Comments by OriginalGriff

OriginalGriff 9hrs 20mins ago View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 13hrs ago View

SEP field engaged. :D

OriginalGriff yesterday View

IDK, Help Vampires ... :sigh:

OriginalGriff yesterday View

Did you check their online support page?
If wasn't hard to find the SDK: https://www.dymo.com/support?cfid=online-support-sdk

OriginalGriff 2 days ago View

:thumbsup:

OriginalGriff 2 days ago View

"afected" in what way?

Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 2 days ago View

And?
What do you want from us?

OriginalGriff 2 days ago View

Quote:Never told you to teach me things
That is what this site is all about ...

OriginalGriff 5 days ago View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 5 days ago View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 5 days ago View

Ah. Not a quick learner then ... :sigh:

OriginalGriff 5 days ago View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 2-Feb-23 8:07am View

Sorry! But ...

OriginalGriff 1-Feb-23 11:30am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 1-Feb-23 6:13am View

Did you read anything I actually wrote, or just skip over that because it wasn't code?

OriginalGriff 31-Jan-23 13:15pm View

"It doesn't work" is probably the most useless problem report we get - and we get it a lot. It tells us nothing about what is happening, or when it happens.
So tell us what it is doing that you didn't expect, or not doing that you did.
Tell us what you did to get it to happen.
Tell us any error messages.
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OriginalGriff 31-Jan-23 1:16am View

No. Something that size contains executables and we have no idea what it does, or any way to find out.

OriginalGriff 29-Jan-23 7:53am View

And?
What have you tried?
Where are you stuck?
What help do you need?

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OriginalGriff 29-Jan-23 7:53am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
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OriginalGriff 24-Jan-23 7:12am View

Not arguing. And my time is not yet wasted.
It will be, if you continue to drop bits of crap together and hope they will work.
It won't be, if you take your "poor coding experience" and start learning how to do it properly - which means understanding the code you find and how it works. Then you can start altering it to fit with your existing codebase instead of hoping for a miracle cure.

So start here: read the links, learn what the function does, and think about how you use it to do what you need.
Or don't - it doesn't affect me either way. But it does you: one route leads to continued "poor coding experience", the other leads to improvement, and developing skills. Your choice, not mine.

OriginalGriff 24-Jan-23 5:58am View

That normally translates to "I didn't write the code, and I have no idea how it works - but I dumped it in my code and I can't get it to work with it. So fix it for me so I don't have to learn anything."
Is that what is happening here?

OriginalGriff 24-Jan-23 4:49am View

Read what I said. Read the documentation.
Think about the code *you* wrote. What do you pass to the function, and why?

OriginalGriff 24-Jan-23 4:08am View

No, read what I said ...

OriginalGriff 24-Jan-23 2:08am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with.
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OriginalGriff 23-Jan-23 10:09am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 22-Jan-23 9:49am View

Medicinal or recreational? :laugh:

OriginalGriff 22-Jan-23 2:11am View

No, it's JS - the function keyword is a giveaway.

OriginalGriff 22-Jan-23 1:58am View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 22-Jan-23 1:41am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 21-Jan-23 12:10pm View

How do you expect us to look at an error we cannot see, on a system we cannot access, in code we can;t run?

Start by looking at the actual error message and work from that.

OriginalGriff 21-Jan-23 10:36am View

Damn! My secret is out. Meow. :D

OriginalGriff 21-Jan-23 4:47am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

What have you tried?
Where are you stuck?
What help do you need?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with.
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OriginalGriff 21-Jan-23 2:22am View

Yes, it will work - but it isn't needed because the nested using blocks Dispose each item in the right order, and that automatically calls Close on each item when needed.

OriginalGriff 20-Jan-23 3:49am View

I thought that was the simple version! :D
The alternative is a manual loop, probably involving a Dictionary<string, int> and a test / add body. Which does the same thing, but in more code!

OriginalGriff 18-Jan-23 4:08am View

Instead of loading a 3000x3000 bitmap into the PictureBox - which takes exactly the same time as creating the 200x200 thumbnail because it uses the same code - create the thumbnail and load that into the PictureBox. Then you will spend the time once for you whole app, instead of every single time the PictureBox needs to be displayed ...

OriginalGriff 18-Jan-23 4:05am View

Did you read what the function does?
Quote: "Remove leading and trailing spaces from a string"
Which means it does what exactly?

