question about my filters and myspace

[Oddysey]

chrome;

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when i go to myspace, one of the filters (i dont know which) prevents the "online now" status from being displayed on my friends list. i ascertained this by enabling proxomitron, and having the status not work, then disabling it, and the online staus began again to work. do any of you guys know which filter may be responsible for this? id kinda like to know when my friends are online ;(

You've got a couple of options for troubleshooting this one. First, most guys will tell you to use the Log Window to spot which filters are kicking in, but I personally prefer to use the dbug function. If you're not familiar with that one, the short course is this: preface a URL with the word 'dbug' followed by two dots, and then the whole URL from the www onwards. Place the dbug command after the http:// (or https://), that's important. Example: http://dbug..www.google.com. (If the original URL didn't have a www (like this very forum), then don't put one in.)

When you do this, you see the source code for the whole page, and within that text, you'll find every filter used. The word "Match" will be shown in red, and both the found text string and the replacement will be shown, too. Unlike the Log Window, this will tell you what was found, and what was done with it. I find this feature particularly handy when I have trouble with more than one filter glomming onto the same string. I resolve "Multi" issues this way, with ease.

Now, all of that said, you didn't specify which filter packs you d/l'ed, so I can't help you with a specific suggestion. But if you use the method above, and search the source code for "online" (or some similar term), then I'm sure you'll find which filter is the culprit. But if that doesn't do the trick, report back here for more help!

Quote:ps- what happened to the smiley where the guy was holding his hand up in the rock n roll symbol?? (first and last fingers up, middle two down) i liked that one

That was "rocker", a bogus smilie if I ever saw one. Way, way too fast. That wasn't rocking, that was getting sea-sick! If our Fearless Leader brings it back, I have a filter ready and waiting to blast it to smithereens! >:]

Hey, hope all this helped! Good luck.


Oddysey