• (nodebb)

    if (frist==1) { theTextField.x=catButtonArray[frist-1].x-100; }

  • Mauron (unregistered)

    That reminds me when the company I work for decided to build their administration panel in Java, and of course picked the short-lived Microsoft Java dialect. When it was mercifully about to die, they thought to rebuild it with a modern technology: Flash. Halfway through, they went for a more crowds-platform and future proof solution: FLEX. I am still thanking whoever it was that kicking and screaming forced to rebuild the client once again, this time in plain o old xHTML. I am in my 40s but not nostalgic of that period AT ALL.

  • (nodebb)

    Now, Flash, like every UI technology, has a concept of "containers"- if you put a bunch of UI widgets inside a container, their positions (default) to being relative to the container.

    Like almost every UI technology... Plain Old Win32 native API template-based dialog boxes(1) don't have anything that really acts as a container like that, apart from the "move" part if you consider the dialog box itself to be the container. Certainly there's no explicit support for resize tracking.

    (1) Before you say it, yes, they are a UI technology. Not a very advanced one, to be sure, but they are a UI technology.

  • (nodebb)

    Let me tell you, music peaked during the years where I was most emotionally vulnerable. It's a complete coincidence, but it's true!

    Now get off my lawn.

  • Duke of New York (unregistered)

    Copy/paste is the only code generation tech you really need.

  • Brian R. (unregistered)

    And, based on the sheer passage of calendar time, we have a generation of adults whose nostalgia has latched onto Flash.

    Have you seen https://ruffle.rs ? :^)

  • xtal256 (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Every UI technology newer than 1995.

  • SomeDude (unregistered)

    Music peaked before I was born. The Beatles are not doing Super Bowl halftime shows.

  • (nodebb)

    I fondly remember when some sort of Adobe salesman tried to sell Flash as a perfect game engine to a bunch of professional game devs writing their code in C/C++ and Assembly. Because it's the thing of the future and nobody will write games in C/C++ in a decade. Gosh, we were bored those four long hours... but when do get paid for wasting you time like that and you are young, well, you just sit there and pretend to listen. Good old days.

  • Erk (unregistered)

    This reminds me of one of the most epic comments of my career (that also has aged extremely well).

    At the Stockholm Internet World Fair, 1999: What do you mean your web page can take information from a form and save it in a database? Who'd want that? You need more flash!

  • (nodebb) in reply to Mauron

    When I studied at TAFE (College here in Australia) back in 2000, one of our units was on networking with Novell Netware.

    At the time, it was Netware 5.x, Novell decided that they wanted a fancy new GUI for Netware, prior to 5.x you did it all using the Netware Console (fancy blue screen character driven for the most part), printers were managed using pconsole, or, you could install Netware Administrator onto a workstation to better manage the server.

    Come Netware 5.x, they introduced the GUI, do it all from the server they say, it's an awesome GUI they say, build it entirely in Java they did, slow as molasses it was, back to Netware Administrator on a workstation or Netware Console on the server we did.

    Worst mistake ever, that was the start of their downfall, Win2k Server with its new fancy Active Directory was basically the final nail in the coffin.

  • King (unregistered)

    I hope AI and LLM do not learn too much from this site..

  • Drak (unregistered) in reply to Erk

    Haha,

    we once took a .net 1.0 course, and the instructor was adamant that Javascript was obsolete now they had webforms.

    Then I showed him that webforms generated Javascript to actually work at all..

    Good times.

  • TheCPUWizard (unregistered)

    Ahhh... the memories, faded as they may be.... I seem to remember there being a rendering problem WHILE dragging and that certain things were no updated until the "drop"..

  • 'Flex' time (unregistered)

    I remember Flex. My first 'real' job out of college made a team full of fresh grads and interns and gave us their old configuration tool, written in Flex with a Java backend, to dust off and improve. This was right around the time that Adobe passed Flex off to Apache to die.

    I actually remember Flex relatively fondly, though it had the usual Adobe problem of eating too much memory and running like a morbidly obese man going uphill. It felt like basic html and javascript with a sprinkling of other technologies for flavor.

    Too bad it had breaking bugs with basic functionality like elements that scale to window size. At least it got replaced by (I think) an Angular app before Flash went the way of the Dodo.

  • (nodebb) in reply to ray73864
    ... Worst mistake ever, that was the start of their downfall...

    I'd almost say that the start of Novell's downfall was their disdain towards TCP/IP and refusing to adopt it. I seem to recall at one point even when they finally did, they were doing something really silly like wrapping IPX packets in TCP/IP packets and wondered why everyone hated using Netware due to it's slow shittiness. Also, I find it funny that at that time (ie: late 1990s, early 2000s) all the companies that were rather anti-Microsoft (or at least their competitors in some fields with them), but relied a lot on Windows existing just refused to write good native Windows software and used Java. Oracle was a huge offender. To all those kids out there that might be reading this Java back then was hot garbage, especially when GUIs were involved. It still is but the speed of hardware these days makes it seem like it's not.

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