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I entered a rather long message in the lounge, and the editor kept repositioning itself in the middle of the message whenever I types a character. The cursor remained where it was, and I was still able to type. When I typed a character, I would breifly see what I had just typed, but the message would scroll back up to the middle again almost immediately afterwards.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: the editor kept repositioning itself in the middle of the message
As in: the text would scroll so the cursor was always in the middle of the text area? This was only when typing, not when pasting or clicking format buttons?
I'll check for double +'s.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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No, as in the cursor stays at the bottom of the edited text, but the editor control itself scrolls the existing text so that the thumbscroller is centered vertically in the scrollbar. Someone suggested it might be an IE thing (I'm using IE8 at work without compatibility mode turned on). Maybe that's the issue.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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This message started doing it at line 26 (with compatibility mode off)
this is a very long msg
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this is a very long msg
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this is a very long msg
this is a very long msg
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".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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This message also did it at line 26 (with compatibility mode ON).
The problem appears to be tied to the preview pane. It looks like it happens when the preview pane catches up with what's typed after line 25.
this is a very long msg
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this is a very long msg
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".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I have seen this on several sites. Seems to be an IE issue (perhaps some common JavaScript code that newer versions of IE don't like). For example, when I edit a page in my local install of ScrewTurn Wiki, the textbox scrolls up while I type. My suspicion is that the JavaScript is setting the height (or some other property) on the textbox on each key press, even if that property has not changed, and IE goes all bonkers when a property like that is changed.
Martin Fowler wrote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Seems to be an IE issue
Nope, I had the same problem as John lately, but only on CP, and I am on FF6.0.
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I think it's to do with the live message preview and the message box losing focus. I'm disabling that for IE8 and below.
To see for yourself, enter a long message, then tab out of the edit box (it scrolls) then tab back in (it scrolls back). Nice, eh?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
<small>Microsoft C++ MVP</small>
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I think the latest round of UI tweaks has made a difference. The home page has an open, inviting feel, and the site seems to have more depth in many areas. I think the balance between social fluff and dev stuff is getting better too.
Of the three main areas that should predominate on a site like this, Codeproject has social fluff and dev stuff (articles, forums) nailed. The third area, tech news, is not so well-integrated on-site, although it is covered in newsletters.
Congratulations to you and your staff. There is no other site community like this. Hope you will keep up these improvements.
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That is high praise Hans, and sincerely appreciated.
We have a lot of stuff to do and my constant frustration is in trying to get the stuff done that's important to the users' experience versus the stuff that's core and never gets seen, but is no less important.
All I can say is, as always, thanks for your patience and support.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This seems to be new - I thought it always used to?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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This is new because plain text is plain text, so no need (and no sense, really) in encoding or wrapping since all tags will display as tags, not as formatting.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Um.
If you create a new question (or edit an existing one) and "Treat my content as plain text" is set, then toggling it does not show any code blocks as code blocks. This may be why some of the newbie questions are initially showing as plain text with <pre> tags - the option doesn't appear to do what they think it should! Only if they type after setting the option does the change take effect in the preview.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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By Jove Walter, are you bored, unemployed, mad?
I mean good show and all, but evidence there of a man with too much time on his hands 
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: are you bored, unemployed, mad?
They aren't mutually exclusive - that's the only reason I can figure for the existence of Jeremy Kyle.
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Car crash television.
You know it is bad, but you keep watching anyway.
All these families and their problems that you just cannot imagine happening to anyone to doesn't shop in Lidl.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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I actually have a simple program that will parse the user names, their biographies, and homepage, and put it in a grid for review. Its a bit quicker reviewing it on a grid than going over the users on the Who's who page. I'll probably write an article once the code is finalized. Right now, I'm still thinking if the program is worthy of an article.
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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walterhevedeich wrote: I'm still thinking if the program is worthy of an article.
Of course it is. Look at how many "reputation" articles there are, and then ask yourself this question again.
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Thanks Pete. I'll probably finish it by end of September, if time permits. 
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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I notice, especially clicking on a link from the CP newsletter (coincidence probably?), that the discussions menu shows "Bold indicates new messages since 22:00 31 Dec '99" and all the discussion links are bold. I have noticed this before and it is intermittent. Use FireFox 6 currently, Windows 7. Not sure if this is on my end or not. Usually it shows just since a few days/weeks when I visit each time. I see old posts similar but no dates as old as Dec '99.
vbmike
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The cause of this would be cookies being deleted, blocked, or if you're using a new machine or browser.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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hmmm, I wonder how that happened? Sneaky browsers.....thank you....
vbmike
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Just to head off the inevitable, here are the current bugs in these buttons
- indent and outdent apply only to text you select. This means if you select a partial line, it may not be outdented correctly, or when indenting, the indent will be applied from the beginning of the selection, not the beginning of the line
- after indent/outdent, the selection is unselected, meaning it's tedious to in/outdent multiple times
- the untab does not correctly replace mixed tabs and spaces with spaces. For instance, 3 spaces and a tab is the same as a single tab (assuming 1 tab = 4 spaces)
The buttons were whipped up in 5 mins just to have "something". I'm travelling for a week so hopefully I'll get a chance in airports or 37,000ft above the Atlantic to get some play time in.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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