Brainy S.

Here is what I mean, specifically. This happens with all of the transparent PNG files I have tried.

I am getting a box around my PNG files that otherwise have a clear background. It's not a showstopper by the screen shots of the app seem to show things otherwise. Is anyone else getting this? I've tried this on both mobile and desktop, and using a few different browsers. I never not get this.

Ok! ? thanks for considering it for the future! It will be fantastic for doing actual professional psych quizzes, hehe.

I know many people have suggested ways to make this application more powerful that would require a lot of work and rewriting the application, but here is my idea that would make this a lot more powerful WITHOUT requiring a big rewrite of your existing code! It only requires new scoring code! It would be a wonderful and powerful feature to have a new quiz type based on how the answers are graded. Instead of just adding up all the correct answers to produce one score (such as getting 7 out of 10 questions correct, 70%) -- it would be great if different sets of scores could be produced by creating "sets" of questions within the quiz to produce individual scores: X factor: 68% Y: factor 29% z: factor 92% This is how psychological testing is done. In psychology there is no right or wrong answer, like there is no right or wrong answer in asking "what is your favorite color", haha. And in psychological each question is only two choices (true or false, A or B, yes or no), but these answers are evaluated in "sets" that produce various scores in a single quiz. I believe these could be done without having to rewrite hardly any coding at all! Of course rewriting code is a pain and introduces new bugs and problems, but adding code as a new feature is, I believe, all this would require. Let me give you an example. Let us say you have a quiz of 5 questions, and each question has TWO answers where one answer is marked as 'correct', and the other is not. BUT, it's not about being 'correct' or not, but by having only two answers this would utilize your current programming code to actually evaluate between multiple 'categories' because the answers are defined in sets...only at the end, through the power of grading 'sets', at the end of the quiz, using new code...not rewriting current code! To be clear, this would NOT work with three or more answers. It is using the power of two answers, true/false, etc. This is the beauty of this solution to create a new feature without a rewrite: I will mark the 'correct' answer with a '+'. And because it will be graded on 'sets', many questions/answers do not affect a particular set: (1) Which do you prefer: [+] Power & knowledge [-] Friendship (2) Which do you prefer: [+] A sunny day [-] A rainy day (3) Which do you prefer: [+] Snakes [-] Unicorns (4) Which do you prefer: [+] Helping others [-] Glory & fame (5) Would you rather: [+] Work toward a common goal for the team [-] Work on your own And the Results would be evaluating, "Which Hogwarts house do you belong to?" Slytherin (1,3) Gryffendor (1,4) Hufflepuff (2, 4, 5) And the results could be in the form of a % or even a bar graph as well. My understanding is that this would not require any sort of rewrite, only a new scoring routing, and would be very powerful, indeed! In the above case it only adds up the correct answers...like a normal quiz, but only looks at certain questions to add up per category. This would work fine with more than two answers, like three answers or more, BUT an even more powerful implementation would be as follows. Now this would **ONLY** work with two answers, because the goal would be not to have rewrite any code. If the scoring were like this: Slytherin (1,3, !2, !4, !5) - added "not" 2, 4, 5 Gryffendor (1,4, !3) Hufflepuff (2, 4, 5, !1) So this more advanced true-false implementation also adds up the "not" scores to count toward that results category. I am proposing that you create a new "True/False sets-based" quiz type where users can define categories that are scored based on adding up defined 'correct' and 'incorrect' answers to produce multiple scoring results. This is exactly how psychological testing is done to produce a variety of results, like asking person a 100 yes/no, true/false, A or B questions; and groups of those questions (all scattered together) produce results indicating their various personal characteristics. The fact this would require no rewrite, like people requesting 'weighted' questions and such, is the power of this feature. The ability to add up "not" answers would be extra powerful (maybe for a future version), but would not even be needed initially to make this a powerful version. Any of the magazine quizzes one might read are all based on this idea of "sets" creating different score rankings in different attributes.

