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Edit - found it, thanks to @Rick of Rick and Peg.
It's the bracket icon in roughly the same location.
The bracket icon is equivalent to the old cogwheel icon, which when activated put you in manual mode so that you enter im code whatever quotes, formatting, and other stuff you might want to do with your text.Third one shows what it looks like when I highlight the bracket, and the bold, italic, etc features darken and can be used. Luckily, that doesn’t have to be done on each post, once you click on the bracket it stays the same for all posting unless or until you change it.
To get an idea of what this means see https://www.bbcode.org/examples/The bracket icon is equivalent to the old cogwheel icon, which when activated put you in manual mode so that you enter im code whatever quotes, formatting, and other stuff you might want to do with your text.
Clockwise circle with arrow is "Redo". I assume it either redoes your last action or if you change your mind about an undo, redoes. The leaning rectangle will remove formatting from selected text. This is probably most useful if you copy text from somewhere else and paste it into your message and it brings unwanted formatting with it. The disk image with an arrow is for "Drafts". I assume that means you can save drafts of a message before posting and access earlier drafts. When I click on the arrow I get the options to save or delete drafts.Am I right that there are two steps now to activate the ability to use the toolbar across the top of the post— first click on the three vertical dots, and then hit on the bracket icon that shows below? I’ve attached several screen shots. First one shows nothing highlighted. Second one shows what I see when I click the three vertical dots. Third one shows what it looks like when I highlight the bracket, and the bold, italic, etc features darken and can be used. Luckily, that doesn’t have to be done on each post, once you click on the bracket it stays the same for all posting unless or until you change it.
Moving on to some more questions —
Can someone explain what the other icons below the three vertical dots are?
The first one, the clockwise half circle with an arrow, is not highlighted. Not sure what it is.
The second one, a right-leaning rectangle with a line through it and a line under it — Clicking on and off doesn’t make anything happen for me.
The third one, the disk-like image with an arrow next to can be used to save or delete a draft. I think this is an improvement, because what I remember was that sometimes going away from a draft resulted in losing a draft, and sometimes even if I deleted a draft it would reappear when I went back to post something — I assumed it was part of an automatic save feature, not a big deal, but this is clearer.
And Ivar, like VN, I see my attached screen shots as very blurry when they are in thumbnail version, but when I click on them it all clears up.
Thanks for the upgrade, thanks for the help in getting us all up to speed with the upgrade, and most of all thanks for the patience! Buen camino, Laurie
Cool.Clockwise circle with arrow is "Redo"
Hi, Anne,Hi,
You are all probably asleep now! Just done some experimenting and find that when I (Anne) try to edit using the more options on the right, the toggle BB code and change the picture from Full size to Thumbnail, the picture does not change size, it stays as full size!? What am I doing wrong?
Thank you all for your help with this.
Anne & Pat
For a test I'm inserting a full size picture (a farm photographed on our walk today). I'll try to change it to a thumbnail after I do the initial post.Hi,
You are all probably asleep now! Just done some experimenting and find that when I (Anne) try to edit using the more options on the right, the toggle BB code and change the picture from Full size to Thumbnail, the picture does not change size, it stays as full size!? What am I doing wrong?
Thank you all for your help with this.
Anne & Pat
This morning, like you @Anne&Pat , I did this to successfully attach a Thumbnail image in the "One Photo a Day" thread:
Click on Attach Files
Choose the photo and click on Open
On the photo in the upper Left corner, click on Insert
An option comes up to choose Thumbnail or Full Image.
Something must have changed since this morning because when I choose Thumbnail now (pictured below) it attaches as a much larger image. When I choose Full Image, the photo is too large fit the message area.
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I have to say I like this.Something must have changed since this morning because when I choose Thumbnail now (pictured below) it attaches as a much larger image. When I choose Full Image, the photo is too large fit the message area.
True - it is nice to see the image without the second click!I have to say I like this.
