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Less Old User Guide

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If you haven't done so already, install the extension.

 

This guide is in transition between IGN++ 2.0.5 and 2.1.0

 

You can find the old guide for VT 1.1.2 here.

 

 


 

 

 

FAQs


 

Why are the boards so slow?

 

IGN++ can be a pretty demanding extension, depending on your settings.  For example, if you have a poor internet connection, Autorefresh can make the boards slower to load.  The specs of your computer can affect the speed of the HTML/Boardcode parsers and how long it takes to add elements to the page.  However, you can disable most features of the extension and should tweak the settings to match your needs.  If you're on a netbook over a 500kbps wireless internet connection, you'll probably need to disable some stuff.

 

Apply these changes in order and refresh after each change to see what's causing the performance problem:

  • Disable IGN's own quick reply and IGNBQ.  They do not play well together with IGN++.
  • Use longer autorefresh intervals
  • Disable autorefresh
  • Disable integration
  • Disable autoWUL
  • Disable Ignore Users
  • Disable WUL links
  • Disable link hijacking
  • Disable Show/Hide Reply buttons

 

Or even disable more if those don't do the trick.  If you find that one change suddenly improves performance, backtrack and turn on other features to see if they don't slow things down.  If nothing seems to help, your computer has great specs, and you're on a good connection, you may have found a bug.

 

You can analyze the performance of certain actions by checking off Miscellaneous > Dev > Enable Performance Profiling.

 

Other extensions can cause slowdowns, Firebug especially (when enabled).

 

 

Why is the Classic theme so slow on the vesti?

 

This is a bug on IGN.  Basically, since the vesti has so many pages of topics, because of poor coding the paginator drop-down box has to load up 2-20 megabytes of markup.  You can make it faster by changing your display settings so you see more topics per page, but it's still pretty bad.  Go yell at Homer if you want it fixed.

 

 

Why does the extension take a second to apply itself?

 

The extension uses a framework based on Greasemonkey.  This behavior is something inherent in all greasemonkey scripts and the framework.  Greasemonkey cannot do anything to a page until it's completely loaded, so WUL links, Hide Reply links, and extra buttons can take a while to show up.  Be aware that the extension is essentially off during this intermediate period, no extra features are on.  If you try to click a link that's normally hijacked, it won't be hijacked.  This problem is especially apparent on the Classic theme which loads much slower.  There is some hope for the earlier addition of event listeners.

 

 

How do I choose my usercolors?

 

Usercolors

 

 

Something doesn't work or looks weird, what's wrong?

 

Standard diagnostic.  Do it.  I find that about 50% of people's problems come from other stuff interfering with IGN++.  Please don't ask me about something not working until you've at least tried a clean profile on the latest version of Firefox, and IGN++.  If it works on a clean profile, one of your extensions/themes/stylesheets/scripts/preferences is causing a problem.  Disable them one-by-one until it's fixed, restore default settings on IGN++.  Still doesn't work?  Do a full reinstall.

 

This script was developed on Firefox 3.6.9, Windows 7 64-bit.  Don't be surprised if it doesn't work elsewhere.  I have no resources to test the extension myself on other operating systems.

 

Also, beware of these problematic things:

 

IGNBQ and IGN's quick post - Turn them off

Bluetex 2 Main Stylesheet (usercolor problems) - Use this instead

Emoticon Cache (weird looking faces) - Use this instead

It's All Text! (slow panels) - Turn it off, very buggy

Bluetex 2 Anti page stretch and No scrollbar in quotes(screen tearing) - Don't use them. Here's a nickel kid, get a better monitor.

Bluetex 3 Main Stylesheet - Older versions resulted in incorrect placement of Vesti Wiki search button, makes integrated tools look weird

Firebug can slow it down

Try disabling all other features

 

 

How do I use the developer console?

 

Enable the console in Options > Miscellaneous > Dev > Enable Developer Console.  You can toggle the console's visibility with ~ (provided that you're not inputting text somewhere).  Type Console.help into the console for more info.

 

Note that the console has been disabled (commented out) of versions 2.0.5 and greater so it can pass AMO review.  You'll need to uncomment the file if you want to use it.  You can also try the preceding beta version - versions on the beta channel have the console enabled.