OriginalGriff 18-Jan-23 1:55am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 17-Jan-23 7:15am View

And?
What have you tried?
(Apart from posting this before?)
What happened when you did?

OriginalGriff 17-Jan-23 1:07am View

There is nowhere near enough information here for us to begin to help you - we have no idea what you are trying to do, or where you are starting from.

We don't even have any idea where you are stuck, or what help you might need because "database error did show" covers a huge amount of possibilities - and that's kinda important, don't you think? Assume it's like your car breaking down in the middle of nowhere, and you calling the garage. All you have done here is tell them "It broke" and turning your phone off. They aren;t going to get out to you to fix it because they don't know what the car is, what parts it might need, or even where the heck it is!

Start here: Asking questions is a skill[^] and think about what you need to know, and what you need to tell us in order to get help.

OriginalGriff 16-Jan-23 12:06pm View

And what does the debugger show you is happening in the code I can't see?

OriginalGriff 16-Jan-23 11:05am View

And the only person who can give you that is the person who set it ...

OriginalGriff 16-Jan-23 7:14am View

You are kidding, right?

BackgroundWorker work = new BackgroundWorker();

OriginalGriff 16-Jan-23 6:50am View

Don't "bump" your question: it's rude, arrogant, unnecessary, and doesn't help you get a faster answer. By all means add info, but just editing it and adding "Please help me" and "Thanks" to get it back to the top of the "unanswered" list is just saying "I'm more important than anyone else, so deal with *MY* question and ignore the rest".
And so is everybody else, and everybody else's questions. If everyone was this thoughtless and rude, you'd never get an answer to anything, because all we'd be able to see would be 100 pages of idiots bumping all the real questions to page 100+
All you do is annoy people, and get them to deliberately not even look at your question, much less answer it.

OriginalGriff 16-Jan-23 3:34am View

No. At the risk of repeating myself "If that was the full instructions, then I suggest you go back to the professor and ask for clarification - it's not at all obvious what he expects you to hand in."

OriginalGriff 16-Jan-23 3:27am View

If that was the full instructions, then I suggest you go back to the professor and ask for clarification - it's not at all obvious what he expects you to hand in.
If it wasn't, then read the instructions more carefully - they probably contain details that you need to complete the assignment.

OriginalGriff 16-Jan-23 3:11am View

Excellent! You can skip that step then. :thumbsup:

OriginalGriff 15-Jan-23 11:09am View

It was a good and timely example! :laugh:

OriginalGriff 15-Jan-23 10:04am View

I suspect it would be a distraction - I'm not sure that the OP has really grasped classes and OOPs yet, even in VB. You know how easy it is to write "procedural code with a class, honest" in either language! :laugh:

OriginalGriff 14-Jan-23 11:34am View

The difference between a Form and a Dialog is down to how you display them! A Form is really the same thing as a Dialog: and since you have Accept / OK and Cancel buttons on a Dialog you can also have them on a Form.

And on a Dialog you can normally close it and return OK by clicking the OK button or pressing ENTER - this is called an "Accept button". Equally, you can close the Dialog and return Cancel by clicking the Cancel button or pressing ESC - try it: it works in Load and Save dialogs for example.

So if you create a Cancel button in your form, whenever you press ESC the system will simulate a click and call the handler method.
So if you have a invisible Cancel button, the system doesn't care - it calls your handler and your form closes. If that's the startup form then that causes the whole app to close!

Easy really! :D

OriginalGriff 14-Jan-23 4:31am View

There is a really simple, cheaty way to do it: add a button to your form, call it "CloseMe", set it's Size to (0,0), set it's Location to (0,0), set Tabstop to False, and handle it's Click event - all you need it to do is to call Close on the form.
Set the Form.CancelButton to CloseMe.
Now the system will close the form when you hit ESC, which closes the app, but the button is not seen or accessible.

OriginalGriff 12-Jan-23 15:25pm View

So follow the link and you'll get an idea how to start.
Don't give up because others haven't done the work for you - half the fun of this stuff is working out what you need to do - writing the actual code is the dull bit most of the time! :D

OriginalGriff 12-Jan-23 14:48pm View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 12-Jan-23 14:39pm View

Not every task is complicated! :laugh:

OriginalGriff 12-Jan-23 7:26am View

Where? I see no changes...

