R. T. POTEETAlso, has anyone figured out how to edit after you have previewed; I am perhaps overlooking something but the only way I seem to be able to get back to my response is to post and then edit!
Also, has anyone figured out how to edit after you have previewed; I am perhaps overlooking something but the only way I seem to be able to get back to my response is to post and then edit!
RT, there are three tabs at the top of the page when you're posting: Compose, Options, and Preview. After previewing, just click the Compose tab again to get back to typing or editing.
Edit: When I posted this time, I ended up on the last page where my post is, not the first page of the thread.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
yeah, I;m sorry about naggin for something free. But, from going Page 7 to Page 8, where the forum was being widened by the pictures and Page 8 wasn't I was realy liking it. Thank we could go to that width instead?
Free or not, The content of the forums should not be skewered. Also, very rearely I get a 404 errro coming straight into a thread from a link.But if I hunt it down through the forums, right there it is, waiting for me.
-Morgan
I miss some of the toolbar functions but I should be able to survive their absense. I did read something on MSN.COM this A.M. about reducing stress so maybe I can figure out how to solve my grievance with this turkey without beating my stupid head against the wall.
The old system had an automatic carriage return flagging--that's what such a thing is called in the programmingenvironment--at the end of the line which SHOULD be at the end of the visual page: IT'S NOT! INSTEAD IT IS LOCATED SOMEWHERE IN THE VICINITY OF CHARACTER #125 WHICH IS LOCATED THREE BLOCKS NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN TIMBUCTOU!!! It makes editing nearly impossible if you run your print out beyond the right margin of the visual page. I am trying this response to do a manual carriage return when my cursor gets at the end of the visual page and the left margin begins to subduct.
NOTE: IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S WORKING!!!!! Would have liked to have put this comment in 36pt type but that's something which has disappeard from the toolbar! That Law of Unintended Consequences seems to be alive and well and functioning flawlessly in this new whatever-you-call-it!!
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
jeffrey-wimberlyFor those who haven't yet figured out have to change text color from the toolbar, .... Select 'Enhanced'.
Thanks for the tip, Jeff. I missed my color palette.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
For those who haven't yet figured out have to change text color from the toolbar, go to Update Profile, click Site Options. Third option on the list is 'Content Editor'. Select 'Enhanced'. Scroll down to the bottom, click 'Save'. You're on your own from there.
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shawneeGuess got to find out all the bells and whistles on how the new site works. Hope posting pics is the same.
The site looks more contemporary, but the clutter to the right is indeed disconcerting. Oh well, just don't pay attention. I actually used the banner ad at the top sometimes to go to a vendor, and it's curious why they eliminated such a premium ad position.
Guess got to find out all the bells and whistles on how the new site works. Hope posting pics is the same.
Mac, I just got it to work for the first time myself. Funny, but the cursor won't change to the pointy hand icon except in a very few spots. You'd think just placing the cursor anywhere in the bar would get the desired indication.
-Crandell
Well, I found that if there is no bar above the images, they won't enlarge. However, if there is a BAR and you click on the bar, they will enlarge for me. I am using IE7.
I also found that you can quote a message by hitting the quote button that you get after you hit the reply button. Then it gets copied down into your reply message.
I can't make up my mind if I like the changes or not, but I will live with them.
Now for a photo test.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
Jarrell posted the first image (and a fine one it is!), but there is no offer of enlargement, and it won't do it if I place my cursor over the image and click it anyway. Next comes an image that offers to resize (click on the bar above the image), but that fails as well...nothing happens.
In fact, none of the images so far will enlarge for me.
One thing that has been fixed for me...the text when I am typing no longer runs off to the right and out of sight past the right hand border of the text box. Yippee!
OK, I guess that I have arrived back in one piece too.
This is a test..
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
fiatfan One thing I would like to see changed is that after you post to a thread it would be nice if the software took you back to the same page as your post, not to the first page of the thread. Tom
One thing I would like to see changed is that after you post to a thread it would be nice if the software took you back to the same page as your post, not to the first page of the thread.
This appears to be fixed! Thank you Bergie and co.
