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[chris&barb]

The time is still off by an hour, even when I choose the correct time zone. (I'm thinking daylight savings is throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing).

You can change that in your UCP-> Board Preferences->Summer Time/DST is in effect:, set to "yes". In the fall you need to change it to "no"

 

[Anonymous]

The time is still off by an hour, even when I choose the correct time zone. (I'm thinking daylight savings is throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing).

You can change that in your UCP-> Board Preferences->Summer Time/DST is in effect:, set to "yes". In the fall you need to change it to "no"

That worked. Thanks much.
-jdg

 

[Anonymous]

I still feel dizzy.

 

[Len]

Change the style in your profile to sub2-RDO and it'll look very close to the old site; I'm not a fan, but if you really don't like change, that's the best solution

 

[Anonymous]

Nah, I'm liking this.
A new day and all...just getting used to it still is all. It was a shock.

 

[Anonymous]

Change the style in your profile to sub2-RDO and it'll look very close to the old site; I'm not a fan, but if you really don't like change, that's the best solution

FWIW, that profile seems to work best on my crackberry. Both the stock Blackberry browser and Opera have some issues with both of the newer profiles.

 

[Anonymous]

Is there any way you can get rid of the auto-cropping for hot-linked images?

 

[Len]

I'll look into it. It doesn't look like it's a easy change.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Len.

 

[Anonymous]

I'll look into it. It doesn't look like it's a easy change.

Please don't!
I hate it when a damn link causes the thread to be extra wide so every post on the page must then be scrolled left and right to read.

 

[Len]

That's the reason why the current system crops. I'm still looking at the possibility of removing this feature, but I don't know if I will if I could. To view images in full, right clicking is a simple way. But really, how many people have a good reason to post huge pictures in threads?

 

[Anonymous]

Excuse my naivety about this subject, but could the board simply make all posted pics full screen size and automatically reduce the resolution of pics that exceed the maximum kb allowed by the site?

 

[Len]

Excuse my naivety about this subject, but could the board simply make all posted pics full screen size and automatically reduce the resolution of pics that exceed the maximum kb allowed by the site?

These are hotlinked (outside) images, and the problem isn't file size but dimensions being too big to fit on some screens (the system "crops" the images instead of making you scroll). Attachments have kb and dimensional limitations. There isn't any way to automatically reduce picture attributes when you upload.

 

[Anonymous]

Excuse my naivety about this subject, but could the board simply make all posted pics full screen size and automatically reduce the resolution of pics that exceed the maximum kb allowed by the site?

These are hotlinked (outside) images, and the problem isn't file size but dimensions being too big to fit on some screens (the system "crops" the images instead of making you scroll). Attachments have kb and dimensional limitations. There isn't any way to automatically reduce picture attributes when you upload.

Thank you for the explanation. I don't know how to hotlink an image.

 

[Anonymous]

Could you not get it to do what it does with attachments? That is, add the scroll bars, so that someone can click on the picture if they wanted to see it full size? If not, don't worry. It just seems to work pretty well with attachments.

 

[Len]

Could you not get it to do what it does with attachments? That is, add the scroll bars, so that someone can click on the picture if they wanted to see it full size? If not, don't worry. It just seems to work pretty well with attachments.

Alas, I can't. Hotlinking is simple language (for bb codes, it's simply

 

[Anonymous]

Could you not get it to do what it does with attachments? That is, add the scroll bars, so that someone can click on the picture if they wanted to see it full size? If not, don't worry. It just seems to work pretty well with attachments.

Alas, I can't. Hotlinking is simple language (for bb codes, it's simply ) which does nothing but fetch an image from the web.[/quote]

Yet the autocropping does work? Seems odd. I'm sure you're right, but as someone who knows nothing about how this works, I would have thought if it could do that, it could do something else.

 

[Len]

Yet the autocropping does work? Seems odd. I'm sure you're right, but as someone who knows nothing about how this works, I would have thought if it could do that, it could do something else.

I'm sure there's a hack for something similar to what you're asking, but autocropping is written into the program (would be easy to write) whereas placing hotlinked images into framed scroll boxes is not.

 

[chris&barb]

Excuse my naivety about this subject, but could the board simply make all posted pics full screen size and automatically reduce the resolution of pics that exceed the maximum kb allowed by the site?

These are hotlinked (outside) images, and the problem isn't file size but dimensions being too big to fit on some screens (the system "crops" the images instead of making you scroll). Attachments have kb and dimensional limitations. There isn't any way to automatically reduce picture attributes when you upload.

you can do it through bbcodes. then the problem becomes getting people to use the bbcode. I have this same software and i love the fact it crops photos because i hate scrolling just because someone doesn't want to make one click on photobucket to resize.

 

[Len]

Chris was kind enough to share with me the bbcode 8)

I've added it. It's a new button found above the post area (along with all the other bbcode buttons), called rimg . What it does is display your image in a 640x640 max frame, scaled proportionally. If you click on it, it will display the full image. You can use it instead of the img bbcode that you're used to.

Here's an example:
[rimg]http://www.reefs.org/wallpaper/imageindex/2007series/cyan/variant/original[/rimg]