Holy sh&^%!@&%^TTTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mucking about still with Ventura on an external bootable drive
And set both external monitors to mirror the main, then set them back to extended and ……..
OMG !
it stopped flickering !!!!!!!!!!
So maybe I’ll update now 😛
Just to satisfy the curiosity of a few YES you can use addhandler with MenuItems
I made a post about it
Now would I recommend this style ? In general no.
But I have used it and in some cases its very handy since you may not be altering the menu item just changing the method that gets invoked.… Read the rest
I’ve been asked why I still run Catalina on my 2019 16″ MBP
Well the updates in between then, and now ALL suffer from this particular problem. I’ve yet to find a solution.
Yeah – such fun
Appears I’m not alone and external monitors and flickering is a widely experienced issue
UPDATE : Apple released 13.4 and someone said “Hey it fixes the flicker!”… Read the rest
I like to have lots of preferences
Things that I CAN tweak to my liking IF I want to
Not that I do in every product I use for writing code. But its nice to have them. For instance in Xcode and VS Mac there are a TON of settings.
And I’ve customized very few. Why ?… Read the rest
In Xojo if you use external methods to simplify writing a declare over & the they can make your code platform specific.
How ?
In a method you can wrap the declare in a #if Target so it wont be used on targets its not intended for.
There is NO way to do this for external methods.… Read the rest
Awards are nice as recognition; but not the reason.
As part of a team of really great people doing my part to see great outcomes like this is the reason
Having once upon a time having had to use Lex & Yacc, and their eventual successors Flex & Bison, I’d been more than passingly familiar with writing and debugging grammars.
And all their weirdness like shift reduce conflicts 😛
At Xojo I’d looked through the grammar for the language to make sure various editors and parsers were conforming to the grammar especially in places like the method signature editor where you could paste in the whole thing into the method name and it would pull it apart.… Read the rest
Recently I visited a client in Germany
And we worked hard for the 2 weeks I was there
But while I was there I took advantage of the fact I’d be there over a weekend and went to Austria to ski at an enormous resort that had not yet closed – Ischgl.
Driving there I had feelings of dread as all the lower parts of hills like Garmisch-Partenkirchen were closed and obviously very green – but there was snow high up.… Read the rest
Last week Trish & I went to Cancun
We’d planned this sometime ago and we had a really nice week
Visited Isla Mujeres, Chichen Itzá, and went snorkelling a couple times
On the ride over to Isla Mujeres we sat near this gent from Goa India who was on board without his girlfriend (she was sick that day)
We struck up a conversation and it turns out he’s in the same line of work I am
And we had a great visit for about 2 hours
I’m sure Trish was bored as heck as we talked nothing but tech & geek topics the entire time
And when we finally departed the boat we both made a deliberate & concerted effort to find the other & thanked each other for what turned out to be a great conversation which made the trip even nicer
It made nice day even nicer to meet someone as passionate about the things we talked about
And then the last evening we were there we sat with another resident of the condominium and her daughter.… Read the rest
The saying is of course “You can lead a horse to water but you cannot are it drink”
And that applies in many contexts
You can show a person a solution to a problem but they’ll still refuse it – for whatever reason they have.
Sometimes the real saying that should be applied is “You can only help someone if they want help”
Again, despite seeming to ask for it, when they get an offer of help that isnt EXACTLY what they wanted they’ll refuse the help.… Read the rest