Hey Peter,

I'm very new to the programming world, and to VFP too.
It's only 5 years since I try to create some codes.

And I'm very thankful for this helpful, great and passionate community, that has been providing me such a great support during these last years.

>>You are one of the main people of Foxite, aren't you? I'm an advocate of the idea that it must be possible to link to solutions on other vfp-forums.

Nope !
I'm just an ordinary user there, if you check my profile there you'll see: "New member".

I'm brazilian, English is not native for me, and I don't feel very comfortable to write and express my opinions in English. For some times, I felt misunderstood, and in others I feel that I have to say the same things more than once to ensure people will understand what I mean.

For sure you'll notice that I in most cases answer questions here and in foxite when the subject is "image related". I have a special interest on this subject, and I feel that I can give a good contribution for people on this.

There are so many experts here and there, and as I feel myself a novice in most subjects, I just leave for them to answer, and I delight myself with so many great information these people provide.


I have a lot of fun with my blog.
In that space I post some of my creations and ideas.

I've been receiving many questions by e-mail, and many others appear in these forums.
To make things easier FOR ME, if I find that the answer deserves a more detailed explanation, I create a new post in my blog, and I just send a link in the forum.

My goal with my blog is just to put in just one place all information available about images, and GDI+. That's all. Recently, Tore Bleken posted a very cool function that he created, and I asked him if I could publish it in my blog too. He agreed, and I posted it there with his credits.


I preferred to post my answer to this specific thread started by Koen in my blog because it was image related, and that's it.
Koen and Naomi posted their answers here, and we continued here, without any problems.

>1) If all solutions we provide are published on our private weblogs only, then the idea of central knowledge bases that can easilly be searched is killed.

My goal is that my blog becomes a source of information for images / pictures / gdi+ with VFP.

>2) It hampers discussion. For example in this case your solution has several major and minor drawbacks that need to be mentioned. That could be done on your weblog, but I'd prefer to place my comments here for reasons that are obvious to me.

This is partially true, but as I told you before, if people prefer to continue discussing at the forum, I don't have any problem with this, as it happened in this thread. Some people send comments in the blog, and I try to answer the sooner I can.


>3) Providing a link to another forum is, ...
Peter, there has been a lot of discussion on this recently, and I don't think it's worth to start all over.


Regards

Cesar


>>Pls check this link:
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>>GETPICT() with thumbnails
>>http://weblogs.foxite.com/cesarchalom/archive/2007/06/27/4199.aspx
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>Hi Cesar,
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>You are one of the main people of Foxite, aren't you? I'm an advocate of the idea that it must be possible to link to solutions on other vfp-forums. It's my impression that the UT advocates that idea also. However, the policy of Foxite is different, as you must be aware of. That fact has so far no influence on UT's policy, and I appreciate that a lot.
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>I chose the link you provided and noticed that you link to your weblog, rather than to the foxite-forum. I also noticed that you have written the blog especcially for Koen Piller. Several thoughts came to my mind:
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>1) If all solutions we provide are published on our private weblogs only, then the idea of central knowledge bases that can easilly be searched is killed.
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>2) It hampers discussion. For example in this case your solution has several major and minor drawbacks that need to be mentioned. That could be done on your weblog, but I'd prefer to place my comments here for reasons that are obvious to me.
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>3) Providing a link to another forum is, as I see it, a legitimate means of helping someone in case that same question has been answered there beforehand. However, that was not the case here.
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>What's your opinion about my three thoughts?