How wide is your code?
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The guides are cool. Thanks George
No problem. :)
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You young'uns ar spoiled by modern technology. I'm one of those old geezers still writing code, dangerously close to the 3 decade mark. I think John Simmons is older than me. He's angrier, i'm more dangerous ;) So, I'm contemplating a couple of s/w issues and one of those is - when to hit the return key? As I type this, I have to my left a 1920x1200 monitor connected to my 1920x1200 laptop. It seems to me a little silly to worry about any developer who might not have the same h/w rsources. To arbitrarily linebreak at 80, 132, or whatever seems a bit silly. Printing? Muahahahaaha.. come on. Thoughts?
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin This crap sandwich is all yours.... 2009 "Stimulus Bill"
Young 'uns?? :confused: Mature programers like printouts, multiple sheets spread out, and mark them up to understand changes needed to be made. Not to mention folks with bifocals (even fancy transition without the lines) don't like tiny print on their screens. I don't like "wide" code, beyond 100 or so characters becomes hard to read.
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Me too. Though, they are in xsd.exe auto-generated code files, based on xml schema files. A pain when I need to use those in my client code...
The worst offenders for me are some resource ID's in my native code for STRINGTABLE resources:
#define IDS_Msg_Tnc_PageCorrelationSensor1PatternDifferenceExceeded 1243
Software Zen:
delete this;
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Another useful registry hack is: Under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0 key, you can create a DWORD UseMRUDocOrdering = 1. What this does is, when you select a tab in the editor, that tab moves to be the leftmost tab. This obviously keeps the most recently used files/designers visible in the editor. Only the least used fall off the end. Works in VS2008, VS2005 and their express versions. I like it, anyway.
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Hi Henry, thanks for the info. I'll give it a go, not sure I will ever get used to tabs hopping around though. :)
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Another useful registry hack is: Under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0 key, you can create a DWORD UseMRUDocOrdering = 1. What this does is, when you select a tab in the editor, that tab moves to be the leftmost tab. This obviously keeps the most recently used files/designers visible in the editor. Only the least used fall off the end. Works in VS2008, VS2005 and their express versions. I like it, anyway.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
That looks useful. I may give it a try. :)
Kevin
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Hi Henry, thanks for the info. I'll give it a go, not sure I will ever get used to tabs hopping around though. :)
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Luc Pattyn wrote:
not sure I will ever get used to tabs hopping around though
Yeah, I no longer notice it though. Thing is, if you don't like it, set the DWORD to 0, or delete it.
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charlieg wrote:
I'm one of those old geezers still writing code, dangerously close to the 3 decade mark.
Youngster! I wrote my first program in 1967 (remember punch cards? ), so I'm working on my 5th decade. I usually try to keep my code on a normal screen or page, so I keep it around 80 characters wide, but sometimes I violate that guideline.
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hi 1968 - on punch cards but I was really typing Dad's cards and debuging his syntax while I was at university. Wrote my own first code in 1970 and my first job was on a UNIVAC 3 punch cards, truck, tape, paper tape ect. (truck was for the round trip to Toronto for test runns)
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Monash University in Melbourne is one place to look - I think they have some oldish CDC kit and a Ferranti Sirius, Atlas' little brother. Sydney Uni Basser School of CompSci may have some old kit too left over from Csirac, which was a near clone of the original Univac, the former was built by CSIRO in the 50/60's - Basser inherited it (I think). IBM may have some working punched card gear somewhere. You might be even find a hand operated punch at least that would probably still work, try Ebay. Or you could ask the Governor of Florida, he/she may have one left over from the chad debacle of 2000 :-D . I think Atlas has been resurrected in part at least, presumably at Manchester or maybe its at the Science Museum in South Kensington along with Babbages Engine, and I think they may have put Colossus back together at Bletchley Park if you're over that way, and there's an Elliot machine at Bletchley too. The only analog system I ever got to play with for a few weeks was a one of Elliot's flight simulation systems that they bolted onto our 803 digital system in an attempt to solve a simulation problem, it didn't work - well at least not in the time frame our manager was demanding - you know I want it by lunchtime, today. Don't think it had punch cards though, potentiometers, capacitor sliders and a patch panel are what I remember. Mercury delay memory was good stuff, you could watch your program's scribbles. If we had it today then MS wouldn't need to ban memcpy from their code. Did anyone here work on Singer Link flight simulators. I had a flight in a Link F111 simulator up at Amberley in the late '70's, scary stuff because its physical, i.e. it shakes, rattles and rolls in real space & time; wonder if they're still working, if the F111's are still flying then they may be, worth a look if they'll let you in, they had two back then. Much more interesting that a punched card. And what about the Singer System 10, now that was a weird system, it had hardware decimal arithmetic as I recall, everything was in 10's, all data was written in blocks of a 100 six bit bytes, and you could have assembler or RPG. I always thought it bizarre that a sewing machine company should make things like flight simulators & decimal computers. Have fun
Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.(Pliny)
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