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<node id="366655" title="Re^2: Y.A.N.F: Personal Nodelet enhancements. (yuck)" created="2004-06-14 14:35:15" updated="2005-06-06 21:10:33">
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Hmm. Im trying really hard to remember anyone saying that. Perhaps they or you did one time in the CB or something, but I honestly dont remember. The only comments i really recall were about the [Titlebar Settings] that I put together. And which i havent applied here. But I dont recall anyone saying anything detailed about the personal nodelet. Beyond a few people saying that they liked it on the test server.   
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Regardless. If you idea of a personal nodelet is a scratchpad in a box then I think we can handle that. I will say that my thinking was mostly along the lines of "make the current stuff easier to control" not "redesign it in a totally different fashion".
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If you dont like the name ill change the name. Thats ok too. I have no idea what you talking about with your s/// stuff. But yes if you want to treat the scratchpad as a single document then a lot of things do become simpler.
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I will say one thing. This is the most detailed criticism ive seen of anything ive posted here, including this code about 4 months ago. So i dont feel too bad about it not fitting your exact (unsupplied) specification. In the long run i think most people will appreciate what ive given them even if you don't. And ill also work on giving you your scratchpad in a box too. :-)
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I guess you didn't bother to look too much at existing data you'd have to deal with before you wrote this code.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Im unclear what you mean. I had a look at a number of peoples $VARS, and i had a detailed look at the code that encoded/decoded them. Also the current code doesnt work the way your s/// suggests. Nor is it lossy to my knowledge. Any data placed inside the text boxes will be stored and retreived faithfully.
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do you bother to test it on any existing personal nodelets? How can you consider that "fully"? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Sure i did. Several. Can you detail any errors for me wrt to encoding?
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Ok, so people could put anchor tags in before and i didnt realize im sorry. A patch is applied that will a) not screw this up and b) fix it if it has been screwed up automatically.
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