Bugs and Suggestions

4-Mar-06 1:58

It would be nice if you could add the following text:

If you are posting source code with your question, place it inside <pre></pre> tags, or click the "Ignore HTML tags in this message" check box.

All too often, I could answer a question if the < and > characters (and everything in between) hadn't gotten stripped.

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Re: "How to get an answer to your question" suggestion

-- modified at 8:39 Tuesday 7th March, 2006

Gavin Taylor6-Mar-06 8:53

Gavin Taylor

6-Mar-06 8:53

People seem to have enough problems reading 'Do not post programming questions in the lounge', do you really think their going to pay attention to something that complicated.

But yeah, good idea though Smile | :)

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Re: "How to get an answer to your question" suggestion

Gary R. Wheeler6-Mar-06 12:48

6-Mar-06 12:48

I don't think there's anything that will help the clueless prats that post programming questions in the Lounge.

Gavin Taylor wrote:
But yeah, good idea though

Thanks. It just seems like half the time I go to answer a question, the code in the post is rendered meaningless by having everything between the < and > characters stripped out.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: "How to get an answer to your question" suggestion

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar6-Mar-06 22:47

Re: "How to get an answer to your question" suggestion

6-Mar-06 22:47

There is also a CODE tag right?

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Gary R. Wheeler7-Mar-06 1:18

7-Mar-06 1:18

Yes there is. The <code;> tag is essentially an inline font 'style' for function names and that sort of thing in your post text. I would use it, for example, if I was writing about calling the <code>GetComputerName()</code> API function to retrieve the name of the computer my application is running on. I would use the <pre> tag if I wanted to show them some sample code, like this:<pre>

_TCHAR computer_name[MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1];
if (::GetComputerName(computer_name),
    (MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1)) {
  // do something with computer_name
}

</pre>

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Re: &quot;How to get an answer to your question&quot; suggestion

toxcct7-Mar-06 2:02

toxcct

7-Mar-06 2:02

Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
If you are posting source code with your question, place it inside <pre></pre> tags, and click the "Ignore HTML tags in this message" check box.

hmmm, if you're doing so, you'll see your pre tags appearing like this : <pre>some code</pre> and not like this...

some code

but anyway, i fully agree, there might be something more explicit done for the new guys that don't know the use of these tags, and how the post formatting can help rendering their question...

Re: &quot;How to get an answer to your question&quot; suggestion

Gary R. Wheeler7-Mar-06 2:32

7-Mar-06 2:32

Oops. I should have made it clear to do one or the other.

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Voteless forum view

Michael P Butler3-Mar-06 20:42

Michael P Butler

3-Mar-06 20:42

Is there any way to have a view of the forums that doesn't show the voting and change the colours of the messages.

I'm not really interested in what other peoples vote was on a subject but sometimes seeing valid posts like Tom Archer's recent lounge thread on Windows SDK, being voted low really annoy me. So I'd rather not see the votes, and not have the option to vote myself.

Michael

CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

Re: Voteless forum view

Chris Maunder4-Mar-06 9:17

4-Mar-06 9:17

Change your noise threshold to 1 and posts will not change colour.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Re: Voteless forum view

Michael P Butler4-Mar-06 9:26

Michael P Butler

4-Mar-06 9:26

Chris Maunder wrote:
Change your noise threshold to 1 and posts will not change colour.

Is that 'Very Low' or 'Very High'. Either option still shows both red and grey posts. (Using MessageView)

Michael

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Re: Voteless forum view

Chris Maunder4-Mar-06 9:33

Need suggestions for Email Management System

4-Mar-06 9:33

A low tolerance means you want messages marked grey sooner - ie when they start getting voted from 4 downwards. A high tolerance means you're happy to view posts that have low (1-2) ratings.

Unfortunately you're right though - regardless of tolerance settings high rated messages will still show red.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

wEb GuRu...3-Mar-06 2:02

wEb GuRu...

