Preserved Topic: Asylum Suggestion

OK, have you ever posted something like code with complex indents, and then lost all the indents since it's in HTML? I propose a simple little fix for that.

UBB converts all < and > to &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; so that people aren't able to insert HTML.

Doc, could you find the place where that is done, and insert this?

Change all double spaces (" &nbsp;") with a space and a non-breaking space (" &amp;nbsp;")

see? That should fix the problem.

Maybe also have a regular expression in there that converts tab characters to four &amp;nbsp; 's in a row.

Doesn't using the UBB [code] tag save all the indents?

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Yeah, but someone else recently said that when you copy and paste text from it, it doesn't copy the newlines, so you end up with one long line of code, which I imaging could be quite annoying.

Plus, the code tag stretches the forum table if there's a long line of code in it.

If we can remove these problems from the code tag, then that's a better solution, certainly.

It should save the new lines, but a whole buncha spaces always get changed to just one space on display through the browser. The 'find two spaces' and replace with '&nbsp; ' should work, but I'll have to think about this before I jump into perl "regex" mangling, ugly stuff! I have been doing more and more perl lately, maybe I'll get into that.

Here's a hoot. I had to do this SHTML page where I pull a date and an article from my database, and also pull a satellite map from another server using an ASP script. The page started with SHTML, and some XSSI date mangling to choose which page to use, but since I needed to work with timezone offsets, it included the map stuff using PHP, which did it's thing and then called the ASP from the other server. At the bottom of that page, it called my PERL script, which passed along some variables to my server and ran a JSP page (java) to get the right article and reformat. Back to the PERL script, where I ran a regex mangling to swap some variables, and then it displays! I had to be careful not to do anything to mess up the DHTML Javascripts that run the entire interface. Most twisted page I've ever done, 7 acronyms, 5 programming languages, 4 servers and some HTML. But it worked!

Your pal, -doc-

I'm in Geek Heaven just reading that. LOL!!!

Yeah that did sound pretty cool... want to give us the link?

<edit> Not that we would actually see anything... but just for... </edit>

-mage-

[This message has been edited by WarMage (edited 06-23-2001).]

I think my brain just shorted out. Jeez, Doc no wonder you need some rest.

What was the middle thing...?

Nice one Doc!

Gee.. I wonder how your brain really works, Doc. Any explaination..???

Well, I *could* explain, but it's nearly impossible without elaborate indenting and extensive use of TLA's and XTLA's. Try thinking of Alice falling down the rabbits hole, and then also of what happens "through the looking glass". Most of my logic is really quite methodical, I just tend to follow it round and round in a circular pattern, returning where I started only with a few warpages in my thinking. I simulated this once in a game logic I designed, if it didn't like the answers, it looped back for another pass, each pass having certain random chances to try a different logic path to solve the problem, with all the results cumulative. There was an "ah, screw it!" clause built-in, at which point it would just make a move, based on the best chances it had stored. I knew I was successful when the damn program *cheated* on me! Bastard.

Your pal, -doc-

**gets advil** okies u gave me a headache lol

"...if i want to know how something works i totally disect them, i did this when i was a child and i still do it today when i want something to learn..."

something like this doc said in a thread about the good way to learn html.

So i sugest to disect doc's brain..... that should unleash a lot off knowledge...
Vp get the mop ready please

~Rinswind ~


[This message has been edited by Rinswind 2th (edited 06-25-2001).]

I'll bet Rinswind's pets weren't all to happy on the days he wanted to find out how they worked!

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