Posts by rproffitt

Given the code ran fine on an online c++ IDE and compiler I'll have to have a better explanation of what the issue is.

I used a C++ online compiler and it didn't like the stray single quote on line 30 but for the number ten it did something.
Could you have a compiler setup issue instead?

So you need to make a support ticket or bug report.

I can't help you because there is no error message. "Install failed..." is not enough to work with. Out of the 3 options you wrote, only one came close to what the website noted (item 2.)

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Web.WebView2 has SIX install options. Each one has it's own command line.

Let me be clear. If you are not following their directions, I don't expect it to work.

Doesn't that break security if you store your own fingerprint information?
I'm reading https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/biometric since it's a good project and primer on Android Biometrics.

biometric HAL guidelines to ensure that biometric data is not leaked and is removed when a user is removed from a device:

At first reading of your subject it appears you are attempting to break the basic security system.

"Install failed" is not an error message. Also, which of the SIX command lines did you try? And did you elevate this install to run as Administrator?

There's too many install failures possible without you or the installer giving up a real error message.

But do read and try what's noted at https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/2030 in case that's it.

I looked at the SIX install methods and not one mentioned using the "manage nuget packages" method. Try it per the web site instructions next time.

First, no. I don't use this one but there's a nugget at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Web.WebView2 "The WebView2 control enables you to embed web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in your native applications powered by Microsoft Edge (Chromium)."

I'd be sure my HTML, WWW and other references all are default to Edge for now. I lost a day chasing something similar with an Outlook add-on.

Also there are about 6 different install methods. I can guess which one you tried.

It's now 2 years since we permanently shuttered our last VB6 projects. The cost to develop was climbing as fewer and fewer programmers were available and then the final blow was the client thought the ongoing maintenance costs to be too high.

Given this, it's time to move to a newer Visual Basic so you can get help if you can't find it on the web.

OR try Fiverr.com and outsource the work.

Given the tag Windows-9x it seems unlikely there are many folk left running that old a version of Access. I certainly would have no hope of trying anything or testing any ideas today.

Is there a chance you can move to something current?
If so, here's a tutorial that looks relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAMOjkiuag

Frankly, this omits all the other details needed to craft said routines in assembly. The target system is unspecified and one might divine it's for some pre-EUFI 80x86 machine but with the changes in PCs and I might only have an Apple M2 computer, I would find this difficult to implement.

I see Reverend Jim has noted the other issue with your post so I'll add these:

1. Show your work.
2. Tell where you are stuck.
3. As noted, for assembler work, the target must be known.

If you can find a Fiddle to share the problem example, even better since not everyone will have an assembler installed.
Example: https://www.mycompiler.io/new/asm-x86_64

Thanks for clarification. Before we can proceed, there is no builtin API to C to get at MySQL directly so the First Order Of Business would be to find a library to help us connect and use MySQL from C.

From there we might make some progress.

How about https://zetcode.com/db/mysqlc/ ? First hit on Google and seems to be a good enough tutorial.

However this won't be all we need to know because we'll have to get MySQL installed, running and maybe some MySQL management tool. This is a personal choice so I'd start with https://www.tecmint.com/mysql-gui-tools-for-linux/

Those don't sound like secrets!

Which brings me to the following saying.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Another problem is there is NO ACCEPTED DEFINITION of Full-Stack because the stack changes from company to company. At this point I'm going to write this is some company wishing for that uber-programmer that will lead them out of the darkness.

So much left unspecified. Did you want to use MySQL from a C app? What's wrong with mysql_store_result?

Show the code. Maybe your code is reading a string and while we could attempt string to integer why not input the number?
I'm reading the tutorial at https://www.javatpoint.com/how-to-get-input-from-user-in-java and it doesn't seem too hard.

I have deep doubt that the changes were for "change in revenue model".

At first I did some hope as Elon did speak about how WeChat had a pay with app feature. Paypal memories?

As to advertisers, it was clear from months ago that if he bought, car makers could jump ship as well, a bit too obvious.

Changes? It's been a dumpster fire and now more dumpsters on fire. Today folk are posting full movies since the auto-moderation system was shutdown. DMCA takedown notices are now in the thousands from a word from a disgruntled employee. All this makes who's left to just manually plug away at the deluge of DMCA requests.

When I wrote a month, it appears this may have been too generous. It's going down in weeks.

This just in: "CBS NEWS
SUSPENDS TWEETS COMPANY-WIDE ...
Amid Twitter Uncertainty"

There was a glimmer of hope for Twitter in one lone Musk interview where a plan was told about adding a payment system similar to WeChat. For a moment I could see where this could lead but it never was heard of again.

A few hours ago, Musk reinstated the Orange man so there's another reason to write it's the end of Twitter.

Some told me FTX. I delayed and missed the ride. More at https://www.investopedia.com/ftx-exchange-5200842

I'm reading https://pypi.org/project/truth-table-generator/ and it seems to be a trivial exercise today. The code examples there are small and easy to copy, paste into your app.

It's Friday. And Twitter employees are having trouble finding who their supervisor is since so many have resigned. From NYTIMES:

Employees were also having difficulties figuring out who was still on staff, and what areas of infrastructure needed more support to keep things up and running.

