Short, Simple and Utterly Pointless

Rob Grainger

Discovered this gem in our code base (C#, but I guess that won't make much difference)...

if (transparent)
    pdfDoc.HtmlOptions.HideBackground = true;
pdfDoc.HtmlOptions.HideBackground = true;

:wtf: Rob

CPallini

Well, if opaque then it's true, on the other hand, if transparent then it's so true. :-D

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Nagy Vilmos

I remember having to do something like that; repainting a dynamic form I think. It was easier to do the repaint twice based on a simple condition then to code a nasty, recursive, snaking, 683 if level method. But I put a comment in to explain why.

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Rob Grainger

No, nothing like that. Fortunately, we have a great Refactoring policy here that allowed me to simply fix the code. All is working fine, so I guess it was... well actually I've no idea. ;)

MarkB777

re-wording a famous Shakespare quote: To hide, or not to hide... :D

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Nelek

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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