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JediKnightChewie · 2003-03-18 11:52 pm

Im not sure how hard this would be to do, but would it be possible to have the smileys inserted where the cursor is instead of at the end of where you are. I go back and reword or add stuff in a lot as Im typing (especially in my long posts), and i click on one of the smiley icons, and I forget that it gets added to the end.

Its only a minor annoyince, no big deal, just a suggestion for the forums wink

NAG · 2003-03-18 11:54 pm

Nope. Not possible at the moment.

Kirk · 2003-03-19 12:28 am

I wish we could do that too. That might require significant hacking of the phpBB though. I don't know if its a big enough deal to warrant that. I await GUI's opinion.

JediKnightChewie · 2003-03-19 1:29 am

sad

ok, i didnt know if it would be a simple change or a difficult one. if its hard its not really worth it, copy and paste were invented for a reason (alas, causing more effort on the part of todays uber nerds as they post roll smile tongue cool big_smile )

mtpalms · 2003-03-19 5:33 pm

I do alot of edits and retyping too, and then I think, geez, I shoulda put a cool at the end of the second sentence, 'cause it looks stupid down here at the end of the 20th.

I figured out that I could highlight the smiley at the end of 20, and drag it to where I really want it. Does that help?
Easier than copy and paste only a little harder than having it go where the cursor is flashing.

iopossum · 2003-03-27 1:41 am

It should have nothing to do with phpBB, but isntead be a javascript thing, unless u ment some flag to turn the javascript on. Even still I actually think it may not be possible, because I do not think theres anyways of getting the cursor position in a textarea. But I may be wrong. Just do a javascript search. It if is possible, then it would be a piece of cake to add and I could even write the script if you want.

Last time I checked doing textArea.caretPos gave this value, but it only worked on IE and not on Mac. Things may be different now though.

I *think* if you want to be super hard core about it and this caretPos thing still doesn't work on Mac, you can register the events the textarea gets, and MAYBE be able to calculate where the cursor is by registering how many arrow rights/arrow lefts/arrow ups/arrow downs there are. But this would be INCREDIBLY difficult, have to be written differently for EVERY browser (both for event-handling discrepencies AND to accomodate for different text sizes, since u have to know what pixel position was first hit when the user selects the textarea).

This I will not do.

Freezer mac · 2003-03-27 2:55 am

the sad thing is.... it works on windows sad

Forums | MacLife

#1 2003-03-18 11:52 pm

smiley insertion

#2 2003-03-18 11:54 pm

Re: smiley insertion

#3 2003-03-19 12:28 am

Re: smiley insertion

#4 2003-03-19 1:29 am

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#5 2003-03-19 5:33 pm

Re: smiley insertion

#6 2003-03-27 1:41 am

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#7 2003-03-27 2:55 am

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