Counter Punch posted:

Any ideas? [on slowing down copy and paste speed]

Am I asking this in the wrong place?

Thanks...

csammis posted:

Sorry, but it's not possible. Clipboard data is read by the application in one large chunk, and it's up to the application to process it however it's going to do it.

Avenging Dentist posted:

Actually, it depends on the storage medium used by the clipboard data. For something like Excel data, it's probably stored in global memory, so you'd be out of luck there, but it's totally possible to pass an IStream interface as the storage medium, and you could put in arbitrary delays when reading from the stream.

This would be a pretty complicated task and would require the terminal to support reading from an IStream interface, though.

Counter Punch posted:

I'm working on a way to transfer data from an excel spreadsheet into an old NetTerm interface.

If the data is in 27 cells across a row, I should be able to copy the entire row and then hit paste in NetTerm to transfer it all. Sometimes NetTerm takes all the data... other times it hiccups midway through and stops.

I think the problem is that copying and pasting the data passes it through too quickly for the NetTerm system to respond properly.

Is there a way to slow down the speed at which data is copied and pasted?

JoeNotCharles posted:

I'm not familiar with NetTerm, but it might be easy to write a small app in Python or something which just watches for anything copied to the clipboard, reads it all, and then writes it back to the clipboard in smaller chunks with a pause between each chunk. I'd use PyQt for this because the Qt clipboard API's pretty easy to use, but that's because I'm already familiar with it and I have it set up - the Windows clipboard API is easy to use to so a small VB script might be just as good.

mister_gosh posted:

I don't think you can profit from reselling open source, so I would be careful how you implement and charge (and read the small print of any source package you use).

Daedalus256 posted:

I'm completely loving new at this so bare with me.

I need some code to stop a script from dying. Right now what I have is whenever you click on a button, the script launches whatever exe is specified. If you cancel that installation however the script gives an error and whatever else saying "Operation Canceled by User"

Is there some sort of easy vb I can throw into this so that doesn't happen?

csammis posted:

No.




fake edit: probably, but we're not psychic. We'd need the code that is responsible for running the EXE at the very least.

Geno posted:

this is probably a stupid question but what do you guys think are better for programming: macs or PCs?

Scaevolus posted:

Macs, because OS X is Unix-derived, which is a much better programming environment than Windows.

MEAT TREAT posted:

Unless your doing .Net

Geno posted:

this is probably a stupid question but what do you guys think are better for programming: macs or PCs?

tef posted:

Beyond that I think the answers are in the realms of personal preference.

Scaevolus posted:

Silly tef, an open ended question is clearly a plea for personal opinions and anecdotal evidence.

tef posted:

I would suggest avoiding anything with Vista

Ugg boots posted:

Ugg boots posted:

Why? I work solely with Vista, and have for the last year and a half, and I haven't had any problems that were new to Vista (i.e. that didn't exist in XP.) I'm even using 64-bit.

Zombywuf posted:

Please don't, I could manage a 5 page derail all by myself on that one.

Femtosecond posted:

In a C# application I'm wanting to make a class that has a List as a member, but I keep running into the issue that if I try to add some items to the List, but I run into the issue that the list is null. I thought that maybe I had to instantiate the list in the constructer of the class, but that didn't work either. I'm missing something obviously.

code:

public class Stuff
	{
	List<Banana> m_Stufflist;
		String		m_name;

		public Spreadsheet(String name)
		{
			m_name					= name;	
		}

so if I wanted to do something like

code:

m_Stufflist.Add(banana1); 

I run into an issue because m_Stufflist is null.

DLCinferno posted:

But you're not instantiating it. You need to do either

code:

List<Banana> m_Stufflist = new List<Banana>(); 

...when you declare it, or you need to do:

code:

m_Stufflist = new List<Banana>(); 

...in the constructor.

Don't forget you still need the parens when you instantiate it. With generics it's a little confusing to have both the <> and ().

Div posted:

to quickly and easily make nice diagrams

Div posted:

Apologies if this has been answered, but I'm writing documentation for some internal libraries that I wrote at work and I'm looking for a tool to quickly and easily make nice diagrams to avoid the whole thing being TEXT TEXT TEXT. I need flowcharts, UML diagrams, that kind of thing.

Diagrams like the ones this guy uses to describe software/hardware processes:
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/

I'd rather not pay but if it's a good solution then I don't mind.

Waltzing Along posted:

We have a wiki set up and are planning on creating a page for every office. The page would include everything from the workstation serial and asset tag to the office phone numbers and address to the networking equipment, including pictures of certain key pieces of equipment.

fletcher posted:

I don't think a wiki would be the best solution in this case. Have you guys thought about using a program based specifically on inventory? There are a lot of them out there and it makes it way easier to run reports and stuff, that seems like it would be nearly impossible with a wiki.

Waltzing Along posted:

They favor the wiki because it is free. Management is learning of its limitations but likes the price.

Waltzing Along posted:

They favor the wiki because it is free. Management is learning of its limitations but likes the price.

fletcher posted:

What if you want to figure out how many Dell D620 laptops were purchased before a certain date? Good luck doing that with a wiki.

Femtosecond posted:

Ahh I knew I needed to create the list in some way. I actually had written in

code:

List<Banana> m_Stufflist = new List<Banana>(); 

Femtosecond posted:

in the constructor and that didn't work. Changing it to:

code:

m_Stufflist = new List<Banana>(); 

worked since I had already declared m_Stufflist earlier.

hey wiz posted:

That second way shouldn't work either. List (java.util.List) is an interface and unlike classes, interfaces can not be instantiated. Did you write your own List class?

quote:

In a C# application I'm wanting to make a class...

hey wiz posted:

The problem here is that your List is declared within the scope of the constructor, so after the constructor exits, you won't be able to access that list.

That second way shouldn't work either. List (java.util.List) is an interface and unlike classes, interfaces can not be instantiated. Did you write your own List class?