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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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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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.

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

#realJSOP6-Apr-20 0:01

6-Apr-20 0:01

Chris Maunder wrote:
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.

I understand that, but at least consider some of the changes I wanted to make. For instance, a border with rounded corners around <pre<> blocks really does enhance the look of the article. My latest article code has a html file with the body contents in it with the style changes I wanted to use. BTW, are you going to switch to relative font sizes (i.e., "1.2em") instead of hard-coded pixels?

Chris Maunder wrote:
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.

Can you show an example? I dont know what a "standard <pre><code> form" is (we all have our own standards, right? Smile | :)

Chris Maunder wrote:
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.

More spacing? Ugh...

I don't threaten, I make examples. You'll never see me coming, but everyone will know what happened (because I'll leave one survivor to tell the tale). Smile | :)

Chris Maunder wrote:
As to that checkbox: it's like those temperature adjustment dials that have in offices. It didn't actually do anything

I kinda know that already, because your minions continue to incur my wrath by editing my articles...

Can you show us what that will look like?

Chris Maunder6-Apr-20 5:24

6-Apr-20 5:24

#realJSOP wrote:
a border with rounded corners around <pre<> blocks really does enhance the look of the article

Maybe. But then someone else will hate it. I will never be able to please everyone, so in some cases I'm going to make the call to at least ensure one person is happy.

#realJSOP wrote:
BTW, are you going to switch to relative font sizes

Absolutely. (get it?)

#realJSOP wrote:
I dont know what a "standard <pre><code> form" is

Instead of

HTML

<pre lang=C++>
// code
</pre>

It should be

HTML

<pre>
<code data-lang="C++">
// code
</code>
</pre>

#realJSOP wrote:
I don't threaten, I make examples

I will chalk up another COVID silver lining.

#realJSOP wrote:
Can you show us what that will look like?

When was the last time you gave someone fair warning? Wink | ;)

cheers
Chris Maunder

#realJSOP6-Apr-20 5:58

6-Apr-20 5:58

Chris Maunder wrote:
Maybe. But then someone else will hate it. I will never be able to please everyone

But you've already established that I am the one you have to be wary of. Nobody else really matters. Smile | :)

Chris Maunder wrote:
When was the last time you gave someone fair warning?

That's usually established with my icy glare.

The difficult part will be delineating "warning" from "action", but only for those reading the historical accounts years beyond the event (scribed, of course, by the lone survivor). Smile | :)

Chris Maunder6-Apr-20 6:12

6-Apr-20 6:12

Just imagine me here, way, WAY up north, giving you a wave and an uneasy smile.

cheers
Chris Maunder

#realJSOP6-Apr-20 6:58

6-Apr-20 6:58

Chris Maunder wrote:
But then someone else will hate it. I will never be able to please everyone

Idea - make the site themable (to an extent) by the user. Smile | :)

Chris Maunder6-Apr-20 14:05

6-Apr-20 14:05

Yeah...no.

What if we had a design contest? Reckon there'd be an punters willing to give it a shot?

cheers
Chris Maunder

#realJSOP6-Apr-20 14:18