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Please help. Is the following sentences (about the menu/toobar customization in MS Office) correct or not from the grammar point of view?
Each menu item and toolbar button is associated with two nodes of the command tree: the first one describes the initial state of the item/button and all its child commands, and the second is responsible for the current state. Such a parallel data structure is used to implement the Reset command that is available for any command in its context menu.
Please help. Is the following sentences (about the menu/toobar customization in MS Office) correct or not from the grammar point of view?
Each menu item and toolbar button is associated with two nodes of the command tree: the first one describes the initial state of the item/button and all its child commands, and the second is responsible for the current state. Such a parallel data structure is used to implement the Reset command that is available for any command in its context menu.
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[nq:1]Hi folks, Please help. Is the following sentences (about the menu/toobarcustomization in MS Office) correct or not from the grammar ... [/nq] Reads okay, but what's a child command?
- [nq:1]Hi folks, Please help.
- Is the following sentences (about the menu/toobarcustomization in MS Office) correct or not from the grammar ...
- [/nq] Reads okay, but what's a child command?
- Adrian
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[nq:1]Hi folks, Please help. Is the following sentences (about the menu/toobarcustomization in MS Office) correct or not from the grammar ... a parallel data structure is used to implement the Resetcommand that is available for any command in its context menu.[/nq]
Reads okay, but what's a child command?
Adrian
Reads okay, but what's a child command?
Adrian
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[nq:1]Reads okay, but what's a child command?[/nq]
A command that's a child of the menu item in question. It's common when discussing tree (and graph) structures in computer science to speak of "parents" and "children" (or "mothers" and "daughters" for some reason nodes are never explicitly masculine), generalized to "ancestors" and "descendents", "siblings" ("sisters") and the like. Somewhat
A command that's a child of the menu item in question. It's common when discussing tree (and graph) structures in computer science to speak of "parents" and "children" (or "mothers" and "daughters" for some reason nodes are never explicitly masculine), generalized to "ancestors" and "descendents", "siblings" ("sisters") and the like. Somewhat
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[nq:1]Adrian Bailey filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]command Reads okay, but what's a child command?[/nq]
[nq:1]Toy soldiers. What's GI Joe?[/nq]
Coffee that's been swallowed. What's a sigmoidoscope?
Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories >A burro is an ***. A burrow is a
1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 >hole in the ground. As aPalo Alto, CA 94304 >journalist, you are expected to
[nq:2]command Reads okay, but what's a child command?[/nq]
[nq:1]Toy soldiers. What's GI Joe?[/nq]
Coffee that's been swallowed. What's a sigmoidoscope?
Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories >A burro is an ***. A burrow is a
1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 >hole in the ground. As aPalo Alto, CA 94304 >journalist, you are expected to
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[nq:2]Adrian Bailey filted: Toy soldiers. What's GI Joe?[/nq]
[nq:1]Coffee that's been swallowed. What's a sigmoidoscope?[/nq]
In a nutshell, a fatter and shorter colonoscope than a colonoscope. No electronics. It's piles of fun to be sigmoidoscoped.
wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
Quiet part of Hertfordshire
England
[nq:1]Coffee that's been swallowed. What's a sigmoidoscope?[/nq]
In a nutshell, a fatter and shorter colonoscope than a colonoscope. No electronics. It's piles of fun to be sigmoidoscoped.
wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
Quiet part of Hertfordshire
England
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[nq:2]Coffee that's been swallowed. What's a sigmoidoscope?[/nq]
[nq:1]In a nutshell, a fatter and shorter colonoscope than a colonoscope. No electronics. It's piles of fun to be sigmoidoscoped.[/nq]
Foul! Relevance. One-nil.
Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories >There are just two rules of
1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 >governance in a free society: MindPalo Alto, CA 9
[nq:1]In a nutshell, a fatter and shorter colonoscope than a colonoscope. No electronics. It's piles of fun to be sigmoidoscoped.[/nq]
Foul! Relevance. One-nil.
Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories >There are just two rules of
1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 >governance in a free society: MindPalo Alto, CA 9
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[nq:2]In a nutshell, a fatter and shorter colonoscope than a colonoscope. No electronics. It's piles of fun to be sigmoidoscoped.[/nq]
[nq:1]Foul! Relevance. One-nil.[/nq]
He put a pun in the second sentence so that should get partial credit. FWIW, the predecessor of the sigmoidoscope was the proctoscope, also known as "the silver stallion".
John Varela
(Trade "OLD" lamps for
[nq:1]Foul! Relevance. One-nil.[/nq]
He put a pun in the second sentence so that should get partial credit. FWIW, the predecessor of the sigmoidoscope was the proctoscope, also known as "the silver stallion".
John Varela
(Trade "OLD" lamps for
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[nq:2]Foul! Relevance. One-nil.[/nq]
[nq:1]He put a pun in the second sentence so that should get partial credit.[/nq]
It was a seriously unfunny pun!
[nq:1]FWIW, the predecessor of the sigmoidoscope was the proctoscope, also known as "the silver stallion".[/nq]
Altogether, now: "Those were the days, my friend..." - Mary Hopkins (1968?)
wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
Qu
[nq:1]He put a pun in the second sentence so that should get partial credit.[/nq]
It was a seriously unfunny pun!
[nq:1]FWIW, the predecessor of the sigmoidoscope was the proctoscope, also known as "the silver stallion".[/nq]
Altogether, now: "Those were the days, my friend..." - Mary Hopkins (1968?)
wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
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(snip)
[nq:1]In a nutshell, a fatter and shorter colonoscope than a colonoscope. No electronics. It's piles of fun to be sigmoidoscoped.[/nq]
I thought the stories about that sort of thing being pleasurable were just innuendo.
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[nq:1]In a nutshell, a fatter and shorter colonoscope than a colonoscope. No electronics. It's piles of fun to be sigmoidoscoped.[/nq]
I thought the stories about that sort of thing being pleasurable were just innuendo.
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