Friday, October 26. 2018

LDC #108: Using DVTs To Create Reliable Software

Writing new scripts can make tasks faster and easier than ever. Back in July, we talked about a script that can map endnotes in an HTML file to the correct page from which they came and move them there. This makes moving the endnotes to their proper positions faster and significantly easier than copy/pasting text around by hand. As we automate functions, we begin to rely on those functions working a specific, predictable way. If our scripts cannot be counted on to work correctly, then we didn’t really make anything faster or easier, did we?


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Posted by
Steven Horowitz
in Development at 16:50

Friday, October 19. 2018

LDC #107: All Our Filings In a Row

If you are anything like me, you may like looking in the past to see where you have been, which will hopefully allow you to figure out where you are going in the future. The more that I immerse myself in programming, the more documentation that I end up creating, just in order to know where I have been and what I have done before. As I program, I like to create documentation as I go along. It makes the process easier in the long run. Sometimes, however, I find myself having to pick up a project and having to create documentation from the start. It would be easier if someone had been keeping records all along, but if I have to know where I’ve been, I need to go through the whole process from the beginning.


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Posted by
Joshua Kwiatkowski
in Development at 17:04

Friday, October 12. 2018

LDC #106: RSS Monitor

A little while back I wrote a few blogs on the possibilities of background threads in Legato. For this week we are going to discuss using a Legato background thread to monitor the SEC’s RSS feed of filings. The script checks the SEC’s RSS feed and if a specific CIK is found in the feed, a message box showing the filing information is opened. This script could be adapted to work with any RSS feed, but as it stands the script can help you see when your company’s filings are disseminated to the public.

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Posted by
David Theis
in Development at 16:46

Friday, October 05. 2018

LDC #105: Dialog Boxes Part VI — Trackbar Control

Version Legato 1.1n (GoFiler 4.24a) introduced trackbar support. This is a Windows common control allowing for the adjustment of a visual slider. Trackbars are commonly employed to allow users to adjust things that have a range of values, such as the magnification of a document or image, the position inside a document, or the volume of the playback on an audio/video file. Trackbars are similar in many ways to scrollbar controls.

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Posted by
Scott Theis
in Development at 14:26
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