I've long noticed a teensy, but occasionally annoying, error in the message list coding. On a "My Posts" or "Today's Posts" screen (and probably other message lists as well) when I mouse over the thread title I can see the first sentence or so of the OP's posting. That's good. But If I go over to the column where LAST post data is provided and mouse over the name of the last poster, I again see the first sentence or so of the OP's posting. I suspect it was intended that the opening text of the last posting should pop up there, not the first. And that would be a handy bit of data to be able to see sometimes.
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Aziffel's interpretation is exactly right: a preview.
From my own work with extracting stuff from databases for web applications, I suspect the wrong field variable (one specifying the preview text of the original post) was specified in the third column.
OK, this is what he says: this is a core vB feature and to change it we either need to code a plugin or hack the core code.
Hacking the code is not worth it because it can get lost every time there is an upgrade, which can be every three weeks. Maintaining dozens of hacked files is not feasible.
Coding a plugin is possible but we have a long worklist currently, to be honest this would not be a priority.
Hacking the code is not worth it because it can get lost every time there is an upgrade, which can be every three weeks. Maintaining dozens of hacked files is not feasible.
Coding a plugin is possible but we have a long worklist currently, to be honest this would not be a priority.
OK--I appreciate your checking on it. No bigee...
(Somebody might mention it to the vB developers, as I suspect it's not what they intended for the alt text in that space.)
/me takes back most of the bananas. That was too many bananas for an answer! Code yes, answers no...
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