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Title: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on October 31, 2015, 12:59:50 AM
On this site, if you type something in a post and click preview you will see "null" at the last thing you type. However, it does not show when it is actually posted.

(https://www.ourfamilyforum.org/FamilyForum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdocskillz.com%2Fdocs%2Fimages%2Fnull.png&hash=67be68e2942541af1f3049e005d92203d5202908)
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on October 31, 2015, 06:39:25 AM
Yes, I saw that but haven't checked into it yet.
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 05:28:03 AM
Not doing it for me. It was yesterday, but seems ok now, did you fix it Ken?
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 05:32:09 AM
It started doing it on my site too...could it possibly be the last SMF upgrade?
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 05:49:14 AM
Hi Steve

Is it still doing that here as well, I can't get it to do it, here or any of my sites
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 06:05:04 AM
Yes, I noticed it too. Not exactly sure what it is but it wasn't doing it on my sites before. Could also be browser related?
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 06:07:14 AM
Yes, it does it with FF but not Chrome. I'm using Chrome atm and it does not show. FF did have a recent upgrade...
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 06:10:57 AM
But is it still doing it?  Edit: I see you just answered that. ;)

Probably something to do with those darn bats that were flying around, they seem to have gone and the null thing with them.  :wink:
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 06:13:37 AM
Yes, it does it with FF but not Chrome. I'm using Chrome atm and it does not show. FF did have a recent upgrade...

That's strange, I was getting the null showing in IE11 yesterday, but it's gone today.
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 06:16:49 AM
Yes, it was the snowflakes mod. I just tested it but with FF and Chrome and not IE...I only have Edge. I''l report it...
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 06:23:18 AM
Yes, it was the snowflakes mod. I just tested it but with FF and Chrome and not IE...I only have Edge. I''l report it...

That was a good guess on my part then. Makes a change.  lol

What do you mean you only have edge? Did you get rid of IE11?
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 06:41:59 AM
I was a bit (ok, extremely) hesitant to start guessing at the 1000's of mods here. Could have taken quite awhile to figure it is especially since Ken was having trouble with a few of them. :whistle1:

Microsoft Edge...comes with Win 10. It doesn't use IE anymore...well, probably the same thing but they renamed it to get away from the bad publicity of IE.
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 06:44:06 AM
I was a bit (ok, extremely) hesitant to start guessing at the 1000's of mods here. Could have taken quite awhile to figure it is especially since Ken was having trouble with a few of them. :whistle1:

Microsoft Edge...comes with Win 10. It doesn't use IE anymore...well, probably the same thing but they renamed it to get away from the bad publicity of IE.

No, IE11 is still in windows 10.  Start > All apps > Windows Accessories > Internet explorer. 

I'm running windows 10 and internet explorer. :wink:
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 06:50:50 AM
Ah! I didn't realize that. I never even looked there. Just figured there was nothing there I used much before anyways. LOL
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 06:54:52 AM
Ah! I didn't realize that. I never even looked there. Just figured there was nothing there I used much before anyways. LOL

Some stuff won't work properly with Edge, so I set IE11 as my default browser.  I also use the old windows 7 image browser, because the one in 10 is utter $h1te.  laughing7
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 07:01:16 AM
I never used either MS browsers much except for testing cause of the many exploit issues.

I agree about the image viewer...I use paint.net (http://getpaint.net) for viewing/editing images or use Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/).
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 07:11:13 AM
I never used either MS browsers much except for testing cause of the many exploit issues.

I agree about the image viewer...I use paint.net (http://getpaint.net) for viewing/editing images or use Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/).

Some of my DAW's and Amp sims use IE for the GUI, so they won't work properly on other browsers, hence why IE is default. 

Regarding the image viewer, I only use it for viewing images, I have Photoshop and Canon's Digital Photo Pro for editing.  The old win 7 viewer is great and I like the way you can zoom in on images with ease.  I also made that default, so all my images open in that.  Those that upgraded to win 10 are lucky enough to still have that old image viewer, those that clean installed windows 10 haven't got it unfortunately.

Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on November 01, 2015, 07:41:00 AM
So, are we saying that the bats caused the 'null' issue? I just this morning turned them off and reset the default theme to 'Outline'.

