Posting Problems.

[Martin Gleeson]

Hi Ruy or anyone,

Could you help me PLEASE ! I just spent an hour and a half typing a reply for a thread, only for my connection to fail. At least if one could go back to that screen, as per the RAF Commands website, after a connection failure then one could just re-submit it again and all would be well.

Fearing this might happen I had earlier typed it out in WordPad on my computer. I cannot find a way to 'Cut' and 'Paste' a reply on to a thread on your forum. Can you suggest anything ?

Yours, technically challenged

Martin Gleeson.

[Ruy Horta]

Martin,

Cut and pasting should be fairly easy to accomplish.

On a Windows system:

- type your text
- select all with [CTRL] + [A]
- copy text with [CTRL] + [C]
- open thread
- click on reply
- select text field
- paste with [CTRL] + [V]
- click on submit reply

As for the continuing after losing your connection, that's a different matter. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but that is a browser issue, not the forum code.

However... you can use the same copying technique to make "temporary backups" as you type. If I make a long post I use this method myself.

At certain stages while typing, simply:
[CTRL]+[A]
[CTRL]+[C]

If you have a problem, you simply [CTRL]+[V] and you have the text at the last back-up moment.

(On an Apple it is pretty much the same: [APPLE]+...

[Martin Gleeson]

Hi Ruy,

Thanks for that guidence. I will use it no doubt in the future.

Martin.