Rydal's .Net Clr

Selecting a node on right click

Rydal Williams — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:25:42 GMT

There are so many things that I see or have seen in my development career that are unexplainable. Its leaves me with a grunt face, going, why in the world did Microsoft do this? Anyway, I've been doing a lot of windows client development these days and I noticed that when using a tree view control with a context menu, the actual tree view node does not get selected when you right click, it keeps the last selected node. Here is a fix for that.

   1:  private void treeView_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)

   2:  {

   3:      if (e.Button != MouseButtons.Right)

   4:          return;

   5:      treeView.SelectedNode = treeView.GetNodeAt(e.X, e.Y);

   6:  }

The mind of a developer - mapped!

Rydal Williams — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:14:52 GMT

Mind of a web developer

What was I coding 6 years ago?

Rydal Williams — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:30:45 GMT

Amazing! While discussing some domain names earlier on in the day with another developer, I thought about a domain that I use to own and was developing a long time ago. Anyway, I had an idea and I wanted to bring it alive, somehow I got caught with other things and that idea never really prevailed. It was a memory brought alive because somehow I couldn't just let it go, so I decided to dig for the originally site and a few hours later I gave up, because digging through my 2TB storage is not fun, anyway, I strolled over to the archive.org and viola!

Amazingly, I found all of these cool things that I did a long time ago and now, it simply looks like crap but at the same time amazing. My favorite was my operating system that I started writing code named "SEKTOR", yes, I was that crazy and still is and YES, I got the name "SEKTOR" from Mortal Kombat the video game since I was a champ several times in a row before adulthood kicked in. My point is, it felt good to go back in time and see work that I have completely forgotten about. If you are interested, please feel free to take a sneak peek at my ex-operating system, well some of it...and my writing goodness! its plain BAD! I believe I'm somewhat better now. Assembly language looks like gibberish to me now but back then it was my C#, my forte.

http://web.archive.org/web/20021213041549/www.programmersnet.com/sektor/

Button element in IE vs FireFox behave differently

Rydal Williams — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:52:19 GMT

When are all the browsers going to unite? It's hard enough to build solid web applications within reasonable time. For as long as I've been building web applications, it would be a dare to say that every application that I build work in at least the top 3 major browsers, and that's because I learn something new everyday and it just doesn't happen that way.

Today while working on a new project for one of my clients, I was being all fancy by using the "Button" element which I don't normally do. Instead of using "<button>", I usually use "<input type=button". however, today I was going out of habit and to my surprise the "<button>" control does not work the same way across browsers.

Example, if you create a simple button control on a basic html form an perform a simple task on the onclick event such as a redirect, you will find out really quickly that it works perfectly fine in IE but not in FF.

<button onclick="window.location.href='somepage.html';">New Page</button>

It turns out that in FF, the default action for the button control is to submit a form, so you have to return false to use the button control for anything else other than submitting a form.

<button onclick="window.location.href='somepage.html';return false;">New Page</button>

weird huh?