Still getting daily emails from the Twitter machine. But they are pretty risque to outright hard porn now. Employees and former employees don't seem to be holding back inside information, stories, emails, tweets and more.

I wouldn't be surprised for Twitter to go 404 soon.

Let's dig into the financing a little. https://www.rfi.fr/en/business-and-tech/20221028-loans-investments-and-piles-of-his-own-cash-how-musk-financed-twitter-takeover for those that like more detail.

So Musk put up a little more than 15 billion USD and the rest is debt against the company and from investors that took shares in the company. So Musk is fine even if Twitter goes bankrupt.

The employees and shareholders are going to take the brunt of this possible collapse.

I checked on a Tweet and WOW, Twitter now has a lot of X-RATED material. I never saw that before on Twitter. I didn't go looking for it, it arrived in my email. The Tweet looked normal but scroll down and "there it is." WOW.WOW.WOW.

So now it's filling with porn, Nazis and Qbots.

Dani, is this a good thing?

I've used Visual Studio since about 1995. I took a look at VS Code and it fell short of the full Visio Studio so let's say you're right. Next stop is Microsoft themselves. But here's an idea. Sometimes I found I had to set the default associations of say html, htm and more back to stock. Didn't get to use Chrome. It had to be just as Microsoft set these on a clean install. Change the default browser to Chrome and debug broke. Such fun. But then again I had the full Visual Studio.

I think I need to add this: I won't setup a dev system to debug your issue. I will share what I ran into and what concerns I see.

Today the news is all access cards were disabled because Elon is afraid of sabotage to the servers.

Paranoia is part of dictatorships.

-> At first I thought there was some hope as Elon talked and then not about becoming more like WeChat. I don't know what you know about WeChat but it's quite the heavyweight elsewhere because people use it to buy things at the store and more. If only Elon had stuck to that as a new feature. History note: Elon's first hit was Paypal with a 1.5 billion dollar sale to Ebay in 2002.

Seems it's going to be a "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" or worse story now.

"it was never profitable" tells me it needs to go where such companies go when that happens. But the founders and more did make millions so maybe the goal of many companies isn't to be profitable over all.

Just make you a multi-millionaire.
Adding with edit: That last sentence was poorly written. Let's try this: The goal of many companies is to make a few people millionaires or maybe billionaires.

It could be you need the full Visual Studio and not the free VS Code. Visual Studio Code is an open source, free code editor that can be used with different programming languages like Angular, NodeJS, Java, JavaScript, C#, etc. VS Code can be integrated with git.

Try it with the full Visual Studio next time.

Or just phishing. Here's the message I received from another Daniweb member. I redacted their name:

It is my pleasure to contact you discreetly as to discuss a mutually beneficial business, I will want to have your trust and to go into partnership investment with you which must be built on confidentiality between us. I am the Financial Consultant with a China company my office is in charge of international fund management and international transfer to international contractors, building and handling of private contract worldwide. I am in the position to transfer the sum of US$30M of which I have written a memo informing the company that this fund belongs to a Contractor waiting to be paid his contract sum, I want to transfer and invest this fund into your company as an investment fund from China to your country. The fund will be shared on the ratio of 60-40%, 60% for me and 40% for you on the assistance rendered. Please note that this fund will not be investigated or recalled in the near feature as all document to move this fund to your account will be legally obtained. You are to send me your company's name and address with your banking details where you want the fund to be transferred to. As soon as you agree to my proposition, I will send you my number to reach me. I want you to keep this private to yourself. Your details is strictly for this transaction. Be assured that …

Since it's your app you get to design it from the ground up. There's not enough here for me to do this for you but I did give you the first two steps. Did you get either one done? Also, if you can't make any progress what about outsourcing the work or having others write it for you? Maybe you can buy such a thing.

I'm reminded of the question put to Warren Buffett which was "How does one manage a conglomerate?" The question was how Warren was able to manage companies with such a wide set of goals and disciplines. Warren said (this is from memory and rewritten as such) that you let the team that built the company continue to run the company. As long as they are performing well, you let them be.

The problem is that many ask for step by step often meant they want others to write it for them. My step by step would be to think how such would work and then automate it. Of course this would require the second step being to familiarize myself with the target platform API. Have you done these two first steps?

There's a list of advertisers that put ads on hold. But given the talent bleed, can it survive both problems of ad revenue and talent bleed?

It really doesn't matter as something else will take its place. Let nature take its course such as Darwin would say.
The last message to all employees surely will result in both departures and lawsuits.

The recent debacle at Twitter is not COVID related. It's Elon and soon after the purchase I immediately wondered if car makers would advertise on the Twitter platform. This was easy to see coming.

Since Elon has control over SpaceX, SpaceX bought a rather large ad package from Twitter. If the FTC and feds weren't paying attention before, they are now.

-> About Facebook. While the billions lost on the metaverse is interesting what I'm been meaning to ask is why that Daniweb Facebook page looks inactive. Facebook clicks and such were a big thing. Might still be. Or did that pass into the void?

