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While I'm sure it's a wonderful article, the fact it says Edit in the title doth not mean it should be with articles about edit controls...
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36076/Editing-Ribbon-Bar-Images.aspx[^]
Other ribbon-y articles appear to be under Miscellaneous - General, or Misc - Misc.
I don't know if the author or an editor put it in the wrong spot, but it should probably be moved.
Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww).
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Editing Ribbon Bar Images is in the Edit Controls category (but because it's a technical blog on its article surface you can't see its category)
There are indeed ribbon-y articles hiding in the Misc. section that I'll move. Thanks sir Warrior!
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Hi! I can confirm that this happened to me as well in two other QAs. When it happened I just posted the same comment again... so far it worked for me on the second attempt.
/M
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Nah, when it happens I can try any number of times with the same or different messages with no success. We do need the comment system, but perhaps it is time to re-think the whole site! It seems to be getting a little creaky at the edges... 
Did you know:
That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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same thing...couldn't get it to show no matter how many times I tried adding it.
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Try again please, should be good now.
Sorry about this
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it! 
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Thanks - working again now! 
Did you know:
That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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Oops. Our fault. It should be OK now.
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Finally! I thought it might have been overlooked when DD last reported it and I was about to report it myself. Looks like I can post comments now though.
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Been a busy week with lots of code branching, so I've only just had a chance to upload a new stable build.
Well, as stable as they get 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: stable build
Oxymoron. Perhaps "a build that meets an arbitrary minimum level of stability" would be more appropriate.
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Maybe just "build"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Has a certain ring to it. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Maybe just "build"
indubitably[^]
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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As you know questions can have an accepted answer. The OP (and only the OP) can choose which answer to accept. This hasn't been working out as expected. Authors simply don't use this feature. Either they just don't want to be bothered or don't understand the system.
We were thinking of removing the "Accepted answer/alternate" functionality altogether. Instead we'd have the idea of "Best answer" or "Viable alternate" (wording undecided) for questions and tips/tricks, respectively. An answer/alternate would be marked as such if it had at least 2 votes with a rating >= 4.
So basically the OP would no longer be responsible or even have the ability to mark their question as accepted. It'll be decided by the community on votes. This has the added benefit of allowing newer answers to overtake an older slightly less accurate answer - not to mention far more questions having good/top answers.
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I don't see much use for such feature at all; not the "accepted" one, and not the "best" one.
"Accepted" refers to the original enquirer, and isn't very relevant to the community.
"Best" is debatable and transient; whatever is best today, tomorrow may bring a better answer using the same basic technology.
Luckily there still is real voting with a range of values, from low to high; the average score really says all. IMO whatever you'd add to the score, it does not add value, it just confuses people, and opens meta discussions.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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Yep I'm with you. I wasn't clear enough in my original post. No one will explicitly choose the "best" answer. It will dynamically be determined based purely on the votes/rating. So if an answer happens to have 2 votes of 4 it will also be highlighted (on the view page). And on list pages we'd have the answer count bordered in gold to indicate that a good answer exists.
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Thiru Thirunavukarasu wrote: Yep I'm with you
I'm not so sure; I think you didn't get my drift.
What I said is I don't need anything but the average score, so no "best" either, no gold mark. All those qualifications add little or nothing to the value of the one question and the answers it has got.
But now it seems you want an automated way of splitting questions in two categories: those that need more attention (because no, no good, or no good enough answers are present), and the others (that probably have a sufficient number of sufficiently good answers). I can understand such need, I don't agree with your proposal.
IMO you can't solve that purely based on average score, you need to use a weighted quantification too. Having two beginners each say perfect answer, doesn't make it fully answered.
This is what I would use for sorting questions by their need for attention:
for each answer calculate sum of voterWeight*(vote - 3)
of all these, pick the largest value; use that to sort questions
Example:
question 1 has 2 answers:
answer 1 got two white fives. Valued at 2+2 = 4
answer 2 got a single platinum five. Valued at 8*2 = 16
the "answered value" is 16
question 2 has 1 answer:
answer 1 got two white fours. Valued at 1+1 = 2
the "answered value" is 2
question 3 has 2 answers:
answer 1 got 5 white fives, and a platinum 1: Valued at 5*2 + 8*-2 = -6
answer 2 got a single silver 4. Valued at 4*1 = 4
the "answered value" is 4
since it scores lowest, the second question needs most attention.
This proposal does not use absolute values; it only quantifies the degree of "answeredness".
Final thought: whatever you do, people will try to abuse it. You may end up in a silly situation where all (including bad) answers on other questions get up-voted to make those questions go away, so the own question gets more attention (the opposite of your "latest best picks" phenomenon for articles on the home page). Including voter weight will reduce such risk.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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Luc Pattyn wrote: You may end up in a silly situation where all (including bad) answers on other questions get up-voted to make those questions go away, so the own question gets more attention
You are a devious person Luc!
I would never have thought of doing something like that.
Thanks for the heads up.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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Life becomes somewhat easier when you consider the potential side-effects of some decisions or actions before committing... It is part of the analysis phase, don't you think?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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Luc Pattyn wrote: It is part of the analysis phase, don't you think?
Indubitably!
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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Henry Minute wrote: You are a devious person
devious, another word Google Translate has trouble translating into other languages such as Dutch and French. All it gives would translate back to unwieldy, verbose, lengthy, winding, sinuous, divergent, aberrant; while I have the impression you rather meant cunning, maybe even deceptive.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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These things haven't improved greatly in something like 20 years. (Well, they have really, but I'll ignore that for the sake of the story. )
Roughly 20 - 25 years ago I read an article in a computer magazine, can't remember which one, where the author (might have been Guy Kewney) had been invited along to a University who wanted to show off some translation software they were working on.
After they demonstrated he asked if he could have a go. He translated "to be or not to be, that is the question" into another language and back to English. What came back was "to shall or not to should, that is the interrogation".
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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