I do! Although I use the .CMD extension now.
RDSchaefer
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Lotus notesI was an in-house consultant for a large bank HQ'd in Cleveland, Ohio that used Outlook / Exchange. I co-developed a Metrics harvesting - reporting system using the Attachmate Extra!, Outlook, Access, and Excel API's. Each of these were well-documented and easy to understand. BTW, kudos to Attachmate for out-automating MS. Extra! is a joy to control with external apps like VB and AutoIt. Anyway, in 2009 another bank HQ'd in Pittsburgh bought my bank and proceeded to destroy most of the automation we had put in place. What took me half and hour to design with MS products literally took DAYS with Notes. Horrible documentation is only the beginning. When they eliminated my entire department, I vowed that I would never again work for any shop that used Notes!
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Bug of the dayWell, aside from the obvious which everyone else has commented on, my first question would be "Why is he checking a value that he just set in the previous statement?" Was there some other code that you omitted?
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Can a country/city prevent game designers use their country/city layout for games ?Interesting question! I agree with one of the other posters, I don't think there's anything they can do as long as you don't use any real names. On a related note, when Quake first came out, a couple of my colleagues (at the time) and I started creating our own map based on the building we were working in. We included all the atriums, stairways, and cubicles; most of the pillars and lights. It was a lot of fun but we never finished it. I've thought about trying again from memory but....
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How do I generate a number divisable by 5, and check it?I was not commenting on your coding skills and I did read all the posts, however I do apologize. I was just so astounded to think someone could actually not know that (Any number ending in 5 or 0 is divisible by 5), that I reacted in a knee-jerk fashion. I also didn't solve your problem because it had already been well answered. BTW, you really need to develop thicker skin. There will always be some people who know so much more than you that they sometimes get irritated answering the same, in their opinion, dumb questions over and over again. It still happens to me occasionally.
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How do I generate a number divisable by 5, and check it?Seriously??? Were you sleeping during elementary math classes? I'm sorry but if I were your boss and you asked me that question I would transfer you out of my department over to HR or maybe Daycare. :omg:
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CalculatorsI love calculators! I have a small collection including a Casio FX-7000g (advanced scientific graphing), a Casio CFX-9850G (same but in color), and my pride & joy - an HP 41CX with a printer and a mag card reader. And to prove that I'm a complete Nerd, I also have (though no longer use) 2 sliderules, one is six inches long (almost a toy) the other is 20 inches long.
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BITSBITS is a programming tool for manipulating bits. You can get the Dec, Hex, and color values as well as image tags and lists of images. http://www.collicott.net/john/programming/bits.htm[^]
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Autoit tool for Windows Test AutomationAutoIt has been both a blessing and a curse for me! While it started out as a small scripting language for automation, it has since grown into a full programming language. It makes it so ridiculously easy to create Windows programs, including all / any controls and menus, that I used it almost exclusively at work for almost 2 years. I used it to interface with COM objects in MS Office apps to create reports from Mainframe data harvested using the COM interface of Attachmate's Extra! terminal emulation software (BTW, Attachmate did a better job than MS). I'm talking Word documents, Excel spreadsheets with graphs, Powerpoint presentations, you name it. The pointy-haired ;-D types loved it. Unfortunately, it was so easy to use that I didn't write anything in C (or anything else) for quite a while and got a little rusty.