OK, so I may not know how to write scripts, but I've become familiar enough with VB to actually make something useful. Go easy on me, I'm still only a beginner at all of this.
link gone (screenshot).
- When you type, the character counter goes down
--- If it hits 0, it turns red and asks if you want to insert a new section into the textbox (all it is is a few blank lines with "new section added by program").
--- Once you go back under 10,000, the counter returns to its normal state. If you go over the limit again, it asks you to insert another section (and so on...)
- Typing a character disallowed by Bungie.net's posting system will bring up a message box telling you an invalid character is in the post.
- Formatting buttons at the bottom do the obvious. When you hit one, it inserts the opening tag. Hit it again and it inserts the end tag.
- The dialog box checkbox at the end lets you click any of the formatting buttons so a dialog box appears, and you can insert whatever type of text you want according to the button.
--- eg. check the checkbox, hit quote button, dialog box appears, type in string of characters, hit OK, string gets inserted along with both opening and closing quote tags at either end.
- Clear button clears the textbox
- Copy to clipboard needs no explaining
- If you type a post in the textbox, you can save it as a .txt file by clicking file > "save post as .txt file".
--- Opening a post works much the same way.
- Forums combo box on the side lets you insert a named hyperlink in bulletin board code for any of the forums according to what is written in the box.
Now for the complicated stuff.
- Predefined posts lets you make your own hyperlinks, add them to the combo box with whatever name you want, then you can insert them into the textbox, delete them, or save all of them as a text file and reload them back in any other day as long as you have the file that's saved.
- Predefined posts work much in the same way as the links, except you can save a post from the textbox, name it, and put it into the combo box and insert it into the textbox.
- Known problems
--- Using enter to make a new line takes two characters away from the character count (I have no idea how to fix this at the moment).
--- Opening predefined posts which have a post inside it that has multiple lines (ie. used the enter key) will not load properly (trying to fix somehow).
--- Haven't added all characters which are "OK" to post yet.
--- Maximum amount of predefined posts/links is limited to 100 items in a two-dimensional array (for now).
I know it's pretty useless, but maybe you can use it to create posts while the site is down, or maybe someone can get some ideas out of it for something else....
You can download it link gone and tell me how bad I am at programming. Or you can view the code for it link gone (just to show what's in it).
Enjoy.
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[Edited on 05.29.2009 12:46 AM PDT]