Adium won't substitute multiple instances of %message% keyword

[mathuaerknedam]

It appears that Adium will replace only the first instance of %message% in a single source file (content.html). While it makes sense that that you wouldn't think that you'd want a message displayed more than once, it means that the html file can't be loaded with alternate html or javascript treatments that are then chosen thorough the use css. I'll attach a sample messagestyle and a screenshot of the problem. Note that this *is* a simplified messagestyle -- I've removed all selection logic and simply duplicated each message (%time%, %sender%, and %message%) in order to demonstrate the problem.

[mathuaerknedam]

screenshot of attached messagestyle

[mathuaerknedam]

messagestyle that demonstrates single keyword substitution

[jas8522]

David, this seems like your kind of fun... ;)

[Catfish_Man]

Tempting to WONTFIX this on the grounds that any legitimate use-case for it has better ways of doing the same thing... I could probably be convinced otherwise with good examples though.

[mathuaerknedam]

You already know about one of my examples, providing two different sets of javascript, and then using groupchat.css to select which one I need to use. But you offered to provide a better way for me to do that, and I'd be happy to use a better way if it actually provides the functionality I need.

The other time I've run into this was for a messagestyle that was going to use tables to allow columns to auto-adjust while remaining consistent (yMous grew out of this). This particular style used indentation, and the tables required colspans (since there's no equivalent in CSS). I wanted to provide a non-indented variant, but, as in the first example, I had to use css to select between multiple elements containing %message%.

Personally, I have little interest in actually using multiple %message% substitutions at the same time (except maybe to put the message in a tooltip or highlighting the most recent message in a footer-like marquee :-). My current problem is that the existence of multiple %message% keywords, even when only one is displayed, seems to break all of them in some cases (but admittedly not in my test messagestyle).

I took my yMousHOVERcolor messagestyle prototype and linked groupchat.css into my header.html. (This makes it a lot easier to test the groupchat changes since I can now test things in the messages prefpane.) When I tried to use my groupchat html elements, all all messages showed only %message%" with no substition for that keyword. I don't know if this bug is the cause, but it seems unlikely that they're not related.

[mathuaerknedam]

FWIW, this sort of loading of alternate text is also done in the Smooth Operator Beta, though not with %message%.

[mathuaerknedam]

Okay, now that I've started working on SO2, I've run into a place where I'd like this. As you may know, SO2 uses custom status/event text. as long as this is the case, I'd like to be able to put the native text into the tooltip. This works for *most* messages (since they're custom) but Date Separators need the native text, and any untrapped messages will as well.

[catfish_man]

(In [26661]) Replace %message% in a loop as we do other keywords. Fixes #9672