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Gary R. Wheeler11-Oct-23 14:01

11-Oct-23 14:01

Marc Clifton wrote:
BAADF00D

FTFY. Hex numbers should always be upper case, you heathen Big Grin | :-D

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Hex words | Ned Batchelder[^]

Software Zen: delete this;

DerekT-P12-Oct-23 6:10

DerekT-P

12-Oct-23 6:10

Well yes, hex is written in upper case. But this is a GUID, which is frequently stored as a text string, and is case-sensitive. Google for upper/lower case GUID and you'll find all sorts of pain; some systems generate GUIDs in upper case, some in lower. For those database systems that have a field type of GUID, most will return their text form as upper case, but not necessarily all do. If in any doubt where your GUIDs are coming from (e.g. a URL querystring) always be aware when doing comparisons! Smile | :)

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dandy7212-Oct-23 4:18

dandy72

12-Oct-23 4:18

Marc Clifton wrote:
I wonder if I'll ever see baadf00d....

How much time ya got?

Happiness comes from the smallest things

obermd12-Oct-23 5:00

obermd

12-Oct-23 5:00

While I was in the Air Force, one of our mission mainframes crashdumps all started with

0XDEAD

Gary R. Wheeler11-Oct-23 12:50

Helvetica and Times New Roman walk into a bar

11-Oct-23 12:50

I do the UI's for our products, including the graphics. My graphic tool of choice has been Paint.NET[^] for a long time. Given that acuity in my left eye is poor and my right eye is a prosthetic, I've got the Windows mouse pointer size turned up fairly high. Using paint.net, I would lose the cross-hair cursor against the white background. I'd then have to move the mouse so that I could find the cursor against the gray area outside the image being edited, c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y move it back into the image, and get back to work.

The following change in paint.net 5.0.10 almost makes me cry:

Fixed: All mouse cursors will now honor the Windows setting for adjusting the mouse pointer size

Such a small change for such a big improvement in the experience of using a favorite app.

You bet your ass I sent them a thank-you feedback message.

Software Zen: delete this;

honey the codewitch11-Oct-23 11:24

honey the codewitch

11-Oct-23 11:24

"Get out of here" says the bartender. "We don't serve your type."

I never even took off my coat.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

jmaida11-Oct-23 11:53

jmaida

11-Oct-23 11:53

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger

Gary R. Wheeler11-Oct-23 12:51

11-Oct-23 12:51

*cough* Arial *cough*

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff11-Oct-23 21:47

OriginalGriff

11-Oct-23 21:47

Comic Sans ...

Gary R. Wheeler12-Oct-23 4:16

12-Oct-23 4:16

I've worked on code bases where I was tempted to change my coding font to Chiller[^]

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff12-Oct-23 4:44

OriginalGriff

12-Oct-23 4:44

I've been tempted by Crazy Killer[^]
At that size, natch.

C#
private int Double(int value)
   {
   return value * value;
   }

I hope this works ...
[edit]No, it didn't - I didn't think it would work without the font installed. Frown | :(

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PIEBALDconsult12-Oct-23 9:09

PIEBALDconsult

12-Oct-23 9:09

If you're part of that world.

Gary R. Wheeler12-Oct-23 10:19

12-Oct-23 10:19

Yeah, I know. Arial is merely Helvetica with the serial numbers filed off.

I work in the commercial ink-jet printing business. You wouldn't believe how much crap we deal with because of fonts, data formats, printer language, and rendering issues.

Software Zen: delete this;

megaadam12-Oct-23 2:02

megaadam

12-Oct-23 2:02

That's a rather bold statement.

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

Gary R. Wheeler12-Oct-23 4:17