Site Bugs / Suggestions

ad 2) is not possible f.e. to rememmber password in memmory untill browsers end? ad 3) you have more discussions, i want to check (into my pesonal profile) i'm interested in general and vc++ i will see it as a one discussion so i do not need to browse thru two ones (when i do not want) ad 4) i know how to modify my discussion message but i did not found how to do the same with own-articles (maybe i looked wrongly) ad 6) but now you can have reply at another page than question (maybe parameter main messages per page or similar (or ignore this comment))

Yes, I don't like the "jumpy experience" either. In fact, it's plain painful. The idea of loading the initial nn bytes is good, but perhaps they could be displayed "tooltip"-style, when the user points at the link (use a DHTML layer or something with some script). Or, perhaps when a link is expanded, its entire subtree contents could be downloaded to the client. Expansions of further subtree elements is then handed on the client. For most discussion trees we're not talking about huge numbers of bytes so this seems workable. Heck, encode the discussion tree in XML and simply make an XSL style sheet to generate the client HTML... (ok, well, I guess not _everyone_ uses IE5 so its not _that_ simple).

We could have an MFC forum, but then we'd need an ATL forum, an STL forum, a COM forum etc. I think it's easier simply to have a single forum that deals with all VC++ issues in one place so people don't have to continually jump around looking for information. Maybe if one particular topic becomes more active than others then we'll branch out.

To 2.): When we first made the ability to store user-profiles, there are myriads of possibilities what to do with these profiles, surely on is to add e-mail alerts for notifications. Just be a little more patient ;-)

Easy? I'm not sure - but that's not really the point is it :) Of course we'll add this feature - thanks for suggesting it!

Argh. Thanks for that that Mike. I'm currently offsite so it will be a day or so till I get to it. oops :)

Have you been sneaking a look at my "to do" list? :)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely look into this

Yep - both of these (and more) will be done.

Hi Laura, This is definitely something that is in the works. ================== The original message was: You've got some great code examples. Was just wondering if there was a way to more clearly indicate what's required, MFC, Win32, other APIs, other class or GUI libraries, etc. I've seen some articles listed as MFC classes that don't require any MFC. While this code might be very helpful to a Win32 programmer, the basic description will scare them off. Some of the code might even be useful on non-Windows platforms if it strictly follows the C/C++ standards. It would be nice if developers could more easily tell what the intended development targets were. Thanks.

Thanks for the kind words. Email replies *will* be added - we just need to make a few more tweaks to get everything integrated and then it'll be in place. cheers, Chris ================== The original message was: Hello Everybody, first of all I'd like to say that I very much like this site. I'm a regular guest of the codeguru site, but find this site much more intuitive to use. The layout is great and I surely will stay your guest. If you need some help on this site, here you got a volunteer! But one thing I would like to see: E-Mail notifications for replies on posted messages. I really miss this one! Greetings, Matthias

see http://webfx.eae.net for a great discussion board source code. ================== The original message was: You are absolutely right and Uwe is working on it now. ================== The original message was: The message board layout needs to be changed or something. It feels difficult and unnatural to use.

The comments, rating etc are written by Uwe, so it's up to him as to whether he wants the scripts to be published (but I think we can probably convince him :) As to the VSForums - that's all 3rd party stuff (does it show? ). Expect new forum look and feel in the coming weeks. ================== The original message was: Hi Everybody, Here's a thought - why not publish the code of all the ASPs with which the CodeProject site has been built. For instance the forums' vsforum.asp, and the comments' asp at the bottom of each article etc. Chris Maunder - What do you think? David.

Because the forum is a third party component. We are currently investigating a new forum that will address this issue. ================== The original message was: Perhaps this is a dumb question, but why is the look and feel of the forums area completely different from the rest of codeproject?

Nice idea Nick - thanks! ================== The original message was: How about the capability to sort articles in each section by date or author? Simple column header button to trigger the sort...

See www.mybookmarks.com . It may work for you. ================== The original message was: Sometimes you read an article and think it is good but dont want to put it in your browser bookmarks because you work at different machines..... How about a "bookmark" facility (assumes the user has to log in in some way - not an unreasonable request for such a facility)?