Bugs and Suggestions

29-Jul-11 1:40

Nagy Vilmos wrote:
should be :panda:,

No it shouldn't[^]

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'Popular' Stars

Colin Mullikin28-Jul-11 9:42

Colin Mullikin

28-Jul-11 9:42

I think the popular stars given to anything that's been upvoted are a bit overkill. We already have different colors for good/bad. I think something should be given 'popular' status after it has received a few(4-5) votes(up or down). That way it truly would be a popular message.

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#realJSOP28-Jul-11 9:55

#realJSOP

28-Jul-11 9:55

Unless the message is from me, at which point it is awarded a star on the solitary merit of being posted by me.

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Colin Mullikin28-Jul-11 10:00

Colin Mullikin

28-Jul-11 10:00

I felt compelled to give this a 5 for some reason.

::begins to put on kevlar gear::

#realJSOP28-Jul-11 10:03

#realJSOP

28-Jul-11 10:03

Body armor is kinda like a full-body condom. You think you're completely safe, but you're really not.

Albert Holguin28-Jul-11 10:10

Albert Holguin

28-Jul-11 10:10

here... have a star... Poke tongue | ;-P

Chris Maunder28-Jul-11 11:02

28-Jul-11 11:02

I can tweak.

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Pete O'Hanlon30-Jul-11 7:16

Pete O'Hanlon

30-Jul-11 7:16

If you keep applying the cream, that'll soon clear up.

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auto-v-scroll when browsing comments

Hans Dietrich28-Jul-11 15:55

Hans Dietrich

28-Jul-11 15:55

Don't stop there. Let's really trick it out. 1 star = 5 upvotes, 2 stars = 10 upvotes, etc. For the next orders of magnitude, the stars can be displayed as red, green, etc.

Hey John: Can your CodeProject screen scraper distinguish between yellow, red, and green stars? That's something I would really like to keep track of.

Best wishes,
Hans

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C^hris L^osinger28-Jul-11 9:42

C^hris L^osinger

28-Jul-11 9:42

(FF 5.0)

looks like you recently added a feature to automatically v-scroll the browser to put the text of the just-clicked message at the top of the browser window. and it looks like that just broke. the message ends up about 50 pixels higher than the top of the window, so i have to scroll up to read the first few lines.

at least that's what i'm seeing.

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Re: auto-v-scroll when browsing comments

Chris Maunder28-Jul-11 11:02

Forums: icons are not lined up anymore

28-Jul-11 11:02

Thanks - found and fixed.

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Nish Nishant28-Jul-11 9:07

Nish Nishant

28-Jul-11 9:07

As in subject. All forums - same bug.

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Re: Forums: icons are not lined up anymore [solved]

Nish Nishant28-Jul-11 9:08

Nish Nishant

28-Jul-11 9:08

Ctrl-Refresh fixed it. May have got an older buggy CSS or something.

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Re: Forums: icons are not lined up anymore

Chris Maunder28-Jul-11 9:11

Re: Forums: icons are not lined up anymore

28-Jul-11 9:11

You just caught me in the middle of a site update.

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Nish Nishant28-Jul-11 9:11

Nish Nishant

28-Jul-11 9:11

Yeah, I figured as much.

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Another "well done" guys

OriginalGriff28-Jul-11 8:40

28-Jul-11 8:40

I seriously like the new "Code block" and "var" widgets in Q&A - very nice indeed.
Changing inline code to var should help prevent noobies using the whole one by mistake, and being able to chose the code block language from a list is truly excellent!

Well done who ever thought of it! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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AspDotNetDev28-Jul-11 8:52

AspDotNetDev

28-Jul-11 8:52

OriginalGriff wrote:
who ever thought of it

DaveAuld?

Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

OriginalGriff28-Jul-11 8:58

28-Jul-11 8:58

That was months ago! I can't be expected to remember that! Laugh | :laugh:

Nice to see that one in - well done DaveAuld as well.

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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AspDotNetDev28-Jul-11 9:01

AspDotNetDev

28-Jul-11 9:01

I didn't remember it either. I actually thought I submitted that suggestion, so I searched for it and found Dave's post. Smile | :)

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DaveAuld28-Jul-11 9:06

DaveAuld

28-Jul-11 9:06

Your welcome.....

I also think the 1 cent royalty fee per use is quite reasonable as well. Looking forward to the regular monthly payments now Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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OriginalGriff28-Jul-11 9:10

28-Jul-11 9:10

I think that's 1 percent royalty, if you read the small print...

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

Chris Maunder28-Jul-11 9:17

28-Jul-11 9:17

Going back to var should help things. The drop-down was, as others have pointed out, first suggested by DaveAuld.

Further shout outs:

The editor for posting forum messages is now the same as that used in Questions and Answers. The neat bit about that is the code-sniffer that Luc Pattyn supplied. If you have "wrap in a PRE if code detected" checked, then when you post something it will try and guess as to whether it's code and, if so, wrap in PRE blocks with the appropriate language tag.

I'm also hoping the wording of the paste options is clearer, and, based on Luc's bug tracking, the posting itself now works as it should, based on the options you choose.

And finally: I can thank you for helping out with the Chrome message connectors bug that, if you're reading this in Chrome, is fixed.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Microsoft C++ MVP

OriginalGriff28-Jul-11 9:20

28-Jul-11 9:20

You're welcome - I noticed they were back about an hour ago.
I'm not expecting any problems this time, but I'll let you know if anything crops up.

Again, a big well done!

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Profile popups

dan!sh 28-Jul-11 7:14

dan!sh

28-Jul-11 7:14

Either I am hallucinating or it is a bug. I have never selected option to show profile popups but still I see them. Is there something wrong with me or with the code (read hamsters) that run this site?

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Re: Profile popups

Chris Maunder28-Jul-11 9:10