Forums Bug Reports Web Site Bug??? No bold in code

Using the Bold commands from the forum will not work as bold commands in mIRC, as they are not configured the same.

To use the Bold in mIRC, use CTRL+B to turn the Bold on/off

I think he realises that, he means the UBB tags don't work inside the code tags. :tongue:

Regards,

Thank you Mentality...

I think that's intended. Anything within [code ][ /code] should be interpreted as plaintext imo. What if I post a script that uses [b ]?

What if you post code that has [ color:red ] in it?

-genius_at_work

I think that should be interpreted as plaintext too, although it's much less likely to appear than [b ]

When would any of the tag used in these forums ever appear in an mIRC script??

You can probably make a script to have mIRC interpret the UBB Codes as what they should be. I've seen this with Wikipedia's script which interprets any text within two brackets [[example]] to link to a the appropriate Wikipedia page, ex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/example.

Nice try, but not good enough...

There still no practical reason, in your example. Each tag could be replaced with a "*", No need to "a,b,c" options. The only reason I see to have them in the script would be for multiple choice trivia.

So IF someone had a script with multiple choice, that also specifically used [b ] rather than any other format of choice (such as "b)", "b:", "b>", "b]") then they would have a problem posting their script...

Or give us the ability to use those bold and color tags so we can easily point out in ANY script were problems are... Maybe make "[b ] to [bold]"??? When would that appear in an miRC script?

I guess this could help when you are copying BBCode from a forum to a chat, but I don't really see the point for that.

It *MIGHT* make scripting easier because some don't know the how the control characters look. For example, the underline control character is indistinguishable (visually) in the mIRC editor from a space, so having [ u] in this case would be a lot easier for debugging. Colors and bold have less of a case.

you said "When would any of the tag used in these forums ever appear in an mIRC script??" I showed you one. You cant go changing the definition of your question afterwards.
Thats just not cricket old chap LOL

Thing is.. why WOULD you want the tags to be interpreted? It's fairly safe to assume that anything between [code ][ /code] is a mIRC snippet, so it should be interpreted as plaintext. If bbcode should be interpreted, then why not smileys too? Ever tried giving somebody code on msn? It's annoying

It's damn annoying to give code on MSN, fortunately there's the option to quickly disable smilies, as stuff often doesn't come out properly.

Afaik that only disables smileys on your side.

Evidently, that's why the other person also has to turn it off

Yea, the question really isn't whether or not anyone's ever going to post UBB-like code inside their snippet.

The question is, is it logical to format inside code segments? And I'd say no. Code is code.. the whole point of the code segments is to provide a plaintext area where you can post plaintext without it getting garbled.