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the code builds properly and works fine if you only want to calculate your budget once. but if you want to recalculate your budget, the second time through it does not read in the expenses from the file. the last line in the code (before ending the loop that encloses almost all of main) before return 0; is infile.close();
this should close the file so that it may be re-opened the second time through. if this line is not included, the program will crash because the file it is trying to read is already open. i can not figure out why it does not read in the expenses the second time through though. can anyone help?
below is the full code of this program. it is well commented, it builds, it runs, and i encourage any prospective helper to do so. please take your time and think about it for a while. i'm going to bed and i will find it tomorrow when i get up. thank you all for your time. it's greatly appreciated:
/********************************************************\ * Viaticus an Experimental Budget Calculator * * Authored by Ryan Wood Thanks to * * Chris Scrip and Michael Wood * * (C)2009 - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED * * * * This program calculates the budget of the user * *in Alabama by first asking the hours and pay rate * *for each week in a bi-weekly period. The program * *then takes the expenses from a file and * *calculates them, returning the surplus * *as a savings suggestion. * * * * Problems with this program include: * * 1. No user interface. * * 2. Calculates only Alabama users. * * 3. The user can not customize. * * 4. Alabama tax is slightly overstated. * * * * Last updated on October 8th 2009 * \********************************************************/ #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <iomanip> #include <cmath> #include <fstream> #include <limits> using namespace std; // calculateFica() - Calculate FICA tax. double calculateFica(double pay, int weeks) { double fica; if(pay * weeks < 106800) fica = pay * 0.0765; else fica = (106800 * .0765) / weeks; return fica; } // calculateState() - Calculate state tax. double calculateState(double pay, int weeks) { double al; if(pay * weeks <= 500) al = (pay * weeks * .02) / weeks; else if((pay * weeks > 500) && (pay * weeks <= 3000)) al = ((pay * weeks - 500) * .04 +10) / weeks; else al = ((pay * weeks - 3000) * .05 + 110) / weeks; return al; } // calculateFed() - Calculate federal tax. double calculateFed(double pay, int weeks) { double fed; if(pay <= 276) fed = 0; else if(pay > 276 && weeks <= 400) fed = ((pay - 276) * .10); else if(pay > 400 && pay <= 1392) fed = ((pay - 400) * .15 + 12.4); else if(pay > 1392 && pay <= 2559) fed = ((pay - 1392) * .25 + 161.20); else if (pay > 2559 && pay <= 6677) fed = ((pay - 2559) * .28 + 452.95); else if(pay > 6677 && pay <= 14423) fed = ((pay - 6677) * .33 + 1605.90); else fed = ((pay - 14423) * .35 + 4162.17); return fed; } // calculateTax() - Calculate the federal, state, and fica tax. void calculateTax(double pay, int weeks, double &fica, double &fed, double &al) { fica = calculateFica(pay, weeks); al = calculateState(pay, weeks); fed = calculateFed(pay, weeks); } // calculateGross() - Calculate gross income. double calculateGross(double hrs, double r) { double grosspay; if (hrs > 40) grosspay = (hrs - 40) * (1.5 * r) + (40 * r); else grosspay = hrs * r; return grosspay; } int main() { char choice; double hours1, hours2, tips; double grosspay1; double grosspay2; double grosspay; double rate, bamatax, fica, fedtax, Netincome; double savings, expense, totalExpenses; string expenseName; // use to read the name of the expense the user puts in the file int enter; ifstream infile; // stream for reading input from a file int wperyear = 26; //set wperyear to half of 52 char fileName[51]; cout << setprecision(2) << fixed << showpoint; cout << "\n\n\n\t\t\tWelcome to Viaticus 3.1" << endl << endl; cout << "Would you like to calculate your budget? [y/n] "; cin >> choice; // If the user input for choice is invalid, this code executes to error trap. while((choice != 'N') && (choice !='n') && (choice!='Y') && (choice !='y')) { cout << "invalid response. Restarting Program." << endl << endl; cout << "Would you like to calculate your budget? |Y|es or |N|o "; cin >> choice; continue; } // choice != ... // If the choice is Y/y this code executes while(choice == 'Y' || choice == 'y') { totalExpenses = 0; // Prompt the user to create the program's read in file cout << "\n\t\tTo use this software, Create a file that includes your expenses." << "\n\tusing the full path of the file, please enter the name of this file here: " << endl; cin >> fileName; infile.open(fileName); while(!infile.is_open()) // If the file still does not exist, this code executes and the program terminates { cout << "\n\tYou have incorrectly entered the name of your file. Please make sure the full file path is entered."; cin >> fileName; infile.open(fileName); } // Prompt the user to enter the total hours they worked in the first week of a two week period cout << "\nPlease enter total hours worked in the first week.\t"; cin >> hours1; // Prompt the user to enter the second week of hours worked cout << "Please enter total hours worked for the second week.\t"; cin >> hours2; // Prompt the user for their pay rate cout << "Please enter pay rate.\t\t\t\t\t"; cin >> rate; cout << "Please enter any non-taxed income\nyou have recieved that you would like to include.\t"; cin >> tips; // Use the function calculateGross to determine gross pay. grosspay1 = calculateGross(hours1, rate); grosspay2 = calculateGross(hours2, rate); // Set gross pay to be equal to the sum of the two times calculateGross was run. grosspay = grosspay1 + grosspay2; // Calculate the tax. calculateTax(grosspay, wperyear, fica, fedtax, bamatax); // Subtract taxes from gross pay and adds tips/non-taxed income for the net income Netincome = grosspay - fica - bamatax - fedtax + tips; // Show the user their gross income, taxes, and net income cout << "Gross Income = \t\t\t$" << grosspay << endl << endl; cout << "Fica tax = \t\t\t$" << fica << endl; cout << "Alabama Inc Tax = \t\t$" << bamatax << endl; cout << "Federal inc tax = \t\t$" << fedtax << endl << endl; cout << "Net/take home pay = \t\t$" << Netincome << endl << endl; // Read in expenses from a file and subtract them from net income. // The process is printed on the screen for the user to see. do { infile >> expenseName >> expense; if(!infile.eof()) { totalExpenses = expense + totalExpenses; cout << expenseName << "\t\t" << expense << "\t\t" << totalExpenses << endl; } } while (!infile.eof()); //end do/while loop // Tell the user thier total expenses cout << "\nYour total expenses for the two week period are:\t" << totalExpenses << endl << endl; // Calculate the savings or deficites of the user savings = Netincome - totalExpenses; // Determine if the user has money left over or not enough money to cover the expenses if(savings > 0) cout << "\tI recommend that you put the following in your savings account:\t" << savings << endl << endl; else cout << "\tI recomend that you lower your expenses by at least:\t" << savings * -1 << endl << endl; // Allow user to update choice so the program will terminate or run again. cout << "Would you like to re-calculate your budget? |Y|es or |N|o "; cin >> choice; // If the user enters an invalid choice, this code executes to error trap. while((choice != 'Y') && (choice != 'y') && (choice != 'N') && (choice != 'n')) { cout << "invalid response! Can't you follow directions? enter Y for Yes or N for No! "; cin >> choice; continue; } // choice != Y, y, N, n if(choice == 'Y' || choice == 'y') { cout << "\nViaticus is finished using your file." << endl; cout << "If you would like to alter your expenses before re-running Viaticus, please do so now." << endl; cout << "\nPress Enter to continue." << endl; // Close the input file so that the second time the program is run // the file is not still open and in use when infile.open is run. std::cin.ignore ( std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n' ); std::cin.get(); } infile.close(); } // Main Loop. choice == y, Y return 0; } | http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/147790-problem-with-a-loop-not-acting-the-way-intended/ | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | refinedweb | 1,261 | 63.9 |
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Learning Cocos2D
A Hands-On Guide to Building iOS
Games with Cocos2D, Box2D,
and Chipmunk
Rod Strougo
Ray Wenderlich claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the pub-
lisher
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Strougo, Rod, 1976-
Learning Cocos2D : a hands-on guide to building iOS games with
Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk / Rod Strougo, Ray Wenderlich.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-73562-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-321-73562-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. iPhone (Smartphone) —Programming. 2. iPad (Computer) —Programming.
3. Computer games—Programming. I. Wenderlich, Ray, 1980- II. Title.
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Mark Taub
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Dedicated to my wife, Agata.
—Rod
Dedicated to my wife, Vicki.
—Ray
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Contents at a Glance
Preface
xxi
Acknowledgments
xxxiii
About the Authors
xxxvii
I Getting Started with Cocos2D
1
1 Hello, Cocos2D
3
2 Hello, Space Viking
23
3 Introduction to Cocos2D Animations and Actions
57
4 Simple Collision Detection and the First Enemy
83
II More Enemies and More Fun
115
5 More Actions, Effects, and Cocos2D Scheduler
117
6 Text, Fonts, and the Written Word
151
III From Level to Game
167
7 Main Menu, Level Completed, and Credits
Scenes
169
8 Pump Up the Volume!
197
9 When the World Gets Bigger: Adding Scrolling
231
IV Physics Engines
277
10 Basic Game Physics: Adding Realism with
Box2D
279
11 Intermediate Game Physics: Modeling, Racing, and
Leaping
333
12 Advanced Game Physics: Even Better than the Real
Thing
375
13 The Chipmunk Physics Engine (No Alvin
Required)