3-Mar-06 2:02

Hi Developers

I am going to design an Email Management System in which an administrator can create,edit view certain Templates and then send these templates to different people. Further more Body,Subject,To of emails should be editable.

Please guide me in this regard if u know some existing like system. Which can be helpful for me in this regard.

I am using ASP.net with VB.net.

Thanks

Lets work it Out.........!

Sorry

wEb GuRu...3-Mar-06 2:05

wEb GuRu...

3-Mar-06 2:05

Sorry I put the question in wrong board

Lets work it Out.........!

question time customized

Marc Soleda2-Mar-06 20:17

Marc Soleda

2-Mar-06 20:17

Here it is a little suggestion for this great forum:
I think that nowadays it isn't available but most of us are interested in several forums but not in all of them. It'd be useful to define in eachone's profile their prefered forums and then in the "Question Timer" summary it'd only appear the questions on the selected forums.

Thanks in advance,
Marc Soleda

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New "Other" Section

Nathan Addy2-Mar-06 6:03

Nathan Addy

2-Mar-06 6:03

I was wondering how feasible adding another section to the articles at codeproject would be? I've been a longtime lurker to CP and would like to write some articles. I only have any experience with gnu programming and generic c++ and python code. I've asked and seen a couple other questions asked about this, and it seems like there is some interest in articles that cover some of these topics. Looking around, though, I don't really see any place to submit them. Is there someplace for these sorts of articles, and if not, what would be the official reaction to a suggestion that a new section for these sorts of articles be created?

Re: New "Other" Section

Chris Maunder2-Mar-06 8:16

2-Mar-06 8:16

There's the C++ section at http://www.codeproject.com/cpp[^]

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Search Functionality

KreativeKai2-Mar-06 3:06

KreativeKai

2-Mar-06 3:06

My suggestion is to add "Message Boards" to the drop down field at the top of the page where you can put Search criteria. Currently you only allow Articles and Authors to be searched and then if nothing is found you can try searching the message boards. There is a search comments feature at the top of each message board, but I'm not sure it is as visable as it could be.

Here is a link to the lounge where I asked how to search, and based on the feedback, it might be helpful to add "Message Boards" to the Search field at top.

[^]

Just a suggestion... Big Grin | :-D

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Re: Search Functionality

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar2-Mar-06 19:17

Search within Article/Threads

2-Mar-06 19:17

CP does have a Search MessageBoards feature also,as you have told yourself here http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/search_comments.asp[^] but the visibility of the hyperlink is only in the results page of CP Search (Articles/Authors).

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar2-Mar-06 1:04

Re: Search within Article/Threads

2-Mar-06 1:04

A search within an Article/Thread for a particular discussion would be great, particularly for articles like Todolist, which has large discussion threads.

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HimaBindu Vejella7-Mar-06 18:42

HimaBindu Vejella

7-Mar-06 18:42

Yes! I agree with U!

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Post Message Textbox in AJAX way

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar1-Mar-06 22:39

Re: Post Message Textbox in AJAX way

1-Mar-06 22:39

The discussion forum in CP is really impressive since each message opens up and closes dynamically when we click it.

Similarly, CP can try bringing in a dynamic DIV containing the textbox etc to post the reply, and similar dynamic DIV for 'Email' etc.

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Chris Maunder2-Mar-06 5:37

2-Mar-06 5:37

Keep your eyes open. There's a Mozilla add-in created by Shog you may be interested in.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Detecting Hyperlinks

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar1-Mar-06 22:37

1-Mar-06 22:37

When we post a hyperlink, CP auto pastes a new window text. Similarly, it would be nice when we type a URL pattern and after a space (flagging end of URL string), the above auto format operation getting triggered.

Perhaps Microsoft Outlook etc would hyperlink http://www.microsoft.com/ when we type the / and press space.

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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Re: Detecting Hyperlinks

Chris Maunder2-Mar-06 5:38