 

 

Why am I double posting or opening multiple panels?

 

This is usually caused by not uninstalling Vesti Tools before installing IGN++.  Remove or disable Vesti Tools.

 

This also can be caused by a bug in Greasemonkey/Firefox that was fixed in 2.0.7.  Refreshing the page should make it go away.

 

 

How do I remove IGN++?

 

Tools > Add-ons > IGN++ > Disable/Uninstall.  But, preferably before that, tell me why you're removing it or if you have a problem with it.

 

 

 

Features


 

 

Panels

 

IGN++ uses panels to post content to IGN.  They come in four forms: Reply, Topic, Edit, and PM.  They consist of:

 

1.  A header with the type of panel on the left and control buttons on the right.  Minimizing makes the panel smaller, maximizing makes it bigger, and closing closes it.  Closed panels lose their contents.

 

2.  A subject, username, and/or lock checkbox.  All panels have a rightmost subject field, PM panels have a username field on the left, and Edit panels have a checkbox on the left to lock topics with.  Subject fields have a built in "characters remaining" display.

 

3.  The text editor for the body of the message

 

4.  An information box on the bottom left.  This will indicate when the panel is getting keys, ready, posting, or has an error.  If an error is too long to fit in the box, you can hover your mouse over it to see the full message.

 

5.  A post button labeled either "Post Topic", "Post Reply", "Post Changes", or "Send Message".  Clicking this will send your topic/reply/changes/message off to IGN.

 

6.  A preview button.  This will run your post through IGN's own previewer.  This can be used to make up for the WYSIWYG editor's imperfections in previewing content, or to see the effects of markup that IGN++ doesn't yet support.  There is also a "Copy to WYSIWYG" button in the previewer that does exactly what it says.

 

7.  Hidden fields for other data (topic number, keys, etc.).

 

What's cool and useful about these panels is that they're completely asynchronous, infinitely many can be open at the same time, and they can be scaled to pretty much any size.  You don't require a page reload or anything like that to post something.  However, because of an IGN security feature, extra data must be retrieved in order to find "keys" so you can post.  So, as soon as you open up a panel, it will find these keys, as indicated in the information box.  You will not be able to post until these keys are found.  Also, after clicking the post button, do not go to a different page until the information box says "Posted.", otherwise the post may not go through.

 

Relevant settings can be found under "Post Settings".

 

Panels can be either integrated or floating.  Integrated panels are actually within the page like IGN's quick post (under the link you clicked), while floating panels float above the page and scroll with you.  You can change which panels are integrated under "Integration", under "Post Settings".  Edit panels are always integrated so you know what you're editing.  There is an additional "Follow" option which makes an integrated panel move so it's under the last quoted post, and an "Autoclose" option that makes panels automatically close (and lose their contents) after successfully posting.

 

There are some Redirection options that let you choose to redirect your browser window to wherever IGN normally goes after successfully posting.  "Reply WE" applies to replying without entering.  The additional "Go Home" option makes your redirection bring you back to the home board instead.

 

Normally, the screen will scroll so that newly opened panels are visible, but you can disable this with General > Scroll to panels.

 

The "Link Hijacking" options let you choose which links you want to be opened with panels instead.  If you want to go to a normal form, you can still middle click the link to open it in a new tab.

 

Explanation of errors

 

If you ever see red text in the bottom left of a panel, there has been an error.

 

After getting keys (does not directly prevent you from posting)
User not logged in You aren't logged in
Topic moved The topic you're trying to post in has been moved to a board you can't access
Board System Error IGN++ received a Board System Error page
Post Entry Error General error
Topic not found The topic you're trying to post in cannot be found (i.e. it has been deleted)
Board not found The board you're trying to post on cannot be found
Topic is locked
The topic you're trying to post in is locked
User is banned
You're banned and can't post
Edit time expired
The time allowed to edit your post has expired
Not your message You're trying to edit a message that you did not post

 

Before posting (prevents you from posting)
Type error
The panel's type is not correctly identified
User error
You did not input a username to send a PM to
Subject error
Your post is missing a subject
Body error

Your post is missing a body

BoardId error

The ID of the board you're posting on is missing/wrong

TopicId error The ID of the topic you're posting in is missing/wrong
ReplyId error The ID of the reply you're editing is missing/wrong
Lock error The lockedness of a thread is not correctly identified
eventValidation error The eventValidation field (one part of the keys) is wrong or missing
viewState error The viewState field (other part of keys) is wrong or missing

 

After posting (your post probably didn't go through)
Board System Error
IGN++ received a Board System Error page
Key error You gave IGN bad keys, try getting new ones and post again
Freq Error, wait X seconds
You are posting too quickly and hit IGN's frequency limit, wait a few seconds
User is banned
You're banned, or the user you're trying to PM is banned

 

 

Text Editor

 

The text editor found in panels can be either WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) or plain text.  The plain text editor uses the same markup that the boards normally use.  You can switch between the two with the button with a picture of a page on it - the rightmost markup button.  You can change the plain text editor to be the default editor by unchecking "Default" under "WYSIWYG", under "Post Settings".  Keep in mind that the stuff in the WYSIWYG editor must be converted back to board code before it is posted, so if you paste something weird into it, it might not come out the same.

 

Above the body field itself is the markup bar.  Here you will find Bold, Italic, Underline, Link, Image, Blockquote, Horizontal Rule, Highlight, Color, Ordered List, Unordered List, Erase, and WYSIWYG/Code buttons.  The button text will glow white and become bold when its corresponding formatting is in effect.  The highlight and color buttons will change their background color to reflect the color you're currently typing in.  If you click the B, I, U, link, hl, cl, or erase buttons without selecting any text, the following text you type will be affected by the selected formatting.

 

Next to the markup bar is the faces area.  This area includes every face, but you may need to hover over the area in order to see all of them if the panel is thin enough.  Simply click a face to add it to your message at the cursor position.

 

You can overlay the text editor on top of the normal post forms with the WYSIWYG > Overlay normal forms setting.

 

 

 

Keyboard Shortcuts

 

Most of the buttons have a corresponding keyboard shortcut.  Some buttons can also do different things by holding modifier keys while clicking the button, like Shift and Alt.  These alternate actions can also be performed by holding the modifier keys along with the proper keyboard shortcut.  For the sake of simplicity, I will describe these alternate actions as "Shift + Click", "Alt + Click", and performing the action as "clicking the button" later on in the guide.  If you forget what a button does or its keyboard shortcut, you can read a helpful tooltip by hovering your mouse over the button.  The Code editor lacks a lot of functionality of the WYSIWYG editor - its abilities are mostly limited to wrapping text in tags.  Most of this guide refers to functionality in the WYSIWYG editor.

 

 

The Bold, Italic, and Underline buttons are pretty straightforward.  Click them to make text do that thing that they do.

 

The Link button is used to create and modify links to other pages.  If you select some text and click the button, the selected text will be linked to the URL you're prompted for.  If you don't select any text (selection is collapsed) and the cursor is within an existing link, the entire existing link will be changed to point to the URL.  If the selection is collapsed and not within an existing link, the succeeding text you type in will be linked.

You can Unlink text with Shift + Click.

Alt + Click will create a link to a user's profile.  All you need to input is the user's username.  You can also select a username before performing the action to link to that user's profile.  If you input a username that's not valid, the link won't be created.

 

The Image button inserts an image from the desired URL.

 

The Blockquote button inserts a blockquote around some text.  In other words, it adds a margin around the text.  Do note that you can only include a limited number of blockquotes per post, and they can only be nested so far before breaking.

 

The Horizontal Rule button adds - you guessed it - a horizontal rule.  It's just a line.  Not that exciting.

 

The Highlight and Color buttons highlight and color your text.  You can input any color that IGN supports, which includes hexadecimal triplets (#c1c2c9), color names (blue, red, currentcolor), rgba (rgba(169,255,127,0.5)), and hsla(hsla(240,100%,50%,0.4)).  Make sure you don't include spaces, otherwise things will break.  You can find a quick color reference here.  The background color of the buttons will change to reflect the color that you're typing in.

 

The Ordered and Unordered List buttons insert lists with numbers or bullets, respectively.  Do note that the formatting of lists is a little messed up because IGN sucks.  You can install this stylesheet to make them prettier.

