question or suggestion - save drafts?

[madscijr]

First, I was editing a rather long post, and then something happened and everything reset to the blank editor - I don't know what I did, hit the wrong key on the keyboard or clicked the wrong thing on the browser. Anyway, everything I typed was gone - POOF! 

So my question is, is my draft saved somewhere, and if so, how do I get it back to continue editing? 

And if not, my suggestion is, can we configure the site to auto-save drafts, and if a user exits without posting it, they can go to some page that lists their unfinished posts, where they can continue editing or delete them? 

I have seen that kind of feature on other Web sites so I know it can be done, not sure if it can be done here, but I figure it's worth asking, after losing all that content!

[Pete]

I always do a Ctrl+a, Ctrl+c to copy my to be posted messages to the clipboard.

I don't see an autosave feature in this forum, but you'd need to hire Indiana Jones to find a plug-in, if it exists. Over 10 years ago someone did make one, but it is no longer available.

https://community.mybb.com/thread-153726-page-1.html

Pete

[madscijr]

I always do a Ctrl+a, Ctrl+c to copy my to be posted messages to the clipboard.

I don't see an autosave feature in this forum, but you'd need to hire Indiana Jones to find a plug-in, if it exists. Over 10 years ago someone did make one, but it is no longer available.

https://community.mybb.com/thread-153726-page-1.html

Pete

Yep, good old CTRL+A CTRL+C! LoL

I usually write my posts in Notepad and then paste them in - 
learned to do that the hard way, after one too many flaky web forum editors crapped out & reloaded! But that's usually more a problem on Safari in iPhone, not Chrome under Windows.

I wonder what I hit to instantly reset the editor? Often if I accidentally click a link that opens to a new page, I find clicking "back" in the browser (or "forward" if I accidentally hit back) brings me back to my editor, and the Web form still has my contrnt. 

But in this case, no forward/back was available! I am curious what key combination did I hamfistedly press, to completely obliterate my session?? 

Oh well, back to the drawing board (or rather, the Notepad!)

[Pete]

Yep, I used to do the Notepad method when I was using Notepad as my IDE. It took awhile before the QB64 IDE got so good that I switched back.

I couldn't venture a guess if it was a momentary network outage or some key combo that caused it. I have had a few such instances here, and usually, but not always, the post is preserved with a simple back button press, as you mentioned, but not always!

A final thought for all...

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER write your programs in the friggin' forum text input box!!! Ah, my QB64 graphics word processor is finally completed. Now just press "Post" and... Ah, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Pete

[madscijr]

Yep, I used to do the Notepad method when I was using Notepad as my IDE. It took awhile before the QB64 IDE got so good that I switched back.

I couldn't venture a guess if it was a momentary network outage or some key combo that caused it. I have had a few such instances here, and usually, but not always, the post is preserved with a simple back button press, as you mentioned, but not always!

A final thought for all...

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER write your programs in the friggin' forum text input box!!! Ah, my QB64 graphics word processor is finally completed. Now just press "Post" and... Ah, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Pete

Writing your programs in the forums editor sounds a little risky, lol. 

Did you really write a word processor that can post to the QB64PE forums? 
That would actually be pretty cool, LoL!

[JRace]

I normally use Notepad++ or Notepad to prep my text for posting.
Then I have to make multiple edits after posting, when I see all the errors I've made, things I forgot, etc.  (grumble grumble)

NPP can be set to keep copies of all tabs, both saved & unsaved, then re-open them all when it restarts.

(I currently have too many unfinished tabs open in NPP, but it saves me from having a desk covered in tiny paper notes.)

[madscijr]

I normally use Notepad++ or Notepad to prep my text for posting.
Then I have to make multiple edits after posting, when I see all the errors I've made, things I forgot, etc.  (grumble grumble)

NPP can be set to keep copies of all tabs, both saved & unsaved, then re-open them all when it restarts.

(I currently have too many unfinished tabs open in NPP, but it saves me from having a desk covered in tiny paper notes.)

Indeed, I use Notepad++ for all my QB64PE programming and text tasks. I just said Notepad as a generalizarion. 

I do like the GUI editor for the forums, it's easier than the flavor of markdown (or is it markup since it uses begin & end tags) that the forums use, stuff that's a minor pain like 

Code: (Select All)

[ list]
[ *]making
[ *]lists
[ *]is tedious
[ /list]

[ list=1]
[ *]numbered
[ *]lists too
[ /list]

Why not regular markdown with
* simple
* bulleted
* lists

1. and
1. numbered
1. lists

?

(and don't even get me started on tables LoL)

Anyway, even though it sounds like it, I'm not complaining, it's not THAT hard (I mean, I've been doing HTML since the 90s), but I guess since markdown has come along I've gotten a little spoiled, and just making a point about why I prefer the GUI editor to bare bones Notepad++ for forums posts. 

I will say this - I have been doing CTRL+A CTRL+C more since Pete mentioned it!

But that idea about an editor in QB64PE that can post to the forums is a neat idea. I wonder how you would approach drawing fonts, bulleted lists, tables and all the other GUI elements from within a QB64PE program? That could be like going back to the beginning of Macintosh and developing the GUI from scratch! A true geek / gearhead programming challenge, or don quixote's windmill blades??

[Pete]

I suppose I have some of what you mentioned in my graphics WP project. Transferring formatted text would be a bit of a challenge. SCREEN 0 text is cake in comparison. Maybe one day general A.I. can do the grunt work... what we call fun. I hear One-Drive can wipe itself, without assistance.

Pete

[madscijr]

I suppose I have some of what you mentioned in my graphics WP project. Transferring formatted text would be a bit of a challenge. SCREEN 0 text is cake in comparison. Maybe one day general A.I. can do the grunt work... what we call fun. I hear One-Drive can wipe itself, without assistance.

Pete

Yes, doing grunt work is what ai is for! I experimented with chatgpt a year or 2 ago and it kinda sorta wrote me a Spacewar! clone in QB64, but apparently my account being free meant it only could spit out 10 or 20 lines at a time, and you had to keep saying "show me more" and the next block of code might be done using a completely different method of solving the problem, so you couldn't just append together all the output and get a cohesive working program! LoL. Spriggsy got a paid account and had better luck, but I'm a little wary of paying to them just yet! 

Oh Lord, OneDrive can go jump in a lake!

You got a link to that graphics wp project of yours?

[Pete]

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread...t=graphics

I'm not sure if I made any advancements on the project past that post. 

Pete