Hi again Friends,
If I recall, from having made a few posts in this thread (in the past year or 2) (in case this message gets moved, this is the thread:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=259659.840) this mod hasn't be upgraded or changed in quite a while. Yet it appears to remain a popular mod!
In case it ever is upgraded, I just discovered something that I hope would be fixed. And actually, partly this affects all of SMF....somehow....although I don't understand how the program works from the coding perspective. Now that I think of it, maybe this would better be posted somewhere else, related to smileys. I'll have to leave it to your judgement where it should go.
Actually, maybe this is a bug, or something is broken in my forum? I'll have to leave that part up to you.
I love smileys and have 100s of them loaded into my forum -- nearly 100 in the editor, and maybe 250 more in the "(more)" pop-up. (half of them are related to the program which the forum supports, which is Inkscape, a vector graphic editor - lotta buttons!)
Even though the smileys are loaded and edited and managed from the admin panel, they show up in mods like this SMF Articles, in PMs (can't remember if PMs are a mod or not), and in SMFPacks ShoutBox. However, if I need to open the pop-up, to get a smiley to post in the forum, and later need to get a smiley from the popup for a PM or Shout or Article, I have to open the popup directly from wherever I am. I cannot get the smiley, to go in a shout, from the popup I opened in the forum. I have to open the pop-up from wherever I need to use it. And on a busy day, keeping 3 or 4 of those pop-ups open can get confusing!
So in that sense, maybe it's more related to how SMF makes the smileys work. I'm not sure about that part.
What I just noticed, while writing and editing an article from SMF Articles, is that if I already have the smiley pop-up open, because I already used a smiley from it in the article, and I save the article, it somehow disables the pop-up from working. Because if I re-open the article to edit again, and need another smiley from that pop-up, I have to open a fresh new pop-up!
Does this sound like something is broken, or a bug? Or normal and expected behavior? Any chance of avoiding having to open the smiley popup so many different times?
Let's see.... This is SMF 2.0.9, Tiny Portal 1.107, and a long list of other mods, something like 45. But I can list them if necessary. Not sure if you need it, but my forum
http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php. Although you won't be able to.....well you can't post a message, shout, Pm or article, but there does seem to be a way to access my smileys without being a member, if that would help. I'm using with Firefox....haven't tested with IE - but I could, if it seems like this would be a browser issue?
Thanks for your help
