quote locking board up?

[cj5]

i guess the question is- have you had this problem on this board?

No I haven't, but I can tell you that I work with this software all the time, and I am a web programmer by trade, and if I had a chance to look at the code, I could tell you it has nothing to do with the PC or browser (unless it's running any javascript, which would make it a browser specific issue), it's the PHP programming that has a bug.

 

[wesct]

No I haven't, but I can tell you that I work with this software all the time, and I am a web programmer by trade, and if I had a chance to look at the code, I could tell you it has nothing to do with the PC or browser (unless it's running any javascript, which would make it a browser specific issue), it's the PHP programming that has a bug.

great. now what shall we do? i beleive the software is open source. maybe you can take a peak and recommend a fix.

wesct

 

[cj5]

sure

Sure, I would be more than happy to. In most cases in you go back to the site that you downloaded it from, the programmer should be fairly receptive to taking in a bug request, because he/she is most likely not aware of the problem. I'll take a peak at it tonite.

 

[loumaag]

This "lock-up" problem was something noticed by the admins shortly after the software change. It is intermitent, seems to happen in cycles and Lindsay has not been able to locate a problem, which tends to bolster the fact the problem is in the software itself. It seems to manifest itself mostly with quoted text and length of quote does not seem to be a factor. Oddly enough a work around is to copy the text from the post you want to quote, then paste it in your reply and surround it with the quote and /quote blocks yourself.

 

[cj5]

great. now what shall we do? i beleive the software is open source. maybe you can take a peak and recommend a fix.
wesct

Nope not Open Source???

 

[wesct]

This "lock-up" problem was something noticed by the admins shortly after the software change. It is intermitent, seems to happen in cycles and Lindsay has not been able to locate a problem, which tends to bolster the fact the problem is in the software itself. It seems to manifest itself mostly with quoted text and length of quote does not seem to be a factor. Oddly enough a work around is to copy the text from the post you want to quote, then paste it in your reply and surround it with the quote and /quote blocks yourself.

thanks lou.

wesct

 

[wesct]

Nope not Open Source???

oh boy. thats not good

wesct

 

[blantonl]

The quoting functions are javascript based I believe, not PHP - therefore it may be an issue with certain JVMs..... I am aware of this as a small issue.... we'll look into it further (it's low priority right now with everything going on)

 

[cj5]

The quoting functions are javascript based I believe, not PHP - therefore it may be an issue with certain JVMs..... I am aware of this as a small issue.... we'll look into it further (it's low priority right now with everything going on)

Yeah I knew it. EVIL, javascript.

 

[wesct]

The quoting functions are javascript based I believe, not PHP - therefore it may be an issue with certain JVMs..... I am aware of this as a small issue.... we'll look into it further (it's low priority right now with everything going on)

thanks lindsey.

wesct

 

[DaveNF2G]

This is still an active problem.

Windows XP Pro SP2, MSIE version 6.0.29etc. SP2.

 

[N_Jay]

The quoting functions are javascript based I believe, not PHP - therefore it may be an issue with certain JVMs..... I am aware of this as a small issue.... we'll look into it further (it's low priority right now with everything going on)

Lindsay,
Have to asked on the vBulliten board about this?
Are others systems having this problem, or could it be one of the hacks unique to your board?

I'll stop with the Katrina thread so you can have more time to sort this out. :wink: :wink:

 

[blantonl]

Javascript is a funny thing - and depending on which JRE you have installed on your machine, it could be the source of the problem.

I'll get of my arse here soon and see if I can't get down to the root of the problem.

-Lb

 

[wesct]

Javascript is a funny thing - and depending on which JRE you have installed on your machine, it could be the source of the problem.

I'll get of my arse here soon and see if I can't get down to the root of the problem.

-Lb

thanks lindsey

wesct

 

[Buckskinner33]

I did the cut and paste as loumag discribed and that seem to help but somtimes that even locks up deepending on the size of the text.

Has any solution or update been found yet?

 

[K5MAR]

The problem is still there. I did a cut-n-paste today on a lengthy quote, and still had the lockup.

Dang!

Mark S.

 

[blantonl]

folks, I upgraded the forums to 3.0.10 today, which should have fixed this issue. Please let me know if you continue to get lockups on the quotes....

Thanks!

 

[wesct]

folks, I upgraded the forums to 3.0.10 today, which should have fixed this issue. Please let me know if you continue to get lockups on the quotes....

Thanks!

thanks. i just did a large quote and everything seems fine.
maybe we can put this to rest.

wesct

 

[AZScanner]

It's been happening to me in the past and it just happened again. Crashed the whole browser. Had to end-task it and then fire it up again. Was replying to a thread in the AZ forum about the PRO-96. It was kinda wordy too. Really don't feel like typing all that out again.

I understand why Lindsay wanted to upgrade the boards but I honestly liked the old ones much better - I never had problems with quotes while posting. Oh well. Just reporting a "bug" that may be due to something on my end - who knows?

 

[blantonl]

Ok, I know I've seen this issue fixed in an update release - it may have been the larger update release of 3.5.1 which we'll go to soon.

Be patient with me, or use firefox, until we can get this resolved.

It is a javascripting issue in MSIE which I believe VB had to workaround.