JeffCoalfax:
thanks for your input. it's not like I don't understand it, I just don't know how it would apply to what I'm doing.
Which is something that you learn to figure out by actually playing with the devices. If you can't figure it out, then you truly don't understand it enough; it's that simple.
I'm trying real hard to understand your guys way of thinking, it occurred to me a long time ago that there are many different types of people and they all have different ways of understanding things. I'm sure I'm not the first person to come along that has a hard time understanding what you guys are saying, I'm sure those with thousands of posts have seen this many times my question is, do you run them off with banter such is this? or do you offer assistance? I for one think that a community such is this would be willing to help.
The responses certainly haven't been warm and friendly, but calling it banter is a bit of a stretch.
There are many people who come here and can't understand it after an explanation and that's understandable. The problem arises when there is an apparent lack of effort, which is why you see posts about how quickly you respond with "looked at it, still don't understand it" type responses.
myself, being an expert in other things and also being part of a web forum sort of like this I definitely don't answer questions with, "figure it out yourself we're just here to give you our opinion on how the site is supposed to be ran" attitude.
I'm trying real hard to have an upbeat attitude with the type of replies that I have gotten, but this cloak and dagger, "here's a piece of the puzzle see how it fits" doesn't really sit right with me.
Also a stretch. I think I characterized it pretty clearly when I said that we're not here to help you complete your project, we're here to teach you how to do it yourself. The overall forum philosophy is that people asking for help is akin to the student/teacher paradigm. If you're not comfortable with that type of help, then ignore it and wait to see if anyone with the knowledge you're looking for feels the same way that you do.
this code is such a small aspect of my project that I was hoping that it wouldn't be this difficult for someone to help me.
The difficulty isn't in helping you, it's on agreeing with what we define "help" as.