I am a Prostitute [modified]
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I'm busy with a web site project where I started off using DevExpress controls, which I was going to license when paid for the project. However, I was very disappointed to find that the ASPxComboBox control can't handle multiple display columns. I posted a question on StackOverflow mentioning this and asking about controls that can do this. One very expensive suite was recommended, but it was way out of my league. In fact, it costs about three times what I'm making on the project. A while later I received an email from the vendor of said expensive suite, offering my a free license if I provide a comparison report between their controls and DevExpress. This was an offer I could not refuse, and now I have a licensed control suite to use in the project, and a dropdown that can handle multiple columns. :)
modified on Saturday, March 7, 2009 1:52 PM
Was that I one vote for your disappointed, numb and shrivelled, unmanliness when you realised I wasn't soliciting?
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Was that I one vote for your disappointed, numb and shrivelled, unmanliness when you realised I wasn't soliciting?
Wow, some one really has it against you Brady
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I'm busy with a web site project where I started off using DevExpress controls, which I was going to license when paid for the project. However, I was very disappointed to find that the ASPxComboBox control can't handle multiple display columns. I posted a question on StackOverflow mentioning this and asking about controls that can do this. One very expensive suite was recommended, but it was way out of my league. In fact, it costs about three times what I'm making on the project. A while later I received an email from the vendor of said expensive suite, offering my a free license if I provide a comparison report between their controls and DevExpress. This was an offer I could not refuse, and now I have a licensed control suite to use in the project, and a dropdown that can handle multiple columns. :)
modified on Saturday, March 7, 2009 1:52 PM
Moved because personally I'm not keen on having "Prostitute" being one of the first words people see on the homepage of the site.
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I'm busy with a web site project where I started off using DevExpress controls, which I was going to license when paid for the project. However, I was very disappointed to find that the ASPxComboBox control can't handle multiple display columns. I posted a question on StackOverflow mentioning this and asking about controls that can do this. One very expensive suite was recommended, but it was way out of my league. In fact, it costs about three times what I'm making on the project. A while later I received an email from the vendor of said expensive suite, offering my a free license if I provide a comparison report between their controls and DevExpress. This was an offer I could not refuse, and now I have a licensed control suite to use in the project, and a dropdown that can handle multiple columns. :)
modified on Saturday, March 7, 2009 1:52 PM
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I'm busy with a web site project where I started off using DevExpress controls, which I was going to license when paid for the project. However, I was very disappointed to find that the ASPxComboBox control can't handle multiple display columns. I posted a question on StackOverflow mentioning this and asking about controls that can do this. One very expensive suite was recommended, but it was way out of my league. In fact, it costs about three times what I'm making on the project. A while later I received an email from the vendor of said expensive suite, offering my a free license if I provide a comparison report between their controls and DevExpress. This was an offer I could not refuse, and now I have a licensed control suite to use in the project, and a dropdown that can handle multiple columns. :)
modified on Saturday, March 7, 2009 1:52 PM
Brady Kelly wrote:
DevExpress controls, which I was going to license when paid for the project. However, I was very disappointed to find that the ASPxComboBox control can't handle multiple display columns.
It doesn't out of the box, but they do have a sample in their knowledge base showing exactly how to implement it (although personally speaking, if you need multiple columns in a combo box, it's because you haven't thought through your UI). Cheers, Drew.
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Moved because personally I'm not keen on having "Prostitute" being one of the first words people see on the homepage of the site.
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Brady Kelly wrote:
DevExpress controls, which I was going to license when paid for the project. However, I was very disappointed to find that the ASPxComboBox control can't handle multiple display columns.
It doesn't out of the box, but they do have a sample in their knowledge base showing exactly how to implement it (although personally speaking, if you need multiple columns in a combo box, it's because you haven't thought through your UI). Cheers, Drew.
Drew Stainton wrote:
It doesn't out of the box, but they do have a sample in their knowledge base showing exactly how to implement it (although personally speaking, if you need multiple columns in a combo box, it's because you haven't thought through your UI).
