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Mr.Prakash wrote:
If you had voted it down then you should have left a reason behind why you did that.
I did try... but one too many error messages made me give up trying.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Michael P Butler wrote:
I did try... but one too many error messages made me give up trying.
I will give you 3 for trying 
-prakash
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this bug happens my guess about 50% of the time
I like to use the view option = thread view to skip past threads I'm not interested in
and then if thread I'm following has new post I clik to see first post in thread, then shift-clik to get new window with all messages for that thread
sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't
when it doesn't, it only shows the last few posts to the thread & clik first/prev has no effect
kind of irritating because it forces me to use view option = message view & scroll thru page after page of stuff to get to thread I want to follow
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This is a known bug - thanks!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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how about adding some kind of option to sort the forums by most recent post ?
currently thread titles always appear in time post order, and a popular thread can get submerged by lots of useless chatter
I've seen forums where posting reply to thread pops that thread to top of list
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this doesn't mean anything... answers are to a specific quiestion/post, so reorder them just by time would not allow to see to whome the answer is for anymore...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
[toxcct][VisualCalc]
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You're misunderstanding. Posts would stil be kept in threads, but the threads would be sorted by the timestamp on the most recent post, instead of the ts on the first post in the thread.
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my answer remains the same...
even if you reorder only inside a thread, the answers don't stay associated to a question...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
[toxcct][VisualCalc]
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Mmmh, I think you still didn't get it. The thing was to keep the complete threads as they are now but instead of sorting them by the time of their first post, they will be sorted by the time of the most recent post.
So it is like now except that if you add a message to a thread that is for example in the third position, the complete thread will come in the first position.
Is it clearer ? Or I can also translate in French
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no need to translate cedric, it ok now... i understand the point...
well, why not, that could become a useful feature if we still can use the "sort by date of the first post"...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
[toxcct][VisualCalc]
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Please make sure EVERY article has a license attached to the source code, the way it is now is a total mess 
I'd like to use one code snippet in a commercial project, as an utility class, but I just have no idea of the license. (Yes, I did read the FAQ, etc, but it's still messy and unclear.)
Thank you!
John42
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Why can't you ask the author?
Some people don't attach a license to their code, because they want to know who uses it for what. Every article has a forum in which you can post your request, the author will receive a noticifation and (usually) answer soon enough.
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Please inform me about my English mistakes, as I'm still trying to learn your language!
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You must be joking. This site is visited by thousands of people, of even much much more. I don't think any author (of a more famous snippet) would be happy replying all day to license requests. Besides, what happens if you find a code snippet, but the author doesn't reply for a week or more, but you need that snippet NOW in your work/hobby project.
To the problem of "who uses it for what", well, a license could say that the one who takes the snippet has to NOTIFY the author by email of including the snippet in their project.
Though I have a feeling many people are ripping code from this side and not even caring of the license, just cut&pasting.
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I thought I read that the default CP licence was free for reuse anywhere.
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Well, maybe not exactly, from the FAQ:
# Can I use code snippets and programs in my own work?
You can use code snippets and source code downloads in your applications as long as
* You keep all copyright notices in the code intact.
* You do not sell or repulish the code or it's associated article without the author's written agreement
* You agree the code is provided as-is without any implied or express warranty.
Some authors may also have specific restrictions on using code in commercial apps such as providing credit in documentation or sending them an email first.
It's still not clear to me, whether the "do not sell the code" means "do not sell your program including the downloaded code snippet" or just "do not sell the code snippet by itself". Additionally, no license is mentioned in any of the code snippet's headers.
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akhilkh@hotmail.com wrote:
You can use code snippets and source code downloads in your applications as long as
* You keep all copyright notices in the code intact
That sentence is the answer.
If there are no copyright/license notices, you may use the snippets.
akhilkh@hotmail.com wrote:
You do not sell [...] the code [...] without the author's written agreement
If you're not sure whether or not to sell the compiled code, just don't do it.
The author could have included a license notice, and if he/she didn't include it, he/she wants to be asked (no matter how many mails per week it means).
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Please inform me about my English mistakes, as I'm still trying to learn your language!
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I am referring to the "email" link you see at the bottom of this message and all others which allows you to email directly to a person rather than replying in public.
I'm getting very tired of people clicking on the direct "EMAIL" link instead of asking their question in an article forum where it can benefit others. 9 times out of 10 now when I get an email from someone about an article or in reply to a posting in an article message board it's a direct email.
I used to be confused as to how they could do that because I would follow the link back from the email I got but wouldn't see their message posted until I realized that quite stupidly CP allows a person to just email right off the post directly.
This completely defeats one of the main strengths of having a public discussion in each articles message board.
I also do not want anyone emailing me directly, I'm not a help service, I'm a professional with very little spare time on my hands, I am happy to post a reply to someone in a public forum that will benefit others, but I most certainly am NOT happy helping people one on one.
Why is CP shooting itself in the foot with this feature? And more importantly when will it be removed, immediately would be a fine for me!
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
-- modified at 11:24 Wednesday 21st September, 2005
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I agree.
But first, I'd rather see my email address removed from reply notifications too.
I don't mind having an email link on my CP profile page but I'd rather my email address didn't get sent to everybody I post a reply to.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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See, this is why i filter my email. I should post an article about that... 
That said, it's nice on occasion to be able to take a conversation off-line. Though as Butler noted, it would be better if there was finer control over who got sent your email address...
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Shog9 wrote:
it's nice on occasion to be able to take a conversation off-line.
Sure, but what has that got to do with what I posted? Anyone can click on the user icon, and send a private email, they should not be able to do that easily from the article message board which was my point. It defeats the entire purpose of having a public forum where people can learn from others. It's about as negative codeproject as you can get and on top of that it's annoying as hell for those of us without the time or inclination to deal one on one with people.
We are faced with the decision of whether or not to just ignore those private emails or to confirm our private email address by replying to them saying "please post this in the forum where it will benefit others when I answer it...".
Are you arguing in favor of a feature which goes against the grain of codeproject and helping others or have you just not thought it through very much before posting? 
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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Just quit smoking? 
My point was two-fold (hence the use of two sentences to represent it):
1) The private reply feature is nice to have, on occasion.
2) Giving my email address to anyone i reply to is less than desirable.
If you say #1 would be better accomplished via a link from the profile page (or some other less-obvious manner), i won't disagree. But it is useful, and i'd hate to see it eliminated completely - regardless of how much you hate getting email.
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Shog9 wrote:
Just quit smoking?
how *ever* did you guess? 
My point is a lot of people jump into a discussion pointlessly.
I was clearly not advocating getting rid of private emails, that is a function of the user profile, no need to change that and not under discussion which was all about how the message boards for articles are being needlessly watered down by not having all communication about an article go through that article's publicly viewable discussion board.
What you did in effect was water down my suggestion by going off on a tangent that didn't apply here.
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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John Cardinal wrote:
I was clearly not advocating getting rid of private emails, that is a function of the user profile
Used to be a link from those, but i think it disappeared after someone started spamming from them... It's been a while though.
John Cardinal wrote:
What you did in effect was water down my suggestion by going off on a tangent that didn't apply here.
Yeah... i do that. 
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Does the messages posted count decrease when a message gets deleted? Inquiring minds need to know. And no, I ain't gonna test it.
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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Not now that messages are marked "Message Deleted"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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