Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Pls have Preview window remember its size and location.

28-Feb-06 12:32

A minor suggestion to consider from a big fan of CodeProject:

When I click on the Preview button, the window is almost invariably too small, and not where I would like it. I typically drag it aside and make it larger.

Is there a reasonable way for the forum software to "remember" this and have the Preview window be placed where it was before? Is this something that is outside of your website's control, even if you wanted to make this change?

(But perhaps this should serve as a hint for me to write smaller messages that fit in the provided space????? OMG | :OMG:

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HimaBindu Vejella28-Feb-06 18:30

HimaBindu Vejella

28-Feb-06 18:30

Perhaps !It's a good suggestion

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Re: Pls have Preview window remember its size and location.

Prakash Nadar2-Mar-06 5:37

Re: Pls have Preview window remember its size and location.

2-Mar-06 5:37

HimaBindu Veeramachaneni wrote:
Nothing is Impossible Even Impossible says I'MPOSSSIBLE

if Impossible says I'MPossible then it means that Impossible is possible.

-Prakash
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Ashley van Gerven1-Mar-06 5:04

Ashley van Gerven

1-Mar-06 5:04

I would say this is a browser limitation. When the popup is created it's size is specified, but normally the browser decides where to position it, and as you move the window around the page is not really aware of what you do with the window, unless there was a button and a bunch of script to specifically capture that and save it with your profile or something.

Pls have indentation work in "code" mode similar to "pre" mode

l_d_allan28-Feb-06 11:37

Re: Pls have indentation work in "code" mode similar to "pre" mode

28-Feb-06 11:37

Here is a minor suggestion that might improve your wonderful website:

I would expect the "code" option at the bottom of this page to not only highlight and use monospace, but also to leave spaces intact for indentation and lining up code ... which would be equivalent to what the "pre" button does.

Perhaps this is not something you can control or change even if you wanted to. I am not that familiar with HTML ... my impression is that < pre > is a valid HTML tag, but I don't believe that < code > is ... so it isn't like the forum software has a standard to conform to.

By the way, I like how this forum software works compared to some others that I am experienced with .... you can select a range of lines, click on the < code > button, and the selected code is "wrapped" within < code >selected lines< / code >. That isn't the case with some forum software.

This is line 1 without the code tag.
This line has iiiiiiiiii's
This line has wwwwwwwwww's
This line has a bunch of spaces
This line is supposed to be indented three spaces
This line is supposed to be indented six spaces

This is line 1 with the code tag<br />
This line has iiiiiiiiii's<br />
This line has wwwwwwwwww's<br />
This line has a bunch of          spaces<br />
   This line is supposed to be indented three spaces<br />
      This line is supposed to be indented six spaces<br />

This is line 1 with the pre tag
This line has iiiiiiiiii's
This line has wwwwwwwwww's
This line has a bunch of          spaces
   This line is indented three spaces
      This line is indented six spaces

I may not be "the brightest bulb in the box", but I regularly have to use trial and error to get code snippets to show up correctly in messages I post.

-- modified at 17:48 Tuesday 28th February, 2006

PJ Arends28-Feb-06 12:22

PJ Arends

28-Feb-06 12:22

I disagree. The <code> tag is meant for inline code segments like this, while the <pre> tag is meant for preformatted text blocks like

this

. Their intended uses are totally different, it is just that so many users use <code> when they should be using <pre>.

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Re: Pls have indentation work in "code" mode similar to "pre" mode

Michael Dunn1-Mar-06 13:55

Michael Dunn

1-Mar-06 13:55

CODE tag spec[^]

<pre> means preformatted, that is, it overrides the HTML parsing rule that changes multiple consecutive whitespace chars into one space. <code> is by definition an inline tag (whereas <pre> is a block tag) so it doesn't make sense to override the space parsing rules for <code>

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Re: Pls have indentation work in "code" mode similar to "pre" mode

l_d_allan2-Mar-06 2:00

Pls encourage authors to include cppunit-like verification

2-Mar-06 2:00

My bad ... I didn't realize that "code" was an html tag ... I did a quick check of the spec, but obviously should have looked more thoroughly.

l_d_allan28-Feb-06 10:50

28-Feb-06 10:50

I am a HUGE fan of CodeProject, and very appreciate of the website. For my purposes, I consider it one of the most valuable resources on the Internet. Thanks!

