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Message: 6 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:10:21 -0800 From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Reading a (BIG) text file one line at a time To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Kevin Miller wrote:I know that old-timers are used to writing scripts and this works great, but if you are a new Revolution user and want controls to lay out automatically as a window resizes, the Geometry Manager should be your first port of call. You're not dependent on it, its not your only option, but it does work very well and is simple and straightforward for 90% of the layout work you may need to do.
Well said.
My tips on writing resizeStack handlers directly are for the other 10%. :)
Both are good. Transcript is fun to use.
Richard et. al.,
Transcript is indeed fun to use. Speaking of that fun put me in mind of something another Richard, Richard Feynman, said about computers--see below. These remarks were made about his time working at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project. At the time there were using very early model IBM, card-reading, computers to solve complex mathematical problems related to creating an explosive, chain, fission reaction--i.e. bomb.
"Well, Mr. Frankle started this problem and began to suffer from a disease, the computer disease, that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. It was a serious problem that we were trying to do. The disease with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful. You have these x switches that determine if it's an even number you do this, it it's an odd number you do that, and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough...[Here Feynman speaks of getting sidetrack pursing issues not related to their calculational needs, for example working out the arctangent function when they already had tables for the function.]...But if you ever worked with computers you understand the disease. The delight to be able to see how much you can do. But he [Frankle] got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing got the disease."
There are worse diseases., worse narcotic addictions than programming.
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