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Hey Chris, nice to see your coming back :) Regards Thomas Disclaimer: Because of heavy processing requirements, we are currently using some of your unused brain capacity for backup processing. Please ignore any hallucinations, voices or unusual dreams you may experience. Please avoid concentration-intensive tasks until further notice. Thank you.

You would have got a better response if you had used the forums - there's a drop-down at the top-right of this page, take a look. Anyway, since you asked, GotDotNet has an event presentations page. A list is only as strong as its weakest link. - Don Knuth

Glory, glory, you found a typo! (And that happens to me!)

Had to log off and back on when I got home:mad:

Hmmm, the C preprocessor removes all comments and "expand" all the macros... I *think* I saw something on MSDN about getting the preprosessor to save the files to disk... It's not exactly a Code obfuscurator, but it's gonna make it pretty hard to maintain the code. ;) Maybe that's what all Open Source programmers are doing, all the Open Source code I have seen is impossible to read... - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

Try to send a mail to webmaster@codeproject.com, where you tell Chris about your problem... Some time ago he asked if people would mail him, instead of posting their problems in the Lounge... - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

Who cares? Threads are lightweight and in-process. It makes the program more responsive and it has no correlation with memory usage (other than a very negligable amount). CodeGuy The WTL newsgroup: now over 1040 members! Be a part of it. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wtl

I had a friend who was always saying 'Come the revolution'. I tried to explain to hime that when the day comes that he's paying 40 percent tax, he would start thinking a bit differently. Anyway, he's not managed to get himself a decent job yet, despite being quite a bright bloke. Giles

Paul Watson wrote: Your spouse says communication is important in a marriage, so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat... OMG...I did something close to that. My house is tall (3 stories) and my office is in the basement, so I have another comuputer on the third floor connected via my wireless LAN. When my wife is on the third floor and wants to ask me a question, she chats with me using MSN IM :eek:!! Essam ___________________________________________ Author - JScript .NET Programming http://www.designs2solutions.com/jsnetprg ...and a bunch of articles around the Web

Very solid advice from all of you. I suppose its a trade off. I suppose the question comes down to how readable you want your code to be. A coworker of mine once gave me the worst class ever. Here is a cut & paste of what some of the code looked like: int x = 0; int y = 0; int _x = 0; int _y = 0; int __x = 0; int __y = 0; int yEdge = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXFIXEDFRAME); int yScroll = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVSCROLL); int t = yEdge + yScroll; HDWP wndPos = BeginDeferWindowPos(14); CRect pRect; AfxGetMainWnd()->GetWindowRect(pRect); CRect yRect; AfxGetMainWnd()->GetClientRect(yRect); Without cluttering up space with a really long function, essentially he proceeded to use the "x" and "y" variables to calculate window positions and correctly place them on the screen. The thing was, he left the company and guess who had to maintain things?

I know MuTek has something that does this. There was also another "software flight recorder" type product released recently but the name escapes me. http://www.mutek.com David http://www.dundas.com

Here's an idea. Go to www.pricescan.com. Select the category of an item you wish to find. Do a general search, and a bunch of online stores will be displayed that carries that item. This may help you find some good online stores to browse. Kind regards, Tim

Personally, I wouldn't touch FoxPro with anything other than the delete key. I've never written anything with it, though I have used a couple of programs written in it and also used the IDE to modify databases. There must be a reason nearly every other language under the sun in going to be incorporated into .NET and even though FoxPro is part of Visual Studio it is not. :rolleyes: "das leid schlaft in der maschine" -Einstürzende Neubauten

If you're running a personal website, why do you even need ASP or Java? 2) You should have read their list of provided services before signing up. 3) If I was a domain host, I sure as hell wouldn't let my customers have free reign as far as executables go. Most users are morons with no concept of security or properly writtem code. 4) Java is crap anyway. 5) They do ASP on their own site because they probably have a guy (or two) to do their ASP and Java stuff for them. There's a certain amount of implicit trust there sincet they hired those guys to do their web site. 6) It's their football. 7) Run your own web server if you don't like the news you're getting here. "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

Colin Davies wrote: LOL you wanted the glory fo being the first one to publish it at CP didn't you Paul, Over keen I must say :-O of course you are dead right. Nobody ever called me un-keen :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

I think it is the same in SA, Paul. It makes sense that way, otherwise they (previous company) are preventing you from earning an income. Simon

Cool link....interstingly we where still speculating the future of Visual C++ two years back :-) Cheers Kannan

I've infiltrated Microsoft and have snuck into a friend's office to get a quick CP fix. So - snow??? I'll be arriving tomorrow night so can someone please order in some warm weather and sunshine? ;) It's cold, wet and raining here in Redmond at the moment. Mmmm-mmm! cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

Navin wrote: You can try converting your app to a cross-platform C++ library, such as wxWindows (which has good Windows and Linux support, and improving Mac support). It is in many ways similar to MFC, but if you have a large app of course this will take some time. The good thing is, it can coexist with MFC, so you may be able to do it in pieces. I have a fair amount of cross-platform (Windows/Mac) experience, and IMHO the best way to write a cross-platform application is to abstract out the user interface, and write the rest as portably as possible. Then implement the UI portion using a good platform-specific class library for each platform (e.g. MFC on Windows, PowerPlant on the Mac). Yes, it is more work, but it won't scream "THIS IS A PORT" to savvy users. BTW: separating the UI from the core functions of the app has plenty of other advantages, like making it easier to add scripting. - Rich I don't know about ignorance, and I don't care about apathy, but I simply will NOT put with intolerance!