BuffettNews.com

For the past couple days, when I write a PM, (some of mine can be novellas ) I get to a certain point and the pm screen starts jumping from the last letter I type up to the beginning of my pm for every letter I type and you don't get to see the line you're typing on ...........it's sooooooooo annoying!

Does this happen to anyone else?

Is there a word count limit to PM's?

Or do you think it could be because someone in this house upgraded to internet explorer 8.0 or some such nonsense



Thanks for any input, M

Mo writes long PMs? Who knew?

Yeah Mo, there is a character limit. Just looked and this is what it says on the left side of the message box when you compose a PM:

Message body:
Enter your message here, it may contain no more than 60000 characters.

Don't think there is a character countdown tho...that's kind of a bummer. So maybe your jumpy screen *is* the clue that you're getting too close.

I was going to say I upgraded from IE6 to IE8 and haven't had any issue with 8 yet

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:So maybe your jumpy screen *is* the clue that you're getting too close.

In Mo's case...I think the "jumpy screen" means that "Hey, you've lost their interest already, try to keep it to about 300 characters"

Gulfbreeze wrote:

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:So maybe your jumpy screen *is* the clue that you're getting too close.

In Mo's case...I think the "jumpy screen" means that "Hey, you've lost their interest already, try to keep it to about 300 characters"

Oh look who shows up.............haven't seen you around these parts for quite sometime, yet I post a very serious question, and you show up and knock me down!

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:Mo writes long PMs? Who knew?

Yeah Mo, there is a character limit. Just looked and this is what it says on the left side of the message box when you compose a PM:

Message body:
Enter your message here, it may contain no more than 60000 characters.

Don't think there is a character countdown tho...that's kind of a bummer. So maybe your jumpy screen *is* the clue that you're getting too close.

I'm gonna have to look at that..........hey Beg I see it..........could you count the number of characters in your PM's from me?

ph4ever wrote:I was going to say I upgraded from IE6 to IE8 and haven't had any issue with 8 yet

Thanks. That leads me to believe that BEG may be on to something, now to count characters.........hmmm

If I'm gonna put some time into a PM or post, I usually key it in MS Word and then copy and paste it. I've lost too many long posts to the error message screen in the past. And Word has a character count function, so you'll know if you need to paste it into one or two (or more ) PM's.

mommar wrote:Oh look who shows up.............haven't seen you around these parts for quite sometime, yet I post a very serious question, and you show up and knock me down!

Been on the range pardner.

Serious question?

Inquisitive, perhaps...

And I'd love to hit you with a knockmedownshortjokejab...but I'll be nice.

mommar wrote:

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:Mo writes long PMs? Who knew?

Yeah Mo, there is a character limit. Just looked and this is what it says on the left side of the message box when you compose a PM:

Message body:
Enter your message here, it may contain no more than 60000 characters.

Don't think there is a character countdown tho...that's kind of a bummer. So maybe your jumpy screen *is* the clue that you're getting too close.

I'm gonna have to look at that..........hey Beg I see it..........could you count the number of characters in your PM's from me?

I'll get right on that....

I see your spelling hasn't improved any.

I've experienced the same phenomenon. I think it started right after the last board update/upgrade. It seems to be related more to the number of lines than the number of characters. You can keep on typing, but everything is below the bottom of the message window. Which makes it kinda difficult to proofread your work.

Gulfbreeze wrote:

mommar wrote:Oh look who shows up.............haven't seen you around these parts for quite sometime, yet I post a very serious question, and you show up and knock me down!

Been on the range pardner.

Serious question?

Inquisitive, perhaps...

And I'd love to hit you with a knockmedownshortjokejab...but I'll be nice.

Who are you and what have you done with the real Breeze?

On the range? Shagging golf balls?

alphabits wrote:I see your spelling hasn't improved any.

No schitt Sherlock.

Got a text from her Saturday that said "Hale"

I responded "Irwin"

She said "No dipstick, it's hailing"

Who knew?

pema wrote:If I'm gonna put some time into a PM or post, I usually key it in MS Word and then copy and paste it. I've lost too many long posts to the error message screen in the past. And Word has a character count function, so you'll know if you need to paste it into one or two (or more ) PM's.

ERIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So nice to hear from you, and thanks for the suggestion. I'll admit it, I'm not too big (yeah go ahead w/the short jokes guys) to admit, I hadn't thought of that, yet.

If these jumpy pms keep up I'm going to do that, Let's see how BEG does w/her couting first

Gulfbreeze wrote:

mommar wrote:Oh look who shows up.............haven't seen you around these parts for quite sometime, yet I post a very serious question, and you show up and knock me down!

Been on the range pardner. I thought you meant you've been out of town or something, I guess I'm getting old

Serious question? Yes it was very serious, you know how I love to write those long PM's that you stop reading after 3 lines.

Inquisitive, perhaps...

And I'd love to hit you with a knockmedownshortjokejab...but I'll be nice.

I know you would............and you nice, quick get a dictionary so we can debate this.

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:

mommar wrote:

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:Mo writes long PMs? Who knew?

Yeah Mo, there is a character limit. Just looked and this is what it says on the left side of the message box when you compose a PM:

Message body:
Enter your message here, it may contain no more than 60000 characters.

Don't think there is a character countdown tho...that's kind of a bummer. So maybe your jumpy screen *is* the clue that you're getting too close.

I'm gonna have to look at that..........hey Beg I see it..........could you count the number of characters in your PM's from me?

I'll get right on that....

Waiting!!

alphabits wrote:I see your spelling hasn't improved any.

I've experienced the same phenomenon. I think it started right after the last board update/upgrade. It seems to be related more to the number of lines than the number of characters. You can keep on typing, but everything is below the bottom of the message window. Which makes it kinda difficult to proofread your work.

Yeah..............i'm not the only one with problems

mommar wrote:couting

Googled it...nothing.

Gulfbreeze wrote:

alphabits wrote:I see your spelling hasn't improved any.

No schitt Sherlock.

Got a text from her Saturday that said "Hale"

I responded "Irwin"

She said "No dipstick, it's hailing"

Who knew?

Oh yeah...............and right there folks Mr. Nice, broadcasting for everyone to see my personal conversation w/him from GW on Saturday..........glad it wasn't anything personal.!

Gulfbreeze wrote:

mommar wrote:couting

Googled it...nothing.

cout is an object of class ostream that represents the standard output stream. It corresponds to the cstdio stream stdout.

By default, most systems have their standard output set to the console, where text messages are shown, although this can generally be redirected.

Because cout is an object of class ostream, we can write characters to it either as formatted data using for example the insertion operator (ostream::operator<<) or as unformatted data using the write member function, among others (see ostream).