Fubar: Wide posts?

[Guv]

Anybody here with some ideas on this? Following has been posted on Chit-Chat Forum.

Why do some of these posts have a rediculous WIDTH, while others seem well contained?

The first thing that came to mind was that maybe some people cut and paste from another editor (which may not be wrapping).

'this is a too damn long line of code........... yup... too long, the code tag keeps text from wrapping, unless you hit the enter key.. this is so you can keep code formatted.... :) or is it :(...  oh well.. this should be long enough.

[HarryW]

It's not that Dennis, threads have been messed up with no code posted.

I don't cut and paste, I compose straight into the online form, and I was getting the problem a couple of days ago.

[kedaman]

I have an idea, what if John made the forums wrap the text in all pages, except inside [c ode] tag?
That would mean
text would look
like this......

And here goes the code

And here wrapped
text again all
the way...

Remove it! Yup! For the powerful site comes a bad feature.  Text wrapping!  Yup yup! Code tags seem like the only one, but maybe quote tags?  or maybe someone forgot some tags?  What seems to be the longest line and what is the thread ID?  Yup yup!  That would be interesting and I'd like to view that!  Yup yup! Yup yup! Can someong send a link to that?  By the way, have anyong noticed the annoying blue line at the end of this forum?  It's annoying.  Yup yup.

On Local Error GoTo NoWhere
Set Me = Nothing
DestroyEverything(True, DestroyAll, VBWorld) ;)

But this would
be too short
for most posts
Error 04:
These posts R
too short!!!

[Paul282]

I aggree, I think they should wrap all text as so that it
fits a certain size (640x480) or 800x600 screen, personally I think most people use much larger but that's
not as annoying as the text going off screen on replies without code.


We could always annoy people by adding a code reply of three page
width to every post so that so many people complain that they have to change it

You wouldn't be too popular around here but if you have a spare email address and ISP account to connect from who'd know ?????


Jesus, I mean replying to this thread has nothing on the screen, then if you scroll to the right one screen you can see the (this) input form window and scroll another for the buttons!

And to think VB is about interface design !!!

(STIR STIR)

The way is to not put the [code] tags in. Although that makes the code look ugly, but if it makes you happy, do it! As long as the code works, it doesn't matter how it looks .

[Paul282]

I disagree,

I don't just copy paste code into my programs I like to read through the snippets and learn from them.

It's not really the code colouring I like but the formatting.
without the code tags you loose the tabs and spaces so functions become hard to see/read.

The biggest evil I think are people's API declare statements!
they ought to learn how to use the "_" marker to split
their code, or the [ code ] script on this web site ought
to attempt to cut DECLARE statements longer that 100 chrs with a "_"

Public Used1 As VBWorld.User
Public User2 As VBWorld.User
Public Admin As VBWorld.Admin
Public SEdit As VBWorld.SeniorE

Sub Underline()
  Set User1 = VBWorld.Users("Escaflowne")
  Set User2 = VBWorld.Users("Paul282")
  User2.AskRequest("A _ To end every Declare Line")
  User1.Agreed = True
  Set Admin = VBWorld.John
  Set Admin.Status = "Administrator"
  Admin.ShouldChangeForums = True
  Set SEdit = VBWorld.KarlMoore
  SEdit.UrgeAdmin = True
  VBWorldEx(DoItAll)
End Sub
;) :) :(

[Paul282]

Private Declare Function VBWorldImplementNewFeatureA Lib "VBWorld32.dll" (ByVal FeatureName As String, Feature as Long) as Long  '  Returns 1 as True

MsgBox = VBWorldImplementNewFeatureA("Add '_'", AddressOf(AddUnderBar))

Public Function AddUnderBar(HTML as String) as String

    'Code goes here (can't be bothered writing it :D)

End Function

Well? What's the return code?

[John]

We are aware of this problem, and we are continuing to look into solutions. For the short term, just use the _ on the VB code.

John