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charlieg wrote: I have no way of searching my phone (an iPhone) to figure out what the elephanting #### the number is.
Searching your phone for a number (that called you), or searching for a number using your phone (or any other computer-ish device)?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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And how is this Apple's fault?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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because I want to complain?  Apple is allegedly all about usability - read on.
If apple and my phone can convert voice to text, why can't I search for something? I really don't use my phone that much, but I think I could do a search through my texts and converted messages. Hmm... I need to write an app and get rich....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Assuming you've looked in your recent calls log (where you see the last 100 calls) what criteria would you use?
If your problem is that the call log only goes back 100 calls and this call was further back than that you might be in luck. The iPhone actually stores the last 1000 calls. You can delete calls from the first 100 and old ones will "bubble up".
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You mean you would want Apple to index the content of your phone calls? The voice content of your phone calls? Are you serious? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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charlieg wrote: if ANYONE wants you to be an executor of an estate... well
I hear you Charlie. My Mom passed away in March and I'm executor of her estate. She had a will, my brother and I get along well, the lawyer who wrote the will is handling probate, and everything's cut and dry.
It's still a PITA difficult to get through with countless details.
I think I'm scheduled to grieve just in time for the holidays.
Software Zen: delete this;
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my mom was a feisty old new Englander bitch... and I say that with all love and respect.
Handling a simple estate is stupid ridiculous
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Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Myself I have zero phone calls saved in my phone. I almost always delete them as soon as they arrive.
I don't keep old contacts either. I have a couple of old business ones saved but even if I want to call them I am going to look up the number first anyways. That is even more problematic these days as employees of businesses will use their personal phones to call with updates to service (etc.) I certainly don't want to save those.
I keep some message threads mostly because it saves me from starting a new thread with someone that I message all the time.
So searching for anything is very easy.
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Mine just accumulate. Think your mail inbox. With my email, I have a keyboard and mouse. The phone? Just thumbs and that sucks. Seriously, I need to write an app.. nah, autumn is almost here. I'm going orienteering, burning stuff in my back yard and otherwise not giving a elephant.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I wanted to create a control in my UWP app that showed different patterns but didn't require a lot of overhead. In particular, show a line of "little blocks" arrayed at different spacings.
The "cheapest" way I found was to use a UWP "Line" control that supports specifying a "StrokeDashArray" which draws the line with the specified pattern of "solids" and "spaces" of various sizes.
It "shows" great: a single line control that look like a series of smaller controls in the UI.
Unexpectedly, you have to hit the "colored" part of the line to register a "hit"; pointing on a space (on the same "line control") doesn't. By design?
Onwards.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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That sounds like one of my favorite stupid WPF tricks. I simulated a strip chart recorder with a scroll viewer and margin settings on a group of rectangles.
Software Zen: delete this;
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haha funny... yea, I can see it behaving that way...
well set a Border with Transparent background (as opposed to null) as the rood child, and the dotted line as its own child.
Problem solved! 
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I had to put an "almost" transparent Rectangle (Opacity .01) "behind" the Line to get the proper hit area; fully transparent doesn't.
Setting transparency on the original "container" (a border) meant the Line didn't show either. Or on a Grid. I needed a Rectangle behind.
I may have missed another option. (UWP doesn't behave exactly like WPF)
[Later]
Yes ... missed the "set (container) background to a transparent brush". That works. Thanks!
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
modified 13-Sep-23 13:23pm.
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I am helping my kids to refresh their high school math and ran into vector section.
now I wonder who invented/discovered this concept from beginning? Issac Newton, in the book of Principia? or Pascal?
diligent hands rule....
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very useful link! thank you![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System (Dover Books on Mathematics) https:
This book would help.
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thanks for the info. I bought this kindle version of book.
diligent hands rule....
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at my time 12 midnight. i won't watch: not a Mac anything in my hardware. as a former paid up apple fanbois, twenty years ago, i do appreciate the quality/design and innovation$
what do you expect to see if you watch ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I expect Apple to claim USB-C as something they invented.
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i expect it to be renamed "teleport max." 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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People to start complaining that their previous generation phone has slowed down ... and Apple to shrug and say "Buy a new one"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: and Apple to shrug and say "Buy a new one"
"And here's a gizmo ($24.95) you can place on your new USB cable ($19.95 separate purchase) to improve its performance. The Apple USB cables are superior to others, so you really should only buy them to get the best out of your device. The gizmo will not work as well on non-Apple cables." - or something to that effect.
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Like the people who buy oxygen-free copper cables for their car stereos because it conducts better!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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