It's not my UI. I'm porting parts of an Access application into an existing web application. It the absence of a spec longer than one very short paragraph for each of four features, I'm copying the Access UI. I don't think it's always a case of not thought out. In this case, e.g, I'd like to display a name and phone extension in the combo, to help disambiguate. Right now, the Access app stores the name text, but because both fields are store in the Extensions table, I'd like to store the extension ID. One name can have many extensions, so to get the correct ID, I need to display both to the user. This is my KISS approach. For more columns, I would rather the dropdown button opened a dialogue window with a search grid, instead of just a dropdown list.
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I'm busy with a web site project where I started off using DevExpress controls, which I was going to license when paid for the project. However, I was very disappointed to find that the ASPxComboBox control can't handle multiple display columns. I posted a question on StackOverflow mentioning this and asking about controls that can do this. One very expensive suite was recommended, but it was way out of my league. In fact, it costs about three times what I'm making on the project. A while later I received an email from the vendor of said expensive suite, offering my a free license if I provide a comparison report between their controls and DevExpress. This was an offer I could not refuse, and now I have a licensed control suite to use in the project, and a dropdown that can handle multiple columns. :)
modified on Saturday, March 7, 2009 1:52 PM
No your a tart - going for little recompense - a prostitute requires a pimp and they should never be cheap!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Drew Stainton wrote:
It doesn't out of the box, but they do have a sample in their knowledge base showing exactly how to implement it (although personally speaking, if you need multiple columns in a combo box, it's because you haven't thought through your UI).
It's not my UI. I'm porting parts of an Access application into an existing web application. It the absence of a spec longer than one very short paragraph for each of four features, I'm copying the Access UI. I don't think it's always a case of not thought out. In this case, e.g, I'd like to display a name and phone extension in the combo, to help disambiguate. Right now, the Access app stores the name text, but because both fields are store in the Extensions table, I'd like to store the extension ID. One name can have many extensions, so to get the correct ID, I need to display both to the user. This is my KISS approach. For more columns, I would rather the dropdown button opened a dialogue window with a search grid, instead of just a dropdown list.
You're KISS approach should be
name (ext)that does not break existing tool sets and conforms, in spirit, to the design.Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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No your a tart - going for little recompense - a prostitute requires a pimp and they should never be cheap!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
actually prostitutes don't require pimps ... i know a few who are completely self-run businesses ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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actually prostitutes don't require pimps ... i know a few who are completely self-run businesses ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
I must admit that my knowledge of the ins and outs of that business are limited.....
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I must admit that my knowledge of the ins and outs of that business are limited.....
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I must admit that my knowledge of the ins and outs of that business are limited.....
I thought that's what the business was all about. Someone wanting ins and outs and someone willing to sell them? :laugh:
"Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke
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Moved because personally I'm not keen on having "Prostitute" being one of the first words people see on the homepage of the site.
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
But since everyone here is 18 or older (at least according to the Terms Of Use), and are "professional developers", aren't we all supposed to be above puerile interpretation of mere subject headers until we've read the whole message? What other words are forbidden? Is there a list we could refer to so we can avoid making the same mistake?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
I must admit that my knowledge of the ins and outs of that business are limited.....
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
So you're a "prostitute virgin"? Isn't that a mutually exclusive term?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
But since everyone here is 18 or older (at least according to the Terms Of Use), and are "professional developers", aren't we all supposed to be above puerile interpretation of mere subject headers until we've read the whole message? What other words are forbidden? Is there a list we could refer to so we can avoid making the same mistake?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Yeah, except some workplaces filter content, monitor content, or are so over the top with PC that developers have to tip-toe around the internet in case someone in their office sees a Bad Word on their monitor and they get a reprimand. All I can offer you is "Would the title be something you'd like have on the screen when your kid sister (or neice) or church-going grandmother was around. You know what I mean.
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yeah, except some workplaces filter content, monitor content, or are so over the top with PC that developers have to tip-toe around the internet in case someone in their office sees a Bad Word on their monitor and they get a reprimand. All I can offer you is "Would the title be something you'd like have on the screen when your kid sister (or neice) or church-going grandmother was around. You know what I mean.
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I'm pretty old. My niece is in the Air Force, and all of my grand mothers are dead. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
I'm pretty old. My niece is in the Air Force, and all of my grand mothers are dead. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001So you're just going to be contrary for the sake of it then :D
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Horse!
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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So you're just going to be contrary for the sake of it then :D
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Precisely. (That's why you let me stick around - more often than not, I do it with style and flair). :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
