Alittle beta testing help please

**John** · 8th June 2005, 00:42

While I do the write up on the partly completed program can you guys have a play with it and see if you have any problems, you will need the .net framework (http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/), just post if you find a niggle.

I am aware of when removing a product from order it doesnt replenish the stock amount.

thanks in advance

p.s No there is no virus in this.

edit: Thanks ixion, now its a 0.0.2 beta

**HDTboy** · 8th June 2005, 00:52

I'll test your little beater, what do you beat with it?

**John** · 8th June 2005, 01:06

Originally Posted by HDTboy

I'll test your little beater, what do you beat with it?

Yea you can suck my cock any time you sexy beast

(I preferr woman though...)

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 01:08

Click update with nothing entered gives an unhandled exception (value canot be null, parameter item). You need to test that the item feld contains a valid value and raise an exception if it dowhen the button is clicke doesn't

**Waylander** · 8th June 2005, 01:12

I thought you said there was no virus in it?

Just look what it did to me!!! I've been made a clone!!!

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 01:12

Hm. I assumed that the file products.txt would be an ascii file containing product details? But it isn't this is what it contains

ÿÿÿÿ System.Collections.ArrayList _items_size_version 1
NInventory Tracker, Version=1.0.1985.2439, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null %Inventory_Tracker.container+productId idnamepricequanityinstockdetails

0

(the squares are just cos Notepad doesn't like displaying binary data). Is this what you expected ?

How is the program supposed to work. Entering product data and clicking add doesn't add a new item as I expected. Is there suposed to be a help system? Or a menu system ?

On a production system you'd want to make the text boxes for price and quantity smaller and ensure that only reasonable vlaues, correctly formatted can be entered

**John** · 8th June 2005, 01:13

Originally Posted by Ixion

Click update with nothing entered gives an unhandled exception (value canot be null, parameter item). You need to test that the item feld contains a valid value and raise an exception if it dowhen the button is clicke doesn't

I actually never thought of that

maybe I should run myself as a nulled exception

(thanks btw)

**John** · 8th June 2005, 01:31

Originally Posted by Ixion

Hm. I assumed that the file products.txt would be an ascii file containing product details? But it isn't this is what it contains

ÿÿÿÿ System.Collections.ArrayList _items_size_version 1
NInventory Tracker, Version=1.0.1985.2439, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null %Inventory_Tracker.container+productId idnamepricequanityinstockdetails

0

(the squares are just cos Notepad doesn't like displaying binary data). Is this what you expected ?

How is the program supposed to work. Entering product data and clicking add doesn't add a new item as I expected. Is there suposed to be a help system? Or a menu system ?

On a production system you'd want to make the text boxes for price and quantity smaller and ensure that only reasonable vlaues, correctly formatted can be entered

Sorry no its just a silly assignment for class - we arent allowed to go to nuts with it

Ah, we hadto use flat files so I basicly decided to serialize the data into the file to maintain the data structure 3dimensional arrays, would you like me to post the (very very messy code so you can have a gander?)

as for formatting if you try to enter a string in an integer box it just says check values we arent (:|) allowed to use proper error handling yet so yea, I could make sub functions for it but its such a little pointless program it seems pointless, I'm used to working with C# C+ PEARL PHP SQL etc So normally I write large large re: 10's of thousands of lines of code and this is like a little 300word essay so I havent really tried so its my fault that its so shit, but would it scare you that its the best in the class?

**John** · 8th June 2005, 01:37

Anyway thanks for your help It seems good enough for now just to get my marks

cheers.

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 02:09

Originally Posted by John

.., but would it scare you that its the best in the class?

Very scarey!.

I figured out the products.txt file, and was able to create an "order" for something. But I couldn't get the Process button to enable ? Should it.

I can break it very easily, but that's understandable if there is no error trapping. I do this every day (almost), and if it can be broken I'll break it. But for a little example proggy like this it's not really sensible to test to commercial standards.

**John** · 8th June 2005, 13:40

Yea, I'm now moving to third year level now(only 4 months into course) , he said I am making the code to complicated and then found out that I can program in C# + C+ then asked why I even bothered comming here, I agree.
Ah, the products.txt is just a holder for the products that you add to the inventory the programs pathetic I hate it, I will let you have a play with some more of my stuff when I get it done..

Here is the program outline (proccess doesnt work btw I disabled it)

On another note, I am making a MSN/IRC type messenger system and was wondering if anyone would be interested in beta testing that - It is a basic VB server type application and would be for Kiwibiker (something for my portfolio)

**Gremlin** · 8th June 2005, 19:13

pity I didn't know about your abilities before and joined earlier then you could have "helped" me with my blasted compsci assignments...

Oh well, if I fail again then I might ask you...

**John** · 8th June 2005, 19:15

Originally Posted by Gremlin

pity I didn't know about your abilities before and joined earlier then you could have "helped" me with my blasted compsci assignments...

Oh well, if I fail again then I might ask you...

What are you doing work for, when you have a bike - abet a badly treated one