Small world. We had two of those models at the insurance office and one of them the WiFi module failed. So at this point it's either:

1. Drivers. I doubt this model has Windows 11 drivers so try the last driver HP offered.
2. The WiFi card is dead or unsupported. For the office we replaced the card but for a quick fix we plugged in a USB WiFi adapter so the employee could finish their day and we fixed it later that day with a new card.

I'm reading https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cryptography_with_python/cryptography_with_python_quick_guide.htm and it does seem like it's easy to implement.

Elon Musk did impact social media marketing in a huge way. And the story isn't over as the list of those that market on Twitter haven't come back.

As to Facebook, their crash is not COVID related. Just an idea that the company CEO overinvested in and kept doubling down. To the tune of 9.4 Billion dollars. How does COVID play into that one?

Why isn't anyone here commenting on the multi-BILLION dollar meltdown in Social Media companies like Twitter and Facebook(Meta)?

Advertisers fled Twitter over the nonsense we've seen over the past month. From Forbes:

The metaverse has proven to be an unmitigated disaster for Meta, reporting $9.4 billion in losses in the division year-to-date (2022)

At the moment it looks like Google is the winner.

It appears you are dismissing BIGNUM for PHP.

Beyond that: "Sorry, but the SQL server is an SQL server, not a calculator." This means that numbers going in and out of the database will have to be managed to fit what MySQL offers.

I consider the problems you laid out here have been addressed. But the solution is you working the code and database to get there.

I don't see anything new here. To me it's all about your app dynamically adjusting to screen size, aspect ratio and rotation. All this should be part of your app or web design now. A folding display does not add anything new to the development cycle EXCEPT getting example devices into the add or web developer's hands for them to support.

One big problem. No one today would write that in any of the languages you listed. It would be web based with the usual backend and the frontend being a web browser. You might have to support smartphones too.

I have to ask if there's something untold here such as it's homework and what do you think such a system should be built with today.

Are you Mobi Wan? https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/adding-many-python-files-and-directories-to-a-single-dmg-file/

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

I see ideas at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74385397/multiple-python-files-and-folders-to-dmg-file
They mention macOS and py2app.

Since we have many systems today, try to add those tags or mention which OS.

Since you asked I went out and looked at both your site and then over to https://rytr.me/

Rytr is an AI writing assistant that in my comparison is the next step up to what I think your site was trying to accomplish. From Ryte they say:
"✉️ I can write sales and marketing emails that get replies
📝 I can provide ideas and write engaging content for blogs
📣 I can generate creative, catchy copies for social media
📦 I can write product, job, profile, video descriptions
📷 I can do interesting captions for your Instagram posts "

Maybe it's not a google algorithm but simply competition.

When I looked at rewriter I also took time to look at the new AI/ML writers. I think you may need to up your game.

As to spammer use, I can see that but sure, maybe it's for students too. That is, we know that teachers now run plagiarism checks so I would also guess this is an attempt to work around that. We all know students that have tried to pass off passages from Wikipedia as their own work.
So I'm still guessing what rewriter's market is as well as how well that stands up to today's newer AI writers. As to backlinks, don't those break over time and you have to continually work at that?

On Daniweb you should use the tagline in your profile. Due to changes since I last looked at that, maybe a note to Dani where it is now.

I looked at your site and for me it's nothing I'd use.

Is this used to spam sites with article posts for SEO or something else? It seems that such a tool would be in the domain of spam creation.

Explain to me as a seasoned coder what this tool is for since at first glance it doesn't seem useful.

My recurring fixes:

1. New batteries for the mouse (doesn't always apply.)
2. Another mouse.
3. Rare but once in a while I find folk the increased the polling rate or tried other tweaks. Fix? Go back to stock.

This changed on W10 for me as well. I have to be in the Dropbox folder and right click then select Share. There is no "share dropbox link" in the right click menu.

Something may have been left out of the details. CD drives are readily available here. I can go on Amazon and get them. Maybe there's something of a cost or you don't have a tech to change the drive?
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00041196#AbT3 notes the 2300 which I found with a web search. These old printers come and go but sometimes you have to decide if it's time to upgrade the system or not.

But back to my question. Why can't you replace the CDRW drive? I think I personally replaced over a thousand over the years.

This IS why we must understand computer number formats and along that the limitations. As RJ and jwenting specifically pointed out that banks and such consider so many digits.

You wrote "So is it unsolved in php?" but did you:

1. Implement BIGNUM.
2. Scale your numbers.

Maybe you don't know what or how to scale your numbers.

Let's take US Currency. I can only give you a penny and nothing less in a physical transaction. So to avoid issues in Accounting. Wait, let me share I was one of many that authored accounting apps decades ago on dBase II. OK it's number formats are on the web at https://www.promotic.eu/en/pmdoc/Subsystems/Db/dBase/DataTypes.htm so that was at the time 16 digits or 1 quadrillion. So that number was large enough to notate most countries total currency to the penny without a decimal point.

Point: The entire system was set to compute down to the penny. When you would display or print you would use a function to format the output. This is just one example of scaling.

'3. For the number 0.000000000000000000075 did you try using scientific notation? (7.5e-20)

There are solutions.