Does iAwards allow you to give an award to an entire group at once? It doesn't seem to allow me to put in a group name (even those groups set to allow filtering by group).

Does anyone know: with Easy Pages, can I add a widget to them such that the widgets added only appear on an individual Easy Page? And/or only appear on (all) the Easy Pages made with this? (and not elsewhere on the site). I just want to have a page for all the miscellaneous of various widgets that maybe I do not care to have cluttering the rest of the site.

Thanks for the reply. I think if it remembered if someone posted anonymously previously that would be a nice touch if/when you are able to get around to it. ?

Ok, I have some great news, I have been able to re-produce it 100% consistently now. Here is what I can now tell you: The problem occurs when the plugin is installed & enabled. The problem occurs regardless of the Permissions enabled switch in the plugin setting is turned on or not. The problem occurs when editing the initial topic post of a thread. The problem does not occur when editing replies of a topic. Even though the problem occurs, the edit does take affect. The problem occurs 100% of the time in the above-described scenario. The problem creates the following error on screen (as an administrator, obviously): UPDATE `forums_posts` forums_posts SET `author_id`=NULL,`author_name`='Guest',`edit_name`='PAO' WHERE pid=7466 IPS\Db\Exception: Column 'author_id' cannot be null (1048) #0 /var/www/html/pao/system/Db/Db.php(990): IPS\_Db->preparedQuery('/*IPS\\forums\\To...', Array) #1 /var/www/html/pao/system/Patterns/ActiveRecord.php(492): IPS\_Db->update('`forums_posts` ...', '`author_id`=?,`...', 'WHERE pid=?') #2 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/sources/Topic/Post.php(335): IPS\Patterns\_ActiveRecord->save() #3 /var/www/html/pao/system/Content/Item.php(952): IPS\forums\Topic\_Post->save() #4 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/sources/Topic/Topic.php(575): IPS\Content\_Item->processAfterEdit(Array) #5 [internal function]: IPS\forums\_Topic->processAfterEdit(Array) #6 /var/www/html/pao/init.php(460) : eval()'d code(171): call_user_func_array('parent::process...', Array) #7 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(496): IPS\forums\linkedaccounts_hook_la_newTopic->processAfterEdit(Array) #8 /var/www/html/pao/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(85): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->edit() #9 /var/www/html/pao/system/Content/Controller.php(50): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute() #10 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(39): IPS\Content\_Controller->execute() #11 /var/www/html/pao/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(146): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->execute() #12 /var/www/html/pao/index.php(14): IPS\_Dispatcher->run() #13 {main} The problem creates the corresponding entry in the System Log (not sure if it matters that the author_name is a name (Guest) when an adminsitrator gets an error on screen, versus the ID when its in the log or if that's normal. UPDATE `forums_posts` forums_posts SET `author_id`=NULL,`author_name`='836d9c3c80ba80af57ffb9842285dd6a',`edit_name`='PAO' WHERE pid=15 IPS\Db\Exception: Column 'author_id' cannot be null (1048) #0 /var/www/html/pao/system/Db/Db.php(990): IPS\_Db->preparedQuery('/*IPS\\forums\\To...', Array) #1 /var/www/html/pao/system/Patterns/ActiveRecord.php(492): IPS\_Db->update('`forums_posts` ...', '`author_id`=?,`...', 'WHERE pid=?') #2 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/sources/Topic/Post.php(335): IPS\Patterns\_ActiveRecord->save() #3 /var/www/html/pao/system/Content/Item.php(952): IPS\forums\Topic\_Post->save() #4 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/sources/Topic/Topic.php(575): IPS\Content\_Item->processAfterEdit(Array) #5 [internal function]: IPS\forums\_Topic->processAfterEdit(Array) #6 /var/www/html/pao/init.php(460) : eval()'d code(171): call_user_func_array('parent::process...', Array) #7 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(496): IPS\forums\linkedaccounts_hook_la_newTopic->processAfterEdit(Array) #8 /var/www/html/pao/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(85): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->edit() #9 /var/www/html/pao/system/Content/Controller.php(50): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute() #10 /var/www/html/pao/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(39): IPS\Content\_Controller->execute() #11 /var/www/html/pao/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(146): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->execute() #12 /var/www/html/pao/index.php(14): IPS\_Dispatcher->run() #13 {main} #0 /var/www/html/pao/init.php(535): IPS\_Log::log('UPDATE `forums_...', 'uncaught_except...') #1 [internal function]: IPS\IPS::exceptionHandler(Object(IPS\Db\Exception)) #2 {main} The problem happened to both members, and me as an Administrator while testing based on the above exact steps. I am running 4.3.4 I would be extremely curious to know if you are able to replicate this problem based on the steps I provided, or not.

