Suggestion of a new and better code bbcode layout

[mattias]

Hi,

MyBB's code bbcode layout is bad because of 3 reasons:

1) If you copy and paste code from the layout into the template manager in the ACP, all spaces are converted into annoying  's

Example:

PHP Code:

<a name="pid{$post['pid']}" id="pid{$post['pid']}"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="tborder" style="{$post_extra_style} {$post_visibility}" id="post_{$post['pid']}">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td class="tcat tcat_right tcat_left tcat_top">
                <div class="float_left smalltext">
                    {$post['postdate']}, {$post['posttime']} <span id="edited_by_{$post['pid']}">{$post['editedmsg']}</span>
                </div>
                {$post['posturl']}
            </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td class="trow1 {$unapproved_shade}">
                <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width: 100%;">
                    <tr>
                        <td class="post_avatar" width="1" style="{$post['avatar_padding']}">
                            {$post['useravatar']}
                        </td>
                        <td class="post_author">
                            <strong><span class="largetext">{$post['profilelink']}</span></strong> {$post['onlinestatus']}<br />
                            <span class="smalltext">
                                {$post['usertitle']}<br />
                                {$post['userstars']}
                                {$post['groupimage']}
                            </span>
                        </td>
                        <td class="smalltext post_author_info" width="165"> 


This is how it will look like:


2) If lines in the code are longer than the width of the code box then they will seperated by a linebreak, making it difficult to read the code.

3) A codeline numbers bar is missing. You have one in the ACP, why not in posts?


I took a look at Woltlab's Community Framework and I'm very impressed by their work. I am actually tempted to switch to WBB3 if I cannot accomplish what I want with MyBB. Their code bbcode box is by far the best of all free and commercial forum software. This is how it looks like:


It has a codeline number bar, it doesn't produce any   junk, there are no forced linebreaks and it looks overall amazing.

So why not adapt Woltlab's code box layout to MyBB? Oh and please don't say that I should use WBB if I want the new code layout. Woltlab's Community Framework is LGPL, it's meant to provide others with free code

[Nathan Malcolm]

CodePress is outdated and we're discussing internally about a change. CodePress will be replaced at some point, but it's up to Tomm to decide which release to implement a new one in.