Millions of flashlight apps on phones/tablets infected...
On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:07:58 PM UTC-4, Thomas Paine wrote:
"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in
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Thomas Paine fired this volley in
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Linear flow is
restricting, at least to me.
It would be to anyone. I was working in an interrupt-driven environment
before strapping on the newer languages, and that made event-driven GUIs
sort of a natural; but it took WAY longer than it should have to tease
out all the BADLY documented methods.
Oh... they document the classes, members, and functions, but do almost
nothing to explain why they're there; One has to fiddle with the
environment way too long to get the hang of how it works.
LLoyd
The help isn't that bad. At least the versions I've seen. Lists all the
Properties, Events, Methods, etc. I didn't find it hard to follow.
Enumerations are a headache, but I'm getting the hang of it.
But I've been doing variations on VBA for a long time. Started by accessing
Word, Excel and Outlook from Foxpro. I'm forever massaging Excel files
(business environment), got into the Crystal automation engine for all our
unit's weekly and monthly reports, I automate Lotus Notes to send me error
reports, I record as much as I can, variables, XML datasets, screen grabs
and email it to me behind the scenes with a nice clean exit and
notification for the user. We access a 3270, so I automate all the
primitives. I even rewrote the class modules into a DLL so we could access
the functions better and cut down on the code overheas in the apps.
I cheat and leave the autoomplete on. Just add a period and all the objects
show up. Once the references are added the autocomplete works for
everything.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine
There's an awful lot of "You just gotta know" going on in the programming world. Thank god for Google and for the people who feel compelled to write about all this esoterica.
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