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Would it be possible to add a little box on the top of the coding forums to display the top five or so, unanswered questions?
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Bob X wrote: Would it be possible to add a little box on the top of the coding forums to display the top five or so, unanswered questions?
That was added a few weeks ago, it's stuck in the middle of the forum listings and the forum it self. [exp] View unanswered questions in the Visual C++ / MFC forum[^][/exp]
Unless you means something differnt in which case, sorry about that...
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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I think he meant something along the lines of the new box in the Lounge where it lists the last five messages in each category. Except this one would list the last 5 unanswered questions.
As of how to accomplish this I wouldn't have a clue at the moment and I'm too lazy to google it
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Ed.Poore wrote: new box in the Lounge where it lists the last five messages in each category
Ah, Having the ability to look at the last 50 or so is good enough for me.
Ed.Poore wrote: As of how to accomplish this I wouldn't have a clue at the moment and I'm too lazy to google it
Nice sig, while your to lazy to google it, I'm to busy watching the grass grow.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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S Douglas wrote: Ah, Having the ability to look at the last 50 or so is good enough for me.
Me too, if only there was a filter for all the c**p messages people post in the middle, HELLP ME PLZ  .
Like your sig too by the way.
As of how to accomplish this I wouldn't have a clue at the moment and I'm too lazy to google it
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Ed.Poore wrote: filter for all the c**p messages people post in the middle
There is already a way, dont look at them, when I start getting annoyed with poeple I stop looking through the message boards unless Im looking for answer for my own question. Funny often enough I can normally find the simple stuff with a quick search. no need to post.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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S Douglas wrote: dont look at them
Not enough processing power in my brain to do that, it requires too much effort.
As of how to accomplish this I wouldn't have a clue at the moment and I'm too lazy to google it
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I was sort of thinking of something like the one in the lounge, but that unanswered questions list will work fine. (I didn't know it already existed)
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A few days ago I asked a question about why update for my article XSuperTooltip was not appearing in "Last 10 Updates" list. Chris replied that this was done to eliminate bogus updates, by people wanting their articles to stay on list longer.
I understand this policy, but I think the way it's been implemented has an unfortunate side-effect: there is no mention of an update in article header (stuff at top of each article page), which means that if people use header info to determine if they have latest source, they will be misled sometimes. (I always include a "History" section at end of my articles, but I think many people do not scroll down to see).
So, I request that you change implementation so that article header always shows update date, regardless of whether it's on "Last 10" list.
Best wishes,
Hans
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No, it doesn't - look at this article, and you will see a posted date of 31 Jul 2006. However, I updated this article on 4 Aug 2006 - within the one-week "no update" period (to verify this, scroll down to the "Revision History" section). Therefore, the article header was not updated with an "Updated" date, because of the way the update policy is currently implemented.
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Thanks for adding Mathematics !
But what about Usability / Interface forum ?
My english is not so good. Please, correct my errors.
Best regards, Alexey.
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why my latest article (XEmphasisButton) is showing up in Latest Best Picks if I have All Topics selected, but not if I have MFC/C++ selected. Its says "MFC" in the article header????? 
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Hans Dietrich wrote: why my latest article (XEmphasisButton) is showing up in Latest Best Picks if I have All Topics selected, but not if I have MFC/C++ selected. Its says "MFC" in the article header?????
For me, it does show up when MFC/C++ is selected, and also when All Topics is selected.
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Thanks, I just got an email from Chris. He said he fixed whatever was broken.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: Thanks, I just got an email from Chris. He said he fixed whatever was broken.
Ah, he did that so fast that by the time I checked it, it was already fixed.
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Hello
Some time ago I posted an article using the submission wizard -which is a great tool by the way-. I have a few notes:
1- I uploaded a source. Then updated the source -before the article was editted-, and I used the submission wizard again to update the article. When I uploaded the new source file with the same name as the old the script kept giving me errors till I had to upload it with a different name. Later on I wanted to delete the old files only to be surprised that I can't Why not adding the delet option of files rather than letting them there until the editting?
2- When my article was editted some phrases were removed from it. That got me frusterated. Yes they were unrelated to the subject but they weren't inappropriate. I think the editting concept itself -Letting others change what I wrote the way they see fit-, is a bit disturbing, don't you think? I like to have my article uploaded with the wizard, and if any reader find anything in appropriate in it they should report it with the link!!
3- After the editting my article it can't be accessed by the wizard. Again it's bothering.
The bottom line, why not making article submission like web hosting?? You are hosting a page where the author show some content. Sure you'll put that page in the section you see fit. Also you'd remove any article you see inappropriate. Yet the author may have the write to directly upload to and/or edit his article without having to send it via email -which takes a LOT more time and effort-.
This would make article editting more like the forums. Still you will have more control on articles' content than you do on forums' content.
BTW:
Who edits your article??
Regards![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Nader Elshehabi wrote: When I uploaded the new source file with the same name as the old the script kept giving me errors
This could have either been a file system error on our part or a problem with readers trying to download your file while you were trying to upload and overwrite it. Thanks for the note on that one.
Nader Elshehabi wrote: When my article was editted some phrases were removed from it.
We try very hard to keep the original flavour of articles but we also try to ensure that the article reads well and will be presented in as professional manner as we can.
Nader Elshehabi wrote: After the editting my article it can't be accessed by the wizard
No, but instructions on the easiest way to send us your updates can be found in the notification email that was sent to you. The point of editing an article is to make sure it is correct and consistent with other articles. If we allowed authors to re-edit edited articles then they would have to go back into the unedited pool, which defeats the purpose of editing them in the first place.
Nader Elshehabi wrote: The bottom line, why not making article submission like web hosting??
Because that's not what CodeProject is about. The point of CodeProject is to provide a place authors can submit technical articles and have those articles edited and published in a consistent manner in order to allow our readership to have an easy time browsing and reading the articles.
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from this thread[^]
I think it's necessary to have a "forceful reminder to think about the licence" when submitting code an article.
e.g. a dropdown with the following selections:
"Code Project Standards" (*)
<list of="" most="" important="" standard="" licences="">
"Custom Licence in Article body"
(*) if there is one. The article linked in the thread above implies that if there's nothing else mentioned in the article, the "article rules" carry over automatically. I'm not a legal expert, so...
Just an idea.
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We've been wanting to implement this forever but in a more formal manner. The trick has been finding the right wording for licences that will be palatable to everyone and will protect everyone (including us). We get one chance to do something like this and so we're spending an awful lot on lawyers to get the wording right.
Good timing for the whole discussion thread.
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Ok, am I right in interpreting this as meaning you're looking into revising the default CP license instead of just giving options like bsd licence/gpl licence/et. cetera licence?
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Absolutely
[edit: absolutely on revising the "default", but there is no "one size fits all" licence, nor should there be. We'll work to make licencing - correct and appropriate licencing for each article should the author wish to not use the default - easy]
-- modified at 9:03 Friday 18th August, 2006
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Wow! I clicked on your message expecting it to say one thing, and I have to say I'm surprised.
I think it would be a huge mistake for CP to dive into the middle of this. If you want to, offer a list of commonly used licenses - BSD, GPL, LGPL, MIT, Apache, etc. - with a selection for "author's custom license", that would be fine - but if you're going to be mandating a single license for all submissions, I can see some people refusing to submit. I would hate to see anything that might cut down on quality submissions (and they are the ones where the author is most likely to have an opinion about the license, aren't they?).
Save the money, buy yourself a beer at Steele's Tavern.
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Sorry - I shot from the hip with my previous response. Please see the edited response.
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