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
I have been locked out. Does anyone know where the Font button is?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Don--
Not bad info at all, friend. I've just got this very strange computer that decides to do things exactly the OPPOSITE of anyone elses, LOL! Had it for three years and it still scares the Willies out of me.
But thanks for the help, you at least got me going on the right 'track'.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
twhiteOkay, I've got it. Evidently instead of the Direct Link, I have to use the IMG code at the bottom of the photo. At least on my computer.
Tom,
Sorry if I gave you some bad info....I'm going to try the IMG link now....
Well, that couldn't be any easier...copy the IMG code and paste it into the thread, just like the old software.
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Okay, another try:
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub/DSC02229.jpg
Okay, I've got it. Evidently instead of the Direct Link, I have to use the IMG code at the bottom of the photo. At least on my computer.
twhite Okay, Don Z sent me an e-mail about posting photos. I'm going to give it another try: http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub/DSC02229.jpg?t=1224171295 Tom Nope, still doesn't work. Back to the drawing board. But hey, at least they seem to have fixed the 'being thrown back to page 1' problem.
Okay, Don Z sent me an e-mail about posting photos. I'm going to give it another try:
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub/DSC02229.jpg?t=1224171295
Nope, still doesn't work. Back to the drawing board. But hey, at least they seem to have fixed the 'being thrown back to page 1' problem.
I see you managed to insert a working link....check your email. I'm going to try another and play with the alignment button....
OK, let me try to post a photo from my Photobucket account.......
Yep works fine.
Tom, all I did was copy the IMG Coded text under the photo (the 3rd. choice) and pasted it here. Works fine on my end...??????? Exactly as it has in the past here and across the street.
They also seem to have corrected the bug that took you back to the beginning of the entire thread when you post. This time it showed my edit of this post.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3...
selectorGandy DancerYeah but, you're prejudice.Now, then, Gandy Dancer, you have said that I am prejudiced. What substantiation would you have for making this claim about me alone, and not about the dozen or so other posters who have stated that they like the change? Am I the only one who must be biased if I make such a claim, and no other? Curious.
Gandy DancerYeah but, you're prejudice.
Now, then, Gandy Dancer, you have said that I am prejudiced. What substantiation would you have for making this claim about me alone, and not about the dozen or so other posters who have stated that they like the change? Am I the only one who must be biased if I make such a claim, and no other? Curious.
Hey, I like the quote function...I hi-lited the text I wanted to copy, and clicked on "Quote" at the bottom of the yellow text box and here it is!
Gandy DancerAn "enter" still double spaces.
Perhaps you never learned that even on the 'old' Forum, holding the 'Shift" key while hitting 'Enter' produces the singlespacingyou desire. It also works on the new and improved Forum.
Just a test on the photo.
I see a lot of complaining here about something that is free. How sad.
selector Wow, quite the difference. I like it.
These comments apply only to the forums pages as I never use anything else on trains.com. Noisy, noisy, noisy. Three rows of tabs on the top. All sorts of options on the enormously wide right hand column at the top and nothing but wasted space on the right at the bottom. Cluttered with stuff I'll never care about, but I never liked that "advertisement" right below the first message of a thread on the prior version either - caused undue scrolling. All together this makes reading the messages much more difficult.
I don't see the spell check everyone else it talking about.
Cut and paste do work in this editor now which they did not before.
Does anyone know what the "tags" is at the bottom of this editor?
I see the search, but have not had a chance to test out the search functionality yet.
I think I like how the new "quote" function works, maybe now people won't always quote the whole message all the time.
The ditto emoticon didn't come back.
An "enter" still double spaces.
I don't see any color font however let me try normal html <font color="blue"> text </color>. Nope I guess not let me try another way... here we go. boy that is a lot of work just for blue!
how about a reference http://www.ask.com
I just loged on today and not that impressed infact I think its cluttere to much with ads. As a business for the hobby I have been told I had to much clutter. Some like it short and sweet to find what they want etc.. So this is just what I was told not to have. Oh well seems I will be hopefully spending mor etime modeling instead of online anyway.