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There is a preview option for posting to the forum even though you can modify any mistakes you make after posting,
However, there is not preview when selecting the "email author" option. This would be a great addition as half the time I send an email I never know if my marked up email is going to look like I intend.
Another idea would be an option in your user profile that allows you to specify that you want a copy of any mail you send to someone else to also be emailed to your defined email address.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Tom Archer wrote:
Another idea would be an option in your user profile that allows you to specify that you want a copy of any mail you send to someone else to also be emailed to your defined email address.
This is a very very good idea Tom. What I usually did till now was to hit back and go back and read the text in the edit box 
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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Chris,
I suggest that you form a sponsors page or if it exists make it more visible from the root page. For example I know you have contact now with Amazon but when I want to go buy a book I am not finding the link. Yes you probably consider me an old "guy" (or other words) but if I am not finding the link others may not also. How about an entry at the bottom of the premium sponsors list to (All Sponsors). That way I can find it when I can help.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
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Of course the Amazon link isn't listed, to the left of the banner ad at the top is an image that says Banners, clicking that takes you to the list of ads.
James
Simplicity Rules!
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Those are advertisers. Of course Amazon link is not there! They are not an advertiser!
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
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I banged out a JavaScript function that will take the text in a field and wrap it in link tags and then append it to the message area. Similar to the "Quote Selected Text" button you have now.
I figured you could put another button next to the "Quote" button and a small text field next to that. Then users could paste a URL into the field in whatever form and click the button and it would process it into the message. This saves users the typing of the tags, and makes sure that the damn target is set!!! 
This function also adds the "http://" if the user doesn't include it and if someone just clicks the button it will append a blank link tag that they can fill in themselves.
I have included the function within pre tags below. Just call it from a button's onclick and make sure the text field name matches, it should be ready to go otherwise. I tried to match your existing form and field names as best I could to make it as easy to drop in as possible.
Just doing my best to help out as things occur to me.
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function InLinkErAtor(){
var objContentText = document.MessageForm.ContentText;
var strLinkText = document.MessageForm.LinkText.value;
var strContentText = objContentText.value;
var strOutputLink = "<a href=\"";
if (strLinkText.indexOf("http://") == -1){strOutputLink += "http://"}
strOutputLink += strLinkText + "\" target=\"_blank\">" + strLinkText + "</a>";
strContentText += strOutputLink;
objContentText.value = strContentText;
objContentText.focus();
}
</script>
BTW, if anyone is curious the function name, "InLinkErAtor", is a reference to a brand of garbage disposal here in the states named "InSinkErAtor". I was having garbage disposal problems shortly before writing this.
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
Sonork ID: Ogami(100.9918)
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
--Larry Wall
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Good effort Jason. But I guess Chris M might want to use reg exps. They are more flexible.
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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Thanks.
I would prefer regex myself. In fact that is how I do it elsewhere. I just thought that since he hadn't done it yet perhaps he didn't want to add anything to the message parseing here.
I wrote this before I noticed his post in the ASP forum, and I have been posting to him about it over there since I noticed.
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
Sonork ID: Ogami(100.9918)
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
--Larry Wall
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Why don't we chop this sucker up? You know, like have Gdi, Gui, Threads, etcetera etcetera sections...
"Visual C++" is too broad and this can be seen in how many messages go in there. The problem is, if you post a message, and it doesn't get answered in a few seconds, it gets drowned out by all the other ones and then never gets answered... 
Ok well a bit of an exaggeration, but still
swine
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Hmmm, memories of the "other" site, huh Chris?
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Hmmm, memories of the "other" site, huh Chris?
Do/did *they* have multiple forums too?
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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CG had/has a forum within each section.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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As Chris and I can attest, this is a nice problem to have
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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I don't agree. Too many message forums will lead to many cross forum postings.
It is very rare that a question posted goes beyond the first couple of pages on the day it is posted. If the question isn't answered in a day then it is likely that nobody here has an answer.
Michael
Communication is the first step towards enlightenment.
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Michael P Butler wrote:
If the question isn't answered in a day then it is likely that nobody here has an answer.
That, or Mike Dunn and CG are away on holiday
I don't think there is anything that goes past the two of them
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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You're correct. A better solution would be to modify the forum software to contain predefined categories within forums that the reader could then select via a combobox.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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if you are in the lounge there is the
"programming question? try our forums"
little thing.. the rant and rave is called rant and rave in this combobox and not "the soapbox"..
just a little thing.. right now it is perfectly logical for everyone.. but in 6 month?
"I'm from the South Bronx, and I don't care what you say: those cows look dangerous."
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at George Bush's ranch in Texas
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Hi,
I think an article having a grand total of 4.89/5 from 84 users,
is more popular than on having 5/5 from 6 users.
Why not taking the # of voters in to account also? (84 * 4.89 > 6 * 5)
Were talking about "popular" aren't we?
Bye,
Geert
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My formula is wrong:
If 100 voters give an article a 1 that means it's a bad article.
And surely not better/more popular than one getting a 4 of 10 users.
But, my suggestion isn't wrong:
Somewhere there must be a formula to express that
4.89/5 from 84 voters is more popular that 5/5 from a couple of voters.
Anyone a suggestion?
(Because I think that's what you need to implement it, isn't it Chris?)
Bye,
Geert.
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Many people have thier own methods of rating articles. Some of them seem well done but have a very low score. Trying to modify the current formula doesnt seem worth it imho. Especially when people are voting a 1 on certain articles just to bump thier own in the grand scheme of things.
Just my 2 cp and a cup of mojo.
Mark A
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Unfortunately, using the # responses to weight the rating only works when you have 2 articles of the same rating. But I agree that an article that's been rated 5 by a just a few users is unlikely to be more popular than one rated less than 5 by many more users.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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Would it be possible to have the weekly polls results in the newsletter? Every week I take part in the poll, and then forget to go back latter on to see how other people have answered...
Dylan Kenneally
London,UK
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You got this request in *just* in time 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Although the lounge is a great place, is it possible to add a link to it in the discussion boards page, and also at the top of any other board your viewing in the same format as ther others, like
The Lounge (136000/3), showing how many new posts there are?
This would bring this one board in line with all the rest and make CP have a more consistent user interface across the board(s). 
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
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