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I tried to get my pwd using remember form. After a long set of invalid inputs(be sure they was valid, but capcha think it's not ), and not working ability to listen the code I got my pwd from e-mail history
But it's seems to be a serious bug.
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I tried the password reminder page and it seemed to work fine for me. A new temporary password should be in the mail.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's strange..
Next time if error happened, I'll post a screenshot here.
By the way, I have got a mail with the new temporary password.
Maybe to get the error you have to put wrong code first time...
Any way, thanks for fast response
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CP Team,
I arrived at this profile page from one of the 'Pending Articles' of the user:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=6230620[^]
It shows 'Articles' count as zero. Shouldn't it reflect the article count with a qualifier 'Pending Approval'? Or is it just reading the flag on the article like status = 'approved' and picking those alone?
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!
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It just shows available articles.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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And the dross questions the f-admin would post is just intolerable[^]
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: fixed
He's now a "mentor"
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The PHP board is all buggy, all the posts are hidden until you click the second thread, which displays all previous threads but in a messed up view.
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You beat me to it by a minute
My failometer is detecting vast quantities of FAIL!
"Its SQL - hardly programming..." (Caslen)
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your kung fu is good, mine however...
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All fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This is more of a point of curiosity. I was looking through the Soapbox 2.0, and noticed that one of my messages had been automatically removed. I didn't think that it was inflammatory, so I checked it against my profile. Apparently it only got a single one-vote. I thought that a message removal needed 13 people to mark it as abusive. Could someone please elaborate, as this seems a little strange?
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I think that the 'vote to remove message' button doesn't register a vote.
Not completely sure about this tho.
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No, I checked on a message in the C# forum. It definitely causes a vote of 1
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Then I guess you'll have to wait for Chris to take a look at it, might be a bug.
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Different level members having different weights that mean they can remove it faster.
I'll check the message.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris,
I was thinking that in such cases (though they are remote possibilities and happen rarely), wouldn't be a better way if the Voting System had a feature like 'Admin Hold' so that votes would be held back and can not directly act on the operand immediately, as would be the default behavior.
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!
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I've got the message link, but the same thing has happened again, in the lounge this time. Both of these were removed with a single one-vote. Is there a membership level which has a weight of 100%, because neither of these messages were remotely offensive in my opinion
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some or all of the four checkboxes don't work properly:
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when editing a message several times, the checkboxes do not persist their state (except maybe for the top one "send me an e-mail").
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whatever you do with "Allow private email replies to this message" the "e-mail" option does not show when the post is published. We cannot reach each other by e-mail anymore (except probably by searching for old messages, when the e-mail was always present)
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I noticed strange interactions between "Do not interpret HTML tags (good for code snippets)" and "preview". I would expect "preview" to show the message the same way it will show when "post message" gets clicked, however the preview depends on the ""Do not interpret HTML tags..." settings even this gets changed after the text has been composed.
Is there a problem with checkbox values not getting stored due to cookie problems? due to CP using many servers? please advise what more observations you want, then fix it.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get.
Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.
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1. 'Allow private email replies' being set from your persistence settings, not the message settings on edit. Fixed. 'Do not interpret html' is unchecked on edit, because this value isn't actually stored with the message: it just determines what processing happens to the message after it is posted. Your settings are persisted on new messages though.
Persistence is done based on new messages posted, not messages edited.
2. Fixed.
3. I can't reproduce this. Can you give me an example?
I'll be uploading the fixes in a few minutes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I finally came around to check the checkbox situation more thoroughly, and it is still is not OK. Here are some observations, keep in mind I start with xooo (or xoooo) i.e. only the first checkbox is checked. The list of problems is probably not complete, as the situation is rather complex.
BUG1. I create a reply to an existing message of mine on my personal page; I get checkboxes xoooo and don't touch them. When done the reply does show an e-mail button.
BUG2. I want to edit that same reply, the checkboxes come up as xooxo, so "Encode HTML tags" got checked without me asking for it.
BADFEATURE1: "Persistence is done based on new messages posted, not messages edited."
