Comments by ThePotty1

ThePotty1 25-Jan-24 1:09am View

Hey neighbour :D
I agree that there are probably several poor architectural choices, which we will address, but right now I'd like a quick fix to reduce the size of the traffic required to run this monster which I had no part of building. My code performs like nothing they've ever seen, but they aren't even looking at it because the php is too bloated to run.

ThePotty1 5-Sep-22 17:16pm View

Bahaha I resemble that remark :p

Yeah It occurred to me that I'm just calling a function, which is something we do a lot, in the happy and certain knowlege that the function will run through it's logic, and then return. I got distracted by the weird wrappers, but until the function returns, the calling code just waits.

EDIT 100 threads? Wow, no, well thread count is set in xml, but currently I'm running on 3.

ThePotty1 18-May-21 3:29am View

Yeah I assumed that would kinda balance out, everyone steals as much as they can get and nobody's entirely happy, but they all get equal shares. Perhaps not a safe bet, it doesn't seem to be working irl :p

ThePotty1 12-Jul-19 6:02am View

Actually, this may be a teachable moment, why do I not need to check if python is installed? I simplified that check to just run raise SystemExit(0), and rely on the value from GetExitCodeProcess being zero. I tested it on a computer that doesn't have python, and my program acted as if it was. Obviously my new check is garbage, but the old one not only tested python itself, it also checked logfile access. Which it turns out I don't need anymore, hence the simplified test.

ThePotty1 11-Jul-19 10:01am View

Chuckle. Oh go on, I reckon I can take it.

ThePotty1 11-Jul-19 9:52am View

Sorry, I originally posted my question as the solution, so I edited it into the question, and deleted the 'solution'. Now I can't see the other suggestions anymore.

ThePotty1 11-Jul-19 9:50am View

Huh. OK I got it working, but at a heavy cost. I replaced vbnewline with \n, but this failed outright. Next I removed all linebreaks entirely, and instead ended every line with ;. The Try-finally blocks I left as-is. Still no good. Finally I removed the Try-finally blocks entirely, and it not only runs without errors, but I actually got an email. On the other hand, now if it fails for any reason, I no longer get a log. Which makes it entirely useless.

ThePotty1 11-Jul-19 7:55am View

It's not struggling to find python.exe, I suspect it's failing to find 3mail.py.

I don't suppose python.exe has an internal error log?

I think I'm going to have another go at converting my entire script to a one-line command. I'm fairly sure I can replace all of those vbNewlines with \n and it might all just work.

ThePotty1 16-Apr-15 9:02am View

As far as I understand, ActiveX exes were designed to allow an executable to run directly in internet explorer. I think we chose to use them because it allowed our central program some late-binding flexibility which we would not have had if all of the daughter programs were DLLs.

On that note, what is the accepted architecture for a large system, where compiling everything into one massive executable is not an option? Should the daughter programs all be DLLs, or standard EXEs?

Obviously you can pass more information back and forth with a DLL, as opposed to just the return code from an EXE. On the other hand, without some sort of late binding, wouldn't you have to code a separate launch routine for each DLL?

ThePotty1 1-Apr-15 10:06am View

Cheers, gimme a couple of days to play around with that.

The grids in question are Sheridan controls, notably unbound rather than the default bound ones favoured by most VB6 I've seen. I estimate that we'd knock 25% off the size of the system if we used databound grids, but the other developer is pretty resistant, and probably changing would create other problems as well. I need to play around with the vanilla .NET grids and see what they're like.

Comments by ThePotty1 (Top 10 by date)