Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Marking my own answer as correct

2-Mar-11 4:16

This was done to stop people spuriously up-voting their own stuff.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Rajesh R Subramanian2-Mar-11 4:33

Rajesh R Subramanian

2-Mar-11 4:33

OK. That makes sense.

"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

[Broken smiley] but with additional characters

thatraja1-Mar-11 22:18

thatraja

1-Mar-11 22:18

You may check in my profile too.

thatraja

My Tip/Tricks
My Dad had a Heart Attack on this day so don't...

Re: [Broken smiley] but with additional characters

Chris Maunder2-Mar-11 9:16

Re: [Broken smiley] but with additional characters[Solved]

2-Mar-11 9:16

Thanks - fixing now.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

thatraja2-Mar-11 15:02

thatraja

2-Mar-11 15:02

thatraja

My Tip/Tricks
My Dad had a Heart Attack on this day so don't...

404 in daily insider link

HimanshuJoshi1-Mar-11 13:37

HimanshuJoshi

1-Mar-11 13:37

Today's daily insider links to this[^] working at Microsoft article which results in a 404 page.

Re: 404 in daily insider link

Terrence Dorsey1-Mar-11 15:19

Terrence Dorsey

1-Mar-11 15:19

He seems to have taken that page down, which is too bad.

Cached version here[^] and some interesting comments about the article on Hacker News[^].

Should I update our news link to the cached version? I think so...

QA comment publishing status

Yusuf1-Mar-11 5:55

Yusuf

1-Mar-11 5:55

When ever I edit a comment in the QA, publishing status drop-down menu is shown in the top right hand corner. The drop-down has values {Available, Pending and grayed out}

1. I didn't see this except when editing comments
2. The default selection is nothing. Which means the status 'Available' has to be selected in order for the change to show.

Question:
This seems useful feature. Can it be made available when editing say the question or answer.

Suggestion:
Can the 'Available' be the default selection? I have been bitten in the rare many times by forgetting to set it.

Yusuf
May I help you?

Re: QA comment publishing status

Chris Maunder1-Mar-11 10:00

Daily Insider RSS? Is there? can there be please?

1-Mar-11 10:00

That dropdown will be removed.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Klae1-Mar-11 5:31

Klae

1-Mar-11 5:31

Is there, or can there be an RSS feed duplicate of your Daily Insider email? I love your daily email its great, sometimes at work I'm dealing with so much expletives that I don't get time to read it. Love to read it on my phone or something on the way home!

Re: Daily Insider RSS? Is there? can there be please?

Chris Maunder1-Mar-11 10:06

Tip/Trick Alternates (not)

1-Mar-11 10:06

No RSS at this point, but you can get your fix from http://www.codeproject.com/script/News/List.aspx[^]

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Henry Minute1-Mar-11 5:13

Henry Minute

1-Mar-11 5:13

This[^] Tip/Trick, currently waiting approval, is a repetition of something which occurs fairly often.

It is an alternate that isn't. It is part of an interchange that has, possibly inadvertently, been posted as an alternate rather than as a comment, as it should be, IMHO.

Now I could copy it as a reply to the comment that I think it belongs to but if I do that there is still no way for me to delete it, nor any easy way to contact the author to ask that he deletes it and posts it in the correct place.

[Edit]
Here's[^] another one.
[/Edit]

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Re: Tip/Trick Alternates (not)

Chris Maunder1-Mar-11 10:05

1-Mar-11 10:05

I'll add back comments for pending items.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Microsoft C++ MVP

ZIP archive format ?

Maximilien1-Mar-11 3:31

Maximilien

1-Mar-11 3:31

(I'm not the article author)
I tried getting the zip archive from this article :

Big Number[^]

Extraction fails (winrar, winzip 11.0 7-zip on Vista and default extractor on Mac OSX), as well as browsing the source code from within the article.

Is there a preferred zip format (or compatibility setting) needed when creating and uploading the archive ?

Thanks.

Watched code never compiles.

Re: ZIP archive format ?

Hans Dietrich1-Mar-11 3:34

1-Mar-11 3:34

I just downloaded that with no problem. I'm using FF 3.6 and Winzip 14. Why don't you try a different computer?

Best wishes,
Hans

CP Footer Alignment Problem

Re: ZIP archive format ?

DaveyM691-Mar-11 21:11

DaveyM69

1-Mar-11 21:11

Works fine for me - W732bit, IE8 and W7s's built in zip utility.

Dave

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Ravi Sant28-Feb-11 21:01

Ravi Sant

28-Feb-11 21:01

Hi,
The last couple of lines on page does not appear to be centre aligned or justified (in chrome atleast)

Image: Link

Is it intentional or bug?
One appears to left and other two to right top and bottom in footer.

Chris Maunder1-Mar-11 1:39

1-Mar-11 1:39

They are justified with the ad.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Hans Dietrich1-Mar-11 2:37

1-Mar-11 2:37

Chris Maunder wrote:
They are justified with the ad.

That might be the reason for the way they look, but the fact is, it looks wrong; like the centering is broken.

Best wishes,
Hans

Dan Neely1-Mar-11 2:50

Dan Neely

1-Mar-11 2:50

I poked around in FF, the ad and footer were always either centered on the page as a whole, or the main frame if the forum sidebar was visible. In both cases it looked fine to me.

Is Chrome doing layout differently, or is there a page where it's off center in some other way?

3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Hans Dietrich1-Mar-11 3:07

1-Mar-11 3:07

In IE, Chrome, and Opera, there are two lines displayed below the bottom orange bar. The first of these lines is centered, the second line is right-justified wrt the first.

In FF 3.6, it looks a lot funkier: three lines, the first sort of centered, the next two offset to the right.

p.s. By "centered", I mean wrt the browser window.

Best wishes,
Hans

Re: CP Footer Alignment Problem [modified]

Dan Neely1-Mar-11 3:18

Dan Neely

1-Mar-11 3:18

Now I'm midly confused. I'm using FF 3.6.13 and only seeing 2 lines. The first the same width as the banner and centered the same, the second right aligned to the first. It might be a browser bogo formatting thing though. I saw this:

Web24 | 2.3.110228.1 | Advertise | Privacy | Mobile Copyright © CodeProject, 1999-2011
                                                     All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use

3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Hans Dietrich1-Mar-11 3:26

1-Mar-11 3:26

[joke] Do you have the checkbox "Allow hamsters to screw with the HTML" checked? [/joke]

Best wishes,
Hans

modified on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 9:37 AM

Dan Neely1-Mar-11 3:33

Dan Neely

1-Mar-11 3:33

Not checked: Encode "<" (and other HTML) characters when pasting
Checked: Use HTML in this post

It pasted as plain text, I thought the decision about how to convert html-plain text (or to take the plain text version from the clipboard) was done by the browser before Maunder's JS had an opportunity to meddle.

3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Hans Dietrich1-Mar-11 3:29

1-Mar-11 3:29

What I see in FF 3.6 is this:

Web24 | 2.3.110228.1 | Advertise | Privacy | Mobile
                                       Copyright © CodeProject, 1999-2011
                                        All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use

Best wishes,
Hans