Tip for posting code at a Proboards forum

[B+]

When posting code here, use the BBC tab when pasting it into the editor into code block.

If you use the preview tab (default), the code will come out double spaced in the post.

Notice the following code is NOT Double Spaced!

'doBoxAgain tsh block mod.txt
'tsh73 adds shaddowing!
nomainwin
WindowWidth = 640
WindowHeight = 650
open "doBoxAgain" for graphics as #main     ' < open graphics window for drawing in it
#main, "down; fill white; flush"            ' < initial stuff
#main, "trapclose [quit.main]"              ' < close window directions
#main, "backcolor 220 220 0"                ' < backcolor is fill color for boxes yellow/green
call doBoxAgain 300, 300, 250               ' < this calls recursive sub which takes over drawing
wait                                        ' <  done so wait until close window

[quit.main]
   close #main
   end

sub doBoxAgain x, y, side                    ' < this is recursive sub, it calls itself over and over
   scan                                     ' < this allows exit in case I screwed up and made infinite loop
   cx=x-side/2:cy=y-side/2                      ' < this calcs place to start for pen
   #main, "backcolor 40 80 80"                  ' gray
   #main, "place ";cx+2;" ";cy+3                ' 3d
   #main, "boxfilled ";cx+side+2;" ";cy+side+3  ' shadow
   #main, "backcolor 220 220 0"                 'restore color
   #main, "place ";cx;" ";cy                ' < this puts the pen at this place
   #main, "boxfilled ";cx+side;" ";cy+side  ' < this tells pen to draw box giving it the opposite corner location
   if side<15 then exit sub                 ' < this tells when to quit recursive calls
   ns=side/2                                ' < this resets side length for next recursive calls
   call doBoxAgain cx,cy,ns
   call doBoxAgain cx+side,cy,ns
   call doBoxAgain cx,cy+side,ns
   call doBoxAgain cx+side,cy+side,ns
end sub


[jarych]

B+,

Help a few of us to understand better.  If we want to put in some code passage into a posting, is the CODE tag not enough?  I see a BBCode tab at the bottom, but I do not understand why this would do anything.  

just a quick test:
somecode
somecode
somelastcode


After putting in that inside the code tag, I clicked BBCode tab and it put the appearance into almost the same appearance as all pure text.
Then I clicked Preview tab again, and now the block of code is in a block of what looks like code, and I see no more CODE tags surrounding that code.  

Were you trying to explain just that?

[B+]

somecode

somecode

somelastcode
Let's see if code posted from Preview Tab code window (and not BBC tab code window) is double spaced?


Above is a screen shot of code about to be posted from the Preview tab. I copied your 3 "code" line single spaced and placed them in code window in the Preview tab then posted.

See, it is doubled spaced, just as I tried to warn!

[jarych]

Trying to examine this too,
Three line block of code for inside code tags:

line 1 code
line 2 code
all of which are single spaced here

Looks exactly as entered while first in Preview tab.

NOT touching the BBCode tab; but only publishing the post.

[jarych]

Now trying same except with one change.
Same three block lines of code, not as copied:

line 1 code
line 2 code
all of which are single spaced here

I forgot to click reply, so I am in the "Post Quick Reply" field.
I guess I must now click Post Quick Reply button first....

not what I expected to do, but we can still learn from it.

[B+]


line 1 code
line 2 code
all of which are single spaced here


Yep works OK from Quick reply.

[B+]



line 1 code

line 2 code

all of which are single spaced here



Still doesn't work from Preview Tab. 

[jarych]

Reply button

Stay inside Preview tab all the way through

Make a block of code inside code tags all with single spaces

THEN post the message and see how it looks.

line of code 1
line of code 2
last line of code line 3

[jarych]

Let me try almost same thing.
WAIT. I see in previous post that the message part OUTSIDE of copy of code IS NOW DOUBLE SPACED. I made ONE carriage return between each line of instructions of what I was doing but now the stuff outside of the code is double spaced. Maybe that was to be expected - I don't know.

Here I now try:
Reply button (already done)
Compose in Preview tab
Make some code lines inside code tags
Look at the plan in BBCode tab
Post the message

line of code 1
line of code 2
line of code 3
EDIT:  right now that looks good, and ALL single spaced wherever I had used them that way.  This edit is being done in Preview tab, but type,text cursor was not going where needed, so temporarily opened BBCode tab allowed me to put cursore where needed; and then I went back to Preview tab.  When I publish this again as "SAVED", I will expect that no line spacing changes anywhere to occur.  Message part single spaced. lines of code in the tags, single spaced.  Only BETWEEN sections seem almost double spaced.

[B+]

OK try this: 

Copy some code from JB editor, and paste into a Code Window in the Preview Tab (no Quick Reply nor BBC Code tab) and Create Post, I get this:


check$ = "0203050711": say$ = "BizzFizzBuzzFuzzWow"

FOR i = 1 TO 100

   Flag = 1

   FOR j = 0 TO 4

       IF i MOD VAL(MID$(check$, j * 2 + 1, 2)) = 0 THEN PRINT MID$(say$, j * 4 + 1, 4);: Flag = 0

   NEXT

   IF Flag THEN PRINT i ELSE PRINT

NEXT





 All double spaced!