419
Contents at a Glancex
V Particle Systems, Game Center, and
Performance
479
14 Particle Systems: Creating Fire, Snow, Ice, and
More
481
15 Achievements and Leaderboards with Game
Center
495
16 Performance Optimizations
545
17 Conclusion
565
A Principal Classes of Cocos2D
569
Index
571
Contents
Preface
xxi
Acknowledgments
xxxiii
About the Authors
xxxvii
I Getting Started with Cocos2D
1
1 Hello, Cocos2D
3
Downloading and Installing Cocos2D 4
Downloading Cocos2D 4
Installing the Cocos2D Templates 5
Creating Your First Cocos2D HelloWorld 6
Inspecting the Cocos2D Templates 6
Building the Cocos2D HelloWorld Project 7
Taking HelloWorld Further 9
Adding Movement 10
For the More Curious: Understanding the Cocos2D
HelloWorld 11
Scenes and Nodes 11
From the Beginning 14
Looking Further into the Cocos2D Source Code 18
Getting CCHelloWorld on Your iPhone or iPad 20
Letting Xcode Do Everything for You 20
Building for Your iPhone or iPad 21
Summary 22
Challenges 22
Creating the GameScene 32
Contentsxii
Commanding the Cocos2D Director 34
Adding Movement 35
Importing the Joystick Classes 35
Adding the Joystick and Buttons 36
Applying Joystick Movements to Ole the Viking 40
Texture Atlases 44
Technical Details of Textures and Texture
Atlases 45
Creating the Scene 1 Texture Atlas 48
Adding the Scene 1 Texture Atlas to Space
Viking 51
For the More Curious: Testing Out
CCSpriteBatchNode 52
Fixing Slow Performance on iPhone 3G and
Older Devices 53
Summary 54
Challenges 54
3 Introduction to Cocos2D Animations and
Actions
57
Animations in Cocos2D 57
Space Viking Design Basics 62
Actions and Animation Basics in Cocos2D 66
Using Property List Files to Store Animation Data 67
Organization, Constants, and Common Protocols 69
Creating the Constants File 71
Common Protocols File 72
The GameObject and GameCharacter Classes 74
Creating the GameObject 74
Creating the GameCharacter Class 80
Summary 82
Challenges 82
4 Simple Collision Detection and the First Enemy
83
Creating the Radar Dish and Viking Classes 83
Creating the RadarDish Class 83
Creating the Viking Class 90
Final Steps 105
The GameplayLayer Class 105
Contents xiii
Summary 112
Challenges 113
II More Enemies and More Fun
115
5 More Actions, Effects, and Cocos2D
Scheduler
117
Power-Ups 118
Mallet Power-Up 118
Health Power-Up 120
Space Cargo Ship 122
Enemy Robot 125
Creating the Enemy Robot 126
Adding the PhaserBullet 137
GameplayLayer and Viking Updates 141
Running Space Viking 144
For the More Curious: Effects in Cocos2D 145
Effects for Fun in Space Viking 146
Running the EffectsTest 148
Returning Sprites and Objects Back to Normal 149
Summary 149
Exercises and Challenges 149
6 Text, Fonts, and the Written Word
151
CCLabelTTF 151
Adding a Start Banner to Space Viking 152
Understanding Anchor Points and Alignment 153
CCLabelBMFont 155
Using Glyph Designer 156
Using the Hiero Font Builder Tool 156
Using CCLabelBMFont Class 159
For the More Curious: Live Debugging 160
Updating EnemyRobot 160
Updating GameplayLayer 163
Other Uses for Text Debugging 164
Summary 165
Challenges 165
Contentsxiv
III From Level to Game
167
7 Main Menu, Level Completed, and Credits
Scenes
169
Scenes in Cocos2D 169
Introducing the GameManager 170
Creating the GameManager 172
Menus in Cocos2D 179
Scene Organization and Images 180
Adding Images and Fonts for the Menus 181
Creating the Main Menu 182
Creating the MainMenuScene 182
MainMenuLayer class 183
Additional Menus and GameplayLayer 190
Importing the Intro, LevelComplete, Credits, and
Options Scenes and Layers 190
GameplayLayer 190
Changes to SpaceVikingAppDelegate 192
For the More Curious: The IntroLayer and LevelComplete
Classes 193
LevelCompleteLayer Class 194
Summary 195
Challenges 195
8 Pump Up the Volume!
197
Introducing CocosDenshion 197
Importing and Setting Up the Audio Filenames 198
Adding the Audio Files to Space Viking 198
Audio Constants 198
Synchronous versus Asynchronous Loading
of Audio 201
Adding Audio to GameManager 204
Adding the soundEngine to GameObjects 215
Adding Sounds to RadarDish and
SpaceCargoShip 216
Adding Sounds to EnemyRobot 219
Contents xv
Adding Sound Effects to Ole the Viking 222
Adding the Sound Method Calls in changeState for
Ole 226
Adding Music to the Menu Screen 228
Adding Music to Gameplay 228
Adding Music to the MainMenu 228
For the More Curious: If You Need More Audio
Control 229
Summary 230
Challenges 230
9 When the World Gets Bigger: Adding
Scrolling
231
Adding the Logic for a Larger World 232
Common Scrolling Problems 234
Creating a Larger World 235
Creating the Second Game Scene 236
Creating the Scrolling Layer 242
Scrolling with Parallax Layers 250
Scrolling to Infinity 252
Creating the Scrolling Layer 254
Creating the Platform Scene 263
Tile Maps 265
Installing the Tiled Tool 266
Creating the Tile Map 267
Cocos2D Compressed TiledMap Class 271
Adding a TileMap to a ParallaxNode 272
Summary 276
Challenges 276
IV Physics Engines
277
10 Basic Game Physics: Adding Realism with
Box2D
279
Getting Started 279
Mad Dreams of the Dead 281
Creating a New Scene 282
Contentsxvi
Adding Box2D Files to Your Project 284
Box2D Units 288
Hello, Box2D! 289
Creating a Box2D Object 292
Box2D Debug Drawing 295
Putting It All Together 296
Creating Ground 299
Basic Box2D Interaction and Decoration 302
Dragging Objects 304
Mass, Density, Friction, and Restitution 309
Decorating Your Box2D Bodies with Sprites 313
Making a Box2D Puzzle Game 320
Ramping It Up 324
Summary 332
Challenges 332
11 Intermediate Game Physics: Modeling, Racing, and
Leaping
333
Getting Started 334
Adding the Resource Files 334
Creating a Basic Box2D Scene 335
Creating a Cart with Box2D 346
Creating Custom Shapes with Box2D 346
Using Vertex Helper 348
Adding Wheels with Box2D Revolute Joints 352
Making the Cart Move and Jump 356
Making the Cart Move with the Accelerometer 356
Making It Scrollable 359
Forces and Impulses 368
Fixing the Tipping 368
Making the Cart Jump 369
More Responsive Direction Switching 373
Summary 374
Challenges 374
Contents xvii
12 Advanced Game Physics: Even Better than the Real
Thing
375
Joints and Ragdolls: Bringing Ole Back
into Action 376
Restricting Revolute Joints 376
Using Prismatic Joints 378
How to Create Multiple Bodies and Joints at the Right
Spots 378
Adding Ole: The Implementation 380
Adding Obstacles and Bridges 386
Adding a Bridge 386
Adding Spikes 390
An Improved Main Loop 394
The Boss Fight! 396
A Dangerous Digger 405
Finishing Touches: Adding a Cinematic Fight
Sequence 411
Summary 417
Challenges 417
13 The Chipmunk Physics Engine (No Alvin
Required)
419
What Is Chipmunk? 420
Chipmunk versus Box2D 420
Getting Started with Chipmunk 421
Adding Chipmunk into Your Project 426
Creating a Basic Chipmunk Scene 429
Adding Sprites and Making Them Move 438
Jumping by Directly Setting Velocity 444
Ground Movement by Setting Surface Velocity 445
Detecting Collisions with the Ground 445
Chipmunk Arbiter and Normals 446
Implementation—Collision Detection 446
Implementation—Movement and Jumping 450
Chipmunk and Constraints 455
Revolving Platforms 458
Pivot, Spring, and Normal Platforms 460
Contentsxviii
The Great Escape! 467
Following Ole 467
Laying Out the Platforms 468
Animating Ole 469
Music and Sound Effects 473
Adding the Background 474
Adding Win/Lose Conditions 476
Summary 477
Challenges 477
V Particle Systems, Game Center, and
Performance
479
14 Particle Systems: Creating Fire, Snow, Ice, and
More
481
Built-In Particle Systems 482
Running the Built-In Particle Systems 482
Making It Snow in the Desert 483
Getting Started with Particle Designer 485
A Quick Tour of Particle Designer 486
Creating and Adding a Particle System to
Space Viking 489
Adding the Engine Exhaust to Space Viking 490
Summary 494
Challenges 494
15 Achievements and Leaderboards with Game
Center
495
What Is Game Center? 495
Why Use Game Center? 497
Enabling Game Center for Your App 497
Obtain an iOS Developer Program Account 497
Create an App ID for Your App 498
Register Your App in iTunes Connect 501
Enable Game Center Support 505
Game Center Authentication 506
Make Sure Game Center Is Available 506
Contents xix
Try to Authenticate the Player 507
Keep Informed If Authentication Status
Changes 508
The Implementation 508
Setting Up Achievements 515
Adding Achievements into iTunes Connect 515
How Achievements Work 517
Implementing Achievements 518
Creating a Game State Class 519
Creating Helper Functions to Load and Save
Data 522
Modifying GCHelper to Send Achievements 524
Using GameState and GCHelper in
SpaceViking 530
Displaying Achievements within the App 534
Setting Up and Implementing Leaderboards 536
Setting up Leaderboards in iTunes Connect 536
How Leaderboards Work 538
Implementing Leaderboards 539
Displaying Leaderboards in-Game 540
Summary 543
Challenges 543
16 Performance Optimizations
545
CCSprite versus CCSpriteBatchNode 545
Testing the Performance Difference 550
Tips for Textures and Texture Atlases 551
Reusing CCSprites 552
Profiling within Cocos2D 554
Using Instruments to Find Performance
Bottlenecks 557
Time Profiler 558
OpenGL Driver Instrument 560
Summary 563
Challenges 563
Contentsxx
17 Conclusion
565
Where to Go from Here 567
Android and Beyond 567
Final Thoughts 568
A Principal Classes of Cocos2D
569
Index
571
Preface
So you want to be a game developer?
Developing games for the iPhone or iPad can be a lot of fun. It is one of the few
things we can do to feel like a kid again. Everyone, it seems, has an idea for a game,
and what better platform to develop for than the iPhone and iPad?
What stops most people from actually developing a game, though, is that game devel-
opment covers a wide swath of computer science skills—graphics, audio, networking—
and at times it can seem like you are drinking from a fire hose. When you are first
getting started, becoming comfortable with Objective-C can seem like a huge task,
especially if you start to look at things like OpenGL ES, OpenAL, and other lower-
level APIs for your game.
Writing a game for the iPhone and iPad does not have to be that difficult—and it
isn’t. To help simplify the task of building 2D games, look no further than Cocos2D.
You no longer have to deal with low-level OpenGL programming APIs to make
games for the iPhone, and you don’t need to be a math or physics expert. There’s a
much faster and easier way—use a free and popular open source game programming
framework called Cocos2D. Cocos2D is extremely fun and easy to use, and with it
you can skip the low-level details and focus on what makes your game different and
special!
This book teaches you how to use Cocos2D to make your own games, taking you
step by step through the process of making an actual game that’s on the App Store
right now! The game you build in this book is called Space Viking and is the story of a
kick-ass Viking transported to an alien planet. In the process of making the game, you
get hands-on experience with all of the most important elements in Cocos2D and see
how everything fits together to make a complete game.
Download the Game!
You can download Space Vikings from the App Store:
space-vikings/id400657526mt=8. The game is free, so go ahead and download it, start
playing around with it, and see if you’re good enough to get all of the achievements!
Think of this book as an epic-length tutorial, showing you how you can make a
real game with Cocos2D from the bottom up. You’ll be coding along with the book,
and we explain things step by step. By the time you’ve finished reading and working
Prefacexxii
through this book, you’ll have made a complete game. Best of all, you’ll have the con-
fidence and knowledge it takes to make your own.
Each chapter describes in detail a specific component within the game along with
the technology required to support it, be it a tile map editor or some effect we’re cre-
ating with Cocos2D, Box2D, or Chipmunk. Once an introduction to the functional-
ity and technology is complete, the chapter provides details on how the component
has been implemented within Space Viking. This combination of theory and real-world
implementation helps to fill the void left by other game-development books.
What Is Cocos2D?
Cocos2D () is an open source Objective-C framework for mak-
ing 2D games for the iOS and Mac OS X, which includes developing for the iPhone,
iPod touch, the iPad, and the Mac. Cocos2D can either be included as a library to
your project in Xcode or automatically added when you create a new game using the
included Cocos2D templates.
Cocos2D uses OpenGL ES for graphics rendering, giving you all of the speed and
performance of the graphics processor (GPU) on your device. Cocos2D includes a host
of other features and capabilities, which you’ll learn more about as you work through
the tutorial in this book.
Cocos2D started life as a Python framework for doing 2D games. In late 2008, it
was ported to the iPhone and rewritten in Objective-C. There are now additional
ports of Cocos2D to Ruby, Java (Android), and even Mono (C#/.NET).
Note
Cocos2D has an active and vibrant community of contributors and supporters. The
Cocos2D forums () are very active and an excellent
resource for learning and troubleshooting as well as keeping up to date on the latest
developments of Cocos2D.
Why You Should Use Cocos2D
Cocos2D lets you focus on your core game instead of on low-level APIs. The App
Store marketplace is very f luid and evolves rapidly. Prototyping and developing your
game quickly is crucial for success in the App Store, and Cocos2D is the best tool for
helping you quickly develop your game without getting bogged down trying to learn
OpenGL ES or OpenAL.
Cocos2D also includes a host of utility classes such as the
TextureCache
, which
automatically caches your graphics, providing for faster and smoother gameplay.
TextureCache
operates in the background and is one of the many functions of
Cocos2D that you don’t even have to know how to use; it functions transparently to
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you. Other useful utilities include font rendering, sprite sheets, a robust sound system,
and many more.
Cocos2D is a great prototyping tool. You can quickly make a game in as little as
an hour (or however long it takes you to read Chapter 2). You are reading this book
because you want to make games for the iPhone and iPad, and using Cocos2D is the
quickest way to get there—bar none.
Cocos2D Key Features
Still unsure if Cocos2D is right for you? Well, check out some of these amazing fea-
tures of Cocos2D that can make developing your next game a lot easier.
Actions
Actions are one of the most powerful features in Cocos2D. Actions allow you to
move, scale, and manipulate sprites and other objects with ease. As an example, to
smoothly move a space cargo ship across the screen 400 pixels to the right in 5 sec-
onds, all the code you need is:
CCAction *moveAction = [CCMoveBy actionWithDuration:5.0f
position:CGPointMake(400.0f,0.0f)];
[spaceCargoShipSprite runAction:moveAction];
That’s it; just two lines of code! Figure P.1 illustrates the
moveAction
on the space
cargo ship.
Figure P.1
Illustrating the effect of the moveAction on the Space
Cargo Ship sprite
There are many kinds of built-in actions in Cocos2D: rotate, scale, jump, blink,
fade, tint, animation, and more. You can also chain actions together and call custom
callbacks for neat effects with very little code.
Built-In Font Support
Cocos2D makes it very easy to deal with text, which is important for games in menu
systems, score displays, debugging, and more. Cocos2D includes support for embedded
TrueType fonts and also a fast bitmap font-rendering system, so you can display text to
the screen with just a few lines of code.
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An Extensive Effects Library
Cocos2D includes a powerful particle system that makes it easy to add cool effects such
as smoke, fire, rain, and snow to your games. Also, Cocos2D includes built-in effects,
such as f lip and fading, to transition between screens in your game.
Great for TileMap Games
Cocos2D includes built-in support for tile-mapped games, which is great when you
have a large game world made up of small reusable images. Cocos2D also makes it
easy to move the camera around to implement scrolling backgrounds or levels. Finally,
there is support for parallax scrolling, which gives your game the illusion of 3D depth
and perspective.
Audio/Sound Support
The sound engine included with Cocos2D allows for easy use of the power of OpenAL
without having to dive into the lower level APIs. With Cocos2D’s sound engine, you
can play background music or sound effects with just a single line of code!
Two Powerful Physics Engines
Also bundled with Cocos2D are two powerful physics engines, Box2D and Chipmunk,
both of which are fantastic for games. You can add a whole new level of realism to
your games and create entire new gameplay types by using game physics—without
having to be a math guru.
Important Concepts
Before we get started, it’s important to make sure you’re familiar with some important
concepts about Cocos2D and game programming in general.
Sprite
You will see the term sprite used often in game development. A sprite is an image
that can be moved independently of other images on the screen. A sprite could be
the player character, an enemy, or a larger image used in the background. In practice,
sprites are made from your PNG or PVRTC image files. Once loaded in memory, a
sprite is converted into a texture used by the iPhone GPU to render onscreen.
Singleton
A singleton is a special kind of Objective-C class, which can have only one instance. An
example of this is an iPhone app’s Application Delegate class, or the Director class in
Cocos2D. When you call a singleton instance in your code, you always get back the
one instance of this class, regardless of which class called it.
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OpenGL ES
OpenGL ES is a mobile version (ES stands for Embedded Systems) of the Open Graph-
ics Language (OpenGL). It is the closest you can get on the iPhone or iPad to sending
zeros and ones to the GPU. OpenGL ES is the fastest way to render graphics on the
iPhone or iPad, and due to its origin, it is a low-level API. If you are new to game
development, OpenGL ES can have a steep learning curve, but luckily you don’t need
to know OpenGL ES to use Cocos2D.
The two versions of OpenGL ES supported on the iPhone and iPad are 1.1 and 2.0.
There are plans in the Cocos2D roadmap to support OpenGL ES 2.0, although cur-
rently only version 1.1 is supported.
Languages and Screen Resolutions
Cocos2D is written in Objective-C, the same language as Cocoa Touch and the
majority of the Apple iOS APIs. In Objective-C it is important to understand some
basic memory-management techniques, as it is a good foundation for you to become
an efficient game developer on the iOS platform. Cocos2D supports all of the native
resolutions on the iOS devices, from the original iPhone to the iPad to the retina dis-
play on the iPhone 4.
2D versus 3D
You first learn to walk before you can run. The same is true for game development;
you have to learn how to make 2D games before diving into the deeper concepts of
3D games. There are some 3D effects and transitions in Cocos2D, such as a 3D wave
effect and an orbit camera move; however, most of the functionality is geared toward
2D games and graphics.
Cocos2D is designed for 2D games (hence the 2D in the name), as are the tutorials
and examples in this book. If you want to make 3D games, you should look into dif-
ferent frameworks, such as Unity, the Unreal Engine, or direct OpenGL.
The Game behind the Book: Space Viking
This book takes you through the process of creating a full-featured Cocos2D-based
game for the iPhone and iPad. The game you build in this book is called Space Viking.
If you want to try Space Viking now, you can download a free version of the game
from the App Store () and install it on your
iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
Of course, if you are more patient, you can build the game yourself and load it
onto your device after working through the chapters in this book. There is no greater
learning experience than having the ability to test a game as you’re building it. Not
only can you learn how to build a game, but you can also go back and tweak the code
a bit to change things around to see what sort of effect something has on the game-
play. Good things come to those who wait.
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This book teaches you how to use all of the features and capabilities of Cocos2D,
but more important, how to apply them to a real game. By the time you are done, you
will have the knowledge and experience needed to get your own game in the App
Store. The concepts you learn from building Space Viking apply to a variety of games
from action to puzzle.
Space Viking’s Story
Every game starts in the depths of your imagination, with a character and storyline
that gets transformed into a game. This is the story of Space Viking.
In the future, the descendants of Earth are forced into colonizing planets outside
our own solar system. In order to create hospitable environments, huge interplanetary
machines extract giant chunks of ice from Northern Europe and Greenland and send
it across the galaxy to these planets. Unbeknown to the scientists, one of these chunks
contains Ole the Viking, who eons ago fell into an icy river on his way home from
defeating barbarian tribes. Encased in an icy tomb for centuries, Ole awakens thou-
sands of years later—and light years from home—after being warmed by an alien sun,
as shown in Figure P.2.
Figure P.2
Ole awakens on the alien planet
You get to play as Ole the Viking and battle the aliens on this strange world in
hopes of finding a way to return Ole to his native land and time.
You control Ole’s movement to the right and left by using the thumb joystick on
the left side of the screen. On the right side are buttons for jumping and attacking. Ole
starts out with only his fists. In later levels Ole finds his trusty mallet, and you use the
accelerometer to control him in the physics levels.
Space Viking is an action and adventure game, with the emphasis on action. The goal
was to create a real game from the ground up so you could learn not only Cocos2D
but also how to use it in a real full-featured game. The idea for the game came from
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concept art that Eric Stevens, a graphic artist and fellow game devotee, developed ear-
lier when we were discussing game ideas to make next.
Space Viking consists of a number of levels, each of which demonstrates a specific
area of Cocos2D or gameplay type. For example, the first level is a side-scrolling beat
’em up, and the fourth level is a mine cart racing level that shows off the game physics
found in Box2D and Chipmunk. Our hope is that you can reuse parts of Space Viking
to make your own game once you’ve finished this book! That’s right: you can freely
reuse the code in this book to build your own game.
