Store Bought Brains

January 16, 2008, 04:59:40 PM

I have been a programmer for a machine shop that runs CNC mills and Wire EDM’s for about 18 years now. I have a very limited knowledge of Visual Basic Programming that our CAM software uses as a macro language. I have written several macros for this software that further automates our machining process. One of them that we have been using for a few years now has just had an “anomaly” (ß read BUG) surface that we didn’t know was there. I’m unable to locate what is causing it so I contact tech support ( our company pays nearly $6000 a year for this support) and I send them all the files necessary to recreate this “anomaly” which includes the calling macro CreateKeyway500 shown below...

Sub CreateKeyway500()
Load frmKeyWay500
frmKeyWay500.Show
End Sub

That simply loads the FORM that is the REAL macro (frmKeyWay500)
And then displays the Form.

“frm” is the standard Visual Basic prefix for a FORM, the standard prefixes were the FIRST thing they taught us in the basic VB class!!

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The F’ing tech support guy who we pay $6000 a year to responds back that I failed to include the macro “frmKeyWay500” in my sample file to him so he is not able to recreate the problem. So instead he ran CreateKeyway500 macro!

WTF if he has HALF a brain he would see that “CreateKeyway500” is a simple two line macro that does nothing but load and display the form… IF CreateKeyway500 ran at all then he HAS the form!
My lord sometimes I really wonder where they find some of these people. And why the hell we pay them so much $

Next he’s going to ask me if I tried to reboot my computer.
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Store Bought Brains

Reply #1 – January 16, 2008, 05:30:01 PM

Ya just can't ever get away from em completely! Unless you get yourself an island! :hick: (honestly I think I could enjoy that.)

Store Bought Brains

Reply #2 – January 16, 2008, 06:14:11 PM

me too. I keep an engineer hat next to me at work, for those moments.