Author Topic: new forum feature - spoiler tag (Read 19818 times)

mouser · « **on:** March 14, 2006, 03:03 AM »

you can hide text to display only when reader clicks a button,
just enclose the text between

[spoiler][/spoiler] or [spoiler=title here][/spoiler]

useful when providing hints or answering riddles to avoid people reading the answer by accident.

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mouser · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2006, 03:24 AM »

example:

how many forums does it take to announce a new lightbulb release?

Answer:

Spoiler

not enough.

brotherS · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2006, 03:30 AM »

Funny idea!!

AbteriX · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2006, 05:19 AM »

Very usefull, thank you.

Joke of the day

Error codes in Windows
WinErr 001: Windows loaded - System in danger
WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
WinErr 003: Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file
WinErr 004: Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong
WinErr 005: Multitasking attempted - System confused
WinErr 006: Malicious error - Desqview found on drive
WinErr 007: System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware
WinErr 008: Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments
WinErr 009: Horrible bug encountered - God knows what happened
WinErr 00A: Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
WinErr 00B: Inadequate disk space - Free at least 50MB
WinErr 00C: Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More!
WinErr 00D: Window closed - Do not look outside
WinErr 00E: Window open - Do not look inside
WinErr 00F: Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened
WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers
WinErr 011: Window open - Do not look outside
WinErr 012: Window closed - Do not look inside
WinErr 013: Unexpected error - Huh ?
WinErr 014: Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.
WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System destroyed. Buy new one.
WinErr 019: User error - Not our fault. Is Not! Is Not!
WinErr 01A: OS overwritten - Please reinstall all software.
WinErr 01B: Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next time you will suffer a penalty for that.
WinErr 01C: Uncertainty error - Uncertainty may be inadequate.
WinErr 01D: System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code.
WinErr 01E: Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
WinErr 01F: Reserved for future mistakes of our developers.
WinErr 020: Error recording error codes - Additional errors will be lost.
WinErr 042: Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically be closed and the virus will be activated again.
WinErr 079: Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue.
WinErr 103: Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Additional errors may not be displayed or recorded.
WinErr 678: This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play another game?
WinErr 683: Time out error - Operator fell asleep while waiting for the system to complete boot procedure.
WinErr 815: Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 Bytes available.
WinErr 912: Purchase a new copy of Windows today. Old license void. Windows has been deleted.

allen · « **Reply #4 on:** March 14, 2006, 05:59 AM »

Spoiler

From now on, I'm going to always post in spoilers. You guys need the exercise, that extra click will do you good.

Harrie · « **Reply #5 on:** March 14, 2006, 06:18 AM »

What a very cool feature! Speaking of cool, the program of the moment for me is the neato

Spoiler

PopUp Wisdom!

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #6 on:** March 14, 2006, 08:43 AM »

Guess what ...

I'm not a spoil-sport

I like this

Rover · « **Reply #7 on:** March 14, 2006, 09:15 AM »

How many clicks does it take to read a post?

The answer lies within

1 one more that it used to

mouser · « **Reply #8 on:** March 14, 2006, 11:10 AM »

hehehe you guys are good

by the way if people find more mod ideas here that they think would be good let me know:
http://mods.simplemachines.org/

or if you have other ideas for mods..

jgpaiva · « **Reply #9 on:** March 14, 2006, 11:46 AM »

I like this one!
Now, we see spoiler tags everywhere!

Spoiler

There are so many that I just had to add something too

tinyvillager · « **Reply #10 on:** March 14, 2006, 12:08 PM »

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Spoiler

To get to the other side you dumb son of b*tch

I plan on overusing this feature until someone threatens harm on me

hamradio · « **Reply #11 on:** March 14, 2006, 07:06 PM »

Guess what?

Click Me!

Obviously you should know this already, but you just clicked on a spoiler tag!

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #12 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:08 AM »

Any chance of removing the "click to reveal/hide" prompt altogether when a button text is specified ?

mouser · « **Reply #13 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:13 AM »

done.

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #14 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:19 AM »

WOW

Now that is what I call prompt!!!

Question?

How does the spoiler tag affect the forum search? I presume it can 'read between the tags' but it isn't going to be so obvious when you scan a thread! How about a profile option to autoexpand spoilers (for those who will hate this) which can also be set and unset from the search box?

mouser · « **Reply #15 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:25 AM »

it will search within spoiler tags.

not a bad idea to have an option to auto expan all - i'll look into it.
right now im working on the micro donation thing which is taking some real effort.

rjbull · « **Reply #16 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:35 AM »

done.
-mouser (March 15, 2006, 04:13 AM)

Hmmm. Gives the lie to this, then

How many C programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Spoiler

Only one. But nobody else can ever change it again afterwards...

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #17 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:49 AM »

LOL - about right with C code ...

mouser · « **Reply #18 on:** March 15, 2006, 05:13 AM »

Hirudin · « **Reply #19 on:** March 15, 2006, 05:59 AM »

This feature is awesome! Thanks!

JoTo · « **Reply #20 on:** March 18, 2006, 04:50 AM »

How many C programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Spoiler
Only one. But nobody else can ever change it again afterwards...

-rjbull (March 15, 2006, 04:35 AM)

Sorry rjbull, you are really wrong with this.

You need ZERO C-programmers to change a lightbulb.

Why?

It is DEFINITELY a HARDWARE-Problem!

:-))
CU all
JoTo