RangeExtra 10^-20

2009-04-24 Thread dsimcha
RangeExtra version 10^-20 is officially out. It consists of a small and hopefully growing number of ranges that didn't make it into the new Phobos that I've gotten working reasonably well and I feel eventually belong in Phobos. Docs / What's there: http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/rangeextra.html Cod

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"BCS" wrote in message news:78ccfa2d3ebc18cb92e7b8abe...@news.digitalmars.com... > > Are you saying you never make mistakes? There are program out there that > 90% of the time when I hit the x button it was a mistake and in that cases > I think it to be a good design to work around it. ?? Not

Web-GMUI 0.1.2 released

2009-04-24 Thread Moritz Warning
Web-GMUI is a multi client / multi gui web interface that can connect to MLDonkey/aMule/rTorrent/Transmission and giFT. The new version contains a lot of bug fixes. An Italian translation was also added. http://web-gmui.sourceforge.net

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread BCS
Reply to Christopher, BCS wrote: I guess if you really hate having it not kill the app then the program could just not /have/ a x button. Your window manager does not support such windows. So I guess we're stuck with the no-close close button if we don't want any way to close the app in

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Christopher Wright
BCS wrote: I guess if you really hate having it not kill the app then the program could just not /have/ a x button. Your window manager does not support such windows.

Re: dmd 2.029 release

2009-04-24 Thread Christopher Wright
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: grauzone wrote: Simen Kjaeraas wrote: Do note that I might have misinterpreted it all, as Andrei's code would not do what I have outlined above, I only feel it makes the most sense. Yeah OK, but what about virtual functions? Not having it virtual is a real disadva

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:00:19 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50d58cb92d952e5b...@news.digitalmars.com... Hello Nick, "BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50558cb926917215...@news.digitalmars.com... yah, for some programs you rarely want to close the program

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread BCS
Reply to Nick, "BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50d58cb92d952e5b...@news.digitalmars.com... Hello Nick, "BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50558cb926917215...@news.digitalmars.com... yah, for some programs you rarely want to close the program but often want to close the UI. That's cal

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50d58cb92d952e5b...@news.digitalmars.com... > Hello Nick, > >> "BCS" wrote in message >> news:a6268ff50558cb926917215...@news.digitalmars.com... >> >>> yah, for some programs you rarely want to close the program but often >>> want to close the UI. >>> >> That's

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread BCS
Hello Nick, "BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50558cb926917215...@news.digitalmars.com... yah, for some programs you rarely want to close the program but often want to close the UI. That's called "Minimize". It can be, OTOH I might want the UI process killed without killing the main pr

Re: dmd 2.029 release

2009-04-24 Thread grauzone
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: grauzone wrote: Simen Kjaeraas wrote: Do note that I might have misinterpreted it all, as Andrei's code would not do what I have outlined above, I only feel it makes the most sense. Yeah OK, but what about virtual functions? Not having it virtual is a real disadva

Re: dmd 2.029 release

2009-04-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
grauzone wrote: Simen Kjaeraas wrote: Do note that I might have misinterpreted it all, as Andrei's code would not do what I have outlined above, I only feel it makes the most sense. Yeah OK, but what about virtual functions? Not having it virtual is a real disadvantage, because subclass-part

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Georg Wrede
grauzone wrote: It took me some serious browsing before I found a non-obtrusive skin for gmplayer. And I hated to have to do that. It should have been the default. AFAIK, the gmplayer GUI is deprecated. Use mplayer or smplayer. smplayer is a GUI for mplayer that surprisingly manages to use a

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Georg Wrede
Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Georg Wrede" wrote in message news:gsrrfn$kv...@digitalmars.com... Those video editors, iTunes and such look like they're programmed by 12-year olds. Somewhere there should be an adult saying what not to do! Well put. I bet the guy who did this never expected that w

Re: dmd 2.029 release

2009-04-24 Thread grauzone
Simen Kjaeraas wrote: grauzone wrote: void streamOut(T, R)(T object, R range) { foreach(x; a) range.put(x); range.put(b); range.put(c); } So, um... what is a b c and T object? In my opinion, this is a confusing example. I believe it was meant to be: void streamOut(T, R)(T objec

Re: dmd 2.029 release

2009-04-24 Thread Simen Kjaeraas
grauzone wrote: void streamOut(T, R)(T object, R range) { foreach(x; a) range.put(x); range.put(b); range.put(c); } So, um... what is a b c and T object? In my opinion, this is a confusing example. I believe it was meant to be: void streamOut(T, R)(T object, R range) { foreach(

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread grauzone
It took me some serious browsing before I found a non-obtrusive skin for gmplayer. And I hated to have to do that. It should have been the default. AFAIK, the gmplayer GUI is deprecated. Use mplayer or smplayer. smplayer is a GUI for mplayer that surprisingly manages to use a standard GUI, an

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Denis Koroskin
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:54:26 +0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50558cb926917215...@news.digitalmars.com... Hello Christopher, Nick Sabalausky wrote: The absolute worst of all though is when an app (*cough* skype *cough*) decides that "close" and "the 'close'

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Georg Wrede" wrote in message news:gsrqbj$iu...@digitalmars.com... > Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:32:13 -0400, Georg Wrede >> wrote: >>> I mean, who's such a nutcase that he forgets halfway in the dragging, >>> what it is he's dragging? >> >> It might be useful if you

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Georg Wrede" wrote in message news:gsrrfn$kv...@digitalmars.com... > > Those video editors, iTunes and such look like they're programmed by > 12-year olds. Somewhere there should be an adult saying what not to do! > Well put. > I bet the guy who did this never expected that whole-picture drag

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"BCS" wrote in message news:a6268ff50558cb926917215...@news.digitalmars.com... > Hello Christopher, > >> Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >>> The absolute worst of all though is when an app (*cough* skype >>> *cough*) decides that "close" and "the 'close' button" should mean >>> "don't close anything at

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Georg Wrede
Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.usux6bskeav...@steves.networkengines.com... I was never a huge fan of application themes. I don't mind a theme for the whole system (as long as it's simple), but I don't want iTunes to look different just because it can.

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Georg Wrede
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:32:13 -0400, Georg Wrede wrote: Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:09:20 -0400, Georg Wrede So now I have to learn to remember to grab bigger pictures near some edge. And I really can't see *any* valid benefit for having to d

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Georg Wrede
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Georg Wrede wrote: (OT: an excellent example of this It's Done Because We Noticed We Could stuff is in Firefox. When a picture is a link to another page, and you want to drag that to the tab area, the entire picture is dragged with th

Re: dmd 2.029 release [OT]

2009-04-24 Thread Georg Wrede
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:32:13 -0400, Georg Wrede wrote: I mean, who's such a nutcase that he forgets halfway in the dragging, what it is he's dragging? It might be useful if you accidentally start dragging the wrong thing, and then realize because you are dragging