Recent content by shiningblade

As it turns out, we have some java that is creating the hashmap that becomes the structure. To get around the problem we found that casting all the values in the hashmap to strings then building the table works ok. I don't get why serialization causes a change in the actual values when they are...

When serializing a rather large structure I am having numbers (e.g. 1.8) being changed (e.g. 1.799999999532) for not apparent reason. I have double checked the structure and the packet and the number is definitely being changed during the serialization. Deserializing does not change it back...

A person can dream can't they ;-)

Don't hold your breath. The website was last updated in 1998. ;-) Anyways, I don't think it is the Software engineers that need to sign a code of ethics. It is management that has to. With statements like: "I will not allow scope creep." "I will get the developer the required...

I think Cian means promoting/advertising it in the forums either in a sig or in the body. Jude

Joking or not, you crossed a line and put a threat in a document. That was just ignorant of you (you did not consider how she would react). I don't blame her for reacting the way she did, with recent conflict in the workplace, I have seen that women tend to react to threats of violence with more...

Software is a very vague term as the debate here has proved. It is easy to differentiate what is not hardware but classifying it further is getting more difficult. XML, for example, is not only the raw data, but also can explain how it is organized. So more and more, I think definitions will...

How important are primary keys in a SQL Server database? I know someone who says it is common practice not to use them. Is he out to lunch?

Make sure your back style is transparent. Jude

Peter, I think ebook88 is right. You are going to have to be more specific about the tiny bit of advertising going on. I cannot see it at all, it must be buried beneath the whole lot of advertising going on. ;-) Jude

If it has to be stable, it has to be OS/390 Jude

On the exit of the txtZip field you can put the following if not(Me!txtZip = "" OR isnull(Me!txtZip)) then txtCity = dlookup("[city]", "ZipCodes", "[zip] = " & Me!txtZip) end if HTH, Jude

You can press <Ctrl> <Enter>. This means there might be a bit more user education than normal but it will probably save you a lot of headaches. Jude

But what does the format of the string in [Forms]![frmSearch]![txtComments] have to look like? Jude

I would like to have the criteria of a field in my query to come from a text field on a form. [Forms]![frmSearch]![txtComments] is populated by a VBA function that will parse and format text from another field. I then want to use [Forms]![frmSearch]![txtComments]as the criteria for the field...