And now the 'null' isn't showing in my post preview!  shocked003
Gonna fiddle with it a little to make sure about the bats being the cause... I had already posted on SMF.
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 07:42:10 AM
Ken, it's not a SMF issue and it's Underdog's mod. I'll post a report on it there.

Mick, try irfanview...it works great and you can do batch processing like changing all images to a certain size that are in a folder...been using it long before Win 10.
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on November 01, 2015, 07:45:34 AM
testing the bats.

Yepp, that did it, the bats/snowflakes are back.

OK Steve.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 07:48:03 AM

Mick, try irfanview...it works great and you can do batch processing like changing all images to a certain size that are in a folder...been using it long before Win 10.

I don't really need it Steve.  I used it years ago, but moved on to what I have now. ;)
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 07:51:13 AM
testing the bats.

Yepp, that did it, the bats/snowflakes are back.

OK Steve.  :thumbup:

Ok, just posted a bug on it to UD.


Mick, try irfanview...it works great and you can do batch processing like changing all images to a certain size that are in a folder...been using it long before Win 10.

I don't really need it Steve.  I used it years ago, but moved on to what I have now. ;)

Ok. :)
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on November 01, 2015, 08:06:47 AM
 IrfanView is my all time favorite, been using it for years now.

I've tried a lot of different programs and utilities, including some of the paid ones and always place IrfanView at the very top of my list. Currently my tool bag includes;  IrfanView, paint.net, Paint and Image Resizer for Windows. Resizer is handy if there's only one image and all it needs is to change size.
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2015, 08:15:02 AM
It works a lot better than the MS version. ;)
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on November 01, 2015, 08:55:40 AM
It works a lot better than the MS version. ;)

Yeppers.  laughing7
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on November 01, 2015, 09:19:07 AM
It works a lot better than the MS version. ;)

Yeppers.  laughing7

It might do, although I find it difficult to see how it can view a image any better tbh.  Don't get me wrong, it's superb for what it costs (free). ;)

That all said, it is obviously better than the Photos app that comes with windows 10, hence why I switched back to the old win 7 photo viewer
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on January 01, 2016, 01:50:19 AM
I've just noticed another issue with this. If you create a topic or post and save it then use the little edit icon on the right to edit it (not the "Modify" link at the top right) it will add the "null" to the end of your post and all can see it. And you cannot see it if you try to re-edit it that way while editing it but it will not go away...unless you use "Modify".
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on January 01, 2016, 03:03:54 AM
Testing that issue:

I'm getting it on topic preview.
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on January 01, 2016, 09:24:37 AM
Yes, it is still happening on Preview but it was showing in my last post but isn't now. I'll try to recreate it now.

Edit: Testing...

It is not doing it now...
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on January 01, 2016, 09:31:23 AM
Yes, it is still happening on Preview but it was showing in my last post but isn't now. I'll try to recreate it now.

Edit: Testing...

It is not doing it now...

Steve, might be because Ken's uninstalled the snowflakes mod. ;)
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on January 01, 2016, 09:32:11 AM
Yup...
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on January 01, 2016, 09:38:37 AM
Yes, it is still happening on Preview but it was showing in my last post but isn't now. I'll try to recreate it now.

Edit: Testing...

It is not doing it now...

Steve, might be because Ken's uninstalled the snowflakes mod. ;)

That and took care of this file edit also:
http://www.ourfamilyforum.org/FamilyForum/index.php?topic=2761.msg14627#msg14627
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on January 01, 2016, 09:48:11 AM
Nice one.  :thumbup:

oh, Ken I see you cleared the error log.  You might want to clear it again, I've been in the blog.  laughing7
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Skhilled on January 01, 2016, 09:58:28 AM
Jeez! LOL
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on January 01, 2016, 01:02:59 PM
Nice one.  :thumbup:

oh, Ken I see you cleared the error log.  You might want to clear it again, I've been in the blog.  laughing7

 shocked003
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Mick on January 01, 2016, 02:57:32 PM
Jeez! LOL


 shocked003

Yes, sorry about that.  I was seeing what bits threw up the errors. It seems quite a lot of it tbh.  :oops!
Title: Re: Preview Showing "null"
Post by: Ken on January 01, 2016, 04:00:19 PM
Yeah, those blog errors have been around for a long time now and there's no help available from Feline.

Should dump it I know, but there's content in it so I hate to lose that.