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B-36 in theory: six turning and four burning. (Six piston engines, four jets)

B-36 in reality: two turning, two burning, two smoking, two joking, and two more unaccounted for. (The turbo-supercharged P&W 4360 engines - installed as pushers - weren't all that reliable ...)
 
Boink said:
OK, here's a curve-ball. :p
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Would you explain how you coded your reply above to create a hot link of the word "here's"? I have sourced the code for that text and found it written in HTML (< a href="XXXXXX"> which I know you didn't do because we write to the board in PHP or some such language.

I tried to post a couple of links in a reply of my own using [url="URL OF FILE" ]TEXT OF HOT LINK[/url ] (without the spaces to render it as text) and I got a working hot link. But it was a .wav file contained in a page, and hot linking THROUGH THIS FORUM took me to the main page instead of to the .wav file. Pasting the same .wav file URL in my browser's address bar took me directly to the file. I'm trying to figure out why...
 
Use the icon to the right of the "smiley face".... the globe with the link: link icon.jpg
 
NutmegCT said:
B-36 in theory: six turning and four burning. (Six piston engines, four jets)

B-36 in reality: two turning, two burning, two smoking, two joking, and two more unaccounted for. (The turbo-supercharged P&W 4360 engines - installed as pushers - weren't all that reliable ...)
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Read once that the R4360 was a $50k overhaul, in the 1950s. Operators of the Boeing 377, the civil version of the C97, found it cheaper to throw away engines and replace them with surplus Air Force engines which sold much cheaper than a rebuild.
 
Gliderman8 said:
Use the icon to the right of the "smiley face".... the globe with the link: View attachment 31048
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That creates a hot URL. I want to create a hot LINK using a word not included in the destination URL itself.

The hot URLs don't work for me in this case. I can code a use that icon to create a hot URL but clicking on it takes me to the web site's home page and NOT to the .wav file I want to target. Copying the hot URL and pasting it into my browser's address box DOES go to the .wav file directly.

Boink used the word "here's" as a hot link to the URL he wanted it to open. I want to know how he coded it into his post.

The really puzzling aspect of this is that the direct links to the .wav file work properly while the hot URL is still within the composition window. As soon as I "Save" it to the forum the link reverts to connecting to the web site home page instead of the sound file. It behaves the same way in both Firefox and IE 11. I have examined the source code for both what appears in the composition window and the forum post and the codes are identical.
 
Type the word.
Hi-light it
Then click the clicky thing

If that is what you are doing then maybe you have to be in CONUS

Still can't find that on a map:confused:
 
DNK said:
Type the word.
Hi-light it
Then click the clicky thing

If that is what you are doing then maybe you have to be in CONUS

Still can't find that on a map:confused:
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Yep... I high-lited the word in question (any word in the text will do), then click on the hyperlink button (in the WYSIWYG editor) and entered the URL. Well, that's what I think I did.
Here's another attempt (to this very spot). I also bold-fonted the word "Here's" so as to not miss it as a link.
 




OK... then it seems then that my real problem is not the creation of the link but the fact that something about the link changes between the time it leaves the composition box and the time it lands in the forum:
"The really puzzling aspect of this is that the direct links to the .wav file work properly while the hot URL is still within the composition window. As soon as I "Save" it to the forum the link reverts to connecting to the web site home page instead of the sound file. It behaves the same way in both Firefox and IE 11. I have examined the source code for both what appears in the composition window and the forum post and the codes are identical."
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I attach an audio file address to the word I highlight and when it shows up in the forum it connects to the home page of the web site that the audio file is part of instead of connecting directly to the audio file. I've sent a PM to Basil...maybe he has some insight?
 
Just a guess, but when linking to an audio file, it often depends upon the URL. Some seem to automatically play while others don't.
 
Basil - your test worked fine for me. Immediately heard the fly over - no problem.

Tom
 
I go to the web page too.
Only planes I hear are the ones leaving our local airport
 
If I create a hot link in the post using the .wav file's URL instead of text, the same thing happens. But if I hi-lite and copy the URL and open it in my browser's address bar, I'll bring up the audio files every time.
 
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