Nice neat code posts

[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 !

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi Lester,
No, I'm not particularly interested in the colours and I'm not asking you to enable/allow .html if that's a problem. My point was that many of the posts were they have already been used are no longer readable, like the ones in the thread I linked to. But if they wasn't supposed to be there in the first place then you've made your point.

Again, I know how to format the code using BB-code but that's just it - simply cut'n'paste well formated code from an editor/IDE to a post usually needs quite a bit of touch-up afterwards. Again, disregard the colours, I'm talking about tabs, blank lines etc. Just what Charles mentioned in his original post. I'm not saying it's yours or the forums fault. I'm, like Charles, asking what's needed to preserve the formatting when copying code into a post.

/Henrik.

[Charles Linquis]

Below is an unedited cut-and-paste from MCS. Even when I go back and try to clean it up, the final results look terrible. I'd post more code if it didn't look so bad.

GetNum:
        Result = 
0
        MaxNum = 
5     ; set for max number of digits you will 
accept
        YY = 
1
 
POSN=0
        IsNeg = 
0
        TimedOut = 
0
        ArrayWrite InputString,[Rep 
$FF\8]  ; Fill with 
$FF
 
GetMoreN:              
 
        HSERIN 
9000,InputTimeout,[Keyin]
 
IF Keyin = ESC THEN 
ZeroNum
            If 
Keyin = CR THEN 
DunInputn
 
If allowNeg 
then
            IF 
Keyin = "-" and Posn = 0 THEN 
 
 
IsNeg = 
1
 
Hserout 
["-"]
 
goto 
GetMoreN
 
ENDIF 
 
endif   
 
            IF Keyin 
= BS 
THEN
 
HSEROUT 
[BS,SP,BS]
 
IF POSN > 0 
THEN
 
POSN = POSN - 
1
 
InputString [POSN] = 
$FF
 
GOTO 
GetMoreN
 
ENDIF   
 
 
ENDIF
        IF Keyin < "0" or Keyin 
> "9" THEN GetMoreN 
        HSEROUT 
[Keyin]
        InputString [POSN] = Keyin 
- "0"
        IF POSN >= (MaxNum -1) 
THEN DunInputN
        POSN = POSN 
+1
        GOTO 
GetMoreN
DunInputN:
        For xN = 7 
to 0 STEP - 1 
 
IF InputString[XN]= 255 THEN 
NoMoreNum
 
Result = Result + 
(InputString[xN]*YY)
 
YY = YY 
*10
NoMoreNum:            
 
        Next 
XN
 
 
        If Isneg 
then
          If result < 
32768 
then
 
Result = 0 - Result
 
else

[mackrackit]

Charles,

Attach your code (BAS/PBP) so I can try it if you do not mind.

[HankMcSpank]

I have to agree with others here ...not only posting code snippets can be plain ugly....also reading others' old snippets with with the wrong (now incompatible) formatting renders them virtually unreadable.