Article Submission Wizard fools me for the 10th time - data loss?!

[Andreas Gieriet]

Hello Chris, Yes, that's what I mean: linecount="on" (as described in Using PRE tags on Code Project[^]). E.g. <pre lang="cs" linecount="45">...</pre> would have the meaning: line count on and start at 45. This is especially helpful if you have a source code citations in the document. Starting a 1 is kind of "useless" for this documenting style. Cheers Andi

[Luc Pattyn]

I agree! until you start asking for a linenumber increment of 10. :) PS: do you want linecount="0" to mean off? or start at zero (and "-1" would then be off)? Of course, "on" could be interpreted as "1", and "off" as off.

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[Chris Maunder]

I'd prefer

<pre lang="cs" linecount="true" countstart="10" countincrement="10">...</pre>

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[Andreas Gieriet]

Looks perfect - my suggestion was not so well thought through. Cheers Andi

[Andreas Gieriet]

See Chris' suggestion below. I think this is what I need. My suggestion was more on the "hack" side ;-) .

[Luc Pattyn]

I saw that. I will upgrade my Using PRE tags on CodeProject tip if and when things get changed. :)

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[Chris Maunder]

This has been done. I'm doing a code deploy tonight (assuming final testing).

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[Andreas Gieriet]

Hey, that's quick! Any test support needed? Cheers Andi

[Chris Maunder]

Sorry for the delay but our tewting showed some errors the day I wanted to deploy, and we've only just had a chance to redeploy. The feature is now in place so go for it.

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[Andreas Gieriet]

Hello Chris, works like a charm! See my latest tip update, at the far end (at the moment, the tip is in pending state though). Thanks again, it's very useful! Cheers Andi

[Andreas Gieriet]

Hello Luc, the feature is in use and works like a charm! See my latest tip update at the far end (in pending state though). Cheers Andi

[Luc Pattyn]

Andreas Gieriet wrote:

and works like a charm

Not really. It may be OK in tips&tricks, it has at least one bug in forum messages: countincrement seems to work, countstart doesn't. example using <pre linecount="True" countstart="30">

Graphics g=e.Graphics;
g.FillRectangle((e.State&DrawItemState.Selected)==0?Brushes.White:Brushes.Yellow, e.Bounds);
Brush brush=Brushes.Black;

and <pre linecount="True" countincrement="10" countstart="30">:

Graphics g=e.Graphics;
g.FillRectangle((e.State&DrawItemState.Selected)==0?Brushes.White:Brushes.Yellow, e.Bounds);
Brush brush=Brushes.Black;

:(

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[Luc Pattyn]

tested[^] :)

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[Andreas Gieriet]

I could achieve my goal, i.e. it worked for me. After tweeking a bit with countstart I think I found that it only works if the <pre... tag is on the same line as the first code line. Otherwise, the count starts at 1. I did not use countincrement. Andi

[Luc Pattyn]

You may be correct, but then it wouldn't make much sense that countstart has a positional requirements, whereas linecount and countincrement don't. And yes, I tend to put the PRE tags on separate lines, as it preserves vertical alignment of the code. :)

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[Andreas Gieriet]

I can confirm that the following works:

<pre lang="html" countlines="true" countstart="123" countincrement="17">a
b
c</pre>

Count starts at 123 and increments by 17. Where as the following does not work:

<pre lang="html" countlines="true" countstart="123" countincrement="17">
a
b
c</pre>

Count starts at 17 and increments by 17. This does neither work:

<pre lang="html" countlines="true" countstart="123">
a
b
c</pre>

Count starts at 1 and increments by 1. Conclusion: If the first "code line" of the <pre... is on the same line as the tag, countstart works correctly, otherwise it's not working correctly. Cheers Andi