OriginalGriff 11-Jan-23 8:26am View

Most times the client doesn't know or even care what language is used, never mind what package! :D

And maybe he just likes fixing his app every week or so because Amazon changed the site *again*. :laugh:

OriginalGriff 11-Jan-23 7:33am View

Heck of a learning curve for a beginner ... and the last time I looked the editor was still, um, a bit "amateur hour" compared with the WinForms one?

OriginalGriff 11-Jan-23 0:44am View

It's not strictly necessary in that case, because the integer constant value can be "promoted" to long without loss of data.
But it is a good idea!
C is an old language, and so are most of the compilers - so the more clues you give them the better the result is likely to be.

OriginalGriff 11-Jan-23 0:21am View

While I applaud your urge to help people, it's a good idea to stick to new questions, rather than 8 year old ones. After that amount of time, it's unlikely that the original poster is at all interested in the problem any more!
Answering old questions can be seen as rep-point hunting, which is a form of site abuse. The more trigger happy amongst us will start the process of banning you from the site if you aren't careful. Stick to new questions and you'll be fine.

OriginalGriff 10-Jan-23 12:47pm View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 10-Jan-23 4:58am View

That's what I mean - already his DB has crap in it! :laugh:

OriginalGriff 10-Jan-23 2:55am View

The "parent ... child" is a terminology problem, I agree - but what other terms are there that you can use with beginners -preferably without having you cram a wall of text in front of them so they know what you are talking about? :laugh:

I blame MDI myself ... :D

And public fields or controls? Bluuurgh! Properties and events, people -properties and events!

OriginalGriff 9-Jan-23 15:51pm View

Did what? Do you think I can see your screen? Access your HDD? Read your mind? :D

OriginalGriff 8-Jan-23 10:00am View

So you procrastinated and now the deadline is looming so you want someone else to put in the work and pull your nuts out of the fire?

OriginalGriff 7-Jan-23 12:44pm View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 6-Jan-23 5:46am View

What you have posted is not a solution to a problem - and even if it was, after 12 years it's unlikely the OP needs another!

Try posting this as a new question: Ask a question[^] but give actual details of what your problem is - remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind; we only get exactly what you type.

There is nowhere near enough information here for us to begin to help you - we have no idea what you are trying to do, or where you are starting from.

Start here: Asking questions is a skill[^] and think about what you need to know, and what you need to tell us in order to get help.

OriginalGriff 5-Jan-23 17:36pm View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 5-Jan-23 14:46pm View

Set the value is simple: create an Enum which holds the value of each card pair: so if you you had six Flower cards to turn that would be three pairs: Rose, Lily, Carnation
Then add a property to the Card which holds a Flower enum value, called Value
Then to check if they are the same and should be removed, just compare Value properties!

OriginalGriff 5-Jan-23 11:58am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 5-Jan-23 11:34am View

:D

OriginalGriff 5-Jan-23 11:34am View

Yes!
All code that isn't a compile time constant must be inside a function.
So

int x = 666;

is fine, but

int x = foo();

isn't allowed, regardless of what foo does.

OriginalGriff 5-Jan-23 11:01am View

What have you checked?
How did you check it?
Where does it complain?

Just saying "it don't work" doesn't really help us to help you - we need actual information!

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OriginalGriff 4-Jan-23 9:06am View

So fix the compilation problems first - you have other back-ticks in there, a missing "/" starting a comment, and so forth.
Fix all the compiler problems first, and see what happens - you can't use a debugger until you produce an EXE file for it to debug! :D

You malloc looks Ok to me, but you don't actually use the memory you allocated, and you try to free memory that you didn't allocate ... which is odd.

OriginalGriff 3-Jan-23 9:12am View

And?
When were you going to start writing the code to address the assignment?

OriginalGriff 3-Jan-23 6:58am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 3-Jan-23 6:57am View

And?
What have you tried?
Where are you stuck?
What help do you need?

If the code isn't relevant, why do you post it?

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OriginalGriff 3-Jan-23 6:56am View

"its not working" is probably the most useless problem report we get - and we get it a lot. It tells us nothing about what is happening, or when it happens.
So tell us what it is doing that you didn't expect, or not doing that you did.
Tell us what you did to get it to happen.
Tell us any error messages.

Perhaps show us the exact code you used as well?

OriginalGriff 3-Jan-23 6:01am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with.
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OriginalGriff 3-Jan-23 4:35am View

:laugh:

OriginalGriff 1-Jan-23 1:55am View

They don't know - this is drivel produced by ChatGPT and copy'n'pasted to boost reputation.

