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Saturday, October 14. 2006
PayPal and autosave
There was a small bug which caused that BrainKing didn't recognize an automatic payment notification from PayPal under some circumstances. Hopefully it is fixed now, so if you pay for a new membership on PayPal, it should be automatically activates within seconds after the payment is processed.
Yesterday I have announced more improvements to the discussion board system and I have finally completed one of them. It is called autosave, it is available for paying members only and if your browser supports AJAX, you should see a link Autosave is disabled (change) next to the subject line at the discussion board page form. This is a default value and clicking the change link will show a Settings page where this value can be changed to an interval in seconds.
How does it work? When the autosave is active and you start to type a new post, BrainKing will automatically save your draft after the defined number of seconds (or minutes) and display a green text Autosave OK! (time). And if you don't finish your post for some reason (electricity outage, lost connection, computer failure, ...) and open the same discussion board later, it will display an announcement Saved post found (time) (restore). Click the restore link and the lost draft is back again!
This feature should work with all major browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, ...) and after it is finetuned, it will be used for personal messages and in-game conversations as well.
Yesterday I have announced more improvements to the discussion board system and I have finally completed one of them. It is called autosave, it is available for paying members only and if your browser supports AJAX, you should see a link Autosave is disabled (change) next to the subject line at the discussion board page form. This is a default value and clicking the change link will show a Settings page where this value can be changed to an interval in seconds.
How does it work? When the autosave is active and you start to type a new post, BrainKing will automatically save your draft after the defined number of seconds (or minutes) and display a green text Autosave OK! (time). And if you don't finish your post for some reason (electricity outage, lost connection, computer failure, ...) and open the same discussion board later, it will display an announcement Saved post found (time) (restore). Click the restore link and the lost draft is back again!
This feature should work with all major browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, ...) and after it is finetuned, it will be used for personal messages and in-game conversations as well.
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What a great feature! I don't know how many times I wished there was a feature like this when in the middle of writing something somewhere something happens with the computer, connection, etc and the post I was writing got lost before I could save it myself... it's really annoying when it happens so I love this feature! 
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Filip,
one thing that I found quite useful in another site, was with discussion boards and how it stores the "last post that the user read", and when you click on the new messages from that discussion board, it brings you directly to the point where you last read. How easy/difficult do you think it would be to apply this to our discussion boards?
one thing that I found quite useful in another site, was with discussion boards and how it stores the "last post that the user read", and when you click on the new messages from that discussion board, it brings you directly to the point where you last read. How easy/difficult do you think it would be to apply this to our discussion boards?
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It is another issue but not impossible to implement, of course. The only problem is to track posts which should be hidden for the user, otherwise the final pagination could be a little wrong.
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would that not be possible by always displaying the page as it is now for the users, except that instead of going to the top of the page, the link would lead the user to the position of the first message marked with "new"? (sounds like a "pointer" to me, but if there is one thing I don't like about programming, it is pointers! 
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There are no pointers in the BrainKing code. 
The only problem is to calculate the correct page which contains the first unread post. It cannot be done without going through all unread posts of this user and check if they are not hidden for him.
The only problem is to calculate the correct page which contains the first unread post. It cannot be done without going through all unread posts of this user and check if they are not hidden for him.
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