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Jacob Hilderbrand
07-23-2013, 05:45 PM
I have updated the site to vbulletin 4.2. I will be working on getting things all setup but for now the site seems to function once again, after some work.

If you notice any errors or features that are no longer available let me know and I will see about adding them back.

Aussiebear
07-23-2013, 06:53 PM
Hi Jake, have we done away with the VBA code tags option

SamT
07-23-2013, 07:00 PM
Now we have Code Tags, < >, but only in advanced

Paul_Hossler
07-23-2013, 07:11 PM
it's prettier and seems to work a little smoother, but the icons are not showing

if I click on one, sometimes it will become visible

is there a IE setting or display setting that I need to tweak?

Paul

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-23-2013, 11:58 PM
It seems like the smileys work if there is text already. If you try to add it to a blank message it doesn't seem to get added. :confused3

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-23-2013, 11:59 PM
Yes I will be working on the tags. the Code tag was a customization I have to see about converting.

p45cal
07-24-2013, 01:33 AM
Hi DRJ,
I get notification of a Private Message, but when I go to view, I get an error page, the same applies to old and new messages. This is the message I get:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: newpost_quote in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4591

Fatal error: Call to undefined function construct_editor_styles_js() in /home/vbaexpr1/public_html/forum/private.php(1645) : eval()'d code on line 69
I've also received a Inbox full to 90% message but can't do anything about it.

Aussiebear
07-24-2013, 03:05 AM
Hi DRJ,
I get notification of a Private Message, but when I go to view, I get an error page, the same applies to old and new messages. This is the message I get:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: newpost_quote in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4591

Fatal error: Call to undefined function construct_editor_styles_js() in /home/vbaexpr1/public_html/forum/private.php(1645) : eval()'d code on line 69
I've also received a Inbox full to 90% message but can't do anything about it.

Plenty of errors in going over all the private messages at the moment. Just need some time to rectify.

Ringhal
07-24-2013, 03:25 AM
I have:

$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads
$vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts
$vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers
On the portal page: http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/portal.php?tabid=37

Paul_Hossler
07-24-2013, 04:51 AM
It seems like the smileys work if there is text already. If you try to add it to a blank message it doesn't seem to get added. :confused3

I'm not a Smiley kind of guy :think:

Actually I was asking about the 3 rows of [buttons] just above the message text area

I can see the words or icon for [Font] and [Size] and [Outdent] and 1 or 2 two others.

The rest are 'whited out'

Paul

SamT
07-24-2013, 05:43 AM
Give it a week or so. There's a lot of code to port over.

vanhunk
07-24-2013, 07:45 AM
Hi DRJ, I can't seem to find the threads I posted and my profile also does not show, instead it gives error messages. I miss the list of new posts with the statistics like we used to have. Feel a bit lost in this new format. Maybe more general search options would be nice, like searching for own threads, etc.

Regards
vanhunk

shrivallabha
07-24-2013, 08:03 AM
vanhunk,

You can find your threads under 'Quick Links | Subscribed Threads'

Or

My Profile | Find Latest Posts

BTW, when you click on my profile it shows 2 / 3 error messages at the top but it works anyway.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-24-2013, 09:20 AM
In the profile on the left, find latest posts / started threads.

I fixed the errors on the profile page. Also added the Mark Thread Solved option back.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-24-2013, 09:22 AM
Paul, what browser are you using? I see the icons for B, I, U, font, size and so on and none are blocked out for me.

Ringhal, thanks I see those. vBulletin 4 changed how you can get variables to resolve so I have to go through and change those things.

I will be continuing to update this.

If you see any other pages that give errors like the member page let me know.

