Issue: Invalid character

If I post:

ap.new("b")

The pokécommunity is removing the '")' at end of my line. For some reason this problem isn't happening at post Preview.

This problem breaks my script at http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=318598 and potentially several others.

EDIT: This is a strange problem, the '")' is removed only after the page have a certain amount of content loaded.

I'm unable to duplicate this on my end. Are you sure you aren't inserting any funky characters between ampersands (&) or number signs (#)?

Zach said:

Code:

bitmapBall = Bitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/Roulette/ball")

I'm unable to duplicate this on my end. Are you sure you aren't inserting any funky characters between ampersands (&) or number signs (#)?

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It's ASCII text. And, after you post did you tried to do a "F5" (refresh the page)?

I isolated the problem a little more. Attached a screenshot.

It looks to me that it's a thing with how vBulletin is parsing your text. What I suggest you could do is use this code, and see if it works: http://pastebin.com/WbjPS2K2


Hope this helps! :)

Zach said:

It looks to me that it's a thing with how vBulletin is parsing your text. What I suggest you could do is use this code, and see if it works: http://pastebin.com/WbjPS2K2

Code:

bitmapBall = Bitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/Roulette/ball[SIZE="2"]")[/SIZE]

Hope this helps! :)

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Nice tip, but I believe that this problem doesn't happens a time ago and this is very hard to notice and fix at long scripts, so I will be happy if this should be fixed.

Any news at this? I discovered that some scripts that have the $ symbol are messed too, Zach tip doesn't works at these cases.

This is affecting other scripts too! This probably mess good old scripts.

Wanted to add that this problem has been affecting a number of scripts(example 1,example 2,example 3), whereas it didn't before. This is a very big problem for the code writing community.

If you use the "Show Printable Version" option, you can get the correct code. So it's storing the correct text, but something in the formatting is messing it up.

Its likely some sort of protection or something.. we're having our coders look into it.. no idea how long to solve it though.

Any news? Some of problems that people using my scripts reported, without counting PMs:

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=8451040#8451040
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=8459587#8459587
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=8412738#8412738
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=8382029#8382029