CodeBox tag for forums

Godai · Post by **Godai** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:37 pm

How about a [codebox] tag like on the BlitzBasic forums?
That way large code listings will only take up little space in a thread and still be viewable through scrollbars.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:44 pm

That is so annoying. It drives me insane instantly.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:42 pm

I hate it when you are scrolling the whole screen and enter one of those boxes and then that starts scrolling instead.

My vote. Not a good idea, leave it as it is.

aaron · Post by **aaron** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:05 pm

I also vote thumbs down to scrolling code boxes. That drives me nuts on the blitz forums!

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:50 pm

IF there is a way to implement them more conveniant,
that they don't catch focus if not clicked, it MAY be nice
to have codes in a shorter display area.

I don't know Blitz-forums...

On PureBasic-Lounge, we had boxes, and I can't remember they catched focus when scrolling over...

Its a point of good implementation.
..but anyhow, it's not that important.
I can live with long code-posts.
but I would not like focus-catching boxes, either.

Demivec · Post by **Demivec** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:56 am

I second Kaeru's opinion.

* I think it would be helpful to allow quicker scanning of messages, as long as they didn't automatically become the focus.
* I can live with long code-posts.

citystate · Post by **citystate** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:20 am

What about using folding?

+code list
| line 1
| line 2
| etc etc

click the '+' and:

+code list

default it to closed and Bob is the sibling of your parent of choice.

Godai · Post by **Godai** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:47 am

Code folding would be fine too