MacroQuest64

Posted: **Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:53 pm**

flashg: i was intending to help you, not put you down :)

plazmic: i wish i owned an as/400.. though i do use one at school where i am taking advanced rpg. the freeform is now released, yes, you can start it with the /free tag. variables may have finally changed to case sensitive, but i dont think the syntax is sensitive. i always keep the caps lock on at school for readability purposes when the printer prints out the information, i guess if cobol is mandatory all uppercase it would be considered case sensitive, though you never have the problem of switching back and forth which seems to be confusing some of the end users. btw, rpg is the pwn for quick reports, cobol takes ten times more lines and is harder to read and learn, yet many businesses stick with the cobol age due to their respect for the knowledge of learning such a cryptic language. if you think macroquest is cryptic, check out some cobol :). the change is good, it will just take time to get used to, and the really old veterans will learn to live with it, but will probably never like it as much as the original. C is a good language to learn, it's just not as popular in major corporations as most people think... the reason businesses stick with cobol and rpg is because it's quicker to write than most c programs (in my limited experience)... as my advisor says (and i tend to agree): cobol is very cryptic, but what you learn besides the language syntax is what is very important. Besides, it's very marketable...

in_training: i didn't mean to jump down your throat so hard, but it just seemed like the right thing to do after a 16 hour shift at work (who wouldn't be jumpy in the retail business...)

oh yea, rpg is fixing to go through a major overhaul i hear... Rumors are ibm is going to make it object oriented in time, as well as try to speed up the java language (which is very slow atm, but corps have spent millions just trying to get it started during the HUGE hype in the late 90s). I really think that 4GL is going to come around sooner or later as high speed internet becomes more and more available and web code is getting harsher and harsher. I bet that one day a programmer will not even know what a function is. It will be just point and click (i will hate computers more than my grandparents that day). I have no respect for the easy programming, i just don't feel like it's an art after you can't see the code...

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:06 am**

Side note, I have 2 AS/400 as end tables on my game room... They rank up the with the pacman head-2-head table arcade game for conversation pieces.

Your games room sounds the same size as my house. Swap you. Lovely 2 bed on the Costa-del-England (Blackpool).

Anyways, some interesting replies - i'm about 50% through converting my macros, yes it's still bugging me - but the parser speed improvements have nearly made up for it :-p

MOTD

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:13 am**

My wife makes me put all the antique computers in the closet... though I've threatened to attach all the old circuit and mother boards to the wall as "art".

Do have an old, freestanding Spiderman arcade game in the boy's room that got given to us. He never plays it, but unfortunately my computer room is too small to hold it.

And having a fair idea of what a 2 bedroom in Blackpool is worth, I'll trade ya :)

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:59 am**

Okay, okay - i give in... perhaps is just better afterall. I am, however, the laziest mofo on the planet... so here is my cheapass way that i converted my 'larger' macro (i make HUGE use of vars and it was taking forever to weed out ones i forgot to declare... so i just declared them all... gotta love concatenate in Excel)

Anyway, i know how bad form this is, but it saves tons of time, just paste this into Sub Main, and find|replace $v with @v $t with @t (be carful of $target here) and $p with @Param

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/declare v1 global
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/declare t0 timer
/declare t1 timer
/declare t2 timer
/declare t3 timer
/declare t4 timer
/declare t5 timer
/declare t6 timer
/declare t7 timer
/declare t8 timer
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MOTD

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:06 am**

Good one M2, hehe but...

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/declare t0 timer
/declare t1 timer
/declare t2 timer
/declare t3 timer
/declare t4 timer
/declare t5 timer
/declare t6 timer
/declare t7 timer
/declare t8 timer
/declare t9 timer

That'll do ya :)

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:31 am**

lol.... THATS why ive been hanging... must learn to read docs!

Thanks hehe
MOTD

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 4:49 pm**

you forgot

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/declare l0 local
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Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:41 pm**

To add to the laziness, you could also ...

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#define p0 @Param0
#define p1 @Param1
#define p2 @Param2
#define p3 @Param3
#define p4 @Param4
#define p5 @Param5
#define p6 @Param6
#define p7 @Param7
#define p8 @Param8
#define p9 @Param9
#define p10 @Param10

before your Sub Main and then just change the $p's to @p (except for $pack)

Posted: **Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:29 am**

i tried adding the #defines you just suggested macrofiend, now my mino hero brew macro can't open it's merchant =( i don't know what the problem is either

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