MatsP wrote:So, you mean when you click on the food item, it doesn't ACTUALLY select it, right? That's the same problem as the other "foods doesn't work" problem raised by Neo!
I thought it was that it wasn't displaying the food properly.
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Mats
Yes, that's exactly it. It shows the list, but you are unable toselect any of the items that are displayed. I obviously hadn't made it as clear as it was in my head!
Martin
Well, there is a second problem: If you do get an error, any data entered correctly elsewhere is "cleared", which is ALSO wrong. I have posted a comment to that effect in the other thread. This problem is tracked in the other thread.
In this case, it's (nearly [1]) impossible to enter food items into the My Aquaria and My Blog editing pages. That is the "bug" we are tracking in this thread.
As a general rule for "bug tracking", you want one "issue report" for each distinct problem. That way, we can easily see when something is fixed, and move it to "Resolved". If there are several problems being tracked in one thread, it gets very messy, and the someone may thing "Well, that's fixed then", when in actual fact, there is one problem fixed, and the other one still remains.
I'm sure those who are not familiar with programming etc, will think this is a bit silly/bureucratic, but I hope my explanation above makes some sense of it. Imagine if, in a restaurant, the waiting staff were to write two different table's orders on one slip of paper, and then the kitchen staff is supposed to coordinate the delivery of all the food to each of the tables... What a mess... ;)
[1] I believe, but haven't actually tested it, that if you type in EXACTLY the right text in the foods field (that is, the same text as in the drop-down menu, e.g. "Tetra Prima ( dry / prepared )" [including the correct placing of spaces and parenthesis], it accepts the data. That's not actually how it was meant to be used, but as long as the text in that actual typing-in-field is correct, the edit will be accepted.
AHA! Now I actually understand the problem - Mats, do you want me to look at this tonight (otherwise I am going to look at style layout for the new "in forum" species page)?
Jools, yes, I think you need to have a look at it. From what I can tell, it's the "onclick=JavaScript:SetFood();" bit that doesn't work right - it would appear that the "onclick" is just ignored. One thought would be that there is a onclick on an outer layout object (e.g. table or div) that overrides the inner div used for each entry. That's just a random thought that I came up with right now.
[It's probably really trivial once you find the right place! ;) ]
It may be a conflict with the javascript used for the quick find as well. I will look at it and the bug with not saving data when invalid data is entered. There is a third bug which I will also detail in a new topic.
I'm already working on some changes to My Aquaria/My Blog/My Cats that deal with usernames containing & (and possibly other such things). So I will try to add the changes to "do not reset error data" into those changes.
MatsP wrote:I'm already working on some changes to My Aquaria/My Blog/My Cats that deal with usernames containing & (and possibly other such things). So I will try to add the changes to "do not reset error data" into those changes.
OK, I will focus only on the foods selection issue.
Several issues with it but mainly an totally obscure problem with JavaScript where an event handler doesn't work if you have the scripts within singe quotes, the operation in single quotes and the operation being that a DOM value is set to double double quotes! Basically, the JavaScript needs to be in (escaped) double quotes and then you can use single quotes in the code. But (my) doing this wrong gives no error message I could detect. It just disnae work! That was authentic technobabble, I know, just wanted to vent as I've been in this since 16:00.
Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
Hang on! That's the other bug (stuff you've typed being lost) but you didn't see it this time as the fix I put into foods means that what you typed was accepted.
However, I do need to put up a video of how to use it as you're not meant to put stuff like frozen in. Say you were feeding frozen prawn, just type "praw". Or try typing "blood". Maybe that makes it clearer?
Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
sidguppy wrote:not yet, cause i have a hard time finding where that feature is hidden....
how can i get to the blogs?
OK, click on your "my cats" or "my aquaria" links to the right of your post above. In either list, near species names, you will see a bunch of eggs icon and the text "Add spawning report".
Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
looks like this is for breeding reports; my current catfish collection is both very small and apart from the granny's a few years ago, no spawning attempts have been made and none succesfully anyway.
Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
Yes, the "holy trinity" that is (1)my cats, (2)my aquaria and (3)my blog is designed to be completely independent of one and another. It is easiest if you add aquariums, fish then blogs (as would happen as time passes) but it can be done in any order.
Basically a lot of the info in a blog gets copied from the my cats and my aquarium data. But if it's not there, you can type it in.
