View Poll Results: Why Do People take the easy/lazy way out of programming?

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  • That is the only way they know.

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  • They can't think beyond basics.

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    Cool

    How would you go abou making a sub componet for control panels.

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    It's a *.cpl extension for a control pannel add-in.
    Do a search in the registry and there is a location that lists all of them.

    I would guess that just 1 registry entry would add a shortcut to your app in the control pannel this way.

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    Oh by the way, it is lazy, but it saves the programmer time & after adopting to crap like :

    x = $("hello world")

    rather than :
    Dim x as string
    x = "hello world"

    after a while, they get use to it and it becomes their normal way of typing code - bad for people like me that have to update apps written like this

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    but even if you add it to the control panel. Is it just like a sceen saver in that you just add .cpl instead of .exe? will it work that way?

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    I tried to compile it with the .cpl extension and it did absolutly nothing. except display an hour glass. I fyou want to see the . cpl files they are located in the c:\windows\system directory.

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    Here you go ...

    http://www.davecentral.com/15006.html
    http://www.manitoolssoftware.cjb.net/

    I'm going to keep this one myself for future

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    Thank you that is exacly what I was looking for. Once again you have saved me.

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