Several things would be helpful and often missing for many articles, especially those which involve algorithms:

* Console app using the algorithm. I find these MUCH easier than gui's to figure out with a debugger to step-into and step-around.

* Extensive, even exhaustive tests to provide a high degree of confidence that the submitted code actually works. I REALLY want to reuse their code and not "re-invent" the wheel, but I really often wonder how "bullet-proof" the code is.

* I looked on the website for "Guidelines for Authors when Submitting Articles" but perhaps didn't look hard enough.
EDIT ... found the webpage for Authors ... but would suggest those guidelines put more emphasis on providing test code

For example, I'm trying to reuse some submitted code related to tokenizing. I found several applicable articles. It would be VERY valuable for the demo code to have something like the following to show that the code has been rigorously tested:

char* testStringsWithTokens[] = { 
// Test                        Expected Result
  "a",                         "1 <1 a>",
  "a b c",                     "3 <1 a><1 b><1 c>",
  " a b c ",                   "3 <1 a><1 b><1 c>",
  "one two three",             "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  "one\ttwo\tthree",           "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  "one,two,,,, ,,, three,,,",  "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  " one two three",            "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  " one\ttwo\tthree",          "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  " one,two,,,, ,,, three,,,", "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  " one two three ",           "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  " one\ttwo\tthree ",         "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  " one,two,,,, ,,, three,,, ","3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  "one two three ",            "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  "one\ttwo\tthree ",          "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
  "one,two,,,, ,,, three,,, ", "3 <3 one><3 two><5 three>",
// snip .... more tests
};

I realize that it isn't CodeProject's responsibility to see that such test code is included, and I'm VERY appreciative for what is available .... but the authors who presumably want their code to be reused are perhaps less aware that they could be of the value of cppunit-like test code ....

Again, thanks.

-- modified at 17:40 Tuesday 28th February, 2006

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l_d_allan28-Feb-06 10:58

Re: Pls encourage authors to include cppunit-like verification

28-Feb-06 10:58

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Shog⁹28-Feb-06 11:33

Shog⁹

28-Feb-06 11:33

Try the [Modify link on the bottom right of your post.

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Re: Pls encourage authors to include cppunit-like verification

l_d_allan28-Feb-06 11:40

28-Feb-06 11:40

Thanks .... I thought that would be available, but with the word-wrap off, I couldn't see it .... it was far to the right. Apparently, I messed up usage of the < pre > or < code > tags.

CP Bug

Prakash Nadar27-Feb-06 3:35

27-Feb-06 3:35

After posting a message in blog at CP, it shows a page without the blog forum. First I thought it was a glitch, but it is reproducible many times.

so i have captured the link that is navigated to after posting a message in my blog.

http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?id=497107&id=497107&df=100&forumid=26458&exp=6&mpp=50&select=1386626&msg=1386626[^]

Hope this link helps in someway to figure out the problem.

-Prakash

Re: CP Bug

Prakash Nadar2-Mar-06 5:34

2-Mar-06 5:34

Is anyone fixing the bug? I it always reproducible!

-Prakash
Jesus Loves Everybody

Re: CP Bug

Chris Maunder2-Mar-06 5:36

Chris Maunder

2-Mar-06 5:36

Patience.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Re: CP Bug

Prakash Nadar2-Mar-06 5:41

Stats On My Articles Page

2-Mar-06 5:41

Well, no body acknowledged that if its just me or others are having the same problem.

-Prakash
Jesus Loves Everybody

George B Gilbert24-Feb-06 10:18

George B Gilbert

24-Feb-06 10:18

It would be nice to have columns for each articles' statistics such as Views and Rating in the table on the My Articles page. Then authors wouldn't have to visit each article one at a time to get these stats.

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Great idea!

Ashley van Gerven1-Mar-06 5:09

Ashley van Gerven

1-Mar-06 5:09

i agree - would be handy.

Jason McBurney1-Mar-06 15:19

Jason McBurney

1-Mar-06 15:19

I second that

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar1-Mar-06 22:41

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

1-Mar-06 22:41

Yep, Perhaps .Text Blogs have this feature. Somewhat similar if CP could bring it would be very much useful for authors and other users too.

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Chris Maunder2-Mar-06 8:16

Chris Maunder

2-Mar-06 8:16

Done

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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