Hi
I seem to recollect that I already subjected this New Feature Request years ago, but I will take my chance at asking it again :-)
I find the "Format Selection to Columns" feature of JellyFish very handy at times.
Would it be possible to implement this in the FF Code Editor?
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Agent Ransack just refreshed my memory ... ???
Take a look here:
http://www.planetsquires.com/protect/forum/index.php?topic=3466.msg25228#msg25228
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Kind regards
May I please add my vote to this feature?
Thanks,
-John
Did you read this?
http://www.planetsquires.com/protect/forum/index.php?topic=3494.0
I think Paul stopped his C++ project too.
We can still use the PowerBasic Compiler for a long time in my opinion.
So we have to encourage Paul to reboot his FF4 project.
Klaas
I fully agree, Klaas!
Rolf
Hi Guys,
I haven't been doing much programming these days. The whole PowerBasic fiasco took a lot out of me. Hard to get motivated. I am still studying C++ (daily) but haven't posted on my C++ board in a long while. Just looking for that first small project to tackle to get into C++. I do have FF4 started. I won't do anymore work on it until I know for certain the direction PB is going.
Paul,
Please forgive my naivite, but I'm going along with FF and PB presuming that things will work out... I have to, my work is "turnaround" of businesses in trouble, and the only obstacle I see is people giving up.
PB may take awhile to straighten out, but so far, the fact that they've held on this long, to make all the typical initial mistakes, is heartening to me. Yes, they may ultimately hit more walls, but the thing I look for most is tenacity.
SO... I am continuing to program, and make my own mistakes, and ask for help, and presume that the goodness of Firefly will continue to be available, and that seeing such good being accomplished with FF might even encourage you to pick it up again.
No matter your decisions, I will continue to be thankful for what you've enabled me to achieve through FF.
Tuesday afternoon, I delivered "release 1" of a tool that enables an executive to generate a response to a customer's "Request for Quotation". A task that would take him 15 to 20 minutes to do manually and with the inevitable typos, he now does accurately in under 2 minutes. After I left his office, he did 4 Quotations in 10 minutes! I had hardly gotten back to my office!
I thought I was happy with the results, but you should have seen and heard him! His face was all smiles, and yesterday morning I heard him telling another executive how much time he was going to save with this tool. This guy's stress level has dropped so much, he looks 10 years younger!
I'm no programming genius - I just program utilities to eliminate time-wasting activities and reduce data errors and miscommunications. But the little that I accomplished wouldn't have been possible at all without PB and FF. ESPECIALLY FF!
I do hope you understand my blind faith in the future of these products. I will not give up. Period.
There's just too much good left in them!
-John
If we could give "Likes" on this forum I would give you a few for this comment, John.
Rolf
QuoteIf we could give "Likes" on this forum I would give you a few for this comment, John.
I totally agree.
Klaas
I too am in a state-owned company that faces closure due to endless corruption and politics.
You cannot imagine the negativity that breeds. Even the most positive people are now just like the rest.
Negativity breeds just more negativity
But, yes. It appears our salvation which was in the hands of Powerbasic may not come from Powerbasic.
But does that mean we are lost?
Firefly made an IMMENSE change in my life and my programming skills. But if we all lose hope then we are indeed lost.
Now, i have noted something about our company here down south, and that the true leaders are not just jumping ship like the rats do, they look for starting up similar alternative businesses when this places finally goes. And unfortunately it will soon.
So here i go with my same old argument. Since we cannot rely on PB, can we not re-evaluate the progress at FREEBASIC? Even if we can look into helping them setting up the needs that PB never could/would? Surely moving from a lost case to somthing thriving in a similar dialect is less difficult than trying to learn C++?