Bastiaan en Lily's blog http://www.basenlily.nl/ Our new blog, still work in progress. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:20:40 +0100 English http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2010 Omnis and subwindows http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2010/03/07/omnis-and-subwindows/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2010/03/07/omnis-and-subwindows/ I've been way to busy lately to do any personal posts however today there was a topic on the Omnis discussion list about subwindows and communication between them and their parent windows that made me want to write a little something about it. The topic has come up many times in the past and since it is something I've done a lot with it seemed like a good idea to do a little sample library and add some explanation.

Subwindows are basically windows that are contained within another window. They are Omnis Studio's answer to be able to reuse visual components in multiple places in your application. This can be anything from a subwindow containing a single component/field to a subwindow that allows you to enter an entire record consisting of a dozen entry fields.

The problem herein is how to properly communicate between the subwindow and its parent window.
Object Orientation states that any object should not assume or directly influence another object that contains/uses it. That is the only way to guarantee an object can be reused in multiple places without any restrictions in the behavior of the object that uses it. A subwindow and it's parent however always have a symbiotic relationship in one form or another and some measure of communication between them is required. The parent window communicating with the subwindow is easy as this is simply done through public methods, but the subwindow (as it interacts directly with the user) communicating back to the parent, now their lies the problem.

]]> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Hacked... http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2010/01/21/hacked/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2010/01/21/hacked/ Yet again it's proved what a weird and wonderful place the internet is. We're not sure yet what happened but it seemed that someone installed some malicous tunneling software on our server, god only knows what sortah trouble these guys where up to.

We had to shut some parts of the server down in order to clean up the mess and change some things hopefully to prevent a repeat. Unfortunately that meant my site and some others where down for a while.

Looks like we're back up :)

]]> Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Happy newyear everyone! http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2010/01/03/happy-newyear-everyone/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2010/01/03/happy-newyear-everyone/ Couple of days late but I still want to wish everyone a Happy Newyear! We've had a busy couple of days and I have many more busy days ahead of me... Hope to have time for my little blog again soon...

]]> Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Family photoshoot http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/12/24/family-photoshoot/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/12/24/family-photoshoot/ Last weekend we were walking around the Lane Cove Plaza and there was a little fair going on. One of the expositions was Chris Tudor's Christmas photoshoot stand. We had him take a few pictures of Blake and talked to him that we've wanted to do a small family photoshoot for a little while. From one thing came another and on Monday we were at his home taking pictures which turned out to be a very pleasant experience.

]]> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Tax troubles part #3 http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/12/04/tax-troubles-part-3/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/12/04/tax-troubles-part-3/ Whow, this was a hefty week on the subject of Dutch Tax. My heart sank to an absolute low in the middle of the week but the end result seems to be a positive conclusion after all.

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 ATM interface irritation :D http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/30/atm-interface-irritation-d/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/30/atm-interface-irritation-d/ I'm sure one could write a book on ATM interfaces and how bad they are. I'm not going to do that though the realization as an IT person is that I rather have people who haven't got an inkling of proper interfaces but are geniusses on safeguarding electronic money transfers writing the ATM software then the other way around :)

I'm just going to rant a few lines on a very simple thing that not only applies to ATMs but to many other scenarios as well..

]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Searching and looping lists http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/26/searching-and-looping-lists/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/26/searching-and-looping-lists/ Some months back there was a discussion on the Omnis lists on how to navigate lists in Omnis Studio effectively. That discussion lead to some interesting discussion given by several people and I've been wanting to summize them on my blog for some time but never got around to it. Even today I don't have time to do a proper writeup but since I just wrote a routine I wanted to share I've decided to do a quick post about these.

I specifically thank Kelly Burgess who gave some great tips on this subject

]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Tax troubles part #2 http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/24/tax-troubles-part-2/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/24/tax-troubles-part-2/ Well at least we got one step further in this ordeal. Called the tax department again last night. They hadn't received my letters, atleast according to what the guy could see though I would have expected the first one to have arrived at least. They probably ended up at the wrong persons desk. Alas.

The good news though is that my initial phonecall has bore fruit so my well meant thanks go out to the lovely lady that helped me that night/morning.

]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Involuntary tax evasion http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/17/involuntary-tax-evasion/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/11/17/involuntary-tax-evasion/ I haven't blogged in a while not for lack of wanting but because I've simply been way to busy. Having two kids sounds like a good excuse but the reality in that is that I rather spend time with my kids then sit behind a dumb computer. Still it is indeed exhausting and there have been days that both myself and Lily are ready to pull our hair out. In that my hat is off to Lily, the amount of energy required to take care of our kids day in day out, I doubt I would do as good a job if I was in her shoes.

Work has kept me equally busy, Daniel went on his much deserved retirement a week or two back so it's been full hands on deck. Still we're doing some amazing stuff so I'm having the greatest time.

Unfortunately though, it isn't wanting to blog and give an update on how the family is doing that draws me back. It is pure frustration with the Dutch Tax System.
The rest of this blog post will therefor be in Dutch.

]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 A day at Taronga Zoo... http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/09/20/a-day-at-taronga-zoo/ http://www.basenlily.nl/blog/post/2009/09/20/a-day-at-taronga-zoo/ Finally I've got a little bit of time to write a family related post. I need to find some time to continue with my object posts but I'm sure I will soon.

The past few weeks have been pretty busy; Linsey getting fever for a couple of days due to some virus doing the rounds here and me not feeling honky dory as a result either didn't help much. Blake's been a real trooper so far without a sign of getting ill and is starting to sleep better and better; for a moment we thought Lily was getting sick as well but a good nights rest seems to have cured that. So it was time to treat the family to a much deserved outing..

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