On 2002.01.18 00:57 Shane Shields wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2002 4:13, you wrote: > > The remainder of any even number divided by two is > 0, the remainder of any > > odd number divided by two is 1. > > > > Knowing this doesn't: > > > > len+=(len%2); > > > > make more sense. Leave the comment as is for > clarity if you wish. > > > > -Dave > > thanks Dave, its also a lot more elegant and will work > faster too. i will > generate a patch for it to be applied on top of the > first one. as my biggest > strength is visual basic things like this dont come to > me straight away. im hmm... VB... yeah.. BASIC in general tends to lend itself to crappy programs, always has, always will. However BASIC on a PCjr was my first language, so I guess it was okay to start with. Except for the fact that BASIC is so screwed up it screws with your mind and it takes a long time to realize that almost no other programming language does things like BASIC.
Might I suggest Python if you are in the process of learning programming. Python is an extremely elegant language, interfaces well with C code, and has several GUI toolkits. I think the default toolkit is Tk (yuk) but wxWindows has a python version you may want to check out. The real wxWindows (C++) is just amazing for ease of GUI programming, I assume the Python version is probably easy to use too. > still trying to work out what this means > > (delta < 0 ? 1 : -1) > > its got me stuck. im currently looking at the wine > install script as it > doesnt find the windows registry when installing wine > with an existing > windows installation. > As Dimitrie said, that means if delta is negative then 1, if positive or 0 then -1. The general form is booleanexpression?then:else > Shane > > To drink the WINE of success you must first seek the > sayings of source. > > hehe.. how true. Do you know the author of that quote? We should put it on the webpage. -Dave
