I LOVE regions. If I really think about it though, it's more a side-effect of the regions than the regions themselves. I usually have a few main regions in my classes: private members, properties, constructors, methods, static methods etc. This has the wonderful direct effect of when I open one of my classes and I want to find property blah, I can pop open the properties region and it's there (I know I can use the drop-downs at the top of the code window but that's no fun!). It also has the, arguably, more useful side-effect of keeping all like-things together, so that when new people look at the code, it's much harder for them to put new properties at the bottom of the file instead of with the other properties. My logic here is, let's face it, most of us coders are "OCD" in the sense that we like order and symmetry and things like that, so putting a property outside of the properties region that's already defined makes you feel 'icky' and you want to move it. That's my 37 cents anyway...

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Sounds like a good enough solution to me. You could either set the visibility of the picture box control to show/hide it, or replace the image with a "blank" one you already have - it all depends on the aesthetic you're going for. I would suggest pre-loading all the images (including the blank one) at startup and keeping them in memory (remembering to free them on close, GC may handle this for you, can't quite remember with images...). If you have a reasonable number of images, then this should be fine. Remember you'll only need one in-memory copy of the blank one although it may be used for all tiles. Another solution would be simply to draw something over the top of the images in order to hide them, for example a black rectangle or another image. This may be another solution worth looking into. Seems like you're on the right track though. Good luck!

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modified on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:55 AM

_Maxxx_ wrote:

Most 7-8 year olds can spell Bum, Poo and Wee

Most 5-90 year olds still laugh at bum, poo and wee

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Adopting a programmer's mindset, no sentence is complete without the word "should" :)

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Small disposable cameras would be awesome fun, especially once the liquor began to flow. The last wedding I attended they did a similar thing and also had a chalkboard for guests to write a message on, then they would take a photo of them with the message then wipe the board. The happy couple didn't get a lot of the messages until their honeymoon when the photo album was ready, photos ordered chronologically... they started with messages like "We always knew!" and "Just married!" and ended with... well... nothing that needs to be repeated :) But very, very enjoyable for everyone.

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Celsius, most likely... This morning I tried to put the coffee jar lid on my cup of coffee and dropped it in there, then subsequently attempted to retrieve it from my cup of boiling water... I burnt my tongue because what do you do when you burn your fingers? You put them in your mouth! That's like a 100 point IQ penalty right there. Either that or I need a holiday...

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And if I was Vishnu[^] I'd get more work done - 2 arms for work, 2 arms for CP...

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It was probably our fault... I was standing on a 17 soapbox high soaptower

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Haha, thanks for the warning, if so my IQ must be on par with the temperature of a glass of fridge water by now... I have been toying for a while with the idea of starting an anonymous "blog" type thing where I write responses to the ridiculous things said in that section and tell people how stupid they are. But I don't want to be that guy, you know the one with the turtleneck who pretends he knows everything about the world... Ah well, all those well articulated, thinly veiled insults will have to stay locked in the old brain box...

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Christian Graus wrote:

The US, by the way, is far worse in this regard than Australia.

Agreed 100%! I guess you're right about the media thing, which is something I'm quite often annoyed with. Isn't a free media one of the sine quibus non of a functioning democracy, the thought being they will hold the democracy accountable for its actions? The capitalistic nature of the media seems not to do that idea justice. BTW are you a Brisbanite? Are you familiar with the free MX paper and its "vent your spleen" section? I have a masochistic need to read it every afternoon even though the ridiculous and useless comments in it make me angry/sad to be a human being...

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Unfortunately a large proportion of the Australian public are stupid enough to NEED to be told what's good and what's not. However a lot of what they're being told is utterly ridiculous and incorrect. We live in an age of boundless information, but with no more capacity to process it than the generation before. There are so many conflicting world-views it seems whichever is shouted the loudest people tend to agree with. We are given the conclusions, not the facts with which to determine our OWN conclusion. I think you make a good point but it's not just Australia that's going this way, the whole world is going this way. It's like an apartheid of conservatism and liberalism. Soon there'll be conservative only pubs where they serve iced tea and fruit juice with barbershop quartets and slapstick comedy for entertainment, while the liberal pub over the road is handing out scotch by the bottle, serve up shots of a different kind during Heroin Happy Hour and all the barmaids are available (for a few hundred bucks). It's like moderate people don't exist any more, everybody's got some opinion they're going to shove down your throat.

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Mark Wallace wrote:

perhaps because I want to do it automatically

Well that's a given, I meant why would you do a full binary comparison when you can just check a flag instead?

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Four - spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch. :)

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I thought that this is what the archived attribute is for... can't you get the same effect with like a -M (or whatever) with xcopy? Why would you want to do full comparisons of files to see if they've changed when you can just look at the modified date or archived attributes?

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See here[^].

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5!

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There are 4 people including myself who use my name at my workplace, in the same office. Each one is in a different department (I am a developer, one's an account manager, one's in F&A and another in sales and marketing). I will often get calls for the others, which can be interesting. "Aw mate, you coming for golf today?" --- "sorry, who is this?" "I've got Jane Doe from Bob's Legal Firm on the line, she wants to know why the products she ordered haven't arrived yet." --- "Ah... wrong person." "I AM NOT PAYING THIS??! WHERE DO YOU GET OFF ON CHARGING THAT MUCH, FOR A [PRODUCT]?? THIS OTHER COMPANY DOES IT FOR HALF THAT?! I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOUR PRICING MANAGER!" --- "Sure thing, I'll put you through..." (seriously, this call happened... paraphrased of course) Keeps my day interesting :) Calls for me are "I need report X from 2 days ago" and "production is down, fix it" and "I have this urgent item, due three days ago, can you do it four days ago???", you know, the usual...

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A man of much wisdom, I believe he also said (in his capacity as a marriage counselor) "foolish man give wife grand piano; wise man give wife upright organ".

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I think you were approaching this from a philosophical perspective, don't worry, I get you. Check this out[^], it's actually a big unanswered question in Western philosophy. It's a question of whether the colour (i.e. what we see in our own personal vision) is a product directly of the wavelength, or more of the mind assigning that wavelength a visual interpretation. Either way, you can still teach someone what the colour "blue" is, because all "blues" have the same wavelength. Trippy, isn't it?? Confucius say "red is only a colour, but green is a way of life" :)

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Heisenburg?

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