Article Writing

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30-Jul-15 5:25

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Sean Ewington17-Jul-09 4:12

article images not showing up

17-Jul-09 4:12

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As a basic overview CodeProject articles have a certain layout to follow, so that users can learn the most from them. Each article attempts to answer the following questions: What problem does this solution solve? How does this help someone else? How does the code actually work? What is going on inside the code snippets?

Here is a submission from a first time author who did a terrific job, just to give you a basic overview of what a beginner article might look like:
Avoiding InvokeRequired[^]

You can take a look at our article FAQ series here:
Code Project Article FAQ[^]

For tips on writing articles, please see this article:
A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project[^]

You can also see our submission guidelines here:
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If it has to do with posting articles on Code Project, ask away. CodeProject staff and members are here to help.

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Sean Ewington
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modified 8-Apr-21 17:10pm.

raddevus22-Sep-23 9:55

22-Sep-23 9:55

I just posted the article: Inspirational Quotes (From Richard P. Feynman) For Software Developers to Consider[^]

It has 21 images. They aren't large. Total bytes for all 21 is less than 1Mb.
Anyways, only hte first image in the article displays.
The rest of the images won't show up.
For some reason the images have "duplicates" that show as missing (on the right side).
I've removed the duplicates and reuploaded the images and reset all the images to no avail.
Only the first image will show.

Can you help fix this?
Thanks

raddevus24-Sep-23 4:37

24-Sep-23 4:37

I was able to fix the article with a workaround solution so that all the images display now.
It was very odd because there were empty images showing up in the attached images which had the same name as the actual images.

I had to go thru the entire article and reselect each image and then insert each one individually, but now it works.

Sean Ewington25-Sep-23 5:45

25-Sep-23 5:45

If you're able to reliably re-create this issue at any point, please let me know. This is the key to fixing this issue. I suspect it has to do primarily with articles that change publishing status (Composing, Available) in a certain way, but I've not been able to reproduce it 100% of the time.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

raddevus25-Sep-23 6:06

25-Sep-23 6:06

FYI - I went directly from creating the article to posting it -- no change of status that I know of -- and the problem occurred when I first posted the article.
For whatever reason it duplicated all the images (except the first) but all the duplicates said they were invalid -- even though they were named the same as the images I had uploaded.

Hope this helps.

Nelek25-Sep-23 9:00

Nelek

25-Sep-23 9:00

Sorry, but I think it is not fixed yet. I would say an image is missing.

And the format is not consistant (don't know if it's part of the issue, though)

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

raddevus25-Sep-23 9:22

25-Sep-23 9:22

Interesting. I wonder which image isn't showing up?
I've loaded the article numerous times and even from a completely different network and now I see all the images.
Thanks,

Nelek25-Sep-23 9:31

Nelek

25-Sep-23 9:31

To be honest I didn't check now, but yesterday there was a comment of yours without an image explaining it.
Bad thing is... I don't remember what it was, only that was in the second half

M.D.V.

Andreas Saurwein27-Sep-23 1:44

Andreas Saurwein

27-Sep-23 1:44

Yeah, am having the same problem with my article now. All images show up in the editor, are referenced correctly, but the published article is with broken images. I did save it once as draft.
Already tried to reupload the images, same thing. In the list of images they appear as "missing" and also as existing.
VSLauncherX - better recent list (and more) for Visual Studio[^]

forging iron and new ideas

Sean Ewington27-Sep-23 5:24

27-Sep-23 5:24

As I was about to fix the images, I saw the article content. Would you be willing to make some changes to the post? CodeProject is more about code sharing rather than tool sharing. So we would ask you to make some changes to the article to discuss more how the tool works (showing and describing examples of that code) rather than telling us what it does or simply how to use it.

CodeProject articles have a certain layout to follow, so that users can learn the most from them. Each article attempts to answer the following questions: What problem does this solution solve? How does this help someone else? How does the code actually work? What is going on inside the code snippets?

