September 2005 - Posts
I have been developing some Whidbey web custom controls for the last couple of days. I have been getting a little frustrated with what looked like (and probably still is) bugs in the designer.
I have been creating a custom tabbar control. Let's call it MyNamespace.Tabbar. I have designers, builders and converters to improve the designer support. Most of the time, the designer support just doesn't work. Sometimes I get a great error saying that MyNamespace.Tabbar can't be converted to MyNamespace.Tabbar. Given that both the assembly's namespace and System.Web.UI are imported, I probably have a naming collision on the control.
Parts of the framework are still able to determine that I am referring to my Tabbar class rather than the System.Web.UI.WebControls.Tabbar (given the error message rendered in the designer), but elsewhere, it can't follow through (hence the error). BTW, at runtime, none of this is a problem. Interestingly, even when I clarified the declaration with the full namespace, it still fell over in the same spots in the designer.
After a name change, it is all fine.
Having a look at the feedback coming in, there has been a trickle of comment spam over the last couple of days. Seriously, what is the point. If it continues, I am only going to turn on moderation anyway.
The title says it all really. This afternoon I am going to a funeral for the father of a good friend.
On top of that, one of my uncle's passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday in Sydney from a massive heart attack. His son (a couple years older than me, about 31yo?), who happened to be in Sydney for eye surgery, has now been admitted to hospital after an apparent heart attack. Needless to say, his sister being the only remaining member of that immediate family is doing it a little tough.
My very elderly grandmother is taking it as well as anyone can in the situation, but I am concerned for her health given the circumstances.
I also found out this morning that the son of one of my mothers best friends has also just died. He was about my age as well.
It has been a tough week.
Came across
this post via
Heather Leigh. Very clever.
I was driving to Taekwondo tonight with my wife and a friend. On the way, we passed a petrol station and noticed that it was selling unleaded for $1.39/lt. Ouch! That means permium will be $1.49/lt. Double Ouch!
I think that current prices have now well and truly broken previous Australian records. Someone mentioned on the radio the other day in the 70's, the price was something like 10c/lt. How times have changed.
I posted a comment to the Paint.Net forum a couple of months ago. I have just checked the latest beta (v2.2 Alpa 1) and they have added in my suggestion.
I can't find the forum link anymore, but the suggestion was that when using the selection tool, clicking the right button at the same time as the left button would move the selection rectangle rather than resizing it from its origin point. Previously it was annoying to use if you didn't get the origin point exactly right the first time.
It is great when people implement your suggestions. Thanks guys.