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Hi All,
Had some one give me a 1 on article I wrote, fair enough he did not like it. I can live with that, the comment though "Does Not Work" makes me think he just down loaded the source and compiled it and tried to run it with out reading the text. Does this happen often to others as this would appear to be the second person who has tried to run the code with out reading the article.
Glenn
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Does this happen often
Yes. Nuff said!
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Oh yes, it happens. More than you'd probably think.
Even in QA, you can tell somebody how to do basic SQL:
SELECT * FROM MyTable
And you get a comment that it doesn't work. *There is an error "Invalid object name 'MyTable'"*
I think there are far, far too many students who don't want to learn this stuff and assume that whatever they find must do exactly what they want without modification at all. And get upset when it doesn't... 
I'll balance the downvote in a moment.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: "I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: So whining and pulling sh*t like this into the lounge still works?
+5,000,000 
Jeremy Falcon
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OriginalGriff wrote: ven in QA, you can tell somebody how to do basic SQL:
SELECT * FROM MyTable
And you get a comment that it doesn't work. *There is an error "Invalid object name 'MyTable'"*
Hate to say it but he may be right. I got a similar error when I tried your query...
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Have you found the Any key yet?
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Sometimes even the comment to a 5 is dumb... 
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I would have upvoted that, but I'm afraid you'll find it dumb... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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So I downloaded the code, it compiled and ran without issues. It was not entirely obvious that I had to click on "Ports" to get a list of available COM ports -- why not just auto-initialize the list?
Also, labels for what the different pulldowns are would be helpful: baud rate, parity, stop bits, etc.
As to actually testing it with another device, I didn't do that as my breakout box is somewhere in storage. 
As to downloading the source without reading the text -- I didn't read the whole text either. I mean, it's a great article, but if there are special instructions for getting things working, I'd suggest at the top of the article, as a major heading "How To Run The Code" so that I don't have to read the whole article to figure out what it is I'm supposed to do. Now, I'm an old hand at RS-232, but there's a lot of youngins that aren't.
Marc
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Hmmm,
Quote: It was not entirely obvious that I had to click on "Ports" to get a list of available COM ports -- why not just auto-initialize the list?
Well I suppose that could just auto init the list but I was thinking that I had to do some reverse engineering to figure things out when I was learning. I was wanting to make it more obvious. 
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If it's any consolation, I got my comment for my vote of 1 downvoted the other day
Apparently they also flagged it as spam/abuse
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Perhaps add a caveat such as: If you're too dumb to figure out how to get this to work, go back to playing with VB...
I think it really means that if you are not explicit, someone will call you out.
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Me and VB don't talk/look at each other...
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Me and VB don't talk/look at each other...
Probably for the best.
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Does this happen often
Unfortunately, stupid people are real, and not a figment of your imagination.
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I write an new technical article just about every week. And I post often to technical sites.
As to my articles, I often find comments from people who seemingly were made against an article I didn't even write or they hone in on a single point, which was just a supporting factor to the entire piece.
I also often find poor sentence structure and on some of the political sites I read some of the most hate-filled messages one could ever imagine...
Steve Naidamast
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Well, just as well I am not the only one....
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It all depends how clear your text instructions were. I have downloaded stuff from Code Project before and failed to get it to work, only there were no instructions in this case. Some article writers forget that their audience is a diverse one.
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Point, but others who had issues gave me a little to work with, I could then figure out how it was breaking on there system. It not so much what was said but how it was said...
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Just wanted to know how many of you play Clash of Clans?
Are you guys excited about new sneak peeks:
- New Lightning Spell level 7
- Improved Lightning, Poison, Earthquake and Freeze spells!
-- P
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
modified 15-Sep-15 10:14am.
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Nope. Not planning to ever play it: the TV ads put me right off.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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