|
So "39GB" = "not bad" nowadays.
I remember decades ago (there goes grampa again with his stories) buying a computer for schoolwork from a small local shop (actually a summer job employer of mine) and insisting I needed a big fat hard drive because Borland C++ was going to use 33MB[*] on its own.
I remember the company owner (my boss at the time) wondering out loud, WTF does a compiler need a whole 33MB for???
[*] Not a typo in my units
|
|
|
|
|
I was thinking of the time it took, really.
I remember installing VB from a huge stack of floppies and it took longer than that...
Most of the 39GB is Xamarin, so it's Android images, their .NET equivalent, and such like.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Hah! young'uns.
I remember using MS FORTRAN on an IMSAI 8080 with 48K RAM from floppies where you had to swap floppies midway through a compilation ( The compiler was on the floppies - as was the FORTRAN source)
An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. - Lazarus Long
|
|
|
|
|
Tried several time to install AnkhSVN and it installed successfully but doesn't show up in Options? Overall I'm impressed with how quick it went, without Xamarin for me.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
|
|
|
|
|
And Git is built in, it seems - certainly, connecting to my repo's worked fine.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah I ssw that, guess I'll have to break don and learn git. I've tried a couple of times but after using SVN for so many years it;s like trying to learn to pitch left handed.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
|
|
|
|
|
I too installed VS2017 yesterday. I remoted into my PC at home and installed it. Checked it later in the day and got "Setup Failed".
There was a View Log link which opened the log in Notepad. The failure was
Package 'CordovaToolset.6.3.1,version=6.3.1.36' failed to install.
Search URL: https:
Impacted workloads
Mobile development with JavaScript (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebCrossPlat,version=15.0.26208.0)
Impacted components
Cordova 6.3.1 toolset (Component.CordovaToolset.6.3.1,version=15.0.26208.0)
Log
C:\Users\Kevin\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_setup_20170308084143_431_CordovaToolset.6.3.1.log
Details
Command executed: "c:\windows\syswow64\\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoLogo -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -InputFormat None -Command "& """C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\CordovaToolset.6.3.1,version=6.3.1.36\ToolsetInstall.ps1""" -Version 6.3.1 -InstallationID 07e9da70 -ExtensionFolder """C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\CordovaToolset.6.3.1,version=6.3.1.36""" -Operation Install"
Return code: 1
Return code details: Incorrect function.
Only Cordova failed. That's not so bad I guess. It started up OK.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
|
|
|
|
|
My wife and I were driving home after a nice non-alcoholic lunch a couple of Sundays ago. There was rain in the air and the brightest rainbow I have ever seen arching across the sky. We came through the village of Stoneleigh and drove across the river bridge. Rather than turn sharp right along the main road, we decided to take the road up the hill in front of us. As I glanced right to make sure it was clear and then started to go up the hill, both my wife and I saw a distinct rainbow against the trees that form the wood on the right hand side of the road. It was projecting vertically down the trunks of the trees with a small but distinct gap between them, and I could see where it hit the ground. I have never seen anything like it before.
|
|
|
|
|
So now you are so rich you don't need to work anymore? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
I haven't worked for the last 7 years. I got made redundant when I reached 67, the b's. Now I just try and keep out of the way of Her Indoors and play at developing web-sites. I'm developing one at the moment using Metro UI rather than Bootstrap, and having fun doing it.
|
|
|
|
|
Cut the poetry and tell us wether or not you got the leprechaun and how much gold it had. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
|
I couldn't even find a £5 note never mind anything shiny. And certainly no little person dressed in green with a red pointed hat.
|
|
|
|
|
Red pointed hat? Really? I thought everything was green in Ireland.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
|
Not everything. One of the best things is Ireland is a muddy brown with a nice creamy froth on top.
|
|
|
|
|
CDP1802 wrote: Cut the poetry and tell us wether or not you got the leprechaun and how much gold it had if it tasted like chicken.
FTFY
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Right. He wrote something like having had a clear target lock.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
|
Yes I saw the same thing a couple of weeks ago, in my case the rainbow was definitely between my viewpoint and a small white cottage.
|
|
|
|
|
That would have made it a bit easier to see the colours. I could only make out 4 or 5 of them. I don't think the outside ones where visible anyway.
|
|
|
|
|
It did, I remember thinking at the time, perhaps that's where the pot of gold thing came from, just the shear amazement of seeing a rainbow up close like that.
|
|
|
|
|
My God!
That bluddy global warming's even making rainbows fall from the sky!
We're all Doomed!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Sadly the pot of gold was at the other end.
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
Don't wanna know what was in the pot on your side then... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
Recently I have revived my little pet project, a GUI that runs on top of a 3D engine, formerly with XNA and now with MonoGame. You wanted an article and I have finished a small sample program to demonstrate how to set up the whole thing and there is plenty left for follow up articles, like how to design and script (in XAML) a UI theme, how to use the MVP classes or layouting the views in XAML and introducing the controls.
The sample needs a little more commenting, but works fine otherwise. There is just a certain behavior that does not seem right, which ever way I make it.
Usually the 3D engine renders scenes in the background, but this will not be needed for a demo program. So I just put a large Image control with a nice background to fill the entire background and a button to end the program.
Now this is the problem: The UI must constantly figure out which control the user is pointing at and send messages to it. For that purpose there is a 'hit test' that walks through the tree of controls and determines which control is 'hit'.
Things get complicated when one control is placed on top of another, like the image and the button. Logically both have been hit and there are several ways of resolving the problem:
1) The 'hit test' goes through the complete control tree and finds all controls that have been hit. If there is more than one, it would also have to figure out which one is the topmost. This would work for any scenario, but may get a little slow with bigger control trees.
2) If two controls overlap, the topmost one must be a child of the one in the background. This way the hit test must not go through the entire tree. As soon as it found a control that has been hit, only its children must be searched for a better fit, the entire rest of the tree can be ignored. This is much faster because it can stop searching once it has a result and the question which control is in the front and which is in the background is automatically resolved by the parent/child relationship. I would prefer this one, but it has the ugly side effect that any overlapping controls that are not children would be ignored, receive no messages and just be dead.
3) I could do both, but that would not be much better than 1) alone.
So, how would you want a UI to behave? A strict parent/children design rule with dead controls if you don't comply to it? Or better a solution that always works, but may get into performance problems sooner or later?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: Definetely better a solution that always works, but may get into performance problems sooner or later!
FTFY
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
|
|
|
|
|
Then it would come down to 3) after all. If you think about it, you may need both: Totally independent controls ans some with a parent/child relationship. The children, for example, move along when the parent is moved.
Modifying the hit test to look through the entire tree is easy. If I don't want to get into lengthy comparisons of portions of the tree in order to find out which control is in the front, I will have to get this aspect into the sorting of the tree structure as well. This way (preferrably) the first result will be the control I'm looking for.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
