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I spent 3 weeks trying to convert a list view into a table view. Docs didn't explain everything that needed to happen. Magic black box shit. Finally figured it out. A bunch of boiler plate shit that should of been documented somewhere, but not. Still kinda pissed that it took that long. Now that I understand I get why it took the code I wrote, but jeebus, write this shit down somewhere.
Also, don't get in the habit of denigrating yourself. You are a great work of art that gets revealed each day a bit more. -
@Gregozor2121 you should also try doing the parent for once
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@Oktokolo Dude. A WEEK. There are lots of one-hour periods and breaks and other things to do in a week. Of course it was not a single, contiguous interval of time.
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@endor
As long as the problem is not purged from the brain cache, new approaches might be doomed to fail because of fixation on not working but looking-like-it-should "solutions".
Fruitless hard-trying can contine for years that way. As long as the problem is present in your conscious mind, it distraction did not work.
Some people have a way harder time purging that caches than other people. Even sleeping may not be enough interruption. They have to do something that is mentally demanding enough, to get rid of the old research state. -
I bet you at least learnt a lot of other stuff during the week.
I don't know if this would help, but maybe you could try this when you've been stuck for a while. Try to find the simplest working implementation where the thing you are trying to use is used, or make one yourself. Then go from there to find out what you're doing differently. -
@Demolishun "You are a great work of art that gets revealed each day a bit more."
you stole that from a fortune cookie didn't you?
That or you write them for a living. -
@Wisecrack Don't you know, when you read fortune cookies, you are supposed to end it with "in bed"?
That's it. I'm fucking retarded. I'm just so fucking retarded. I'm so fucking supid, it makes me wonder why do I even keep trying. I'm not sure I even have the energy in my fingers to keep typing this stupid rant.
I've been banging my head against this stupid fucking issue for A WEEK. Digging into the documentation, trying different library versions, trying to move stuff around even if it didn't make sense, trying to use different approaches because maybe I was missing something, or maybe I didn't understand some concept.
Surely spawning a child function from a parent can't be that hard, right?
Nothing.
Even tried it on a different OS - who knows, maybe it's Windows doing some if its magic fuckery?
Still nothing.
"Wait, why am I calling this function directly instead of calling its parent?"
rant
just shoot me
can't fix stupid