 

The Quote button will quote some text.  You can highlight text to quote, or type it in yourself afterward.  You'll also need to input a username, but a blank one will work.

Note that this uses IGN's default quote format, not anything defined in Pretext.  If you want to quote using what you have defined through Pretext, use Alt + Click instead.

 

Erase will erase text formatting (not links), but doesn't do anything in Code view. 

 

For blockquotes and lists in the WYSIWYG editor, you may want to leave some trailing line breaks so that you can "leave" the list or blockquote and type after it.  Otherwise, you may have to switch to Code view and add them later. 

 

Undo and Redo can be done with Control + Z and Control + Shift + Z or Control + Y.

 

If something doesn't come out right when you post it, let me know.

 

 

Autocensor

 

Autocensor will automatically censor bannable words when the post button is brought into focus.  For this reason, it is recommended you press tab when the message body field is in focus (instead of clicking) so that you can see how autocensor changes your post before you actually send it off.  Note that if you have a bannable word in an image or link URL, it will be changed.

 

Relevant settings are under Post Settings > Autocensor.

 

Autocensor can be activated separately for posts and/or private messages.

 

Contextual censoring will try to censor words which are only bannable in certain contexts.

 

If you uncheck the "Asterisks" option, autocensor will replace bannable words with unbannable words.

 

 

Posting

 

Posting can be done in several ways.  Clicking the "Post New Topic" button on a board will open up a panel for you to post a topic with.  This can also be triggered by clicking the Post Topic button in the Boards drop down menu, but it will be a floating panel instead.  You can open up a reply panel by clicking "Reply"/"Post Reply" under a user's post, or quote them with "Quote"/"Quote Reply".  You can quote multiple posts into a panel by clicking the same link (they are quoted into whichever panel you had open last that isn't minimized).  Type up your subject in the top white field (if necessary), and the body in the bottom one.  Then click "Post Reply" or "Post Topic" on the bottom of the panel to send it off to IGN.

 

 

Private Messaging

 

To open an empty PM panel, click the private message icon in the Boards drop down menu (the envelope).  Alternatively, if you want to message a specific user quickly, you can click the "Private Message" link below their post (or in their board info box if you're on a new layout, hover over their icon).  Also, when viewing a PM you can click "Reply" to open up a floating panel and compose a reply to the message.  If necessary, choose the user that you want to send the PM to by typing it in the top left field.  Type in your subject and message, then click "Send Message".

 

 

Quoting

 

Click the "Quote Reply" link below a user's post like you normally would.  The Reply panel will open with the post already quoted in the text field.  You can quote multiple people by clicking their "Quote Reply" link.  Replies are quoted into the last open panel that isn't minimized.

 

You can also quote only part of a message by selecting the part you want to quote before clicking the "Quote Reply" link.  You can quote multiple ranges by holding down Control and selecting multiple ranges.  Relevant settings can be found in Post Settings > Selection Quote.  Strict Selection Quote makes it impossible to quote outside of the post whose link you're clicking.  Strict Author makes it always quote the person who actually posted what you're quoting, otherwise it will quote the message in the name of the author of the post whose link you clicked.  If you try to quote something that's not part of a reply, it will quote it as if Strict Author is off.

 

 

Editing

 

Click the "Edit Message" link under the post you want to edit, edit the post, and click "Post Changes".  If you don't have Autoclose on, you can click "Post Changes" many times in order to make it look like you've edited your post a billion times.  Also, if you don't close the panel, you seem to be able to edit replies well past the time limit. 

 

 

Posting a reply without entering the thread

 

To post a reply without entering a thread, click its corresponding icon to the left of the subject.

 

You can also preview the thread and click the reply button.

 

 

Autorefresh

 

Autorefresh is enabled by default.  It will automatically refresh the list of topics, list of replies, recent posts area, and your PM count over time.  The refresh process for topics/recent posts will be prevented by moving your mouse over the table of topics, so the list won't suddenly refresh as you're about to click a topic. 

 

You can see the status of the board and thread autorefreshers by looking at the colored outline around their applicable areas.   If there is no outline, nothing's going on.  If it's green, new data is being found.  If it's red, you've temporarily disabled autorefresh.  If you don't like the outlines, you can remove them with this userstyle.

