Question or Comment dialog boc
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I think that many of us who spend the time trying to answer members' questions are frustrated by the current "Have a Question or Comment?" box. I know that I have significantly reduced the number of responses to questions due to frustration with the dialog box. IMHO, what is needed is a dialog box something like the solutions dialog or like the box I used to enter this message. With such a box I could easily format my response without actually using the solution dialog box. This makes my response more professional.
Gus Gustafson
Hey Gus, Questions and comments are deliberately meant to be brief. Their purpose is solely to get more info in order to provide the best question. Ultimately the questions / comments would (in a perfect world) disappear once the main question is answered. With this in mind, what specifically would you like to see changed?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Hey Gus, Questions and comments are deliberately meant to be brief. Their purpose is solely to get more info in order to provide the best question. Ultimately the questions / comments would (in a perfect world) disappear once the main question is answered. With this in mind, what specifically would you like to see changed?
cheers Chris Maunder
Again, the current input box is difficult to format. But I strongly hesitate to use the Solution input because that would move the question to a different category. I recognize, and I think most answerers recognize, that non-solutions are short. But the fight I have with the non-solution input is more than I care to contend with. I'd like to see an input box based on an HTML input. Simple but effective. If an answerer doesn't want formatting, it can be ignored. But to someone like myself, who prides themselves in a professional looking response, the HTML input features would provide desired formatting features.
Gus Gustafson
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Again, the current input box is difficult to format. But I strongly hesitate to use the Solution input because that would move the question to a different category. I recognize, and I think most answerers recognize, that non-solutions are short. But the fight I have with the non-solution input is more than I care to contend with. I'd like to see an input box based on an HTML input. Simple but effective. If an answerer doesn't want formatting, it can be ignored. But to someone like myself, who prides themselves in a professional looking response, the HTML input features would provide desired formatting features.
Gus Gustafson
Again, the question/comment box is meant to be kept simple. it's essentially a distraction from the meat of the page which is Question and Answer. Lack of formatting is by design
gggustafson wrote:
But to someone like myself, who prides themselves in a professional looking response, the HTML input features would provide desired formatting features
Can you please give me an example of the type of formatting you would like - or you would even consider appropriate - for a comment or clarifying question?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Again, the question/comment box is meant to be kept simple. it's essentially a distraction from the meat of the page which is Question and Answer. Lack of formatting is by design
gggustafson wrote:
But to someone like myself, who prides themselves in a professional looking response, the HTML input features would provide desired formatting features
Can you please give me an example of the type of formatting you would like - or you would even consider appropriate - for a comment or clarifying question?
cheers Chris Maunder
Indentation, code coloring, links and [^], text formatting (bold italic, underline). Whether or not you personally agree, those of us who fight the question/comment box, are usually asking the OP to clarify or to suggest a source for OP's review. To state that "Lack of formatting is by design" is to suggest that the design might be flawed.
Gus Gustafson
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Indentation, code coloring, links and [^], text formatting (bold italic, underline). Whether or not you personally agree, those of us who fight the question/comment box, are usually asking the OP to clarify or to suggest a source for OP's review. To state that "Lack of formatting is by design" is to suggest that the design might be flawed.
Gus Gustafson
No one's perfect, Gus. For curiosity's sake (and to save me hunting) do you have an example of a comment that you'd like to see have lots of formatting?
cheers Chris Maunder
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No one's perfect, Gus. For curiosity's sake (and to save me hunting) do you have an example of a comment that you'd like to see have lots of formatting?
cheers Chris Maunder
Com'on!! A AX (architect) rather than a UX (user) design is what I'm talking about. Your commentary is bordering on being churlish.
Gus Gustafson
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Com'on!! A AX (architect) rather than a UX (user) design is what I'm talking about. Your commentary is bordering on being churlish.
