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A minor one, but it often gotchas me. There is a small area to the left of the forum topic where highlighting works but the link doesn't. The cursor is standard arrow rather than finger. Get over there, click, and nothing happens. If I wasn't watching the cursor, I get a mental timeout and handling the resulting exception hurts what's left of my brain.  
While we're in that area, it would be nice if the 'unread' highlighting was different from the 'currently viewing'. Quite a few times I've reselected the one I'm already looking at.
FF 3.6 and Chrome 5.0 - don't know about IE.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: While we're in that area, it would be nice if the 'unread' highlighting was different from the 'currently viewing'. Quite a few times I've reselected the one I'm already looking at.
It is different but very subtle.
Current viewing has a white background and bold text.
Unread has the 'normal' background and bold text.
But because of the 'normal' color being not that much different from white it's very difficult to see the difference 
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 I can see it now you point it out. I'm normally viewing exactly straight on to an LCD monitor and the normal/white contrast is minimal. If I lower my head, everything gets redder and the contrast is greated greater.
Thanks,
Peter
[edit] almost left the typo in - it makes sense in a non-native kind of English! [/edit]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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I can't repeat the dead-air problem, but I will make the highlighting subtly more, er, less subtle.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I can't repeat the dead-air problem
I can.
Chrome 5
It's the space just before the forum name in the list. (If I understood the OP right that is.)
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Ah, sorry - was looking at something else (actually, 20 other things else, this morning 
I'll make a mental note to see if it's an easy tweak, but technically it's not a bug, just a "I'd prefer the teeny tiny area to the left to be clickable" thing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: actually, 20 other things else, this morning
So a slow morning?
Chris Maunder wrote: "I'd prefer the teeny tiny area to the left to be clickable"
Is that the technical description?
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I'm sure you can, I see it on FF3.0 and IE7.
Just hover a left pane menu item, then slowly move to the left and watch the finger turn into an arrow, which it doesn't do when moving to the right.
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Seems others can replicate the dead air. I don't know whether it's your fix or I'm looking more closely (or even both!), but the highlighting is agreeably less subtle this morning. Thanks.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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At present, it is not possible to notify the poster of a comment that you have read it, and want to say something.
For example, I could not find a reference to some code in a tip / trick so I left a hanging credit that if anyone knew I would fill in the blanks. Smithers-Jones kindly pointed me at the Q&A answer I was looking for, and I filled in the credit.
But there is no mechanism for sending him a "Thanks" or "Credited" message, other than replying to an unrelated thread.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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This is on our TODO list, definitely
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks for giving credit .
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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I have a C++ profile but got interested in some other projects in C#. So every day i get to the Latest Updates page to see all last published articles.
Since yesterday I have great difficulty to change the "Select Role" combo.
As I change it from "Select Role " to "All Roles" it comes to "C++ developper" after the page is refreshed and I just have C++ articles in the list.
I eventually manage to set "All Roles" but it is a daily stuggle
Thank you,
Yarp
http://www.senosoft.com/
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Can you please try now?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
thank you for looking a this. I am sorry it's not working. I forgot to say I am using IE8 on Vista, latest patches.
- When I select "All roles" nothing happens.
- This morning I then tried "C++ developper" then "All roles" to reset some value but I got stuck to "C++ developper".
- Then I set "C# developper" and it worked. Back to "All roles", stuck to "C# developper"
I then got an idea:
- I selected "All roles" then clicked on the Tags field before submitting the request
And it worked (I tried several times).
Well, I think it did. The list content changed, but the combo is still showing "Select a role" (this is not a prob of course, just I am not sure).
If this could help you I can make a video capture showing the problem. I will upload it on my website and post a DL link.
Yarp
http://www.senosoft.com/
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the CP articles now support code browsing, which is great. Sometimes the article offers several text/source files, however only one of them is of particular interest.
So how about adding a little extra: once a file has been selected and it contents gets shown, also offer a button to download the one file (as is, i.e. not in a zip).
BTW: I would also appreciate a button/widget to download the entire zip from the "Browse Code" tab (as well as from the Article tab itself where it is now).
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Second, would make things easier (is that a word?)
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: Second, would make things easier (is that a word?) Smile
yes that is a word; that, easier, second everything. any doubt ?
...byte till it megahertz...
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Was referring to the 'easier' word. It just didn't feel right while I was typing it. Don't ask me why, I don't know it just didn't feel right. (must be my weird self acting up again)
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Great idea.
Currently links to downloads are hard-wired into the text. We're nearing the end of a release cycle which will free us up to finally complete the long awaited download-count feature. As part of this we're reworking the links between articles and downloads and this will then allow us to implement this easily.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is there any hope of a stand alone forum build making it into the next cycle?
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Stand alone forum build?
Sorry - I must be in low caffeine mode. Can you remind me?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You've talked about putting a .net build of the forum software up as an article (to replace the ancient classic asp one that's currently out there) but said that breaking the forum codebase free from the rest of the CP framework would require a decent amount of effort and that doing so had been back-burnered for years as a result.
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That won't be part of this effort since they are different projects.
I was actually thinking about that last night. Our codebase has an awful lot of cross dependencies between the projects (eg Membership, forums, articles etc) and we're started the ball rolling on properly breaking these out and coding against a proper set of interfaces. Once this is done we'll have the Forum code in a separate solution.
The only trick then will be: how much of the rest of our core infrastructure will it rely on, and is it possible, without simply throwing 10 years of development out to the crowd, to release just the forums.
I'd love to do it. The world needs better forums.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That's good to hear. If/When you're finally able to do so I'll probably end up writing a pair of articles providing bi-directional email/nntp gateways.
One of the other forums[^] I frequent is a poster child for the lack of good forum software. Due to a number of regulars being in the military low bandwidth/high latency tolerant connections (email/nntp) are requirements and and we're unwilling to give up full threading either. Having been burned by software being discontinued in the past the admin is insisting on access to the source as well. The problem is that there are no forum apps that provide all four of those features and have good performance levels.
The one in current use is a painful example of failure to scale. It runs OK at the very small forum level but even after rewriting the authentication code for an order of magnitude speedup on the web side performance is somewhere between annoying and maddening. While Baen's Bar isn't quite as big as CP it's had >400k messages/(6.7gb) posted since I began archiving the email feed in a gmail account over the last 5(?) years ago.
One example of how it sucks that the admin shared as an example is that the software has 2 backend options: a SqlServer and a bTree(?) constructed using a folder hierarchy on the filesystem. The bTree is the higher performing option. 
Writing a full web forum is beyond the scope of a weekends project. I think/hope that bolting gateways onto a well designed existing platform is with my means, and I know CPforum will scale to handle the load. 
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