Here is a submission from a first time author who did a terrific job, just to give you a basic overview of what a beginner article might looks like:
Avoiding InvokeRequired[^]

For tips on writing articles, please see this article:
A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project[^]

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Andreas Saurwein27-Sep-23 5:48

Andreas Saurwein

27-Sep-23 5:48

Sure can work on it. I did some explaining of certain issues in the Point Of Interest chapter, but I can of course add some more info to it. Not my first ride on codeproject, but this article is really more about the tool than the code behind it.

cheers
Andreas

forging iron and new ideas

Andreas Saurwein27-Sep-23 6:43

Andreas Saurwein

27-Sep-23 6:43

Updated with quite some more insights on how-to's and code samples. Think its ok now?

forging iron and new ideas

Sean Ewington27-Sep-23 9:49

Thumbnail image is not visible on the site home page

27-Sep-23 9:49

Excellent. Thank you kindly. Could you please email me the images (sean@codeproject.com)? I'll get them sorted out.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Member 420181321-Sep-23 12:28

Member 4201813

21-Sep-23 12:28

Dear CodeProject editors,

I've added a thumbnail image to this article: Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding[^] today but it is not visible on the site home page. The added image is present in the "Source Code & Images" when I reopen article in the editor but not in the "Article Thumbnail" section.

I've also noticed that the article information shown on the site home page also contains an outdated set of tags which has also been fixed today.

Thank you in advance for some assistance.

Re: Thumbnail image is not visible on the site home page

Sean Ewington22-Sep-23 5:53

Re: Thumbnail image is not visible on the site home page

22-Sep-23 5:53

Thanks very much for your message. I've updated the article with your thumbnail. Please let me know if all is well.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Member 420181322-Sep-23 7:10

Member 4201813

22-Sep-23 7:10

Thank you very much, Sean!

Looks great now.

Article posting

Tasos Kipriotis7-Sep-23 4:47

7-Sep-23 4:47

Hi, all
I have a problem in publishing an article.
Last Thursday, August 31, I submitted an article for publishing. After pressing the submit button the article showed up and everything seemed OK. But the article did not appear in the list of articles yet.
When going to My Articles it shows there as Article 5365607. But when I click on it I get a black box with the message

Quote:
Ticket:
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_

in it.
Can someopne help, please?

Sean Ewington7-Sep-23 5:45

7-Sep-23 5:45

Unfortunately the article is unrecoverable. I suspect it may have been closed by the community, but since I cannot see the article, I cannot surmise why. Do you happen to have a local copy of it? If you could please email it to me (sean@codeproject.com) I'll investigate and restore if appropriate.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Tasos Kipriotis7-Sep-23 6:02

7-Sep-23 6:02

Hi, Sean
I have a copy of the text and, of course the attachment. I can rewrite it if it is easier. In that case, must I change the title?
Thanks,
Tasos Kipriotis

Sean Ewington7-Sep-23 6:08

7-Sep-23 6:08

If indeed the article was closed by the community, it would be better if I could see the article to guide a potential re-write, or title change.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Tasos Kipriotis11-Sep-23 7:18

11-Sep-23 7:18

Hi, Sean
Any news?

Sean Ewington11-Sep-23 7:31

11-Sep-23 7:31

Apologies it seems it went to the Junk folder.

Currently you've written the article coming at your subject explaining, "attached is what I have done, and here are some explanations of what I did and why I made some decisions."

I suggest a different approach for the article. Walk them through everything you did. Show the your readers the math. We have LaTeX capability, and we can show the formulas in images if that is too painful (I recommend images). Explain the math. Show your code. Explain your code. Treat your article like a classroom of students of varying levels or understanding. How are you going to explain it so that the majority of them understand?

As an example, here’s an article from one of our top authors:
HTML5 WebWorkers Experiment[^]

His primary goal is to demonstrate “Using HTML5 WebWorkers and a custom jQuery plug-in to create a Flickr image wall.” He treats the reader like a beginner. He defines jQuery, explains what WebWorkers are, then gets into why he wanted to create a jQuery plugin. Each progressive section of the article expands on his topic, thoroughly explains the code, explains the limitations he chose in his scope, discusses how each element to his plug-in works, provides numerous code examples, and most importantly, gives a source code download at the top for the reader should they need it.

Every time the community considers whether or not to approve an article, this is the style of article they have in mind. They love it, they want it, and they praise the authors enormously when they get it (and we want authors to feel like their hard work is appreciated).

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Tasos Kipriotis12-Sep-23 7:22

12-Sep-23 7:22

Thanks for your reply, Sean.
One more question, what are the limits (words, code snippets, etc) for an article?
Thanks,
Tasos Kipriotis

Sean Ewington12-Sep-23 7:26