Gus Gustafson
I'm happy to debate this as long as necessary and as long as it's professional and courteous. Let's start back at the beginning. 1. You want formatting in the comments area. 2. I want commenting to be brief, short, unobtrusive, and restricted to the minimum necessary to allow a sensible action (provide an answer or close the question) to be carried out. 3. You've mentioned you want indenting, syntax colourising and inline formatting (B/U/I), plus (I assume) auto-linking. 4. I've asked to see a sample of a comment that would benefit from this. My reasoning is I may 1. see a comment that justifies formatting, or even a subset of the formatting 2. see an example that will allow me to explain why that comment shouldn't be formatted or should not be posted as a comment (maybe the question or answer should, in fact, be edited by you directly) 3. see a use case that our system does not handle well enough 4. see a use that shows we've not been clear enough on how to use the system 5. all or none or some of the above
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm happy to debate this as long as necessary and as long as it's professional and courteous. Let's start back at the beginning. 1. You want formatting in the comments area. 2. I want commenting to be brief, short, unobtrusive, and restricted to the minimum necessary to allow a sensible action (provide an answer or close the question) to be carried out. 3. You've mentioned you want indenting, syntax colourising and inline formatting (B/U/I), plus (I assume) auto-linking. 4. I've asked to see a sample of a comment that would benefit from this. My reasoning is I may 1. see a comment that justifies formatting, or even a subset of the formatting 2. see an example that will allow me to explain why that comment shouldn't be formatted or should not be posted as a comment (maybe the question or answer should, in fact, be edited by you directly) 3. see a use case that our system does not handle well enough 4. see a use that shows we've not been clear enough on how to use the system 5. all or none or some of the above
cheers Chris Maunder
From earlier comments I have made. Also suggest adding a Spell Checker. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
You never create the file named pathString. Therefore both of the tests
if ( System.IO.File.Exists ( pathString ) )
fail. That means your program does nothing.
What are you trying to do?
I think you may be a little confused by autocomplete TextBoxes, ComboBoxes, and ListBoxes. An autocomplete TextBox does not operate the way you suggest. No KeyDown event needs to be provided; just the list of entries that autocomplete will provide. That list can be dynamic. See the MSDN article https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textbox.autocompletemode(v=vs.90).aspx.
It appears that your text-to-speech conversion is the culprit. Have you tried a different TTS engine? When I was working on the Improved Precision Approach Radar Trainer (IPART)<\a> project, I found that TTS engines varied gratly in performance.
See http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15187/Concatenating-Wave-Files-Using-C-2005.
If that doesn't do, Google "c# append .wav files". There are many suggestions there.
Gus Gustafson
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From earlier comments I have made. Also suggest adding a Spell Checker. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
You never create the file named pathString. Therefore both of the tests
if ( System.IO.File.Exists ( pathString ) )
fail. That means your program does nothing.
What are you trying to do?
I think you may be a little confused by autocomplete TextBoxes, ComboBoxes, and ListBoxes. An autocomplete TextBox does not operate the way you suggest. No KeyDown event needs to be provided; just the list of entries that autocomplete will provide. That list can be dynamic. See the MSDN article https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textbox.autocompletemode(v=vs.90).aspx.
It appears that your text-to-speech conversion is the culprit. Have you tried a different TTS engine? When I was working on the Improved Precision Approach Radar Trainer (IPART)<\a> project, I found that TTS engines varied gratly in performance.
See http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15187/Concatenating-Wave-Files-Using-C-2005.
If that doesn't do, Google "c# append .wav files". There are many suggestions there.
Gus Gustafson
I'm confused. This seems like an answer. I'm not sure why one would post this as a Question or Comment.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm confused. This seems like an answer. I'm not sure why one would post this as a Question or Comment.
cheers Chris Maunder
Regardless, these are examples of questions/answers that I have provided. On a couple of occasions other CP members have suggested that I move a Q/A to the solution. When so suggested I have done so. But that doesn't lessen the need for formatting in the Q/A input.
Gus Gustafson