Organization of This Book
The goal of this book is to teach you about game development using Cocos2D as you
build Space Viking (and learn more about the quest and story of Ole the Viking). You
start with a simple level and some basic game mechanics and work your way up to
creating levels with physics and particle systems and finally to a complete game by the
end of the book.
First you learn the basics of Cocos2D and build a small level with basic running
and jumping movements for Ole. Part II shows you how to add animations, actions,
effects, and even text to Space Viking. Part III takes the game further, adding more
levels and scenes, sounds, and scrolling to the gameplay. In Part IV realism is brought
into the game with the Box2D and Chipmunk physics engines. Finally in Part V, you
learn how to add a particle system, add high scores, connect to social networks, and
debug and optimize Space Viking to round out some best practices for the games you
will build in the future.
There are 17 chapters and one appendix in the book, each dealing with a specific
area of creating Space Viking.
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Part I: Getting Started with Cocos2D
Learn how to get Cocos2D installed and start using it to create Space Viking.
Learn how to add animations and movements to Ole and his enemies.
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Chapter 1: Hello, Cocos2D
This chapter covers how to install Cocos2D framework and templates in
Xcode and some companion tools that make developing games easier. These
tools are freely available and facilitate the creation of the elements used by
Cocos2D.
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Chapter 2: Hello, Space Viking
Here you create the basic Space Viking game, which you build upon through-
out the book. You start out with just a basic Cocos2D template and add the
hero (Ole the Viking) to the scene. In the second part of this chapter, you add
the methods to handle the touch inputs, including moving Ole around and
making him jump.
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Chapter 3: Introduction to Cocos2D Animations and Actions
In this chapter, you learn how to make the game look much more realistic by
adding animations to Ole as he moves around the scene.
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Chapter 4: Simple Collision Detection and the First Enemy
In this chapter, you learn how to implement simple collision detection and
add the first enemy to your Space Viking game, so Ole can start to fight his
way off the planet!
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Part II: More Enemies and More Fun
Learn how to create more complex enemies for Ole to battle and in the process
learn about Cocos2D actions and effects. Finish up with a live, onscreen debug-
ging system using Cocos2D text capabilities.
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Chapter 5: More Actions, Effects, and Cocos2D Scheduler
Actions are a key concept in Cocos2D—they are an easy way to move objects
around, make them grow or disappear, and much more. In this chapter, you
put them in practice by adding power-ups and weapons to the level, and you
learn some other important Cocos2D capabilities, such as effects and the
scheduler.
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Chapter 6: Text, Fonts, and the Written Word
Most games have text in them at some point, and Space Viking is no exception.
In this chapter, you learn how to add text to your games using the different
methods available in Cocos2D.
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Part III: From Level to Game
Learn how to expand the Space Viking level into a full game by adding menus,
sound, and scrolling.
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Chapter 7: Main Menu, Level Completed, and Credits Scenes
Almost all games have more than one screen (or “scene,” as it’s called in
Cocos2D); there’s usually a main menu, main game scene, level completed,
and credits scene at the very least. In this chapter, you learn how to create
multiple scenes by implementing them in Space Viking!
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Chapter 8: Pump Up the Volume!
Adding sound effects and music to a game can make a huge difference.
Cocos2D makes it really easy with the CocosDenshion sound engine, so in
this chapter you give it a try!
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Chapter 9: When the World Gets Bigger: Adding Scrolling
A lot of games have a bigger world than can fit on one screen, so the world
needs to scroll as the player moves through it. This can be tricky to get right,
so this chapter shows you how by converting the beat-’em-up into a side-
scroller, using Cocos2D tile maps for improved performance.
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Part IV: Physics Engines
With the Box2D and Chipmunk physics engines that come with Cocos2D, you
can add some amazing effects to your games, such as gravity, realistic collisions,
and even ragdoll effects! In these chapters you get a chance to add some physics-
based levels to Space Viking, from simple to advanced!
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Chapter 10: Basic Game Physics: Adding Realism with Box2D
Just as Cocos2D makes it easy to make games for the iPhone without know-
ing low-level OpenGL details, Box2D makes it easy to add physics to your
game objects without having to be a math expert. In this chapter, you learn
how to get started with Box2D by making a fun puzzle game where objects
move according to gravity.
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Chapter 11: Intermediate Game Physics: Modeling, Racing, and
Leaping
This chapter shows you some of the really neat stuff you can do with Box2D
by making the start of a side-scrolling cart-racing game. In the process, you
learn how to model arbitrary shapes, add joints to restrict movement of phys-
ics bodies, and much more!
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Chapter 12: Advanced Game Physics: Even Better than the Real
Thing
In this chapter, you make the cart-racing level even more amazing by adding
spikes to dodge and an epic boss fight at the end. You learn more about joints,
how to detect collisions, and how to add enemy logic as well.
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Chapter 13: The Chipmunk Physics Engine (No Alvin Required)
The second physics engine that comes with Cocos2D, called Chipmunk, is
similar to Box2D. This chapter shows you how to use Chipmunk, compares it
to Box2D, and gives you hands-on practice by making a Metroid-style escape
level.
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Part V: Particle Systems, Game Center, and Performance
Learn how to quickly create and add particle systems to your games, how to
integrate with Apple’s Game Center for online leaderboards and achievements,
and some performance tips and tricks to keep your game running fast.
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Chapter 14: Particle Systems: Creating Fire, Snow, Ice, and More
Using Cocos2D’s particle system, you can add some amazing special effects to
your game—extremely easily! In this chapter, you learn how to use particle
systems to add some special effects to Space Viking, such as ship exhaust.
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Chapter 15: Achievements and Leaderboards with Game Center
With Apple’s Game Center, you can easily add achievements and leaderboards
to your games, which makes things more fun for players and also might help
you sell more copies! This chapter covers how to set things up in Space Viking,
step by step.
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Chapter 16: Performance Optimizations
In this chapter, you learn how to tackle some of the most common chal-
lenges and issues you will face in optimizing and getting the most out of your
Cocos2D game. You get hands-on experience debugging the most common
performance issues and applying solutions.
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Chapter 17: Conclusion
This final chapter recaps what you learned and describes where you can go
next: into 3D, using Cocos2D on other platforms such as Android, and more
advanced game-development topics.
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Appendix: Principal Classes of Cocos2D
The Appendix provides an overview of the main classes you will be using and
interacting with in Cocos2D.
By the time you’ve finished reading this book, you’ll have practical experience
making an awesome game from scratch! You can then take the concepts you’ve learned
(and even some of the code!) and use it to turn your own game into a reality.
Audience for This Book
The audience for this book includes developers who are put off by game-making
because they anticipate a long and complex learning curve. Many developers want to
write games but don’t know where to start with game development or the Cocos2D
framework. This book is a hands-on guide, which takes you from the very beginning of
using Cocos2D to applying the advanced physics concepts in Box2D and Chipmunk.
This book is targeted to developers interested in creating games for iOS devices,
including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The book assumes a basic understanding
of Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, and the Xcode tools. You are not expected to know
any lower-level APIs (Core Audio, OpenGL ES, etc.), as these are used internally by
Cocos2D.
Who This Book Is For
If you are already developing applications for the iPhone of other platform but want to
make a move from utility applications to games, then this book is for you. It builds on
the development knowledge you already have and leads you into game development by
describing the terminology, technology, and tools required as well as providing real-
world implementation examples.
Who This Book Isn’t For
If you already have a grasp of the workf low required to create a game or you have a
firm game idea that you know will require OpenGL ES for 3D graphics, then this is
not the book for you.
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It is expected that before you read this book you are already familiar with
Objective-C, C, Xcode, and Interface Builder. While the implementations described
in this book have been kept as simple as possible, and the use of C is limited, a firm
foundation in these languages is required.
The following books can help provide you with the grounding you need to work
through this book:
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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Third Edition, by Aaron Hillegass (Addison-
Wesley, 2008)
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Learning Objective-C 2.0 by Robert Clair (Addison-Wesley, 2011)
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Programming in Objective-C 2.0 by Stephen G. Kochan (Addison-Wesley, 2009)
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Cocoa Design Patterns by Erik M. Buck and Donald A. Yacktman (Addison-
Wesley, 2009)
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The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook, Second Edition, by Erica Sadun (Addison-Wesley,
2010)
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Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac and iPhone Development by
Marcus Zarra and Matt Long (Addison-Wesley, 2010)
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iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Aaron Hillegass and Joe
Conway (Big Nerd Ranch, Inc., 2010)
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Learning iOS Game Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First iPhone
Game by Michael Daley (Addison-Wesley, 2011)
These books, along with other resources you’ll find on the web, will help you learn
more about how to program for the Mac and iPhone, giving you a deeper knowledge
about the Objective-C language and the Cocoa frameworks.
Source Code, Tutorial Videos, and Forums
Access to information is not limited only to the book. The complete, fully commented
source code for Space Viking is also included, along with video tutorials (available at) that take you visually through the concepts of each chapter.
There is plenty of code to review throughout the book, along with exercises for
you to try out, so it is assumed you have access to the Apple developer tools such as
Xcode and the iPhone SDK. Both of these can be downloaded from the Apple iPhone
Dev Center:.
If you want to work with your fellow students as you work through the book, feel
free to check out the book’s forums at.
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Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the hard work, support, and kindness
of the following people:
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First of all, thanks to our editor, Chuck Toporek, and his assistant, Olivia
Basegio. Chuck patiently helped and encouraged us during the entire process
(even though we are both first-time authors!) and has managed all of the work
it takes to convert a simple Word document into the actual book you’re holding
today. Olivia was extremely helpful through the entire process of keeping every-
one coordinated and the tech reviews coming in. Thanks again to both of you in
making this book a reality!
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Another person at Addison-Wesley whom we want to thank is Chuti Prasertsith,
who designed the cover for the book.
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A huge thanks to the lead developer and coordinator of Cocos2D, Ricardo
Quesada (also known as Riq), along with the other Cocos2D contributors,
such as Steve Oldmeadow and many others. Without Riq and his team’s hard
work and dedication to making Cocos2D into the amazing framework and
community that it is today, this book just wouldn’t exist. Also, we believe that
Cocos2D has made a huge positive difference in many people’s lives by enabling
them to accomplish a lifelong dream—to make their own games. Riq maintains
Cocos2D as his full-time job, so if you’d like to make a donation to thank him
for his hard work, you can do so at. Riq also sells
source code for his game Sapus Tongue and a great physics editor called Level-
SVG. You can find out more about both at.
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Also, thank you to Erin Catto (the lead developer of Box2D) and Scott Lembcke
(the lead developer of Chipmunk) for their work on their amazing physics librar-
ies. Similarly to Riq’s work on Cocos2D, Erin’s and Scott’s work has enabled
countless programmers to create cool physics-based games quickly and easily.
Erin and Scott are extremely dedicated to supporting their libraries and commu-
nity, and even kindly donated their time in reviewing the physics chapters of this
book. If you’d like to donate to Erin or Scott for their hard work on their librar-
ies, you can do so by following the links at and.
com/p/chipmunk-physics.
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A big thanks to Steve Oldmeadow, the lead developer of CocosDenshion, the
sound engine behind Cocos2D. Steve provided assistance and time in reviewing
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the chapter on audio. Steve’s work has allowed many game developers to quickly
and easily add music and sound effects to their games.
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Eric Stevens is an American fine artist who moonlights as a game illustrator.
Years of good times and bad music contributed to the initial concept of Space
Viking. Eric worked closely with us to bring Ole and everything you see in
Space Viking to life. Eric maintains an illustration site at, and
you can see his paintings at several galleries in the Southwest and at http://
ericstevensart.com.
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Mike Weiser is the musician who made the rocking soundtrack and sound effects
for Space Viking. We think the music made a huge difference in Space Viking and
really set the tone we were hoping for. A special thanks to Andrew Peplinski for
the Viking grunts and Rulon Brown for conducting the choir that you hear in
the beginning of the game. Mike has made music for lots of popular iOS games,
and you can check him out at.
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A huge thanks to our technical reviewers: Farim Farook, Marc Hebert, Mark
Hurley, Mike Leonardi, and Nick Waynik. These guys did a great job catching
all of our boneheaded mistakes and giving us some great advice on how to make
each chapter the best it could be. Thank you so much, guys!
Each of us also has some personal “thank yous” to make.
From Rod Strougo
I thank my wife and family for being ever patient while I was working on this book.
There were countless evenings when I was hidden away in my office writing, editing,
coding. Without Agata’s support and understanding, there is no way this book could
exist. Our older son, Alexander, was two and a half during the writing of this book,
and he helped beta test Space Viking, while Anton was born as I was finishing the last
chapters. Thank you for all the encouragement, love, and support, Agata.
I would also like to thank Ray for stepping in and writing the Box2D, Chipmunk,
and Game Center chapters. Ray did a fantastic job on in-depth coverage of Box2D
and Chipmunk, while adding some fun levels to Space Viking.
From Ray Wenderlich
First of all, a huge thank you to my wife and best friend, Vicki Wenderlich, for her
constant support, encouragement, and advice throughout this entire process. Without
her, I wouldn’t be making iOS apps today, and they definitely wouldn’t look as good!
Also, thank you to my amazing family. You believed in me through the ups and
downs of being an indie iOS developer and supported me the entire way. Thank you
so much!
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Finally, I thank all of the readers and supporters of my iOS tutorial blog at www.
raywenderlich.com. Without your interest, encouragement, and support, I wouldn’t
have been as motivated to keep writing all the tutorials and might have never had the
opportunity to write this book. Thank you so much for making this possible, and I
hope you enjoy this book!
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About the Authors
Rod Strougo is the founder and lead developer of the studio Prop Group at. Rod’s journey in physics and games started way back with an Apple ][,
writing games in Basic. From the early passion in games, Rod’s career moved to enter-
prise.
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Part I
Getting Started with
Cocos2D
Learn how to install Cocos2D and start using it to create Space Viking.
Learn how to add animations and movements to Ole the Viking and his
enemies.
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Chapter 1: “Hello, Cocos2D”
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Chapter 2: “Hello, Space Viking”
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Chapter 3: “Introduction to Cocos2D Animations and Actions”
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Chapter 4: “Simple Collision Detection and the First Enemy”
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Hello, Cocos2D
Coc.
Note
It is assumed you have already signed up for Apple’s iPhone Developer program and
downloaded and installed Xcode on your Mac. You should also have some knowledge of
Objective-C syntax. For more information and references on how to get started with these,
please see the preface.
Chapter 1 Hello, Cocos2D4
This chapter walks you through the process of downloading and installing Cocos2D and inte-
grating it with Xcode. Once Cocos2D is installed, you’ll build a simple HelloWorld app and test
it in the iPhone Simulator. You will learn exactly what each line in the HelloWorld program does
as well as how to get HelloWorld on your iOS device.
Ready? Okay then, let’s get started!
Downloading and Installing Cocos2D
This section walks you through the process of downloading and installing Cocos2D.
Before you can start creating your first Cocos2D game, you need to download
Cocos2D and get the templates installed in Xcode.
Downloading Cocos2D
The official Cocos2D project is hosted on GitHub, but the latest stable and tested
releases are available from the Cocos2D homepage under the download tab at. Figure 1.2 shows the Cocos2D download page.
