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 Post subject: Offline editing
PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 16:48 
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How many folk pre-prepare messages off line and then paste them into the message post / reply window?

This way you might get the benefit of a spell checker and so on.

Editors like Textpad http://www.textpad.info look like they might be programmed to deal with quotes and emboldening. Has anyone got a set of templates (or whatever they are called)?

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 Post subject: Re: Offline editing
PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 17:41 
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Editors like Textpad http://www.textpad.info look like they might be programmed to deal with quotes and emboldening. Has anyone got a set of templates (or whatever they are called)?

Textpad is an awesome program!

What you're after is a 'syntax definition file', and pretty much everything that exists eventually ends up here, but it's more for formatting programming languages, as it will highlight certain keywords in different colours, indent your code for you, work out if you're in an if statement from parenthesis, and so on.

So, whilst you could get it to do what I think you're after, I reckon you'd have to write the definition yourself, since that's not what they were intended to be used for.

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Editors like Textpad http://www.textpad.info look like they might be programmed to deal with quotes and emboldening. Has anyone got a set of templates (or whatever they are called)?

Textpad is an awesome program!

What you're after is a 'syntax definition file', and pretty much everything that exists eventually ends up here, but it's more for formatting programming languages, as it will highlight certain keywords in different colours, indent your code for you, work out if you're in an if statement from parenthesis, and so on.

So, whilst you could get it to do what I think you're after, I reckon you'd have to write the definition yourself, since that's not what they were intended to be used for.


Quite. Yep. Thanks!

I posted a support question to the Textpad forums:

http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6144

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I see I got one reply in the Textpad support forum. Pretty feeble.

Does anyone know the Textpad syntax files well enough to create a set for phpbb?

Or maybe we should talk to the phpbb developers?

Any other ideas?

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I think you are kind of pre-empting the next generation of bulletin boards!

It seems to me that web forums are a massively growing and very competitive market. It also seems apparent that many people do prepare longer posts off-line, partly due to the vagaries of the internet and partly due to the additional features your average text editor contains.

So if I were working on bulletin board software development (which I'm not) I reckon a key feature to develop would be a decent on-line WYSIWYG editor, with features like auto-saving, posting history, spell-checking etc.

Or perhaps a good market niche product would be a standalone editor that interfaced closely with all the major bulletin boards via a standard interface, so users could view all their favourite forums through one single interface, get notified of new posts on any of them etc.

Now there's an idea... :idea:

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In circa 1997 I wrote a VB programme to do just what you want, but on WebX (then Lundeen Corp) forum systems, Paul. It is still a well-used tool for the Which?OnLine forum system.

If I get time I'll dig it out, see how moderniseable it is and Safe-Speed customiseable - and drop an EXE in a download section.

NOT for a few weeks though - in fact not until April (end of FY). If anyone wants it as is, just to have a dexie, let me know.


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JT wrote:
I think you are kind of pre-empting the next generation of bulletin boards!


I wish they had an NNTP interface. Now that would be efficient!

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In circa 1997 I wrote a VB programme to do just what you want, but on WebX (then Lundeen Corp) forum systems, Paul. It is still a well-used tool for the Which?OnLine forum system.

If I get time I'll dig it out, see how moderniseable it is and Safe-Speed customiseable - and drop an EXE in a download section.

NOT for a few weeks though - in fact not until April (end of FY). If anyone wants it as is, just to have a dexie, let me know.


One thing I really wanted was a spell checker. I don't suppose...?

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The general standards of spelling and grammar on this board are far better than on some I've seen.

I occasionally compose long responses offline (like the reply about "causing death" penalties this morning) but in general find using the preview facility is quite good enough to get it right.

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One thing I really wanted was a spell checker. I don't suppose...?


The thing I wrote didn't have, but the .net interface to and from word I think make it entirely feasible to use an M$ Word Spillchucker in the programme if I rewrite it. Not sure how that works legally/license-wise tho.


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Browse www.phpbb.com and you will find a mod for a spell checker on there. I think it is for versions 2.0.10 and above.

However phpBB.com has been "hacked" and currently the site is down while they find out what went wrong. They say it is not a phpBB2 vulnerability.


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If you use Firefox, it already has a fantastic spell checking extension available:

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/index

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