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Bug in CP email generator Hans Dietrich23-Sep-09 4:53 Hans Dietrich 23-Sep-09 4:53  I just received an email from a reader of my article Font Survey: 42 of the Best Monospaced Programming Fonts. The email message started with the line "[reader] has posted a new comment at "Article "Font Survey: 30 of the Best Programming Fonts"". (My underlining). Obviously the CP email generator is picking up the initial title of the article, rather than the current title. Best wishes, Hans [Hans Dietrich Software] Re: Bug in CP email generator Chris Maunder24-Sep-09 13:37 Chris Maunder 24-Sep-09 13:37  Thanks Hans. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Unformatted code Richard MacCutchan23-Sep-09 4:00 Richard MacCutchan 23-Sep-09 4:00  I don't see a simple solution to this, but there seem to be more and more examples of people posting large amounts of code in their questions, but without using the <pre> tags. In odd cases I take a look and see if I can help, but more often than not I just ignore it because it is so difficult to read, and I can't even be bothered to copy and paste into the IDE to compile it. Unfortunately many of these questions are still getting resolved, so the OP thinks that formatting their code is not important, and continues to post their questions in this lazy manner. Suggestions, comments, flames(preferably not)? Re: Unformatted code Chris Maunder23-Sep-09 4:02 Chris Maunder 23-Sep-09 4:02  Allowing others to edit poorly written / posed questions is an option. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Re: Unformatted code Richard MacCutchan23-Sep-09 6:24 Richard MacCutchan 23-Sep-09 6:24  Yes, and possibly not a bad option. I was more concerned with how we get posters to realise that they are not doing themselves any favours by not doing it. Refusing to acknowledge their posts is one way but seems a bit harsh, and would probably cause more damage to the great reputation of The Code Project. Just venting my spleen after a few frustrating moments really Re: Unformatted code Luc Pattyn24-Sep-09 13:44 Luc Pattyn 24-Sep-09 13:44  when code is not in a monospaced font, and not indented at all, I skip it. Period. IMO readability is the first step to correctness; it is also a first requirement for getting help. It isn't hard to do it right; and half the time, I advise using PRE blocks through my sig. Luc Pattyn Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen! Re: Unformatted code AspDotNetDev2-Oct-09 20:36 AspDotNetDev 2-Oct-09 20:36  A "view source" button/link might be of use. That way, you can see what they typed without all the funkiness that HTML might do to code that is not in PRE tags or that was not HTML encoded. And if that view allowed the user to preview but not save the message, even better. Then we can just toss in some PRE tags, click "preview" and see everything well formatted. And preventing others from actually being able to modify the post would avoid issues of some users modifying others' posts to suit their fancy. Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE. When the article is rated 'Poor' ... Vasudevan Deepak Kumar22-Sep-09 1:36 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 22-Sep-09 1:36  When the article is rated 'Poor', a quick textbox pops up prompting for the reason and the subject is like 'My vote of 1'. My concern is after submitting this, the webpage should do any of the following: 1) Make the comment appear on the page immediately using some DOM manipulation trick. 2) Reload the page. Or at least a plain polite message replacing the voting control panel stating that 'Your vote and associated comments have been registered. Please reload the page'. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! Re: When the article is rated 'Poor' ... Chris Maunder22-Sep-09 2:29 Chris Maunder 22-Sep-09 2:29  Already listed here[^]. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Incomplete Cleanup Process Vasudevan Deepak Kumar22-Sep-09 1:12 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 22-Sep-09 1:12  At times I admit that truant weeds needs to be cleared from the beautiful garden called CP forums. I feel that the current cleanup process is rather incomplete. Check out the following link: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=3249451[^] It says 'Unable to load the requested member's information.' but just a few lines above it, it is able to spell out the user's name: Member Profile: Emil - Gabriel Can something be done to fill the gaps? Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! Re: Incomplete Cleanup Process Tom Deketelaere22-Sep-09 1:25 Tom Deketelaere 22-Sep-09 1:25  That member was removed for trolling the lounge. It's been discussed a few threads back what to do with the message since it indicates a bug while it actually is a removed account. Re: Incomplete Cleanup Process Vasudevan Deepak Kumar22-Sep-09 1:29 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 22-Sep-09 1:29  Tom Deketelaere wrote: That member was removed for trolling the lounge. Yes Tom. I actually followed his profile URL only from that thread and only after that I observed this bug. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! Re: Incomplete Cleanup Process Tom Deketelaere22-Sep-09 1:41 Tom Deketelaere 22-Sep-09 1:41  K Something like Google Mail's BlockQuote is Required ... Vasudevan Deepak Kumar22-Sep-09 1:04 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 22-Sep-09 1:04  Whilst posting the observation in "HTML Emitted in Forums List Page", I felt that 'code block' and 'inline code' does not help in certain cases in providing a light indentation without syntax coloring effects. I would say something like Google Mail's blockquoting trick to be a more effective tool for the purpose. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! HTML Emitted in Forums List Page Vasudevan Deepak Kumar22-Sep-09 1:01 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 22-Sep-09 1:01  Is someone else seeing this issue too? Page: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/List.aspx[^] CTRL+F to 'Article Writing'. In the description column, you can see something like below: Discuss writing articles, add your requests for articles here, or search for ideas for a new article. <span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">Do not post programming questions here</span> Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! Re: HTML Emitted in Forums List Page Chris Maunder23-Sep-09 11:05 Chris Maunder 23-Sep-09 11:05  Fixed. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Is CodeProject web service up and running ? Tomek Ster21-Sep-09 23:08 Tomek Ster 21-Sep-09 23:08  Hi ! In this article: Consuming Web Services from a Win Forms Application[^] there is a reference to CodeProject web service located at http://www.codeproject.com/webservices/latest.asmx[^]. But this resource is not longer valid on CodeProject. What is then location of the Latest web service or is it down ? BR -- Tomek Re: Is CodeProject web service up and running ? Chris Maunder22-Sep-09 1:56 Chris Maunder 22-Sep-09 1:56  Unfortunately that service was discontinued back in the time of Adam. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Re: Is CodeProject web service up and running ? Vasudevan Deepak Kumar22-Sep-09 2:01 Vasudevan Deepak Kumar 22-Sep-09 2:01  Did you check out? http://www.codeproject.com/WebServices/ArticleRSS.aspx[^] Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! Color requests [modified] Luc Pattyn21-Sep-09 8:54 Luc Pattyn 21-Sep-09 8:54  Hi Chris, for some of the articles I'm writing I need more background color facilities than you currently support. 1. When discussing several programming languages in a single article, I would like to give code snippets (i.e. PRE blocks) different background colors according to their language. I'm interested in a greenish background (#DDFFDD) and a blueish background (#DDDDFF) which I typically use for VB.NET and C/C++ code; while doing so, I don't need any syntax coloring. So my question is: could you support some keyword inside the PRE tag allowing background color selection, either as a number, or from a limited set. I don't need/want it linked to the language option, as I will often use lang="text" anyway. Here[^] is a simple two-color example of what I mean; my upcoming P/Invoke articles will have many more snippets, needing three colors. 2. [Of lesser importance] Sometimes I feel the need to highlight a few words in regular text. Example: when I applied my V1.1 revision to my LPTextFileDiff article, I wanted to highlight the changes with a yellow background, so I added some spans (e.g. <p><span style='background-color:yellow'>[New paragraph since V1.1]</span>...</p>) which your article wizard promptly removed. Any solution would be welcomed. [ADDED] 3. I wouldn't mind having the above functionality available in messages too. [/ADDED] TIA Luc Pattyn Have a look at my entry for the lean-and-mean competition; please provide comments, feedback, discussion, and don’t forget to vote for it! Thank you. Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen! modified on Monday, September 21, 2009 4:38 PM Re: Color requests Chris Maunder23-Sep-09 4:00 Chris Maunder 23-Sep-09 4:00  You can already do this in articles and messages: This is a blue background Just add the style="background-color:#DDDDFF" to the PRE block. We also have some CSS classes you can use with span tags within PRE blocks: This is a blue background Use "<span class="highlight">blue</span>" for the highlight. The classes we offer for code highlighting are highlight and emphasis. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Re: Color requests Dan Neely23-Sep-09 4:18 Dan Neely 23-Sep-09 4:18  Is what you offer documented anywhere, or do we need to poke around in your css files to find it? The latest nation. Procrastination. Re: Color requests Luc Pattyn23-Sep-09 4:31 Luc Pattyn 23-Sep-09 4:31  Thanks Chris, it works fine on messages, I'll have to check again for articles. I'm still puzzled about how the spans got removed in my latest article... Luc Pattyn Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen! Re: Color requests fly90423-Sep-09 6:56 fly904 23-Sep-09 6:56  Chris Maunder wrote: This is a blue background It looks purple to me. If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris. Re: Color requests Chris Maunder23-Sep-09 6:57 Chris Maunder 23-Sep-09 6:57  Talk to Luc about his colour choices. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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