OriginalGriff 31-Dec-22 11:56am View

While I applaud your urge to help people, it's a good idea to stick to new questions, rather than 11 year old ones. After that amount of time, it's unlikely that the original poster is at all interested in the problem any more!
Answering old questions can be seen as rep-point hunting, which is a form of site abuse. The more trigger happy amongst us will start the process of banning you from the site if you aren't careful. Stick to new questions and you'll be fine.

OriginalGriff 30-Dec-22 12:43pm View

Yes - or if speed is critical, build a single, formatted message with the whole info and send it as a single message so the you either get the whole data or nothing.

But as Dave says, if this is a RDP you#re trying to produce, it isn't going to work ... A gigabit network can just about transfer 110M bytes per second max, and that's total throughput. WiFi is generally loads slower. Start adding other devices to the network and that bandwidth drops dramatically - as will your frame rate!

OriginalGriff 30-Dec-22 8:46am View

You aren't listening, are you?
You send a size
The client receives a size
You send a block
The client receives a block
You send a size
The client receives a size
Your block fails with an exception.
The client receives nothing because nothing was sent.
You send a size
The client receives a size, but thinks it is a block.
You send a block.
The client receives it and thinks it is a size
You send a size
The client receives a size and thinks it is a block.
and around we go ...

Now do you see what I mean?

Stop assuming "this is working" and think about how things fail and what effects that might have.

OriginalGriff 30-Dec-22 4:32am View

Well ... there you are.
The server throws the exception, the data isn't sent to the client as a result, the client data goes out of sync because it got the size but not the associated data, it gives an error as a result.

See why you should never swallow exceptions?

Now you need to use the debugger to find out why the server is throwing an "out of memory" exception - and we can't do that for you as we have no access to your data or your code while it is running.

OriginalGriff 30-Dec-22 3:44am View

The client isn't, no - but the event swallowing is happening at the *server* ...

OriginalGriff 30-Dec-22 2:46am View

Prove it: Change the catch to log errors instead of swallowing them and see what happens ... all you know at the moment is "sending works sometimes" and "receiving gets the wrong data sometimes". You are assuming that because something works once, it'll always work. That's not necessarily the case, and since swallowing the exception provides a mechanism to silently cause your problem it's well worth dealing with to check.

OriginalGriff 29-Dec-22 14:12pm View

Translation: "It's my homework and I don't want to do it". :sigh:

OriginalGriff 29-Dec-22 12:45pm View

"Hello world"? :D

OriginalGriff 29-Dec-22 11:35am View

And?
What do you expect me to do with that in isolation?

OriginalGriff 29-Dec-22 11:25am View

"Guide you"? You haven't done anything that we are aware of, or if you have we have no idea what.

OriginalGriff 29-Dec-22 6:25am View

And?
What have you tried?
Where are you stuck?
What help do you need?

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OriginalGriff 28-Dec-22 11:50am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with.
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OriginalGriff 28-Dec-22 9:01am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with.
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OriginalGriff 28-Dec-22 2:21am View

Oh come on!
If you can't work out how to write a program that is one line of simple code involving just one mathematical operator and a "print this" command in the language of your choice then you should give up your development course and learn the magic words: "Do you want fries with that?" - because a career in fast food is about the best you can expect.

OriginalGriff 27-Dec-22 16:04pm View

Have you noticed that the purported JSON and XML in that description are both identical, and that neither of them are JSON or XML data?

I'd go back where you found that assignment, and ask for clarification...

OriginalGriff 27-Dec-22 10:26am View

Thank you - now it's gone there is no problem.

OriginalGriff 27-Dec-22 10:05am View

You have been brought to my attention as your username is rather spammy - and we really don't like spam here (because the site is ad funded and spam reduces the value of the site to paying clients: if users can post ads for free, then why would they pay actual money to do the same?)

So, if you would be so kind as to remove the App ad from your user name (hover over it in the top right corner of the page and select "My Settings" - it's pretty clear from there) we can all move on and no-one needs to take this any further.
Thanks!

OriginalGriff 27-Dec-22 6:21am View

I suspect it is - but we can only work with what he types. :sigh:

OriginalGriff 25-Dec-22 14:10pm View

And I quote: "It should be noted that I am a beginner."

As I said, this isn't a beginner project.

OriginalGriff 25-Dec-22 11:47am View

Did you listen to what Carlo and I said? If the file is in use, your get a "file not found" error when you try to open it.