Figure 1.2
Cocos2D homepage showing the download section
To get Cocos2D on your Mac:
1. Create a folder called Cocos2D on your Mac and download the latest stable ver-
sion that you see on the site.
2. Double-click on the gzipped tar file, and Finder will automatically extract the file
into a cocos2d-iphone-VERSION subfolder.
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In this subfolder is where you will find the install_templates.sh script that you
need to run next.
Note
You have two paths to get Cocos2D on your system: you can go with the latest stable
branch at the Cocos2D homepage, shown on the previous page, or with the latest develop
branch by using Git. The newest features always start life in the develop branch, in the
same way as Apple releases the new versions of iOS as beta. Which mechanism you
choose is up to you—all of the 1.x versions of Cocos2D are backward compatible with
Cocos2D 1.0.
Installing the Cocos2D Templates
Installing the Cocos2D templates is the same whether you downloaded a gzipped
archive shown in the previous section or cloned the latest version from the develop
branch using Git. To start:
1. Open Terminal and navigate to the Cocos2D folder that you created in the pre-
vious section. You can use the
cd
command to change folders.
2. Once inside the Cocos2D folder, use the
cd
command once more to change fold-
ers so that you are inside the cocos2d-iphone subfolder. You can see a listing of the
cocos2d-iphone subfolder in Figure 1.3.
$ cd cocos2d-iphone
Figure 1.3
Looking inside the cocos2d-iphone subdirectory
3. Run the install-templates.sh script by entering the following command:
$ sudo ./install-templates.sh
4. When prompted, enter your password.
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The install-templates.sh script copies the three Cocos2D templates into the Xcode
folder. That is all it takes to install the Cocos2D templates. Restart Xcode if you had
it running while installing the templates, and you will be ready to create a Cocos2D
HelloWorld in the next section.
Creating Your First Cocos2D HelloWorld
No more delays: time to dive in to the code. In this section you will learn to use the
Cocos2D templates that you installed earlier and to build the Cocos2D HelloWorld
sample. No programming introduction is complete without a proper “Hello World.”
Inspecting the Cocos2D Templates
Fire up Xcode, and from Xcode’s menu, select File > New Project and select the
iOS/User Templates section. You should see three Cocos2D templates, as shown in
Figure 1.4, under the User Templates section. The first template is for an application
with just Cocos2D, the second for a Cocos2D with Box2D application, and the third
for a Cocos2D with Chipmunk application.
Figure 1.4
Cocos2D templates in Xcode
Tip
Make sure you select Application under the iOS and User Templates section.
Creating Your First Cocos2D HelloWorld 7
The three Cocos2D templates provide three different versions of a simple
HelloWorld application. The Cocos2D Application template has just Cocos2D and is
what you will use to create the HelloWorld app. The Box2D template creates a mini
Box2D HelloWorld where you can drop boxes into the screen with physics simulation.
The Chipmunk template creates a mini Chipmunk project where you can create
multiple bodies and try out collisions.
When you are building your own games, these three templates are key to getting
your game started quickly. The Box2D and Chipmunk projects contain all of the
wiring between Cocos2D and the physics engines. Even the Cocos2D-only template
comes already connected with an application delegate and runs without you having to
type any code.
Building the Cocos2D HelloWorld Project
Let’s build the basic Cocos2D HelloWorld project. Once you’ve built this one, you
should take a stab at building the Cocos2D+Box2D and Cocos2D+Chipmunk exam-
ples, too.
1. Launch Xcode and select File > New Project from the menu.
2. Select the Cocos2D template (without Box2D or Chipmunk).
3. Name this project CCHelloWorld, as shown in Figure 1.5.
Figure 1.5
Creating the Cocos2D HelloWorld sample
Chapter 1 Hello, Cocos2D8
Figure 1.6
Showing the CCHelloWorld and iPhone Simulator on the
Scheme dropdown
4. In Xcode on the Scheme dropdown, select CCHelloWorld and the iPhone
Simulator (4.2 or the latest iOS you have installed on your system), as shown in
Figure 1.6.
Figure 1.7
The Cocos2D HelloWorld app running in the iPhone Simulator
5. In Xcode, click Run.
You now have a fully functional Cocos2D HelloWorld app running in the iPhone
Simulator, as shown in Figure 1.7.
The Cocos2D CCHelloWorld project is already set up for iPhone and iPad from the
start; there is no need to transition it or do anything else. If you select iPad Simulator
under the Scheme dropdown and click Run, you will see CCHelloWorld running on
the iPad, as shown in Figure 1.8.
Creating Your First Cocos2D HelloWorld 9
Taking HelloWorld Further
While displaying “Hello World” on the screen is a good first step, you are learning
about Cocos2D to create games, so why not add a quick space cargo ship here and
make it move?
To start, locate the SpaceCargoShip folder included with the resources for this chap-
ter. The SpaceCargoShip folder contains the SpaceCargoShip.png, which is the image of—
what else?—the alien’s space cargo ship.
In Xcode with the HelloWorld project opened:
1. Drag the SpaceCargoShip folder into the CCHelloWorld project and select
Copy items into destination group’s folder. You are merely adding the
Space CargoShip folder and PNG to your CCHelloWorld project so that it is
included with your app.
2. Open the
HelloWorldScene.m
class and, in the
init
method, add the lines
shown in Listing 1.1.
Listing 1.1 Adding the space cargo ship onscreen
CCSprite *spaceCargoShip = [CCSprite
spriteWithFile:@"SpaceCargoShip.png"];
[spaceCargoShip setPosition:ccp(size.width/2, size.height/2)];
[self addChild:spaceCargoShip];
Figure 1.8
The Cocos2D HelloWorld app running in the iPad Simulator
Chapter 1 Hello, Cocos2D10
Click Run, and you should see the space cargo ship in the middle of the screen, as
shown in Figure 1.9.
Figure 1.9
Space cargo ship in HelloWorld
Only three lines of code, and you already have a space cargo ship on your iOS
device. You will learn in-depth about the details behind the lines in Listing 1.1 in the
next chapters.
Adding Movement
A ship is supposed to move around, and moving sprites in Cocos2D is really easy. Add
the lines shown in Listing 1.2 right below the lines you added for the space cargo ship.
Listing 1.2 Code to move the spaceCargoShip in HelloWorldScene.m
id moveAction = [CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:5.0f
position:ccp(0, size.height/2)];
[spaceCargoShip runAction:moveAction];
Click Run and watch your space cargo ship move slowly to the left side of the screen.
How about that—just five short lines of code and you have a moving ship on your iOS
device. It only gets better from here.
Note
If you are having issues with your HelloWorld crashing with an error message saying
cocos2d: Couldn’t add image:SpaceCargoShip.png in CCTextureCache, make sure you have
properly copied the SpaceCargoShip folder to your CCHelloWorld project. You can always
check your work against the completed CCHelloWorld project located with the resources
for this book.
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Hopefully, this has been one of the simplest HelloWorld programs you have tried out:
you only had to type five lines of code. Getting started with Cocos2D is easy, and you
can render some amazing effects and graphics with very little code. In the next chapter
you will start building Space Viking by putting Ole the Viking and the controls on the
screen. You will go from this HelloWorld to a Viking you can move on the screen in
one short chapter.
The rest of this chapter explains in detail what each line in HelloWorld does, as
well as how to generate builds for your iOS device. If you don’t want to learn what
is happening “behind the scenes,” feel free to skip ahead to the next chapter and start
creating your Space Viking game.
For the More Curious: Understanding the
Cocos2D HelloWorld
If you are curious about how the Cocos2D application template works, this section
covers the most important pieces.
Scenes and Nodes
The first step to understanding the Cocos2D template code is to understand the con-
cepts of scenes, layers, and nodes.
Cocos2D games are made up of scenes (
CCScene
s), and the director (
CCDirector
)
is responsible for running scenes. The Cocos2D Director runs only one scene at a
time. For example, Figure 1.10 shows how you might have the
CCDirector
running
a scene with a main menu on it at one point, and switch to another scene with the
gameplay later.
CC
Director
Gameplay
Scene
Main Menu
Scene
CC
Director
Gameplay
Scene
Main Menu
Scene
Running Scene: Main Menu Scene Running Scene: Gameplay Scene
Figure 1.10
Cocos2D Director running Main Menu Scene and then
Gameplay Scene
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Each scene in Cocos2D consists of one or more layers, which are composited on top
of each other. For example, in building Space Viking you will create two layers in the
first scene: one on the bottom to contain the background, and one on the top to con-
tain the moving characters and action.
Each layer (
CCLayer
) can in turn have sprites (
CCSprite
), labels (
CCLabel
),
and other objects you want to display onscreen. If you remember, when you added
SpaceCargoShip
, you created a new sprite and then added it as a child of the layer.
You can see an example of how the hierarchy of Cocos2D nodes fits together in
Figure 1.11.
CC
Director
Label
Sprite
Sprite
Sprite
Sprite
Background
Layer
Main
Layer
Controls
Layer
Gameplay
Scene
Currently running scene
Figure 1.11
Cocos2D Scenes, Layers, and Sprites hierarchy
In Xcode, go to the Classes folder and open the CCHelloWorldAppDelegate.m file.
Look inside the
applicationDidFinishLaunching
method, which is where the
Cocos2D Director (
CCDirector
) is set up and instantiated. On line 113, you will see
the following, which is where
HelloWorld scene
is allocated and run:
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] runWithScene: [HelloWorld scene]];
In the HelloWorld sample, the
CCDirector
allocates the
HelloWorld scene
and
then proceeds to run it, calling all of the schedulers and draw calls of the scene and its
children.
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Open up HelloWorldScene.m and find the
scene
method that creates a new scene, as
shown in Listing 1.3.
Listing 1.3 Inside the HelloWorldScene.m +(id)scene method
+(id) scene
{
// 'scene' is an autorelease object.
CCScene *scene = [CCScene node];
// 'layer' is an autorelease object.
HelloWorld *layer = [HelloWorld node];
// add layer as a child to scene
[scene addChild: layer];
// return the scene
return scene;
}
The first line of code creates a new instance of
CCScene
by calling
[CCScene node]
,
which is shorthand for
[[[CCScene alloc] init] autorelease]
. It then creates a
new instance of the
HelloWorld
layer, adds it as a child of the
CCScene
, and returns
the new scene.
When the
HelloWorld
layer is called, the
init
method is called, which contains
the code shown in Listing 1.4.
Listing 1.4 Inside the HelloWorldScene.m –(id)init method for HelloWorld Layer
// Create and initialize a Label
CCLabelTTL* label = [CCLabelTTL labelWithString:@"Hello World"
fontName:@"Marker Felt"fontSize:64];
// Ask CCDirector for the window size
CGSize size = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] winSize];
// Position the label at the center of the screen
label.position = ccp( size.width /2 , size.height/2 );
// Add the label as a child to this Layer
[self addChild: label];
This creates a label saying “Hello World” and sets its position to the center of the
screen. It then adds the label as a child of the
HelloWorld
layer.
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So in summary, the
CCDirector
needs to know which scene to run. Inside of
applicationDidFinishLaunching
, the template calls the
[HelloWorld scene]
method to create a new
CCScene
with a single layer as a child—the
HelloWorld
layer. The
init
function of the
HelloWorld
layer creates a label and adds it as a child
of the layer. At that point, you have “Hello World” showing onscreen.
From the Beginning
At this point we’ve covered the most critical parts of the template—how the scene gets
run and how the label gets added to the scene. But if you’re still curious, here’s some
additional information about the remaining template code automatically created for
you.
When the HelloWorld app first starts, the
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
function inside of the main.m file is executed by the iOS. The main function allocates
the memory pool the HelloWorld application will use and has the
UIApplication-
Main
run the
CCHelloWorldAppDelegate
class. It is in the application delegate class
that HelloWorld comes to life, with the instantiation of the Cocos2D Director. List-
ing 1.5 covers the
applicationDidFinishLaunching
method that is called by the
UIApplicationMain
when
CCHelloWorld
is loaded and ready to start running.
Listing 1.5 applicationDidFinishLaunching in CCHelloWorldAppDelegate.m class
- (void) applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication*)application
{
// Init the window
window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[
[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
// Try to use CADisplayLink director
// if it fails (SDK < 3.1) use the default director
if( ! [CCDirector setDirectorType:kCCDirectorTypeDisplayLink] )
[CCDirector setDirectorType:kCCDirectorTypeDefault]; // 1
CCDirector *director = [CCDirector sharedDirector];// 2
// Init the View Controller
viewController = [[RootViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
viewController.wantsFullScreenLayout = YES;// 3
// Create the EAGLView manually
// 1. Create a RGB565 format. Alternative: RGBA8
// 2. depth format of 0 bit. Use 16 or 24 bit for 3d effects,
// like CCPageTurnTransition
EAGLView *glView = [EAGLView viewWithFrame:[window bounds]
pixelFormat:kEAGLColorFormatRGB565
depthFormat:0];// 4
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// attach the openglView to the director
[director setOpenGLView:glView];
// By default, this template only supports Landscape orientations.
// Edit the RootViewController.m file to edit the supported
// orientations.
#if GAME_AUTOROTATION == kGameAutorotationUIViewController
[director setDeviceOrientation:kCCDeviceOrientationPortrait];
#else
[director setDeviceOrientation:kCCDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft];
#endif // 5
[director setAnimationInterval:1.0/60];// 6
[director setDisplayFPS:YES];// 7
// make the OpenGLView a child of the view controller
[viewController setView:glView];// 8
// make the View Controller a child of the main window
[window addSubview:viewController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];// 9
// Default texture format for PNG/BMP/TIFF/JPEG/GIF images
// It can be RGBA8888, RGBA4444, RGB5_A1, RGB565
[CCTexture2D setDefaultAlphaPixelFormat:
kCCTexture2DPixelFormat_RGBA8888];// 10
// Removes the startup flicker
[self removeStartupFlicker];// 11
// Run the intro Scene
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] runWithScene:
[HelloWorld scene]];// 12
}
The first step is to initialize the UIWindow where the View Controller and
EAGLView
will be attached. The UIWindow is set to full screen, and the
EAGLView
is where all
of the OpenGL ES calls are going to be sent. Next, the Application Delegate:
1. Tries to set up Cocos2D to use the DisplayLink Director available on iOS 3.1
and higher. The DisplayLink Director allows Cocos2D to be called right before
the device needs to display the current image onscreen, so that the updates and
render cycles are in sync with the screen refresh interval.
2. Instantiates the Cocos2D Director singleton.
3. Instantiates the view controller that will contain the
EAGLView
and will inform
Cocos2D of any orientation changes when the device switches between portrait
and landscape orientations.
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4. Creates the
EAGLView
, which is used to render your game. Cocos2D will use
the
EAGLView
to send the OpenGL ES commands to the OpenGL ES driver.
5. Sets the orientation to either portrait or landscape. If you are using the View
Controller created by the Cocos2D template, you will need to modify the
shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation
in the RootViewController.m
class to support the orientations you need in your game.
6. Sets the animation interval to 60 times per second, which is the default mode for
Cocos2D. Normally, Cocos2D tries to update the screen at the fastest rate (60
times per second).
7. Sets the Frames Per Second (FPS) display to be on and active. Cocos2D has the
option of calculating the average frames per second that your game is running
at and display it on the bottom left corner of the screen. The FPS display can
be really useful in troubleshooting game performance. The FPS display is off by
default; this line turns it on.
8. Adds the
EAGLView
as a child to the
RootViewController
so that it will be
rendered.
