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End of the world
Jun 23rd, 2004 at 12:42pm
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PLEASE HELP has anybody reprogrammed the Hangman app from Q&A  Cheesy
  
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Re: End of the world
Reply #1 - Jun 23rd, 2004 at 1:19pm
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PLEASE HELP has anybody reprogrammed the Hangman app from Q&A  Cheesy


Do you have a copy of the Q&A app? Can you post it someplace for download, in case anybody wants to work on it?
  
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Re: End of the world
Reply #2 - Jun 25th, 2004 at 12:37pm
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OK I uploaded the files needed for hangman and will continue to try and understand it myself more as well  Smiley

you can find it at

Http://www.geocities.com/orcolympics/hangman.zip

(I make sure to get in an hour of this a day usually during lunch)

to save space I only uploaded the original words list, but it was very easy to expand on
  
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Reply #3 - Jun 25th, 2004 at 12:49pm
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OOPS, I should have diercted you to

http://www.geocities.com/orcolympics/links.html

there you can find the download link of hangman.zip
  
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Reply #4 - Jun 30th, 2004 at 9:18pm
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OK, Kerinst, you got Ray's attention.  Grin

Try this on for size.

Warning: Tested very lightly! Not guaranteed.  Smiley
  
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Reply #5 - Jul 1st, 2004 at 12:59pm
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Ray,

YOU ROCK  Cheesy

Very, very, very  good job. 

I never saw the qa version before this post and have no real desire to play hangman but seeing that this could be done puts air back in my sails.

There are many great examples contained in your hangman program  for us to use and learn from your effort. I especially liked the method of using an array to draw the hangman characters.

Thanks for the effort and hard work. You are one of the reasons Lantica is  an exceptional company instead of the typical average company.

This program needs to be posted under the Sesame example programs section of the forum. Many people can benifit from seeing and playing with it.

Thanks again,

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Reply #6 - Jul 1st, 2004 at 2:00pm
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There are many great examples contained in your hangman program  for us to use and learn from your effort.

This program needs to be posted under the Sesame example programs section of the forum. Many people can benifit from seeing and playing with it.



Bob

I think that your point is good but would it not have been better for them to have ray create a data dictionary for us to use. It seems stupid that it was not included with the original product and now it is being sold on inside sesame.com for 50 bucks. A game is nice a tool is better.

I do not mean to be argumentative (especially to you Bob)  This is just my opinion.
  
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Reply #7 - Jul 1st, 2004 at 2:17pm
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Bob

I think that your point is good but would it not have been better for them to have ray create a data dictionary for us to use. It seems stupid that it was not included with the original product and now it is being sold on inside sesame.com for 50 bucks. A game is nice a tool is better.

I do not mean to be argumentative (especially to you Bob)  This is just my opinion.





SunnyJenna,

A quick translation and update of an existing Q&A database game is on a completely different order of magnitude than the creation of a full Database Documenter. The Database Documenter is next on our list of external utilities to create. We didn't "have" Ray do this. Ray saw the opportunity to do something nice for a Forum member and thought it would be fun, so he took some time between answering emails and phone calls and knocked this out.

A "data dictionary" was not part of the initial release because it is not of much use to a large portion of our user base. Therefore, it would have added small value to most of our users, while adding a significant amount of development time. We figured they would rather not wait.

The Database Documenter will be made available as an external utility so that those consultants and developers who want to generate such a thing can do so, without forcing those (the majority) who would never use such a thing to wait for it or pay for it. Many of you here on the Forum are power users or developers. Most of our users are not.

Lantica and Inside Sesame are two different organizations. Inside Sesame took the time to sit down with SBasic and write a nice routine that examines a particular Form and creates a web page about it. If you do not want to pay the $50 for the utility code available from Inside Sesame, you can simply write the SBasic yourself. All the tools that were used to create that utility code are also available to you.
  
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Reply #8 - Jul 1st, 2004 at 3:03pm
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If anyone decides they would like to take on a SBasic data dictionary function, here are the basics:

In a mass update:

var str as string
var name as string
var loop as int
var type as int

// Get a list of the elements on the form
str = @StringArrayElementList()

// Loop through them
for loop = 1 to @CountStringArray(str)

   // Get the name of the element
   name = @AccessStringArray(str, loop)

   // Set the "ThisElement" construct
   SetThisElement(name)

   // Use the "ThisElement" to get the element type
   type = @ElementType(ThisElement)

   // Print out the name and the type. This could also be visibility, position, size, color, whatever...
   WriteLn(name + " " + @str(type))
next

// Set "ThisElement" back to the calling element
UnSetThisElement()
  
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Re: End of the world
Reply #9 - Jul 6th, 2004 at 12:39pm
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YAY IT WORKS   Grin finally I have something important to do while I try to rebuild the Q&A Library  Smiley

THANKS RAY
  
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