After reddit user techjp indicated that it might be awesome enough. As a result we added it to:
Frameworks:
* [🖼][p_win][⭐][a_all][💲](# "Some modules free; Some require $299+ license")[👽](# "Requires external dll") [Chilkat AXL](https://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/activex.asp) - Numerous useful ActiveX libraries hosted from a single zip.
WebTools:
* From Frameworks
* In `Chilkat AXL` find `HTTP`, `HTTPRequest`, `HTTPResponse`, `Auth*`, `OAuth*`, `REST`, `WebSocket` and numerous other useful web-related libraries.
This evening Kallum and I have been taking a look at it and we aren't certain it is awesome, so would like to put it to a vote. 5 votes and we will re-add it. I've added my vote to take into consideration techjps suggestion.
Reasons for removal:
The library does not follow any constructor naming conventions e.g. loadXYZ.
'Typical name convention
With new ChilkatCsv
.LoadFile(...)
End With
'Looks okay and expected
With ChilkatJson
.LoadString(...)
End with
'would have prefered LoadFile... but ok
With new ChilkatXml
.LoadXMLFile(...)
End Wit
'Convention not followed
With new ChilkatGzip
.ReadFile(...)
End With
'Convention not followed
With new ChilkatHttp
.PostJson(...)
End With
It is important for a framework to remain internally consistent, as this will reduce the learning curve of the library. This is especially important when
Very few examples
Again difficult to learn what is correct to do without good and full examples.
Poor error checking(?)
In order to get a feeling for the library I tried to parse a csv and set the column "c" to the sum of "a" and "b". This code didn't error, but it didn't modify the csv either... I'm a little unsure whether I'm doing the right thing or not, but the lack of errors sure don't help.
Sub t()
Dim x As New Chilkat_v9_5_0.ChilkatCsv
Call x.LoadFile("C:\Users\sancarn\Desktop\tbd\chilkatax-9.5.0-x64\_test.csv")
Dim i As Long: i = 1
For i = 1 To x.NumRows
Call x.SetCellByName(i, "c", x.GetCellByName(i, "a") + x.GetCellByName(i, "b"))
Next
Call x.SaveFile("C:\Users\sancarn\Desktop\tbd\chilkatax-9.5.0-x64\_test.csv")
End Sub
After reddit user techjp indicated that it might be awesome enough. As a result we added it to:
This evening Kallum and I have been taking a look at it and we aren't certain it is awesome, so would like to put it to a vote. 5 votes and we will re-add it. I've added my vote to take into consideration
techjpssuggestion.Reasons for removal:
The library does not follow any
constructornaming conventions e.g.loadXYZ.It is important for a framework to remain internally consistent, as this will reduce the learning curve of the library. This is especially important when
Very few examples
Again difficult to learn what is correct to do without good and full examples.
Poor error checking(?)
In order to get a feeling for the library I tried to parse a csv and set the column "c" to the sum of "a" and "b". This code didn't error, but it didn't modify the csv either... I'm a little unsure whether I'm doing the right thing or not, but the lack of errors sure don't help.