Thaum1el
06-13-06, 08:41PM
I was thinking about a restructure of the quote function in the form for a new post.
The situation now
When you highlight a text and click the quote button, the action is automatically performed, and the text highlighted will be wrapped into a quote. Anything inside the quote tags will be included in the quote map, and anything outside the tags will be excluded. Alternatively you can use the [QUOTE] tag.
If you add a text after a = mark, it'll add a little line of text in the upper right-hand corner of the quote, stating "Originally Posted by <source>".
The suggestion
What I promose is that upon the click on the quote button, you get up a dialogue with a text line space, where you can state a source. If you fill in the source, it'll make the source addition. If you don't, this thing is not added. Furthermore, you can add a URL, and if it's a URL, recognized by the string beginning with "http://" it will instead add the text "Source" and be clickable.
Reason and difficulties
It might be a hard command to code, I don't know much about programming, and even less about programming NCT.
But it's a one time hack, and it'd make things much easier for those that likes to quote external sources, particularily those that quotes alot, since they don't have to manually put in the source themself into the text body, and the source declaration won't end up outside the quote wrap.
The situation now
When you highlight a text and click the quote button, the action is automatically performed, and the text highlighted will be wrapped into a quote. Anything inside the quote tags will be included in the quote map, and anything outside the tags will be excluded. Alternatively you can use the [QUOTE] tag.
If you add a text after a = mark, it'll add a little line of text in the upper right-hand corner of the quote, stating "Originally Posted by <source>".
The suggestion
What I promose is that upon the click on the quote button, you get up a dialogue with a text line space, where you can state a source. If you fill in the source, it'll make the source addition. If you don't, this thing is not added. Furthermore, you can add a URL, and if it's a URL, recognized by the string beginning with "http://" it will instead add the text "Source" and be clickable.
Reason and difficulties
It might be a hard command to code, I don't know much about programming, and even less about programming NCT.
But it's a one time hack, and it'd make things much easier for those that likes to quote external sources, particularily those that quotes alot, since they don't have to manually put in the source themself into the text body, and the source declaration won't end up outside the quote wrap.