Bugs and Suggestions

Nelek14-May-21 5:15

Nelek

14-May-21 5:15

maybe has the highlighter a problem with the new code snippets?

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OriginalGriff14-May-21 5:29

14-May-21 5:29

Probably, but either the HTML they enter should be encoded so we can see it, or the highlighter needs to be engaged. Otherwise we have no idea there is a link unless we search really carefully for something not listed in the details ...

Thinking about it, @Chris-Maunder can you delete / sanitise this thread when you have enough details? No point in giving the bad guys a heads up ... I should have thought of that before I posted it. Blush | :O

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Nelek14-May-21 8:17

Nelek

14-May-21 8:17

Matthew working on it... time to delete?

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OriginalGriff14-May-21 8:30

14-May-21 8:30

Mathew has the capability to delete it - so either he's happy to leave it while it's being fixed, or he still needs it.

Nelek14-May-21 9:17

Nelek

14-May-21 9:17

Many geniuses are a bit forgetful too Wink | ;)

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Matthew Dennis14-May-21 5:54

Matthew Dennis

14-May-21 5:54

They are getting tricky. We'll look into it.

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No foreigners here?

Richard MacCutchan9-May-21 1:01

9-May-21 1:01

It appears that all new members of CodeProject are in the USA, according to their home pages. Is there something preventing them selecting their home country when they create a new account?

Re: No foreigners here?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter9-May-21 1:41

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

9-May-21 1:41

Looking at the accounts opened today (9th of May) there are several that did changed the country - so it seems to be possible...
Looking at the others - most of them seems like generated by some code, not human made. That may explain why the country is the default...

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Re: No foreigners here?

Richard MacCutchan9-May-21 2:10

Why is Bob in Valentines disguise?

9-May-21 2:10

I was referring to all the new accounts created to post in QA. I assume it is just laziness (like some of the questions) but there may have been some other reason.

Re: No foreigners here?

Jo_vb.net12-May-21 3:50

Jo_vb.net

12-May-21 3:50

Not all - I'm from germany.

OriginalGriff8-May-21 20:23

Re: Why is Bob in Valentines disguise?

8-May-21 20:23

Has his time machine failed, again? Big Grin | :-D

Peter_in_27808-May-21 21:14

Peter_in_2780

8-May-21 21:14

Today is Mothers Day in Oz, the US and probably other miscellaneous countries.

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Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

Greg Utas1-May-21 11:25

Greg Utas

1-May-21 11:25

C++

// The following loop blah blah blah...
//
while(true)  // See? The root cause seems to be that the last endline was ignored.
{
   do_work();
}

It wasn't like this before, and I'll have a pile of editing to do if it isn't fixed.

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modified 1-May-21 18:46pm.

Re: Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

OriginalGriff1-May-21 18:57

Re: Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

1-May-21 18:57

Strange ... but confirmed, and only for "specifically named" C and C++ comments:

// The following loop blah blah blah...
//
while(true)  // See? The root cause seems to be that the last endline was ignored.
{
   do_work();
}

// The following loop blah blah blah...
//
while(true)  // See? The root cause seems to be that the last endline was ignored.
{
   do_work();
}

C++

// The following loop blah blah blah...
//
while(true)  // See? The root cause seems to be that the last endline was ignored.
{
   do_work();
}

// The following loop blah blah blah...
//
while(true)  // See? The root cause seems to be that the last endline was ignored.
{
   do_work();
}

Java

// The following loop blah blah blah...
//
while(true)  // See? The root cause seems to be that the last endline was ignored.
{
   do_work();
}

Greg Utas2-May-21 0:00

Greg Utas

2-May-21 0:00

By "specifically named", do you mean that only the C/C++ examples are broken? I'm surprised that the first one is colorized at all, given that it doesn't specify a language.

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Re: Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

OriginalGriff2-May-21 0:52

Re: Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

2-May-21 0:52

If you don't specify anything, it tried to work it out for you - and mostly does a pretty good job.
But only the C / C++ ones gave a comment problem.

Matthew Dennis5-May-21 9:02

Matthew Dennis

5-May-21 9:02

Chris is looking into this. He thinks it has something to do with the comment continuation character support he added to c/c++.

I didn't even realize there was such a thing.
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:text=Single%2Dline%20comments%20(informally%2C,continue%20in%20the%20next%20line.)

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Re: Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

Greg Utas5-May-21 9:34

Greg Utas

5-May-21 9:34

I wasn't sure what you meant, but it looks like a backslash at the end of a line continues a comment. This makes sense insofar as it escapes the endline character, but I still think it's silly.

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Re: Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

Matthew Dennis5-May-21 10:05

Matthew Dennis

5-May-21 10:05

One thing I learned when writing specifications. Make one or two silly, easy to fix, mistakes or requirements. The reviewers need to find something to justify their existence, so make both your lives easier.

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Re: Attached comment in C++ code comments the next line of code

OriginalGriff5-May-21 19:51

Strange Copy Code problem in QA - solved

5-May-21 19:51

You're not the only one to think of that: The secret of a successful code review | CommitStrip[^] Big Grin | :-D

Richard MacCutchan25-Apr-21 23:42

Re: Strange Copy Code problem in QA

25-Apr-21 23:42

I added Solution 3 to the question at Performing arithmetic operations with textbox values[^]. But now, when I click the Copy Code button in my solution it picks up random code from elsewhere in the entry, e.g.

On Button click, divide the value of textbox1 with the sum of the values of TesxtBox2, TextBox3, and TextBox4, then multiply the result with the value of TextBox5. Show the final result in textBox6. I have tried manipulating the below code, but doesn't seem to get. Would appreciate any valuable assistance

Which is from the question.

[edit]
I restarted Chrome and it is working now.
[/edit]

modified 26-Apr-21 6:30am.

Richard Deeming26-Apr-21 0:20

Richard Deeming

26-Apr-21 0:20

Works fine for me in Firefox 88.

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Re: Strange Copy Code problem in QA

Richard MacCutchan26-Apr-21 0:31