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Hello,

When I want to post some code to the forum, I always have some issues on how to paste it correctly so the code looks correct in my post.

The problems I ran into are:

- the tab indent disapear

- some smileys appear with some regexp patterns

- the forum try to auto format the text and add some html tags in my regexp patterns

- paste the code in "toggle edit mode" to keep the tab indents but this method adds some html tags here and there

- I don't know about you guys, but when I try to paste some code in the "Special BB code" and select "Autoit" then the window stretches up and I cannot click the button to validate (the button goes out of my screen (Google Chrome and Windows 7 x64))!

I tried several ways and it seems that the best way of doing it is:

1 - Paste the code as plain text (to make sure no text formatting is kept)

2 - write myself the [ autoit ] tags at the beginning and end of the code

3 - now the problem is that this method doesn't keep the tab indents.

I was thinking that there should be a tutorial pinned in every forum, because I've seen that I am not the only one having troubles with it.

So if you have some tips, I'd be happy to know them so I don't pull my hairs every time!

jmon.

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Solved: So it's a problem with the IPB forum editor, so while there is no update, the best way of doing it is (From Melba23 and BogQ):

1 - Toggle "Edit mode" (Top left of the text editor)

2 - do all you things in edit mode

3 - add manually the autoit tags for autoit code ([*autoit*] for the beginning, [*/autoit*] for the end (remove the stars))

4 - preview your post. If there is unwanted html tags, then remove them manually

5 - post

This method keeps the TAB indents, but sometimes add some unwanted html tags in RegExp Patterns and URLs. Also sometimes, #includes containing "<" or ">" will disappear. In this case, preview your post and if you notice this then just write them again...

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just do from the start to the end in toggleded mode and add every tag by hand and youl probably not have any problems ;)

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jmon,

This is a problem with the IPB forum editor - and each time Jon posts a bug report it comes back "cannot reproduce". :(

It does however seem to be very browser dependent and so each case is slightly different. Personally I use the "basic" editor mode (as opposed to the "WYSIWYG" version - you toggle using the button at top left) and add all my tags by hand. I get very few problems - other than the addition of <b></b> tags in the middle of some URL tags. I suggest you post like that for now and hope that the next update gets us a better built-in editor. ;)

M23

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@BogQ and @Melba23

Thanks for you help. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one having the issue. I will use the "toggle editing mode" from now on!

Another bug I got sometime, is the includes are removed sometimes (I guess when they contain "<" or ">"), so posting something like this:

#include <imagesearch.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

may come out like this sometimes:

#include 
#include <Array.au3>

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jmon,

Same problem - same solution as far as I am concerned. ;)

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Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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Strange that they (IPB) can't reproduce it, but hundreds of users can.

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