Brief. Ahhhh, I still use VC6.0 for my embedded C projects editor. Slick Edit is fine, but nothing is faster than VC6.0 with *windows* instead of tabs. I though VS stopped supporting BRIEF emulation back at VS5.0 or so. The last VS I used is circa 2015- and no BRIEF emulation. What editor out there supports BRIEF emulation and MDE-style windows? What is an old guy to do? (I dislike tabs- even when one can pop out files.)
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there are always new strains...
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Yes, but does it BRIEF? VD 2008 was the last to support BRIEF keystrokes in any halfway reasonable manner.
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Ha! Everybody is FASCINATED at parties with software guys. People can't get enough about all of my exploits with editors and compilers and os internals. Girls are Fascinated. Guys are Jealous. Why, heck, I'd choose this career path again-and-again JUST for the social power! Seriously, Call yourself a "Software Architect". You'll fool some of 'em with the "Architect"...
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Be careful. Be afraid. Eventually you will write one too many utilities in C++ (native) and will then be asked to supply the code to one of the other programmers and the word gets out: "old guy!, obsolete skillz". And then you might create something in C# and some company your firm is working with needs that code to port to Linux and the word gets out: "Dude's a Microshiz tool". I could go on all day. This is another form of religion. Be careful. You will be judged by your peers unmercifully. You could be replaced because of whoever gets whatever tech you applied! arrrgh!
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Yes, the Ruff is a full IEEE member coz' him do the Electronics. In response to your question: Students only. The rest of us have to pay the big bucks. That's why I'm still in VS2005 land. Chris
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I used to have transmission lines crackling behind my house in '83. I could carry a 4 foot fluorescent bulb out there and it would light up. Not fully bright, mind you. My old computer monitors would gently throb all over the house as well. Good thing it was a rental, huh? It is amazing how many people don't believe it when you tell them these stories. Chris
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I believe a lot of stories get munged together with Tesla. The shaking business had to do with attaching a motor with an eccentric weight to a pole in his lab basement and setting the speed of the motor to "resonate" the frame of the building. Supposedly the building was shaking apart way up and he did not know it right away. His "wireless" was displayed in a little boat floating on a pond. The wireless units were granulated carbon devices, not unlike a carbon microphone, that would "flash over" and conduct when Tesla fired up a tesla coil-like sending coil on the shore. Each carbon toy responded at a different frequency so he had "remote control" frequency-based. Nearly everything that came out of Tesla's labs was about resonance applied to some device. Essentially all of Tesla's wireless inventions are absolutely not compatible with modern life. When he was transmitting wireless power he was filling the atmosphere with static racket. "I Love Lucy" would certainly stop appearing on local TVs when power was being transmitted from New York to Paris. Later in life Tesla got quite crazy, doubtlessly from sitting in and amongst millions of volts at hi-freq as some of the photos of the time clearly show. He was afraid of eggs and round things in general, talked about "death rays" wireless power transmission, and a host of other things that were taken from him by money people. I believe this guy was both brilliant and mad, and we owe him a ton. But I believe most of the stories that swirl around concerning him are right up there with Vril and Theosophy. Chris
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My dear Dan Arrrrgh..every time I see your signature it increases the potential that I may use that ridiculously harmed word in conversation around others :omg:
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HAM???? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Well, first of all I *am* interested in what the lounge thinks. There is a ton of programming horsepower perusing these pages. I am constantly bombarded with _opinions_ from all levels and I want to know, myself, that I am not screwing my customer(s). Put differently, I think it would be *bad* to create bigapp+ with Turbo Pascal, Power Builder, Fortran, unmanaged VB, etc. But I am not sure that it is bad to use VC++ unmanaged. I know it isn't bad for me! I also have had the maddening experience of having 'frameworks' and code-families-for-everybody let me down to the point that I have to include native DLLs, OCX (active-x, anyone?) solutions and etc. just to be able to do something that is SIMPLE in C, C++, ASM. So that is why I am looking for other's opinions. thnx for listening...
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"VM code language heavilly derrived from Microsofts Java implementation" I am possibly not worthy in the light of your profound vision. It is always interesting to realize that even player pianos require a VM to read the roll. and Java was possibly not there first...
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We have a ton of existing C++ code I can reuse to build an n-tier enterprise managment solution. Does the lounge consider it a crime to consider using unmanaged C++ for a new project?
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:laugh: You were the only one to admit that you are not a Reader.
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There is a famous Frenchman: "la Petomane" who made a career of the musical toots. I hear there's big money in entertaining the reality tv set.
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John: yoo duh man. :cool: VS 2005 deployment is gonna be just fine. Thannnnx Chris
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Ditto on the InstallShield hate specification
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I have been using Inno Setup and before that Install Shield for installing my VC++ and C# code in Win2K, XP machines. I now am running into requirements for Vista-compatibility, .NET manifest requirements for native code, etc. In the considerable opinion of the crew here what is the best way to go in the future for an affordable probably MSI-compliant, manifest-aware installer?
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Anton Afanasyev wrote:
Some start their variable names with an underscore.
:| The best variables are _12443 _454 and finally _ as in _ = 123; Try to find that in your find-in-files Chris