Re: [Gambas-user] Programming, age

2011-06-23 Thread Rob
On Thursday 23 June 2011 15:52, Fabien Bodard wrote: > i just don't understand the goal of your query ... :/ still confused > about that. He was asking if there were any old-timers around and what they're doing. I wrote my first code on a friend's dad's TRS-80 Model 1 in 1978, sold my first sha

Re: [Gambas-user] Programming, age

2011-06-23 Thread Fabien Bodard
2011/6/23 Dag-Jarle Johansen : > Thank you, > still confusing, tambien > and always learning, yes, > What I have learned, there are more languages (human) out there than you can > manage. I check about these: english, german, norwegian, swedisch, danish, a > little french, a little more spanish, an

Re: [Gambas-user] Programming, age

2011-06-23 Thread Dag-Jarle Johansen
Thank you, still confusing, tambien and always learning, yes, What I have learned, there are more languages (human) out there than you can manage. I check about these: english, german, norwegian, swedisch, danish, a little french, a little more spanish, and not a bit of the asian languages. How goo

Re: [Gambas-user] [Fwd: Web page 1st image (new idea)]

2011-06-23 Thread Fabien Bodard
2011/6/21 Demosthenes Koptsis : > The new version with web site dimensions is this one > > http://img28.mediafire.com/b0446d5e58da5d399646c537750afc8edee9edc6edfd5c9245c87cc93ea7f46b6g.jpg > the problem is : you donc preserve the shrimp proportion > -- > Regards, > Demosthenes Koptsis. > > >

Re: [Gambas-user] Programming, age

2011-06-23 Thread Fabien Bodard
2011/6/23 Dag-Jarle Johansen : > Hi to all great programmers. > > I wonder if there is an limit of understanding, an age limit. I can use G3 > and get my results. I still use PHP, JS, FB Dev(JS) CSS and so on, and still > am confused, I do not even understand the questions the most G3 users have. >

Re: [Gambas-user] Programming, age

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Landgren
My first program was written in 1964 in the language Algol Genius for computing filter coefficients. It was run om vacuum tube system, at least 20 m long. It had paper tape reader as input device. There were also magnetic tapes and a drum memory and a line printer. Now, being retired, I'm sti

Re: [Gambas-user] Programming, age

2011-06-23 Thread Jorge Carrión
I get my first job as software developer in 1986. In a big machine with it's own OS (Fujitsu's UNIOS F4). After that, came a flood of acronyms and languages. Today, still exceede, still confusing, allways learning... Good Luck. 2011/6/23 Dag-Jarle Johansen > Hi to all great programmers. > > I

[Gambas-user] Programming, age

2011-06-23 Thread Dag-Jarle Johansen
Hi to all great programmers. I wonder if there is an limit of understanding, an age limit. I can use G3 and get my results. I still use PHP, JS, FB Dev(JS) CSS and so on, and still am confused, I do not even understand the questions the most G3 users have. I wrote my first code in 1980, so I might

Re: [Gambas-user] gambas3 and web services

2011-06-23 Thread Almanova Sistemi
Hi Caveat, thank's for your example; I understand how to use soap with gambas and still got a new problem: How do I set up a ssl connection? In perl SOAP:: Lite is sufficient to write: $ data = $ xml-> XMLin (my $ client = SOAP:: Lite -> service ('https://www.server.com/?wsdl') -> proxy ('https

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread Fabien Bodard
Le 23 juin 2011 16:45, Benoît Minisini a écrit : >> >> so if i store a date in a db for exemple 10:00 and then if an >> english computer query the data ... what data it display ... the date >> at the english zone ? > > No, because the database server is not Gambas. Assume that the date is alw

Re: [Gambas-user] Using special method _unknown for object properties

2011-06-23 Thread Fabien Bodard
2011/6/23 Gary D Walborn : > >   To the group: >      Here is my problem.  I need to use the "_unknown" special function to >   simulate object methods and properties at runtime.  I coded an "_unknown" >   method in a class called DITEM  If ditem is an instance of DITEM and I refer >   to ditem.A()

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread Benoît Minisini
> > so if i store a date in a db for exemple 10:00 and then if an > english computer query the data ... what data it display ... the date > at the english zone ? No, because the database server is not Gambas. Assume that the date is always stored as text in a database. -- Benoît Minisini

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread Fabien Bodard
Le 23 juin 2011 13:33, Benoît Minisini a écrit : >> On 06/23/2011 02:46 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote: >> >> According to some previous answers to my questions about performing >> >> arithmetic operations on dates and times, the fractional part of a date >> >> (cfloat[now] - fix[cfloat(now)]) represen

[Gambas-user] Using special method _unknown for object properties

2011-06-23 Thread Gary D Walborn
To the group: Here is my problem. I need to use the "_unknown" special function to simulate object methods and properties at runtime. I coded an "_unknown" method in a class called DITEM If ditem is an instance of DITEM and I refer to ditem.A() where A is NOT a method in DITEM

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread Benoît Minisini
> On 06/23/2011 02:46 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote: > >> According to some previous answers to my questions about performing > >> arithmetic operations on dates and times, the fractional part of a date > >> (cfloat[now] - fix[cfloat(now)]) represents the time of day and the > >> integer part (fix[cflo

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread Caveat
Sorry Kevin, I don't get it either. I wrote a little converter to take the millisecond value (stuff after the point) and convert it to hours minutes seconds, according to the standard algorithm... and I get a time that doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to the actual time on my system, nor to G

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread John Spikowski
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 04:16 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: > On 06/23/2011 03:54 AM, John Spikowski wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 03:16 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: > > > >> I'm reading about GMT on Wikipedia now... How would one interpret the > >> returned values with respect to GMT? > >> > > T

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 06/23/2011 03:54 AM, John Spikowski wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 03:16 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: > >> I'm reading about GMT on Wikipedia now... How would one interpret the >> returned values with respect to GMT? >> > There are 25 integer World Time Zones from -12 through 0 (GMT) to +12. >

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread John Spikowski
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 03:16 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: > > I'm reading about GMT on Wikipedia now... How would one interpret the > returned values with respect to GMT? > There are 25 integer World Time Zones from -12 through 0 (GMT) to +12. Each one is 15° of Longitude as measured East and

Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

2011-06-23 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 06/23/2011 02:46 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote: >> According to some previous answers to my questions about performing >> arithmetic operations on dates and times, the fractional part of a date >> (cfloat[now] - fix[cfloat(now)]) represents the time of day and the >> integer part (fix[cfloat(now)])