That is totally confusing, I can modify checkboxes, click "publish" and the modifications are lost. Why trouble the GUI with such an inconsistency?
Some more info:
1. I have nothing to report about the first checkbox, I never touch it, it is always checked.
2. I have nothing to report about the fifth checkbox, I never touch it, when present it is unchecked.
3. Trying to reply to a message (actually one of mine) I just now got an error I don't understand and have never seen before:
Items that need attention:
* You must supply an email and name for this message.
* There were problems with your new message
I had to log out from and in to CP to get rid of it (this happened first, everything else in this message are observations after this relogin)
I did not touch my cookies.
4. the problem I reported earlier, where a preview handled tags differently from publish has vanished, I can't reproduce it any more.
Some suggestions:
1. I still would like to see the exact same checkboxes on my personal settings page, their current state IS part of my settings, and some people have trouble finding them anyhow
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3102179/where-is-the-setting-that-controls-whether-the-option-to-e-mail-me-is-shown-on-the-Forums.aspx
2. the "Allow private email replies to this message" checkbox still does not make much sense to me, since there are a lot of existing messages that show the e-mail button anyway. IMO allowing email is a person-oriented (and temporal) setting, not a message-oriented setting.
Suggestions:
(1) make it a "Allow private email replies to this message's author" thing
(2) don't show an e-mail button on a message, just a reply button. This one launches a reply editor page that holds several buttons, including "reply on public thread" (the current "publish") and, if the user allowed it, "reply using private e-mail".
(3) do this also for existing messages, so all the old "e-mail" buttons should be gone then.
3.
The encode/ignore HTML tags stuff does not feel right. I would propose something different:
- remove the "Do not interpret HTML tags (good for code snippets)" checkbox
- remove the "Encode HTML tags when pasting" checkbox
- apply HTML tag substitution (> becomes > etc) to all selected text, (and surround with PRE tags) when the "CODE BLOCK" button is clicked
Maybe similar for "INLINE CODE" button.
RESULT: much simpler, and more probability PRE tags (and CODE tags) will be used.
PS: I don't know how you do this magic, if you are aware of the pasting, couldn't you automatically do
the PRE tagging if it looks like code (maybe based on length > 1 line, and first word is keyword or first char is special, such as #).
Cheers
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
DISCLAIMER: this message may have been modified by others; it may no longer reflect what I intended, and may contain bad advice; use at your own risk and with extreme care.
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BUG1: When you are on your own profile page you are the owner (and admin) of your own forum. This gives you more rights than in other forums and one of those rights is the ability to always send a private email to a message regardless of the settings on that message. ie. This is by design, and works as you would expect on other forums.
BUG2: I've changed the behaviour of this when editing so that it is always unchecked when you edit. When posting with this checkbox selected I HTML encode the message then append your (always HTML enabled) signature. At this point the entire message + signature are now HTML safe and don't need this checkbox selected anymore.
More Info:
3. That's an odd one. Please let me know if you get it again. We're obviously not trapping something rare but important
Suggestions:
1. I've now done this and will upload the new code tomorrow
2. Hmmm. I'm not sure this would be universally loved.
3. I can't HTML encode everything because that would mean no HTML in messages (no bold, tables, superscript etc etc).
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks. I will check later, and provide feedback.
My third suggestion applies only to text that is selected when the "CODE BLOCK" or "INLINE CODE" buttons are pressed.
BTW: you moved the buttons up on the reply page, and widened the edit box, I like that.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
DISCLAIMER: this message may have been modified by others; it may no longer reflect what I intended, and may contain bad advice; use at your own risk and with extreme care.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: My third suggestion applies only to text that is selected when the "CODE BLOCK" or "INLINE CODE" buttons are pressed.
Ah - I see what you mean.
Only two issues with that:
1. If people paste code within PRE blocks then it won't catch them
2. If people want HTML in code (eg to highlight or make bold, or if they are pasting colourised text) then it makes this impossible.
Maybe there's a middle ground...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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