Why didn't somebody tell me?

Tim Wright · 2016-12-14T00:22:54

Much like bugs, sometimes you learn about something that everyone else knows and just assumes you know. And you think, "Why didn't somebody tell me?" For example, I've been saying "for all intensive purposes" my whole life, only to discover the phrase is actually "for all intents and purposes". Also, my wife just informed me that the song "Take me to church" is about secret sex stuff. Whaaaaaaat? Anyway, please post away. I bet you're not the only one who didn't know. My real one is: Java has a string formatter for platform specific carriage returns. System.out.format( "Debugging var: %s%n", value ); // %n ??? All this time...

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Started by Glass_Knife March 25, 2015 06:38 PM

182 comments, last by LennyLen 7 years, 4 months ago

fastcall22

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October 10, 2016 02:53 AM

Are you symbolically linking 'bin' to "Program Files", or were you just explaining what 'bin' is, for conformist Windows-using lemmings like myself?

Yes, symlinking here. I started doing this many years ago to bypass using directory name with spaces. Can you name a few programs that suggest you install directly to C:\ because of all the command line nonsense? Additionally, the new name is less typing than "Program Files (x86)". Eventually I needed to use apache, php, and other linux stuff on my machine, and it just made sense to mirror a typical linux filesystem. This current iteration is experimental until I get my new machine, but it is working quite nicely.

Wait, why do I use Windows again?

Dragonsoulj

3,213

October 10, 2016 03:43 PM

Also, at least in explorer, in the tree view, pressing left repeatly closes the folder you're in (if it's expanded) or moves to the next parent (if it's closed).
Alt-Numblock-* will open the next level of all sub folders under the selected one.

Whooa, this one is nice! Appears to be standard treeview controls too, works in an app I work on as well, except it appears to do fully recursive expansion. Not recommended on unlimited dynamic nodes..

Left to close trees, right to open trees, up and down to move through the list (as it operates as one long list for up and down, not as a tree).

Regedit became so much nicer with this, especially after adding in the fact that you can start typing to jump to the next occurrence of whatever you type.

ferrous

6,164

October 31, 2016 02:48 PM

Arg! I had no idea that Unity has had layout controls for it's canvas UI since 4.6. Vertical, Horizontal and Grids. Why, why would you not put this in the typical drop down menu? I stumbled across some documentation for it, then bumbled about in the editor trying to find them. For some reason the only way you can add them is via one particular submenu that you have search through to find them. Grumble, grumble!

Alessio1989

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December 04, 2016 10:33 PM

Finally C++ coding for UWP/Windows Store is becoming more trivial: https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt Yes, now we can do it without C++/CX.

Why did not tell us Microsoft with CAPITOL neon letters upon gigantic Zeppelins flying around the world with Lady-Gaga enunciate it upon them? I was aware of the project, but I did not know it was public since this September! D:

"Recursion is the first step towards madness." - "Skegg?ld, Skálm?ld, Skildir ro Klofnir!"
Direct3D 12 quick reference: https://github.com/alessiot89/D3D12QuickRef/

Sik_the_hedgehog

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December 12, 2016 07:08 AM

Press Shift+Space in the browser to scroll up instead of down.

Not sure on which browsers it works but I can confirm it works on Firefox and somebody said it works in Chrome too.

Don't pay much attention to "the hedgehog" in my nick, it's just because "Sik" was already taken =/ By the way, Sik is pronounced like seek, not like sick.