You can actually see the photo without having to click on it for a larger size.
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This morning, like you @Anne&Pat , I did this to successfully attach a Thumbnail image in the "One Photo a Day" thread:
Click on Attach Files
Choose the photo and click on Open
On the photo in the upper Left corner, click on Insert
An option comes up to choose Thumbnail or Full Image.
Something must have changed since this morning because when I choose Thumbnail now (pictured below) it attaches as a much larger image. When I choose Full Image, the photo is too large fit the message area.
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I will check that our, @Theatregal. First, Ivar has told me he has changed something on the photo attachments, so let’s try again. The first photo is after clicking on inserting thumbnail.
The second is inserting full image. Does this look better?
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Try again, Sabine, I think that yesterday Ivar enlarged the size of thumbnails and has now decreased again.That is so strange.When psoting a pic and clicking on thumbnail I always get the bigger format and not the smaller one.
I have just turned this off.Just posted this on the Where Did You Walk Locally thread re: something I just noticed on the photo threads and I wonder if it's happening for others. If you start scrolling through photos in a particular post, it will continue to scroll through all the photos that people have posted on the whole page.
So does this work as we want to now?I will check that out, @Theatregal. First, Ivar has told me he has changed something on the photo attachments, so let’s try again. The first photo is after clicking on inserting thumbnail.
The second is inserting full image.
And I have also done an attachment and left it as an attachment.
Does this look better?
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Just posted this on the Where Did You Walk Locally thread re: something I just noticed on the photo threads and I wonder if it's happening for others. If you start scrolling through photos in a particular post, it will continue to scroll through all the photos that people have posted on the whole page.
I have just turned this off.
I can turn this on again if people find this usefulWhat I now notice, which is a really nice feature, IMO, is that if someone posts a bunch of thumbnails on one post, I can click on one and then scroll through all of the pictures on that particular post (not through the whole thread, like Theatregal noticed last night and Ivar fixed this morning). This may have been a feature before, but in any case it’s nice not to have to click on each thumbnail individually.
And just fyi, that is NOT the case if you post a lot of attachments and leave them as attachments. You have to click on each one individually to pull them up. That suggests that using the thumbnail feature is not only helpful for people with limited interenet, but also the easiest way for everyone to enjoy your pictures.
Having been watching from the sidelines and admittedly I don't post many pictures, I just wanted to add my 2 cents of observation.What I now notice, which is a really nice feature, IMO, is that if someone posts a bunch of thumbnails on one post, I can click on one and then scroll through all of the pictures on that particular post (not through the whole thread, like Theatregal noticed last night and Ivar fixed this morning). This may have been a feature before, but in any case it’s nice not to have to click on each thumbnail individually.
And just fyi, that is NOT the case if you post a lot of attachments and leave them as attachments. You have to click on each one individually to pull them up. That suggests that using the thumbnail feature is not only helpful for people with limited interenet, but also the easiest way for everyone to enjoy your pictures.
Yes, this was a feature before - the ability to click through the multiple thumbnails in one post. Happy it's still the case - as long as the photos are posted as thumbnails that is.What I now notice, which is a really nice feature, IMO, is that if someone posts a bunch of thumbnails on one post, I can click on one and then scroll through all of the pictures on that particular post (not through the whole thread, like Theatregal noticed last night and Ivar fixed this morning). This may have been a feature before, but in any case it’s nice not to have to click on each thumbnail individually.
And just fyi, that is NOT the case if you post a lot of attachments and leave them as attachments. You have to click on each one individually to pull them up. That suggests that using the thumbnail feature is not only helpful for people with limited interenet, but also the easiest way for everyone to enjoy your pictures.
If I remember correctly, this had been possible before this recent update although I don't recall whether it worked for full photos and/or thumbnails and/or attachments or only for one of these formats. When you positioned the pointer on the photo, left and right arrows appeared that allowed you to move to the next photo or to the previous photo. The same as now.I can click on one and then scroll through all of the pictures on that particular post
Yes, all seems to be good! Thank you!So does this work as we want to now?
