CodingJungle

On 7/2/2018 at 7:21 PM, Millipede said:

I'm so sorry for such a late reply, I didn't mean to appear rude by not replying sooner, I've been either unwell or otherwise overworked lately.

I know what a gradient is and how it works  But I must be being really thick, as no matter what I do, the colours - when looking at them in designer mode - still remain like in my screenshot (in my previous post). I've only tried the app so far on my test forum, so I wouldn't know what it would actually look like on my real forum; at the moment, I'm just going by what I see in the Designer View.

My settings are:
Letters
Unique backgrounds - on
Disable colour generation - off
Gradient
Colour overrides - none (I removed what I’d previously entered as I didn't realise it was meant for specific letters/names)
Dual Letters - on
Only 2 names - on

If the Colour Overrides are meant for specific names/letters, then where or how do I set the gradient so’s to make the colours less “dark?” Or is what's in my screenshot how it's meant to look in Designer View, with no option to change the gradient colour(s)?

As I said, sorry if I’m sounding thick!

with unique colors on, the colors codes are generated by the user name to try to achieve a unique color pallet among all the users. it is  not a perfect process, same with gradients, it will do its best to produce an accent color, but it might it might just choose to use like brown or black if the color generated is very bright. so what is shown in the prev is just really to give you an idea what they will look like, most for the other settings (like font size/position).

if you do use a color override, the accent color will be generated from that for the gradient.

30 minutes ago, liquidfractal said:

• Just a slight point of clarification: in your description for a keyword's "Custom Width" (beneath the field) maybe you should specify that it's for the keyword's hovercard and not the keyword itself (when I first read it I thought this controlled the width of the actual word...now I know that would be CSS )

i just figured people would realize that is for the hovercard settings ? but i can change the lang string.

31 minutes ago, liquidfractal said:

1.  Is there a way to customise the default width so that we don't have to modify each one if we want all of them to be, say, more than 300px?

 

yeah in the acp->community->keywords settings, there is an option for default width, if you don't set the custom width for a kw, it will use this one. 

26 minutes ago, liquidfractal said:

(Umm...sorry for the triple post - for some reason I was posting the original and I got a push notification that read "200+ replies click more."  I chose to open that in a new tab and everything went really wonky - saved my post and everything seemed to freeze so tried posting again and I am unable to edit the last post to remove the other instances! )

i just figured you really wanted to get your point across ? 

3 hours ago, Millipede said:

The description says: “When enabling gradients, the application will automatically use the color's accent (opposing color) to generate a multi-hued background that stretches across the entire color palette.” - from where does it get the main colour in order to use its “accent”?

it depends on the options, if you have unique colors turned on, then it will generate a color scheme from the users name, if you don't have this enabled, it will take the first letter of the username to generate a color scheme. from there, it will then try to determine the "accent" color.

3 hours ago, Millipede said:

- What does “Letter(s)/Name” mean and what are you supposed to enter there?

you can override a letter(s)/name, so say you want a specific color for you and only you, you would enter "millipede" there, if you want to change the color to everyone who's name starts with a B, you would enter a B there. if you have dual letters enabled, and you want to change the color to everyone who will have the dual letters of AB to a certain color, then you'd enter AB there.

3 hours ago, Millipede said:

- Are these supposed to apply themselves or am I supposed to do something else in addition to clicking “Save”?

they should be applied the next time the user logins in or when you view their profile.

3 hours ago, Millipede said:

- If a gradient will be between 2 colours, why am I allowed to enter more than 2 colours here?

the accent color is generated from the primary, so you only have the choice for the primary color.

3 hours ago, Millipede said:

What am I doing wrong or don’t understand, and how can I get the colours to be lighter and brighter than those in the screenshot, or maybe more pastel coloured?

the gradient itself is what makes the colors appear "darker" like this, as its a merger of two, opposing colors,

5 minutes ago, Unlucky said:

Unfortunately it has never worked

okay...enjoy justblab.

On 6/19/2018 at 6:03 AM, vexcode said:

The error no longer occurs since 4.3.4 so I assume Invision did something to fix whatever the issue was on their end.

I wasn't able to reproduce this one either 4.3.3 or 4.3.4, so i'm not sure what the issue was. if you could check your system logs in the ACP under support, they might contain the error message, if so feel free to PM the error message (since it will more than likely contain sensitive info, like paths).

