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SimonS wrote:
Shouldn't "prev" go back and "next" go forward?
It does; but back and forward are related to the ordering of the posts. In this case it is a descending order based on the date posted (posts go from the newest, first, to the oldest, last).
Back should take you toward the first post in the order, in this case the newest post; and next should take you to toward the last post in the order, in this case the oldest post.
James
Sig code stolen from David Wulff
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The name may be "the lounge mirror".
Purpose:I hate the lounge sometimes,It always too hot in seeming a settled time in a day,when a hot discuss occurred,it left other's postings pages behind.
Then no one will bother to navigate pages to reply to someone.
So I think it will be nice to give such postings' author an chance to repost the original ones to get attentions in the "lounge mirror".
But of course the chance is only once,one can not post back to "lounge" again.
this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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Or better still, there could be a setting which would allow only a limited maximum number of messages per thread. If a user wants to see the full thread, he/she'll have to click on a link to get a full view. If the user wants, he/she can choose to have the settings as they are now, ie view all the messages in the threads. This will ensure that threads do not fall off due to a long and popular thread without the need of any duplication.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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When a topic gets audience, it should automatically start a chat room. There is indeed no point in having twentys of two-word posts.
sometimes it helps to look at the IL generated code
a MS guy on develop.com "answering" .NET issues
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I agree.
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I often see myself histerically move the mouse to click on Prev/Next buttons when browsing the CP forum for next message pages.
It gets on my nerves to have to scroll just to find this button.
What follows is a humble suggestion as a general navigation improvement, taking advantage of a keyboard accelerator.
In fact, this navigation experience could be enhanced, and simplified with a key shortcut, for instance Alt+X to go next page.
How does this works. Well, you CP administrators know that the Prev and Next buttons are in fact simple links. What is needed to enable a given accelerator is just add a value for the accessKey="X" attribute in the <a href="..."> link.
Now when the user presses Alt+X (X is near the Alt key, which is fine), the hyperlink gets the focus. In turn, we add this tiny onfocus event handler : onfocus="location.href=this.href"
which as anyone guesses will execute the link itself. For sake of Netscape/Opera compatibility, it can be even simpler to just reproduce the actual link on the focus event handler, instead of javascript code.
What about that ?
if you start putting in too manay features, it no longer remains useful for beginners
quote in a CP article comment, shiraz baig
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Unless you have acessibility stuff in mind, I think this would be of litle use.
Buy a mouse with mousewheel.
"In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence." Peter's Principle
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The accelerator effectively suppresses the need to scroll, target the Next button, and click, which was to me a useless repetitive task when navigating the threads.
There is no standard and effective HTML way of declaring a trigger to go next page (I am not talking about the page down scroll of course). I see it as a major lack, especially on forums.
Of course, I could change the CP thread folding option, so I see more threads in one page, but I don't want to use something else than the dynamic option.
Adding a keyboard shortcut to go next page is from what I have tested : seamless (does not change the look), handy (your left hand typically does nothing (hum... )).
On top of that, using only the mouse for interaction is boring after a while : alternating with keyboard makes it better : while we are talking about that, may be that's the reason we see off-topic messages sometimes : those who are bored with their mouse start new threads with offtopic messages, just a self-massage.
if you start putting in too manay features, it no longer remains useful for beginners
quote in a CP article comment, shiraz baig
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What actually always confuses me is that there are two version of the lounge. The one at www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp and the www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?forumid=1159
Wouldnt it be nice when both looked and worked the same way? (I prefer the later one anyway)
...make it about Visual C++, and don't ever mention Visual Basic. Nick Hodapp (MSFT) in Semicolon[^]
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but the contents is the same, so what? 
perhaps some people like the "Question time", and others the message board list - so keep the variety.
Auch den Schatten will ich lieben weil ich manchmal lieber frier' Rosenstolz [sighist]
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peterchen wrote:
but the contents is the same, so what?
The answer to that is that it's really annoying when you use the Lounge from the main forums.asp and reply to a message which then throws you into lounge.asp. It's slightly confusing for new members that the whole format at the top changes and it often blows your "new" markers out.
Not a major complaint but worth fixing.
Paul
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ok, that's a point
Auch den Schatten will ich lieben weil ich manchmal lieber frier' Rosenstolz [sighist]
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Thats a good point
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Well, that was not my major concern. I just hate the droplist which doesnt show any counts and is bad to use. But, yes, thats a point too
...if you're under 8 or younger. Chris Maunder, the Lounge
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Already we can change our name color for posted names usin a bit of hTmL,
But would it be any use if your name color was in the preferences ?
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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But then everyone will have horribly coloured names, rather than just the knowledgable people doing it (and hopefully they've got enough sense to not pick horrible colours)
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Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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hopefully they've got enough sense to not pick horrible colours.
this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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Yes,I like the idea.
Sometimes I hate almost everyone has the same black name.
this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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Good idea, as long as it's restricted to gold members.
Let Q = the set of all quotes, ever
S = {a: a € Q : a is funny, a is nerdy }
a1 a2...an
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any chance of RSS feeds for codeproject (preferably one for new articles, and one for lounge topics!)
In case you're wondering, Trillian Pro[^] has a RSS plugin, that monitors feeds and gives you a little MSN style popup when new content appears, which I think is brilliant!
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benjymous wrote:
any chance of RSS feeds for codeproject (preferably one for new articles, and one for lounge topics!)
You could always tap into the CP webservices (like the ones I used in my CP+ article) and generate an RSS feed which Trillian then points to.
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Hmm, that might be a neat little project - an app you run on your computer that can be configured to read in web data from one source (a service, or just a normal web page), and convert it into an RSS feed.
Is there an easy way of using web services from VC6 (I can't afford .NET yet)
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benjymous wrote:
an app you run on your computer that can be configured to read in web data from one source (a service, or just a normal web page), and convert it into an RSS feed.
Is there an easy way of using web services from VC6 (I can't afford .NET yet)
You don't need to even go to all the trouble of using SOAP and the webservice proxy etc. etc. All you need to do is call the URL of the web service with the required parametres and it returns an XML document.
So you could actually have a simple app which transforms (using XSL naturally) the returned XML document into a RSS document.
Wow, actually that sounds great Let me go and do it quick
btw. you can see how to use a web service directly (without soap etc.) in my CP+ article, though it does use .NET classes, you could use the HTTPResponse objects in "normal" C++ I am sure. It is just XML doc over HTTP.
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To work from trillian pro, it'll need to run as a mini web server (of course all it'll serve is the RSS feeds). Trillian lets you set the port, so it doesn't have to run on port 80
Do you think you could create some sort of simple query language to make it easy to parse any input data (such as html pages)
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