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[tbob]

"You teached me something here"

CC:

The correct word is taught, past tense of teach.  I hope you correct my French whenever I make a mistake, and I'm sure that I make a lot of them.

[chilly_charly]

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tbob a écrit:

"You teached me something here"

CC:

The correct word is taught, past tense of teach.  I hope you correct my French whenever I make a mistake, and I'm sure that I make a lot of them.

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You also taught me something.... I always haved some difficulties with irregular verbs.  I canned not remember them all and getted poor scores at school.

[tbob]

Je pense que j'ai le meme probleme en Francais!!!!

[tst]

To avoid the flickering you can try the transparent control method, and make it invisible before coloring.

[chilly_charly]

List issue n° 32

Those who believed that during NI week the forum would be quiet were wrong.

During the last week, JLV has managed to reach to first millestone, and tbob is not far behind. tst is close to receive his third gold bar (I guess he is waiting before posting the last reply, just to be sure that everybody is back and ready to congratulate him)

The best runners of the week are tst, tbob, CC and Dennis. Altenbach, even attending NI week has managed to stay in the top 5's.

This is probably the last issue before switching to a new thread, with a new List format and ranking. Two new columns have been added at the end of the list : questions, and attachments to questions (as %). Just an attempt to discriminate someone opening a new thread and posting critical informations (such as the List for instance ;)) from a newcomer asking for help and posting a broken vi. A new scanning method is now used (10 times more rapid than before), so the data base has been explored more deeply, and the oldest activities have been exhumed. Accordingly, the attachment scores are sometimes modified.

Using all this information, I ultimately managed to create an Enthusiasm index. You can see it if you are using the last ListVIEW version. Don't think that it's a measurement of expertise, you would be deeply wrong. Enthusiasm is just ... enthusiasm ! The provisionnal calculation uses the actual replies, the reply rate, the ratings etc... combined in a rather complicated way (that I'll not disclose..;) but we can discuss the method if not the exact formula !..).
According to this index, tst is n°2 and JLV is ahead of Greg. Members spending more time posting questions than giving answers have negative scores (15% of the members). If you feel that some scores are unfair, let's discuss it, since the formula is still provisionnal. Consider that you are really enthusiastic if your score is better than 1 (50% of the members).

Welcome to 2 new members : Honeywell (E: 0.25) and Sheldon Stokes (E:1.05).

The List holds now 528 names !

Message Edité par chilly charly le 08-22-2005 04:01 AM

[tst]

Actually, I was waiting just to spite you a bit and to let JLV enjoy his own well deserved moment of glory, but now it's time to resume the toil and get back to posting.

I will repost my own VI with all the current data, including the 3 newest columns, next week in the new thread. I see you already placed a save feature into ListVIEW. Maybe we should just find a way to combine the 2 programs into a general list viewer. What do you think?

In continuation of last week's ActiveX saga, the clipboard VI is also windows only!

As some other suggestions, how about having the ability to highlight a line, so that users can see all their data?

As another option along the same lines, how about having the 2 leftmost columns detached so that you see them even if you scroll horizontally?

And another potential bug I found in the last version (I couldn't reproduce it in this one, but it's not a bug in the code anyway) - if you double click the window title to maximize the window, the mouse up event registered to the table is fired and the table is sorted. I sort of managed to reproduce this in an empty VI as well, but it didn't happen all the time.

Oh, and thanks for the credit.

P.S.

I like the enthusiasm index. I think there is a potential problem in not revealing at least the basic paramaters for how it's calculated.

Also, I do have some disagreement with your enthusiasm numbers - it seems that some members who are obvious consumers (and not very good consumers, even) can get a fairly high number even if they have low ratings and a fairly high threads\replies ratio. I understand the process is automated and is not entirely in your hands, and personally I don't mind, but since you wanted opinions...

[Jim_Kring]

I have added a feature that allows column sorting for date fields.  Sorry, this is saved in LV7.1 -- my LV7.0 installation is not working right now.

Cheers,

-Jim Kring

[chilly_charly]

Jim,
do not spend too much time on ListVIEW : I'm working on it, and the sort by date was already implemented, with other features, such as the "highlight selected user row" suggested by tst.
But I do admit that as author of openG sort vis, you were the better expert to do that modification !:)

If you have some idea on how to create a good looking table with a partial horizontal scroll, feel free to wire it ! I'll not work on that one !

tst,
I would be glad to have ListVIEW associated to your graphic display. That's exactly what I expected ! 😉 Don't hesitate to email me if you need any help or additionnal information, or if you have any suggestion. The column number will change again, since I'm exploring the data base for additionnal critical infos. The new List thread will probably be delayed until I have something acceptably stable...

[Jim_Kring]

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@chilly charly wrote:
If you have some idea on how to create a good looking table with a partial horizontal scroll, feel free to wire it ! I'll not work on that one !

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I am not sure what you mean by partial horizontal scroll.  Can't you simply right-click (at edit-time) on the table and choose Visible Items >> Horizontal Scrollbar to enable the horizontal scrollbar?

[chilly_charly]

Jim Kring a écrit:

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I am not sure what you mean by partial horizontal scroll.  Can't you simply right-click (at edit-time) on the table and choose Visible Items >> Horizontal Scrollbar to enable the horizontal scrollbar ?

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That was a suggestion brought in by tst :

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...As another option along the same lines, how about having the 2 leftmost columns detached so that you see them even if you scroll horizontally ?...

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For a single column, the solution is evident : just display the row headers. I may do that to display the rank (there is still a selection issue I have to think about...)
For more than one column, the solution is probably to have two tables side by side. But there, the row heights have to be exactly the same, the vertical scroll must be synchronized, selection of part of the table is restricted to a single table...
Another solution could be to scroll the entire table, then to modify the column order, showing the leftmost columns and hiding some others. But the behaviour would probably be messy.

BTW, has anybody a solution to bring a window belonging to another application (other than LabVIEW) as front window ?

Message Edité par chilly charly le 08-24-2005 07:48 AM