stupid qst...

Why when copy code from post instead the have only a line ... have for each line of code the progressive number of code???? similar:

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'* MsgBoxEx() - Written by Aaron Young, February 7th 2000
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'* - Edited by Philip Manavopoulos, May 19th 2005
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lParam As Long
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wParam As Long
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message As Long
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'Added by manavo11
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Private Type RECT
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Left As Long

That's a result of poor "code highlighter" implementation - lots of people suffer from that.
If you quote the post first then you will be able to copy code and paste it into your code editor without any problem.
Also, code posted with simple CODE tags can be copy/paste without quoting post.

I personally always use CODE tags - simple but no hassle either.

There several ways to get around the problem. One is to copy the code to NotePad first and two others are the Copy/Paste VB Code and
Paste VB Code Add-In links in my signature.

The forums should remove [HIGHLIGHT=vb], that is not very useful, if not provide a way to convert back to normal code (like some other forums are doing)

All I do is copy it into word, remove the formatting and the numbers then paste it into my project. Takes about 30 seconds.

A lot of ways to do it, some ways just take 2 seconds, but none of them should be necessary if the forums remove the tag [HIGHLIGHT=vb] and not allow anyone to use it.

This problem should not be there in first place. [vb Code] tag gives more problem than it can help, particularly to new comers who has not much programing skills.

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Originally Posted by CoachBarker

All I do is copy it into word, remove the formatting and the numbers then paste it into my project. Takes about 30 seconds.

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That works and in fact it's the way the two links in my signature work, and using them is faster than doing it manually, but copying to Notepad is the fastest way.

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Originally Posted by anhn

A lot of ways to do it...

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And quickest [for me] is like I said "quote-copy-paste".

Yes, I only knew that after my first 100 posts. I think it happens the same to others. Even worst for this OP, after 218 posts he is still suffering. And you are lucky if you have a fast internet access.

I wrote a small piece of code in an Excel add-in that can do the job properly and quicker than use {Quote}, but I really hate that.

From time to time you can see someone posts only one line of code such as "Set abc = xzy" and wraps it with [HIGHLIGHT=vb] tags. I don't know why they love to do that.

The highlight tags are very useful but you need to look at its uses beyond simple vb code. It also have many other syntaxe colorings: VB.NET, C#, SQL, etc

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Originally Posted by RobDog888

The highlight tags are very useful but you need to look at its uses beyond simple vb code. It also have many other syntaxe colorings: VB.NET, C#, SQL, etc

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I will agree with others who say they are not - just take sql tags as an example and you will quickly realise how horrible color schema is.
But not only it looks bad - weird colors confuse people who used to color schemas similar to those in SQL Navigator, TOAD, MS SQL, Visual Studio, etc...

Maybe the color schemes need tweaking but that shouldnt be a reason for it being useless. Everybody has different color preferences but it should stay similar to the native environment.

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Originally Posted by RobDog888

Maybe the color schemes need tweaking but that shouldnt be a reason for it being useless. Everybody has different color preferences but it should stay similar to the native environment.

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I agree with that statement however there is always one schema in every utility that is known as "default" - it is nothing more than "most popular" color schema and that is what had to be implemented here.
Since it wasn't and vast majority hate current colors the code highlighter basically became "useless" or perhaps pointless becose you cannot recognize keywords so it's hard to read code, etc, etc, etc...

... but that would more than enough arguments from me so I'm zipping up ... :eek2: