"Go to page:" box

[Courk]

If it's not too much work, could we get boxes up by the page numbers that say "Go to page:___" and we can then type in the number to move to that page? I just noticed mafiascum has them, and I think they'd be really helpful here.

[Samadhi]

Too lazy to manually change the URL? You whippersnappers...
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[Courk]

You can only change the URL if it looks like this: http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=6362&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=80

If someone links to a specific post, and you then are trying to look at a different page within the same thread, you can't, since the URL looks like this, then:
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=243457#243457

[Antrax]

If scum has it, then it's probably not too much work, as I'll just steal jeep's code. I'll try to find him on AIM.
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[jeep]

[jeep]

Done. I'll look at other requests soon.

-JEEP

[Courk]

Thanks!

[Lepton_is_ugly_too*]

UGLY!

[Courk]

Could it be smaller? The old style numbered page links are a smaller font. Also, is any sort of blue background possible?

[Samadhi]

Also, perhaps making the border a soft green/blue instead of the solid black. And the text 'go to page' should be the same blue as the other link text on the page. A good tool, but currently ugly.
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[Jack_Ian]

How about making the original "Goto page" prompt clickable. Clicking on it should then bring up a dialog that allows you to enter the page number and click OK or Cancel.

Cons:
More effort required by the user to perform the task.

Pros:
Looks better.
This functionality can also be added to the "Goto page" shown in the topic list, so that you can go directly to this page without first entering the topic.
Allows for the possibility of enhancement (e.g. "First unread page")

P.S.
Is there a way for me to form a bookmark, that will go to the last page of a topic?

[Antrax]

I strongly dislike webpages that force me to use my keyboard. I wouldn't want the GL to be one.
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[Jack_Ian]

[Antrax]

Again, popups are also evil IMO. It's just bad form.
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[Logain]

[jeep]

Heh, should I revert for now until someone decides how it should look?

-JEEP

[Jack_Ian]

Firstly, there may have been some confusion about terms. By Pop-up, I meant drop-down and by dialog I meant pop-up. It's a mac programming thing. From now on I will use Win terminology. Sorry for any inconvenience.

From a user-interface perspective, I agree that pop-ups are to be avoided. They force the user to move to another part of the screen etc. Sometimes however, they are the most suitable option. (perhaps not here though)

The drop-down could be made much less intrusive if it did not also include the redundant page number text. The grey triangle would also match the "Goto page:" prompt much better than the larger black font with the white background used for this text.

[jeep]

[Jack_Ian]

How about something like this:


Javascript not really my area of expertise, but I achieved the above by doing the following:

Added this to the style sheet:

[Courk]

Is there a reason we can't type the page into all the boxes? I don't like the drop down box.

[Samadhi]

The current version allows typing. At least for me.
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[Samadhi]

Oh, my bad. That's just for the member list page. I could swear it worked the same way for pages. But moreover, why don't they work the same?
[Edit]No, check out "A complete waste of time..." that's one you can type into. My guess is that it allows typing over some arbitrary max page size, else it implements the drop down.

And for drop downs, you can type it in...sort of. If you want page 4, hit the 4 button. If you want page 10, hit the 1 button twice. 21? 2 three times. Etc.
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[Courk]

[Samadhi]

I said no such thing on June 14th. Besides that's a fine for you to say after this:

[jeep]

I'm game. I'll change it however people decide. I just need to know how. I don't want to change it many many times.

-JEEP

[worm]

[Samadhi]

[Antrax]

Your ability to be argumentative is quite impressive. I'm not sure this is the right place, though.
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[Courk]

Well, June 14 normal people time. I just typed the date because I didn't want to get into times and EST/EDT. Without even looking at the times, I figured it'd be unlikely for it to 1. fall in the short time span that the GLers I was referring to were different days, and 2. really matter.

I knew that jeep had set it up so that some pages had the drop down menu, I just didn't know if there was a larger reason to code it like that. I know nothing about coding and stuff. For all I knew, jeep could have replied with "Oh, for less than 40 or so pages, using text boxes is really unstable, so I set the limit at 50 to be safe."

[jeep]

The reason it was coded that was is because I have a "the world is me" complex... no, not really. But I hate super long drop downs, so I chose to have it not be a drop down if it was "too long." I figured a drop down was preferred, though.

There is no technical reason not to have it be a text box in all cases.

-JEEP

[Amb]

[aside]Speaking of text boxes, when are you playing me at scrabble next?[/aside]