I'll be away from my development tools for a couple of weeks, so won't be able to fix any bugs for that time, but please, if you run into any, let me know!
May your solstice be bright, and hopefully a pleasant hiatus from gloom and doom.
Ken
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May be unrelated, but I've noticed that CR C 1.06 is somewhat more unstable on FF 3.04 (Mac OS X 10.4.11). I use this add-on on a Vista machine at work and a Mac OS X laptop at home, and it has crashed FF 3 times this weekend whereas the Vista box doesn't even burp.
Anyone else noticing these things on certain posts, certain builds, or certain OSes? Just curious
Is there some setting I'm missing that will save yout "filter" selection....
Every time I open a new window, it's always "All Authors", instead of "All but Irritating"
yagij, I've just upgraded to FF 3.04 on my mac (it's a secondary machine, so less tested, unfortunately). I'll see if I can reproduce this.
Are you still experiencing the problem?
Eric, I was just able to repro it on my mac. Wow, you're the first to mention it. I'll look into it.
re: Crashing
It hasn't happened since I made the 12/26 post so I'm not sure what that was about. Also, I upgraded to 3.05 so we'll see how it works out for me in this version.
re: Saving "filter" selection
I just noticed that problem today, and I was going to comment on it!
Finally, a question for Ken:
Is there a reason that a comment page has to be reloaded/reformatted when you use tabs?
Example: I load up a comment page from CR, and from comments on that page, I will just open an interesting link in a new tab (e.g. [apple]+[click] on my Mac). Once I click over to the new tab, I see what was referenced and then click back to the "original" tab. At that point, I see the page in an unformatted presentation, then I get the spinning wheel as it rebuilds(?) the page using CR Companion.
Anyway to let it preserve the initial page compilation?
Also, is there a way to let CR C's comment section using FF's spell-checker?
Yagij, are you sure the page is unformatted, or is it that the page reformats based on the new geometry of the CR Companion panel appearing?
That isn't fun, I agree, even further since Firefox's internals don't make it easy to place the panel below the tabs, so they reformat too.
As for spell checking, I haven't yet come up with the right incantation to have it turned on by default (or stay on for that matter), but you can enable spell checking by right clicking in the editor and checking 'Check Spelling'.
re: Spell Checker
Thanks for the tidbit. Didn't know about the context menu option.
re: Reformatting
Here is a URL trying to demonstrate the issue:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20940948@N03/3164023737/
Your panel information isn't there, and it has to be reloaded as soon as you load up the Haloscan page again.
If you need any more info, let me know.
yagij,
Yes, it does take a little while to load. I thought you were talking about the content of the web page.
There is only a single panel per window in CR Companion, shared among any open comments tabs. It does only analyze the page once, but it then needs to rebuild the UI in the panel each time you switch contexts. I could, I suppose, check to see if the page being activated is currently built in the panel. That would at least avoid some of the problem. I'll see how much work is involved.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Ken,
Just wanted to mention that I've seen quite frequently that the last 3 character of posts get truncated.
Here is an example.
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/calculatedrisk/5833941253182333411/#819695
Eric then complains about Haloscan later in the thread but I looks to me like it is caused by CR Companion. I've seen it on some my posts as well but it occurs somewhat infrequently.
Thanks RE. I'll take a look at
Just kidding.
Ken,
LOL, nice try...
RE, what OS are you running?
I am running Vista Business x64
Ken,
Just to mention it, I've observed the same missing three characters at the end of some of Rob Dawg's posts.
One more suggestion. You might consider changing fonts to the standard haloscan font and size as well as filter for text only when pasting from the clipboard.
Right now, pasting can cause all kinds of weird edit issues in the posting window.
Thanks for the info, RE.
I've fixed one pasting problem (MS word formatting), and noticed someone had trouble with script being pasted in.
Right now I'm letting the built in paste occur, and filtering on output; I'll see if there's a way to hook the paste in itself in the editor.
Ken, leaving you a note here too in case my outgoung mail is fubared.
Thanks, Eric.
Some more questions to try to track this down:
1) What's your OS?
2) Do you intentionally put in the newline that often appears between quoted text and your comments
3) What other FF addons do you use?
1) Windows XP
2) Sometimes yes on the newline, sometimes no. No rhye or reason
3) Only AdBlockerPlus
Ok, no overlap on OS with RE, and I'm running Adblock Plus too (shhhh, don't tell CR :-), so that's not the likely culprit, unless it's timing dependent.
Have you seen that extra newline appear when you didn't enter it yourself?
Have you seen that extra newline appear when you didn't enter it yourself?
No... I think it's just a UI twitch... when that window comes up, it looks like the cursor is so close to the quoted text that I need to hit newline. If I start typing before I notice it, that effect goes away, but if I notice it first, I instinctively hit ENTER. That's almost certainly not a CR Companion problem.
I'll try and keep more careful track of what it is I'm doing that causes that. I develop software for a living, so I understand the pain of trying to fix a problem you cannot easily reproduce.
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