Offline BBCode editor

[brokenhead]

In keeping with Dan's request to compose posts offline first, some members might find a free, standalone BBCode editor helpful. I searched the forums and didn't see this posted, so here's the link to the only simple one I could find:

AHK BBCodeWriter 7.0.2

[Dan Rowden]

In keeping with Dan's request to compose posts offline first,

It was a suggestion rather than a request; I know the frustration of losing long posts.

some members might find a free, standalone BBCode editor helpful. I searched the forums and didn't see this posted, so here's the link to the only simple one I could find:

AHK BBCodeWriter 7.0.2

Hmm, nice. That's better than Kevin's program, actually.

[Shahrazad]

Thank you for the link.

Is there a way to increase the font size while you type?

Never mind. I figured it out.

Useful little tool.

[MellissaChon]

Brokenhead this software seems to be quite old, is it updated often to the latest bb forum system? Are there any better free options or is this one the best?
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[Kelly Jones]

In a functional sense, it's only missing the movie inserter ("Flash"), but I think it's easy enough to post a link to a video instead. Is there any other function that is missing, that you need, Mellissa? It might not look trendy, but that's not really worth the effort of updating in my opinion.


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[Luke Breuer]

Another option is the Word2BBCode Word macro that I found and heavily modified. It allows you to compose posts with rich text, which is something that the editor posted above does not do. See this screenshot for an example of what the text looks like pre-conversion. Now, the macro only supports certain features, and will need at least one modification for these forums (see below), but it might be preferential to any other known tools.

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[MelvinSoftware]

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