Bugger

[Michael C]

I spent a good deal of yesterday making a usercontrol that would display a
picture for me with scrollbars to scroll around the pic (getting the
scrollbars working nicely was what took most of the time). Today I found out
about the scrollable control and rewrote the whole thing in 10 lines of code
:(

Anyone with similar experiences?

[the.duckman]

When new to c# I went and wrote my own properrty dialoge which allowed
class feilds to be set via a user control. I had a great time using
reflection ect, (having coded c++ for 10 or so years I had never
encountered reflection before). And eventuly made a very nifty
controll.

Apon finishing it later that afternoon I discovered that
System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid was available it just wasn't in the
forms designer by default.

-dm

[the.duckman]

Ack Just remember some "buggers" from way back in the day (pre C# ).

1)
Wrote my own Super vga graphics mode module. It did proper bank
swapping for most major video cards and let me use super vga modes in
my dos apps.

Apon finishing Vesa Bios 2.0 came out with their virtual frame buffer.

2)
Wrote my own code to boot a my own project os from a disk partition
(quite a fews days down the track had only moderate sucsess) It was
getting so difficut I was about to give up the idea of writing an os
all-together.

Then I discovered lilo. Five minutes later I was bootting my operating
system from any disk.... Worst part was lilo was not new and had been
around for a while I just didn't think to use it.

3)
Wrote my own texture mapping/3d engine ala wolfensitne over half a
year..... (Was full of artifacts).

Then discoverd a new api that had recently been released
called....OpenGL. Half a day later I had spinning cubes and shaded
polygons...