TEST THREAD

Good grief! That worked...

Finally one that works, been trying to work out how to add a link or embed a flickr photo.

For the one above, navigate to your flickr album, click "Share" and copy the "embed" code.

Place into your forum post by using the "embed media" icon; the one next to Youtube.

Edited By peak4 on 02/09/2018 12:23:25

Having just been enlightened by Neil's mention of the 'remove formatting icon' ...

I am hoping to kill a smiley:

Nope ... doesn't work

The damned things are invicible !

 ... This one was inserted using the Plain Text icon !!!

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 20/10/2018 16:46:24

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 20/10/2018 16:52:00

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 20/10/2018 16:53:49

Hi Guys,

This is just a test posting. am completing a part-built Plastow Burrell 4 1/2" at a positively glacial speed tackling the spoking of the rear wheels.....

how do I gain access to the classifieds info

Usually after you have joined in with some postings in the forum, maybe a question, or suggestion about some topic you have interest in. I think the idea is to have new members with interest in one or more of the subjects on the forum. Welcome aboard John. PS one of the moderators will probably pick up on this and tell you the real story.

Ian S C

I takes a few postings which need to be approved by moderators who were a bit distracted recently

A test from another thread

5130-12-145-6396 to see if it changes to skype

nsn 5130-12-145-6396

Well that seemed to work OK, using Opera on W10, but I don't have Skype as a browser plugin

Edited By peak4 on 15/12/2019 21:12:53

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Now see if you can edit it back to plain text, Bill

MichaelG.

5130-12-145-6396

I just copied then pasted as plain text, using Chrome on a Mac, OS Mojave. I use Skype all the time, never come across this type of issue before, odd behaviour.

Gray

Edited By Gray on 15/12/2019 22:31:11

Right just been having a quick play; I don't know how Michael managed to convert the plain text in my previous post to Skype hyperlinks when he quoted it, or even if it was intentional.

All the following is using Opera on W10; both at latest builds.

Highlighting the blue hyperlink, on Michael's quote, then Control-C to copy and Control-V to paste gives the following 5130-12-145-6396 again reproducing a hyperlink as expected.

Highlighting the same hyperlink and using the immediately appearing context menu to copy, followed by Control-V gives the same reproduced hyperlink 5130-12-145-6396

N.B. Right Click "Copy", followed by Right Click "Paste", throws up an error.
(I'll hopefully come back to illustrate that in a moment after posting this, as the error locks up this posting/editing window.)

Right Click "Copy Link Address" then Control -V gives this in plain text, which explains what's behind the link. tel:5130-12-145-6396

Somehow "tel:" has been previously added between my original post and Michael's quote of it.

Right Click Link address, (from Michael's quote of my post), and Right Click Paste, again throws up the error message.

Having now check that what I typed is what has been displayed.

I tried to copy the hyperlink and right click paste, as mentioned above.

I receive the following error message, which I've had to type in manually as I couldn't copy it.

"Press Ctrl-V to paste. Your browser doesn't support pasting with the toolbar button or context menu option."

This is followed by a blue underlined X, which appears to be a hyperlink

The error message and blue X only show for a few seconds and then time out and vanish, so it doesn't actually lock up the window as I previously thought. The error does however appear over the first couple of lines of text in the posting window, which means that you can't read it; it's on a clear background, so superimposed itself on the previously typed text, making both ones own typing, and the error message illegible.

edit Further text added.

Next "Right Click" on the Blue X in the error message and "Copy Link Address"

Right click "Paste" just throws up the same error message, however Control-v gives  javascript:void(0)

Edited By peak4 on 16/12/2019 10:35:14

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For the avoidance of doubt, Bill ... Michael did nothing to your previous post, it was [and is] displayed on my screen with hyperlinks.

MichaelG.

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Edited By Michael Gilligan on 16/12/2019 11:15:27

Wow, that is weird, Perhaps clumsily worded; I'd really meant Michael's computer doing odd things.

I'm guessing it's something to do with your browser, or a plug-in. What I posted, and the way it's displayed is different at my end, (and presumably for most others on the forum), to what shows on your screen.

Some of what I typed is hyperlinks, as seemingly generated at your end, some is plain text, which seems to have been converted by your PC to a hyperlink.
I can well understand why my words, as seen on the page, by you must be confusing.

In particular, see my comments on the third screenshot, relating to the insertion of tel: thus converting it to a hyperlink. I suspect it's something in your browser/PC, rather than the forum software, unless your system has hidden control characters, which are subsequently interpreted by the forum software

What browser are you using? I'm on Opera for normal use, but also have Firefox, Chrome, Avast Secure Browser, and Maxathon. I also use Pale Moon on the other PC sometimes.
I'll try opening this thread on them in a bit, but off out to work on the Disco whilst the sun's out.

Here you go;

Edited By peak4 on 16/12/2019 11:37:11

Thanks, Bill & Gray, for investigating this

I am using an iPad, with iPadOS 13, and it now appears that Apple must be complicit

Compatibility with forum software seems to getting worse:

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For another interesting ‘issue’ ... Have a look at the file-names in my Album: **LINK**

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/albums/member_album.asp?a=51627

The images with simple file-names were posted either from the Mac or from the iPad running iOS 10

Since updating from iOS 10, image files have long hexadecimal names !

Note: the original names are retained when eMailing or saving files elsewhere: This problem only manifests itself on this and one other forum that I use.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 16/12/2019 11:58:44

Happy to be of assistance.
One of the photo forums I use, the UK Olympus one, had members reporting problems with the latest Apple software interacting badly with one of the photo catalogues; maybe Lightroom, I'm not sure. Certainly it rubbished their photo archives. I think it affected both raw and jpgs.

The only raw Apples here at the moment are Granny Smiths, but oddly all the processed ones seem to be re-named Calvados for some reason.

Bill

Unless someone has posted this before, the only way that I can avoid those EXPLETIVE smiley things appearing, is to leave a space before the closing bracket.

Howard

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Using square brackets instead of round parentheses works too, and avoids risking the occasional ‘orphan’ )

MichaelG.

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P.S. Howard ... You may find it useful to look at page 1 of this thread.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 16/12/2019 22:06:16

Just found this thread and I wholeheartedly agree with this, a preview would remove the frequent edit info.

edit.     Just like this one like a number of mine for typos or silly auto fill 

Edited By Zan on 16/12/2019 23:14:27