^ Doesn't seem to work at all.
Thanks anyway.
The "built-in point calculator" is a royal pain and next to useless [if not completely past it].
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Browse All TopicsThose of us that frequent the Lounge used to have a handy little javascript function to automatically share out the points when closing out a long and convoluted "question". It seems that with the more recent changes to the interface here at EE this has been broken.
Since I'm clearly too lazy to try and fix it myself, here is what I need - you will see the variants below, and what the previous version did - you will note that the point allocation was previously derived from the page itself, and not assumed. With the changes to the site you will probably need to set the checked values of the checkboxes to true, make the "hidden" fields visible and then allocate the points. Note that the default Grade should be marked as "A", solution marked as incomplete, inaccurate and blindingly difficult to follow. That should make it useful in P&R as well.
Must work in IE, Firefox and Chrome, in both Expert and Premium super-eye-candy-bandwidth-
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Thanks, DanRollins, for your input.
Using IE8, the first one performs the split with the same logic as the "built in" calculator. The reason for not wanting to allocate the leftovers automatically is that you can dish out the remainder yourself, as you see fit. Arguably that can still be done manually, so no biggie.
However, it does not work in FF (and I haven't tested chrome yet, but if it fails in FF, it's likely to fail in Chrome).
I'm not concerned about tmost browsers myself, but given that (depending on which stats you believe) Firefox has a market share from between 20% and 50%, that can hardly be written off as "fringe".
Add to that the users of this site are probably more discerning that the rest of the internet since they are more tech-savvy (a wide generalization, but certainly statistically significant), and that the script is for this site, it becomes a requirement.
If you can get it working in FF and Chrome, I'll open another two questions for part II and III ... :)
So there is not just the assumption of you being more special, but that your version of the lounge is rendered with special objects such as check boxes.
We can probably confirm therefore that the splitter works on a v3.5.2 of FF with checkboxes when splitting.
There is not yet anyone without checkboxes able to confirm it works...
btw, no cbs on www and on beta server.
Well I had to ask:
http://www.experts-exchang
Good theory but I think BT has got checkbox display and premie...
Here is my test question for assigning points: http:Q_24711316.html
The problem is that the new version of splitPoints.jsp does not offer nowhere the total points neither hidden nor html text. So the total points has to be prompted by the one liner script.
The line used there is:
javascript:function%20zp()
The points are NOT displayed in the Lounge TA Premium interface and therefore I posted my new test question here to see the difference: http:Q_24714563.html
Hmmm .... I see the same thing over here - http:Q_24645836..html
Perhaps I have my own, private interface ...
Can ypu post me a comment in this question please: http:Q_24714563.html
See http://www.experts-exchang
Can someone please post a comment here: http:Q_24714563.html
It appears that some scripts work for some people, and some for others. Not sure if this is a result of EE tinkering with the code, random browser caching or simply that some of us are more special than others (see the discussion in CS).
So, the questions are:
1. Which splitter works for whom?
2. Is there a consistent "master" splitter that works for everyone now?
3. What colour panties is Bev wearing?
Let's see what feedback we get from the other users, and I'll close this out accordingly.
The people for which the script does not work are part of a marketing/usability study. EE often selects a group at random, say those with even-numbered member IDs or whatever to experience different versions of the site code.
My code works for the people who are seeing the site code that will eventually be put into full production. If it stops working, then I'll fix it in a timely manner.
LOL Half-price.
The fully-functional script that I provided can also be found here:
Some EE-useful JavaScripts for the IE Context Menu
http://www.experts-exc
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by: DanRollinsPosted on 2009-09-04 at 00:04:35ID: 25257308
As you know, the new system does the calculations for you, assigning left-over poinx to the earliest posters. Rather than reinvent that wheel, my code uses the internal logic to do the split.
The only tricky part is making sure to not give px on the second or subsequent posts.
As to the second and third part of the question...
Why on earth would I want to ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS for the price of ONE?
-- Dan
P.S. I have no idea if this will work in FireFox or other "5% browsers"
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