Hello all,

Many people who post to this forum paste code snippets in their postings. This is great, but unfortunately, the code always looks pretty bad unformatted on the forum. Well, thanks to team member Shade1974, we have now learned that code can be formatted to look good in a posting using the commands (code) (/code) and (color) (/color) in your posting. Note that instead of using the open and closed parentheses () you use the open and closed SQUARE BRACKETS. I can't indicate that here. In any case, Shade1974 wrote some code in .net 2003 that automatically takes your color formatted RTF text and formats it in Phorum-friendly style.

To put it another way, if you are going to post a code sample and you don't want it to look like this:

Private Sub btnZoomOut_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
'set the map cursor mode to zoom out
Map.CursorMode = MapWinGIS.tkCursorMode.cmZoomOut
End Sub

But would rather have it look like this:

        Private Sub btnZoomOut_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        'set the map cursor mode to zoom out
        Map.CursorMode = MapWinGIS.tkCursorMode.cmZoomOut
    End Sub

Then, use this program to format your code snippet:

[svn.mapwindow.org]

The source code to this tool is also available from our Subversion repository: [svn.mapwindow.org]

Dan

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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 07/25/2007 03:07AM by Dan Ames.

I wanted to use that tool for pasting C# code in a post.

But, I need to know how to :

- convert my C# code in RTF
- and "disassemble" the RTF in a forum-parsable format

There's certainly tools or Visual Studio plugings for doing those conversions ? Adding that information to this post will make that feature more useful and interesting.

Thanks for any contribution.

Friend, I don't understand your question but Dan put the executable in the last post:

[svn.mapwindow.org]

You only need to copy the code and then convert to phorum format.

Copy the result code and paste into the message.

Hope it serves you.

Francisco J.

Hi Friend Geofran80,

I did download the tool's executable and tried it.

If you don't have your source code transformed with (color)... (/color) commands for keeping the colors of your code, all the tool does is adding a (code) command at the beginning of your source code and (/code) command at the end of your source code, when you run the transformation.

I think before pasting your code, you need to put (by tool or by hand) the color commands and other commands you need for making your code feel nice.

All the color commands are made by the formatter tool.
You need to copy the code from VS2005/2008 and past in in the top frame.
Next you hit the convert button and the code is converted and shown in the bottom frame.
Copy the code from the bottom frame in your post and you'll get source code with coloring.
If it is still not clear, mail me at bontepaarden [AT] gmail [D0T] com and I'll make some screenshots and mail it to you.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2011 05:05PM by Sergei.