Contanst preview on the 'New Post' window?

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Contanst preview on the 'New Post' window?

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Hello

Is there a way a making the preview in the 'new post' and 'reply' windows constant, rather than having to click the 'preview' button each time a change is made?

Thank you

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You'll need some sort of modification to do this. Therefore I'll move this topic to the MOD requests forum.
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such a Mod would very nice
I saw such feature on a Yabb board
preview is generated instantly, maybe usig ajax
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Hi

Just wondering what is ajax?

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That would be nasty....
What would it do? Generate a preview every time you add a character? Think of the server load involved.
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I was thinking of maybe having the preview window constanly open and refreshing after a change is made, if user adds a letter to a word then it could produce a preview.

I recently used that moonpig website for creating and sending birthday cards, and it has a preview window open constantly that updates on each keystroke.

But I fit does put an unneccessary load on the server then it will do more harm than good :(
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Your post has over 400 characters in it. Just imagine if it were transmitted 400 times to the server, once for each character....
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Brf wrote:Your post has over 400 characters in it. Just imagine if it were transmitted 400 times to the server, once for each character....
And to show the real impact. Imagine that there are 20 people composing a 400 character message at the same time (which isn't much for a medium sized board). Than you are talking of 8000 requests, not to forget that nobody composes all post correctly in one time.
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Ah right, now I see :o , ok no problem, thanks for the advice and input

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Brf wrote:That would be nasty....
What would it do? Generate a preview every time you add a character? Think of the server load involved.
Well, I agree this would but server down
I dont know exactelly how it works on Yabb, :roll:
nevertless, there is still 3 senarios:
1- Generate a preveiw evey X characters set from board ACP (say 50 characters. approx one line. )
2- Generate preweiw every X seconds set from board ACP ( say 60 seconds). in the mentioned Yabb board, it is set to 5 seconds
3- Generate an INLINE preview when tje user clickin on preveiw button without reloading whole page ( by the way, on phpbb, there is an inline edit Mod to quickly edit post from within viewtopic.php page !!!)

So is there such tweaks for phpbb !?
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