Posting code

dave milbut wrote: that's ok. the love and undying devotion of my many fans are all the thanks i need! but i could use some evil minions. can you handle a death ray?

Don't do it, he'll give you one of those "career chips" and if you've ever seen futurama--it hurts!

Quick, edit your posts and delete the answers so you can hold the information hostage to redeem for points!

pwillener wrote: Instructions how to post code have also been discussed in this topic http://forums.adobe.com/message/2061677 class HelloWorldApp {     public static void main(String[] args) {         System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.     } }

Thanks, Pat. I'd forgotten about that thread.

To get what I've now got, I had to

(a) Select 'Show Full Editor'

(b) Click twice on the 'Quote' icon to get your post to appear in its own box

(c) Click on the 'Insert' icon and select Syntax Highlighting > Java

(d) Click twice on the resulting box to get a cursor inside it.

(e) Paste (Ctrl-V on my Windows system) to place the contents of the clipboard inside the box.

It was these dual clicks that were frustrating me. There is no indication at all that a click has done anything, and so many things at this site take so long to get processed that I've learnt to wait several seconds to see if something happens before doing anything else.

class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
    }
}
 

Now I'll have to submit this to see whether copying from the code box produces plain text or text with embellishments. I think I'm getting there.

Noel

save it to a text file and attach it?

That's what I ended up doing... It shouldn't be necessary, though. I just can't seem to get the order of clicking things right at

the forum.

Noel