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Whenever I try to rate a message, I get an error saying "Unable to find information on this user. " I'm logged and I can post messages, but I can't vote. Any idea what could be causing this?
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The user must have probably been deleted. Check the user profile and see if he exists.
Tarakeshwar Reddy
MCP, CCIE Q(R&S)
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald - Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Oh ok. Amos Levy has been removed.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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Just email your 1's to Kyle.
Brad
Australian
"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen
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But Amos_Levy is there now.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Will we be seeing some real XNA content under the C# section soon?
It might just be me, coming from an Xbox homebrew background, but this could be pretty big, and even with the nice XNA framework, there is a LOT of room for improvement on existing classes, as well as utility classes (like Font management). Developers can work on XNA apps for free, in Windows, so anybody with a desire to jump into game programming will have some incentive to try it out.
Doing an article search, I don't see a single article that actually deals with XNA (the lone result mentions XNA in passing).
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Doesn't this depend on us to write the content? If there are no articles on it and nobody has started to write them, then there is no need for a section.
the last thing I want to see is some pasty-faced geek with skin so pale that it's almost translucent trying to bump parts with a partner - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Indeed it does.
I may have some things to contribute, but the first one I'm thinking of doing - Fonts in XNA, will depend on myself re-writing a tool that appeared in the Xbox XDK from scratch, to avoid stepping on any copyright issues.
Font support in the existing XNA samples are crap, and I spent a bit of time enhancing support in my own XDK projects, so I'm currently creating C# classes and enhancing the tool to generate fonts. I'll probalby re-write the tool to be more friendly, but I've already made changes to generate XML (which gets read in by the XNA app to define a font). The re-written tool would also allow you to generate fonts from bitmaps (currently it creates a bitmap from a Windows Font, along with glyph definitions).
I guess XNA submissions should go to the C# Games category for now, but once there are more than a few articles, it really should have it's own category.
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BenJeremy wrote: once there are more than a few articles, it really should have it's own category.
Absolutely. We've been discussing a games category for some time now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi All,
I like to give my articles a professional look and feel by adding a description befow a figure. Below is the generic TABLE which groups the Figure and Description for me.
Is there a way to get a footnote size other than
<TD align="center" size=-1>Decription</TD>
It is not as portable as I would like. I did not see it in the Code Project Style Sheets. There is a similar Style for Lists and Downloads. For example:
< P Class="footnote" >Description< /P >
or
<TD align="center" class="footnote">Decription</TD>
Sorry about the non-conventional < P > - CodeProject needs to introduce a Smiley Tag: <SMILEY> ; P </SMILEY> or have the markup tool run before the Smiley tool.
Jeff
< P >
<TABLE border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD><IMG src=""></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD align="center">Decription</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</P>
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H6 would almost do it, except for the font color change...
H6
{
color: #626262;
font-size: 65%;
font-weight: normal;
}
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To be resolution-safe, images would have to be constrained to 640 pixels wide, and the table would have to include that constraint.
<TABLE border=0 width="640">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="640" align="left" valign="top"><IMG src="blah.jpg"><br />
<font style="font-weight:bold;font-height:9px;font-style:italic;">Figure 1.0</font>
<font style="font-weight:nortmal;font-height:9px;font-style:italic;">
Blah blah blah</font>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
If you want to use HTML braces in a code block (like I did), you have to use "& lt;" and "& gt;" without the spaces I embedded. Here's a link for html escape codes for future reference:
http://www.dragonwinds.com/resources/html-codes.shtml[^]
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Hi John,
Thanks. I wanted to avoid the inline style. I was hoping the Code Project would define it for easy use. The Project has a global Style Sheet. See Global CSS[^].
As a side note, when those who submit start making their own decisions on what constitutes size of a footnote and the like, the site begins to lose it's professional look and feel.
> images would have to be constrained to 640 pixels wide
My rule of thumb is 500 to keep it printer safe.
Jeff
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Jeffrey Walton wrote: My rule of thumb is 500 to keep it printer safe.
People still use printers?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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There is the SmallText style. Is that enough? Or would you prefer a specific Caption style?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
Which do you suggest to keep in spirit with the Code Project look and feel?
Jeff
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If it makes sense to have a specific caption style then I'll add it. If you use SmallText instead then it saves me a whole 5 minutes
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I vote to make Chris work for it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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There is now a "Caption" class in the style sheet.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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... is not in the Message Boards dropdown menu.
Neither is Mobile development.
And the ADO entry finishes with a / with ADO .NET after it.
-- modified at 7:53 Friday 15th December, 2006
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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All fixed. A Ctrl+F5 may be needed to reload the menu correctly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thank you, works great !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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the newsletter says:
"It is also article voting time so please visit the homepage for the voting pages and give those authors who helped you last month a little pat on the back."
This sounds like a nice idea. Too bad I can't locate this "homepage for the voting pages" place, so I can't visit it. Oh well.
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Go to the homepage (http://www.codeproject.com[^]) and you will see, right near the top, a list of links to click on to vote for the articles.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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sorry. I still don't see it. Could it be because I use Firefox?
At the top of the page I see The Code Project logo at left, a banner ad at right. Immediately below that I see:
Home MFC/C++ C# ASP.NET .NET VB.NET All Topics
...on the left side, and:
Help! Articles Message Boards StoreFront Lounge
...on the right side. Nowhere do I see "Vote" or "Voting"...
I can't use search to find the voting page because it's not an Author or an Article.
There are no options in the Articles dropdown that are obvious choices, either -- I see:
Latest; Most Popular (could that be it? didn't see it at that page); Search (couldn't find it there); Site Directory (nor there); ...
I can't find any reference to voting for favorites, although I see "most popular"... does that just mean "highest average rating"? most page views?
I just wanted to "pat on the back" 2 authors who helped me. It may be really easy, but not for me, unless it's just based on the "rate this article" (which I did).
If I ever get the answer I s'pose I'm bound to feel stupid, but obviously I'm used to that by now
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