Thanks

snb
07-24-2013, 09:35 AM
I see 8 times the webpage's head, containing logo, welocme, snb, notification, my profile, settings, logout
4 times at the top, 3 times at the bottom
Loading a page is slow (too many pictures to load), scrolling the page is also very slow.

rollis13
07-24-2013, 10:41 AM
In the future I wouldn't mind a quick button for "Zero Reply Posts" instead of using "Advanced Search" :yes.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-24-2013, 10:46 AM
snb what browser are you using? Are you saying the "welcome snb" is repeated? Can you post a screenshot?

snb
07-24-2013, 12:32 PM
IE 8

10324

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-24-2013, 01:34 PM
I don't have i.e. 8 to test, is it any different now?

rollis13
07-24-2013, 01:50 PM
I had a try with XP-sp3 with IE 8 at 10.10 PM and had no problems like the ones snb pointed out.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-24-2013, 10:11 PM
A lot of the errors were caused by old plugins that are not compatible. I have disabled those and will work on updating them but in the mean time there hopefully shouldn't be any more error messages. If there are let me know.

Fixed the stats for the portal page.

snb
07-25-2013, 01:27 AM
No improvement.
In every placeholder for an advertisement the VBAex logo appears.
Loading the google ads seems to be a problem (I log in from Europe).
The amount of ads seems to be increased substantially. ( I woulnd't mind an ad free forum)

I always used the customized 'yellow/gold' style to view this forum. Now there's only 1 (less preferable) style.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-25-2013, 09:50 AM
I have made some other adjustments. What do you see now? Sorry I can't reproduce this myself so it is difficult.

the old styles were not compatible. Once I get the default style all setup, all templates done, I can make different color schemes. But that probably won't be for a few weeks.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-25-2013, 04:57 PM
Added country and state / province flags back to the posts.

Aussiebear
07-25-2013, 05:13 PM
Jake, the Calendar function seems to be limited to 2008 and earlier.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-25-2013, 06:25 PM
Calendar is fixed.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-25-2013, 07:01 PM
I added the Code and HTML tags to the quick reply box, the VBA tags were custom and need to be updated for the new version.

p45cal
07-26-2013, 12:10 AM
Other sites work well with Excel Jeanie (http://www.excel-jeanie-html.de/index.php?f=1) and HTML Maker but vbaExpress never has - any chance of this changing?

GTO
07-26-2013, 01:20 AM
Other sites work well with Excel Jeanie (http://www.excel-jeanie-html.de/index.php?f=1) and HTML Maker but vbaExpress never has - any chance of this changing?

Hi Pascal,

Just to mention in case you had not tried it... With HTML Maker, if you use the 'Convert ... to BB Code', and plunk the results in Code tags, it comes out quite nicely imho. Correct spacing and color to boot :-) I just delete the Face tags.

Mark

snb
07-26-2013, 01:30 AM
The problems at the top seem to have been solved.
The repeating logo's at the bottom remain in the forumdisplay.php template.

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-26-2013, 08:42 AM
How does the footer look to you now?

snb
07-26-2013, 09:35 AM
You are my IE8 hero ! :clap:

Paul_Hossler
07-26-2013, 07:40 PM
DRJ -- I'm using IE9 at home.

In 'Not [Go Advanced] i can see the one row of icons, but when I'm Advanced, almost all fade out

Paul

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-27-2013, 07:22 PM
Can you post a screenshot of the advanced icons. I use IE9 and don't see the issue. Also what OS in case that ends up being an issue as well.

SamT
07-28-2013, 04:51 AM
It's starting to look and work good.

I like the code tags with VBAHTMLMaker since I often use unconventional indenting to highlight certain sections of code.

I don't know how hard it is to port the VBA tags, but in the meantime it might be simple to write a script that substituted code tags for vba tags, in pages that have them, as text blobs are called from the database. The only purpose would be to format old style pages for viewing until you get the vba tags ported over.

While we're talking about code tags, is it hard increase their content's text size by 1 ? :ipray:

Paul_Hossler
07-28-2013, 08:21 AM
Hi DRJ -- "1 JPG = 1K TXT"

Using Vista.

Thanks

Paul

Paul_Hossler
07-28-2013, 08:26 AM
DRJ -- don't know if this helps, but right after the post, the icons faded out / disappeared even in not advanced

Do you think there is some Vista or NVidia setting that affects this?

