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As useful as they may be, they can be annoying sometimes. A default 'tab' character is equal to 4 standard characters, but the pre tags like to extend this to 8. Instead of being able to copy and paste code, in order to display it correctly we must replace the tab's with 4 spaces. Also, when entering an empty line ( hitting enter twice ) the pre tags seems to take it back out. Again, for any empty line we want we must add another space.
Could something be done about this to make it more "copy and paste" friendly?
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For the submission wizard? It already automatically converts tabs to 4 spaces.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: For the submission wizard?
I have never used the wizard, so I'm not too sure. I was talking a about the forums more than anything.
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Hi Chris,
Chris Maunder wrote: It already automatically converts...
It also automatically converts to white space, which is then subsequently removed from the document... Not desired behavior.
Jeff
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Hi All (Chris),
A few comments/notes - I finally got some time to get something else out...
1) 'Preview' appears to function a bit incorrectly - images were not displayed (only the box with the red 'X' was displayed). After publishing and viewing, all was OK.
2) C++ Language Pretty Ptinter (text colorizer) seems to tank after the first double quote - everything following it is magenta, signifying string data. Note that the double qute occurs in a < PRE > block and was escaped ("e;), not literal.
3) Article width is too large - it is creating a significant horizontal scroll bar. This may have to do with chosing to 'right align' with an image - I'm not sure. I did not observe any PRE tags which ran on to the extent of the scroll bar.
4) The annoyance of the semi-colon/P still exists. It puts in a silly smilley face rather than leaving preformatted untouched (in the Discussion area). Can we add a check box to 'Ignore Smiley Symbols' so we can still place HTML in the message...
The article which demonstartes the behaviors can be found at Dynamic .CODE Section Image Verification
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Jeff
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The preview step happens before you upload any files, so of course the <img> tags won't show anything. If you put alt attributes on your <img>s, the browser will show those instead.
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The wizard has been reworked so you now upload images and files before you enter the text. There's an "insert image" dialog that has a preview of the image you are entering that he's talking about.
Works fine in Mozilla but not in IE. And sometimes the other way around. They two browsers treat things very differently so I need to dig in and write some browser specific code.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi, I just came across two bugs in the Wizard, regarding the preformatted code:
- If I choose "C++", nothing is highlighted, because the formatting engine looks for "c++" and the wizard inserts "C++".
- If I choose "managed C++", the case is correct, but the highlighting performs "greedy" search on double quotes (") for strings, and marks dozens of lines as string.
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Hi Alex,
Alex Cohn wrote: - If I choose "managed C++", the case is correct, but the highlighting performs "greedy" search on double quotes (") for strings, and marks dozens of lines as string.
I just noticed it performs as expected when one performs a Preview...
Jeff
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Ah, nasty annoying bug.
It turns out the upload component we're using HTML encodes the article and our colourising code can't handle this. The preview page isn't using the upload control but the submission page does.
I'm just putting the final touches to the new colouriser that I'll try and roll out after my Christmas holiday next week (yes, delayed a little  )
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
It looks great. Good Job.
Jeff
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Hi Mike,
I think the upload has been moved to the step prior to the adding of code.
Jeff
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Ah, nevermind then. I didn't get the memo about the revamped wizard.
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Hi Mike,
Michael Dunn wrote: I didn't get the memo about the revamped wizard.
No problem - keep writing those excellent articles and disregard any memo that crosses your desk.
Jeff
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Huh? As of right now, the article Really Dynamic Master Pages[^] has one vote, announced with the text "1 vote has for this article". Presumably, articles with only one vote aren't very common, but it looks as if the code for "number of votes=1" might need a little tweak. 
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I right real pretty. How embarrasment!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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After a few months of intense work, QA, retesting, a little reworking of the underlying infrastructure, a focus group and approval by legal we have removed the offending word "has".
It was a tough challenge but we're proud to say we stayed within budget and delivered all major milestones and deliverables on time.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It's a hard life being a developer when you're facing such difficult challenges...
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When I went from menu Articles -> Latest to http://www.codeproject.com/info/latest.asp[^] I got:
"0 New articles, 0 updated articles, 0 moved articles since Monday 12th February, 2007"
This sure isn't right, when I hit update button on the same page I get bunch of articles.
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus
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Possibly a database timeout.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Ah, I see... I tried several time that day, but now it's ok 
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus
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This seems to be happening to my posts yesterday and today... do tell - whats happening 
Posted today[^]
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In the past few weeks there seems to be large increase in poor articles - here is another one: Writing Dlls in C,C++.
My suggestion is this: put "new" articles (submitted via Submission Wizard) in queue of 2 or 3 volunteer editors, who will rate strictly on its merit - not format, punctuation or anything else. The volunteer editors cannot edit the article, only rate it. An article is considered "new" if submitted by someone with fewer than 5 "acceptable" articles. An article is considered to be "acceptable" if it has a rating of higher than 2. If the average of the volunteer editors' votes is greater than 2, the article will be posted; if not, the editors' comments will be sent to the poster, to let him know why it was not posted. Once a member has posted 5 "acceptable" articles, his articles will be posted directly, without being put in queue. Preferably, the volunteer editor herself/himself should have posted at least one article in the category of the submitted article.
I think this probation period will allow CP community to influence quality of articles in positive way, by giving direct feedback to authors, without harshness of simply voting article into purgatory.
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We have way to many variations on the same idea... it's like its linux.
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