HH bug got me ... Part One!

Mudd · June 24, 2011, 05:04:00 PM

God bless, Mudd

Ben Maher · June 24, 2011, 05:09:00 PM

Nice one Robbo ! And none too soon I reckon, that way the newbies who are destined to become Hil style bow shooters [ although they might not know it yet ] can navigate through some great information !

Thanks again mate ......

Awesome .

stik&string · June 24, 2011, 05:24:00 PM

I was one of those newbies when this thread started now 5 Hill bows later I find myself constantly looking back at previous posts. Great idea to copy this thread and thanks Rob for doing all you do.

MT Longbow · June 24, 2011, 06:07:00 PM

Nice Job RDS, thanks for the work!

Patrick

droz il · June 24, 2011, 06:21:00 PM

Nice job Rob, thanks.

mikebiz · June 24, 2011, 07:41:00 PM

DiStefano is the man. Thanks for working so hard for us. I think this new way is gonna work out great.

canopyboy · June 24, 2011, 08:19:00 PM

Rob, that's an awesome solution. I've read every post (although sometimes it takes me awhile to catch up) and still find myself not being able to locate something I know was discussed for a couple pages back when. As for the newbies to the thread, we're way past the point where any reasonable person could catch up by starting at page 1.

Speaking of page 1, anybody heard from the Ben that started what is probably the most successful thread in TG history?

Cookus · June 24, 2011, 08:36:00 PM

Great solution Rob!

Jon Powell · June 24, 2011, 08:52:00 PM

Just wanted to add my thanks to Mr. DiStefano. The new forum will be a blessing.

June 24, 2011, 10:32:00 PM

Thanks Rob!

Like many others, I have gone back to look for stuff I know is in here....somewhere. Takes forever.

smoke1953 · June 24, 2011, 11:20:00 PM

It's a good thing.

dragonheart · June 25, 2011, 02:04:00 AM

I have been going through this thread and I watched the videos Sunset Hill (Nate) posted. In a matter of 6 minutes of video, I have re-learned so much! Thanks so much for those videos!

sou-pawbowhunter · June 25, 2011, 10:45:00 AM

RDS
Thank you for turning this gem into a tool we can research. You da man

Rob DiStefano · June 25, 2011, 11:38:00 AM

the trad gang forum search engine pretty much sucks for finding multiple targeted search results within a topic. in fact, it can't. the engine is only designed to find the first entry of the target word(s) within a forum. a search for 'tembo' brings up the first instance of that word, and will not show the other dozens of instances. so the concept of pulling off a copy of the hhbug thread to a separate forum isn't the way to go.

after a bit of thought, i decided to convert the entire thread into one humongous html file. our current thread page parameters have a max of 15 posts - i temporarily changed that to 'unlimited', took a copy of the hhbug thread over to the howard hill forum, opened it up and did a page save as an html file, all 11.7 megs worth.

the file has full path links within it - this means that external links, like sponsors and other forums, will function. it will also contain links to the parent forum 'howard hill', which does exist but the copy of the 'hhbug' topic is long gone. i removed links for adding posts.

so far, the page seems stable and functions perfectly for searching - just use your browser to search out words!. if yer using firefox, click on 'Edit', then 'Find' and a window bar emerges at the bottom of your screen - type in your search word! if you click on 'Highlight All', the word yer searching for will be lit up throughout the page.

BE AWARE - the hhbug.html page is HUGE - 11.7megs - and it may take some time to load, particularly if yer not accessing the net via broadband.

i haven't done any extensive testing, so if something seems awry or questionable, please lemme know asap!

CLICK HERE FOR THE SEARCHABLE HHBUG.HTML PAGE

mikebiz · June 25, 2011, 11:46:00 AM

Hey Rob. Thanks for putting all this together. Seems to work in both Internet Explorer and Firefox for me, but not Google Chrome I'm not sure if I have a browser issue, but when I click the HHBUG.HTML link above Google Chrome does not recognize it. This is what comes up:

http://www.tradgang.com/hhbug.html

Any thoughts? Thanks.

Rob DiStefano · June 25, 2011, 12:16:00 PM

try it with chrome now .........

mikebiz · June 25, 2011, 02:08:00 PM

Connects me right to it with Chrome now. Thanks again. Your check's in the mail.

Magnum in Ms · June 25, 2011, 11:17:00 PM

Anyone ever snake skin a Hill bow?

tradlongbow · June 26, 2011, 01:12:00 AM

The Hillgang is alive and well.

Rob- thank you,
Darren

mikebiz · June 26, 2011, 09:57:00 AM

Hey Rob. Question of the morning for ya. On the new HTML search file it appears that none of the time stamps/posted dates are showing on the posts. Is this an artifact of the html file or is there a way to have them show up? Thanks again.