Check the writing code and make sure the stream is closed ... and never, ever assume "the code is OKAY" when it isn't working ...

OriginalGriff 25-Dec-22 11:45am View

Basically, get more experience first - this isn't a beginner task, like "hello world", "factorials", or "sum all the values in this list".

OriginalGriff 25-Dec-22 6:32am View

Have a look at your code - a good close look - and then read what I said again ...

OriginalGriff 24-Dec-22 6:20am View

They are a couple who like to ... mix things up, a little. :D

OriginalGriff 24-Dec-22 0:17am View

$50? Gawd you work cheap! :laugh:

OriginalGriff 24-Dec-22 0:12am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with.
Use the "Improve question" widget to edit your question and provide better information.

OriginalGriff 23-Dec-22 4:43am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 23-Dec-22 4:33am View

It's PHP - so variables start with "$" and strings with double quotes use string interpolation, replacing variable names with their content.

OriginalGriff 23-Dec-22 2:11am View

No, all forms share the same thread.
If you want a new thread, you have to explicitly activate one (though some classes do spawn a new thread to process data, like the SerialPort.DataRecieved event for example)

OriginalGriff 21-Dec-22 10:21am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 21-Dec-22 7:56am View

4) horrendously slow and incorrect

That's the one most of QA goes for. :sigh:

OriginalGriff 21-Dec-22 3:20am View

That's because this is an AI generated response posted only to gain rep.
The AI doesn't have a clue ab9out coding, it's just parroting fragments it picked up during it's training.
Ignore this reponse; don't waste your time on it.

OriginalGriff 20-Dec-22 9:47am View

Then the free tier will probably be all you need - 1000 messages a month, I think.

OriginalGriff 20-Dec-22 9:23am View

Why would you want to do it in a hard, complicated, and unreliable (because sites change at a moments notice) way when a reliable and - manufacturer sanctioned - way is available?

Not planning on bulk spamming are you?

OriginalGriff 20-Dec-22 5:15am View

While I applaud your urge to help people, it's a good idea to stick to new questions, rather than 8 year old ones. After that amount of time, it's unlikely that the original poster is at all interested in the problem any more!
Answering old questions can be seen as rep-point hunting, which is a form of site abuse. The more trigger happy amongst us will start the process of banning you from the site if you aren't careful.
And since the link is pretty much irrelevant to the problem as stated, it looks even worse for you ...

Stick to new questions and give decent answers and you'll be fine.

OriginalGriff 20-Dec-22 3:03am View

Never post your email address in any forum, unless you really like spam! If anyone replies to you, you will receive an email to let you know.

OriginalGriff 19-Dec-22 11:05am View

I was feeling generous when I stops at "documentation" - it was soooo tempted to stop at "the" :D

OriginalGriff 19-Dec-22 10:21am View

You can probably stop after "documentation". :sigh:

OriginalGriff 19-Dec-22 8:17am View

I'm guessing his assignment is due pretty soon ... :laugh:

OriginalGriff 19-Dec-22 5:05am View

I suspect that what you have is the histogram data points, not an image of the histogram. That would make sense for the size of the data sample.

OriginalGriff 19-Dec-22 2:28am View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
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OriginalGriff 18-Dec-22 16:14pm View

And?
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What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

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OriginalGriff 18-Dec-22 11:16am View

Answer updated

OriginalGriff 16-Dec-22 12:34pm View

Apparently he's a spammer - check S&A
If so, this could be an attempt to "legitimize" hos account?

OriginalGriff 16-Dec-22 11:16am View

The loop is executed the same number of times, but the time that takes is nondeterministic when you start involving multithreading (technically, that's also the case for the single thread app, but unless the rest of your system gets busy you won't notice it)

You don't count the number of iterations, you just time the whole loop. And that lack of determinism shows up as a "range of values".

OriginalGriff 16-Dec-22 6:32am View

I refer you to the quote from your "question":
Quote:I want a better and easier code please.
Now, does that sound to you like "I want full code" or "I need help"?
Because to me it sounds like "I found this on the internet, but it's a bit rubbish and I won't get a good grade if I hand this in, so give me a better solution I can say I wrote".

You won't get "better at programming" by getting others to give you code: just like any other skill you improve by doing it yourself. You can watch as much of the Tour de France as you like, but you still won't be able to ride a bicycle!