Sure thing, I'm still looking into it. I'll update this either way.

Has anyone encountered a problem where occasionally users how post normally with this plugin present and the post author shows up as Guest? I'm still narrowing it down if it is the Application, but I am wondering if this has ever been a problem reported. It's happening on maybe 5% of our posts.

Loving it. No problems on 4.3.4. Just a pretty embarrassingly simple question though: to have a dedicated page for this widget I'd need to have the IPS Pages extension, yes? I've not had the need, but your apps are a pretty good sales pitch for that extension, if so!

I have an issue which caused me to have to disable Track Members. My users are not able to join "Closed" clubs with Track Members installed. They would be an error instead of getting the screen proper screen that the club owner must approve their request. Have you encountered this?

My users absolutely love this plugin for our dedicated "speak your mind" forum! My only wish is that there was a way to make it default to post anonymous or something so people don't have to remember it every time they post to turn it on. Is there any way to make this happen?

Ok, I think I have resolved my issue. Here were the problems: 1) I had to increase the Maximum Execution time for CGI/PHP: http://www.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.max-execution-time In Ubuntu this is located here: /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini The default is 30 seconds and it was timing out. Even though I have only 7 languages, I had an additional 5 languages that were disabled. With all of those it took 340 seconds to install. Once I removed the 5 languages I had disabled, it took only about 95 seconds. 2) I had my Themes set to be in Designers' Mode. Once I disabled that the plugin appears to be working properly now.

Hi, thank you for the reply. I have about 8 languages installed, and about that many themes. I think I may have deleted the standard theme. I have tried this with other themes, but since the ACP does not itself use themes I do not think that should be an issue? I will look at the log file and see if there is anything useful there and contact you with more information directly. Thank you.

I am having a problem installing the Club Enhancements plugin. It will not install successfully/completely. I am running the 1.0.18 version of the plugin with the latest version of IP Board, 4.2.7. This is a new installation of IP Board that I have been configuring only for the last couple weeks. It only has a few other plugins installed (Discord App, Chatbox, PHP & TXT Widget, Display Name History, New Members Defaults, Minimized Quote, and Unread Topic Badge). I am only running IP Board with the Forums add-on. Here is what happens specifically: It times out during the installation. It goes through the various phases but then it hangs after the "Set up completed for theme resources" phase. If I go back into ACP it shows the plugin is installed, and it shows the settings but none of the features work. For example, having new users get assigned to a club. A better example though: even going to a club page and trying to manage the club does not show all the new options this plugin makes available (like changing owners, etc.) just the default 4 options. Here is what I have tried to get it to work: Disable all other plugins Uninstall/re-install the plugin Upload a new version (of course just the same version) of the plugin on top of itself Disable and re-enable the plugin Tried doing this from a different browser I am looking for any additional troubleshooting ideas, whether this is clearing out some files directly from the server, or something from the database. I am also wondering at least what comes directly after the "Set up completed for theme resources" so maybe that can help isolate the problem. If there is some way to attempt to complete the installation manually, maybe that would be an idea as well. I notice that after 10 seconds of trying to install the plugin the CPU performance for the Apache process goes to 100% then after 60 seconds the browser stops and I just have a blank screen and the process goes back to normal. I have a very nice server, and the site is not even in production/live yet, so I know it is not a performance issue.