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I'll check in with Sean and get a status update. Sean and his team are usually very quick about update so it may be the case of a lost email. Or possibly too much Easter chocolate.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The big green text that appears at the top of the forums (ie: "Welcome to the Lounge", "C#", "Silverlight", "The Soapbox 2.0" etc), could these be made into links that jump to the first page of that forum?
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text
Ain't that Groovy?
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The 'Refresh' link and the 'First' link in the forum itself aren't enough? Not sure what it would add.
I can do it, but to keep the style looking good I'd be breaking convention by keeping the link colour of the header as green, not blue, so the headers won't stand out as links.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Not sure what it would add.
How about I throw in a Mars Bar, a Twix, a Double Decker and your choice of beverage from the vending machine? Does that help you see things my way?
Chris Maunder wrote: I can do it, but to keep the style looking good I'd be breaking convention by keeping the link colour of the header as green, not blue, so the headers won't stand out as links.
A nice thing I saw recently was on Amazon. On the books page[^] when you mouse-over the Amazon logo in the top left it turns into a button. I can't put my finger on the whys and wherefores, but it just feels "right".
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text
Ain't that Groovy?
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An idea could be to make the navigation map (whatever this is called) under the green title be a link to the first page.
What I mean is: In this forum for instance, under the green Site Bugs / Suggestion, you have the navigation location:
Home > Forums > Site Bugs / Suggestions
The string "Site Bugs / Suggestions" is a static string. Turn that into a link to the forum first page.
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This will be up today.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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But in this case - the Back Room.
What exactly is a moderator? Rob said that, briefly, he had edit/delete power for everyone in the forum but it disappeared. If I had it, I never noticed it.
In all honesty I am not sure we need moderation - since elimination of voting from the Back Room, there's been one instance of a troll posting the same message nine or ten times (he was ignored) and the case of someone posting a harmful link - certainly something that could hapen in the public forums as easily as the Back Room and handled without any serious problems by reporting it to you.
However, if there must be such a thing, it is probably better that folks like me who think it is the ultimate of last resorts be vested. Only. . .right now I've got the title and nothing else. i.e. the emperor is feeling a draft.
If you're reading this and asking what the back room is - move along, there's nothing for you here. These are not the droids you seek.
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Does the Emperor feel a tad naked? Give it time, I'm sure that Chris can find a fig leave (or two) to cover the Emperor's modesty
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Richard A. Abbott wrote: to cover the Emperor's modesty
It's not my modesty I'm worried about - but I dislike making other people jealous.
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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All moderators should have edit/delete rights. If it's disappeared then we snipped the wrong wire. I'll post a bug report.
As to whether or not you need it, I leave that in your hands. If you don't want to use it, don't.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: If it's disappeared then we snipped the wrong wire.
It's always the blue wire, Chris.
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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1 Enable auto-encode html when pasting.
2 Quote part of a reply.
3 Paste a URL.
All the brackets in the quoted text will be turned into & gt/lt;'s
To clarify, I'm talking about the brackets that make the tags involved in the quoting. I'm using FF 3.0.8 for windows.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Dammed if I can find where to add a comment - I can vote but there seems to no way to add a comment and I want one of those TShirts, damm.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Click on a component or service in the Catalog and at the bottom is the discussion board.
You don't have to comment to be in the running for a chance to win a T-shirt - just vote!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris, you're reply could also have been:
Move the scroll bar on the right of the screen to expose the bottom half of the page, <br />
these are what "scroll bars" are for.
Thank you for not using the idiot stick
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The forum signature applies to all the forums. Is it possible to expand the signature to more than one? At times I wish to set different signatures based on which forum I am in. May be show one for Lounge, another for programming forums and may be a third for all others.
I know the Signature can be edited per message post. That may be ok for one or two times, but if I want something permanent signature to apply only in the programming forums, it is pain the 'you know what' to edit the signature for every post. Now the same signature may not be that important in the Lounge or SB.
Yusuf
Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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Hi Yusuf,
I would like to vary my sig, depending on the post, not the forum. So my proposal would be to have the possibility to define say up to 8 different sigs, each with a user-selectable short name; then have one set as the default but also being offered a DropDown presenting the short names and allowing to choose one to replace the default sig.
To accomodate your forum-oriented sigs, we could then make the default dropdown choice depend on the current forum...
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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I like it.
Yusuf
Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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Really? Really?
OK, I'll add it to the ideas list and see what we can do.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Are you using CPHog ? It lets you switch between several signature.
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I search on 'wtl' and set the date for today and april 8th,2000 and get no results.
Thought you should know.
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I can't reproduce this problem.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The short answer is: Because it's marked as an answer and is in a programming forum.
Answers in programming forums only allow Good Answer/Bad Answer and we found that a reader would try and answer a question, or post a followup question to a question and leave it marked as an answer, and these answers (or non-answers) were getting voted as "bad answer" which was leaving swathes of grey everywhere and demotivating members to answer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This one needs deleting, someone approved it somehow!
varmawwf[^]
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn) Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia) Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)
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