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Accepted highlight impinges on answer text. [modified]

1-Feb-11 4:08

OK.

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Missing Link

Member 371720431-Jan-11 22:20

Member 3717204

31-Jan-11 22:20

The following links are missing:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/list/ListView/Article_demo.zip[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/list/ListView/Article_src.zip[^]

from Article:

Using ListView control under Win32 API[^]

Henry Minute31-Jan-11 8:11

Re: Accepted highlight impinges on answer text.

31-Jan-11 8:11

The border for 'Answer Accepted' highlight butts right up against the text of the answer.

Not a big deal, just thought I'd let you folks know.

[Edit]
BTW: FF and XP SP3
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modified on Monday, January 31, 2011 2:48 PM

Chris Maunder1-Feb-11 14:10

Re: Q and A: Editing Mode

1-Feb-11 14:10

Thanks - I've updated the UI and will upload today, hopefully.

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

Q and A: Editing Mode

Slacker00731-Jan-11 5:12

Slacker007

31-Jan-11 5:12

the editing mode input box is not that wide anymore. This was fixed I believe last week and now it is back to its old format. I think the width should span across the page giving more room to edit the question/Answer.

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 11:06

Re: Q and A: Editing Mode

31-Jan-11 11:06

It's narrower than the page in order to leave room for the auto-suggestions.

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Slacker0071-Feb-11 0:10

Slacker007

1-Feb-11 0:10

You're the boss.

D'OH!!! Another Spammer

fjdiewornncalwe31-Jan-11 4:38

fjdiewornncalwe

31-Jan-11 4:38

This guy left [Edit]an[/Edit] advert.
(The link was kaput!!!)

I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.

Re: D'OH!!! Another Spammer

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 4:51

Re: D'OH!!! Another Spammer

31-Jan-11 4:51

Ex-spammer.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Microsoft C++ MVP

Henry Minute31-Jan-11 7:45

Re: D'OH!!! Another Spammer

31-Jan-11 7:45

Very confusing.

Your 'this advert...' link now points to a totally different article.

AspDotNetDev31-Jan-11 8:18

AspDotNetDev

31-Jan-11 8:18

The link pionts to a message at the bottom of an article. I imagine once that message got deleted, the link defaulted to the article.

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Thanks...

Hans Dietrich31-Jan-11 4:28

Hans Dietrich

31-Jan-11 4:28

for the article tags on the home page.

Now I can skip all those nasty .NET articles that Nish warned me about. Smile | :)

Best wishes,
Hans

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Re: Thanks...

thatraja1-Feb-11 4:48

thatraja

1-Feb-11 4:48

Hans Dietrich wrote:
Now I can skip all those nasty .NET articles that Nish warned me about.

I think Nish also writing many .NET articles so be ready.

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New Q&A layout

Henry Minute31-Jan-11 3:16

31-Jan-11 3:16

I like it. (positive reinforcement)

One thing, though, and I can't quantify this but could we not have the original poster name on the same line as the subject with the updater (if any) moved down to the same line as the pretty new tag indicators. As I say, I can't quantify this but I really found it odd not having the original poster information. (hopefully constructive criticism)

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:22

31-Jan-11 3:22

I've gone back and forwards on this for a while and I found having both simply made it so I wouldn't read either.

So my decision was:

On the "Active" tab you see who was last active.
On the other tabs you see who posted.

I was going to have 2 columns but there simply wasn't room. I was also going to leave just the poster's name, but for the active tab I really wanted to reward those who were active on each question - the ones doing the actual work.

My final thought was: what does it tell you if you know the name of the poster? A serious question, this one, and one that I started thinking pointed to a decision to not show poster's names at all. Possibly.

cheers,
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Sandeep Mewara31-Jan-11 3:45

31-Jan-11 3:45

Visited link colorization is gone. Intentional?
Personal opinion: It's better to have colorization of already visited links in Q&A.

Sandeep Mewara
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Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:54

31-Jan-11 3:54

It was getting messy with too many colours: blue, grey, maroon.

Ah, what the heck. I'll add colourisation back for visited.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Microsoft C++ MVP

Sandeep Mewara31-Jan-11 3:57

31-Jan-11 3:57

Sandeep Mewara
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Sandeep Mewara31-Jan-11 4:25

31-Jan-11 4:25

When I view 'My Posts', isin't it redundant to show posters name?
Though it doesn't matter as we have enough space out there, but just not much of significance.

Sandeep Mewara
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Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 4:45

31-Jan-11 4:45

Yes, but consistent with the rest of the UI, and if it's a post that you're a co-author on, then both names will appear there.

Not that we provide a GUI in which to do that yet...

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Sandeep Mewara31-Jan-11 4:46

31-Jan-11 4:46

Chris Maunder wrote:
if it's a post that you're a co-author on, then both names will appear there.

That explains it then.

Ok. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Sandeep Mewara
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Henry Minute31-Jan-11 3:49

31-Jan-11 3:49

All of that makes sense. It is probably me being old and reactionary.

The first Q I looked at was this[^] one. I looked at it without checking who the poster was. When I exited I saw Chris Maunder where I expected to see the poster and just found it 'odd'. Smile | :)

I also should have mentioned this in the original message but I'm not seeing the 'open in new tab/window' widget. My connection is playing up a bit so they may just not be loading for me but I found them useful, so if they are missing, can we have them back please.

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:58

31-Jan-11 3:58

I'm open to ideas on how to show everything while keeping things clean. Maybe just stick to the poster? Maybe to none...

As to the open in a new window, I removed them shift+click does the same thing and all they do is add unnecessary payload.

I guess I could add them via javascript...

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Henry Minute31-Jan-11 4:08