GrahameKing
Apr 12, 2006
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There's an elephant in the room.. saying 'your subscription will end in 8 days' ? Do we pass round the hat for a collection to keep the adverts away; if so, is there a paypal button to donate spare change somewhere.. -
scapegoat Feb 18, 2006 -oh wait, it's already being discussed elsewhere
Hey I noticed that I'm the only member (manage space) with a remove marking behind my name. does anybody know why?
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GordonR
Gordon, you can only remove your own membership from the site. Organizers can remove members, but not other organizers. In other words, each member sees the 'remove' link by his own name in the list of members. -
Alyce
Thanks Alyce, I translated the lbtutorial into Dutch. May I post it somewhere here? - GordonR
Hey Gordon, if it's okay with Carl, you can post it. You don't need permission. This site is whatever the community wants it to be. Thanks for contributing. - Alyce
Wow, the site has been really busy during the last few days. Great! I'm going to archive some of the old chat stuff, so we don't need to scroll so far to read the new stuff. - Alyce Feb 23, 2006
I'm submitting this article for Newsletter consideration. I'm having a bit of trouble with the formatting. It's quite lengthy because of the demo codes. I am envisioning that each of the 4 demos are linked to separately rather than in the body of the article. Rather than trying to do that here, I'll wait until it's accepted and then work on that change at LBPE. If it's not accepted, I'll post it here under Shared Code. I'd also like to include a .png illustration. I uploaded 2 images (CCBTile.png and SimpleHouse.bmp) but when I try to add them to the text, they show up as links to the file download rather than being displayed. Clearly I need to learn a lot more about formatting before I can be an effective contributor. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Janet
Oops -- forgot 'tilding' to sign off. -
JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006
Janet, when you are editing a page, look at the top right corner of the edit box. Click the link for images. Double-click on the image you want and the tag is inserted. Edit this page to see what it looks like:
I don't see your BMP. Wikispaces requires images to be PNG, GIF or JPG.
- Alyce Apr 9, 2006
I thought that's what I did. Clearly I'm clicking the wrong icon because I'm still not getting it. I tried the .png first, then the .bmp just in case there was a problem with the .png. The edit page I'm typing on at the moment just shows the image not the code. Shows it pretty well, though. <smile>. If I Right Click and View Source, I can get this command:
<img src="/space/showimage/CCBTile.PNG" alt="CCBTile.PNG" />
Copying and pasting that doesn't work, though. I am off to Sandbox now to try to figure this out. I'm sure I'm just clicking the wrong icon. - JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006
When I click on the Add Image icon, I get an insert of available files on the right of the page. Double clicking fairy.jpg does exactly what I want. Double clicking any of the images I uploaded only gives a link to the file. Also, when I choose the radiobutton Images Only, my images don't show. Choosing Files Only shows my image files. So, I'm not trying to display the image incorrectly, I'm uploading incorrectly. I'll need some more time to figure this out. - JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006
I haven't used the visual editor. I use the plain ol' text editor and add the tags myself. The tag for an image is [[image:yourimagename.png]] It's translated into the HTML code you mention above when the page is displayed. I got the same thing as you when I simply clicked the image, since it use the tag for files, instead of the one for images -- [[file:yourimagename.png]] - Alyce
Does this do what you want? First pix is SimpleTile.png and second pix is CCBTile.png with some size elements. Bill Beasley
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I'm not sure what you did, Bill, to make these pictures show. This is me double-clicking fairy.jpg
and this is me double-clicking But, I've been out visiting sick relatives all afternoon and evening and now I've got to pay bills to go into the mail tomorrow. I'll play with this tomorrow. Sometimes these types of things keep me humble -- REALLY HUMBLE!! :( - JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006
Janet, I think it's a problem in the wiki script. The tags that are inserted look like this:
[[image:fairy.jpg]] [[file:SimpleTile.png]]
See how the fairy has "image" and the simpletile has "file"? If you use the text editor instead of the visual editor, you can fix them easily. - Alyce
That did the trick! :) Thanks. Bill, thank you for fixing the image in the CreateCompatibleBitmap article. I like the smaller version, too. - JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006
Alyce and Bill, thank you both for your help. The article is now ready for submission. I'll leave it to Brad to decide if he wants to include it in the premier issue. Bill, I took your advice and shrunk the original images to 30% so the images could be loaded without having to define the dimensions. No sense wasting disk space. Alyce, I uploaded a .png version of SimpleHouse. Are you able to delete the uploaded SimpleHouse.bmp? Once a decision is made as to whether the article will stay here or be moved to LBPE, I'll edit it to multiple pages. I agonized over repeating so much code, but I think for the reader who isn't an expert in API (like me), this sequencing will be more beneficial. - JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006
How can I edit link text so that it appears as bold or italic? I tried editing the text with the Text Editor replacing TEXT with TEXT . This didn't work for me. The asterisks appeared literally and, strangely, the link stopped working! -
GrahameKing Apr 12, 2006
To sign your posts, end with three tilde characters (~) or use four tilde characters to sign and date your posts.
