Nice little (and very true) analogy!
Thanks for the wishes - thanks to all the pieces that Marcel and others have put together in SMSQ/E along with some great color help it will be even better. Just wish I had the time to get everything into it and out the door. But will keep pushing.
It is worth it when I am running it on my 23" Cinema display, where QPC and QDT are in their glorious 1920x1200 pixels :)
Stay tuned...
Jim
On Sep 23, 2004, at 12:31 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 at 23:01:08, James Hunkins wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
You would think after all these years of programming I would not forget
to use the static keyword in this stuff. I wasn't doing this and
therefore the external programs couldn't find the correct data. One I
threw in static (thanks Wolfgang!), it works just as you all kept
telling me.
Very obvious - now :)
Thanks for help everyone!
Back to programming,That is life isn't it.
I re-built my car engine a while back. I had always thought (for 13 years) that the Volvo spark plug lead layout on the 7nn series was brilliant. The distributor cap had the outputs all in a straight line. They were then held in a neat parallel line all the way to the spark plugs, 4,3 2 1.
How sensible rather than the usual 1,3,4,2 or similar.
I started the car up and it idled 'perfectly' first time, but when I drove off there was no power.
Hrmm. The ignition was electronic, and the manual was distinctly unclear about the position of the -only- feedback - a slotted disk on the flywheel.
.... so I took the engine out and checked the position (the only way) and it seemed OK.
I then went back to the first stages (like one should -always- do even
in programming!) and checked the leads. Nothing in the manual about the
physical connections to the cap, so I checked with a continuity meter.
The lead order was 2,1,3,4!
It was only the electronic ignition being -clever- that made the engine idle perfectly on two cylinders!
Moral: In life and programming one should always go back to first principals and never assume anything!
Good luck with QDT. I must say it looked very professional at Orlando.
Tony
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