9. Adds the
RootViewController
to the
UIWindow
and makes it active, allowing
for the
RootViewController
and more importantly the
EAGLView
to start ren-
dering elements on the screen.
10. Sets the Cocos2D texture format. Note that by default Cocos2D uses the high-
est bit depth for your images. In later chapters you will learn how to use images
with a lower bit depth to save on memory usage.
11. Removes the startup f licker if your game runs only in landscape orientation.
If your game runs only in a landscape orientation, Cocos2D needs to brief ly
load and display the Default.png image to avoid a f licker from the splash screen
(Default.png) to black.
12. Instantiates the
HelloWorld
scene, which in turn instantiates the
HelloWorld
layer, and starts running the
HelloWorld
scene. At this point, the “Hello World”
label is visible on the screen.
The Cocos2D Director is responsible for running the game loop and rendering
all of the graphics in your game. Since the director is running the game loop, it can
control when the game runs, pauses, or stops. Looking at Listing 1.6, you can see the
methods in the application delegate that call the director in response to events from
the iPhone operating system, including pause and resume.
Listing 1.6 Methods inside of CCHelloWorldAppDelegate.m
- (void)applicationWillResignActive:(UIApplication *)application {
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] pause];// 1
}
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- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application {
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] resume];// 2
}
- (void)applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning:(UIApplication *)application {
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] purgeCachedData];// 3
}
- (void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application {
CCDirector *director = [CCDirector sharedDirector];
[[director openGLView] removeFromSuperview];
[viewController release];
[window release];
[director end]; // 4
}
- (void)applicationSignificantTimeChange:(UIApplication *)application {
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] setNextDeltaTimeZero:YES];// 5
}
1. Pauses the game and all timers if the application is paused by the operating sys-
tem. This event occurs when the user locks the iPad or iPhone screen while
playing a game or when an incoming call or other similar event forces the game
to the background.
2. Resumes the game and all timers when the application is brought back into the
foreground by the operating system. This event occurs when the user unlocks
the iPad or iPhone screen after locking it with the game running or resumes a
game after the call is complete.
3. Removes from memory any sprite textures that are not being used at the
moment in response to a low-memory warning. This call dumps all of the
cached texture and bitmap fonts data that is not currently in use to render graph-
ics onscreen.
Note
Your image files (PNGs, PVR) are loaded into OpenGL ES textures in a format that the
GPU can understand. The Cocos2D sprites are your link to these textures, which are used
by the Cocos2D Director and OpenGL ES to render your game. Cocos2D includes a texture
cache manager to maintain any textures you use cached in memory. Keeping textures
cached in memory greatly speeds up the creation of new sprites that utilize previously
used textures. The disadvantage of keeping textures cached is the additional memory
overhead. If the application receives a low-memory warning, Cocos2D moves quickly to
remove from memory any textures not actively in use. It is important to always remember
to deallocate your layers and scenes once you have moved from one scene to another,
and remove any unused textures and other assets, to keep your memory footprint as
small as possible.
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4. Ends the director and detaches the
EAGLView
from the application’s
UIWindow
.
This ends the game loop, removes all textures from memory, and clears all
of the scheduler timers. This command also forces the director to deallocate
the currently running scene, including all of its layers and sprites. The
applicationWillTerminate
event is called when the user quits the game.
5. Sets the delta time between the last event call and the current event call to zero.
This method is called if a significant amount of time has passed between event
calls, usually due to the iPhone readjusting the system time for daylight sav-
ings or varying clocks on mobile phone towers. Physics inside of games and
other calculations are sensitive to large time changes, and it is useful to reset the
amount of time elapsed (delta) to zero if it is too large. If you were to try to run
the update methods with a large delta value (several seconds at once, or several
minutes), it would throw off the calculations and result in strange behavior and
rendering effects. You will learn more about delta times in Part IV of this book.
If you follow the order of execution, the
AppDelegate
starts when the applica-
tion is launched. The
AppDelegate
starts up the director and in turn calls on the
director to run the
HelloWorld
scene. The
HelloWorld
scene has one layer, and that
layer contains a label with the words “Hello World.” The label is added as a child to
the
HelloWorld
layer, which is a child of the scene. The director starts rendering the
scene and its children, displaying the label (i.e., Hello World) onscreen.
Note
The 60.0 number on the bottom-left corner in Figure 1.9 is the frames per second at
which Cocos2D is rendering the scene. This information is useful for debugging purposes
because it allows you to see the frame rate your game is running. If you wish to disable it
(which you will need to do when you ship your final app), you can go into the AppDelegate
and remove the following line:
[director setDisplayFPS:YES];
Looking Further into the Cocos2D Source Code
One of the great features of Cocos2D is that all of the source code is available and
included in your projects, making it easy to look behind the scenes and see how the
rendering and other tasks are being done. Not only Cocos2D but also the source code
for CocosDenshion, Box2D, and Chipmunk are included in the projects that you cre-
ate from the Cocos2D templates. You can look at any part of the source code if you
ever have a question about what a particular method does or how it is implemented.
To see a method, select the method or variable in Xcode, right-click (or Control-click),
and choose Jump to Definition or press Control-z-D while the method or variable
is selected. Figure 1.12 shows the Jump to Definition selection in the Xcode pop-up
For the More Curious: Understanding the Cocos2D HelloWorld 19
To see the Jump to Definition in action:
1. Open the HelloWorldScene.m file.
2. On line 18, select the
node
method and right-click.
3. In the Xcode pop-up menu, select Jump to Definition. Xcode should open
CCNode.m for you and show you the code in Listing 1.7.
Listing 1.7 The node method inside of CCNode.m
#pragma mark CCNode - Init & cleanup
+(id) node
{
return [[[self alloc] init] autorelease];
}
Cocos2D has a large collection of utility and helper methods that can save you
time and typing. As an example, in the Cocos2D Director there exist the methods
convertToGL
and
convertToUI
for converting a point between UIKit and
OpenGL ES coordinate systems. In addition to utility and helper methods, Cocos2D
has a set of macros to shorten some of the repetitive calls your code would contain.
Figure 1.12
pop-up menu
Chapter 1 Hello, Cocos2D20
The
ccp
macro is one you will use numerous times, and it is just a shortcut to the
CGPointMake
method. The following is the code behind the
ccp
macro.
/** Helper macro that creates a CGPoint
@return CGPoint
@since v0.7.2
*/
#define ccp(__X__,__Y__) CGPointMake(__X__,__Y__)
If you see an unknown method or macro, do not hesitate to jump to the definition of
that bit of code. The Cocos2D source is well documented and is easy to understand
with some practice. Knowing the helper methods, or at least how to find them, is key
to becoming an efficient Cocos2D game developer.
The next section covers how to get HelloWorld and any other games you create onto
your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Getting CCHelloWorld on Your iPhone or iPad
The first step to getting CCHelloWorld on your device is to sign up for an iPhone
Developer account with Apple (). Figure 1.13 shows the
iPhone Developer Portal.
Figure 1.13
Apple iOS Developer Portal
Starting with Xcode 3.2.3, there are two ways to manage your builds for the iOS
devices. You can let Xcode automatically configure the provisioning profile for your
apps, or you can manually create and use an Ad Hoc profile from the iOS Developer
Portal.
Letting Xcode Do Everything for You
Provisioning profiles is one of the biggest hurdles to new developers on the iOS
platform. You spend all your time getting your game code working just right on the
Getting CCHelloWorld on Your iPhone or iPad 21
simulator, only to have to deal with code signing in order to get the game on an
actual device. Apple has made this process a lot simpler starting with Xcode 3.2.3. To
let Xcode configure the provisioning profiles on your behalf:
1. Make sure your iPhone or iPad is connected via USB.
2. In the Xcode menu, select Window > Organizer.
3. Select the Devices section.
4. Press the button marked Use for Development.
5. When prompted, enter your credentials for the iPhone Developer Program.
That’s it! Xcode automatically sends your device UDID to Apple, creates a special
provisioning profile called “Team Provisioning Profile,” and sets everything up for
you. After a minute or so, your Organizer window should look similar to Figure 1.14.
Figure 1.14
Xcode Organizer window with iPad configured for
development
Building for Your iPhone or iPad
Under the Scheme dropdown menu, select CCHelloWorld and your iPhone or iPad
device. You should see your iPad or iPhone listed if it is connected via USB.
If you select Run, Xcode will build a version of CCHelloWorld for the ARM pro-
cessors on the iPad or iPhone and then copy CCHelloWorld to your device.
Chapter 1 Hello, Cocos2D22
Summary
In this chapter you downloaded the source code for Cocos2D and installed the
Cocos2D templates into Xcode. You quickly created a HelloWorld app and added a
moving Space Cargo Ship in just a few lines of code. Additionally, you covered the
basics of Cocos2D Director, scenes, and layers, and what the Cocos2D templates
provide.
In the next chapter you get a chance to dive deeper into Cocos2D and start build-
ing the Space Viking game. If you are ready, turn the page and start on your journey to
get Ole the Viking moving around and fighting off the alien robots.
Challenges
1. Open the Cocos2D Xcode project included with the Cocos2D source you
downloaded and run some of the included tests, such as the SpriteTest. The
Cocos2D project file is located inside the cocos2d-iphone subfolder where you
cloned or downloaded Cocos2D earlier in this chapter. To run the SpriteTest,
select it under the Scheme dropdown, as shown in Figure 1.15.
Figure 1.15
SpriteTest selected under the Scheme dropdown in Xcode
2. Create a Cocos2D Box2D application and a Cocos2D Chipmunk application
and run them on the simulator or your iOS device. Play around with the physics
engines you will learn about in Part IV of this book.
2
Hello, Space Viking
In the previous chapter you installed Cocos2D on your system, including the templates that are
used by Xcode. You also learned about some of the companion tools you will be using in later
chapters. Now it is time to start your journey creating Space Viking by putting Ole the Viking
onscreen and moving him around. In this chapter you will deal only with the iPad version of
Space Viking; later in the book you will cover in detail techniques and practices to adapt and
scale a game from iPad down to the iPhone.
You will start by creating the basic Space Viking game project, which you will build upon
throughout the rest of the book. You will begin with a basic Cocos2D template and add two
sprites, one for the background and the other for Ole the Viking. In the second part of this chap-
ter you will learn how to add the methods needed to handle the touch inputs, including moving
your Viking and making him jump. If you are ready, open up Xcode to get started with Space
Viking!
Creating the SpaceViking Project
Space Viking is your key to learning Cocos2D as you progress through this book. All
games have to start somewhere, and Space Viking starts life as a Cocos2D template
project. The first thing you need to do is create a new Cocos2D project in Xcode, so
go ahead and launch Xcode and create the project:
1. Open Xcode and select Create a New Xcode Project.
2. Choose the Cocos2D template (without Box2D or Chipmunk) under the iOS
section.
3. Enter SpaceViking as the name of the product, and select Next.
4. Select a location to save your SpaceViking project, and click Create.
The location of the Cocos2D templates in Xcode are shown in Figure 2.1. Depend-
ing on what version of Cocos2D you have installed, your templates might have differ-
ent revision numbers.
Chapter 2 Hello, Space Viking24
These are the same two steps you performed in Chapter 1, “Hello, Cocos2D,” and
if you press Run in Xcode, you will see the Cocos2D HelloWorld sample. You will be
creating Space Viking specifically for the iPad, and you will learn how to scale it down
for the iPhone in later chapters. The Cocos2D templates are set up to create an iPhone
game by default, requiring you to quickly transition the project in Xcode before get-
ting started with the coding.
Creating the Space Viking Classes
At this point you have a project template game app, running on both the iPhone and
iPad at full-screen resolution. Leaving the HelloWorld files as reference, it is time to
start creating the classes needed for Space Viking. The first step is to add the Images
folder that you downloaded from the book site to the SpaceViking project.
Note
For this chapter you need the Images folder included with the resources for this book.
You must download the resources from the InformIT website (
title/9780321735621). Once you download the disk image, go to the folder for Chapter 2.
Next you need to make it so Xcode pulls the Images folder into your project and
copies the files into the SpaceViking project’s directory.
Figure 2.1
Cocos2D templates in Xcode
Creating the Space Viking Classes 25
5. With the SpaceViking project opened in Xcode, drag the Images folder from a
Finder window into your SpaceViking project.
6. On the sheet that drops down, make sure that the Copy items into destina-
tion group’s folder is checked and click Finish, as shown in Figure 2.2.
Figure 2.2
Xcode Add Files dialog with the copy items checkbox
turned ON
Warning
The Copy items into destination group’s folder option is needed when you want to copy
files to your project from another location on your system. If you leave this checkbox
unchecked, the files will only be linked into your project, meaning the files will exist only
in their original folder outside of your project. In Space Viking, you want the Images folder
inside your project folder just in case you decide to move the downloaded Images folder
later on.
If you look in the Images folder, you will see the PNG files that you will use on this
version of the game. These include the background image and the first frame you will
use for Ole the Viking. Now that the images are part of the project, you can move on
and create the background layer and gameplay layers followed by the gameplay scene,
which will contain both layers.
Chapter 2 Hello, Space Viking26
Note
The Images folder you copied into the Space Viking Xcode project contains the various
icon file images used for Space Viking’s app icon. The Cocos2D templates already contain
icon.png, Icon@2x.png, Icon-Small.png, Icon-Small@2x.png, Icon-Small-50.png, Icon-72.png,
and Default.png files in the Resources folder, so you need to delete them from the project
before proceeding.
Creating the Background Layer
As noted earlier, the Cocos2D Director is responsible for running the scene, and each
scene in Cocos2D is made up of layers. As each layer is initialized, an
init
method
is called. The
init
method is the perfect location to create and initialize the sprites
used in each layer. The background of Space Viking will have one sprite containing the
background image centered onscreen. In later versions of Space Viking, you will add
scrolling backgrounds and animations.
1. In Xcode, select the Classes folder and right-click, choosing New File from the
contextual menu.
2. On the dialog that drops down, select the iOS\Cocoa Touch class on the left
panel and Objective-C class, and then click Next, as shown in Figure 2.3.
Figure 2.3
Xcode Add New File dialog
3. For the Subclass field, enter CCLayer and click Next.
4. In the Save As field, type in BackgroundLayer.m and click Save. Figure 2.4 shows
the Add new file window.
Creating the Background Layer 27
Open the BackgroundLayer.h header file.
Add a
#import
line for Cocos2D, and change the
BackgroundLayer
class
to inherit from
CCLayer
instead of
NSObject
. Listing 2.1 shows the complete
BackgroundLayer.h file.
Listing 2.1 BackgroundLayer.h
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import"cocos2d.h"
@interface BackgroundLayer : CCLayer {
}
@end
Switch to the BackgroundLayer.m implementation file so you can add the
init
method and the background sprite.
Tip
Whether you’re using a MacBook, MacBook Pro, or Apple’s Magic TrackPad, you can use a
three-finger swipe up or down to switch between the header .h and the implementation .m
files quickly in Xcode. Just swipe up or down to move between the header and implemen-
tation files. You can also use the keyboard combination of Option+Command+Up Arrow | https://www.techylib.com/el/view/wrackbaa/learning-cocos2d-a-h | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | refinedweb | 13,796 | 58.21 |
I can’t find the function add_datepart for tabular data in version 1.0 of fastai, am I missing something?
It is not in the library now. You can copy paste it from here :
thanks a lot!
