Help with IEView templates

[Sky]

After avoiding it for years I switched to IEView, and immediately both love and hate it as a web developer.

But that aside, I decided to write a theme based off a already existing but overly complex one, to use with a set of plugin skins: https://github.com/Xuerian/IEView-x1/

Aside from IE quirks, it works great - until occasionally a new message clears the message log and sets it to a trailing <div> then a inner <div class="message inner"> fragment for the new message any any following, resulting in proper log text but absolutely no formatting due to no proper html.

Is there any detailed resource or gotcha I'm missing? Or some way to get a more detailed log/error report out of IEView?

Thanks!

[xaos]

haven't come across any detailed explanation, but, that template you linked is pretty basic. best advice would be to play with it as is, changing various bits and pieces of the css, mainly the container borders, and perhaps the positioning, get some idea how it's being laid out ... one nuance is where the '..Message..GroupEnd..' tags are and where the main html container for that group is closed afterward.
that template appears to be correctly formatted ... it's basically properly formatted html with the IEView template tags inserted...

..and it used to be that you could right click the message window and 'Show source' would show the document source same style as a web page would .. not sure what the dev did, but that useful feature seems to have been broken, and even in the IEView plugin thread, it hasn't been answered yet

[Sky]

haven't come across any detailed explanation, but, that template you linked is pretty basic. best advice would be to play with it as is, changing various bits and pieces of the css, mainly the container borders, and perhaps the positioning, get some idea how it's being laid out ... one nuance is where the '..Message..GroupEnd..' tags are and where the main html container for that group is closed afterward.
that template appears to be correctly formatted ... it's basically properly formatted html with the IEView template tags inserted...

..and it used to be that you could right click the message window and 'Show source' would show the document source same style as a web page would .. not sure what the dev did, but that useful feature seems to have been broken, and even in the IEView plugin thread, it hasn't been answered yet

Thanks for the suggestions.

However, the template already works (I was just complaining about working in Internet Explorer), and with the latest version of IEView and Miranda, I can view source just fine.

My issue is that occasionally it will replace the contents of the message window with a new message instead of appending it.

Thinking about it, this might be something to put in the IEView thread..

[xaos]

My issue is that occasionally it will replace the contents of the message window with a new message instead of appending it.

ah ... there is a setting in Message Sessions > Message Log : Always trim message log to ...
that might be what's causing that

I can view source just fine.

hm, wonder what's broken on my end then ... ¿ .. <shrug> going to have to go looking now

EDIT : and now i shall answer my own quandary, about that 'Show Source' issue ... so the answer was/is ..
Open Internet Explorer .. .Tools > Developer Tools > File > Customize Internet Explorer View Source : and either set it to notepad or make sure the custom one is specifically set to something

[Sky]

ah ... there is a setting in Message Sessions > Message Log : Always trim message log to ...
that might be what's causing that

Thanks for the suggestion, it made sense, but unfortunately it has been un-checked for years. =\

hm, wonder what's broken on my end then ... ¿ .. <shrug> going to have to go looking now

EDIT : and now i shall answer my own quandary, about that 'Show Source' issue ... so the answer was/is ..
Open Internet Explorer .. .Tools > Developer Tools > File > Customize Internet Explorer View Source : and either set it to notepad or make sure the custom one is specifically set to something

Good to hear. I'm using IE9 myself, and had to include a meta for strict IE8 mode, since proper CSS application was hit-or-miss in IE9 mode, and refreshing the view with F5 went from half-broken-[f5]>fixed-[f5]>broken IE frame =\

Which is a shame because IE9 actually supports CSS3 fairly well, instead of using border images and filters.

[xaos]

Thanks for the suggestion, it made sense, but unfortunately it has been un-checked for years. =\

hm.. can't say i've had my message log clearout quite like that then

I'm using IE9 myself, and had to include a meta for strict IE8 mode, since proper CSS application was hit-or-miss in IE9 mode, and refreshing the view with F5 went from half-broken-[f5]>fixed-[f5]>broken IE frame =\
Which is a shame because IE9 actually supports CSS3 fairly well, instead of using border images and filters.

it seem as tho your scripting skills are beyond my own, ... and i've been using Firefox for so long it hadn't actually occured to me yet to check any of IEs settings .... so i have no other guesses either :P , hope someone can help