Discussion - Threaded discussions.
Chat Archives - old conversations
There's an elephant in the room.. saying 'your subscription will end in 8 days' ? Do we pass round the hat for a collection to keep the adverts away; if so, is there a paypal button to donate spare change somewhere.. -
scapegoat Feb 18, 2006 -oh wait, it's already being discussed elsewhere Hey I noticed that I'm the only member (manage space) with a remove marking behind my name. does anybody know why?
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GordonR Gordon, you can only remove your own membership from the site. Organizers can remove members, but not other organizers. In other words, each member sees the 'remove' link by his own name in the list of members. -
Alyce Thanks Alyce, I translated the lbtutorial into Dutch. May I post it somewhere here? -
GordonR Hey Gordon, if it's okay with Carl, you can post it. You don't need permission. This site is whatever the community wants it to be. Thanks for contributing. -
Alyce Wow, the site has been really busy during the last few days. Great! I'm going to archive some of the old chat stuff, so we don't need to scroll so far to read the new stuff. -
Alyce Feb 23, 2006 I'm submitting this article for Newsletter consideration. I'm having a bit of trouble with the formatting. It's quite lengthy because of the demo codes. I am envisioning that each of the 4 demos are linked to separately rather than in the body of the article. Rather than trying to do that here, I'll wait until it's accepted and then work on that change at LBPE. If it's not accepted, I'll post it here under Shared Code. I'd also like to include a .png illustration. I uploaded 2 images (CCBTile.png and SimpleHouse.bmp) but when I try to add them to the text, they show up as links to the file download rather than being displayed. Clearly I need to learn a lot more about formatting before I can be an effective contributor. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Janet
Oops -- forgot 'tilding' to sign off. -
JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006 Janet, when you are editing a page, look at the top right corner of the edit box. Click the link for images. Double-click on the image you want and the tag is inserted. Edit this page to see what it looks like:
I don't see your BMP. Wikispaces requires images to be PNG, GIF or JPG.
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Alyce Apr 9, 2006 I thought that's what I did. Clearly I'm clicking the wrong icon because I'm still not getting it. I tried the .png first, then the .bmp just in case there was a problem with the .png. The edit page I'm typing on at the moment just shows the image not the code. Shows it pretty well, though. <smile>. If I Right Click and View Source, I can get this command:
<img src="/space/showimage/CCBTile.PNG" alt="CCBTile.PNG" />
Copying and pasting that doesn't work, though. I am off to Sandbox now to try to figure this out. I'm sure I'm just clicking the wrong icon. -
JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006 When I click on the Add Image icon, I get an insert of available files on the right of the page. Double clicking fairy.jpg does exactly what I want. Double clicking any of the images I uploaded only gives a link to the file. Also, when I choose the radiobutton Images Only, my images don't show. Choosing Files Only shows my image files. So, I'm not trying to display the image incorrectly, I'm uploading incorrectly. I'll need some more time to figure this out. -
JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006 I haven't used the visual editor. I use the plain ol' text editor and add the tags myself. The tag for an image is [[image:yourimagename.png]] It's translated into the HTML code you mention above when the page is displayed. I got the same thing as you when I simply clicked the image, since it use the tag for files, instead of the one for images -- [[file:yourimagename.png]] -
Alyce Does this do what you want? First pix is SimpleTile.png and second pix is CCBTile.png with some size elements. Bill Beasley
and
I'm not sure what you did, Bill, to make these pictures show. This is me double-clicking fairy.jpg
and this is me double-clicking
But, I've been out visiting sick relatives all afternoon and evening and now I've got to pay bills to go into the mail tomorrow. I'll play with this tomorrow. Sometimes these types of things keep me humble -- REALLY HUMBLE!! :( - JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006 Janet, I think it's a problem in the wiki script. The tags that are inserted look like this:
[[image:fairy.jpg]] [[file:SimpleTile.png]]
See how the fairy has "image" and the simpletile has "file"? If you use the text editor instead of the visual editor, you can fix them easily. -
Alyce That did the trick! :) Thanks. Bill, thank you for fixing the image in the CreateCompatibleBitmap article. I like the smaller version, too. -
JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006 Alyce and Bill, thank you both for your help. The article is now ready for submission. I'll leave it to Brad to decide if he wants to include it in the premier issue. Bill, I took your advice and shrunk the original images to 30% so the images could be loaded without having to define the dimensions. No sense wasting disk space. Alyce, I uploaded a .png version of SimpleHouse. Are you able to delete the uploaded SimpleHouse.bmp? Once a decision is made as to whether the article will stay here or be moved to LBPE, I'll edit it to multiple pages. I agonized over repeating so much code, but I think for the reader who isn't an expert in API (like me), this sequencing will be more beneficial. -
JanetTerra Apr 9, 2006 How can I edit link text so that it appears as bold or italic? I tried editing the text with the Text Editor replacing TEXT with TEXT . This didn't work for me. The asterisks appeared literally and, strangely, the link stopped working! -
GrahameKing Apr 12, 2006