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Offline SharpStick

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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2018, 12:39:22 PM »
Yes it does. I use the "Choose File" button under "Attachment and other options" to find the file. The file name appears in the box. Then I click the "Insert Attachment 1" and the "attach=1" appears inside square brackets. But when I preview or post nothing appears, not even the [ Invalid Attachment ] that I see when you quote my message in your reply.
Like here, the image should appear between two smiley faces

 :)  [ Invalid Attachment ]   :)

Worse is that I've successfully done this several times before.
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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2018, 01:05:16 PM »
pdf files can be strange to include inline ... i fudged around it and now they'll show up.  :applaud  :*:
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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2018, 01:30:42 PM »
Let me try the PDF file again and then a JEPG file.  I tried both originally, neither worked.

PDF
 [ Invalid Attachment ]
JPEG
 [ Invalid Attachment ]

Fingers crossed ....  They both appear attached now, only the JPEG displays inline.

I notice too that I can now do attachments when I modify a post. That didn't appear earlier.
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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2018, 03:29:55 PM »
Looks like you finally did it.
Don't know if it was you, or something Rob did but you gotrdone.

Uncle Russ.....
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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2018, 03:58:13 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Russ on May 11, 2018, 03:29:55 PM
Looks like you finally did it.
Don't know if it was you, or something Rob did but you gotrdone.

Uncle Russ.....

The problem, apparently, was only with PDF files.  Rob did something so they at least show up as a link, but still not inline.
JPEG files work fine.  I had tried the PDF file because it was much smaller (70k vs. 250k), and the website software acts like PDF files should work. But, after 40 years as a software engineer I should know better that to expect software to actually work  :Doh!   What was I thinkin'!

Rob, is there a try-it-out forum to test things like this and everyone doesn't get notified?
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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2018, 04:00:00 PM »
inline pdf links now show up ... there is NO way to show pdf content, only images and videos are direct content.

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

... no test forum - if something fails, i'd like to know about it here in the live forum.

a lot SMF "features" are mod add-on hacks, and inline images was one of them.


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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #21 on: May 11, 2018, 04:02:30 PM »
Quote from: RobD on May 11, 2018, 04:00:00 PM
inline pdf links now show up ...

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

The link shows, but the image does not appear as it does for JPEG files.
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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #22 on: May 11, 2018, 04:04:15 PM »
Quote from: SharpStick on May 11, 2018, 04:02:30 PM
Quote from: RobD on May 11, 2018, 04:00:00 PM
inline pdf links now show up ...

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

The link shows, but the image does not appear as it does for JPEG files.

see my post above your last post  ^^^^

ALSO - images embedded inside any other medium, like a pdf file, can never show.  better to just use the image rather than pdf it.
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Re: inline attachments now activated for our TMA forum
« Reply #23 on: May 11, 2018, 04:24:43 PM »
these are the allowed attached file types ...

Allowed file types: doc, gif, jpg, pdf, png, txt, zip

gif, jpg, png - these are direct content and will be viewed.  this is also true of external videos that are archived elsewhere on the web.

doc, pdf, txt, zip - these are not direct content and can only appear as links
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