Howdy. The name is Harry Robinson and I'm new to this. I live in the beautiful city of Burlington, Vermont on the banks of Lake Champlain. New-York State is on the other side of the lake. I am currently retired and I am learning how to program in C and in TCL also. I find TCL much simpler than C! Come one come all visit Burlington. It's a beautiful city! I have done some work for Habitat for Humanity, I got to make a lot of travels abroad and got to meet a lot of very poor people; I then realized how much our kids don't realize how lucky and blessed they are. You might consider coming to give us a hand at Habitat. Thanks! ----- '''Technical questions''' I find a sort of bug strangely in all TCL applications. We hit "Home" and instead of returning to the first word of the same line it returns to the beginning of the paragraph. Can this be fixed? -- check out [Move cursor by display line in a text widget]; [LES]. I also notice the insert button does not give crush (whatever this function is called. It writes over a text and does not insert). Can this also be fixed? Thanks! [DKF]: We don't currently support an overwrite mode for either [entry] or [text], at least in part because a number of us find it more annoying than useful. :^) (Many other applications use this approach as well, for example Mozilla.) OTOH, it could be added. We'd need to add a flag to the widget (easy), a few bindings to do the work (slightly harder), and a good way of indicating what mode we're in (awkward, and not done by many other apps, for example IE, which leads to people being unsure what happens when they press a letter). There are also a few more formal requirements to make it happen (docs, tests, and a small [TIP]) but they should be relatively straight forward. [Harry Robinson] Howdy and thanks so much Mister DFK. "Overwrite" is the term indeed. And also many thanks to Mister LES for his link. Thanks to both. (May 27 2004) ----- Welcome to the wiki, Harry Robinson! (--[Ro]) Enjoy your stay here =) [Harry Robinson] Howdy and thanks Mister Ro! (May 27 2004) ---- [Robert Abitbol] I read your posts on this wiki notably on the [George Staplin] page. You certainly have a lot of wisdom and experience and your trying to share it with younger people is very commendable. However I believe you are wasting your time completely. I have found one solid principle in my life time: '''trying to put reason in some people's heads simply doesn't work. It's basically like talking to the wall.''' So I simply give up trying to put sense in these people, I move on and I find more sensible people. I don't have time to spend with rigid, delusional people who are going to ruin my life with their lack of common sense. Life is too short. I am sure you will agree with me. Besides the guy you are trying to reason is being hypnotized by [Rohan Pall] who tells him to tell me to go to hell and to close all channels of communication with me. Plus the guy left me with a program half-finished, full of bugs and a huge bill to pay him when I'll sell it. And he goes all around wikiT claiming he has been betrayed. Geeze I wonder who has been betrayed here. '''I certainly am the betrayed one here''' He made a big fuss on WikiT saying I was a crook while his check was in the mail. He received his check finally. If he had common sense doesn't it strike you that he should wait for his check before going berserk and giving me a reputation as a crook? Do you think this is a mature and professional attitude? So what do you do with people like that? If you ask me the guy needs more a dehypnotizer (to dehypnotize him from [Rohan Pall]) than a good advisor like you. I look at it this way: if someone shows a total lack of empathy and common sense I am not interested in building any sort of friendship or collaboration with him. You are much more optimistic than I am in this regard. I can't bet you you won't get anywhere so please stop wasting your time! '''You are talking to a wall''' when you talk to certain people. What you say enters one ear and goes out the other ear. So please spare your keyboard and forget about these people. Do like I did: stamp the file with the mention "Lost Cause File Closed", put it in the archives or in the garbage and move on to more interesting stuff! Out of curiosity, what was your job in the army and what was your rank, Harry? Have you ever thought of putting together a book with your philosophy of life and your perception of people? If you have an anecdote or a true story or travel story or anything else to share, please come write it on my wiki. Thanks! http://greenlightwiki.com/travelstories. [Harry Robinson] Indeed. Remember the famous saying? "Lord give me the strength to change things I can change and the wisdom to accept things I cannot change." Well it applies well here. ([CMcC]: it presumably applies better in Alcoholics Anonymous, where the saying is used in full.) During my army years, we had a few soldiers manipulating one against another the same way you believe someone is manipulating Mister Staplin against you. Such manipulative soldiers were discharged for they are dangerous to the troops morale. Why so? In the army, we have to be strong and united against our common enemy. '''If we bicker between ourselves we become our worse enemy and we become weak.''' We were also discharging rigid and delusional soldiers. These people can't take and follow orders and they can quickly create many enemies around them and they can become their own worse enemies. They are also a threat for all of us. In the army we work with ranks and hierarchies and we follow orders. This is the way it always was and always will be. It ain't a place where we can tolerate excentric people who are enclined to manipulations or are rigid and delusional. Re: the Iraki jail pictures. You have seen ridiculous actions taken by a handful of soldiers. 10 to the most. Out of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Unfortunately we don't mention the great work accomplished by the rest of them! '''And we should'''. We are giving this country Irak a chance to have a democracy and to enjoy a decent living for the first time in decades. Most Irakis are happy to see us there. Terrorists want to make the rest of the world believe we are not welcome there. It ain't so. (May 29 2004) [CMcC]: this is fascinating. What does it have to do with tcl? Does the phrase 'get a room' mean anything in the Army? [Harry Robinson] Yes indeed Mister Mc-Cormack. I'm here to learn TCL and not to do chit-chat. I got carried away discussing my army days and the current situation in Irak. I must apologize and assure you all it won't happen again. It is definitely hard for the veterans' morale to see many of our soldiers returning in body bags and us not getting the credit we deserve for helping out these Iraki people. (May 20 2004) [CMcC]: Yes, it's just a shame the supply of Alsatian attack dogs is limited, otherwise you could help export democracy to even more helpless prisoners. [Harry Robinson] Mister Mc-Cormack, you are the one asking me to get a room and yet you are the one continuing the debate. Could you please make up your mind? If you ask me to get a room, decency dictates that you show the good example and not discuss such things publicly. Besides, your sarcasm is not appreciated. For your information go to see what Arabs do to '''their''' prisoneers. Unfortunately the photographer who takes such pictures does not get to live and he dies somewhere in a jail while his pictures are burned. You'll realize that what our boys did is nothing compared to what these barbarians can do. Well you saw what happened to Berg! God bless his soul, a fine American boy. (May 29 2004) [CMcC]: anyway, to hurry Godwin's Law along: Q: What's the difference between GW Bush and Mussolini? A: Bush doesn't give a damn if the trains run on time. [Harry Robinson] To understand that one we need some context here. I am not aware of what Mussolini has said about trains. Can you explain? (May 29 2004) [CMcC]: sure [http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.htm] Mussolini may have done many brutal and tyrannical things; he may have destroyed human freedom in Italy; he may have murdered and tortured citizens whose only crime was to oppose Mussolini; but 'one had to admit' one thing about the Dictator: he 'made the trains run on time.' It's in the way of what the Navy (the senior service) calls a 'joke'. ----- [[ [Category Person] ]]