Miscellaneous => Other => Topic started by: howardpc on August 06, 2020, 10:04:32 pm
Title: Missing Reply button
Post by: howardpc on August 06, 2020, 10:04:32 pm
Does anyone know what causes a forum posting to lack a Reply button? I am not able to reply to jcdammeyer's post today at 18:53. If I were able to reply, I think he just needs to know that in objfpc mode methods require a prefixed @ to be called, which Delphi mode dispenses with. i. e. what is required is
Title: Re: Missing Reply button
Post by: lainz on August 06, 2020, 10:19:01 pm
Because it's a closed thread. You can close your own threads or a moderator can do it as well.
Title: Re: Missing Reply button
Post by: TRon on August 06, 2020, 10:59:28 pm
@howardpc: As stated by lainz. I tried to post the same answer as yours and was also confronted by it.
I marked it to the moderator with the question as of why it was locked. No idea if you can lock your own thread, otherwise I fail to see what's wrong with the question.
Title: Re: Missing Reply button
Post by: Remy Lebeau on August 06, 2020, 11:38:08 pm
I was about to post an answer to jcdammeyer's post as well, when I noticed the thread was locked.
Seems to be something going on today, because 2 separate threads have been locked today:
And about the other post that was closed, it seems that there was some kind of "conflict" there, so maybe was closed to stop that.
The author itself closed that one, because they were not happy with the position of us core devs.
Title: Re: Missing Reply button
Post by: TRon on August 07, 2020, 09:17:22 pm
@howardpc (and others) fwiw the thread seems unlocked. Feel free to do the honours howardpc, in case you still wish to do so.
edit: @howardpc :P ;)
Title: Re: Missing Reply button
Post by: jcdammeyer on August 07, 2020, 10:26:50 pm
I checked my post yesterday to see if there were any replies and was surprised to see that there was a lock symbol ICON. Not sure why it happened. Once I figured out how to unlock it I did that right away.
I did try the @ in front of the method name. It didn't appear to work but I may have also done a number of other things at the same time and been distracted.
Title: Re: Missing Reply button
Post by: marcov on August 07, 2020, 10:31:20 pm
I checked the moderator log, and moderators haven't locked threads yet in august, so this is all on the OP's, intended or not.
Title: Re: Missing Reply button
Post by: jcdammeyer on August 08, 2020, 03:22:17 am
I'm pretty sure I was the one that did it. My ASUS laptop is getting old and at times the touch pad moves the mouse without being touched. It's quite possible that the lock checkbox was ticked inadvertently. I will be more careful in the future. And the new HP laptop is almost ready to go so this ASUS will be delegated to monitoring something...