On 9 Apr 2006, at 21:04, Rob Cozens wrote:
Geoff, et al:
Well, my international (from an american viewpoint) friend, how
about this:
on mouseUp -- display the date
answer the system date with "OK"
end mouseUp
The requirements are stated clearly in the comment, so the long
date is out. The system date should work properly for you, correct?
Yes, the system date meets my requirement.
But I would point out that this is not an international issue per se:
Any user of Windows and MacOSes has the capability of specifying to
the operating system the format in which dates, times, and numbers
are displayed. In my view, any software that ignores the user's
preferences is flawed, and therefore buggy. It may be a design
bug, not a bug in the code; but it's a bug to moi.
Since my buddy Bernie isn't on the List, here's a further example
at his expense:
Flexware's A/R Parameter Setup screen worked flawlessly...so long
as the G/L module was not installed OR a Chart of Accounts was set
up. If the user indicated in the A/R Params that G/L was
installed, the setup would loop endlessly trying to verify the
first G/L account # in the parameters record if there were no COA
set up.
Is it a bug that Parameter Setup didn't check for the existence of
a COA when it opened? By my definition, "yes", even if the specs
didn't call for it.
Yes, but what's the bug? The fact that it loops endlessly or the fact
that the COA was non existent? This is where robustness comes in,
nearly every instance of a bug (with the exception of typeo's) is
because something was assumed to be set to something that wasn't/
isn't set up!
All the Best
Dave
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