Originally Posted by Cairenn
Sorry, you fail, not annoying.
Didn't miss it, just discussing it in the staff forum, trying to figure out how to deal with it.
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Well thank ya. I hope you guys can think of something--I've been a bit stumped. I was thinking to just invert the colors.. black would become white.. but then
bright blue (0000FF) would become
bright yellow (FFFF00) so neither would look good on a light theme. And that obviously wouldn't work if you added more themes down the road.
Then I was thinking of a pseudo-CSS approach, but that gets messy in BBCode trying to specify which theme a set of styles would be used for.
In any event, make sure whatever you decide on will also work for comments... I know some authors, like the person that does Valuation, use a specific color for their comments so they stand out from those of their visitors'.
On another note...
I noticed one other problem, one thing I've been wanting to see added for awhile now, and something that's sort of a combination problem/request.
The problem: The "Switch Editor Mode" button in the top-right corner of the addon's edit pane doesn't seem to work. It works fine here in forum comments though.
The request: Would it be possible to have Preview buttons for the addons' edit pages--similar to how these comment pages have a "Preview Post" button. I know that when I first made the page for my ShowItemPrice addon, I had to submit it like two dozen times trying to find a nice color scheme and layout... and many of the interim changes weren't suitable for public viewing... but there was no other way to see how things would look.
I suppose the issue is slightly less pressing now with the two different edit modes, but I've always preferred to work with the BBCode rather than the toolbar up there... and I'd need to work with it in order to make sure everything is using the same colors (and to set those colors since the toolbar only supports its own predefined list of choices).
The other thing: I just went in to my addon's page to add a note in the description section to say that I didn't plan on updating the addon any more. Of course this then prompts the system to bump it up to the top of the list with a nice big "Updated" message... kinda silly, right? Personally, I think that effect should only happen when new files are uploaded... not when a small change (perhaps even just a typo correction) is made. To help with sorting, perhaps a new field could be added that tracks when the files were last updated in addition to when the description was last modified and the file update date could be the new default sort method. Or, if nothing else, perhaps create a checkbox that authors could mark prior to hitting the save button to say that they're not actually updating anything and don't need to be bumped to the top of the list.
So am I getting annoying yet?