That link is 404’d, anyone have an up to date link? This is a very helpful function.
In case anyone is using fastai 1.0, but still need
add_datepart and the rest of the helper methods, you can find them all here (with excellent documentation and examples of usage):
add_datepart is located in fastai.tabular in fastai 1.0.
Direct link for those looking:
I have imported * from fastai.tabular. because fastai.structured was giving me an error. But I am not able use add_datepart.
I got the error saying
add_datepart is not defined
I was facing the same issue. It seems like the add_datepart is not available in fastai v1.0. You can copy in the source code or use the older version (v0.7)
No well, I found a solution. It is in the fastai.tabular library itself.
Try importing,
from fastai.tabular.all import *
This shall work
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DBIx::Class::Manual::Example - Simple CD database example
This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up and testing a very basic CD database using SQLite, with DBIx::Class::Schema as the database frontend.
The database structure is based on the following rules:
An artist can have many cds, and each cd belongs to just one artist. A cd can have many tracks, and each track belongs to just one cd.
The database is implemented with the following:
table 'artist' with columns: artistid, name table 'cd' with columns: cdid, artistid, title, year table 'track' with columns: trackid, cdid, title
Each of the table's first columns is the primary key; any subsequent keys are foreign keys.
You'll need to install DBIx::Class via CPAN, and you'll also need to install sqlite3 (not sqlite) if it's not already intalled.
Your distribution already comes with a pre-filled SQLite database examples/Schema/db/example.db. You can see it by e.g.
cpanm --look DBIx::Class
If for some reason the file is unreadable on your system, you can recreate it as follows:
cp -a <unpacked-DBIC-tarball>/examples/Schema dbicapp cd dbicapp rm db/example.db sqlite3 db/example.db < db/example.sql perl insertdb.pl
Enter the example Schema directory
cd <unpacked-DBIC-tarball>/examples/Schema
Run the script testdb.pl, which will test that the database has successfully been filled.
When this script is run, it should output the following:
get_tracks_by_cd(Bad): Leave Me Alone Smooth Criminal Dirty Diana get_tracks_by_artist(Michael Jackson): Billie Jean (from the CD 'Thriller') Beat It (from the CD 'Thriller') Leave Me Alone (from the CD 'Bad') Smooth Criminal (from the CD 'Bad') Dirty Diana (from the CD 'Bad') get_cd_by_track(Stan): The Marshall Mathers LP has the track 'Stan'. get_cds_by_artist(Michael Jackson): Thriller Bad get_artist_by_track(Dirty Diana): Michael Jackson recorded the track 'Dirty Diana'. get_artist_by_cd(The Marshall Mathers LP): Eminem recorded the CD 'The Marshall Mathers LP'.
The data model defined in this example has an artist with multiple CDs, and a CD with multiple tracks; thus, it's simple to traverse from a track back to a CD, and from there back to an artist. This is demonstrated in the get_tracks_by_artist routine, where we easily walk from the individual track back to the title of the CD that the track came from ($track->cd->title).
Note also that in the get_tracks_by_cd and get_tracks_by_artist routines, the result set is called multiple times with the 'next' iterator. In contrast, get_cd_by_track uses the 'first' result set method, since only one CD is expected to have a specific track.
This example uses "load_namespaces" in DBIx::Class::Schema to load in the appropriate Result classes from the
MyApp::Schema::Result namespace, and any required ResultSet classes from the
MyApp::Schema::ResultSet namespace (although we did not add, nor needed any such classes in this example).
Check the list of additional DBIC resources.
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I'm not sure when this happened, but for some reason the Intel 630 chip stopped doing any and all functions, and the Nvidia 1060 card is doing it all. Ive tried disabling the nvidia card and having the integrated graphics take over, but it seems like for some reason the intel chip doesn't want to do it's job. Even specifying the programs in the Geforce Experience doesn't work, it just defaults to using the 1060 regardless.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Link Copied
You have a desktop, correct? Typically, when you insert an add-on card, it will disable the onboard graphics. Only a few motherboardds allow both to operate concurrently. Check your bios to see what options you have.
So the Intel support engineers can have more information about your system, Download, run, and save the results of this utility as a text file:
Then ATTACH the text file using the instructions under the reply window ( Drag and drop here or browse files to attach ).
In laptops, it is important to stick with drivers provided by the laptop vendor. They are responsible for any modification that are necessary to the drivers to allow the two graphics engines to work together. In most cases where you have overinstalled the vendor-supplied drivers from updated drivers direct from Intel (or NVIDIA or AMD), you are wiping out these necessary modifications. The most common result is that the two engines do not work together any longer. This looks to be the situation in your case; the NVIDIA driver is not yielding to the Intel driver (or the Intel driver is not asserting itself over the NVIDIA driver) when it is supposed to.
Bottom line, you need to return (downgrade) to the drivers provided by your laptop vendor. If these drivers exhibit issues that Intel has addressed in their generic drivers, then you need to ask your vendor to provide you with updated packages that include these later Intel drivers. If they refuse to do so, well, keep this in mind when making subsequent purchasing decisions. Maybe they shouldn't be your vendor of choice.
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On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:> Someone please fix.This is what I was using purely for test builds ... most x86 hardwareactually has no GPIOs, and I sure don't have any of the "unusual" x86platforms here, so I'd not want to see this version merge. Someonemore clued in on how x86 handles what ARM does with e.g. <asm/arch/...>should make a better patch.(And my vote is to **NOT** use the "-I..." magic that PowerPC uses,that's just confusing as all get-out. And not needed.)> It would be more modern to have a <linux/gpio.h> which takes care of> cruddy details, but it's getting too late for that.That could be added eventually ... if the platform has GPIO supportit could include the <asm/gpio.h> else it could define all the callsas error-returning inlines.- Dave========= CUT HEREDEBUG ONLY -- make X86_PC use gpiolib.It's not clear to me how the various x86-ish platforms shouldbe made to work here, since there seems to be no conventionthat each platform type has its own <asm/arch/...> subdir.--- arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 ++ include/asm-x86/gpio.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)--- g26.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig 2008-02-10 16:06:30.000000000 -0800+++ g26/arch/x86/Kconfig 2008-02-10 16:09:44.000000000 -0800@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ choice config X86_PC bool "PC-compatible"+ select GENERIC_GPIO+ select HAVE_GPIO_LIB help Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. --- g26.orig/include/asm-x86/gpio.h 2008-02-10 16:06:30.000000000 -0800+++ g26/include/asm-x86/gpio.h 2008-02-10 16:09:44.000000000 -0800@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@ #ifndef _ASM_I386_GPIO_H #define _ASM_I386_GPIO_H -#include <gpio.h>+// #include <gpio.h>++#include <asm-generic/gpio.h> /* cansleep wrappers */++#define gpio_get_value __gpio_get_value+#define gpio_set_value __gpio_set_value+#define gpio_cansleep __gpio_cansleep++static inline int gpio_to_irq(unsigned gpio)+{+ return -ENOSYS;+}++static inline int irq_to_gpio(unsigned irq)+{+ return -EINVAL;+}+ #endif /* _ASM_I386_GPIO_H */ | http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/637 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | refinedweb | 332 | 53.27 |
:Interesting. What exactly are those database files used for? Is a :database file attached to each file to store ACLs, for example? Or can :it be used like btree(3)? Do they have their own namespace in the :filesystem? : :Wow! I a am really looking forward to try out HAMMER!!! : :Regards, : : Michael
Because HAMMER uses a B-Tree (maybe a B+Tree the more I look at it).. in anycase, because HAMMER uses a B-Tree all lookups are basically key searches, even when looking up an offset in a file. Since B-Tree elements specify records which can reference variable-length data, there really is very little difference between a database record indexed with a key and regular file data indexed with an offset.
Records are typed so any given filesystem object can contain multiple key spaces. One space will hold ACLs, one will be for regular file offsets, and there's nothing preventing us from having a key space directly accessible by userland.
A HAMMER-aware database would be able to store its records using the key space directly. It opens up some intriguing possibilities.
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Hello
I have seen a number of find/change and GREP formulas to do similar things. I have NO scripting or coding experience and have labored to understand GREP.
So I am a little afraid to use it as I don't know what all the modifiers refer to (I do have a printout of some neat GREP cheatsheets like Mike Witherell's that I can absorb until I obtain a good reference )
I need something I can copy and paste into either find/change or GREP dialog that will do the following in less than 12 steps (hopefully) without doing something catastrophic like removing all of my paragraph marks (which I almost did using someones GREP expression)
I think that's it
I did find this one recently (Maybe Jongware?)
[~m~>~f~|~S~s<~/~,~3~4%]{2
Which from my dim understanding addresses em, en, flush and hair space , nonbreaking space ,figure space,third space--not sure of the rest.
Really this is way over my head.
I know this will be a piece of cake for you guys
Thanks
I was hoping Jongware would come in with something really elegant (and maybe he still will) but in the meantime, my approach would be to start by eliminating all multiple whitespaces except paragraph returns and forced line breaks. This seems to do it:
Find (\s)(\p{space_separator}|\t)+ and replace with $1
This will leave the first whitespace and remove any following whitespace up to the point that a line or paragraph break (and not completely tested, but I suppose other sorts of breaks) is encountered, leaving the paragraph or line break intact. Note that this will destroy tables built with tabs (as opposed to "real" tables) that have multiple tabs between items, and it will not remove a single whitespace before a paragraph or line break.
Next I would remove the whitesapce at the ends of paragraphs and the like:
Find (\s)(\n|\r) and repace with $2 seems to do that, and it also seems to leave multiple returns (I don't know if you want to remove those) and to work with other breaks as well (again, not fully tested). The simpler \s$ and replace with nothing removes the first return in a two-return sequence and seems to ignore th other types of breaks completely.
At this point there should not be any multiple whitespaces other than possibly blank paragraphs. If you want to get rid of those, you can run the Find/Change By list script of the built-in multple returns to single return query in the find/change dropdown list.
So now you need to find opening single and double quotes, parentheses, brackets or braces and remove a space after them if it exists:
Find ([\[\{\(~{~[])(\s) and replace with $1
and finally remove any space before your selected punctuation and the closing cases of the items above:
Find (\s)([.,;:!\)\]\}~}~]]) and replace with $2
The last two queries will probably also work with look-bhind for the first and look-ahead for the second (putting the classes in the look expressions) and repalcing with nothing, but I'm not sure which method is more efficient. The last query could conceivably also miss a space followed by an apostrophe or mistakenly remove a space before a work that starts with an apostophe (again, not thoroughly tested). and is ignoring straigh quotes of any type as they are ambdextrous and might want space on either side.
Hopefully the forum didn't mess up any of those expressions...
Hi Peter,
At the risk of sounding stupid. Nevermind it will be stupid.
What is the space separator in the first solution?
Find (\s)(\p{space_separator}|\t)+ and replace with $1
Its not an underscore is it?
Could I just borrow your brain for a few weeks? I promise to give it back when I'm done.
\p{space_separator} (exactly as written) is a comprehensive wildcard for a large variety of spaces. It works like \s, but does not include the linebreaks and paragraph breaks in the found results.
It would be tempting, for example to use (\s)(\s)+ to find any whitespace followed by any amount of other whitespace, but the \s will also pick up the paragraph breaks, so if you have a space at the end of a paragraph, you lose the paragraph break. The \p{space_separator} won't see that as two whitepaces, so the paragraph is preserved, but you then must go back and remove any spaces before a paragraph break in a second pass ( the second query).
No need to feel stupid. I had to do a bit of research this morning to come up with that myself. I've never seen it in use before.
Hi Peter
Phew! I did too (web research) because I thought maybe it was a substitute for some kind of unicode mark that the forum wouldn't allow you to insert as is and it had to be spelled out.
So I ran your first solution and it worked very well. On to the others to see how they do.
Thanks again
Hi Peter,
Good to know about the space seperator.
I think I did follow someone's GREP (prior to giving up and coming here) and it included the (\s)(\s)
Thank goodness I used it slowly because it started eating my paragraph/line breaks like pac man
So everything worked fine and the manuscript is looking very tidy.
I am doing a close pass thru and well let you know of any glitches. Can't find a one so far.
The combination of these GREP formulas would be a very nice package to run on a large text to really tidy it up and make it look professional. I wish I knew scripting because I would try to consolidate these features. I'm sure someone somewhere has done it but after 8 hrs search yesterday I sure couldn't find it.
The Chicago Manual of Style and others are kind of picky about these spaces and punctuation marks etc. So the info you shared is a great feature sans proofreader.
Thanks again!
Peter Kahrel (whose ebook is the source I used this morning, and a reference I highly recommend at only about $10) has a lot of free GREP and scripting aides on his website. Take a look at which will allow you to make a "chain" from this set of queries that you can then run in one step.
Hi Peter
Thanks. I got both the query manager and GREP editor from Kahrels' site. I managed to form a chain of queries from what you provided here today as well as having the time to sit down and dissect every part of your solutions, getting to know some associations etc. Pretty interesting stuff but still tough .
So to recap (and provide others with a distilled version of all of this) would you say the below is accurate ?
In particular I am interested that not only are offending spaces removed BUT that spaces are preserved or inserted appropriately
What do you think?
Peter is too modest, he's doing just great.
- No space BEFORE-One Space after ---period,semicolon,colon, exclamation, question mark,CLOSING Parenth,Bracket,Brace, single & Dbl. quotation marks
- Find (\s)([.,;:!\)\]\}~}~]])
- Replace with $2
- No space AFTER-One Space Before----OPENING bracket,brace,parenthesis,Dbl & single quotes
- Find ([\[\{\(~{~[])(\s)
- Replace with $1
These remove the space before/after but do not automatically add a space after/before.
In the first case, you could add a space right after the '$2' in the Replace With string, but it already may have a space, in which case you suddenly have two. One alternative is to optionally remove it with the Find string (add it as an optional match) and always add it with the Replace string, but remember that this string will only be found if there is a space preceding it. That way you'd only check the space after in cases where there was a bad space before.
So I propose you add another two find/changes to add the space, only when necessary.
One Space After: find
([.,;:!\)\]\}~}~]])(?!\s)
replace:
$0 [followed by one single space]
One Space Before: find
(?<!\s)([\[\{\(~{~[])
replace:
[one single space] $0
Color-coding with my WhatTheGrep might make it just a tad clearer what's going on in that jumble of codes:
(1 [ .,;:! \) \] \} ~} ~] ] 1) (?!! \s !)
and
(?<!<! \s <!) (1 [ \[ \{ \( ~{ ~[ ] 1)
(Orange is lookahead/lookbehind, blue is a regular escaped character, pink is an InDesign special character, green is normal grouping parentheses, and lavender is a character group.)
Some more about this notation:
Eleivana07 wrote:
What is the space separator in the first solution?
Find (\s)(\p{space_separator}|\t)+ and replace with $1
Its not an underscore is it?
A funny thing: it doesn't matter
The name of this character group is "Space Separator", but
1. it is case insensitive (other than almost all other GREP codes!)
2. it is separator insensitive! You can use 'space-separator', 'space_separator', 'space separator', and even 'spaceseparator'
It also has a shortcut: "Zs" (which also is case and separator insensitive, so you can use "\p{z-s}" or "\p{zS}"). The simple search string
\p{zs}{2,}
will find any two or more spaces in succession (excluding tabs, though).
Another freebie is that you can use the same code negated: \P{zs} will match anything not in this set.
