The Weird and The Wonderful

No nothing beyond the explanation of how the original developer created the kit to keep Jobs from continually griping about the design.

I HAVEN'T MESSED WIH nas EITHER. dID YOU ACTUALLY USEoUTERNET? OR JUST READ THE WEBPAGE? CQ de W5ALT Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Sure, now they say no authorization is required because it is internal-only. That's often the convenient statement of the moment. However, reality often diverges from the agreements of the moment. I would get something in writing, signed by a CIO or executive of your choice, saying that no security is required. This is because when this gets hacked and your database is trashed you need to be able demonstrate you were ordered to allow open access. This is the classic case of a cover-your-backside requirement because you have been asked to do something absurd. "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

I envy you not. David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting

The Visual Basic instruction is Option Explicit. Other environments, e. g., Perl, have use strict; that invokes a package. There might be something like that in Typescript, but I am unaware of anything along those lines for Javascript. On the other hand, I use JS as infrequently as possible, for all the reasons you said, and many others. If you're serious about JS, you really need a good linter and a robust set of rules to guide it, not to mention a decent visual debugger. When necessity requires it, I lean heavily on the Chrome Dev Tools. David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting

It must be because when I power the SBC via USB and connect the Molex to the hat and drive bay all is fine - weird We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

They sort of did fix that but they are finding different ways to break things. Another thing - when I link with static libraries then my apps can't load resources from the libraries so several of the built-in controls won't work. The hits just keep on coming. The most annoying thing is the fingers are pointed at someone else and there is no way (I have found) to inform the target of those fingers. This means the likelihood of the issues being fixed is minimal. "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

I had a "trouble shooter" CEO come in to a company I was managing at. Part of our management incentive was an annual retention bonus. The company was in trouble due to insane management decisions (and likely fraudulent activity at HQ), but the retention bonus helped keep the churn down. Now we all knew that he had a $5 million bonus waiting if he made it two years and that SOB had the nerve to cancel the retention bonus explaining "no one should get a bonus for showing up to work." That was a very quiet management meeting - I think we were all waiting to see if a) he was joking or b) lightning would strike. lol Commence hemorrhaging leadership team and most of the developers.... end of company Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

I think that this is programming, so I{ll read something else in the Lounge. CQ de W5ALT Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: you mean like javascript "rooms" Yes, exactly like that. :laugh:

I don't get it ! ! ! Why must you 'not kill'? It seems justified.

Well, object->method() could be a recursive call so it's not that bad.

This will give you the date portion of the string: LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5'; LET vResult = Date(vTEST, 'YYYY-MM-DD'); <-- vResult = 2018-09-05 Also, 'MM' for months, 'mm' for minutes. Sincerely, -Mark

David O'Neil wrote: and find a function with 11 indentation levels! One more reason to change to .Net. Where do these many circles of hell levels of indentation come from? The lack of a proper exception implementation in old-style C/C++. Just look: HResult hr; hr = /* some function call */; if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { hr = /* next function call etc. */; And in case of error, ... it does nothing. Just the user wonders why it does not work, the service hotline people will be delighted by not having any indication of why things do not work. C# would prefer to throw an exception in case of failure, and no need to handle each place of potential failure separately. Of course, catching the exception and - more importantly - handling it usefully, are still things the developer has to take care of (but it's rather easy). Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

Mark_Wallace wrote: Maybe you should port it to Excel :laugh: ;P :laugh: ;P :laugh: That's outrageously funny. This software runs a piece of hardware that accepts a proprietary printer command language, renders that into bitmaps, and ships the bitmaps out a set of fiber optic connections to ink-jet print heads. This is on a press where we're printing up to 17 feet of paper per second, full color on both sides. I think this would win the "Best Abuse of Excel Macros" contest hands down. Software Zen: delete this;