Main menu puzzle, Klaus

[Garrett Hylltun]

On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Judy Perry wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> I do think that Ken IS making effort.  Lots of effort.  He is doing  
> us and
> the company a favor by showing exactly what it is (in this particular
> situation) that absolutely bedevils newcommers who are not  
> programmers.
>
> Case statements and pWhich's simply are NOT comprehensible to
> non-programmers!

I myself avoid Case statements completely and end up replacing them  
with If statements.  I've been programming since about 1996ish, using  
either a basic or scripting language, and even in those, I've always  
seemed to avoid Case.

Not sure why either, just didn't like Case and always found an  
alternative to it.

I recently uploaded to the user spaces a text editor example that I  
made to learn Rev.  In it you'll see that for the menu bar and a  
popup menu that I completely dumped the case statements and replaced  
them all with if statements.

on menuPick varMenuItemSelected
   if varMenuItemSelected is "Cut" then
     SubCut
   else if varMenuItemSelected is "Copy" then
     SubCopy
   else if varMenuItemSelected is "Paste" then
     SubPaste
   else if varMenuItemSelected is "Undo" then
     SubUndo
   else if varMenuItemSelected is "Word Wrap" then
     SubWordWrap
   end if
end menuPick

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm a real experienced programmer, but  
enough brains left in my head that I am capable of getting something  
done (when the A.D.D. isn't screwing with me).

And to this day, I just don't understand the whole purpose of the  
Case statement.....  Still don't even after reading a few of the  
replies to this thread.

And I think another thing, a bit odd I'm sure, but I find the Case  
statements to be... well... Ugly for some reason.  Just looking at  
code for a Case statement doesn't seem to flow naturally in my mind,  
but an equivalent If statement does.  Don't ask me why!  Could be  
that I'm just a seriously odd fellow ;-)

-Garrett
P.S. BOYCOTT CASE STATEMENTS!  IF STATEMENTS ROCK!