As you are probably now aware, we have implemented a new discussion forum format that fits in better with the web site design.
All prior forum threads have been moved over and are available. The old links to them even work (so you can still find information on Google and other search engines).
We have added a few features with regards to formatting. These are available under settings.
Please reply to this thread with your comments and suggestions.
Thanks, Jon
What about attaching files? Pasting code between the 'pre' tags is not ideal for me. Especially if you want to post a sample project. How can you include things like the (binary?) project file, etc.? Plus, the formatting gets lost when I post (due to tab widths, etc.) that makes my post look so sloppy I hate to let it be viewed like that, so I end up editing it in place to make it neat, which wastes time.
If there's a way to attach things like ZIP files to posts, I haven't found it.
There isn't. And IMHO, that's a good idea. This is, after all, a discussion forum. Code in zip files cannot be discussed in any meaningful way. The bother of you, or whoever wants to post code, having to touch up the formatting may seen wasteful at first sight. But that's nowhere near as wasteful as when every single reader, and every person who wants to reply, has to extract and format his own version out of a .zip.
If the question is worth asking here, it has to be worth the extra bit of effort to present it readably.
"the formatting gets lost when I post (due to tab widths, etc.)"
That is the inherent problem with using TABs! It applies anywhere that TABs are used - not just on this forum.
That's why I say never use TABs to layout code!
Any decent editor (including uVision) can be set to insert spaces instead of TAB characters when you hit the 'TAB' key.