Paul

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-28-2013, 09:12 AM
I have asked about the faded buttons. Can you try in different browsers as well, Chrome and / or Firefox.

For the HTML Maker the reason we never used it is allowing HTML can open up exploits in the forum for people to run undesired code. Mr. Excel ran into some issues and not sure if the HTML maker was the culprit or not but allowing HTML does pose problems.

I will look into it and see how the new forum version handles this. Perhaps the security is better.

SamT
07-28-2013, 10:19 AM
VBAHTMLMaker converts vba code to BB code or html code. The html output doesn't work at all well with vbulletin 4.2, but the BB output looks great inside the new vbulletin code tags. Not so hot without being enclosed in code tags.

html: no code tags
<font face=Courier New><SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN> testhtml()<br><SPAN style="color:#00007F">Dim</SPAN> var<br> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Set</SPAN> var = Range("A1")<br><SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN></FONT>

html w/code tags
<font face=Courier New><SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN> testhtml()<br><SPAN style="color:#00007F">Dim</SPAN> var<br> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Set</SPAN> var = Range("A1")<br><SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN></FONT>

BB: No code tags
Sub testBB()
Dim var
Set var = Range("A1")
End Sub

BB w/Code tags
Sub testBB()
Dim var
Set var = Range("A1")
End Sub

Use Code tags and delete the BB [Face} tags

Paul_Hossler
07-28-2013, 11:57 AM
I have asked about the faded buttons. Can you try in different browsers as well, Chrome and / or Firefox.


Seems to work with Chrome

I can see the icons in advanced now

Paul

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-28-2013, 04:53 PM
We are working on converting the VBA code tags, the default Code tags may work ok but the VBA ones will make it look more like the VB Editor would show.

SamT
07-28-2013, 06:29 PM
We are working on converting the VBA code tags, the default Code tags may work ok but the VBA ones will make it look more like the VB Editor would show.

Actually, they (the old vba tags) forced everybody's code to look like your code. It doesn't look at all like the code formatting in my code pages.

The main differences between the old tags and my code are the auto indentation of comments past the code lines and the use of 3 spaces for tabs.

Anyway, can you try to keep the code tags, I really like them to use with BB formatted code. Just change the font size +1. : pray2:

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-28-2013, 08:02 PM
Like this?



Test
Test

rollis13
07-29-2013, 06:00 AM
No thank you, if SamT needs new glasses ... ;).
Same as post text is ok.

SamT
07-29-2013, 10:23 AM
I thought it would be better, but that is actually too big. Thank you, though, for trying.

SamT
07-29-2013, 10:27 AM
Same as post text would be perfect, but I see (saw) a smaller size, (in Courier font,) than the posts' font. :conscious

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-29-2013, 11:20 AM
How about now?

SamT
07-29-2013, 11:22 AM
:cloud9: :bow:

GTO
07-29-2013, 08:00 PM
.

Actually, they (the old vba tags) forced everybody's code to look like your code. It doesn't look at all like the code formatting in my code pages.

The main differences between the old tags and my code are the auto indentation of comments past the code lines and the use of 3 spaces for tabs.

Anyway, can you try to keep the code tags, I really like them to use with BB formatted code...

Hi DRJ:hi:

FWIW, I would like to "second the motion" :thumb for SamT. I always find it disconcerting to try and show decent indentation (especially for super-new members) and have the vba tags goober up any lines where line-continuation is in use. The only thing I can think of against the code tags is the lack of colorization, which can easily be handled by the add-in to insert the bb code.

Mark

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-29-2013, 09:42 PM
The Code tags are built in to vBulletin so changing those may not be practical. The VBA tags are custom so once we get those working again we may be able to make change. For the indenting perhaps sticking the declaration lined in a 2 column table would work better.

SamT
07-30-2013, 02:34 PM
Why reinvent the wheel?

