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So, this is embarrassing.
Some of you will recall that I ranted about a piece of software (Phrase Express) a while back, like...8 weeks or so? (Recap: the developers are German; they do sell an English language version; I'd been trying to do an if-then-else scenario, which the software says it does and I'd hit a wall. With zero viewable documentation about what went where, right?)
I was sitting here on Sunday, staring at it and saying a few not-so-genteel things to it, when I accidentally clicked someplace...and lo, the answer was staring me right in the face.
What had happened, in reviewing it, is that I took a single word, that they said, LITERALLY. I simply read a sentence and thought that they meant X. They didn't mean X (X was something I had no idea how to do, or where to start); by X they meant varied functionality within the program.
Once I realized that X wasn't "X," but all this other s**t, it was EASY.
GRRRRRRRR. Two wasted months. I wanted to scream, but at least it's moving forward now. Note to self: stop being so literal. (I knew that if-then-else just couldn't be so damned complicated. I mean...it's basic fundamental logic, the basis for pretty much all DBMS manipulation. It was driving me crazy!)
Hitch
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