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Richard Davey
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Hi all,

I've added in a new feature to Apollo today - one of allowing you to paste in source code with your message that will appear as an attachment to the message (and not embedded into the body). There are a number of reasons for this:

1) Message bodies are limited in size and people have been trying to post code that exceeds this byte limit. There is no (realistic) limit on the size of the source code attachments.

2) People are finding trouble with the "code" tags - these will still work, but now you have another choice.

3) The code tags don't work on Opera, the source code button will.

That's about it really - have fun!

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Posted: 9th Apr 2003 16:14
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Here is a message with some code.

Note the new button.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2003 16:19 Edited at: 9th Apr 2003 16:19
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ah! it works now

Good add

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Yeah it works now, not too bad though - 40mins from concept to implementation. Only issue which I'll sort out is you can't edit code once posted (you can still edit the message it's attached to though). But other than that it was pretty painless.

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I saw some php highlighting system somwhere.

Want me to see if i can find it for ya? I am not sure, but if the DBPro IDE has a keyword list then some syntax highlihting could be implememted pretty easily.

Just a though

Good work anywayz, now i got no excuse not to start to start my game i have planned

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@Rich

Do you think you could add a feature whereby we can upload files (with a limit of say 2MB) - this would be useful for attaching media. To keep space down these should be deleted say, one month after being posted.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2003 18:14
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Martyn - I've been working on a code highlighter for a while but it's hard to get it working quickly (in a manner that doesn't suck up some serious clock cycles). But see what you can find and let me know.

Rob - It's not the space that worries me, it's the amount of bandwidth it would use. We'll see, but there are no immediate plans for file attachments other than in the DBDN forum.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2003 19:10
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Nice work rich

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Posted: 9th Apr 2003 19:16 Edited at: 9th Apr 2003 19:17
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Quote: "
3) The code tags don't work on Opera, the source code button will.
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The code tags do work in Opera (version 7+).
They don't work on Mozilla (Netscape etc)

By the way: Nice idea this source code box!

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hey Rich ya know what would be cool, is if it would detect commented lines and display them in green/blue - might just be i've been looking at msdn all day but i kinda like that

but this is a cool new feature... whats the actual limit for the code like 512kb? i mean that should be more than enough - but is good to know how many lines i could possible add hehee

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Rich:

With the coming IDE update, I will be enabling the ability to export as RTF or HTML, so the IDE can save highlighted code.

Perhaps a minimal HTML set could be enabled in the code window?

P.S. RegExp searching is done

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Ok, trying this out...

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Raven - "if it would detect commented lines" - see post from Guys as to why I'm not doing this

Raven - "whats the actual limit for the code like 512kb?" Err 2 Gigabytes I believe

(not that IE could cope pasting that much text into a textfield mind you).

Guys - "Perhaps a minimal HTML set could be enabled in the code window?"

Definitely - let me know which commands are valid and I'll enable them.

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Posted: 10th Apr 2003 04:29 Edited at: 10th Apr 2003 04:31
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hmm 2Gigbutes... so i'd need around [edit-] correction 8.6Billion [endedit-] lines (if they were all full) - don't think i can hit that
christ that's take me around 2days just to upload lol

really i'd just be happy in the command set if we have html colours - look forward to the new updates

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Rich, here is the raw output. I could probably reduce the output, but it would limit the usability of the IDE output for other uses.

Perhaps you could filter the raw output on any source code upload and drop font sizes, body tags, etc?

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Posted: 10th Apr 2003 07:00 Edited at: 10th Apr 2003 07:01
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It works already!

I'll be sure to get the feature out there soon.

DarkEDIT has html saving already in place, btw.

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"The code tags do work in Opera (version 7+).
They don't work on Mozilla (Netscape etc)"
Odd, the code tags work for me on NN 7. They do also work in Opera 7, as empty stated.

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Wow, that's really cool Rich and Guy. Good job

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hey cool ... wish you'd use the darkedit colour hehee
but thats cool the code should be better for the newbies to read now great job guys

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Very nice touch Rich, all we need now is a search engine and the forum will be complete

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[Edit - My mistake]

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gonna try an experiment (^_^)

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ahh Raven is a genius
... oki maybe it was obvious, but i thought of it first

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hmmm, I just don't get it...no matter HOW much I try Raven's code JUST WON'T work in DBC!!! HELP^_^ :p

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i think its a bug in DBpro hehee

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lol must be...Ill email Lee

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Still chopping off code...

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Nope.

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Seems to be working now.

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Really long code (my retro comp entry 4 times)...

Why the hell'd you ask me for crying out loud!?!

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Nooooo!!!! It got cut off!!! There is a realistic limit!

Why the hell'd you ask me for crying out loud!?!

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Assuming this is MYSQL stored then there is a limit on the size of mysql entries???

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I dont care, its not like I'm going to write a 4000 line long program that I want to show to you the source for on the forums in a hurry!!!

Why the hell'd you ask me for crying out loud!?!

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ummmmm Rich??? what new button i cant see anything to link to code????
im using IE 5, please dont tell me i need IE 6 lol

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Cant you see the Source button ?

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nope i dont see a source button anywhere i see all the other ones (profile,emial,icq etc) tho!!!

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It only appears on posts that DO actually have source code attached. Like the 2nd one down in this thread.

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yeah i understaznd that and guess what its not there lol
altho i believe you that its really there.. its just hiding from me! lol

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Oh well you win some you loose some

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hey whaddayaknow!!! if i turn off zonealarms i can see the source button!! ya, oh dear i dont really wanna do that! ummmm so what sort of link is the source button i've messed around with zonealarms and cant seem to get it to be nice to this site!

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ok i found the prob, zonealarms thought the source button was an AD Banner and blocked it from my PC lol, now its set to 'Click to View' now i can see code and have ZAP running whoohoo!!!!

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"I dont care, its not like I'm going to write a 4000 line long program that I want to show to you the source for on the forums in a hurry!!!"

Oh but I am

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Actually that gives me an idea, how to include pics on the Apollo boards! - I have attached a JPEG image. Select all the code, paste it into Notepad and save as a .jpg file.

[EDIT]Completely unsurprisingly, it didn't work[/EDIT]

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I dunno if you was joking or not.. but it said no preview available, can't you just host it somewhere and press alt+p?

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ahahhahahha

You used GIMP

Ok soz

Loads of useless data in that file, i strip them down saves 4-8 bytes per 1k

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