Suggestion for a way to make @mentioning easier

[Detective Osprey]

Indeed, I should also thank @ loves2chat for suggesting it... I was going to have to do this anyway at some point, but he gave me the small push I needed to do it !

Yesss! Thank you for suggesting this @ loves2chat !

[Kyng]

Just as an update: last week got a bit busy for me (with my sister being at home), but I still intend to do this in the near future . The main thing I haven't done yet is fixed the opening/closing quotes bug, which I simply haven't had a chance to do properly. But once I've done that and got the fix working on the test board, I'll probably transfer it all across .

[Kyng]

Just had another look at this.

Unfortunately, I could not find a way to solve the opening/closing quotes bug (on mobiles), so we may just have to bring the new system over with that bug still in place, and tell mobile users that typing out their mentions manually won't work (i.e. they'll have to use the auto-complete pop-up).

[loves2chat]

Thanks for the update and the hard work you do behind the secenes to keep this place running smoothly.

[Kyng]

Don't worry: I haven't forgotten about this . I did mean to implement it eventually, but those plans obviously got thrown into disarray by my break.

Nevertheless, I'll see if I can put it up soon. I'll be off work for all of next week, and I should be able to slot it in somewhere .

[loves2chat]

Don't worry: I haven't forgotten about this . I did mean to implement it eventually, but those plans obviously got thrown into disarray by my break.

Nevertheless, I'll see if I can put it up soon. I'll be off work for all of next week, and I should be able to slot it in somewhere .

No worries and understand given that you have been on a break. All you do behind the scenes and for the community as a whole is really appreciated.

[Cory]

@ Kyng: I don't know how useful this is, but try playing around with this to help position the mention me menu better:
 

Code:

$('#cke_1_contents iframe').contents().find('html').keyup(function() {
    if ($('div.mentionme_popup').is(':visible')) {
        $(this).on('mousemove', function(e) {
            var x = e.clientX;
            var y = e.clientY;
            $('div.mentionme_popup').css({
                'left': x + 'px',
                'top': y + 'px'
            });
        });
    }
});

[Moonshroom]

This is an excellent suggestion, @ loves2chat.

Mentions on mobile have always been terribly annoying and the reason for which I seldom used them.

[Kyng]

@ Cory: Thanks . I'll look into that if I have any trouble with the positioning of the mentions box on the new code.

@ Moonshroom: Yeah, this should definitely make mentioning easier on mobile. Sorry that I haven't implemented it yet: it's one of those things that I completely forgot about !

[Kyng]

I had a bit of time this morning - so, this has now been implemented:

https://tch-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=11810

If you have any further feedback, then it should go either in the linked announcement thread, or in the Bugs/Issues thread. But, now that the suggestion itself has been implemented, I'll lock this thread.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone !