On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Hi Dave,
Hi Norman,
> if you are going to use PE and you want to do it 'easily' get hold of
> EasyPtr (somehow) and there is a totally excellent tutorial avaiulable for
> download somewhere (Dilwyn's web emporium I think) which shows how to use it
> without having to go through the same steep learning curve that the author
> had to.
I'll look out for it. I'll keep my eyes open for easy manuals. I tend to
not retain things as well as when I was younger, so these days I seem to
spend half my time writing wrappers so I can address difficult-to-do
things in easy ways. I look forward to writing lots of tasty S*BASIC
wrappers for SOQL. :o)
> Until I wrote that tutorial (oops !) I used to call the system
> DifficultPointer - ask Dilwyn, I had many a rant in those days :o)
Yup. All these counter-intuitive commands and unpredictable/conditional
results based on factors you have no use over.
One thing I am considering is putting up some of the useful procedures,
like the SOQL wrappers, unix->QL date format converters, etc up on my site
so people can use them in their projects.
Life is too short not to have fun! :o)
Dave