 

Pressing Control + `~ will temporarily toggle autorefresh on or off.  Pressing Contol + F5 will trigger a refresh.

 

Note that this feature can be very bandwidth intensive, especially with a low refresh interval and multiple boards open.  For me, it uses nearly 7 MB/min with one page autorefreshing once every 3 seconds.

 

You can toggle autorefresh on and off under display settings by checking/unchecking the checkboxes labeled "Topics", "Replies", "Recent", and "PM Count".  You can set the amount of time the script will wait before fetching a new list (in milliseconds, 1000ms = 1s) in the field below it.  Unchecking "Edit" will prevent the reply autorefresher from changing posts after they've been edited.  Unchecking "Polls" will prevent it from changing polls.  Checking off "After posting" will make it autorefresh after you post a reply to a thread or edit your reply.

 

 

WULs

 

WUL/deWUL links are added under each post so you can easily WUL or deWUL users.  You can turn these links off by unchecking "Links" under "WULs", under "Display Settings"".

 

AutoWUL allows you to WUL people in a much easier way, especially if you need to WUL a thread full of people.  When you click any WUL or deWUL link, your browser will stay on the current page and begin the operation, with the status indicated by the link's background color.  Don't go to a different page or close the tab until the link turns green, or else the WUL/deWUL may not go through.  You can Alt + Click the link to perform the opposite action (deWUL if it's a WUL link, or vice versa).

 

A border will also be added around the link.  It will be blue if it's performing a WUL operation, purple if it's a deWUL.  The border will be a solid line if this action will actually change something - for example, if you're WULing someone who you have not previously WUL'd.  Otherwise, it will be a dashed line.  This is useful if you're just wondering if you've WUL'd someone.  You could attempt to do so, note the continuity of the border, then either leave them WUL'd or deWUL them.

 

You can perform as many WUL operations as you want simultaneously, but keep in mind that running too many may slow your browser/internets down.  You can turn this feature off by unchecking "AutoWUL" under "WULs", under "Display Settings".

 

Note: You can still go to the WUL page from the WUL links with AutoWUL on if you open the link in a new tab (default middle click in Firefox)

 

 

Ignore Users

 

IGN++ allows you to ignore posts from certain users.  This will make it so you can no longer see their icon, post, or signature.  You can also ignore any topics they make, though this is disabled by default.  To add someone to your ignore list, click the "Ignore" button under their post.  The next time you see them, they'll be gone.  You can also temporarily hide posts with the "Hide" button.  Note that if you right-click the Hide button and copy the link location, you'll be able to paste a link to that specific post (a URL with r123456 at the end).  To remove someone from your ignore list, click their "unIgnore" button.

 

You can toggle Ignore with the "Replies" and "Topics" checkboxes under "Ignore", under "Display Settings".  Unchecking these will make it so that your ignore list simply isn't enforced, it does not delete your list altogether.  You can also erase your ignore list below it.  Below that you can toggle the Ignore buttons, but they will always appear below ignored posts.  You can manually add or remove a user by typing a username in the Add/Remove field and pressing enter.  Below the Add/Remove field, you can see and edit your current ignore list.  Note that IGN++ will have to compare every reply author in every thread with every ignore list entry, so a large list can theoretically slow your browser down.

 

 

Usercolors

 

Usercolors are custom styles you can add to your name.  IGN provides a usercolor preference for Insiders only, but it is more restrictive and you have to pay for it.  IGN++'s colors will apply to any link to your profile.  Usercolors are shared with IGNBQ; if you update your colors on IGN++, IGNBQ users should be able to see them and vice-versa.  Your color list is refreshed every 12 hours.  To turn them off, uncheck "Apply" under "Usercolors".

 

To change your usercolors, access the options window.  Select the Usercolors tab - you will see your username and a bunch of fields and buttons.  The text fields on the left handle text color, background color, and border color, while the drop down menus on the right handle font weight, font style, and font decoration.

 

Colors must be inputted in six-character CSS standard hexadecimal format, no hash mark. Examples:

 

000000

abcdef

c1c2c9

 

The pairs of characters measure red, green, and blue, respectively. ff0000 would be plain red, 00ff00 green, 0000ff blue.  Each character can be 0-9, A-F (base 16). 

