Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Isn't it in Revelations?

"And lo I beheld a multi-viewed GUI that was all things to all people, yet had dwindling support of it's creator."

also

"verily did the host serve up a control of diverse and wonderous visage, yet still the silver light did shun it, and doubt did cast it into the abyss where it did languish in the eternal purgatory of tech not fully embraced."

(I may have those last few words wrong).

[dday9]

I wish that there was more support for it, but last time I wished for that was for XNA and we all see what happened to that :/

[szlamany]

Who cares - it's all a passing fancy. People are still stuck on VB6!

Learn it - grow from it - and then move on to the next place. If every step doesn't supersede the last step you are going down - pretty much that languishing purgatory thing that many-fish man just spoke about.

Remember - abracadabra means "I create as I speak" - talk it up...and it will work for you. Just gotta believe.

[dday9]

It has been to long since anyone has posted in the post race!

[dday9]

So I figured that I would post myself.

[dday9]

My current project is a Javascript IDE.

[dday9]

I have been teaching myself Javascript this past week and it's pretty simple.

[dday9]

It's just trying to adjust to the 'functional' style programming.

[dday9]

But the IDE will be used so that you can have your HTML, CSS, and Javascript all on separate tabs.

[dday9]

Each will have a toolbox so that you add certain things fairly easily.

[dday9]

Then as well a drop-down bar for when you are typing.

[dday9]

I also plan on implementing the drop-down bars that you're kin to seeing in VS in the code-editor.

[dday9]

Where you can chose a class on the left side and then it's element on the right side.

[dday9]

A good example of this would be Javascript's document. If I were to select document in the left hand drop-down box then I would get a list of suitable suggestions in the right hand drop-down box such as onLoad.

[dday9]

Then whenever the user selects the right hand object, it would automatically generate the code for them.

[dday9]

In the example with the document.onLoad it would generate this:

window.onload=function()
{
 
};

[dday9]

Pretty cool huh?

[dday9]

I feel as though I'm a bit ambitious on this and may be overestimating the amount of work required, but I will give it my all!

[dday9]

Ahhhh. Post race.

[Niya]

It's just trying to adjust to the 'functional' style programming.

VB.Net can be used as a functional language. The style shouldn't be unfamiliar to you as a VB.Net programmer.

[Jacob Roman]

Well I've been programming Android apps like crazy on Eclipse and I was right. Microsoft turned BASIC into freaking java without the semicolons....<cough VB.Net>. At least OpenGL is built in to the library so I don't have to worry about referencing it and can bust out games right away.

On the other hand, whoever built Eclipse is an a-hole. It's extremely not user friendly and glitchy. On top of that, Google never fixed an issue newbies will eventually run into such as myself since Android 2.2! If you open an app and press home to temporarily exit the app for a moment, and reopen it later on in the hopes to go where you left off, it reopens another instance of the app and closes the last one you had that was running in the background, refiring the onCreate() onStart() and onResume() events!!!! What its suppose to do is fire onRestart() onStart() and onResume() when reentering the same instance of the app, which is what the emulator does but your actual device doesn't. They would have to know to put in this code to undo the glitch and make the app act as it should:

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {
        //Bypasses Android glitch so when you press home and reenter the app, it doesn't create a new instance,
        //but rather reopens the app
        if (!isTaskRoot()) 
        {
            Intent intent = getIntent();
            String action = intent.getAction();
            if (intent.hasCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER) && action != null && action.equals(Intent.ACTION_MAIN)) 
            {
                finish();
                return;
            }
        }
        
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        SetContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

[dday9]

VB.Net can be used as a functional language. The style shouldn't be unfamiliar to you as a VB.Net programmer.

Yeah I know like with LINQ it's structured like a functional language without implementing the paradigms of a functional language, but non the less it's still an adjustment.

[dday9]

Hey Niya, could you provide a list of keywords and their appropriate hex color code that match your quirk like: DateTime

[Niya]

Hey Niya, could you provide a list of keywords and their appropriate hex color code that match your quirk like: DateTime

Objects like DateTime or TextBox I use blue. Methods and properties like BackColor or Split I use a purple. Keywords like SyncLock or DirectCast I use green. If I'm talking about variable from someone posted code I may use fire brick red. I use brown if I'm talking referencing code without a the code tags. Example, Dim I As Integer = 10.

You can quote this post to get their hex value.

[dday9]

I would probably be able to do the individual keywords, but I doubt that I could do the phrases... perhaps an improvement for later on.

[Niya]

Keywords and classes would be easier to automate. You just need a list of them.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Since this is the post race....I'm adding a post. I really don't have anything to say, though.

[dday9]

I love that contribution Shaggy!

[Niya]

Since this is the post race....I'm adding a post. I really don't have anything to say, though.

I got this error reading your post:-

[dday9]

Wow, I wish that there was a rep button some times in CC!

[Niya]

lol

[Jacob Roman]

Boobs. Im bored and just want to say boobs.

[dday9]

I ♥ Boobies

[Jacob Roman]

[dday9]

Wow I suppose I shouldn't have looked up boobs meme at work :/

[dday9]

Still a funny look on my female bosses face.

[dday9]

Totally worth it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

@Niya, I have never encountered that particular error message before, but I suppose my post was a bit atypical.

Here's a booby for you:

[dday9]

-chuckle-

[Shaggy Hiker]

A pity it was the final post on the page. Here I go flipping you the bird and people will have to go back a page just to see it.