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11-Mar-17 2:24

Trivia question of the moment:

What TV theme song has only 2 words?

Bonus: write the lyrics to the song

OriginalGriff11-Mar-17 3:49

OriginalGriff

11-Mar-17 3:49

The Simpsons.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Tim Carmichael11-Mar-17 3:55

11-Mar-17 3:55

Don't watch it, so can't confirm.
Not the one I was thinking of, but, there may be other correct answers.

OriginalGriff11-Mar-17 4:03

OriginalGriff

11-Mar-17 4:03

The Simpsons Theme[^]

"Batman" had one (or two if you count na-na-na-na"): The Batman Theme Song - YouTube[^]
But it was repeated a dozen times or so... Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Tim Carmichael11-Mar-17 4:29

11-Mar-17 4:29

Very good... didn't say it wasn't repeated, just that it had two words.
Watched an episode with my 11 year old daughter this morning.. passing the torch.

Tim Deveaux11-Mar-17 7:11

Tim Deveaux

11-Mar-17 7:11

Batman? (something like 'na na na na na na BATMAN!' or some such.

if I google to confirm it it'll be stuck in my head all day...

Tim Carmichael11-Mar-17 7:53

11-Mar-17 7:53

Google it.. you know you want to...

Tim Deveaux11-Mar-17 7:57

Tim Deveaux

11-Mar-17 7:57

go away

Tim Carmichael11-Mar-17 8:38

11-Mar-17 8:38

Now, I'm laughing...

Tim Deveaux11-Mar-17 8:52

Tim Deveaux

11-Mar-17 8:52

Had I noticed Griffs post we could have avoided all of this...

But I guess a Riddler needs a good laugh now and then... or are you some kind of Joker?

Mark_Wallace11-Mar-17 23:59

Mark_Wallace

11-Mar-17 23:59

Hmm.

Not Davey Crockett[^], then, because that's repetitions of four words: "Davey", "Crockett", "dum", and "di" (they way I sing it, at least).

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Gimme codez, urgentz!

CDP180210-Mar-17 22:56

CDP1802

10-Mar-17 22:56

Not really, it's more like the other way around. Whatever caused the problem quietly went away and just worked like a charm when I wanted to take another look at it. Perhaps I have frienly Kobolds or Elves in my house that secretly fixed it overnight.

I was working on the sample program to demonstrate my UI again. This time I'm grimly determined to write an article about it. I'm a little proud of that particular bit of code and I think it may be far enough to be of use to other people.

This is the XAML for a small view (as in Model View Presenter). Since the 3D engine is not running in the background, this view just fills the background with an image and a button to end the program that comes useful when the program runs in fullscreen mode:

<BackgroundView Id="BackgroundView" Width="1024" Height="768" DockStyle="ADAPT"
                xmlns="clr-namespace:FoC.PraetorUIDemo.Presentation.Views;assembly=PraetorUIDemo"
			    xmlns:fw="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Xna.Framework;assembly=MonoGame.Framework"             
                xmlns:foc="clr-namespace:FoC.Praetor4UI.Controls;assembly=Praetor4UI" 
                xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <foc:cPraeImage Id="ImgBackground" PositionX="0" PositionY="0" Width="1024" Height="768" Alpha="255" ImagePosition="SCALE" Image="Background" >
    	<foc:cPraeImageButton Id="BtnTerminate" Image="Button_96" PositionX="918" PositionY="10" Width="96" Height="20" Text="Exit" LeftButtonClicked="BtnTerminateProgram_LeftButtonClicked"/>
    </foc:cPraeImage>
</BackgroundView>

The click event of the button should be wired up to its event handler like this:

LeftButtonClicked="BtnTerminateProgram_LeftButtonClicked"

This never worked up to now. Since I don't enjoy the comfort of a designer that generates things like that in a partial class, I had to write code like this for every control:

public override void Initialize()
{
    m_BtnTerminateProgram = Controls.GetComponent("BtnTerminate") as cPraeImageButton;
    if (m_BtnTerminateProgram != null)
    {
        m_BtnTerminateProgram.LeftButtonClicked += new
                PraeMouseButtonEvent(BtnTerminateProgram_LeftButtonClicked);
    }
}

This worked, but for larger views with many controls this meant to write a awkwardly long method. Not anymore! Wiring up the button from XAML now works without any additional code in the Initialize() method.

Thanks, Elves!

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.

modified 11-Mar-17 5:41am.

Slacker00711-Mar-17 0:32

Slacker007

11-Mar-17 0:32

What does m_ mean?

What does the tiny little c in front of PraeImageButton mean?

What does Btn stand for?

I am giving you hard time here but in our shop you have no choice but to name the control TerminateProgramButton. Your code would fail review any other way.

-- Thanks for sharing.

OriginalGriff11-Mar-17 1:17

OriginalGriff

11-Mar-17 1:17

Slacker007 wrote:
What does m_ mean?

Mine!

Slacker007 wrote:
What does the tiny little c in front of PraeImageButton mean?

Charlies!

Slacker007 wrote:
What does Btn stand for?

Barry Timothy Norman.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Slacker00711-Mar-17 1:19

Slacker007

11-Mar-17 1:19

CDP180211-Mar-17 2:17

CDP1802

11-Mar-17 2:17

Good that he did not ask what the namespace FoC[^] stands for. Smile | :)

I think I should call my Padawan and set up some content on that site once more.

CDP180211-Mar-17 1:47

CDP1802

11-Mar-17 1:47

You have hit a hot topic there. I have been at war with those elaborate naming and style conventions for a long time.

Hungarion notation is not a bad thing at all, at least if you use it as it was meant to be and not simply as a type prefix. The typical 'we have Intellisense' argument also does not really fit anymore then and Intellisense usually fails me when I need it most. Besides that, I often must use editors that don't have any Intellisense.

Maybe I would not pass a review in your shop, but you would probably pass them in mine. The problem is that if you want to cover every possible case, you end up with a rulebook thicker than the German tax legislation. Been there, done that. With every review some new rules were added and, for my part, I hated it more every time I had to do a review.

The compiler does not care about any of this as long as the code is sytactically correct. Thw whole circus is just for us and I think there are more important things to look at in a code review than spending 90% of the time obscessing over wether or not someone should have captalized a name or not.

We are all intelligent people, so why can't we stick to essentials, keep the rulebook thin and allow a little anarchy within certain boundaries (Nerds and buerocrats avert your eyes). Conventions like using hungarion or not should be agreed upon by the team and then be used accordingly, but it's not the end of the world when someone accidentally or with some intention writes his stuff differently.