On 6/17/2018 at 9:56 PM, liquidfractal said:

re: the Keywords app:

Would it be possible to implement custom CSS for the keywords?  I'd like the keywords on my site to have a different colour (and perhaps look) from the traditional blue link.  It would also let my users know that a given word is a keyword as opposed to just another generic link.

the ones with the hovercard get a css class applied to them called "keyword" and the url types get a class of "keywordUrl", so you should be able to target those two specifically and achieve the desired results. other wise they will just look like normal links ? 

On 6/18/2018 at 6:05 AM, Unlucky said:

Hi we would really apprecite an update and eta re getting the chatroom online.

I keep getting asked how long from the members and it would really help me if you can give us some eta.

Many thanks

it was working when i went there saturday...i'll check it again. at this point i'm thinking maybe its something on your site that is causing this, as i didn't see any errors in the console that were related to babble, and the modal popup you have, kept redirecting me to a different part of the site, but i'll check it again later tonight to see if there is anything actually wrong with the service or babble. 

On 6/10/2018 at 3:05 AM, liquidfractal said:

Other apps do this automatically, but if Keywords isn't going to do this it's helpful to tell people right off the bat so that they aren't wondering how to access the Keywords page (it took me about 60 sec to figure out, but others might ask questions so this could save some grief).

keywords was created before this feature was implemented in IPS and i just never got around to adding it, i've have had people complain i have apps that do add to the menu that they didn't want it too automatically, so its a loose loose situation either route I go ?

On 6/10/2018 at 3:05 AM, liquidfractal said:

Moreover, a bit of information about what happens if one chooses to de/select "skip adding nofollow noopener noreferrer on URL keywords" would helpful for people who may not know this offhand.

 

Most who will be interested in SEO will know what that is (as it was added by request awhile back, as they all use to be nofollow ? ), but when i've put it on the list of "todos" for the next version.

On 6/10/2018 at 3:05 AM, liquidfractal said:

EDIT: the default width issue seems to have sorted itself out (maybe it was a cache issue).  Moreover, the alphabetical keyword filter appears once you've entered keywords across more than one beginning letter (docs? )

it more than likely was a caching problem (as it is ips hovercard code i'm using ?).

yes it will only appear if there are x amount available, one of the original complaints was it was always there, and it had shortcuts that had no kw, so i altered it to only display if it had kw. it also gives the flexibility to other languages that use a different alphabet, so i don't have to figure out the a to zed of every written language of the world programatically, its handled for me by the generated content. 

19 hours ago, liquidfractal said:

1. A minor issue: the editing author name is missing from the keyword view/edit page:

 

make sure the user group that has "can change author" enabled in ACP->members->group-><your group>

19 hours ago, liquidfractal said:

2. Do you have plans for a more granular approach to keywords?  For example, if one wants only hovercards for forums, but for longer articles the option for larger hovercards and/or links?  I see this as a really, really promising app and if this were possible it would take it to a whole new level!

 

could you elaborate a bit more on this? 

19 hours ago, liquidfractal said:

 3. Might it be possible to include a way of clearing stats so that testing isn't incorporated into the statistics?

there use to be a way to alter them, but the beta testers at the time complained about "cheating" lol, but i can add it back in on the next version, the people you give the power to just have to be more trustworthy i suppose than who my beta testers gave it to ?

18 hours ago, liquidfractal said:

I think that instead of providing just a link to the external page definition it would be better to incorporate the entire definition (including URL) into a hovercard, because otherwise, except for the opportunity to include variants (aliases) it's really almost just like any other link, right?  IMHO you should take advantage of the cool hovercard interface to include both the URL and any other short descriptive text the author wants to include.  It would also alert the user that an alias links back to the core keyword term if they aren't clearly related to each other, since the link might not be self-evident to the user.

in the settings, for keywords behavior, select "both", it will function like this. if they hover over it, it will show the hover card, if they click on it, it will take them to the definition. 

