I am not very computer literate, but I hoped I could ask this question here:

Our computer crashed....my daughter rebooted everything.

After this, I can't get the "quick reply" feature to work.
All I see is faint letters, but it won't engage.

Is there something I can do to make this work as before?

Everything else works the same as before the crash.

Thanks,

Paul

it doesnt work at all for me. i just use the normal reply.

Look down to the right bottom of your post. You see the "edit" & "reply" button, well the thing with the arrow between them is the quick reply button. Jusy click that and you should be able to use the quick reply.

You can reply to any message...... If you have it in linear form, it doesnt matter, but if you are in hybrid or threaded mode, it will show up as a reply to a certain post, not necessarily the last post......

Right. You can just click the yellow 'arrow' icon in-between the EDIT and REPLY button at the bottom right hand side of any post - and that will open the Quick Reply box..

If you'd like to quote a particular message in Quick Reply, then you should click the yellow 'arrow' icon of the post you want to reply specifically to..

I hope this clears things up a bit. If not, just say so...

I must have confused many when I said my quick reply didn't work.
It doesn't.
If I click on other buttons, etc., it is no longer a quick reply, just a regular old reply.

Before my computer crashed, since day 1 of this forum, the quick reply box was always ready for typing in a message. Now it never takes any typed in messages; just like this reply, I have to hit the arrow, etc. buttons.
Nothing wrong with this, but, before....if I wanted to reply quickly, I just typed something idiotic in the "quick reply" box. Now I have been downgraded to "reply, not so quick" status. I guess this must be like some of those wierd codes guys have sometimes in their Cadillacs.
My SLS has no problems. Better this quick reply than the SLS, I guess.


Slowly replying,

Paul

In other words, the "quck reply" box can never be used, no matter what icon is selected. Every reply is a regular reply, on a seperate screen.

Actually, this is good, because it gives me time to think before replying.
I have extremely bad luck with computers.

Example: Bought a Dell laptop last month. Windows XP. Tried to open a CD on speaking a foreign language. Nothing happened; it opens fine on this Windows 98 Dell. Innocently, I tried to locate under the CD drive icon a button saying something obvious like...
"play" "autoplay" "energize" "start" "make it so", etc...........of course, being a Microsoft product, there is an ability to do everything to this dormant CD except....."go". Can't get it to fire up.

Someday, computers will have an "do the obvious" button for we who just want things to run the way 99% of the users do.

Sorry for rambling off topic; I'll try not to do it again.

Paul

The ReplyNotSoQuick system was inherited because of the need to give users the option of threaded, linear and hybrid modes. Most of us like stock (linear) - but there are many others who like to use the other types - and this is the reason for clicking the arrow.

I can turn this off, of course. It could be back to the old QuickReply again - BUT - then Hybrid and Threaded mode would not work correctly. It just seems like a very little "give" for a lot of "take". For probably the most of us, it wont seem that way. But, for the people who'd rather see this message board in either Hybrid or Threaded mode - it is appreciated.

Actually Sal....look at FF We have it there. The only thing that it truely affects is the way the tree structure is.

So instead of posts that are like this

hello
|_re: hello

they will look like this unless they hit my quote button.....

hello
|
re: hello

when they hit the quote button the users in the other 2 will see the proper layout.

i changed my quote button to reflect the correct code.

(if condition="$ post [replylink]")(a href="$ post [replylink]")[Quote](/a)(/if)

Change the code from () to < and > and remove the spaces between $ and post as well as post [

Sal I also have it set as the following in the ACP

Quick Reply Enabled = Yes
Require Click for Quick Reply = No

and it is perfect for the members that choose to use the quote or even the quick reply box. No code changes just templates. you can change the information for this in the postbit template.

I could try that.. I opened up postbit and saw the line way at the bottom.. It's similar but there's some other stuff in there and the /if comes later.. What should I find and replace to make this work nicely?

(if condition="$ post [replylink]")(a href="$ post [replylink]")[Quote](/a)(/if)

It seems you have plenty of good ideas to improve on vBulletin...

this is how i see it. I hope that this does not fark up in here. Will try to post the code.

Currently it should look like this....


<!-- 3 -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>$post[buttons]</td>
<td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span class="smallfont">
<if condition="$post[showreputation]"><a href="#" onclick="return reputation($post[postid])"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/newannounce.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Add to $post[username]'s Reputation" /></a></if>
<if condition="$post[editlink]"><a href="$post[editlink]"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/edit.gif" alt="edit.gif" title="Edit/Delete Message" border="0" /></a></if>
<if condition="$SHOWQUICKREPLY"><a href="$post[replylink]" onclick="qr($post[postid]); return false;" title="Jump to Quick Reply"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/quickreply.gif" alt="" title="Quick reply to this message" border="0" /></a></if>
<if condition="$post[forwardlink]"><a href="$post[forwardlink]">[Forward]</a></if>
<if condition="$post[replylink]"><a href="$post[replylink]"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/reply_small.gif" alt="reply.gif" title="Reply w/Quote" border="0" width="55" height="17" /></a></if>
</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /3 -->


You can effectively change it to this


<!-- 3 -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>$post[buttons]</td>
<td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span class="smallfont">
<if condition="$post[showreputation]"><br /><a href="#" onclick="return reputation($post[postid])"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/newannounce.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Users Reputation" title="Add to $post[username]'s Reputation" /></a></if>
<if condition="$post[forwardlink]"><a href="$post[forwardlink]">[Forward]</a></if>
<if condition="$post[editlink]"><a href="$post[editlink]"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/edit.gif" alt="edit.gif" title="Edit/Delete Message" border="0" /></a></if>
<if condition="$post[replylink]"><a href="$post[replylink]"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/reply_small.gif" alt="reply.gif" title="Reply w/Quote" border="0" width="55" height="17" /></a></if>
</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /3 -->


You will need to also go into the postbit threaded template and replace the code that is between the
<!-- 3 --> and <!-- /3 --> with the code that is above.

Also, make sure that you go into ACP > Otions > vBulletin Options > Message Posting and Editing Options

Quick Reply Enabled = Yes
Require Click for Quick Reply = No

The above will get rid of your click to do the quick reply. You will lose that Icon that is in there as well. You will have the quick reply box still and users should be able to use it without having to click on an icon.

What will happen. When users click on the reply botton in the thread it will work as the reply button on the bottom, but will be showing in the hybrid and other as a reply to the post that they clicked the reply button in. If they just use the quick reply box it will reply to the first post of the thread. If the user wants to have it in response to a thread then have them use the reply button in the post and not on the top and bottom of the thread. If it is just a general response to the thread then quick reply is fine. But users will have to get used to responding either way. My members on FF have no issues with it. I have many that are using hybrid and they love it. if they are using threaded it will work fine for them and they will not see issues.

Enjoy.

Thank you. Hopefully I'll get to try this tonight. I wont be home until after 11pm but it'll be on my mind. Worst-case scenario, I'll get it going tomorrow morning...

Thanks again!

Okay. I just went ahead and did it. I squeezed a few minutes in that I didn't think I'd have.. Let's see what everybody thinks...


How will the "Quote Message in Reply" option work? I'll guess it needs to be removed...

And how the heck do you keep the page from scrolling all the way to the right with code?

that is a php trick that i had in one of my old builds. I can look to try to get it to work with 3.0b4