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The Blue Arrow Returns, at long last! ... ... ... Okay, so some of you haven't been around forever and a day.  What is the Blue Arrow? Back in the good old days, *EVERYTHING* that the UBB returned to the user was generated on the fly. This allowed for very cool things, such as The Blue Arrow. When you entered a thread, you could click on a blue arrow icon (thus the name) to get jumped down to the newest posts in the thread. Unfortunately, doing this required having the entire thread generated on the fly. That was a Bad Thing. So in UBB 4.75 (yes, version four point seven five), Ted switched to flat .html files for each of the threads. That unfortunately got rid of the handy blue arrow. I tried bringing back the Blue Arrow last year, but unfortunately I met with a severe problem - pages. I couldn't figure out how to jump users from one page to another, or figure out how to determine what posts were on what page. So I tried again with UBB6, and had MUCH more success. This hack is the result.  And here it is: http://solareclipse.net/Charles/revengeofthebluearrow.txt Please take the notes within seriously. I offer no support. I will not help you put the link in another location, as you can easily do so on your own with a little brain power. Enjoy! [ August 07, 2001: Message edited by: Charles Capps ]
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nice CC... but can you help me install it? I need to put it inside each post toward the lower right  j/k... will be handy when 6.1.0 is final
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Great mod, I like its name
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Nice work CC, sounds very interesting.
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hi, works great your hack you can find it on the top under the forums picture, its a german board don't care about it  demo: http://www.if-rulz.org/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000006#000001 does this hack refer you to the next page too if the topic is to long for only one page? [ August 06, 2001: Message edited by: Psyc ]
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Yep, that's why there is this part: *edited by CC to get rid of the extra spacing* [ August 07, 2001: Message edited by: Charles Capps ]
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This is very kewl! Great job!! BTW, is [UBB610] a new version?? [ August 06, 2001: Message edited by: Tech-Ni-Kal ]
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Bumping to the top, renaming thread for more interest.
[ August 07, 2001: Message edited by: Charles Capps ]
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Gonna be adding tonight
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in the .txt for this hack it says "NO SUPPORT" a bunch of times. So where can I get some support?  Ok... seriously, this hack is great. I'm installing it tonight as well. About the name though.... when I change the arrow image, like you know I will, can I still call it the "Blue Arrow Returns" hack?  [ August 13, 2001: Message edited by: Stilgar ]
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As long as it's BLUE.
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requests for xhtml validation : please add: quote:
type="text/javascript"
into line #165 and #222 of your instructions plus : quote:
alt='Jump!'
into line # 225 just added, lessee if it's workin [ August 07, 2001: Message edited by: AllenAyres ]
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Don't forget the / after alt=''.
W3C's validator doesn't check it because it's a part of the JavaScript code.
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can everybody translate to V6 ???
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This code relies on the routines in 6.1.0. It can not be ported to 6.0x.
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no way ?
i mean is only the script in lib_posting. special the "$julian" words ...
or not ???
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For some reason, on some thread (like this one), when I click on the Blue arrow I'm not being taken to the last page. Doesn't happen on all threads. This thread had 15 replies, so I tried to find another one that also had the same number, such as this thread , but that one worked. Then I tried this one and had the same problem. Had 22 replies at the time. Seems to be occuring on threads with 2 pages. It handles the larger threads fine. Another odd thing is that I've replied to both of the threads where I encountered the problem. You can tell right away when looking at the url when mousing over the arrow. It'll miss the &p=2. Thought I'd mention it, if anyone else was encounting this...or it was a user issue  -Tacks
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It shows you the latest reply since your last visit, not the last reply of the thread. So if the last reply you saw was #1 and now there are 10, it will show #2, not #10.
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Most probably a user issue then. So does it reset only when I first visit ala cookie? -Tacks
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You should have in there to upload a file Down.gif that they want to use as the picture, other than that, great!! I installed it easily.
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Someone didn't read the instructions.
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quote:
Originally posted by Charles Capps:
Someone didn't read the instructions.
Or if you were smart, you would just right click the one here on UBBDEV and save.
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True, but for most they would still need to read the directions to figure out what directory to stick it in.
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quote:
Originally posted by tackaberry:
True, but for most they would still need to read the directions to figure out what directory to stick it in.
-Tacks
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quote:
Originally posted by Tech-Ni-Kal:
Or if you were smart, you would just right click the one here on UBBDEV and save.
Thats what I did, and I missed the noncgi/down.gif part O_o
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quote:
Originally posted by Hedwig09:
Thats what I did, and I missed the noncgi/down.gif part O_o
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Hey Charles, I've modified this hack to work with the 5.4* series and I'll release it here with your permission.
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quote:
Originally posted by treszoks:
Hey Charles, I've modified this hack to work with the 5.4* series and I'll release it here with your permission.
No problem, there isnt any thing like a legal og illegal hack. A hack is a hack as long as its posted here at UBBDev.
Post your hack, and also modify it for the 6.0x boards if you can.
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Maybe it's not 'illegal' (and maybe it is ), but it won't be so ethical to do it without asking Charles. [ August 12, 2001: Message edited by: LK ]
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quote:
Originally posted by knudre:
No problem, there isnt any thing like a legal og illegal hack. A hack is a hack as long as its posted here at UBBDev.
Post your hack, and also modify it for the 6.0x boards if you can.
Excuse me, it's UBBDev policy (read: UBBDev Policy) to respect the hack authors decision in how the hack is run. He can release the hack with Charles' permission, as it'd be right.
Sorry, but the way things work is respecting how the hack author wants things done with his/her hack. Charles is also one of the admins here, and the programmer at Infopop, BTW.
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Hehe..dont make this a problem If Charles Caps wanted to port this hack awaylable to the other UBB versions he could have done so. Everyone understand that you cant demand the hackauthor to do so, but if he dont do it, I cant think of any reason that there should be restrictions to let other people do it. The only reason to deny people to do it, must be motivated by some commercial interest to force the users to buy 6.1, or renew their members area access to be able to use it. And that is NOT FAIR PLAY [ August 13, 2001: Message edited by: knudre ]
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Please mail / PM me instructions for the 5.x hack, I'd like to look at it before coming to a decision.... Thankie.
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quote:
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Hehe..dont make this a problem
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quote:
When you entered a thread, you could click on a blue arrow icon (thus the name) to get jumped down to the newest posts in the thread.
I just "tried" this out -- and it kept jumping me back to CC's original post in this thread.
I even went to page #2 and then backed out of the thread, and then came back in. It still took me to the first post in this thread.
Am I missing something here? I know that if this works the way that it was described, my board members will adore this hack.
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It brings you to the first post that you haven't seen yet (by your cookie).
That means that if in your last visit you saw posts 1-25, now it'll jump to #26.
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What happened to the blue arrow? I was trying to show it to a friend the other day, and it was gone! 
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The site had been upgraded to 6.1.0 Public Beta 1.4. The hacks you are used to seeing will need to be added again, after verification that they will work with the changes in the new version. You will notice this with a lot of the other "features" you are used to seeing. A little time, and they shall return. -Tacks
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Ah. Major reason I've been waiting (im)patiently for the beta to go gold.
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anybody got a good pic of a blue arrow?
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Has the Blue Arrow been tested with 6.1.0.1?
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