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Comment by Rocky Oliver (LotusGeek) on November 15, 2011 at 9:55am

A follow on to Samuel's answer to Jake - the CHR function is really helpful in general - you can also use it for CR/LF (i.e. Carriage Return/Line Feed - basically what you get when you hit ENTER in a text field), where other ways of getting a return aren't as easy. The code for CR/LF is Chr(13) + Chr(10), respectively.

 

Also, you can easily get the numeric values for your font/font family by looking at CHARMAP in Win32/64 OSes, or by looking up the code table for ASCII.

 

In short, the £ symbol is CHR(156) - which returns a variant containing a string, or for explicit tex/string type casting, use CHR$(156) - the $ symbol is shorthand for the "string" data type.

 

Hope this helps!

 

--Rock

Comment by Rocky Oliver (LotusGeek) on November 15, 2011 at 9:42am

Hey fellow geeks (and future geeks as well ;) ) - I wanted to give a brief geeky-technical introduction so you would know my history, what I do, and some of the technologies I know.

 

I have been in IT for over 20 years (yeah, I'm older than most of you - I'm 47), mainly focused on collaborative technologies - primarily Lotus Notes/Domino, but also LAMP-architecture stacks, Microsoft technologies (both old and new), Relational/SQL dbs, multiple OSes (Win32/64, Mac OSX, Linux - mainly Debian flavored builds, and especially Ubuntu), Web 2.0 development (e.g. AJAX/JSON framworks, Javascript, Java, HTML, etc), and a ton more. I will never say I know it all, about any technology - but I can guarantee you if I don't know it, I know someone who does.

 

In the Lotus Notes/Domino arena I have worked for Lotus twice, in Product Development (first time was pre-IBM, second time was post-IBM). I have been a speaker at conferences around the world, written two books and contributed to a third, and used to be a tech editor/writer for a couple of magazines.

 

Finally, I've worked for huge companies, small pre-IPO startups, and I've had various businesses of my own. I am currently an independent consultant, because quite frankly it is paying the bills right now.

 

I think it is GREAT that this group was started, and I look forward to both helping others and learning more!

 

--Rocky Oliver (aka Rocky, Rock, or LotusGeek ;) )

Comment by Jake W. Andrews on May 11, 2011 at 2:23am

Hey, does anyone have any tips on starting out with PHP? I am applying for a low-level temporary/part time gig, and frankly I have no PHP experience to boot. Any resources or pointers (no pun intended)?

Comment by Jake W. Andrews on October 1, 2010 at 7:05pm

So far I have not done any programming to test it out, but I am sure I will have more questions.

Comment by Eoganacht on September 30, 2010 at 11:35pm

I think there's a on_change function for the text box, akin to on_click or dbl_click. You can then code something like LblLabel.Caption = "" in there so that whenever the text box changes the code will run. Any help?

Comment by Samuel H. Kenyon on September 30, 2010 at 2:00am

@Jake You should be able to use CHR$(number) where number is an ASCII code.

Comment by Jake W. Andrews on September 29, 2010 at 10:37pm

Here is my dumb question regarding visual basic. How do I code in special characters like the "£" into a label? and how do I clear out the labels whenever I change something in a text box? I have the money of the code written up for my class, I just want to do some of the "Special effects".

Comment by Yet Another Atheist on September 12, 2010 at 12:57am

I think we should add the Clients From Hell RSS feed here: http://clientsfromhell.net/rss

Comment by Yet Another Atheist on September 12, 2010 at 12:55am

Awesome, an atheist programmers group! I'm a freelance web designer and developer, but I'm more handy with code — PHP mostly, but also a little ASP (VBScript), as well as CSS, JavaScript (jQuery especially), SQL, and a bit of ActionScript. :)

Comment by Eoganacht on September 11, 2010 at 1:41am

I'm more of an amateur, VB, a little C# and various mod making, although I'm intending do a degree in it at Uni.
Good to find a group like this on TA.