quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
I see you have copied much of the user-interface principles used in my Holiday Counter Plugin (which I said I would make a Live version out of it, so blah at those "I was first, you copied my idea" and "you shouldn't be making something if someone already said he would make it" posts before in those other threads)...
Correct, I was inspired by your tags. No more, no less, I just liked them.
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
1) When you use tags in your countdown script as placeholders, use "n" as the shortcut for minutes, not "m". This may seem unlogic at first, but it is actually more consistant with many other tools and you wont have problems when you add a month abbrivation.
Err... strange, but ok, I can do that
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
2) Make sure people can still use the text "%d" for example (for whatever reason). In other words, make sure people can escape a text if they want it literally. Thus "\%d" will not be parsed.
Hmm... I don't know what anyone has to do with %d, but no problem.
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
3) Selecting a countup/countdown in the combo box is rather useless since you must set the time anyways... Depending on the time being in the past or future it is already defined as a countdown or countup, so no need for the user to specifically select it in the combo box also.
Maybe...
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
4) The label "method" is confussing. Better use "countdown tag" or "tag" or whatever.
I never found a decent name for it, yours sounds great! I'll change that, thanks!
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
5) In reference to 4, make it possible that a user can use also use the countdown tag as a normal Plus! tag in text in a conversation (thus: (!COUNTDOWN) ) and thus that it will be replaced with that countdown string.
I tried it once, but that just got messed up. I can try again, ofcourse.
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
6) be consistent with your tags. If you define a tag to be %countdown%, it makes more sense to also define the time tags as %d%, %h%, etc... (thus also with a end % sign), or vice versa... not mixed.
I thought that %countdown looked a bit weird, so I made it %countdown%... ok, bad idea...
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
7) in reference to 5 and 6: whatever tag format you choose (I would have choosen "(!xxxx)" since that is also the standard way for plus tags, not "%xxx%"), it should be the same one as used in the 'text' texbox and as tag used in conversation texts.
Hmm... that fixes the problem in 6, I'll use it!
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Suggestions (which you didn't yet copied from the Holiday Counter Plugin):
- Make it possible that people can choose for both changing their nick and PSM.
That means checkboxes... well, why not?
But how would I set the Text then?
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
- Make it possible that people can choose an icon for the PSM.
Oh damn... Gonna be hard. But I'll try...
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
- Make it possible that a countdown automatically changes to a countup or vice versa when the time has passed.
Hmm... well, ok then!
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
- Make it possible that people can save multiple countdown settings.
You mean, saving whole setting blocks?
I don't think that'll be included very soon...
Well, thanks for the comments, this gives me something to work on again.
/ 
