The macro page update is finally finished. With the new page, you will now find that you can instantly edit any macro without leaving the page you’re on. Two modes exist now - simple, for quick and easy image link pasting, and advanced for the power users who just like plain old raw HTML that they’re used to. In addition, Macros now have normal names for the default set, and can no longer be removed. In addition, the images are now set to all display the preview by default.

For a long time, the macros page has remained as is. It isn’t a bad page but it’s not a great one either; particularly there are a few aspects that are confusing. For one, some of the names of the items are vague and don’t mean much of anything. I mean really, what would a person think of names like BF_NEW and BF_NONEW? Naturally the easy way to figure out all the images was simply to enable image previews - that makes everything easy to work with. Though you always have to go to admin preferences to enable that.

On the new page, that is changed. Every element is named something normal now. No longer are there any oddly named ones. I’ve also decided to just go ahead and make previewing the macros turned to ON by default because it’s just so much easier to see everything all laid out, despite the titles.

There’s another pressing issue with the current macros page, and that was the fact that you could only edit one macro at a time. The process was like this, you visit the page, click edit -> do the work -> save changes -> click macros again -> edit the skin set macros to get the page again.

Not anymore.

This is the possibly the coolest revamp to the page and it was the hardest to do. See the edit button? Well, now you can just edit right in place. When you click edit, the text box will instantly pop up on the macro you’re editing. Hit save, and the button updates for you right there!

By the way - you may notice that the admin CP prefs section is gone - I decided to just pull it since the template feature did not work, and neither did the save ACP state. The last feature there is the macro previews option. I decided that most people have been enabling this already to even be able to edit properly - I can’t imagine many wanting to turn it off especially since the logo macro now properly resizes itself. However, if you DO want the feature to disable previews back, please let me know why and I will if it is a major problem for you.

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