I was able to scroll through @peregrina2000 photos above, both attached and thumbnail just fine. Didn't seem to treat any of them differently in the display overlay.If I remember correctly, this had been possible before this recent update although I don't recall whether it worked for full photos and/or thumbnails and/or attachments or only for one of these formats. When you positioned the pointer on the photo left and right arrows appeared that allowed you to move to the next or to the previous photo.
What is new now it the possibility to start a slideshow of all the photos in a single post. Click on the triangle - top right in a black band just above the photo. The slideshow doesn't work for attached photos but it works for thumbnails and for full photos. My impression is that it works best for thumbnails. I guess thumbnails are the way to go.
What I now notice, which is a really nice feature, IMO, is that if someone posts a bunch of thumbnails on one post, I can click on one and then scroll through all of the pictures on that particular post (not through the whole thread, like Theatregal noticed last night and Ivar fixed this morning). This may have been a feature before, but in any case it’s nice not to have to click on each thumbnail individually.
One vote here for that.I can turn this on again if people find this useful
I have just turned this on again..I think there is some confusion. At least I am confused. Turn on what again?
I picked a random post with 10 photos. This is what I can do: I can look at the photos by scrolling forward or backward, one photo at a time, and I can start a slideshow that displays all 10 photos, one after another. What more do we want?
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OK, I did it: I clicked on the first photo that had been posted in this thread. After a while, I saw a counter that told me that it was photo number 1 of 16 photos. I clicked forward, one at a time, to view all 16 photos posted in this thread. The whole process of viewing these 16 photos under this option took 9 minutes and 6 seconds! Some photos took ages until they were displayed.I have just turned this on again..
What it is, is... before... when you click the "Forward" button on your screenshot above.. you would get the next photo in this post. When it had shown you all the photos in that post, there will would be no more photos.
Now (with this turned on), you can continue clicking "forward" since it will also include photos in other posts in the same thread... just try it on this thread.. I think it has 17 photos.. you see you can click forward and go through all 17 of them in the same window.
I have to add that I did the whole process again. This time it said that there are 22 photos in this thread to view. The whole process - clicking on one photo of the thread and then continuously viewing all the other photos in the thread - was reasonably fast. On iMac, iPad, iPhone ...The whole process of viewing these 16 photos under this option took 9 minutes and 6 seconds! Some photos took ages until they were displayed.
I do like the Who / date and time stamp below the displayed photo so if you want to find the post the photo came from you can fairly easily. I did scroll through all photos in this thread and it was faster than scrolling through the thread and clicking on each post and scrolling through the photos within each post prior to moving on to the next.Another nice new feature is the gallery option when viewing all the photos in a post or in a thread:
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Oh! Cool.Another nice new feature is the gallery option when viewing all the photos in a post or in a thread:
I read the whole thing, but by the end I felt like I knew even less than when I started (which isn't saying much).And the takeaway, for those who say TLDR, is...?
When I follow the above method, the image below is what I got on my screen, before clicking "Post reply." You can see that there was a large picture in the post area - which I could delete it - and a thumbnail below, which will stay even after I delete the large one.Method: This image was posted by clicking on the mountain landscape icon and then clicking on the resulting "Drop image" box. I then browsed to select (rather than drop in) the drop-in.jpg file. I then clicked on the "Post reply" button.
Result: There was no small picture. There was a full size picture filling up the entire width of the post.
Thank you. For the average user I would say to avoid using the landscape icon. The reason is because the user may think that using the "Image..." menu on the lower, smaller image will modify the way the upper, larger image will eventually be displayed but instead it will cause the image to be displayed twice in the same post. This is what was happening with the posts that @Camino Chrissy was doing.I also appreciate Rick's investigation. I was just wondering if he reached any conclusion about the advantages or disadvantages of the methods, for the average user.
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