Had reason to look at the Corel Draw 12 "DOM" - for want of a better word, the other day.
Each object - Shape (IDrawShape), has a kind of internal extendible database field in it, and one of the standard fields in it is "Cost" which is pre-formatted to $#,##0.00
Interesting.
(Someone told me that Corel was bought out by a set of Accountants in San Francisco some years ago)
Still, interesting concept.
Paul
On 01/05/06, John Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought the Microsoft lesson was to take something that works, rewrite it
to subtly alter how it works and make it three times larger ;)
("Exmbrace Extend and Extinguish" is the phrase used for MS on this, also
by insiders)
Just stirring!
John
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Yes
Why re-write something that works? You learn not the Microsoft Lesson!
:-)
Richard
PS why is your email address Karl and you sign your email Carl?
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Hmmm... every time I rewrite a module, it ends up doing the same job (albeit
in a much more correct and functional way) with code usually somewhere
between one half and one third its original size, sometimes less. I've
expunged very many thousands of lines of crap code, maybe even more than
I've written!
Does this mean my productivity is negative?
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