2 hours ago, Unlucky said:

Hi,

I can see from your profle page you have been logging in but you haven't responded to my messages

Please can you resolve the reported issue as we have already lost a portion of the renewal fee through the chatroom not working

Thank you in advance

I am not ignoring you, it was the weekend and it was a busy one. I have  queue system everyone gets placed into, and i get to the issue when i get to it. if i had to take a guess, it would be later tonight for yours. i had filed a ticket (which is actually related to the activation problem that you are experiencing, as i use the nexus license activation with the IPS Request class).

I'd be more than happy to compensate your account with credit for your next renewal for the lost time.

On 6/6/2018 at 2:57 PM, liquidfractal said:

I also wonder if it might be possible to include a "first occurrence only" function which only highlights the first occurrence of a word in an article or forums entry?  While I see KW as really really useful, if you're discussing a concept or term there might be times when it's annoying to see the same word highlighted throughout an article.

this is actually a feature on the drawing board.

On 6/6/2018 at 2:57 PM, liquidfractal said:

I'm just thinking out loud here, but what if there were a function similar to Mentioning someone with the at-sign where you could mark any individual occurrence of word X in a forums post or article or blog post as a KW (e.g., with "%" or something)?  If you wanted to you could obviously revert to having every instance marked, but this would give the writer more control over how their material is presented.  Just a thought .

I like the idea, but the problem is gonna be as you can have settings for who can see kw and what not, so they are built on the fly as the page loads, so the kw it is using is always up to date. i wont make any promises, but maybe i'll add in a "wiki" mode or something for it, to use it in that fashion.

On 6/6/2018 at 8:22 PM, Joel R said:

Running CJ DML on IPS 4.3.3

congrats? ?

7 hours ago, Unlucky said:

Hi can you check messages re new activation for babble is not working

thanks

replied

On 5/27/2018 at 10:46 AM, TeNate said:

I installed DLP 2.2.2 on my 4.3 board and I keep getting an error when I try going into the Modcp, any ideas?

 

 

I'm not able to reproduce this, is there any new info you can provide for this? feel free to send me a PM if it contains sensitive info (like paths on your server). 

On 5/31/2018 at 8:11 PM, Adam_S said:

Hi @CodingJungle,

I thought i'd loop back around and see if you had integrated the mp3 codec into it yet?

Thanks

media has the ability to play audio files. the codec depends on what the machine has installed.

8 hours ago, liquidfractal said:

If I want to use Keywords to define concepts or terms, would it be possible to set a truncate value in lines, chars. etc. for the hovercard?  In other words, to have the hovercard for the concept/term display X amount of lines/chars. with a "Read More" button which would then (like the linked word itself) link to the full-page keyword definition?

no it doesn't have this option atm, but it is a good idea. I'm currently working on the babble version 3 and finishing up a few custom apps, so i wont have time this week (possibly next week) to explore adding in any feature to keywords atm.

8 hours ago, liquidfractal said:

1. I have the full Rules app; can you tell me something about the trigger events for Keywords?

 

off the top of my head, it is triggered by the creation of KW and i think like x amount of times its hovercard is accessed (so it stats are enabled). i can double check to see what exactly i integrated in from that application (been a long while since i did it). 

9 hours ago, Aerosoft said:

Will Download plus be able to import an existing collection of download files? We now have about 5000 and I would hate to have to re-insert them.

it actually doesn't import anything, it adds enhancements and features to downloads, so whatever features you wish to enable/disable in it, they will turn on or off, for new or existing downloads. so you will not have to re-insert anything ?

19 hours ago, Adam_S said:

Hi @CodingJungle,

 

With my installation of "Media", when i view an uploaded audio file, its showing with an X in the middle and no play button. 

Any ideas what might be going on?

Thanks

 

it only supports the playback to a very small format and codec. usually mp4's are good, but sometimes they use oddball codecs that it doesn't support. give me a bit, i don't remember off the top of my head which codecs/formats it fully supports.

just like you do to upgrade it, just get the 2.2.0 zip, extra the tar from it and install it over 2.2.2 (there weren't any DB changes from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2)

Just now, SJ77 said:

clicking on any user profile after installing the new downloads plus causes an error.

Fatal error: Trait 'IPS\Content\Reportable' not found in /forum/applications/dplus/sources/Support/Support.php on line 25

 

are you not on IPS 4.3? cause the last 2 versions have been for 4.3

On 5/2/2018 at 4:42 PM, SJ77 said:

found an issue that effects downloads plus
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/416549-delete-my-account/?do=findComment&comment=2740089
same issue discussed in the link above effects the "send email" button that is part of downloads plus.

A little patch that NEVER allows guests to see "send email" button would be much appreciated.

Thank you ?

 

added in a check to see if the author is a guest or active member

On 5/3/2018 at 1:21 PM, Robert Simons said:

CodingJungle currently has the flu, so don't expect a response for several days.

i live...still not a 100% but not praying to a porcelain god anymore.

34 minutes ago, Unlucky said:

Hi,

Still getting same error as reported.

Webair techs have followed your instructions but report...

I saw a permissions error that was causing Babble to fail when it attempted to load the SSL certificate.

I updated the file permissions and babble.js now running without errors.  However I still don't see your chat room connect to it.

Babble is definitely running now.

At this point, it's either an issue with Babble itself, or an issue with the page.

You may want to reach out to the Babble developer.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Rocco Laudadio
Webair Internet Development, Inc.
Phone: 1 866 WEBAIR 1
Fax: 516.938.5100
http://www.webair.com
rocco.laudadio@webair.com

the private key in Babble is a "hidden" setting now (as it didn't need to be exposed like that, and it wasn't clear that changing it would need download babble.js and replace it, and then restart the node.js).

the problem is more than likely using an outdated babble.js, when you switched over to https, it changed your sites url "signature" which babble uses.

var allowed = { "68cb13dd4613eaa3b4725a1723da2ce51298d8cc" : "a{ur=Wha!=nV}8AYs/l1j1YXw[%]=QQf7UQZ(YBd"} ;

The key in json snippet above, would be your sites hash, the value would be the secret key. download the babble.js from your ACP again, and have them verify those match with the babble.js that is running (it should be line 8 in babble.js), the other thing it could be the ports do not match, also have them verify this (and the port is open).

if you use something like cloudflare, cloudflare itself only has a certain range of ports open to be used for websockets. you will have to check with them on which ones you can use, and then with your host as well.

6 minutes ago, Unlucky said:

I managed to get that version downloaded.

But if you have any relevenant instructions on the forum you can send me in case the hosting tech wants to review them that would be great

tutorial.txt

here is the "tutorial" text sans the images, incase it goes back down (as they rebooted the server, seems there the load spiked and crashed it, they are looking into it now)

6 minutes ago, Unlucky said:

Thanks. Have installed and waiting for webhost to do their bit

Just thought I would let you know I have had trouble getting on your site today several times getting this error

The connection has timed out

The server at codingjungle.com is taking too long to respond.

seems like http has crashed, I've submitted a ticket to my host (god i love managed support ? ), they usually respond with in a half hour.

if i haven't went to bed by then, i'll reply here when its back up.

@Unlucky if you need me too, i can send you the new version in PM.

@Unlucky 2.6.7 has been released, I also recommend upgrading the babble.js and restarting it after that (as there are a few tweaks for the zombieKill process).

1 hour ago, AlexWebsites said:

This worked, I received the latest maintenance notification for 4/25. ?

that's good to hear ? both servers for the service are back up now ?

seems babble is either missing from the menu bar (either in cj menu or the IPS default menu) or the theme's menu doesn't build its menu with the same data props as the IPS default menu does.

I've added a try/catch to the method in question and i will release a 2.6.7 for 4.2.x and a 2.7.1 for 4.3.x later tonight after the chat service maintenance (which is scheduled for 12 am cst/-6 UTC).

out of curiosity, what changed on your site when you upgraded to 2.6.6? as that particular section of code (the clearCounts method) is virtually identical in 2.2.8 and 2.6.6 (the only difference i found was formatting like line spacing).

3 minutes ago, Nesdam1981 said:

How's the update coming? Been broken for weeks now. Had to turn of the application from 4.3 release.

considering 4.3 has only been "out" since Wednesday, price you pay for running beta. the current version that is out, is compatible, just seems to be a change in a css class that i missed, i will have a new release out tomorrow.

On 4/20/2018 at 2:24 AM, TheJackal84 said:

The ability to only view your own support topics on the downloads, Everyone can read the first post but the replies can be locked to the submitter and admins only

not sure if i follow? if it is marked as private, only the file owner and OP can see the request, did you mean something else?

