Link text style -- bug or feature ?

Jim Ault JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 2 23:04:44 EST 2006


On 11/2/06 7:11 PM, "Timothy Miller" <gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com>
wrote:

> Hello Jacque and Mark,
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> Okay, it's not a bug. One might have good reason to call it a source of
> confusion, though, at least for beginners, or possibly a "room for
> improvement" item.
> 
> I know now how to handle it as a mouseUp, if I want to do that, as Mark
> suggests. I had to figure that out by trial and error. The docs are too
> cryptic, sometimes, for me, when I'm learning to do something new.
>
> snip<
> 
> Now that I understand these issues, and figured out the difference
> between the linkClicked parameter and the mouseChunk function along the
> way, it doesn't seem hard. But I didn't enjoy figuring it out by trial
> and error, and I wish I had those hours back.
> 
Take heart.  From the beginning days of Hypercard and then other languages,
I spent many hours of lessons-learned-the-hard-way.  In those days, there
was no internet/email/google search, and very few good programming books.

..and now after 20 years I have reached the point of no more wasted
hours...HA!

Learning to harness UDP messaging this last summer was an ordeal since I
understood few concepts and realities, but my system is now working very
smoothly every day.

If you retire from programming now, you can avoid the inevitable wasted
hours.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas





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