OriginalGriff 16-Dec-22 2:00am View

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OriginalGriff 15-Dec-22 10:16am View

And there I was thinking I couldn't be much clearer ... :sigh:

OriginalGriff 15-Dec-22 8:18am View

Example of what? You know how to use readonly and what a constructor is don't you?

OriginalGriff 14-Dec-22 7:36am View

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OriginalGriff 14-Dec-22 6:00am View

At the risk of repeating myself ...

"And?
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What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
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OriginalGriff 14-Dec-22 5:12am View

And?
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What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

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OriginalGriff 14-Dec-22 5:11am View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 14-Dec-22 4:13am View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 13-Dec-22 14:52pm View

So it is ... I didn't notice that!

OriginalGriff 13-Dec-22 1:59am View

Answer updated.

OriginalGriff 12-Dec-22 7:02am View

Real men do!

OriginalGriff 12-Dec-22 6:28am View

That's because it's all integers ... :D

OriginalGriff 12-Dec-22 3:58am View

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OriginalGriff 11-Dec-22 11:35am View

Since your original code didn't even compile, and you are still getting exactly the same error message, I'd suggest that you need to make sure that you code does compile - i.e. has no other errors preventing an EXE file being created - and that you are executing the right version of the right assembly.
Because the best guess from this distance is that you aren't!

OriginalGriff 11-Dec-22 5:47am View

"Great speed"? "Shortest path"? "Less code"?

No, no, and no again!
Recursion is expensive compared to a loop: it takes more memory than an equivelant loop, takes longer to execute as a result, takes more code to write, and ultimately is less reliable because it relies on stack space you have no control over!

Recursion is a tool - and like any other type of tool it is suitable only for specific circumstances so using it "willy-nilly" is a schoolboy error!

In this specific case, a loop is both simpler and a lot more appropriate to the data.

OriginalGriff 10-Dec-22 11:09am View

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OriginalGriff 10-Dec-22 6:10am View

I have a simpler solution:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
    {
    printf("N=1\n*\n\N=2\n**\n*\nN=3\n***\n**\n*\nand so on...\n");
    return 0;
    }

And isn't the second part of his question the same as the first? :laugh:

OriginalGriff 8-Dec-22 8:09am View

Read the error message!

You should expect to get syntax errors every day, probably many times a day while you are coding - we all do regardless of how much experience we have! Sometimes, we misspell a variable, or a keyword; sometimes we forget to close a string or a code block. Sometimes the cat walks over your keyboard and types something really weird. Sometimes we just forget how many parameters a method call needs.

We all make mistakes.

And because we all do it, we all have to fix syntax errors - and it's a lot quicker to learn how and fix them yourself than to wait for someone else to fix them for you! So invest a little time in learning how to read error messages, and how to interpret your code as written in the light of what the compiler is telling you is wrong - it really is trying to be helpful!

So read this: How to Write Code to Solve a Problem, A Beginner's Guide Part 2: Syntax Errors[^] - it should help you next time you get a compilation error!

OriginalGriff 8-Dec-22 6:45am View

So you need to talk to them - and perhaps upgrade to the latest version since you have a licence?

OriginalGriff 8-Dec-22 5:58am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 8-Dec-22 3:43am View

Don't post this as a solution - it removes your question from the "Unanswered" list and that reduces your chances of getting an answer.

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I've moved the SP to your question, and I'll delete this for you.

OriginalGriff 8-Dec-22 0:40am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 7-Dec-22 12:19pm View

To be even fairer, that was written over 4 years ago, when all the links on that page worked ...

OriginalGriff 7-Dec-22 5:30am View

No, don't do that: it creates combinations of tables instead of linking them properly.
SQL is very, very good at JOINs - it is a relational database after all!
Your method generates huge intermediate tables, wasting RAM and processing time.

OriginalGriff 7-Dec-22 5:28am View

You're welcome!

It doesn't have to be the first letter, it's an alias for the table data - if you do a SELECT from a table and try to JOIN to the results, then you need an alias to that SELECTed data or you can't identify it in ON, HAVING, or WHERE clauses later. Which you do need to do!

It isn't necessarily a single character, but if can make the whole query easier to read!

OriginalGriff 5-Dec-22 12:23pm View

That['s what the debugger is *for* - it lets you look at your code while it is running, view (and change) variable contents, execute your code line by line to follow exactly what it is doing, and why.

So break out the debugger, and start looking at what exactly your code is doing, and what the data it is working with looks like.