There are loads and loads of useful named character groups described in Peter Kahrel's O'Reilly shortcut about GREP.
Theun,
I actually tried the short version of /p{zs} suggested by Peter K before posting, and it was givin me strange results, returning single spaces and the first character following in a word. I did my testing in CS5.
Another point that you didn't bing up about the summary description:
This is actually removing whitespace BEFORE the paragraphs or forced linebreaks. Sapce after a paragraph break is actually leading space onthe first line of the following paragrapgh, and the first query would have caught that and removed it since \s recognizes the paragraph break, and the \p{space-separator} recognizes the other types of space except the tab, which we also included in the "or" statement so the only types of whitepsace left after the paragraph break would hav been another break.
I actually left out the the last of Theun's (jongware's) quries on purpose. It would not be unusual to have a parenthetical where it should be followed by some punctuation mark, nor a quote that ends a paragraph. Granted adding a space back before the return would be invisible in the output, but we just went to a lot of trouble to tremove them, and even more importantly we removed spaces preceding most punctuation and we defiinitely don't want to add them back.
Likewise, I can think of plenty of cases where you might be starting a paragraph with one of those punctuation marks (many of them restricted to technical sorts of work, of course), but I'm not sure it's a great idea to blindly add spaces as in his first query. I'd be more inclined to let Spell Check pick up that sort of odd situation and fix them on a case by case basis.
Cheers.
An thanks, by the way, for the kind word.
Hi Peter,
So are you saying that the query
Is redundant to the first query?
Is there a way to consolidate any of these steps?
I did some studying yesterday (Kahrel's stuff) but honestly it made my head hurt.
I don't mind doing each by each and I saved them all chronologically for easy access.
Like I said before, this would be a neat little 'broom and dustpan' for a lot of text.
I am still trying to figure out what in each of these queries makes them either ADD in a component or SUBTRACT a component.
Although I think I am understanding the syntax a little better (just a little)
Thanks again!
Hi Jongware
Thank you for taking the time to explain. Like I said to Peter, I am trying to wrap my head around these expressions, what they mean and how minor nuances can change them.
I do have a GREP cheat sheet that I reference and I DID obtain the query manager and GREP editor and played around with it trying to chain the 'greps' together to make one or two sweep throughs on my document.
It did some funny things and I was reluctant to use it. Thank god for Ctrl-Z
I do know that the following are the most important at this step for my book to look finished.
Would there be a way to write a query so that it only added a space at the correct location ONLY if it did NOT find one?
Curious
Eleivana07 wrote:
Hi Peter,
So are you saying that the query
- Find (\s)(\n|\r)
- Repace with $2
Is redundant to the first query?
No. It's necessary (or at least, in my opinion, desirable) in order to remove the extra space that you will occasionally see after the last real character in a paragraph, so it's supplemental, rather than redundant, to pick up the cases that didn't get fixed in order to preserve the paragraph breaks.
In a case where a paragraph ends period space space return the first query will find the first space after the period, and it will see the second space as extra, but it will ignore the return, so the result will be period space return (the $1 in the change filed is always the first space in a group and it is always preserved. In the case where the paragraph already ends period space return there will be no change because the query does not recognize a group of spaces.
In the query above we are looking specifically at the case of <last non-space character> space return (though we don't look for the <last non-space character>). Because the first query has already removed all but on space everyplace there are multiples, this query looks specifically for the space/return combination and discards the space ($2 is the return).
Would this be a fatal error if it didn't run? I would say no, and you didn't actually requet the removal of whitespace at the breaks, but you struck me as the sort of person who would want a clean file.
Was that any clearer?
Eleivana07 wrote:
I do know that the following are the most important at this step for my book to look finished.
- No space BEFORE-One Space after ---period,semicolon,colon, exclamation, question mark,CLOSING Parenth,Bracket,Brace, single & Dbl. quotation marks
- No space AFTER-One Space Before----OPENING bracket,brace,parenthesis,Dbl & single quotes
Would there be a way to write a query so that it only added a space at the correct location ONLY if it did NOT find one?
Curious
The query that jongware provide above does exactly that -- adds a space after those punctuation marks if it doesn't see one, but as I said I don't think this is a good thing to automate. Consider this text:
"(1) GREP is a very powerful tool for automating changes by pattern recognition (but dangerous if misused)."
Adding a space before the first open parnethesis or after the last close would be mistakes, as would be adding a space after the period.
Hi Peter
Ha Ha. You got me. Yes I want a clean file mostly because this is my first book and keeping each subject distinct on its own 2 page spread is so critical to the book's layout. Some of the info is so tight that a few extra spaces really makes a difference.
We won't discuss the mild OCD
I see what you're saying above and actually I hadn't thought about that. So you're right. And yes, you made it very clear.
Thanks again
> Adding a space before the first open parenthesis or after the last close would be mistakes, as would be adding a space after the period.
True, but you could narrow it down, e.g.
Find: \)(?=[\u\l])
Replace with: )\s
which could be made more precise. And something before the opening parenthesis.
Another useful addition is to remove all white space at the end of a story, which I don't think is caught by any of the queries mentioned here:
Find: \s+\Z
Replace with nothing
Unwanted space at the beginning of a story is less likely, and maybe you do want a tab there, but if you need to remove story-initial space you can do it using these:
Find: \A\s+
Replace with nothing
Peter
[thanks for the kind words about the ShortCut!]
Peter Kahrel wrote:
Find: \)(?=[\u\l])Find: \)(?=[\u\l])
Replace with: )\s
Does \s work in the change field? I thought that would be literal there...
I think maybe I'm just not convinced that the probability of a missing space is anywhere near as great as the probability of finding excess multiple spaces, and to automate a 100% foolproof way to add them is worth the effort, or even possible. Much as I think it's a mistake to trust in spell checkers for doing your proofing, a missing space after a parenthesis is the sort of thing I think would get picked up, just the way missing space after a period is flagged. I'm a lousy typist, but even I don't tend to miss when I lose a space, so I guess I'd rather see them on a case-by-case basis. Certainly that can be done with Find/Change, but not if you are scripting the queries, right?
> Does \s work in the change field? I thought that would be literal there...
It does, in the same way that \t inserts a tab in your document. It's handy to use \s and \t in the change field in things like forum posts, where you can't see space and tab characters.
> I'd rather see them on a case-by-case basis
I agree. But the challange to find queries is sometimes irresistable!
> but not if you are scripting the queries, right?
Well, it could, but you'd just be repeating Indesign's Find/Change interface. The grep editor I scripted is useful for these things (I think in all immodesty). It highlights all matches in a document in the way that new versions of Word do. So rather than pressing Find all the time, you simple page through the document and you can clearly see all you matches.
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > > possibly include a glibc header, otherwise certain C++ programs will > > simply fail out of the box. > > I don't believe that this is true. [...] > > Well, there's my example. :-) > The code in question reads > > # if _GLIBCPP_HAVE_LLDIV_T > typedef lldiv_t _CPP_lldiv_t_capture; > # endif > > Now, the problem is that _GLIBCPP_HAVE_LLDIV_T is always defined. You are aware that this code is currently unused by default, and unused by Debian, right? Only one of {c,c_std,c_shadow} is | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2001-12/msg00482.html | crawl-001 | refinedweb | 103 | 69.38 |
= e = e.submit(len, data) # compute number of elements >>> n = n.result() # gather n (small) locally >>> from operator import getitem >>> elements = [e.submit(getitem, data, i) for i in range(n)] # split data >>> futures = e.map(process_element, elements) >>> analysis = e.
Submit tasks from worker¶
Note: this interface is new and experimental. It may be changed without warning in future versions.
Alternatively we submit tasks from other tasks. This allows us to make decisions while on worker nodes. To do this we will make a new client object on the worker itself. There is a convenience function for this that will connect you to the correct scheduler that the worker is connected to.
from distributed import local_executor def process_all(data): with local_executor() as e: elements = e.scatter(data) futures = e.map(process_element, elements) analysis = e.submit(aggregate, futures) result = analysis.result() return result analysis = e.submit(process_all, data) # spawns many tasks
This approach is more complex, but very powerful. It allows you to spawn tasks that themselves act as potentially long-running clients, managing their own independent workloads.
Extended Example¶
This example computing the fibonacci numbers creates tasks that submit tasks that submit tasks that submit other tasks, etc..
```python In [1]: from distributed import Executor, local_executor
In [2]: e = Executor()
- In [3]: def fib(n):
- ...: if n < 2: ...: return n ...: else: ...: with local_executor() as ee: ...: a = ee.submit(fib, n - 1) ...: b = ee.submit(fib, n - 2) ...: a, b = ee ```
Technical details¶
Tasks that invoke
local_executor are conservatively assumed to be
long running. They can take a long time blocking, waiting for other tasks to
finish. In order to avoid having them take up processing slots the following
actions occur whenever a task invokes
local_executor.
- The thread on the worker that runs this functions secedes from the thread pool and goes off on its own. This allows the thread pool to populate that slot with a new thread and continue processing.
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On 10/23/2013 06:53 PM, Tomáš Odstrčil wrote:
> .
That's more a question about gnuplot than about gnuplot.py. I don't
think it was possible years ago when I last used gnuplot regularly, but
it might have changed.
Michael
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Hi everyone, .
Best Regards,
Tomas
[Please always CC your replies to the mailing list as well.]
On 10/24/2013 09:35 AM, Tomáš Odstrčil wrote:
> It is possible to do it in gnuplot, I'm using the following command (the
> last line is important)
> set xrange [1:5];
> set yrange [-2:2];
> set style line 1 lt 2 lc rgb 'white' lw 2;
> set style line 2 lt 1 lc rgb 'gray' lw 1;
> set title 'title';
> set xlabel 'xlabel
> set ylabel 'ylabel'
> unset key
> set term png transparent size 600,600 crop;
> set output 'filename.png';
> set view map;
> set pm3d explicit;
> splot 'data.txt' with image, 'line.txt' using 1:2:(0) ls 1 with lines
Ahh, I see, you are doing a "2-d" line plot by doing a 3-d line plot
whose z values are always zero. The same trick works in Gnuplot.py:
import math, numpy
import Gnuplot
g = Gnuplot.Gnuplot()
theta = numpy.arange(-math.pi, math.pi, 0.1)
x = numpy.cos(theta)
y = numpy.sin(theta)
g.splot(
Gnuplot.Func('x*x + y*y'),
Gnuplot.Data(x,y, using='1:2:(0)', with_='line'),
)
or you can pass the zero data to gnuplot explicitly using something like
g.splot(
Gnuplot.Func('x*x + y*y'),
Gnuplot.Data(x,y,numpy.zeros(len(t)), with_='line'),
)
Michael
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Torrential rain and wind are expected to hit the
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Tetrahedron's face voronoi region testing
Randy Gaul replied to MonterMan's topic in Math and PhysicsThey way I do this is to order the vertices and named them A, B, C and D. There are 15 regions in total. The interior region, and 14 exterior regions. There are 6 edge regions, 4 face regions, and 4 vertex regions, to form all 14 exterior edges. A simple way to figure out which region a given point is in, is to compute barycentric coordinates of the point against the tetrahedron. This will tell you which faces the point is in front of. Another approach would be to compute distance of point to plane for each face of the tetrahedron. Assuming the point is above a face, it can potentially also be in front of other faces, up to three. So some test would need to be done to see if the point is nearest to one of the edges, one of the faces, or potentially a vertex. In my own code I just up-front compute barycentric coordinates for the tetrahedron, along with coordinates for all the triangles, and directly enumerate the 15 different cases with 15 different checks (and 15 different return points). This can mostly be seen in Erin's 2D version, which is fairly straightforward to extend to 3D:
How do I get the penetration vector when calculating a Minkowski Differenced AABB?
Randy Gaul replied to Hashbrown's topic in Math and PhysicsGood questions. Minkowski stuff is useful to implement the GJK algorithm. GJK finds the two closest points between two convex sets. It does not do anything else -- if two shapes are colliding, all that is known after GJK runs is that they are colliding. It provides no information as to how, which is needed to resolve a collision. I suggest using a very straight-forward function to quickly test to see if two AABBs are touching at all. This can be coded in SIMD pretty easily if you want an extra speed boost. Reading about Minkowski stuff will not help you here. Something like this (which I grabbed from here😞 function intersect(a, b) { return (a.minX <= b.maxX && a.maxX >= b.minX) && (a.minY <= b.maxY && a.maxY >= b.minY) && (a.minZ <= b.maxZ && a.maxZ >= b.minZ); } If this function returns true, then you can use a more complicated function to compute penetration vector (axis of minimum penetration) and depth (like the function I linked you in my last post). Also it would be wise to use a capsule for your player collider, for a variety of reasons! Mainly to make things easy to implement.
Ellipsoid vs Convex shape GJK collision response
Randy Gaul replied to MonterMan's topic in Math and PhysicsDon't implement EPA. Use a capsule for your player instead of an ellipse. Once you find the TOI, place the capsule at this location. Then use GJK without considering the capsule radius. This will give you the closest points bewteen the capsule's interior line segment, and the other convex volume. From here calculating resolution terms is trivial.
How do I get the penetration vector when calculating a Minkowski Differenced AABB?
Randy Gaul replied to Hashbrown's topic in Math and PhysicsYou should use a different algorithm. Using GJK for this task is A) overkill, and B) will not help you resolve the collision. Here's an example algorithm in 2D that can be extended to 3D:
- Haha that's a pretty good one! Thanks for sharing. Very entertaining. We have all struggled with this exact kind of mistake. Back when I intern at thatgamecompany I had a week long problem between row vs column notation. Nobody in the company understood which was which, and instead just had "a consistent ordering" in the codebase. But it was a problem when attempting to port in code with unknown ordering... Or implement papers where they have different notation compared to the code. For scalar multiplication one thing I found that helps is to only have on operator defined, so 0.5 * vec can compile, but vec * 0.5 can not compile. This kind of thing has prevented order swappings for me before, especially when porting code between code bases. --- One time I had a typo in the collision constraint code back in school. The typo was accidentally re-using an old vector in the solver, as opposed to the correct one, because of a typo. Funny thing was numerically each vector was nearly the same, so long as the constraint geometry was close to the origin. But, once shapes were far away from the origin the error would get larger. The result was whenever the player bumped into tables (the only dynamic objects) and woke them up, the collision constraints between the tables and the floor would make the table jiggle in a little spiral pattern. As if it were walking in a tiny circle. Really far away from the origin would make tables swirl violently. It took a month to find and fix that bug! I audited basically my entire rigid body engine. For the longest time I thought it was a bad inertia tensor. Turned out to just be a typo in the solver.
Raycast From Camera To Mouse Pointer
Randy Gaul replied to Psychopathetica's topic in Math and PhysicsGlad you got it working! Just posting up a reference in case anyone else comes along in this thread: void compute_mouse_ray( float mouse_x, float mouse_y, float fov, float viewport_w, float viewport_h, float* cam_inv, float near_plane_dist, v3* mouse_pos, v3* mouse_dir ) { float aspect = (float)viewport_w / (float)viewport_h; float px = 2.0f * aspect * mouse_x / viewport_w - aspect; float py = -2.0f * mouse_y / viewport_h + 1.0f; float pz = -1.0f / tanf( fov / 2.0f ); v3 point_in_view_space( px, py, pz ); v3 cam_pos( cam_inv[ 12 ], cam_inv[ 13 ], cam_inv[ 14 ] ); float pf[ 4 ] = { getx( point_in_view_space ), gety( point_in_view_space ), getz( point_in_view_space ), 1.0f }; tgMulv( cam_inv, pf ); v3 point_on_clipping_plane( pf[ 0 ] , pf[ 1 ], pf[ 2 ] ); v3 dir_in_world_space = point_on_clipping_plane - cam_pos; v3 dir = norm( dir_in_world_space ); v3 cam_forward( cam_inv[ 8 ], cam_inv[ 9 ], cam_inv[ 10 ] ); *mouse_dir = dir; *mouse_pos = cam_pos + dir * dot( dir, cam_forward ) * vfloat( near_plane_dist ); }
Collision Detection - why GJK?
