Bugs and Suggestions

14-Apr-20 8:22

I'm flattered we're the first!

We're currently redoing our CSS from the ground up so things like this will be corrected. We may also add a Dark mode (to be decided). For me it's not a waste if there are specific colours we wish to use in a dark mode to ensure branding and display look good. It also saves people having to worry about their own custom styles. Plus, it's a CSS thing now (sorta).

cheers
Chris Maunder

weird reputation grafic

Nelek12-Apr-20 7:10

Nelek

12-Apr-20 7:10

I was just checking because he has been reporting.
His rep history[^] is pretty weird.

I suppose he will be nuked, but wanted to let you know in case you want to dig

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?
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Chris Maunder12-Apr-20 11:37

12-Apr-20 11:37

Looks like someone wasn't playing by the rules.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Wendelius13-Apr-20 1:08

Wendelius

13-Apr-20 1:08

Since the drop is in the participant category, could it just be that he has opted-out a few newsletters.

Nelek13-Apr-20 1:29

Nelek

13-Apr-20 1:29

There is no "opt-in" part in the graphic. He starts at "0" and goes up slowly. When you opt-in for all things you start with 300 points.

M.D.V.

Wendelius13-Apr-20 3:06

Wendelius

13-Apr-20 3:06

Nelek wrote:
When you opt-in for all things you start with 300 points.

If I recall correctly, it hasn't always been so. The account is old so could it be possible that when the amount of items you can opt-in has grown over time, they have been automatically added to existing accounts without adding corresponding points? This would explain why opting-out results to negative points.

Of course this is merely speculation Smile | :)

Nelek13-Apr-20 3:24

Nelek

13-Apr-20 3:24

Wendelius wrote:
Of course this is merely speculation

That's exactly why I posted it here. To let the ones know, that actually can look the records Wink | ;)

M.D.V.

My Articles is Empty

#realJSOP11-Apr-20 1:20

Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles

11-Apr-20 1:20

I went to "My Articles", and it says "no articles posted" (the same for Tips). The article/tip count appears to be accurate.

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Re: My Articles is Empty

Greg Utas11-Apr-20 1:26

Greg Utas

11-Apr-20 1:26

"My Articles" works for me.

Re: My Articles is Empty

#realJSOP11-Apr-20 2:41

11-Apr-20 2:41

It appears to be okay now.

Article Wizard Weirdness

#realJSOP9-Apr-20 10:06

Re: Article Wizard Weirdness

9-Apr-20 10:06

I submitted a new article (Generic DAL Revisit - Making it Your Own, A Practical Example[^]), and it didn't bring over the one-line description or the "brief paragraph". Sean is editing it (fixing it, I suspect), but just thought you should know.

Sean Ewington9-Apr-20 10:07

Sean Ewington

9-Apr-20 10:07

It was missing when I went in there as well. If you don't like the description or brief paragraph I chose, I'm happy to change it.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Article Wizard Weirdness

#realJSOP9-Apr-20 10:16

Re: "Message closed" cleanup

9-Apr-20 10:16

Nah - looks okay. It's weird, because the wizard won't let you submit unless those two fields are filled in.

Maybe they were social distancing. Smile | :)

"Message closed" cleanup

Richard Deeming7-Apr-20 0:43

Richard Deeming

7-Apr-20 0:43

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Chris Maunder7-Apr-20 2:59

Message Signature not Showing

7-Apr-20 2:59

Thanks for the reminder. All cleared.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Cp-Coder6-Apr-20 10:54

Cp-Coder

6-Apr-20 10:54

I have added a phrase in my settings, as a message signature for my messages in the Lounge. However, the signature is not showing in my Lounge messages?? Confused | :confused:

Chris Maunder6-Apr-20 11:31

6-Apr-20 11:31

Try now

cheers
Chris Maunder

Cp-Coder6-Apr-20 11:34

Cp-Coder

6-Apr-20 11:34

Great! Thanks! Smile | :)

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Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles

Greg Utas6-Apr-20 12:36

Greg Utas

6-Apr-20 12:36

And the incantation was...?

Cp-Coder6-Apr-20 13:04

Cp-Coder

6-Apr-20 13:04

He doesn't use incantations! He just fixes problems! Smile | :)

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Richard MacCutchan6-Apr-20 21:48

Richard MacCutchan

6-Apr-20 21:48

What signature?

Chris Maunder6-Apr-20 13:57

6-Apr-20 13:57

The usual burnt offerings.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Styles for articles

#realJSOP5-Apr-20 5:54

5-Apr-20 5:54

Is there a way we can add styles for our articles? If not generally, than for the people that have a crapload of articles posted. Like me. Maybe make it possible to upload a supplemental style sheet?

I want to use this:

CSS

<style>
    /* make the colors for all of the headers the same, and set the spacing so that text is 
       a little closer together */
    h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 
    { 
        color: #f90; 
        margin-bottom:0px !important; 
        padding-bottom: 0px !important;
        line-height:1.1em;
    }
    /* make paragraphs flow vertically closer to the previous element */
    p 
    { 
        margin-top:5px;
    }
    /* make a lang="text" pre block have different colors (cp-oriented) to differentiate 
       them from actual code blocks. */
    .preText 
    { 
        background-color:#dfd; 
        border-color:green; 
    }
    /* make code in a header be a different color that compliments the header color */
    h1 code,h2 code,h3 code,h4 code,h5 code,h6 code 
    { 
        color:saddlebrown; 
        font-size:inherit; 
    }
</style>

Also, what happened to the checkbox that told the editors not to mess with my markup?

Seriously dudes, yer harshin' my buzz.

Re: Styles for articles

Chris Maunder5-Apr-20 6:43

5-Apr-20 6:43

Short answer: no, you can't change styles so your articles appear differently to everyone else's. A fundamental goal for CodeProject is to keep as consistent a look and feel as possible across our articles.

For preText I'm guessing what you're after is something too allow the use of PRE without it being coloured like a CODE block. What we're going to do is move to the standard "<pre><code>" form so that non-code blocks will simply be preformatted, and pre-code blocks will be formatted and colourised.

The Hx code suggestions: I'll play around with that. As to the spacing and colours, they are being adjusted in a move to using Bootstrap as the base CSS. Spacing will actually increase. No, you can't come and personally threaten me because the borders are closed. Let's talk about it in the Fall.

As to that checkbox: it's like those temperature adjustment dials that have in offices. It didn't actually do anything and was there simply to give you the illusion of control. (actually it was only there for the old HTMLArea WYSIWYG editor. The new CKEditor is far better with HTML so we've not needed to undo any weirdnesses)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Styles for articles

#realJSOP6-Apr-20 0:01