VBulletin BB code plugin for VBA code:


http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19005&highlight=visual+basic

Screenshot from :
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?384076-Webbrowser-Control-Tip-and-Examples10342


Now that color scheme is similar to the one I use in my VBE.

I use UltraEdit and can provide a pretty comprehensive list of key words by color index, and if you wanted to provide code highlighting style selections using different css files, I can help with them, too

Aussiebear
07-30-2013, 02:46 PM
We are not re-inventing the wheel, just adding some air some it will go round.....:jail: I've been thinking about this for a while you know

SamT
07-30-2013, 05:16 PM
:confused:

Jacob Hilderbrand
07-30-2013, 10:43 PM
Interesting, but that is a vBulletin 2.0 mod and would not be compatible.

p45cal
08-06-2013, 04:26 AM
Although I subscribe automatically to threads I reply to, and have chosen the option for instant email notification, I'm not getting any notifications.. am I the only one?

Aussiebear
08-06-2013, 04:34 AM
Neither am I but then I haven't checked my settings since the upgrade

Ringhal
08-06-2013, 05:15 AM
I subscribed to get notifications, the email I got went into the Spam folder, marked as spam. Maybe that is the issue?

Jacob Hilderbrand
08-08-2013, 12:46 PM
They should come from admin@vbaexpress.com if you white list that email they shouldn't go to spam.

SamT
08-08-2013, 02:09 PM
I just want to take this chance to say thanks, DRJ.





Well, and to point out that Black Holes are where God divided by infinity, not zero.

Jacob Hilderbrand
08-09-2013, 12:03 PM
I have vBulletin checking on the faded icons but they don't have a Vista machine to test with so they have to set one up. Likely will be a Vista issue as I never heard anything good about that OS.

p45cal
08-09-2013, 12:29 PM
I subscribed to get notifications, the email I got went into the Spam folder, marked as spam. Maybe that is the issue?


They should come from admin@vbaexpress.com if you white list that email they shouldn't go to spam.

I have my spam filter completely switched off. I do get notifications for this thread, but for no others.

Jacob Hilderbrand
08-09-2013, 02:39 PM
Maybe it was something with the upgrade and old posts subscriptions aren't working for some reason. Do you get the notifications on new threads you have subscribed to?

p45cal
08-09-2013, 02:54 PM
Do you get the notifications on new threads you have subscribed to?I thought not, but am not sure. I'll post again when I know for sure.

p45cal
08-11-2013, 04:29 AM
I thought not, but am not sure. I'll post again when I know for sure.
I am receiving notifications on new threads!

Aussiebear
08-12-2013, 06:44 PM
Where has the Mark threads solved function gone?

Jacob Hilderbrand
08-13-2013, 12:03 PM
Not sure what happened. I re-installed it and went through the configurations and it seems to be working now.

Aussiebear
08-13-2013, 03:30 PM
Thank you

Jacob Hilderbrand
08-18-2013, 02:58 PM
VBA tags are working once again thanks to Mark007.

mark007
08-18-2013, 03:06 PM
No problem

Aussiebear
08-18-2013, 11:33 PM
Is there a button associated with this?

Jacob Hilderbrand
08-19-2013, 10:47 AM
According to Mark the new files uses a sprite file for the icons which makes it harder to figure out how to replace an image or add one. He is working on that currently. For now you can use the # icon for Code and it will work. Hopefully we can change that.

Ringhal
08-26-2013, 04:51 AM
Is it possible to add the "add attachment" function to the Quick Reply to avoiding having to go advanced to attach a file?

Jacob Hilderbrand
08-26-2013, 12:11 PM
I am not sure. I was able to add the undo and redo buttons, but the attachment buttons seems to work a little differently. It may have to do with the permissions but I am not sure. I will look into it.

Aflatoon
08-30-2013, 06:52 AM
It can definitely be done - Simon has it implemented at the CodeCage, so I'm sure he can tell you. :)

mancubus
09-18-2013, 06:50 AM
hi there.when posting, i started to get the following warning today.
Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.VBA Express Forumafter hitting F5 key e few times i can post a message. and it seems formats and line breaks have gone. or is it my ie in office computer that displays the messages like this?????

