Article Writing

Code Line Numbers? Colorized Code?

21-Sep-21 0:43

For filenames you want to use <em>

You can see a list of our formatting guidelines here:
CodeProject Article FAQ - Part 2: How to Post an Article on CodeProject [^]

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

David Deley13-Sep-21 9:55

David Deley

13-Sep-21 9:55

Is there a way to post code with line numbers?
Is there a way to colorize code (the way Visual Studio colorizes code)?

Re: Code Line Numbers? Colorized Code?

Sean Ewington13-Sep-21 10:07

Re: Code Line Numbers? Colorized Code?

13-Sep-21 10:07

Unfortunately the only way to do line numbers is either to already have them in your code and put the <pre> block around it, or to add the line numbers manually. As for colorizing the code, you certainly can. There are a couple of ways to do it, one is to add the language tag in the code, the other is the use the dropdown to add it:
CodeProject Article FAQ - Part 2: How to Post an Article on CodeProject [^]

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Richard Deeming13-Sep-21 21:42

Regarding licenses of individual files

13-Sep-21 21:42

Can't you just add linecount="on" to the <pre> like you can in the forums and QA?

<pre lang="Plain" linecount="on">
Line 1
Line 2
Etc.
</pre>

Plain

  1  Line 1
  2  Line 2
  3  Etc.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Member 153422108-Sep-21 4:30

Member 15342210

8-Sep-21 4:30

Hi,

Some articles have CPOL mentioned on top and bottom description.

But individual files in the source code have different license texts.
For example:

// Written by Chris Maunder (chris@codeproject.com)
  4  // Copyright 1998-2005.
  5  //
  6  // TextProgressCtrl is a drop-in replacement for the standard
  7  // CProgressCtrl that displays text in a progress control.
  8  //
  9  // Homepage: http://www.codeproject.com/miscctrl/text_progressctrl.asp
 10  //
 11  // This code may be used in compiled form in any way you desire. This
 12  // file may be redistributed by any means PROVIDING it is not sold for
 13  // profit without the author's written consent, and providing that this
 14  // notice and the author's name is included. If the source code in
 15  // this file is used in any commercial application then an email to
 16  // me would be nice.
 17  //
 18  // This file is provided "as is" with no expressed or implied warranty.
 19  // The author accepts no liability if it causes any damage to your
 20  // computer or anything else vaguely within its vicinity.
 21  //
 22  // Expect bugs.
 23  //
 24  // Please use and enjoy. Please let me know of any bugs/mods/improvements
 25  // that you have found/implemented and I will fix/incorporate them into this
 26  // file.

My question is when an author posts his code on Code Project, does his license override CPOL or the license statement in the individual file stands for the particular file and CPOL is for the files with no explicit license?

Answering questions with truthful preview

User 152178735-Sep-21 13:57

User 15217873

5-Sep-21 13:57

Does anybody know a way to get truthful live-previews?
So far nothing works for me, it always lies, so that whenever I click "Add A Solution".
I then discover that my posted text was modded from what's displayed in the live-preview.

Tried several 'pre' codes, its easy to get the preview looking correct, but it wont post that way.
If not, I'm ok without previews if there's anything I can do to keep the posted text from being auto-modded (it will usually be PCRE regular expression).

modified 5-Oct-21 21:01pm.

Re: Answering questions with truthful preview

Richard MacCutchan6-Sep-21 21:04

Richard MacCutchan

6-Sep-21 21:04

I use the pre tags extensively in Solutions and it always gets posted correctly. I notice that you have only posted one Solution, and it does not have any formatted part. So are there any actual examples of the problem you describe?

And by the way, this has nothing to do with Article writing.

Re: Answering questions with truthful preview

User 152178737-Sep-21 6:43

User 15217873

7-Sep-21 6:43

Many thanks for replying.
Yes, I tried many times answering... https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/727990/REGEX-for-validating-URL
I tried at least 8 different times. The preview displayed perfectly, until I actually clicked the 'Post your solution'.
After that, the text was auto-modded, this happenned irregardless of how many pre tags I experimented with.

Im not sure what finally made the difference, I did change the default paste options.
And then I just used the standard pre tag (not ASM,ASP,etc), and it posted just like the preview.
Again, many thanks for the reply!

modified 5-Oct-21 21:01pm.

GitHub import - formatting issue

Richard Deeming24-Aug-21 3:14

24-Aug-21 3:14

I've just imported a project from GitHub[^], and I noticed a formatting issue:

Source:

Imported:

Where has the <span class="pl-pds"> come from?

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Sean Ewington24-Aug-21 3:28

24-Aug-21 3:28

I've seen it on a few blog entries and projects. I am not sure the cause, it could be the way GitHub structures their language tags and the article editor spits the <span> tags out.

In any case, I have removed the span tags.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Richard Deeming25-Aug-21 1:34

25-Aug-21 1:34

Thanks for that. It was looking fine, but now some spurious line-breaks have appeared within the code blocks, even though I haven't updated the project:

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Sean Ewington25-Aug-21 1:50

25-Aug-21 1:50

Very weird. I think I fixed them all. How does that look now?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Richard Deeming25-Aug-21 1:53

Too many tags. There is a limit of 8.

25-Aug-21 1:53

Much better, thanks. Smile | :)

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

EgorYusov15-Aug-21 22:45

15-Aug-21 22:45

Hello!
I am trying to update my article, but for some reason always get this error message:

Too many tags. There is a limit of 8.

This never happened before. I tried to reduce the number of tags to 6, but still get this error. Can you please suggest?

Matthew Dennis16-Aug-21 4:21

Matthew Dennis

16-Aug-21 4:21

Which article?

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

EgorYusov16-Aug-21 5:14

Diligent Engine: A Modern Cross-Platform Low-Level Graphics Library[^]

16-Aug-21 5:14

EgorYusov19-Aug-21 9:24

19-Aug-21 9:24

Did you have a chance to look at this issue? I am still unable to update the article.

EgorYusov6-Sep-21 7:51

6-Sep-21 7:51

Can somebody please take a look? I am unable to make any updates to the article.

Sean Ewington7-Sep-21 4:08

7-Sep-21 4:08

I was able to post a change. If you'd like, you can email me (sean@codeproject.com) the modified HTML[^] and I can apply it

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

EgorYusov7-Sep-21 4:41

7-Sep-21 4:41

Thank you! Do you know what was the problem? It is kind of inconvenient if I will have to send you the HTML every time I want to update the article.

Sean Ewington7-Sep-21 5:15

7-Sep-21 5:15

I actually wonder if it was a temporary problem and you might be able to update the article yourself.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

EgorYusov7-Sep-21 5:19