Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread kee nethery
I know english language experts say I am wrong but I too tend to use "they" and "their" to be gender neutral. Kee On Mar 31, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay >> wrote: >> >>> I

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > >> I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically >> correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody. >> > > In English, unlike the word "her," the word "hi

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically > correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody. > In English, unlike the word "her," the word "his" does not imply gender on its own when used for a unknown perso

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/31/13 11:58 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody. ... Actually, it is grammatically correct, at least accord

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Richmond
On 03/31/2013 07:58 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody. "When the user presses a key on their keyboard..." Or

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody. "When the user presses a key on their keyboard..." Or don't use a pronoun at all: "When the user pres

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Richmond
On 03/30/2013 10:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote: just say "LGBT community". Easier. Thanks, but I still need to know the possessive pronoun . . . 'shis' ? On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond wrote: Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way of doing th

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/30/13 3:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote: just say "LGBT community". Easier. I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody. "When the user presses a key on their keyboard..." Or don't use a pronoun at all: "When

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-30 Thread stephen barncard
just say "LGBT community". Easier. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond wrote: > Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way > of doing things > and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user > pressed a key on her/his > > (and I really s

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-30 Thread Richmond
Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way of doing things and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user pressed a key on her/his (and I really should apologise that I am not entirely sure how to signal that I should like to include the tr

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Haworth
One extra thought. Maybe it would be good for openField to set a custom property of the field to true and have a closefield/exitfield handler to set it to false Then have SaveMeCheeses check the custom property before sending the message to itself. Might prevent some unnecessary saves. Pete lcSQL

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-24 Thread Roger Eller
OOPS! *In your openStack script:* put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs *In your stack script:* on saveMeCheeses -- gather all your text into a variable put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt") sen

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-24 Thread Roger Eller
*In your openStack script:* put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs *In your stack script:* on saveMeCheeses -- gather all your text into a variable put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt") send saveM

Autosave from field?

2013-03-24 Thread Richmond
Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice crashes. And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from Microsoft). Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang"