Support Request What are inline codes and inline spoilers?

[Cowabunga]

 

[Chris F]

They are ways to hide a spoiler by making the user have to click on it to reveal the word. Not really used much in the farming world, but are used a lot on gaming forums.

The answer to your question is

Spoiler: answer

This is the answer

 

[Cowabunga]

So if I use it like this to hide words , they can be clicked on to be seen? this just leaves 'inline code' to figure out.

 

[Cowabunga]

I see [or don't see?] that the inline spoiler works. What sort of code is meant to be used for the in-line job though?

 

[Chris F]

So if I use it like this to hide words , they can be clicked on to be seen? this just leaves 'inline code' to figure out.

Yes

 

[TechWise]

I see [or don't see?] that the inline spoiler works. What sort of code is meant to be used for the in-line job though?

The inline code feature is often used on technical forums discussing computer code to distinguish the code segments from the rest of the text. Computer code usually appears in a typewriter style font while it's being written in an editor and it's common to want to show it that way when asking for help or demonstrating something. I'd bet it's just a standard feature of whatever forum software TFF runs on.

For example: Suppose I'm writing a C function to find the product of two numbers and I'm having a problem with it. I can post the main function using the More Options -> Code button.

int find_product(int a, int b)
{
    product = a ** b;
    
    return product;
}

Then I can refer to a specific part using the More Options -> Inline Code button.

For example: Why does the line product = a**b not give me the result I want?

 

[Cowabunga]

The inline code feature is often used on technical forums discussing computer code to distinguish the code segments from the rest of the text. Computer code usually appears in a typewriter style font while it's being written in an editor and it's common to want to show it that way when asking for help or demonstrating something. I'd bet it's just a standard feature of whatever forum software TFF runs on.

For example: Suppose I'm writing a C function to find the product of two numbers and I'm having a problem with it. I can post the main function using the More Options -> Code button.

int find_product(int a, int b)
{
    product = a ** b;
   
    return product;
}

Then I can refer to a specific part using the More Options -> Inline Code button.

For example: Why does the line product = a**b not give me the result I want?

I suspected it was pretty useless for forum posters and was something the forum programmers had forgotten to hide. Can see some use for the 'click to reveal' feature though.