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When posting from an Android mobile device I have to use the "html button" method which is a pain but can be done if necessary . However , the html button doesn't seem to be there to reply to a pm or conversations. This can be an issue (I had to instigate a new conversation to the same person as I could not reply to his previous post ).
Is this an easy thing to include?
Ban boring signatures!
This is a test from Andriod phone.
Regards Keith....
Your comment is true and it is the same for the old forum as well.
However, the problem is not with the forum software really and therefore I am unable to resolve this issue.
Reply from android device. OK - if it can't be done then there's nothing to do, i just found it strange that i can reply to a thread from a mobile device but not to a PM conversation (although i can originate one)!
Isn't it a regular TinyMCE editor that is responsible for this part? If yes, it should be as simple as adding 'code' to the list of button definitions at the place where tinyMCE is initialized.
The lines are far too long to copy-paste here, but currently, for example AddPost.aspx has
tinyMCE.init( blah blah blah ....) theme_advanced_buttons1:'bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,separator,indent,outdent,separator,bullist,numlist,separator,link,unlink,insertmedia,image,smilies,separator,cut,copy,paste,pasteword,separator,code'
... while the conversation reply page has
theme_advanced_buttons1:'bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,separator,indent,outdent,separator,bullist,numlist,separator,link,unlink,insertmedia,image,smilies,separator,cut,copy,paste,pasteword,separator'
...which is exactly the same except for the code button. It seems only an accidental omission, as even the extra separator bar is still there in the end.
Of course there might be a reason why it won't work in the conversation reply page even if added there, but worth a try I guess...
--mika
Sounds promising.
If the old forum is like this too then that serves to demonstrate how small a problem this is as I managed fine without it until Wed. 15th., when I needed to reply to a PM in a timly manner, while away from home, only to find it wasn't possible. It was then I found I could send a new PM but not to reply to any existing messages.
The problem is not just with PM's/Conversations it is with any posting on an Android phone.
On the phone when you say, click reply and highlight the area for writing the reply, the keyboard is NOT made available to you, but click HTML and then the keyboard is made available and you can write your post or PM.
Yes, I understand - the same problem affects any browser based on certain versions on Apple WebKit (including my Nokia N8 which runs Symbian), which don't support the contentEditable property that tinyMCE uses. This is precisely what kept iPhone and iPad folks among others from directly posting on the forums, and for them this was fixed in iOS 5, I believe.
But the HTML button gives you a way to work around it when there's a bad enough need to post / conversate.
Keith Saunders: The problem is not just with PM's/Conversations it is with any posting on an Android phone. On the phone when you say, click reply and highlight the area for writing the reply, the keyboard is NOT made available to you, but click HTML and then the keyboard is made available and you can write your post or PM.
Hi Keith, I'm not sure whether we're talking at cross purposes here - my point is that the HTML button is there when composing a PM but missing when trying to reply, and therefore cannot be clicked.
Sorry, I misunderstood your statement, yes I will look at adding the HTML button..