Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --

Mal ,'War Stories'


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tommyrot - Jan 25, 2008 11:29:42 am PST #4523 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

tommyrot - Jan 25, 2008 11:33:30 am PST #4524 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, I had to add the following function to as asp.net page:

Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)

Response.ContentType = "application/ms-excel" Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=StandardReport.xls") DataList1.RenderControl(writer) end sub

This works fine (document opens as an excel spreasheet.) But now I want to modify the page to either output to excel or to regular html (using an if statement for the server-executed code). The problem is since my new subroutine overrides the Render function, I have to specify the content type and header for a normal http/html web page. I'm not sure what to use. So far I have this:

Response.ContentType = "text/html"
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "what goes here")

I think the first one is correct, but I don't know about the second. Googling has failed me so far because everything I've found is about the non-html exceptions (pef, etc.) Any guesses as to what this should be?

eta: Or I suppose it's possible that the

Protected Overrides Sub Render

messes things up more for http/html and I'd have to do more to fix it, in which case I might just have to have two versions of the page.

eta² OK, I gave up and made two separate pages. Pro'lly a bad idea to tell the compiler, "OK, I want to override this function - no wait, I don't."


msbelle - Jan 25, 2008 2:35:44 pm PST #4525 of 25501
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

On my iBook G4, anytime I start up from a shut down, my skype auto-starts. How can I make it stop doing that?


Jessica - Jan 25, 2008 2:42:21 pm PST #4526 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Right-click the Skype icon in the dock and unselect "open at login." I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally ticked that box for something ridonkulous like Photoshop that I really DON'T need opening every time I turn on the computer.


msbelle - Jan 25, 2008 2:49:13 pm PST #4527 of 25501
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

yeah, it is unchecked there.


brenda m - Jan 25, 2008 3:38:45 pm PST #4528 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

On a pc, you could run msconfig and turn it off that way - I assume there's some parallel process for the iBook.


§ ita § - Jan 25, 2008 4:02:02 pm PST #4529 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't know how to phrase this question.

I have an image I want to streak. If you imagine a selection with a raggedy right side, I want the right hand side of the image to be motions streaks of the selection itself. Does that make sense? Like you've dragged it across the canvas.

I have Paintshop Pro, Gimp, and Adobe CS3, and speak the languages in that order of familiarity.

OK. I gotta go put memory in my Powerbook.


Jessica - Jan 25, 2008 4:25:21 pm PST #4530 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

yeah, it is unchecked there

Hm, then I got nothing.


Theodosia - Jan 25, 2008 4:39:57 pm PST #4531 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

There's a Blur tool in Photoshop, ita. I'd try copying the picture layer, then either use the Blur manually OR use the Filter effects, there's a whole set of blur effects, which includes Motion, IIRC. Then you add a mask to that layer, and either have an abrupt dividing line between the blur and the clear portion, or else put in a gradient black-to-white on the mask so that it comes in gradually.


Liese S. - Jan 25, 2008 5:30:19 pm PST #4532 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Look at you, with your crazy schooling mad sskilz!