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It's been hard not to notice that there are a bunch of you who aren't too shabby when it comes to a bit of keyboard action. There are, in fact, some painfully good (and incredibly generous) programmers hanging out here and I had an idea.
Last night I was up till the wee, wee hours of this morning fighting with some alternative WYSIWYG HTML editors for the article editor. Our current HTML WYSIWYG editor is, well, a little long in the tooth and I need to replace it to save my (and your) sanity. CKEditor seems the best so far - except that it refuses to do what I want it to and insists on mangling the HTML it's given. There is no "don't screw with my HTML" option.
We discussed, ages ago, the possibility of having you guys take on some interesting bits and pieces of CodeProject development and this seemed a perfect opportunity to give it a try.
Is there still any interest? I've opened a new Workspace and setup a Git repo at https://workspaces.codeproject.com/codeproject/codeproject/wysiwyg-editor[^] for anyone who's interested in diving in and helping build some of the CodeProject infrastructure. You'll obviously need to have a basic understanding of JavaScript (and Git!) to get going, but feel free to ping me if you need help getting off the ground.
This is just an experiment and if there's interest then I'd love to open more and more up to let you guys start mixing things up a little.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
first of all: My congratulations on the decision of replacing the old HTML Editor. From what I've heard, it started to nag not only on your sanity but on the sanity of the Members who don't write articles very frequently.
I'd love to give my 5 cents of code to this one, but I'm certain that there are many many of us who are better with JavaScript than I am, so I focus on getting the Article about ::Tasks done, and the GUI mockup thingie.
Chris Maunder wrote: if there's interest then I'd love to open more and more up to let you guys start mixing things up a little.
Ahem.. I dare to bring up the Tasks-API again.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
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Want any assembly or drivers writing?
Nah, thought not! 
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Can you do an Article Editor Client which communicates via encrypted TCP in Assembly?
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
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You can call win32 via assembly[^], so he could. We all know how much he loves windows. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I just get so sick of the endless hoops you have to jump through to get anything running properly on windows, and how easily it breaks itself. And once it is broken, its 'total install'. Ghost, the Windows programmers go to tool....
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Of course. All the code you write in C# or C++ just ends up as assembly anyway.
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No touting for workers in the lounge... I'm telling Chri... oh, wait.
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Chris Maunder wrote: till the wee, wee hours
:snigger: he said "wee wee"
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He got up to go to the bathroom! 
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It's a bit unrelated, but I've been working on a little CP desktop gadget[^] that I plan to publish here sometime as an article... and I had a question. 
Are there any CodeProject API's for getting user notifications, or reporting messages/members?
The user notifications are more important, but the reporting would make the spam-detecting aspects of the application much easier to code.
At the moment the app uses a WebBrowserControl running in the background, refreshing every minute or so and then scraping the html for user notifications.
The human-approved reporting was going to use another WebBrowserControl and do some DOM invoking to click buttons and stuff.
API's would also consume less server resources. 
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Opening up the reporting system via an external API isn't something we're totally keen on at this point. It's a very large, scary can of worms.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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OK.
I understand about the reporting, expecially given what happened to me[^] a few days ago... 
... so I definitely don't want to create anything that aids such behaviour.
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IF you really want to write html code. then i would recommend using a simple ascii text editor such as notepad and type your own html tags. You really don't need a fancy editor.
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You're preaching to the converted.
However, many, many authors love WYSIWYG editors. Even I, occasionally, like seeing what I'm editing all neatly formatted occasionally too.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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when using specialized HTML editors such as FrontPage the software will put it's own HTML tags. and that is the same for all HTML editors. If the programmer wants total control then use notepad and they can always open the HTML doc on a HTML viewer such as Firefox.
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Daniel Engelkes wrote: FrontPage the software will put it's own HTML tags. and that is the same for all HTML editors
Not in my experience. I'm actually using FrontPage 2003 (Yes - FrontPage classic!) because it's so clean with it's HTML handling. Our HTMLArea based WYSIWYG editor doesn't often add tags. Obviously adding a paragraph or image will result in new tags being added, but they aren't unexpected tags.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: CKEditor seems the best so far - except that it refuses to do what I want it to and insists on mangling the HTML it's given. There is no "don't screw with my HTML" option.
Try adding <code>This is some code</code> inside a TD element in the editor. It strips it out.
Have you tried setting config.allowedContent = true;? That way, it shouldn't strip anything out. I've just tried with v4, and it doesn't strip out a <code> block within a <td> element.
Also, no programming questions in the Lounge!
Also also: http://xkcd.com/1341/[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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A programming question would be "How do I do X". That would be unacceptable. However, "I can't do X because the stupid $#@! that was obviously written by blind monkeys on acid and never works no matter what I do even though I've not once looked at the manual or looked into the source code because I have better things to do, like blog about how crap X is" is considered on-topic and appropriate.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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But Shirley that's a loophole? Instead of asking "How do I do X?", you just post a rant about how stupid it is that it's impossible to do X, and wait for people to prove you wrong by explaining how to do X in simple terms. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Stop calling me Shirley.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I've actually found that FCKeditor (the version before CKeditor) works better... there again, it might not like newer browsers -- but in any event, it doesn't muck things up quite as much. I know what you mean, though...
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I am slammed for the next couple of months but, after that, I am all yours.
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This should be fun
Lets do this!
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Very funny.
Dose the WYSIWYG editor hourglass diaper on 1/04/2014?
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