Legion World Forums LEGION WORLD Science Police Headquarters Error

Now that's not strictly true, is it, since I'm using the QR right now

And I checked - if you can get the link to go to http://www.legionworld.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=smilie_legend instead of http://www.legionworld.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=graemlin_list it should work. [HOW you make that happen is of no concern to me ]

I meant, it blanks out the smilie box for the quick reply.

And yes of course there's a smilie box with the smilie mod, but it's coded for the page that it's attached to (i.e. the reply page or the new page) and not to the quick reply on the forum pages.

I worked with this all before when trying to get the smilie box to work with the quick reply in 6.5.

If no programmer gets to it before I'm ready, I'll try to work it out myself.

Gary, I don't know if this is really a error or not. My profile is set to show all topics but no matter what forum I'm in, the setting stays at 60 days. Is there another default somewhere, maybe in the cp?

It's set up to accept both default and user defined settings. Must be a bug.

That setting is now forum specific. Is this a problem with all the forums or just one?

I've just set the Encyclopedia to "Show all topics" and to be in Alphabetical order rather than by date.

Not an "error," but you may want to restore the smaller Legion World logo for the Website URL boxes and (in Netscape/Mozilla) browser window tabs.

That generic UBB lightbulb reminds me of {urghhh} Rob's board ...

I thought I did restore it? If Scott doesn't get to it today, then I'll look into it tonight after Kabir flys home.

It is there. It never went away. You need to grab the icon showing (lightbulb, IE, Netscape, etc) and drag it towards the right in the address bar. The LW logo should show up then. Worked for me on all of our PCs.

Well, yes, it did go away, once Gary upgraded the UBB software.

I'm afraid I can't quite understand what you're describing here. Drag the icon "towards the right"? To where? And to do what? That's used to add a bookmark or shortcut in another location, such as the Windows desktop. It has no effect on what is displayed.

That icon comes from the Website -- and, yes, I've cleared the cache recently, repeatedly and manually. (Doing so in Netscape's Preferences or IE's Internet Options never removes absolutely every cached file.)

Well I can attest it did not go away from my laptop Grey. Its there now and was during the upgrade.

As for dragging the icon, its the procedure Favicon used to have listed on their site for making the icon show up. And it does work because on Caroline's PC the icon was not showing until I did just what I described. You place your cursor on the icon showing, left click and drag it towards the right, along the address bar, not up or down, just straight along. The icon should then change to the LW icon.

That is how it works under IE. For other browsers I don't know. And in just looking at Favicon's site, they no longer seem to have a FAQ section for this problem.

I take that back. The FAQ is still there. This is what it says for IE:

The IE, and other, FAQ can be found here .

Well, I tried the Favicon.com technique quoted above. It worked in IE 5.5 -- to change it from the generic IE icon to the lightbulb icon. It wouldn't change any further, whether dragging or shift-dragging repeatedly. It didn't work at all in Netscape 7.02.

No change resulted, either, from creating a new bookmark, clearing browser caches (again), or clearing and rebuilding Windows' ShellIconCache system file.

Favicon.com's page says that this feature is "being supported" by AOL (that is, Netscape), but gives no details.

I've noticed that this icon is not as "sticky" in Netscape as it should be, with its not appearing if a page takes more than about a minute to load (I have a 55 kbps dial-up connection). It then reverts to the default Netscape "ribbon." But on revisiting a Website anew, the icon does come back.

I know you don't care for Netscape, Scott, but a sizable minority does still use it, so I thought you ought to know.

From what I've read today Netscape doesn't support Favicon but Mozilla does. They are acting like AOL and Netscape are one when you can use Netscape without AOL. So I'm really not clear if they mean AOL doesn't allow the use or if Netscape itself doesn't.

I also deleted the icon from the board and added a backup copy to see if that would help. Now all I can see is the stupid lightbulb. And I know my backup was the LW icon as I checked it with my paint program first.

I'll reboot and clear my cache and try again.

Whatever you did, Scott -- I made no changes to the browser -- the LW Favicon is now showing up in my Netscape 7.02 URL box and window tabs. Thanks, in any event.

I'm glad it's working for you now Steve. But for me I'm still stuck with the IE icon. I don't know what happened but I know the icon is the right one in the right directory. So I'm not going to worry about it as long as it's working for others.

And I've done it again. I've fixed the problem on my own (Well, I sorta did what SoM suggested but I knew about it from working on it before in 6.5)! I've reported my fix to UBBDev!

Sorta? Looks like you did exactly what I suggested to me

But I thought of it first!

Cool! New gramlin! How do you find the time Gary?

Thanks. Sometimes I don't know.

And more soon. I think I've exhausted my latest hacking phase.

When you go to edit a UBB-coded title in SPHQ, some of the HTML shows up in the box.(the code box is because it won't let me post this otherwise)

All of the hacked UBB codes aren't as intergrated into the board as one might like. Editing some extra UBB codes I've added spits out the HTML code used to create it.

It's a bug that people more knowledgable than I are trying to work out.

Cause the post contains HTML. The "<>" part.