Hi all, especially Mister_E and Darrel Taylor, you two are so far past me it makes me humble, wave both arms up and down and say, “I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy”. But enough praise less it goes to your heads. I really should re-video the post to boogerdigger that Darrel mentioned above. I have a much better camera now. Had a good one, it got stolen, bought a cheap one, couldn’t stand it, bought a nice one again… well you get the idea. I maintain the boogerdigger website as a place to post a quick page with no navigation. It is in memory of a child that past away. Booger Digger was her pet name and she was too young to know what it meant. (I called my oldest girl Pooter until she MADE me stop calling her that.)
The gate operator code that I paid Mister_E to write is really nice. You can easily change the access code from the keypad for a user. Five user codes (that are changeable), a master code and a change code (that are not changeable), and lots of comments that help it to be understandable make this a great program. So if you get stuck, like me - really, really stuck, then it may be best to hire a pro like Darrell or Mister_E to fix it. For me, it was worth the money. Sure, it is a hit to the pride, perhaps, to admit that you ‘just don’t get it’. I guess you have three choices. One, ask for free help on this forum. That is the majority of the posts. Two, hammer on it until you either get it or you give up. Now this step seems to take the longest as you will read every post and overpay for books that are of little use. Your electric bill will increase as you read late into the night. Every night. Obsessively. Or, Three, hire a pro if the project is important enough to you. Then you get to pick apart the code and see where you stumbled.
This forum really needs a place where you can post your “need this”, “lost-on-this-one”, or “HELP ME, I AM SO LOST” and get bids from the programmers who can do it. Like eBay or something. Darrel, do you take Paypal? Visa? Cases of beer?
I know. You are saying something like “I didn’t pay $250 for PBP so I can pay someone else to write my code”. So just how many programs have you bought over the years to get your copy of Windows to do something? But, of course, take the steps in order. Ask for free help. Do the very best that you possibly can to write the code yourself. Perhaps even read the manual. And when all else fails, when you reach the point of mental madness and your own family does not recognize you anymore, do as I did, write a check to a pro and get back what is left of your life. (At least until your next project.) This electronic stuff is so addictive it will suck all of the life out of you. Be very careful.