Apologies for wasting your mental bandwidth.
No worries. I've often found that just trying to explain a problem to
colleagues (or co-listers) puts me on track to a solution. When you
sit down and write out an email that explains the issue, it's like
psuedo-coding the whole thing again, and makes you rethink it. The
nice part about the list is that if you don't trigger your own
thought processes toward the solution, usually someone is willing to
jump in and give you the info that you're lacking.
Since the traffic on this list seems to be dying slowly, I'd like to
say one thing in case it all goes away.
Thank you. All of you.
I've tried to help some of you when I could be of help, and I hoped I
provided useful advice. And I've grown a lot from the advice of
everyone here. This community is really incredible... though some of
us (aka me) tend to go OT and rant from time to time, the effort
people give into helping others here is extraordinary. I would not be
where I am today if it were not for this list. Though I am now mostly
a Flash guy, my heart is still with Dir.
I'm thinking of starting a list of my own, to fill a hole that I
found when I had to learn Flash in depth to keep my job. There are
lots of Flash lists... but I never found a place where I could ask
"what is the Actionscript equivalent of 'charToNum'", for example.
And I'm not thinking of keeping it specific to Dir->Flash, but any
language->any language. A place where somebody could find someone who
has made the jump from one language to another, and can understand
the questions because they know how to translate the syntax of your
question into the syntax of the language you're asking about.
Would anyone be interested in such a resource?
-Kurt
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