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It's alright. I had mentioned this at the bottom in the very first post of this thread. Along this note, would it be possible to add a Theme/Style button to the right of the "View Messages" button, then following a dropdown or pop-up box giving us a selection of TFP styles to choose from? If this requires making a Theme folder in the local directory along with where the private message viewer's hta and xsl are stored for the sake of application cleanliness, I'm all for it. This could help potential users from other forum systems [assuming your application spreads like I think it will] just place their own stylesheet files in there to get the look they're looking for, again, assuming they know how to make a stylesheet file corresponding from their forum.

Oh, on second thought they do! Sorry to confuse you. At first glance and scan, I didn't notice the Folder title headers. But this still leaves me weary and hard to find the things I'm looking for fast and orderly. Coupled with the fact there is no Search/Find feature: Out of curiosity is this doable within the confines of your application's world/coding or would it weigh down the filesize of the application nulling any benefits or is it fairly complicated to integrate? But to jump back on my original idea, could we make the initial viewing pane of your application display all the folders titles, if more than one folder other than 'Inbox' is detected, as an index w/clickable links to the actual separated source even if that includes additional loading?

This way I could have a hiearchy of:
• Inbox
• Sent Items
• Personals
• Support
etc.

displayed as so? And expanding upon request into a index of, corresponding by folder, PM titles that lead to individual views.

Appeciate it! On second look, it looked like as if all BBCode didn't render. I was initially fooled b/c one PM showed a word italicized. After a more indepth scan though, I realized that was not the entire case. I found Italics, Bold, URL, Email, Size & Quote not parsed. I'm not sure about the Underline tag. But even more astounding was that in intermittent PMs, some tags were parsing and a whole lot weren't. Yes, they were correctly closed as I sense you're about to ask. Maybe a little tweaking is required in your app as something may have been askew? Or not completely implemented as you previously mentioned. But I would derive the former is a possibility b/c some tags of the same sort are being displayed and some aren't, so the "instructor" code could be a bit wacky.

If it helps isolate the problem - Working Intermittent code:
• Quote
• Bold
• Italic - *I think; Hard to tell using TFP v4.0 style

Smilies:
Also along these lines, would it possible to utilize a local directory for TFP's smilies [called maybe 'Smilies'] with actual copies contained and then have PMV [Private Mess. Viewer] display them? Trust me, I'm not trying to get you to get PMV to play DVDs. But I'm just trying to replicate the home and the feel of vBulletin PMs without being online or on the forum physically. Nothing more. My extravagant [if you can even call them that] ideas stop short of there.

To further elaborate on the idea, maybe an additional automatic creation process for a user wanting smilies. By selecting a 'Add Smilie Support' button or dropdown choice from a potential File menu > Options dropdown if you feel that would be more neater and less clutter on the other buttons already present. Then following, would be a pop-up for the user to enter manually the directory of the smilies for their corresponding forum, which your application would download and automatically create a 'Smilies' directory and place all gifs inside. Plus, any "identifying table" would have to be downloaded [if such a thing I'm proposing exists in vB forum coding] as well as most forums have symbols near impossible to document alone for proper conversion everytime. So PMV could be a ever-flexible application. In theory, it just goes with the flow.

And by no means should you. I understand more than anyone the pains of a headache. Especially the more complicated the source is! But from what I've seen, visually, vB seems to look like it really has cleaned up it's act from it's past versions. But little do I know someone speaking from a developer/programmer's point of view might call it a code nightmare. But the previous notes lead me to believe there must be a organized structure as opposed to a complicated one for vB's DaVinchi's not to have a frustrating enough time to design and develop to their galore. I also believe there should a be a developer's or hacker's license available [for a cheaper price of course, since you don't plan on using it for its maximum use] if such a idea/practice has not already been thought of. Even though I'm not entirely sure vB is open source [b/c of the fact you have to pay for it], I've sure seen them welcome all hacks and mods and that's how they created such a success as v3.0.3.

So with that in mind, I'm about 100% sure Halx didn't design the PM archiving system. It came bundled with vB. I was thinkin', if possible, you might be able to improve upon the vB's PM archive hack or mod. Maybe you can add a HTML option? Which would save a PM replica environment according to what forum you're on, maybe get it to copy the current template style you have when selecting the Archive option, then you know have it save the PM area along with the messages in a "Save Webpage As" way. Or, even have it save XML outputs more cleanlier and organized as discussed above, if indeed there is a problem with the way they're saved?

Anyway, I'm droning. A lot of ideas here. Would you be willing to start a project on this? This could be the beginning of something very beautiful.