Bugs and Suggestions

17-Jun-21 10:38

In Q&A and probably in other places, TextBoxes (including comments) are changing user input on their own.
- During user input/edition, preview look good.
- When 'Submit you question' is hit, a process alter user input.

C++

// because of '< ' anything goes well
for(int i=0; i< n; i++) {
    a += i;
}

C++

// because of '<n' anything after it gets lost
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    a += i;
}

C++

// if there is '<n' 2 times, everything in between is messed
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    a += i;
}
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    a += i;
}

Encoding the input prevent problems.
My understanding:
As soon '<n' is encountered, process recognize as beginning of xml/html tag and remove anything after it if there is only 1.
If there is 2 '<n', anything in between gets altered with some '=""' inserted between words.

I think it would be more natural if the feature was deactivated by default

I am sure I already reported same thing, but unable to find it in forum history.

Patrice

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Greg Utas17-Jun-21 11:55

17-Jun-21 11:55

When you don't put a space before and after a binary operator, this is what happens. Cruel but fair. Laugh | :laugh:

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Patrice T17-Jun-21 12:00

17-Jun-21 12:00

See Solution 1 Find largest partial sum in the question below[^]
OP (new menber) forgot to use the 'code' button.

Patrice

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Matthew Dennis21-Jun-21 4:55

Matthew Dennis

21-Jun-21 4:55

I will take a look at this.

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Patrice T21-Jun-21 18:27

21-Jun-21 18:27

Thank you.
you can see problem in this question, OP just forgot to use the <pre> tag.
How can I change this code to solve n equation? .[^]
Would be nice to be able to block the changing process.

Patrice

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Chris Maunder22-Jun-21 7:50

Chris Maunder

22-Jun-21 7:50

I can't seem to replicate the issue.

C++

// if there is '<n' 2 times, everything in between is messed
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    a += i;
}
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    a += i;
}

C++

// because of '<n' anything after it gets lost
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    a += i;
}

In QA and forums this seems to work OK.

In the QA you linked to, the code block wasn't enclosed in PRE, so it was treated as raw HTML. The <n was considered by our HTML cleaner as the start of a tag and it tried to correct it. It's kinda hard to fix issues like this because it could have easily been <i, which could legitimately been a mal-formed italic tag.

Best solution: make new users use Markdown. Still, it has it's own quirks...

cheers
Chris Maunder

Patrice T22-Jun-21 8:38

22-Jun-21 8:38

Missing the <pre> tag is the common mistake of new members.
I wonder if encoding suspicious text would not be a better approach ?

Patrice

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Patrice T30-Jun-21 9:29

Just a thought about article downloads.

30-Jun-21 9:29

An OP just posted a new question, he just forgot the <pre> tag:
How do I...BFS and DFS algorithm. Implement the algorithm in this two files[^]

Patrice

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OriginalGriff16-Jun-21 20:10

OriginalGriff

16-Jun-21 20:10

When I download code from an article, I've started adding a file called "Origin.txt" which contains the CodeProject URL of the article I got it from.
Would it be possible to add that (or a .URL / .WEBLOC instead) automatically to the ZIP when it's uploaded to CP?

The reason I say that is that I only started creating the file myself when I wanted to recommend an article for the Nth time and couldn't remember where the heck I got it ... Not sure if it would work, can you add a link to the final article before it gets through moderation?
It would make it easier to "track" credits that are due in apps as well.

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Lost all my work

CodeErgoSum14-Jun-21 20:55

CodeErgoSum

14-Jun-21 20:55

Hi all

that is the third time it happens.
I try to save and article the server reply the file does not exist and everything is gone
Today I lost 3 hours!

Please fix that bug

(is there any way to recover lost data?)

Cheers

Vincenzo S.

CodeErgoSum14-Jun-21 21:02

CodeErgoSum

14-Jun-21 21:02

Hey boys

Good news: The autosaved version saved my life.

Everything is OK

(But the bug still remains)

Cheers

Vincenzo

CodeErgoSum14-Jun-21 21:20

CodeErgoSum

14-Jun-21 21:20

Again

Perhaps that helps:

Everything started when I uploaded an image, then I decided to delete the old image to load the new one. When I tried to load the new version of the image the page said: that name already exists (shouldn't, I deleted that file.)
So I decided to refresh the page, and before the refresh, I tried to save the page I'm editing and the exception raised.

Then I discovered the 'automatically saved version' and Edited it

I loaded again the new image (with the same name) everything was OK
but when I added the image to the page the old image was displayed

Now I changed the name to the image
but I think this bug should be fixed

Cheers

Vincenzo

Greg Utas15-Jun-21 0:26

15-Jun-21 0:26

I've also noticed that the article editor has problems with deleting an image and then uploading another one with the same name.

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Weekly poll, multiselect?

Matthew Dennis21-Jun-21 5:04

Matthew Dennis

21-Jun-21 5:04

I'm glad the auto-save did its job for you.
I'll look into the issue to deleting images though.

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Wendelius14-Jun-21 4:31

Wendelius

14-Jun-21 4:31

Should the weekly poll accept multiple selections?

Layout problems

Richard Deeming7-Jun-21 23:58

Richard Deeming

7-Jun-21 23:58

This is what it should look like:

It's currently varying between:

and:

Firefox 89.0, with all ad-blockers disabled.

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- Homer

Richard MacCutchan8-Jun-21 0:26

Richard MacCutchan

8-Jun-21 0:26

Fine for me. However, I have seen similar issues in the past when the page transfer gets interrupted (or somehow corrupted) so the browser cannot lay it out correctly.

Richard Deeming8-Jun-21 0:39

Richard Deeming

8-Jun-21 0:39

Try Ctrl+F5.

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Richard MacCutchan8-Jun-21 0:45

Richard MacCutchan

8-Jun-21 0:45

Oh yes, it's a mess.

Greg Utas8-Jun-21 0:29

8-Jun-21 0:29

Also Firefox. OK on this site, but yours is what happened to me on GitHub just a few minutes ago!

EDIT: And happened again.

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Richard Deeming8-Jun-21 0:39

Richard Deeming

8-Jun-21 0:39

Try Ctrl+F5.

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Greg Utas8-Jun-21 0:45

8-Jun-21 0:45

No. I rebooted, and it's clear that MF MSFT have installed something. They wanted me to "set up Windows" by making Edge the default browser, letting me answer my phone on my PC, and sign up for an Office 365 trial. Whatever these sphincters did has messed things up. Now there are some icons that I don't see on this site (e.g. "mve" and "mva" instead of the icons).

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Greg Utas8-Jun-21 1:33