Monthly Archives: March 2006

Mar 31

Some links

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IE Developer Toolbar is now in Beta 2

Debugging with Domiclipse a tutorial

InsideLotus has a top 5 reasons to use firefox .  I converted my tab enhancement from tabx to tab mix plus .  The progress bar in th tab title is really cool, I also like the tab title changes when the tab has not been visited yet. Jake is using FireBug with firefox that is a nice companion to Web Developer.

Also found a nice list of Yahoo! Widget’s by Jon Aquino
I am a little partial to the smiley face:
I wonder if Bruce would be interested:
Mar 29

Teamstudio Script Browser 2.0

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I am a little behind on Craig ‘s announcement of Script Browser 2.0 .   This script browser is a life saver.  If you write LotusScript code in script libraries then this tool is a must have.  It is just like the Object Browser in Visual Studio or Java Browser in Eclipse.  

Here is the list of new features:
  • Class member variables are now included in the tree.
  • Types are now included in the tree.
  • Local function variables are now included in the tree.
  • References to variables are now supported.
  • Multiple script browsers can be opened for different databases.
  • Database path is now displayed in the title bar.

All these features are really great.  My favorite is the types and local variables.  I do have a couple of improvements that I would like to see.
  1. Collapsed by default (window shade mode)
  2. Ability to refresh the browser without having to close and re-open
  3. Remember the placement for multiple windows.  I would like to see first opened window have a spot, and if the second is opened it would have it is last position.  If the first is closed the second would move to the first windows position.
  4. Option to display or hide private variables and methods, these should be hiden by default since they are unusable
Mar 20

Dad's Daughter

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No Greater Joy‘s March magazine just came in the mail and I usually read some of the articles, my wife reads it from cover to cover.  She was really intrigued by the "Dad’s Daughter" article.  As I read the article I started applying it to my own boys since I do not have any girls, yet!  Michael Pearl says

Raising daughters is not a good business deal. You make a twenty-year investment and then just up and give the whole thing away to an inexperienced boy who doesn
Mar 17

Quieting things down

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I had to quiet down the ’97 Saturn LS2 today.  It was running a little loud because of hole in the muffler .  The parts where only about $50 which was not bad. A Saturn muffler costs about $80, so I took the OEM model.  My life saver was a grinder for getting the clamp off and cutting the pipe.  The grinder is not something that I use that often and it is not that good of one, but it works.  I purchased it at Harbor Freight Tools for sharpening my lawnmower’s blades, but has been a nice tool to have.
Mar 16

SnT Thursday – Java & Domino Designer

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Yes, the Java editor in Domino is really bad.  So I do all of my development in eclipse, and have worked with the beta version of Domiclipse.  This tip has nothing to do with either, but with the Java editor in Domino.

Well I lied about doing ‘all’ of my development in eclipse because, when I need to do a quick change I make it in Designer.  Which leads to my biggest frustration about the Java editor in Designer. Not seeing all of the methods available for a given class, or the class not showing at all.  The problem is the editor is treating some text as a string, the compiler is handling it correctly because the code compiles and runs correct.  It is not all strings just the ones with \" in it.  Yes, that simple, and the fix is just as simple.  All I do is place // \" at the end of the line.

So if you have any Java that you import into Domino then please make sure that there is an even number of // \" on every line of your Java code!
Mar 07

Not Chad Smiley

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I have been noticing my name appearing on some blog rolls, the latest at Gregg Eldred.  Sorry for the confusion, but my name is Chad Schelfhout.  The smiley comes from a nickname that I received in college, thus ChadSmiley.   I am not offended at all, just wanted everyone to know the truth.  
Mar 02

SnT Thursday – Edit Document Fields from one to another

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For this tip I had to look back at the history of Edit Document Fields to find when this feature was added.  It became available in 5.0.0 when Edit Document Fields was upgraded to use the new formula options in ND 6.  The tip is allows me to be lazy and reduce my typing mistakes.

If you are not familiar, Edit Document Fields provides a means of up dating document fields without any agents.  It even displays the current value of the field that is being updated.  With 5.0 the ability to updated multiple documents was possible.  

For the tip lets say that I would like the ‘StoryTitle’ of the ‘Edit Document Fields 5.0.0 Code’ to have the same value as the ‘Edit Document Fields History’ document shown below.


The prompting for which field to change and the new value of the field happens before navigating through the documents.  


That is it!  Remember the default value of the field is determined base on the currently selected document.