character amount left to use in the reply field

Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback

Post 1 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Sunday, 30-Apr-2006 22:24:25

hi. I was thinking that, because there's a 4000 character maximum in the reply field for posting, that maybe below the textbox, there could be a read-only field that would let you know how many characters you've used so far. Or how many you have left to use. It'd change as you type, of course. I've seen this on other sites, and I think that it'd be beneficial on here. Thank you

Post 2 by frequency (the music man) on Monday, 01-May-2006 17:23:40

yeah, this wouldn't be bad

Post 3 by Chris N (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 01-May-2006 18:54:55

Find some example code and I'll see what I can do. It's a javascript thing.

Post 4 by Jage (Zone BBS, a decade of madness) on Saturday, 06-May-2006 15:02:59

K, this is now on the site for new topics, replies, and private mail. May end up in a few more places later.

Post 5 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Saturday, 06-May-2006 21:16:06

There ya go. Now all of you people who complain the admins don't listen, take that! LOL

Post 6 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Sunday, 07-May-2006 3:41:08

Applaud the idea, and the speedy response. go Jay and Chris

Post 7 by OrangeDolphinSpirit (Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?) on Sunday, 07-May-2006 4:24:54

Oops, I wasn't aware of the character max. LOL. I guess I should pay more attention. And I guess that also means I don't type enough! *GRIN*

Post 8 by Jage (Zone BBS, a decade of madness) on Sunday, 07-May-2006 20:08:10

Actually, I'm not sure ifit was fully enforced before. There may have been a bug in the code.

Post 9 by admin (I just keep on posting!) on Saturday, 13-May-2006 19:02:42

Also fixed the weird-looking text boxes. Sorry.

Post 10 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Sunday, 14-May-2006 20:14:06

I'd like to say yea and thanks to the administrators for this one.

The response gave us exactly what we wanted, and was finished in record time.

Bob

Post 11 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Sunday, 14-May-2006 21:13:49

I agree with Bob. And while I never thought about it before, now that this is available, it is nice to know how many characters you have left in case you want to say more.

Post 12 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Monday, 15-May-2006 8:21:26

I just want to say thanks guys for the quick response. I'm glad to know that the suggestions are actually being read and taken seriously. grin

Post 13 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 7:48:13

Hello Admins of the zone. I was looking at where you'd normally go to change up your login message and I was wondering if there could be any possible way that you could put how many characters are there and/or remaining kinda like what you did for the boards which is very helpful by the way, thanks for that. Because if you knew how many characters were there and how many are left reamining then you could write something and not worry about half of the message being cut off and I know for a fact alot of people like to have long login messages on here so.. it's just a thought. I figured I'd write this in here since it was concerning an earlier issue with letter count boxes.

Post 14 by Jage (Zone BBS, a decade of madness) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 9:31:02

we may expand that to pages like that one. Not sure yet. You get 250 characters there I believe. For boxes like that one, it'll just not let you type if you go over.

Post 15 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 9:43:38

Oh okay then thanks

Post 16 by Jage (Zone BBS, a decade of madness) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 9:43:54

Hmmm, no idea why this topic only shows 1 post now.

Post 17 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 9:46:23

I was wondering that to kinda wierd

Post 18 by Jage (Zone BBS, a decade of madness) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 9:47:55

wow now I'm just confused

Post 19 by Jage (Zone BBS, a decade of madness) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 9:49:54

anyone have a cookie?

Post 20 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 19:53:57

I have lot's of cookies because I haven't tossed them yet, lol

Post 21 by Jage (Zone BBS, a decade of madness) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 20:48:10

g thanks.

Post 22 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Wednesday, 17-May-2006 21:19:53

lmfao mysticrain