OriginalGriff 5-Dec-22 10:01am View

Integers are 32 bit signed values - the top bit determines the sign.
It the top bit is 0 then it's a positive number, if it's 1 then it's negative. In hex, an integer value of one is 0x00000001, zero is 0x00000000, and minus one is 0xFFFFFFFF.
So it's reasonably obvious that the maximum value an integer can contain (2,147,483,647) is 0x7FFFFFFF, and the minimum value (-2,147,483,648) is 0x80000000

The reason it's 0x8000000 in the code is because I was half asleep when I wrote it - it should have been MaxInt not MinInt and the code should have failed if I'd not mistyped it ... :blush:

Code fixed.

OriginalGriff 5-Dec-22 7:10am View

Using what? You aren't making any sense to anyone here, and need to explain clearly!

OriginalGriff 5-Dec-22 7:09am View

Fortunately, you have a tool available to you which will help you find out what is going on: the debugger. If you don't know how to use it then a quick Google for "Visual Studio debugger" should give you the info you need.

Run your code through the debugger: it'll be pretty obvious!

Put a breakpoint on the first line in the function, and run your code through the debugger. Then look at your code, and at your data and work out what should happen manually. Then single step each line checking that what you expected to happen is exactly what did. When it isn't, that's when you have a problem, and you can back-track (or run it again and look more closely) to find out why.

It's well worth spending a few minutes learning how to do this on a simple project like this: when they get bigger the same things work, but it's way easier to learn how to debug on "small stuff"

OriginalGriff 5-Dec-22 5:19am View

No, you are going to have to use more words - remember, we can't see your screen, access your HDD or read your mind - all we get to work with is exactly what you type!

OriginalGriff 5-Dec-22 4:16am View

I have a degree in gibberish. Just ask Herself. :D

OriginalGriff 5-Dec-22 3:59am View

Does it use anything from limit.h?

OriginalGriff 4-Dec-22 11:07am View

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OriginalGriff 4-Dec-22 10:03am View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

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OriginalGriff 3-Dec-22 10:47am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 2-Dec-22 12:08pm View

Did you read what I said?

OriginalGriff 2-Dec-22 12:08pm View

Without the source? No.
Ancient programs like that made heavy use of the Registry, which is not allowed in more modern OS's. You'd need the source code and a reasonably competent developer to get it up to modern standards!

Much, much cheaper to find a modern app that does the same thing!

OriginalGriff 2-Dec-22 10:29am View

You'd think that once you suggest using the debugger to look at what is actually going on, they might just possibly work out "oh, that's null - I wonder why" for themselves, but it seems that is beyond most of 'em. :sigh:

OriginalGriff 2-Dec-22 0:52am View

"It doesn't work" is probably the most useless problem report we get - and we get it a lot. It tells us nothing about what is happening, or when it happens.
So tell us what it is doing that you didn't expect, or not doing that you did.
Tell us what you did to get it to happen.
Tell us any error messages.

OriginalGriff 1-Dec-22 10:06am View

Instead of code that doesn't work, provide a basic sample of the input data and a separate sample of the output you are trying to get along with and explanation of what is wrong with the code you have.

We don't have access to your data, so we don't really know what you are trying to achieve!

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OriginalGriff 30-Nov-22 7:09am View

1) DON'T SHOUT. Using all capitals is considered shouting on the internet, and rude (using all lower case is considered childish). Use proper capitalization if you want to be taken seriously.
2) This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

You could start by telling us what is wrong with the code ...

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OriginalGriff 30-Nov-22 6:38am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 30-Nov-22 3:43am View

And did you check your spelling in the database?

Plus ... you probably want to consider a JOIN rather than a blanket "SELECT FROM all of my tables" command. I suspect you are going to get a lot more rows than you expected!

OriginalGriff 30-Nov-22 3:36am View

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get exactly what you type to work with - we get no other context for your project.
Imagine this: you go for a drive in the country, but you have a problem with the car. You call the garage, say "it broke" and turn off your phone. How long will you be waiting before the garage arrives with the right bits and tools to fix the car given they don't know what make or model it is, who you are, what happened when it all went wrong, or even where you are?

That's what you've done here. So stop typing as little as possible and try explaining things to people who have no way to access your project!

And there are so many things which work with or provide "rows" that we can't have any idea what would help you, and what hinder!

