[check message length]

[Matthew Gates]

Nice new little feature you got there, John .

[Matthew Gates]

John:

Before:
Your message is # characters long.
The maximum permitted length is 10000 characters.

You tell how many characters is in the text box, and how many characters is allowed, but what about how many characters you have left? I know...you could do the math, but what if your lazy (like me) and just can't subtract without a calculator?


After:
Your message is # characters long.
You have # characters left.
The maximum permitted length is 10000 characters.


Jus' tryin' to make life easier for everybody John .

[Active]

How about a Progress bar that Shows the status(with regards to the maximum length) as we type in the Text Area box ?
{ I swear this is my own original Idea !!!}

[zmerlinz]

I am not quite sure what you are on about here, but it does sound like quite a good idea , i have just found what you are on about and i agree with Matthew here, it would be good if you could have a character remaining, and John what is the purpose of this little feature ?

[chenko]

Originally posted by zmerlinz
and John what is the purpose of this little feature ?

So people with long blocks of code/text can check before they post...takes less resources on the server.

[honeybee]

No use. People are smarter these days. They will split up the long messages into two or three posts, load the server even more and get a boost to their post counts.

I just saw a member posting some advice twice (in subsequent posts) about a problem, which he could have done in a single post. I don't know if it was intentional, but in any case that's a bad habbit.

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[Matthew Gates]

Originally posted by honeybee
No use. People are smarter these days.

You mean, just of this generation and a few before it? Not the next few that are coming?

[HarryW]

So they posted twice, so what? Who cares? Maybe they'll get a post count of a million and feel really proud of themselves even though 90% of their posts were unnecessary. That's fine by me, I don't give a toss, and I don't see why anyone does. It's just a number, it's not a big deal

[honeybee]

I care!!! Honeybee the Great!!

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