Jacob Hilderbrand
09-21-2013, 03:41 PM
Strange, if you clear cookies and log back in does it still do it?

mancubus
09-22-2013, 11:52 PM
Strange, if you clear cookies and log back in does it still do it?thanks for the reply. below is for testing...
Sub vbax_test() a = 5 b = 7 MsgBox a b MsgBox a = bEnd Sub

mancubus
09-22-2013, 11:56 PM
posted in 1 try... no need to hit F5. problems: 1- line feeds not pasted. 2- nonequality sign (less than and greater than combined) in MsgBox not pasted. but i dont duplicate the problem with my home computer. so stg must be wrong with ie in the office computer.

mancubus
09-22-2013, 11:58 PM
i also can't see quick reply icons. I, B, A, etc... i also can't upload an attachment. very strange...:)

Jacob Hilderbrand
09-24-2013, 09:53 AM
That is strange, what is the office computer running? OS, Browser etc.?

mancubus
09-24-2013, 11:29 PM
Windows XP (32-bit)
IExplorer 8
i dont duplicate the problem in other forums such as excelforum.

mancubus
09-24-2013, 11:42 PM
after posting the above message i wanted to show the paragraphs with html tags. so added < p > < /p > and < br > tags manually.

Aussiebear
09-25-2013, 11:09 PM
Can you reset to an earlier time to see if the errors still continue?

p45cal
09-26-2013, 12:02 AM
Hi Mark,
I wanted to try this today and just realised (I think) that you're referring to posting macro code. What I was hoping for was to be able to post parts of a worksheet, with/without formulae, in a message. Do you know of a work around for this?


Hi Pascal,

Just to mention in case you had not tried it... With HTML Maker, if you use the 'Convert ... to BB Code', and plunk the results in Code tags, it comes out quite nicely imho. Correct spacing and color to boot :-) I just delete the Face tags.

Mark

mancubus
09-26-2013, 12:03 AM
thanks for the reply.since it's a company computer i dont have any control on it. and corporate policy says one shall not keep IT department busy for personal matters. :)

Jacob Hilderbrand
09-26-2013, 12:32 PM
I have had problems with IE8 in the past. Not sure if that is the case. Can you upgrade IE or try Chrome of FireFox? Or are you not able to install programs?

mancubus
09-26-2013, 12:51 PM
Thanks again. No we can't.

Anyway i will try to live with that.

p45cal
05-22-2014, 12:43 PM
This is quite odd; I've not being getting notifications of replies in threads I subscribe to (by default I'm supposed to get instant notifications), but today I got one:

Hello p45cal,

pcarmour has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Conditional formating using relative references - in the Excel Help forum of VBA Express Forum.

This thread is located at:
http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49522&goto=newpost

Here is the message that has just been posted:
***************
HI p45cal,
Brilliant, that works perfectly. Thank you very much for your time and expertise.

Yet again VBA express has proved to be the place to get answers and get them quickly.
Thank you.
***************

If you go to the link you'll see that the date of the reply was 04-25-2014, but this email is dated 22 May 2014 20:11, that's about 4 weeks later. Is there some setting I'm missing?

Nickcarter
02-02-2018, 04:20 AM
It look the latest Version of vbulletin 4.2. working good.

airmadina
06-29-2020, 01:09 AM
I have updated the site to vbulletin 4.2. I will be working on getting things all setup but for now the site seems to function once again, after some work.

If you notice any errors or features that are no longer available let me know and I will see about adding them back.

ryanebeerman
06-29-2020, 01:17 AM
Hi DRJ, I can't seem to find the threads I posted and my profile also does not show, instead it gives error messages. I miss the list of new posts with the statistics like we used to have. Feel a bit lost in this new format. Maybe more general search options would be nice, like searching for own threads, etc

helenrdarrow
06-29-2020, 02:50 AM
Yes I will be working on the tags. the Code tag was a customization I have to see about converting.