Nice neat code posts

[Charles Linquis]

How is it that everyone else gets the nice formatted code in their posts?

I do a cut-and-past from either MCS or NOTEPAD and my postings are virtually unreadable. The formatting is all messed up, and there are lots of extra spaces, etc.

I swear that the code I write doesn't look so bad to me, but when I post it on the forum, it is a mess.

What should I do?

[mister_e]

Any decent code editor allows you to convert TABs to SPACE, MCS do a decent job at this, MPLAB too.

However, seems from time to any ANY vBulletin board, and some other may screw things up a little bit.

Bellow, two piece of useless code, using the same tab indentation,
in Notepad

    VarA    VAR    BYTE

LABEL1:
    IF SOMETHING THEN
        GOSUB LABEL1
        DO USELESS THING
        ENDIF

In MCSP

        VarA    VAR    BYTE

LABEL1:
        IF SOMETHING THEN
                GOSUB LABEL1
                DO USELESS THING
                ENDIF

MCSP being the one who keep MY personnal indentation. But yeah, from time to time some line WILL be screwed up.

[HenrikOlsson]

I always have to go back in and re-edit code that is cut'n'pasted to the forum. Blank lines gets removed, "columns" that "straight" when I copy the code is not in the post and so on. Add to that the preview doesn't properly reflect the way it shows in the actual post makes it very time consuming.

Like Charles I ask, what am I doing wrong.

/Henrik.

EDIT: Then we have posts where the code has been posted as HTML to preserve the color-syntax etc (nice!) that are now messed up. Darrel linked to one of his pieces just the other day.

[lester]

HTML posting is NOT allowed on the PICBASIC Community Forum, not only because of security issues, but also because we cannot prevent people using MS word to create a document and then posting the garbage Word HTML in the forum...which causes a number of issues that may prevent the post or the forum area from displaying correctly.

Thus if you wish to post formatted text, you may use the editor and some BB code. All of the articles in the WIKI are produced that way and they are not unreadable.

Using the built in editor and some BB Code does NOT prevent the creation of clean and readable posts.

[HenrikOlsson]

Well, if you say so Lester but that's the first time I've heard it's not allowed. There's even been guides on how to do it, here's a thread where one of the moderators explains how to do it (though I don't think Dave was a moderator at the time) and also the code that at the time looked perfect but not any more. And I belive this is the orignal thread.

I'm not saying it's not possible to create good looking readable code but simply copy and paste from MCSP to within code tags usually doesn't work that well.

/Henrik.

[lester]

OK, a few posts went through with HTML in them. BUT as the Moderators are aware and a few forum users are aware. there were one or two posts that had really badly bloated and badly formatted HTML in them, that caused the forum pages NOT to load or Crash when viewing those threads.

HTML will not solve your problem, but WILL definitely allow users to crash certain pages and damage the smooth running of the forum.

Sorry, but at present i don't have time to produce a tutorial on how to post code examples, formatted with colour. But if you google it you'll see that its quite faesable, if you really have to.

For sure, I will not enable HTML posting for users, I don't have the time to sort out the issues that will arise !