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Striving to be a selfless positive influence on others in any way you're capable of - that has no match in religion, and that would be the point of life for someone nonreligious. You'd be of no use to humanity if you killed yourself. Think about that.

@Psycogeek I would say migrate it to the Android site.

@Bob could you show some sites that are recommending Chrome?

All Windows computers have IE, and all Mac OS X computers have Safari. Is that justification enough to support these two browsers first? I mean shouldn't it be based on what's more widely used rather than what's more readily available?

Don't they trust Firefox or Chrome or other competing browsers to let the websites function properly? Is there still an industrial-level mistrust on alternative browsers a user may install? (I would suppose tech support for a user on Mac would instruct the user to use Safari, which is IE's equivalent on OS X)

Of course you only see such messages in sites from early 2000s that are still around, but then if you call customer support related to many sites and tell them you're using Firefox or Chrome, their first response is "Please use Internet Explorer.". Are veteran web developers still making and maintaining sites to function properly on Internet Explorer first?

Something that baffled me but can't really ask as a question (it's opinion-based). Why do many web based companies prioritize Internet Explorer over other browsers? Quite often I find small fine print in sites saying "This site is best viewed on Internet Explorer with 1024 x 768 resolution."

oh, looks like the split vote count shows it. i can indeed see the actual negative score for a candidate using this feature even if the final score is just shown as no less than -1

out of curiosity, how did you determine the number of downvotes JG got?

actually i meant to refer to your point "negative votes are recorded not displayed". unless the script can query SE servers and fetch the negative vote count, it only has the information in the page code. the question is, does the page code have the negative vote counts even if they are not displayed?

so your script can detect the hidden downvotes? are they somehow encoded in the page even if hidden from display?

But, I see the vote count on one candidate is -1 but your script takes it as 1...

Never mind, figured it out. Right-click > Inspect Element > Console > Paste > Press Enter =) But I think there are bugs. Negative votes show as positive.

Is HopelessN00b serious about his "surly cruelty and snarky sarcasm" and "crushing users' spirits"?

So when you doubleclick file.myext your java program opens and displays the file contents?

@Mike Thanks for accepting :) So everything is working as intended right?

Didn't catch you when you got online. So now your Java app works and can open file when the file is double-clicked?

I also found out that if you use javaw, the System.out.println does not print to the command window. You have to use the java command for that. It will probably not allow your GUI to run, but it can show you that the arguments are working correctly.

Sorry, please change if (args.length == 1) { to if (args.length >= 1) { so that it works even if more than one argument is supplied (the other arguments will be ignored).

	public static void main (String[] args) {

		System.out.println ("args length = " + args.length);

		for (int i=0; i<args.length; i++) {
			System.out.println(args[i]);
		}

		if (args.length == 1) {
			myMethod(args[0]);
		}

	}

Here is the problem, the args array will have zero length if there are no arguments. You will need to have proper checks for the length of the array. Please try these in your main method (along with the necessary GUI stuff that would come before this code):

See you.

i'll do some testing in the meanwhile, and post results up in this chat

no problem.

hmm ok

23 hours later you mean?

(or your location)

?*

what time and time zone+

that's very strange, it shouldn't give an exception. even if there's no argument, the args[0] value would simply be a blank string.

when will you be online next?

oh, i actually need to go now.

hey, will you stay online for another hour or two?

which line gives exception?

also tell me if Testing file args[0] prints out.

try again.

see the myMethod(args[0]); there?

public static void main (String args[])
{
    set up your GUI and everything here first
    myMethod(args[0]); //this will open the incoming file
}

Actually I wanted you to split out the actual opening of file into myMethod so that you can re-use it in the main method.

Btw, does anything in your new myMethod depend on anything else? For example, does it have to wait for something to be setup, something that will surely be setup when user does File > Open, but may not be set up when the main method is executing on program start?

well then it should get printed out, especially if rest of the main method executes.

is it done before anything else?

hmm yes.

show me the code line that should supposedly print it

it's not printing out in the command window?

Where did you place the Testing: args[0]?

is the GUI running?

Oh, and please try File > Open even if the args[0] failed. You'll want to make sure myMethod works correctly.

(I hope you're only putting ... in your paths to truncate them here in superuser.)