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@xrun try this from the post i made about it and change the number to 250. if there’s any suggestions on how to make better anyone, feel free. I just had started using this a very long time ago and its worked for the most part ever since. The only thing is that sometimes a member can still copy and paste text longer than the limit and it’ll post, don’t know why that is.

@xrun Cool. Either way…you can style the text box just the same. do you have anywhere to see in action? How about that copy and paste scenario? Glad it worked.

Tried to implement this, but I’m wondering if the code was mangled a bit on the post that @nahummadrid linked to. It doesn’t seem to want to work for me.

@nahummadrid – nice solution. It’s concise, and responsive (VERY important). Every other solution I’ve tested slows down the text input to a crawl, which isn’t acceptable for a public site and will really annoy anyone who types with all their fingers. I haven’t encountered the issue to which you alluded re. users breaking the limit with copy/paste. It’s working flawlessly. Thanks a bunch for it.

@justbishop – yes, the code display has been mangled by wp texturise, and contains a cpl small errors. Here it is clean:

`
//<![CDATA[
function limitText(limitField, limitCount, limitNum) {
if (limitField.value.length > limitNum) {
limitField.value = limitField.value.substring(0, limitNum);
} else {
limitCount.value = limitNum – limitField.value.length;
}
}
//]]>
`

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Incidentally, I think it’s best to place the script itself in entry.php, not post-form.php (assuming you’re also setting a character limit on replies). The reason for this is that it should only be loaded once, and if you place it in post-form.php it won’t be available on an individual activity page (ie. the page you get when you click the “View” link), but if you place it in entry.php it will be loaded when viewing the activity stream, and also when viewig the individual activity.

Thanks guys!

@modemlooper: at the risk of seeming like a total idiot, does the code in your pastebin link go between php open/close tags? To be honest, I’m not quite sure at all what to do with it *blush*

@aljuk thanks for the tip. that was just something i dragged together and it has worked for me. i’m no pro is for sure but what a pro once told me, “if it works!, it works!” hehe. I thought the copy and paste issue was an issue but folks are saying it hasn’t been so right on.

@justbishop sorry i had my code highlighter plugin deactivated on that post…i’ve fixed it now.

@nahummadrid @justbishop @modemlooper

modemlooper – you’re totally right, the script should be called from the header or an external js. Placing it in post-form.php only calls it for the whats-new form, and placing it in entry.php calls it repeatedly for every comment reply, leading to multiple instances.

I adapted your reset script suggestion for use with nahummadrid’s technique of using a read-only text input field to display the count:

`jQuery(‘#aw-whats-new-submit,.ac_form_submit’).click(function() {
jQuery(‘.charlimitinfo’).val(‘240’);
});`

`.charlimitinfo` is my count field
`.ac_form_submit` is a class I’ve attached to the submit input for activity comments (in entry.php)
240 is my chosen text limit

The only issue I’ve encountered is that if you post something via the whats-new form and then post a comment reply without refreshing the page first, the reset for the character limit for the comment reply doesn’t fire. I guess this is related to the bug in Buddypress that prevents the whats-new form functioning correctly after an update’s been made and the page hasn’t been refreshed – perhaps due to the use of multiple identical ids and nonce field ids in the activity stream? I’m no expert, just a guess.

Paul, I pretty much posted the code on here.

Who wants this as an option? If it’s a majority i’ll create a patch. Though, I think if it is wanted there should be an admin option for on or off as well as how many characters

Decisions not options.

I’ve further pinned down the whats-new bug. It can be more accurately described thus:

“You cannot successfully post two or more sequential updates from the whats-new form”

You can post an update, a reply, an update, a reply etc. no problem, but sequential updates require up to 15 clicks on the submit button.

@modemlooper Sorry if this upsets any parties but my Java script lecturer from last year was absolutely terrible and as such we learnt basically nothing about java script.. I do know my way around wordpress and the files in the backend however so could you please tell me how to implement this javascript code in detail?

Any help much appriciated,

Lloyd.