![]() ![]() Does Acrobat still prompt you to save it? If not, then Acrobat fixed the bad PDF file for you in the first save operation. This one is very easy to verify: Open the document, close and and save it. The most common one is that you are actually dealing with a corrupt PDF file, and Acrobat fixed it for you when you loaded it. There are different potential causes for that. ![]() If it does, then that means that the file was modified. Please tell me there's a setting to make this awful popup go away! adobecareĪcrobat does not prompt you to save a file if you just open it and close it without modifying it. I'll likely be limited to options already preset within the program.so really this post is directed DIRECTLY at Adobe. This is on my office computer as well, so I likely won't be able to run scripts or whatever other fancy fixes are suggested. I only got the prompt to save when I'd actually make changes to the document. The previous version of the program that I had did not give me this issue. ![]() This is a HUGE time-suck considering how frequently I use these functions. It's the same for just simply opening and closing a file. Then the prompt for "Do you want to save changes before closing?" pops up.WHY!? Click "Save." Click the "x" to close the newly saved file. I'd like to know if there's a way to disable the popup that says "Do you want to save changes before closing?"?įor example, I open a multi-page pdf. ![]()
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![]() ![]() first week with 4 days of the new year (this is iso 8601) In outlook 2010 you can set how to calculate the first week of a year in the settings of outlook-calendar-options. I think that there has to be an easier solution. Want to show the control in another form with 6 months in it. And it gets much more difficult to calculate this dynamically, for example if you So we had to draw 12 of these rectangles, calculate their positions (which might not be so easy) and so on. My userform is showing the monthCalendar-control with all 12 month. And when I browse to another month I have to select a day to calculate the week number again. The rectangle is in wrong position (could correct this…). paint-event and draws an rectangle in which you write the week numbers. If week 1 started on wednesday as 01 and sat was 04 then display number. Maybe MonthCalendar should display partial weeks. Year displayed by MonthCalendar will have 53 weeks I figure although I only looked at three in a row and all had 53 weeks in them. There is no year that has 52 weeks in it for MonthCalendar calendar used. Perhaps first full week of January 2016 per ISO 8601 begins with 04 Jan. In dotNet Framework week 1 begins with December 28th in 2015. So, according to this, week 1 begins with Jannuary 4th. In 2016 the first Thursday is Jannuary 7th. Iso 8601 says the first week is the week containing the first Thursday of a year. Well, you think that it is correct that one single week has two week numbers?ĭo you know about iso 8601? Look at this: WeekNumbers.Location = New Point(Width - 247, 50) Protected Overrides Sub OnSizeChanged(e As System.EventArgs) Protected Overrides Sub OnDateChanged(drevent As ) Loop While FirstWeek.DayOfWeek DayOfWeek.ThursdayĮlseIf FirstWeek.DayOfWeek DayOfWeek.Thursdayĭim WeekNumber As Integer = DatePart(DateInterval.WeekOfYear, FirstWeek,, FirstWeekOfYear.FirstFourDays)Į.Graphics.DrawString(WeekNumber.ToString, Font, Brushes.Black, 2, Y) If FirstWeek.DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.Sunday OrElse FirstWeek.DayOfWeek > DayOfWeek.Thursday Then If FirstWeek.DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.Monday Then Private Sub WeekNumbers_Paint(sender As Object, e As ) Handles WeekNumbers.Paintĭim FirstWeek As New Date(SelectionStart.Year, SelectionStart.Month, 1) Private WithEvents WeekNumbers As New Control With However I haven't verified that it is accurate in all cases and so offer it as an idea only and not as fully tested code. I couldn't find any way to make the MonthCalendar use a different method to calculate the week number so I came up with this control which is a bit of a hack but appears to work ok. MsgBox(d.ToString("dddd dd MMM yyyy") & " is week number: " & _ HaveĪ look at the following code for an example: Dim d As New Date(2018, 12, 30) This appeared to work ok in 2006 but I have just been looking at it again and it appears flawed. The DatePart function provides a way to determine the week number for any date with an overload which claims to do so in accordance with ISO 8601. Your own posts is not considered good forum are quite right - there is a problem.ĭiscussion about this many years ago and it became clear that there are several ways of looking at week number, some of which involve having weeks with less than 7 days. ![]() ![]() ![]() In my opinion, the game, which monetizes through in-app purchases, has a real chance at becoming the kind of game that goes beyond gaming. 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Whatever the unique confluence of elements is here, the game is so addicting that many hardcore fans theorize that mobile users are able to answer quicker, which also amps up user engagement. “We are at the crossroads of the Interest graph and the social graph ,” Nouzareth says, “The game is different based on how old you are. And musical taste is something that humans love to talk about “Oh I hate Kanye!”,”I only listen to indie rock” or “I lurvvvved Pat Benatar!!!” In fact, someone came up to me at a party this weekend and brought up the one (!) game I had played with him first thing. ![]() It sets up a defined protocol, structure and plan for human interaction. Song Pop in it’s current version is great for smalltalk. It offers up five songs in universally known genres like Ultimate 90s, Classic Rap and Love Songs which users race each other in order to recognize first. While Song Pop is indeed a little less personal, it also has lower barriers to entry than Draw Something. Draw Something in particular offered, through the act of drawing and guessing, a way for users to open up and bond through the app’s facilitated creativity. So what’s driving Song Pop’s success? Well the feature that Arrington calls “simulated synchronous gameplay” turns out to be exceptionally good for online flirting, both sexually and not sexually (like in a friendship way guys!), the game play equivalent of Pair’s ThumbKiss. Well, a gushing post on the personal blog of TechCrunch founder and angel investor Arrington surely can’t hurt. “You can’t get more lucky than getting your startup featured on Facebook founder’s status update!” wrote one commenter. True, the startup has had a fortuitous thumbs up from Zuckerberg, and then was the subject of a surprisingly conceptual post about simulated synchronous gameplay from Arrington. For context, hit Angry Birds Friends is presently at 3.3 million daily active users. Though the game shows around 1.9 million daily active users on AppData, Nouzareth reveals that the real number is over 2 million because many people actually log in via their independent Song Pop accounts on iOS and Android. The space is ballooning to the point where there’s even a couples app for co-founders.Ī little over a month since its late May launch, breakout app Song Pop has hit 2 million daily active users, CEO Mathieu Nouzareth tells me. Facebook games like Song Pop and Draw Something and apps like Pair are discovering novel ways to get you to hook up connect online. 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