 

The usercolors preview will update when you change your colors.  The color around each color field will change to reflect your choice.

 

If you want to use the default color value for something, simply erase the field.

 

You can click the "Get" button to fetch your current usercolors from the server and save them.  After choosing your colors, click "Post". This will post your colors to the server so everybody else can see them.  When it says "Done." to the right, the usercolor list will automatically refresh.  This will update your usercolor list so you can see your colors when you post.  If you still can't see your colors, try clicking the "Refresh" button or try posting them again.  The "Refresh" button will also refresh everybody else's colors so you see their most recent changes.

 

Your usercolors are deleted from the server if you don't change them for a while - just post them again when this happens.

 

For an explanation of CSS colors, click here.

 

 

Quick Stats

 

You can get more information on a user by Alt + Clicking their username or any link to their profile.  It will show you their colors (as defined by IGN), title, post count, WULs received/given, unread PM count, user type, if they have WUL'd you ("WUL'd By"), real post count (some number that differs slightly from the displayed post count, possibly all posts that haven't been deleted), UID, registration, last post, login, and profile change dates, and icon.  Normally, you'd have to go to their (usually very slow) board profile to get this info.  You can hover over times to get the specific time of day of an event.  Below this area are links to WUL, deWUL, and PM the user, see their post history, and visit their Vesti Wiki page.  AutoWUL applies to the WUL links here.  You can drag the user's icon into posts by grabbing at least the rightmost 5 pixels of it.  You can hover over this area to see the type of icon and the name of it.

 

You can show IGN++'s usercolors on their name instead by setting extensions.vestitools.showUsercolorsQuickstats to true in about:config.

 

 

Thread Preview

 

You can Alt + Click a link to a thread to preview it.  This will work anywhere on the boards (like in your recent posts area).  Each post is displayed with the same content, but without signatures, sub links, user information, or subject line for each post.  Polls are displayed, but you can't vote without a page reload.  In long threads, links to the other pages will be displayed at the top.  You can click them to go to the next page within the current preview.  Autorefresh isn't done on these previews.  You can reply without entering by clicking the Reply button.

 

 

Integrated Tools

 

Integrated Tools integrates the functions of the old toolbar into the boards themselves.  Checking off the "Integrate controls" option in settings will add Post Topic, Post Reply, PM, and Settings buttons to the Boards drop down menu on the top of the page.  The "Vesti Wiki search" option adds a Vesti Wiki search function to the big search bar.  You can optionally enable Extra Board Options below that and make the Vesti Wiki search open in a new tab.

 

The control buttons will, as expected, open the indicated panels, but they will be floating.

 

To use the Vesti Wiki search, type your query into the big search bar up top and click "Vesti Wiki" or press Tab, Tab, Enter.  This will perform a search on Yab's Vesti Wiki (thanks Yab!).

 

Extra board options adds a bunch of useful links to the Boards drop down menu.  The links include most everything you can find on the Board Options page, and then some.  If you think something else belongs there, let me know.

 

 

Keyboard Browsing

 

Keyboard Browsing allows you to navigate the page using only your keyboard.  The feature is incomplete, experimental, and can easily break - not to the point where you can no longer use the extension, but the selection box can disappear and navigation is restrictive.  It doesn't really work at all on Classic.

 

To move your little selection box around the screen, you can use the arrow buttons to navigate among siblings of elements, and you can press Enter/Shift + Enter to navigate depth-wise.  The selection box has no spatial awareness;  it only knows the order of elements on the document tree.  If you've reached the maximum depth, pressing Enter will instead click the selected element.

 

Pressing A on any element will make it click the closest actionable child of the element (links, input elements).  Pressing R will make it open the closest reply panel.  Pressing Q will quote the selected post.

 

 

Pretext

 

Pretext is a general name for text you want inserted into your post automatically.  You can access the pretext fields in Post Settings > Pretext tab.

 

Here is what each of the fields do:

 

Start - Insert text at the start of your post, and keep it there

Before - Insert text before quoted text.  The extension will not automatically add [quote] tags.

After - Insert text after quoted text.  The extension will not automatically add [/quote] tags.

