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Thanks.
The issue here is that we create an entry for an article before the article itself is actually created. If something breaks or the author decides he or she doesn't want to continue then a bodiless entry was being left. We're fixing this up to allow authors to revisit those articles they started but didn't complete, while hiding them from everyone else.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Perhaps you can consider something like a 'Draft' or 'Work In Progress', which would facilitate the article authors to keep updating the content at thier leisure and once they are content, they can choose to 'Publish' or 'Submit to CP submit (at) codeproject.com' (through the Article Engine itself).
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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In the old version of CP, when you clicked a link on the Latest Comments page for your user, a new window was created as the target of the click (or an existing window was used if you'd already browsed to a page). In this way, it was easy to go backwards and forwards between messages you'd posted. Could we have this back please?
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I second that.
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Chris, your pinned message at the top of the MFC/C++ forum seems to have vanished again.
It disappeared after the upgrade, then came back last week, now is gone again. If this behaviour is 'by design' then please feel free to ignore/delete this.
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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You still can't see the votes on your messages posted page. This includes votes made before CP was upgraded. Also it's annoying that there's no "next" button at the bottom of the page (there's one at the top).
Steve
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it's been turned off for the moment. Will turn it back on today
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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just got another error posting to this board.
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Now that is one helpful post.
About as helpful as this for example:
*999*
"Help my leg doesn't work, fix it"
If you could at least say what the errors are... Chris also said that most errors get caught and reported to them anyways, so unless its a strange bug of some kind, there's probably no need to post about it.
My current favourite word is: Bauble!
-SK Genius
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I've tried numerous things but I can't get to step 4 of the article submission wizard.
I've been burned a few times where on step 3 the wizard dumps the content of the article and defaults back to the original template.
I now have the content stored in a TXT file, but just copying the content back into the template doesn't work.
Once I was able to post an article with just the default content template, so I went back and deleted that one, started all over again only to be "reset" again trying to work my article content into the template.
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.11.
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Try now?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
modified on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:33:54 AM
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Some articles (not all) show popup ads from Vibrant. I have unticked IntelliTxt both for my articles and for other articles in my CP profile. I logged out and relogged in and those same articles keep showing the ads. It's always the same articles that show ads - means it's not random.
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What articles is it? It might just be you. 
My current favourite word is: Bauble!
-SK Genius
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I see it! I also have IntelliTxt disabled.
At least we know your not alone!
My current favourite word is: Bauble!
-SK Genius
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Can you recheck? I'm not seeing any intelliTXT ads in your articles.
BTW: are you glad to see your work in the colorizer lighting up the articles? 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Can you recheck? I'm not seeing any intelliTXT ads in your articles.
It's just on 2 articles, Chris. It's not a big deal for me really, I was more thinking about it being a bug.
Chris Maunder wrote: BTW: are you glad to see your work in the colorizer lighting up the articles?
Yes, the code coloring looks awesome! 
I was telling Smitha that at least some part of all that cool looking syntax coloring was my work 
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I am just preparing a new article and was looking over the CP licensing schemes. I found none that are acceptable to me - none of them include the provision "You cannot sell the source code", or something similar.
I am not interested in contributing articles that will end up on a site-scraper's CD or download. Please modify one of the existing licenses, or provide a new license based on the CPOL that includes this provision.
After all the discussion here about licenses, I am frankly surprised that you did not allow authors ability to specify "custom" license.
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Hey Hans,
Could you not put an addendum to the license in your article body?
Something like :-
"In addition to the terms of the XYZ license, you are further bound by the following terms when using this code :-
* ...
* ...
"
I think that'd work out okay.
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Thanks, Nish - that's what I'd like to do, but the CP Article Submission Wizard doesn't provide for "custom" licenses. You have to choose one of the listed licenses, period. I don't know what legal effect an "addendum" would have, so I think this needs to be addressed directly in one of the listed licenses. This may mean a new license, or it may mean modifying one of the licenses already listed.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: I don't know what legal effect an "addendum" would have, so I think this needs to be addressed directly in one of the listed licenses. This may mean a new license, or it may mean modifying one of the licenses already listed.
Ah ok. Got your point.
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What restrictions do you want?
1. Do you want the code to be used in commercial apps?
2. Can the user sell an application that contains some of your code?
3. What does "contains some of your code" mean? Would you be happy with wording along the lines of "code does not comprise the majority of the functionality of the commercial appication"?
4. If someone sells an app with your code and your code is broken, is that person allowed to charge for support calls to fix your code? (this is typically allowed)
5. If someone fixes your broken code can they sell those fixes since they are their own work, or do you want those fixes to be bound by the "no-sell" licence too? (This would make your code subject to a viral licence).
6. Can the user charge extra if including your code would result in higher shipping costs? ie can they charge for distribution? (this is typically allowed)
- No selling the source code at all? ie it can't be bundled in anything that's sold (ie no commercial use)
- No selling the code separately?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: What restrictions do you want?
Again, from the previous discussion several months back, the CPOL would be fine with the added provision "You cannot sell the source code. You may charge a minimal distribution fee to cover media & shipping charges."
Thanks for considering this.
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