Re: [Pythoncard-users] source code copy and paste problems in docs

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Kevin Altis wrote:

> I'm sending this message to the general list rather than the  
> pythoncard-devel list in hopes that some HTML/CSS expert will have a  
> suggestion for how we can clean up our Python example code in the  
> documentation so it can be copied and pasted.
>
> ka
>
> ---
>
> It was pointed out to me by Don Taylor that source examples in the 
> docs  can't be copied and pasted and run correctly. He specifically 
> mentioned  this code block in walkthrough2.html which you can see here:
>
> http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/walkthrough2.html
>
> <p class="code">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;def 
> on_incrBtn_mouseClick(self,  event):<br />
> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;startValue =  
> int(self.components.field1.text)<br />
> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;endValue = startValue 
> +  1<br />
> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
> self.components.field1.text
> = str(endValue)</p>
>
> The code looks fine displayed in the browser, but if someone tries to  
> copy, paste, and then run it then the &nbsp; messes it up. Since this  
> isn't an old-style <pre></pre> block you can't simply use spaces in 
> the  code to get the desired effect. The CSS we have defined for the 
> style  is:
>
The &nbsp; shouldn't mess it up - the browser should copy that as spaces.
And indeed that's what it does for me :

WinXP
copy from : Firefox 1.0.4    and    IE 6.0
paste into : Emacs, Notepad and tabcodeEditor



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