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by stevedee
Monday 6th February 2023 8:13pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: ChatGPT: something to play with over Christmas
Replies: 8
Views: 16708

Re: ChatGPT: something to play with over Christmas

The AI race is on: Enter The Bard!

Google are about to release "Bard" as their AI Chatbot alternative, and it looks like Microsoft will shortly be rolling out ChatGPT on Bing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64546299
by stevedee
Friday 23rd December 2022 7:23pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: ChatGPT: something to play with over Christmas
Replies: 8
Views: 16708

Re: ChatGPT: something to play with over Christmas

Looks interesting, i wonder how it works... ...I tried Dim aStr(5) As String as i thought this was a method i didn't know about but i got "Syntax error" lol Yes it is interesting. This ChatBOT is very young and still has plenty to learn. I started to chat to it earlier; steve : do you und...
by stevedee
Friday 23rd December 2022 12:40pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: ChatGPT: something to play with over Christmas
Replies: 8
Views: 16708

ChatGPT: something to play with over Christmas

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot. Basically you can ask it questions and it will (hopefully) come back with sensible answers. For example, I asked: "How to cook rice" and this was its reply:- There are many ways to cook rice, but one of the most basic methods is as follows: Rinse the rice in a fin...
by stevedee
Thursday 10th November 2022 12:24pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Using an external editor
Replies: 7
Views: 3622

Re: Using an external editor

Median Joe wrote: Thursday 10th November 2022 11:34am ...I've been using vim for some years and it makes conventional editing hard work by comparison...
Why not try Geany: http://captainbodgit.blogspot.com/2019/ ... ambas.html
by stevedee
Thursday 31st March 2022 3:17pm
Forum: General
Topic: Splitter settings
Replies: 5
Views: 3135

Re: Splitter settings

Does anybody know what Splitter.Settings do? ... I think it just holds the same splitter data as .Layout For example, have a play with this:- Public Sub Form_Open() Dim iArray As Integer[] HSplit1.Layout = [50, 50] ' iArray = HSplit1.Layout iArray = HSplit1.Settings Me.Text = iArray[0] & "...
by stevedee
Wednesday 9th February 2022 10:14am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Can a Telegram channel be nice to help beginners?
Replies: 1
Views: 6749

Re: Can a Telegram channel be nice to help beginners?

I just want to collect opinions... I love Telegram, but I wouldn't use it for this. I left Facebook in 2020 and managed to talk my family & real friends (i.e. not my FB 'friends') into using Telegram for personal communications. I use an RSS feeder app on my phone to monitor any sites of intere...
by stevedee
Sunday 16th January 2022 12:29pm
Forum: General
Topic: sql apostrophe problem
Replies: 3
Views: 2549

Re: sql apostrophe problem

...But a search containing that string with the apostrophe escaped fails ...Any ideas would be welcome The apostrophe can be a real pain because there are so many that look the same, but are different. A quick look at an ASCII table and I see 5 'versions':- dec 39 dec 96 dec 145 dec 146 dec 180 ......
by stevedee
Tuesday 4th January 2022 10:18am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Where's the Farm?
Replies: 8
Views: 5082

Re: Where's the Farm?

PartierSP wrote: Tuesday 4th January 2022 10:10am I've been hoping to look through some more code examples and keep hearing about the "Gambas Farm" but have yet to find it. ...
Open the Gambas IDE then go menu Tools > Software Farm...
by stevedee
Sunday 2nd January 2022 10:56am
Forum: General
Topic: Finding positions to paint around a circle?
Replies: 9
Views: 6171

Re: Finding positions to paint around a circle?

OK, this simple code demonstrates positioning a circle marker in one quadrant of a larger circle. It just uses a Form, DrawingArea and a Timer; Public intAngle As Integer Public Sub Form_Open() End Public Sub dwgArea_Draw() Dim intRadius As Integer Dim fltXCosTheta As Float Dim fltYCosTheta As Float...
by stevedee
Sunday 2nd January 2022 9:21am
Forum: General
Topic: Finding positions to paint around a circle?
Replies: 9
Views: 6171

Re: Finding positions to paint around a circle?

...360 degrees divided by 60 places around the circumference But what commands would i use to get those positions? A rotating vector can be generated using trigonometry, so I think you use the Cosine of the angle to find the x & y points to draw your dots/marks/mini-circles. I'll try and genera...