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
Like the new format/colors. Would like to see the Thread menu (Next Thread | Thread List | ,etc) repeated at the bottom of the thread. Being very lazy, I hate to scroll back to the top of a long thread. Did the past format show the thread message in the reply page? I don't remember having the message displayed. I like the feature old or new. Bradford
Jon; Can the wide format be made to fill the open window. Even in 'Wide Format' some thread titles are truncated.
Bradford
As demonstrated in thread 8148, URLs are troublesome.
Being very lazy, I hate to scroll back to the top of a long thread.
Seconded. Arguably, the Next/Previous buttons are more important at the bottom end than at the top.
Did the past format show the thread message in the reply page?
FWIW, it did. But unlike the new format, it showed it below the input window. So if you never scrolled all the way down before starting to type, you may never have noticed it.
And BTW: I think it's a good think that the software now forces a preview before you can post. Avoids nasty typos like the usual mismatched HTML tags.
a desirable addition:
let no post be allowed till 'toolset' is selected
Erik
Thanks Dan,
I noticed that last week and it got fixed already.
Jon
Erik,
I thought about that but didn't enforce selection because of general purpose threads like this one.
I've considered adding filters into the settings dialog but haven't got a feel for if that's a good idea or not.
Would like to see the Thread menu (Next Thread | Thread List | ,etc) repeated at the bottom of the thread.
That feature was there in the previous version of the forum. I'll add it back next week.
Can the wide format be made to fill the open window. Even in 'Wide Format' some thread titles are truncated.
I'm assuming you're talking about the format of the list of threads. Currently, I'm trying to limit the width of all pages on the web site to accommodate the greatest number of site visitors. So, that's why some of the thread summaries are truncated.
Rather than making the list wider, what if hovering displayed the complete summary?
I thought about that but didn't enforce selection because of general purpose threads like this one. just add 'none' to possible toolsets, I doubt an ARM user would select 'none' if forced to 'select a toolset'
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.
The colors are changed but the options not really.
I like to have a selection box to select Arm, C51 or C166.
The search function don't regard the settings of Product family. I get a lot of threads from NONE ,C51 and C166 when I'm searching inside the Arm7 tools set.
Why are all itmes in one forum? Using an sub-forum for each processor line one makes retrieving information easier.
Greetings - Günter
have a look at the SILabs forum which has 7? subfora. You will find USB posts in EACH AND EVERY other subforum totalling about the same as has landed in the USB forum.
It is sad that half the population can not figure out to go to the right subforum, but, with that being the case, one forum only is the better solution.
When seeing the erroneous placement of posts by so many, I sometimes wonder how someone that can not figure out to place an USB question under USB can even get one line of code to work.