End - Insert text at the end of your post and keep it there

Edit - Insert text at the end of your post when you edit it

 

Here are special tags you can include:

 

[cursor] - Put the cursor here after text is inserted.  If two or more of these are encountered at the same time, the extension follows the first one.

[author] - Adds the quoted author.  Only works with Before and After.

 

You can include regular markup tags and line breaks. Don't move your End text around after it's inserted, or else it won't be properly moved after quoting someone.  It is unsafe to add line breaks in End pretext before text starts - you might accidentally mess up spacing while typing out a post.  Use the Start pretext to add line breaks instead.

 

Examples

 

You should be able to copy/paste these right into the pretext fields.

The [before], [after], etc. tags are used to indicate which field the text belongs in.

 

[before][quote=[author]][/before]
[after][/quote]
[cursor][/after]

Default quote behavior, with one linebreak after it

 

 

[before][blockquote][b][author][/b] posted:[hr][/before]
[after][hr][/blockquote]
[cursor][/after]

Same as a regular quote, but more customizable.  Note that this specific pretext will be turned into [quote] tags when parsed from HTML since it looks identical to normal quotes.

 

 

[start][color=#C1C2C9][cursor][/color][/start]

Start out typing in invisitext

 

 

[end][color=#C1C2C9][cursor][/color][/end]

Start out typing in invisitext, but bump it down after a quote if you don't type in it

 

 

[start][color=#C1C2C9][cursor][/color][/start]

[before][quote=[author]][/before]
[after][/quote]
[color=#C1C2C9][cursor][/color][/after]

The full invisitexter's suite with normal quote

 

 

[start][cursor]

[/start]
[end]_-~*My crazy fake sig*~-_[/end]

The safer way to add a fake sig, be warned that your sig will be placed immediately after your before/after text

 

 

[end]

_-~*My crazy fake sig*~-_[/end]

The less safe way to add a fake sig, since you could mess up the whitespace

 

 

Keyboard Shortcuts

 

There are many hotkeys you can use to speed things up.

 

Text Editor (editor must be in focus)
CTRL + B Bold  
CTRL + I Italics  
CTRL + U Underline  
CTRL + M Image  
CTRL + L Link  
  + Shift Unlink text
  + Alt Link to user's profile
CTRL + Q Quote  
  + Alt Use pretext
CTRL + R Horizontal Rule  
CTRL + J
Faces  
CTRL + H
Highlight Uses last chosen color
CTRL + O Color

Uses last chosen color

Can have trouble coloring selected text

CTRL + E Erase Formatting

Does not apply to plain text editor

Does not erase images, links, or hrules

CTRL + W Toggle WYSIWYG  

 

 

Autorefresh
CTRL + `~ Temporarily disable/enable autorefresh  
CTRL + F5 Trigger refresh Can still press CTRL + SHIFT + F5 to refresh (override cache)

 

 

Other
ALT + Left Click thread link Preview Thread Works on any link to a thread, whether on the topic list or not
ALT + Left Click profile link Quick Stats Works on any profile link, not just usernames to the left of posts
CTRL + Backspace Return to board If you aren't in a topic, this won't work

 

 

 

Settings


 

You can access Settings in two ways: by clicking the gear icon in the Boards drop down menu if you have integrated tools enabled, or Tools > Add-ons > IGN++ > Options.  Here you will see all of the settings you can change.  For more information on them, see their relevant sections.  Putting something other than numbers in certain text fields will probably break the script.  Make sure you click the save button to save your changes (other operating systems may save changes as you make them).  Clicking the close button will close the Settings panel.  Changes will (for most things) not apply until the next page load.  Refresh the page.  You can also restore the default settings next to the save button, but the relevant methods for doing this are not yet implemented in Firefox 3.6.

 

 

Position

 

Under "Display Settings", under "Position", type in your desired coordinates for the bottom left of floating panels (the default is 20,10).  Board coordinates apply to boards, Topic to topics.

 

 

Dev

 

Under the Miscellaneous tab is an area for developer preferences.  The average user won't have to worry about these (unless I'm trying to debug something with them).  You can enable the console here, enable message logging in Firebug's console, enable performance profiling, and list all of your preferences.  Note that the console is disabled in public builds in and after 2.0.5.

 

 


 

 

 

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