Tom Maier wrote:He's telling us this because it is what people have told him not to do.
My point was more that he neglected to ask a question. I assumed this to be a oversight.
People need to learn to ask what they want to know, not employ silly word games. For example, stupidly asked questions like "Does anyone know ..." deserve short answers like "Yes, surely someone does". Unfortunately on busy forums there is always some wannabe that can't resist the temptation to look smart and blurts out the answer anyway.
In this case, I just wanted to waste his time and delay gratification until he asked the question properly. However, I'm not likely to wade thru many lines of code, but that's the next issue. I was going to wait to mention that until after the question is a actual question. I don't really give a crap if anyone's sily-ass problem here is actually solved, but I do care about the quality of questions and answers here, so this method works just fine for me. Perhaps if it eventually becomes a comprehensible question that is easily understood, doesn't disrespect those he is seeking free help from, and isn't too much trouble to dig into, I might even answer it. Until then, we need to make this a frustrating experience by withholding any real help. If his game is "poor little me, oops, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that", he's never going to get any help, at least not from me.