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OriginalGriff 30-Nov-22 0:50am View

While I applaud your urge to help people, it's a good idea to stick to new questions, rather than 10 year old ones. After that amount of time, it's unlikely that the original poster is at all interested in the problem any more!
Answering old questions can be seen as rep-point hunting, which is a form of site abuse. The more trigger happy amongst us will start the process of banning you from the site if you aren't careful. Stick to new questions and you'll be fine.

OriginalGriff 29-Nov-22 2:31am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 29-Nov-22 2:30am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 28-Nov-22 15:04pm View

After 9 years you expect me to remember? :laugh:

What do you y=think it might be?

OriginalGriff 28-Nov-22 2:53am View

Answer updated.

OriginalGriff 27-Nov-22 13:46pm View

Because your code doesn't like deadlines. :D

OriginalGriff 27-Nov-22 10:10am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

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OriginalGriff 27-Nov-22 5:55am View

Answer updated.

OriginalGriff 26-Nov-22 2:00am View

This adds nothing to the discussion, and thus looks like what we call "rep point hunting" - adding dubious solutions in order to artificially inflate your reputation with the site. We consider that a form of site abuse, and ban users when we find them persisting in it.

That may not have been your intention, but I would strongly advise that you answer fresh questions only, and with a solution that adds to the conversation rather than generic waffle. If you don't, you will be kicked from the site.

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 12:17pm View

Answer updated.

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 11:23am View

Why do you need the for loop? What does it do that is useful here?
Why do you need a limit of 100 times round it? Where does 100 come from?
Why do you start with 5?

Think about what you are trying to do, instead of guessing.

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 10:49am View

Oh, come on! What part of a loop are you finding confusing? Because they are a basic part of nearly every application, so if you don't understand them you aren't going to get very far until you do. And you don't learn by looking at code, you learn by doing it - just as you don't learn to ride a bicycle by watching the Tour de France!

So what do you think might be needed, and what is preventing you from writing it.

And bear in mind that I'm not being nasty by not giving you a solution you can hand in; I'm expending more effort, more typing that I would writing it myself!

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 10:10am View

You are kidding, right?
You really can't work that out on your own having written the other code? :omg:

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 10:00am View

You have a for loop inside a while loop: I'd just use a while on it's own, that is all you need.

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 7:51am View

And where did you install it?

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 7:05am View

That's a different error altogether!
Read it.
It tells you what the problem is. "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spellchecker'"
How do you expect people who have no access to your system to fix that for you?

OriginalGriff 25-Nov-22 2:01am View

And?
What does it do that you didn't expect, or not do that you did?
What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

What have you tried?
Where are you stuck?
What help do you need?

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OriginalGriff 24-Nov-22 5:32am View

Dude, that answer was 11 years ago, unrelated to your comment, and was just as informative (or not) as your's. How on Earth do you expect people to help you when you give them absolutely nothing to work with on an unrelated subject?

Start a new question, and give actual information, please.

OriginalGriff 22-Nov-22 6:22am View

You're welcome!

OriginalGriff 22-Nov-22 5:32am View

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OriginalGriff 22-Nov-22 4:22am View

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OriginalGriff 22-Nov-22 4:18am View

Then why are you talking about adding data to a database?

OriginalGriff 22-Nov-22 1:58am View

And?
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What have you tried to do to find out why?
Are there any error messages, and if so, where and when? What did you do to make them happen?

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
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OriginalGriff 21-Nov-22 12:52pm View

I don't know, I don't have access to your code.

But ... did you import java.lang.Math

OriginalGriff 21-Nov-22 11:02am View

Because the original code only removes the first one it finds - it doesn't touch any others.

OriginalGriff 21-Nov-22 9:16am View

That'd work ... but is probably more effort than he was thinking of investing ... :D

OriginalGriff 21-Nov-22 8:43am View

Please allow me to quote yourself:
"I can call a persons ID by the method person.getIdentity()"

OriginalGriff 21-Nov-22 7:14am View

Yes - but given the skill level on show so far, I don't expect multithreading to appear any time soon! :D

OriginalGriff 20-Nov-22 3:21am View

I was just about to post that! :D

OriginalGriff 19-Nov-22 8:45am View

Now, let me think ... do you do anything with n that might change it's value between reading a number from the user into it and when you print it? :D

OriginalGriff 19-Nov-22 6:22am View

Help vampire - he appears to be trying to hold down a job without actually knowing anything about what he is doing, or having any inclination to learn ... :sigh:

OriginalGriff 19-Nov-22 4:02am View

You're welcome!

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