Shoutbox limits

[tanuki]

Hello! (or: Hello, Zen-san!)

I'm pretty sure the shoutbox has character limits, because I've seen several messages get cut off. I don't know what that limit is, and the WagaWiki [url=thejapanesepage.com/w/index.php?title=Shoutbox]shoutbox article[/url] didn't help, either. But, anyway, that's not really my question.

The thing is, could there be like some marker of the remaining characters you can use? For example, when I send SMS there is a counter which goes down with every letter typed. It's not something of big importance, of course, but it would be something nice to have so we don't have to be paranoid about our messages being cut (wait, I should speak for myself: I always get paranoid.) ;-)

If it's even possible, of course. :-P

[clay]

Zen may know, but what I usually do with a long shout is I copy the entire shout to the clipboard. That way, if it does get cut off, I don't have to retype everything.

Not a solution, but may be helpful.

[tanuki]

clay wrote:
Zen may know, but what I usually do with a long shout is I copy the entire shout to the clipboard. That way, if it does get cut off, I don't have to retype everything.

Not a solution, but may be helpful.

That was what I was talking about when I said "paranoid". Welcome to the club. :-D

[kanadajin]

that would be cool but where could you put it? the shoutbox is so small..( in width)

[zengargoyle]

hehe, Fusion seems a bit confused on the limits...

in the PHP code, the message is limited to 255 bytes. (note: each SJIS character takes 2 bytes.)
but in the database, the message field is only 200 bytes.

plus, since it puts a break in every 25 bytes... (but hacked to remove the break when it happens to fall in the middle of a 2 byte SJIS character since browsers seem happy to wrap 2 byte characters without need for whitespace...)

so you should be able to fit 100 2 byte kanji characters in a single shout.
200 single byte characters as long as there is no run of 25 consecutive characters without a space.
subtract 4 bytes for each 25+ character without space run for the inserted '<br>'.

feel free to write some javascript to keep track of the characters in the textbox and put up a counter.

d(≧∇≦)

[paul_b]

clay wrote:
Zen may know, but what I usually do with a long shout is I copy the entire shout to the clipboard. That way, if it does get cut off, I don't have to retype everything.

Backspace.

In Firefox if you go back to the page before you posted the entire text is there to copy clipboard _after_ you find it was cut short.

P.S. IE sucks on that point.

[Infidel]

I just got a U3 flash drive. So I'm using firefox for the first time ever. So far I haven't seen any real differences.

[magma]

So far I haven't seen any real differences.

Hit "Ctrl-T" for a big one.

[kanadajin]

or Alt + f4

[Infidel]

kanadajin wrote:
or Alt + f4

This is really old news for me, but it does make me suspecious of using ctrl-t.

[richvh]

Ctrl-T opens a new tab in Firefox.

[kanadajin]

alt + f4 opens a 2nd tab in firefox.. and IME

[magma]

Superhacker kanadajin strikes again with his crafty social-engineering skillz!

[chikara]

kanadajin wrote:
alt + f4 opens a 2nd tab in firefox.. and IME

Yep, in Windoze Alt+F4 is your friend

[prep_girl_Nessa]

kanadajin wrote:
or Alt + f4

... I'm guessing it's a real bad thing I fell for that...