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The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++

David O'Neil17-Jan-21 3:51

David O'Neil

17-Jan-21 3:51

Second this problem. I overcame it by pointing the downloads to files on my own servers, but couldn't get them working through CP's servers. For the CP staff: my affected article is dwl::fractalBrowser. Feel free to fix the links to the files uploaded to CP.

edit - I haven't fixed the link to the first zip file in the DWinLib Build Process article. It is also fubar, so you can see what is happening there.

modified 17-Jan-21 10:39am.

Mircea Neacsu17-Jan-21 4:07

Mircea Neacsu

17-Jan-21 4:07

Thanks! Glad to know this time it's not me doing something silly.

Mircea

Matthew Dennis17-Jan-21 6:37

17-Jan-21 6:37

We updated one of our servers, which runs a service to sync files between our web servers.
The service was failing to run after the upgrade, but I've corrected the issue.
Your article download files appear to be ok now.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Mircea Neacsu17-Jan-21 8:11

Mircea Neacsu

17-Jan-21 8:11

Thanks for your prompt answer Matthew. I know how pleasant these weekend happenings are Laugh | :laugh:

Mircea

Where are the new posts?

trønderen15-Jan-21 6:05

trønderen

15-Jan-21 6:05

I'd be really surprised if this issue has not been brought up a dozen times already - but as it prevails, I repeat it:

Maybe it has to do with Corona, or Christmas vacation: The last few weeks it has been even more prominent that some threads are kept alive for a week, maybe two weeks, maybe more, by new comments and follow-ups.

So there is this orange bullet marking updated forums. But where are the updates? The other day, I found the first update after flipping through eleven 50-entry pages with no marks: I found it among entries 551-600. The following day, the first new entry was among entries 501-550.

Usually, I flip through no more than ten pages, but every now and then I decide: I will find that new entry! Finding these page 11 and 12 entries were a result of such determination Smile | :)

But: You do know of the new entries. You know to put that orange bullet flagging the forum, in the left hand column. So, now that you know of the new entries, why couldn't you also indicate in which pages they were found, e.g. by displaying the page numbers underlined, or in some other color?

That "Latest post" frame is of course OK, but it is too limited (and for some reason, it isn't always there). A page flag, "This page has new entries", would be far more flexible/helpful.

Chris Maunder15-Jan-21 6:13

Chris Maunder

15-Jan-21 6:13

trønderen wrote:
This page has new entries

I like it.

I'll have to see what sort of load it puts on the system to find the page where the new post is. What we currently do is update the "last updated" property of the forum itself and so, when listing forums, we can give a yes/no on new posts. Querying for new posts since you last visited is an expensive operation (when multiplied across all viewers) which is the only way we could, prior to displaying a page, get an idea of where the new post is.

Another option is "New topics" vs "New replies". A reply could be to a post 5 years ago. A new post will always be at the top of the first page.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Matthew Dennis15-Jan-21 6:26

15-Jan-21 6:26

Or use the search page. For example, the new Lounge Messages Search

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Richard MacCutchan15-Jan-21 6:28

Richard MacCutchan

15-Jan-21 6:28

Type an asterisk in the search bar above the forum posts and press enter. Newly added replies will magically appear.

Nelek15-Jan-21 7:42

Nelek

15-Jan-21 7:42

Cool. thanks

M.D.V.

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trønderen15-Jan-21 5:46

trønderen

15-Jan-21 5:46

I received an email notification about a reply to one of my messages in the Lounge forum. However, there is no trace of the reply in that forum. I see no reason for the message to be censored in any way.

I'd like to make the replier aware of this, and acknowledge his comment. If there is an option for sending personal messages to the replier, it must be well hidden. I was unable to find it.

This may be by design, to protect members from being flushed by mail - spam, hate mail, or whatever. But when a reply isn't displayed in the forum, there ought to be some way to notify the replier.

(I was considering that maybe the reply to the forum was just a little delayed, but the the email notification is now 21 hours old. I received an email notification of another reply 11 hours ago, and that replay has been available in the Lounge for some hours already. So I don't think it can be ascribed to me being impatient!)

Re: Comment not visible

Matthew Dennis15-Jan-21 6:00

15-Jan-21 6:00

Could you provide the link to the message reply that was in included in the email please.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Re: Comment not visible

trønderen15-Jan-21 6:17

trønderen

15-Jan-21 6:17

Gee ... it helps complaining! Now, after 21 hours, the reply is displayed (with a trailer: "modified 39 secs ago.")

If you want to investigate why it wasn't displayed for 21 hours, the link to the (now displayed) reply is
The Lounge[^]

I cannot see any difference between the comment in the email notification and the one now visible. So I have no clue why it was invisible for 21 hours.

Re: Comment not visible

Matthew Dennis15-Jan-21 6:10

15-Jan-21 6:10

It looks like it got flagged as SPAM, which it is not.
I have restored it and am looking at the referenced site. what memories.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

My post undone ...

Mehdi Gholam13-Jan-21 17:27

Mehdi Gholam

13-Jan-21 17:27

... on this weeks survey !?

Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up;

OriginalGriff13-Jan-21 19:53

OriginalGriff

13-Jan-21 19:53

You're going to have to give them more than that, you know!

What post? When? Did it appear? If so, when did it disappear?

You know the drill for debugging! Laugh | :laugh:

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Mehdi Gholam13-Jan-21 21:00

Mehdi Gholam

13-Jan-21 21:00

I was in the middle of those "Message Closed".

Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up;

OriginalGriff13-Jan-21 21:33

OriginalGriff

13-Jan-21 21:33

Ah.
That may have been me getting carried away, I'm not sure. When was it deleted? I've haven't deleted any for ... oooh, 8 or so hours, at a guess?

No notification on article discussion posts

Mehdi Gholam13-Jan-21 21:43

Mehdi Gholam

13-Jan-21 21:43

Probably the same time.

Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up;

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov13-Jan-21 6:16

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

13-Jan-21 6:16

I track such posts by the page https://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/MyNotifications.aspx, accessible by the rounded rectangle element on the right top of the page.

I wasn't sure if the posts in the discussion section of my articles are registered there. I had a feeling that sometime the are, sometimes not.
Today I found a post on which I certainly did not get a notification:
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5286790/Web-Presentation-an-Application-in-a-Single-File-n?msg=5777642#xx5777642xx.

In connection with that, I have a question: do we have an option to keep all e-mail subscriptions but direct all post notifications only to the site notification, without sending e-mail? So far, when I tried to turn something off, site notifications also would not arrive.

Thank you.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Re: No notification on article discussion posts

Chris Maunder13-Jan-21 6:23

Chris Maunder

13-Jan-21 6:23

On your articles please ensure the "Email Alerts" box has alerts set:

This should happen automatically, but we've seen it occasionally fail.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote:
do we have an option to keep all e-mail subscriptions but direct all post notifications only to the site notification, without sending e-mail

No, not yet I'm afraid.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Got it

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov13-Jan-21 14:46

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

13-Jan-21 14:46

Chris,

Oh... well, I found this set of article notification options very reasonable.
Thank you!

However, now I'll need to repeat setting them for different articles separately, but this is not a big deal. Smile | :)

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Link not working

Espen Harlinn13-Jan-21 5:31

Espen Harlinn

13-Jan-21 5:31

Hi,

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API now shows an artful rendering of Bob, and Do not try and find the page. That’s impossible. Instead only try to realise the truth

I guess the truth is that a bit of divine intervention, or possibly some help from Bob, is required to get it back online …

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Espen Harlinn
Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS

The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.Edsger W.Dijkstra

Re: Link not working

Matthew Dennis13-Jan-21 6:05