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Less the Thinker
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 by Admiral_CoeymanDo you ever wonder what people are thinking? It is often easy to believe that people do not think. You could even prove your point with a few cases here and there. To quote a little alien logic, I have sometimes “puzzled until my puzzler was sore.” And, I paraphrased that.
I’ve been doing a little contract work with javascript again. I find it much easier to make it as a stand up philosopher. You cannot directly get the coordinates of onscreen objects in javascript. What you can get is the offset between an object and its parent object on the screen. Loop through this and you eventually get the coordinate data that you actually wanted. Unless, that is, you have a system like mine and it generates exceptions every time you run the code. If it was easier, then nobody would have need of me.
I do understand this to a degree. Every object on your computer screen, running Microsoft Windows, is a window. All of the buttons and even the menu items are actually small windows that are attached to the window that is directly above them. Everything on your screen knows about its parent object but not about it’s ancestors past that. You have to walk up the chain to get the requested information. Why didn’t somebody write a java function that does that? Am I off the subject yet?
When my browser throws an error in the javascript that I am fighting with, it puts up an annoying window to yell at me. I start out by trying to let the browser keep running the javascript on the page because, if not, I will be unable to run the next test. Eventually, I tell it to stop running the scripts in the page. The next dozen times that it executes the code that it is not supposed to be running, the same window comes up and I have to kill the browser. “Killall -PICKAXE javascript” [Linux joke.]
So, what are people thinking? Maybe the problem is not what people are thinking but why they are thinking in the first place. Motive has a great influence on action. Why do people think some of the things that they think? I’m out of time and space to look into this subject.
