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From: Dre
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 28 Apr 2010 18:59:42
Message: <4bd8bdde@news.povray.org>
"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
news:4bd85eb7$1@news.povray.org...
> Invisible escreveu:
>> OK, so I decided to try to use X to actually do something *useful*.
>>
>> Big mistake.
>
> there, made a template for your posts.
>
> -- 
> a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9

LOL!

Cheers Dre


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From: Patrick Elliott
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 28 Apr 2010 23:34:17
Message: <4bd8fe39$1@news.povray.org>
On 4/28/2010 6:49 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>
>> set trans = CreateObject("NameTranslate")
>> trans.Init 3, ""
>> trans.Set 3, "domain\user"
>> set name = trans.Get(1)
>> WScript.Echo name
>>
>> Only trouble is... it doesn't work.
>
> Oh my god.
>
> Apparently you have to delete the word "set" on line 4. And then it
> works perfectly. WTF?
>
As a rule, the word "set" is almost **never** used in VB, at all. I 
think there may be some obscure cases where you may use it, but, in 
general, its little more than a hold over from ages past, when it was 
mandatory. It hasn't been in most BASICs for... at least DOS1.0, maybe?

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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From: scott
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 29 Apr 2010 02:33:15
Message: <4bd9282b$1@news.povray.org>
>> yeah, nothing like good ol' RTFM instead of trial and error...
>
> To be fair, this is old tech, so MS doesn't exactly make it easy to find 
> the documentation when you could be upgrading to VBNET.AWSOME.

I thought the expected upgrade from VBS/JavaScript was to powershell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 29 Apr 2010 02:35:30
Message: <4bd928b2$1@news.povray.org>
>> OK, so I decided to try to use X to actually do something *useful*.
>> 
>> Big mistake.
> 
> there, made a template for your posts.

You forgot the "obviously this is impossible" part :-)


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 29 Apr 2010 04:05:44
Message: <4bd93dd8$1@news.povray.org>
Am 29.04.2010 05:34, schrieb Patrick Elliott:

> As a rule, the word "set" is almost **never** used in VB, at all. I
> think there may be some obscure cases where you may use it, but, in
> general, its little more than a hold over from ages past, when it was
> mandatory. It hasn't been in most BASICs for... at least DOS1.0, maybe?

That would be true for "let".

As for "set", it has been mandatory at least in every version of VBA 
that I ever touched. Not sure about full-fledged VB though.


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From: Phil Cook v2
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 29 Apr 2010 05:12:51
Message: <op.vbw2jscjmn4jds@phils>
And lo On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:49:14 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> Invisible wrote:
>
>>   set trans = CreateObject("NameTranslate")
>>   trans.Init 3, ""
>>   trans.Set 3, "domain\user"
>>   set name = trans.Get(1)
>>   WScript.Echo name
>>  Only trouble is... it doesn't work.
>
> Oh my god.
>
> Apparently you have to delete the word "set" on line 4. And then it  
> works perfectly. WTF?

and don't forget good practice in trans = nothing when you've finished  
with it ;-)

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com


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From: Aydan
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 29 Apr 2010 06:20:01
Message: <web.4bd95c2799a48b4d3771cd8e0@news.povray.org>
Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
> As a rule, the word "set" is almost **never** used in VB, at all. I
> think there may be some obscure cases where you may use it, but, in
> general, its little more than a hold over from ages past, when it was
> mandatory. It hasn't been in most BASICs for... at least DOS1.0, maybe?

The rule actually is if you do object assignment you use set if not then you
don't.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 29 Apr 2010 12:37:07
Message: <4bd9b5b3$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>>> yeah, nothing like good ol' RTFM instead of trial and error...
>>
>> To be fair, this is old tech, so MS doesn't exactly make it easy to 
>> find the documentation when you could be upgrading to VBNET.AWSOME.
> 
> I thought the expected upgrade from VBS/JavaScript was to powershell?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell

Depends if you want it in a shell or not.  VBS runs in web servers too.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
   open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 29 Apr 2010 12:45:45
Message: <4bd9b7b9$1@news.povray.org>
scott escreveu:
>>> OK, so I decided to try to use X to actually do something *useful*.
>>>
>>> Big mistake.
>>
>> there, made a template for your posts.
> 
> You forgot the "obviously this is impossible" part :-)

Yeah, but I guess it's implied in "Big Mistake", plus it sounds better 
as a comic punchline. :)

-- 
a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9


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From: Patrick Elliott
Subject: Re: Frustration
Date: 30 Apr 2010 21:34:12
Message: <4bdb8514$1@news.povray.org>
On 4/29/2010 1:05 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 29.04.2010 05:34, schrieb Patrick Elliott:
>
>> As a rule, the word "set" is almost **never** used in VB, at all. I
>> think there may be some obscure cases where you may use it, but, in
>> general, its little more than a hold over from ages past, when it was
>> mandatory. It hasn't been in most BASICs for... at least DOS1.0, maybe?
>
> That would be true for "let".
>
> As for "set", it has been mandatory at least in every version of VBA
> that I ever touched. Not sure about full-fledged VB though.
Yeah, was thinking of "let".

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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3D Content, and 3D Software at DAZ3D!</A>


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