On 4/18/2018 at 12:53 PM, TheJackal84 said:

@CodingJungle you didn't add the new divisions to the carousel's they are all broke, ( The screenshot and the other user's files ones )

under the

<div class='ipsCarousel ipsClearfix' data-ipsCarousel data-ipsCarousel-showDots>

you need to add

<div class='ipsCarousel_inner'>

 

okay i'll make the changes and get a new release out.

4 hours ago, media said:

Hey @CodingJungle

Is Names to Avatar 4.3 compatible or not?

3.4.0 is compatible, but i made a few tweaks to 3.4.1 for forums/clubs/downloads avatar size (as i had a ratio, but that was a causing some size issues), but everything seems to be working in 4.3.

17 hours ago, jp said:

Keywords Tooltips - how can i have an editor when writing the tooltip content/description? and add pictures etc

like the editor you have when you post in forums etc, 

there is no option for this, as a lot of people wanted a way to put in html/js (for ads ), the editor doesn't allow this. so a codemirror is what is used. you can use bbc code here if you don't want to use HTML. I don't see this changing anytime in the future.

17 hours ago, jp said:

Keyword Tooltip - only set the keywords menu to be visible to admins, only set the keywords member groups to be visible to administrators.

added a tooltip and logged out and as a guest could see the tooltip in the activity stream!!!! and could click on it and was taken to the keywords page. This shouldn't happen!

i'm not sure i follow? keywords don't parse on the activity stream. if you mean the record is showing for the kw, that will be fixed in the next version as i'm removing it from activity streams.

17 hours ago, jp said:

2nd problem - keywords didn't actually work. i added one keyword, then went to a forum post and found that word and nothing. I checked that i had tooltips selected only for Topics which was what i was in. can you please fix.

check your group settings, there is a "keywords" tab, keywords don't parse by default, you have to give the group the ability to see them being parsed (showing up in a topic).

6 minutes ago, TheJackal84 said:

 its worth 4x the price

you can buy it multiple times ya know ? 

Support tab will also explode cause of the ReportCenter being moved from a interface to a trait (which i think is called Reportable).  that is what i've ran into mostly with my apps, is the reportcenter thing. on babble, emojis don't work at all, but that is just a matter of updating the code that handles it (as the JS and text parsing stuff has changed a bit).

11 hours ago, TheJackal84 said:

Only testing upgrading the localhost from 4.2 - 4.3 I am getting errors on dPlus on the questions.

In dev mode it throws

Method IPS\dplus\Questions\Answers::__toString() must not throw an exception, caught Error: Undefined constant 'IPS\HTMLENTITIES'

out of dev its a white page

Fatal error: Method IPS\dplus\Questions\Answers::__toString() must not throw an exception, caught Error: Undefined constant 'IPS\HTMLENTITIES' in C:\xampp\htdocs\ips43\system\Theme\Theme.php(824) : eval()'d code on line 0

that is just opening the questions tab

Seems to be in sources/questions/answers on line 70

public function get_ans(){
        $answer = $this->_data['answer'];
        $length = 100;
        $file = $this->parentage()->parentage();
        $url = $file->url()->setQueryString(['do' => 'readMoreAnswer', 'aid' => $this->id ] );
        return htmlspecialchars( mb_substr( html_entity_decode( $answer ), 0, $length ), ENT_QUOTES | \IPS\HTMLENTITIES, 'UTF-8', FALSE ) . ( ( mb_strlen( html_entity_decode( $answer ) ) > $length ) ? "<a href='#' data-ipsDialog data-ipsDialog-url='{$url}'> ...Read More</a>" : '' );
    }

when replacing the return with

return ''.mb_substr( $answer, $limit ).'<a href="'.$url.'" data-ipsDialog> ...Read More</a>';

it works fine

they use to have this in init.php:

'HTMLENTITIES' => ( version_compare( phpversion(), '5.4.0', '<' ) ) ? ENT_IGNORE : ENT_DISALLOWED,

i guess they are clearing out the code for php 5.3 work around's they had in there for 4.0 when it was php 5.3+

2 hours ago, Cyboman said:

 Currently I upgrade from 2.6.4 to 2.6.5: are new serverside files (^^) required after upgrade?

just the babble.js is required on the 2.6.5 upgrade to be replaced.