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Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by dijit »

alphakappa wrote: post #19
cm2187 wrote: post #9

Lecturing on keyboard shortcuts when windows media player is the only video player in the world not using the space bar as a shortcut for play/pause.

Neither does YouTube, likely the most popular video playing entity today, respect the spacebar on iOS.

I think you’re mistaken, YouTube (in all the forms I use it with a keyboard at least) supports spacebar as a pause key.

Your browser might try to pop you down half a page if the thing that is selected or highlighted on the page is not the video player itself though. But it works 100% of the time in fullscreen.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by Izkata »

FroshKiller wrote: post #7
chapium wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.

It means physical beauty, like an attractive appearance.

Weird, I'd've guessed the opposite - the word looks as though it could've been related to "putrid".

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by jackewiehose »

cortesoft wrote: post #20
jackewiehose wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why? Because of the reported bug in this example (which I also encountered quite often): - user hits ESCAPE - my window gets key-down/ESCAPE and closes itself - your window (which happens to be the next in the focus-order) gets key-up/ESCAPE and closes itself > I also like being able to hold the key down to cue up a command and then at the right time, pull my hand away to execute crisply Ok, but if your window want…

What if the OS only sent key-up events to a window if it also received the corresponding key-down event?

Then we wouldn't have this conversation.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by redis_mlc »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #17
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have never come across the word before either. Makes you think - did the person say the word to convey some kind of meaning? Or to sound super-smart to their peers?

Knowing developers who choose to write above an 8th grade reading level for no reason... they used that word to feel superior and make everyone who reads it feel stupid.

Your comment says more about you than the author.

It was a rarely-used but well-known word in use in school in the 80s and 90s.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by iokevins »

EasyTiger_ wrote: post #14
chapium wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.

Have never come across the word before either. Makes you think - did the person say the word to convey some kind of meaning? Or to sound super-smart to their peers?

Alliteration. They wrote "paragon of pulchritude", which to me sounds like smart, dry humor. It works.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by leephillips »

EasyTiger_ wrote: post #14
chapium wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.

Have never come across the word before either. Makes you think - did the person say the word to convey some kind of meaning? Or to sound super-smart to their peers?

It could just be that the developer’s native language happens to be English, reads books, and he/she used a familiar word without thinking twice about it. Because this is, in fact, a fairly common word.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by skee0083 »

sn_master wrote: post #12
chris_wot wrote: post #10

This is why I love open source. In LibreOffice, cruft like this is often removed due to the embarrassment factor.

It was removed from Microsoft code too. This is an old snapshot of the code, almost two decades old. Since the 2002 TWC initiative, anything from easter eggs to things like that are all very strongly banned, and actively get removed as they're discovered.

Not surprising. No fun is allowed anywhere anymore. just dull flat interfaces with grey and black colors. people can say what they want about windows xp and vista but they had soul. todays OSes are souless. Looking at you windows 10..

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by dmurray »

cortesoft wrote: post #20
jackewiehose wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why? Because of the reported bug in this example (which I also encountered quite often): - user hits ESCAPE - my window gets key-down/ESCAPE and closes itself - your window (which happens to be the next in the focus-order) gets key-up/ESCAPE and closes itself > I also like being able to hold the key down to cue up a command and then at the right time, pull my hand away to execute crisply Ok, but if your window want…

What if the OS only sent key-up events to a window if it also received the corresponding key-down event?

Then you'd lose useful functionality like dragging a file from your file manager to an application window to open it there.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by throwawgler87 »

Izkata wrote: post #22
FroshKiller wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It means physical beauty, like an attractive appearance.

Weird, I'd've guessed the opposite - the word looks as though it could've been related to "putrid".

Understandable. The meaning is easy to grasp intuitively if you've studied Latin for a semester or two and happen to know the word "pulchra." If not, I'm having trouble thinking of any cognates in English that are in any kind of common parlance.
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