn't you rip the vB function that automatically adds [url] tags around, you guessed it, urls...?
anyway, i'll have a go...
ok, i installed it, and got proper context menu showing, but i didn't get any dialog boxs when i tried to install the tags you had links to on the tutorial page, and i didn't really understand the tutorial for making your own...
Last edited by The_lone1; 08-20-2005 at 11:01 PM.
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supervillain
hell. why not add a way to "Paste URL for Forum" when you copy an URL into memory and have it add [url= and /url] to the url?
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or even better, add the option to assign url pasting to specified hotkeys,
ie, Ctrl+Alt+1 will paste the whole [url=...] shebang? wouldn't that be easier than typing out the tag ref?
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THE CROW!!!
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hmmm. i think i have the hang of it now:
\dxuhf\
[edit]
bugger. does not appear to have worked...
[edit 2]
hmm. i just checked, and i cannot find it in the list of tags, i cannot find the copy i saved either...only a few minor teething bugs, eh, old chap?
I Haunt the Shadows...I stalk the blackness of night... I am...
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associate
I just don't think this is an area that needs more efficiency...
copy / paste works,
for me anyways...
sorry.
Last edited by admedia; 08-21-2005 at 08:47 AM.
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He has risen!
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poet and narcisist
Originally Posted by admedia
I just don't think this is an area that needs more efficiency...
copy / paste works,
for me anyways...
sorry.
what is that? i stopped using that long time ago. For me it's all ctrl+C ctrl+V
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Senior Member
Originally Posted by argonauta
what is that? i stopped using that long time ago. For me it's all ctrl+C ctrl+V
"Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous."- T. McKenna
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supervillain
f4 and f8 for me... I mapped my keyboard a bit differently.
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Senior Member
Originally Posted by Markp.com
Why not make an extension that scans text boxes for urls then adds bbtags around it?
the board does that on its own
ok, i installed it, and got proper context menu showing, but i didn't get any dialog boxs when i tried to install the tags you had links to on the tutorial page, and i didn't really understand the tutorial for making your own...
Damn
hell. why not add a way to "Paste URL for Forum" when you copy an URL into memory and have it add [url= and /url] to the url?
I do, but its called copy Link. Right click a link anywhere and click the Copy Link button, add the text in the prompt box and paste in a textarea.
hmmm. i think i have the hang of it now:
\dxuhf\
post your tag file, and Ill have a look at it
I just don't think this is an area that needs more efficiency...
copy / paste works,
for me anyways...
sorry
Seems like Im a lot lazzier than you guys are
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associate
copy / paste == [ctrl]c [ctrl]v
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Information Architect
Originally Posted by ihoss.com
I've had this discussion with Fredi too (a long time ago).
And I'm still a follower of my own idea that would use the context menu to run installble regexes on the content of the field.
Fredi
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:-) ihoss I think its great mate and will download it as soon as I get home.
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Webmaster
Seriously guys , no offence ! But you ALL ARE LAZY !
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associate
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Senior Member
pst, you can! right click a text area and click Regex Textarea!
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