Randy Gaul replied to ColonelPanic's topic in Math and PhysicsIt's my understanding that nowadays termination criteria are largely based on indices of the input geometry, as opposed to actual floating point positions. Then to prevent multi-step cycling, a clever distance check to the origin can be used to verify incremental progress. This was all from Erin's online resources.
- Try running qu3e and record an input matrix and its corresponding output. Then, setup a test case where you use the exact same floating point values, and try to transform your inertia tensor. You should verify where the values are the exact same, or transposed, or otherwise incorrect.
What goes into a "Transform" structure in C/C++?
Randy Gaul replied to PlanetExp's topic in Math and PhysicsBox2D has no scaling because scaling is not useful for a physics engine most of the time. Unity has scaling, because their transform is a general purpose tool to place anything anywhere with any rotate/scaling/translation.
- I wrote qu3e, so if you're confused on how something relates to your code snippet, you can just ask here
- Your tensors don't look right. You need to use R * I * R^T (or flipped about depending on your notation ordering). The rest more or less looks correct. Be sure to double check it against a known reference code (like Box2D *Lite* or qu3e).
- That is correct. Box2D's scheme will not put them to sleep. There are a lot of potential strategies for optimization for the islands not moving much. Caching manifolds or other caching systems can be used to try and skip narrow phase. The island building scheme can maybe be customized in some way to somehow skip non-moving bodies (like the beginning of a domino chain). But I think a caching mechanism would be better suited for this kind of problem, while leaving the island sleeping as a simple algorithm. Just my opinion.
- Have you research Box2D's sleep mechanism? The idea is sleep an entire island of bodies by crawling an island graph, and computing the maximum linear/angular velocities. A timers is accumulated while the max are underneath a threshold (one threshold for linear, and one for angular velocity). Once the timer reaches a threshold, the island is put to sleep. Islands are awoken by force events or other user events, and if another collider enters the broadphase bounding shape for any of the island entries.
- So I asked Dirk specifically, and he says LCP formulation cannot solve Newton cradle, and this is specifically a well-known topic in literature. I believe he referred to work by Kauffman. Basically affirming what d07RiV and myself were talking about earlier.
- If by "this" you meant magically move energy in the system in a realistic manner, then no they definitely can not. But if you meant, it's possible to tune the setup to make a Newton's cradle, then of course that's possible. But the behavior is not a natural emergence that can be easily replicated in other situations...
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The facility, by Bosch subsidiary Ersol, would have a capacity of 90m solar cells/year and create 1,100 jobs after its start-up in 2010, the company said.
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Yongzhi Chen commented on HIVE-11502:
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[~gopalv], I have confirmed that HIVE-7041 caused the regression. Because the hadoop bug is
there for a long time, after hive switch to use hadoop's hashcode, we got hadoop's bug. Thanks
for find the root cause by pointing the hadoop bug.
After I add code in serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/io/DoubleWritable.java
{noformat}
@Override
public int hashCode() {
long v = Double.doubleToLongBits(super.get());
return (int) (v ^ (v >>> 32));
}
{noformat}
The group by query can finish in 15 seconds.
So next step is, how do we fix the issue now?
> Map side aggregation is extremely slow
> --------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-11502
> URL:
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Logical Optimizer, Physical Optimizer
> Affects Versions: 1.2.0
> Reporter: Yongzhi Chen
> Assignee: Yongzhi Chen
>
> For the query as following:
> {noformat}
> create table tbl2 as
> select col1, max(col2) as col2
> from tbl1 group by col1;
> {noformat}
> If the column for group by has many different values (for example 400000) and it is in
type double, the map side aggregation is very slow. I ran the query which took more than 3
hours , after 3 hours, I have to kill the query.
> The same query can finish in 7 seconds, if I turn off map side aggregation by:
> {noformat}
> set hive.map.aggr = false;
> {noformat}
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Introduction: Motion Controlled Pong Video Game
Hey,
i'm MrWaffelXD and today I want you to show how to make a motion controlled Pong game.
In this guide you learn, how to programm your own Pong and how to make a distance-controller, which you can use by moving your hand.
But first: What is Pong?
; Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement. Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game."[Wikipedia: Pong - Source: (visited:01.08.2019)]
But now let's begin and have fun!
Supplies
Hardware
- Arduino Pro Micro or Arduino Leonardo(Recommended: Arduino Leonardo, because I had a lot of trouble with the Pro Micro)
- UltrasonicSensor (HC-SR04)
- Breadboard
- 4 Jumper Wire (Male/Male)
- USB-Cable (Type B micro)
- PC
Software
- Arduino IDE (Online or Software)
- Python IDLEor a programming environment of your choice
Step 1: Programming the Game
Okay, first you need a playable Pong game. You can use an existing Version of Pong, like but I think, that it is boring to use a exsisting game.
Furthermore you can't use custom rules like more balls or a diffrent paddle speed.
But if you want to use an exsisting Pong game, just skip this step.
Basically you can use every programming language you like, but I used Python to make the game.
Since this is not supposed to be a Python tutorial, of which there are thousands out there, I will simply insert my source code (2 balls).
I'm sorry for the damn bad formatting on Instractables.
#pong for two players with 2 balls
import turtle
#Window wn = turtle.Screen() wn.title("Pong by MrWaffelXD @ 1280x720") wn.bgcolor("black") wn.setup(width=1280, height=720) wn.tracer(0)
#visual border
v_border = turtle.Turtle() v_border.speed(0) v_border.shape("square") v_border.color("white") v_border.shapesize(stretch_wid=0.2, stretch_len=100) v_border.penup() v_border.goto(0, 360)
v_border = turtle.Turtle() v_border.speed(0) v_border.shape("square") v_border.color("white") v_border.shapesize(stretch_wid=0.2, stretch_len=100) v_border.penup() v_border.goto(0, -360) #score score_a = 0 score_b = 0
#paddle a
paddle_a = turtle.Turtle() paddle_a.speed(0) paddle_a.shape("square") paddle_a.color("white") paddle_a.shapesize(stretch_wid=5, stretch_len=1) paddle_a.penup() paddle_a.goto(-600, 0)
#paddle b paddle_b = turtle.Turtle() paddle_b.speed(0) paddle_b.shape("square") paddle_b.color("white") paddle_b.shapesize(stretch_wid=5, stretch_len=1) paddle_b.penup() paddle_b.goto(600, 0)
#ball a ball_a = turtle.Turtle() ball_a.speed(0) ball_a.shape("square") ball_a.color("white") ball_a.penup() ball_a.goto(0, -15) ball_a.dx = 1 ball_a.dy = 1
#ball b
ball_b = turtle.Turtle() ball_b.speed(0) ball_b.shape("square") ball_b.color("white") ball_b.penup() ball_b.goto(0, 15) ball_b.dx = -1 ball_b.dy = -1
#pen pen = turtle.Turtle() pen.speed(0) pen.color("white") pen.penup() pen.hideturtle() pen.goto(0, 275)
pen.write("Player A: {} Player B: {}".format(score_a, score_b), align="center", font=("Consolas", 24, "normal"))
#function
#paddle a def paddle_a_up(): y = paddle_a.ycor() y += 10 paddle_a.sety(y)
def paddle_a_down(): y = paddle_a.ycor() y -= 10 paddle_a.sety(y)
#paddle b def paddle_b_up(): y = paddle_b.ycor() y += 10 paddle_b.sety(y)
def paddle_b_down(): y = paddle_b.ycor() y -= 10 paddle_b.sety(y)
#keybord binding
wn.listen() wn.onkeypress(paddle_a_up, "w") wn.onkeypress(paddle_a_down, "s")
wn.onkeypress(paddle_b_up, "Up") wn.onkeypress(paddle_b_down, "Down")
#main game loop while True: wn.update()
#move the balls ball_a.setx(ball_a.xcor() + ball_a.dx) ball_a.sety(ball_a.ycor() + ball_a.dy)
ball_b.setx(ball_b.xcor() + ball_b.dx) ball_b.sety(ball_b.ycor() + ball_b.dy)
#border if ball_a.ycor() > 360: ball_a.sety(360) ball_a.dy *= -1 if ball_a.ycor() < -360: ball_a.sety(-360) ball_a.dy *= -1
if ball_a.xcor() > 640: ball_a.goto(0, -15) ball_a.dx *= -1 score_a += 1 pen.clear() pen.write("Player A: {} Player B: {}".format(score_a, score_b), align="center", font=("Consolas", 24, "normal")) if ball_a.xcor() < -640: ball_a.goto(0, -15) ball_a.dx *= -0.1 score_b += 1 pen.clear() pen.write("Player A: {} Player B: {}".format(score_a, score_b), align="center", font=("Consolas", 24, "normal"))
if ball_b.ycor() > 350: ball_b.sety(350) ball_b.dy *= -0.75 if ball_b.ycor() < -350: ball_b.sety(-350) ball_b.dy *= -1 if ball_b.xcor() > 640: ball_b.goto(0, 15) ball_b.dx *= -1 pen.clear() score_a += 1 pen.write("Player A: {} Player B: {}".format(score_a, score_b), align="center", font=("Consolas", 24, "normal"))
if ball_b.xcor() < -640: ball_b.goto(0, 15) ball_b.dx *= -1 pen.clear() score_b += 1 pen.write("Player A: {} Player B: {}".format(score_a, score_b), align="center", font=("Consolas", 24, "normal"))
#paddle colision if ball_a.xcor() < -600 and (ball_a.ycor() < paddle_a.ycor() + 50 and ball_a.ycor() > paddle_a.ycor() -50 ): ball_a.dx *= -1
if ball_a.xcor() > 600 and (ball_a.ycor() < paddle_b.ycor() + 50 and ball_a.ycor() > paddle_b.ycor() -50 ): ball_a.dx *= -1
if ball_b.xcor() < -600 and (ball_b.ycor() < paddle_a.ycor() + 50 and ball_b.ycor() > paddle_a.ycor() -50 ): ball_b.dx *= -1
if ball_b.xcor() > 600 and (ball_b.ycor() < paddle_b.ycor() + 50 and ball_b.ycor() > paddle_b.ycor() -50 ): ball_b.dx *= -1
If you want to have more detailed information about programming, just have a look at my Playlist with YouTube videos about Pong programming in different languages.(I think, that the first Video in this playlist was the one I used)...
Notice: Just choose some random keys for your control. The keys doesn't matter.
Step 2: Using the Arduino IDE
Congratulations, if you've made it this far, you've either programmed your own pong or simply used an existing one (boring).
Now that you have to control your game somehow and are here to do it in a very special way, it's time to build the required controller!
To do this, you must first program the Arduino mentioned in the material list. For this you use the Arduino IDE. You can install the program without registration on your PC or you can, with registration, use the web interface.
Using the Webinterface
To use the web interface simply click on the link, log in or create a new account.
Then click on "Arduino Web Editor", then on "New Sketch".
You will now see a white field on the right, containing void setup() and void loop().Here you write your source code later.
But before you can get started, you have to press "Select Board or Port" and select Arduino Leonardo ()even if you are using a Pro micro. Of course, you connect it to your PC with a USB cable beforehand.
If you need further information feel free to click on the link to visit the official "Getting Started":...
Now it's time to write the source code into the white field (next step).
Using the Programm
To use the Arduino program, you must first download and install it from the official Arduino website. Please use the following link.
After the installation the program looks like in the picture above.
Now connect the Arduino to your PC and press "tools" and choose the right port and board.
Now you can write the code in the field and then press the arrow in the upper left corner to upload the program to your Arduino.
Step 3: Programming the Arduino
After you have correctly configured the software or the web interface, you are now ready to write the program. But what exactly is the program supposed to do?
Well, there's a simple solution.
The program should detect the distance to the next object by means of the ultrasonic sensor and simulate a key entry accordingly.
That's exactly why we need an Arduino with an ATmega32u4 processor, an Arduino Pro Micro or an Arduino Leonardo. Since other Arduino's also have other processors installed and these are built differently, it is unfortunately not possible with other Arduino's to simulate a keyboard input (at least with the keyboard library).
Here is my Arduino Source code:
#include <Keyboard.h>
int trigger = 7;
int echo = 6;
long duration = 0;
long distance = 0;
int led = 5;
void setup()
{
//delay is really important (See below for more information)
delay(1000);
//Starting Serial monitor
Serial.begin (9600);
pinMode(trigger, OUTPUT);
pinMode(echo, INPUT);
pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
digitalWrite(trigger, LOW);
delay(5);
digitalWrite(trigger, HIGH);
delay(10);
digitalWrite(trigger, LOW);
duration = pulseIn(echo, HIGH);
//Calculate distance in centimeters
distance = (duration / 2) * 0.03432;
if (distance >= 500 || distance <= 0)
{
//Serial Error Screen
Serial.println("No measured value ");
}
else
{
//Serial Output of the distance in Centimeter
Serial.print(distance);
Serial.println(" cm");
}
if (distance <= 10) // If value 10 or equal then Key (W) and LED ON
{
digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
Keyboard.begin();
Keyboard.press('w');
}
else if (distance >= 11) // If value 11 or equal then Key (S) and LED OFF
{
digitalWrite(led, LOW);
Keyboard.press('s');
}
else {
digitalWrite(led, LOW);
}
delay(50); }
You can use this Code if you want to.
As you may have already noticed, I use an LED in this source code to indicate whether the distance is below or above 10 cm. This LED is optional and can be omitted as the distance is displayed on the serial monitor anyway. To open it, simply press "Tools"; in the software and then Serial Monitor. A window opens in which the distance is to be displayed. If this is not the case, then briefly reset the Arduino by pressing the small button on the Arduino or briefly disconnect and reconnect the cable. If then still nothing happens, then please check the speed adjustment below right.
The above source code can of course be modified. For example, I have set the W key to be pressed at a distance of 10 centimeters or less. Here you can enter the correct key and the desired distance.
I also recommend to be in a comment area with the cursor when the Arduino is put into operation, otherwise the Arduino will write into the source code, which can be extremely annoying.
Therefore I recommend to program a delay of at least 1 second at the beginning of the program, so that you don't have any problems to change the source code of the Arduino later on.
Step 4: Wire the Arduino
You have made it to the last step of this guide and are about to play your project.
However, the Arduino has to be wired beforehand, respectively the controller has to be built.
Connect the VCC pin of your sensor to the 5V pin of your Arduino and the GND pin to the pin of the same name on your Arduino. Now the Arduino already has power, but can't work properly yet, because you still have to wire 2 pins. Echo and Trigger. Now connect them to pin 6 and 7.
At this point I will briefly explain how such an ultrasonic sensor works. The sensor has 2 silver cylinders on the front, which have a black metal net on the front. One cylinder is for the echo and the other for the trigger. The sensor now sends out an ultrasonic signal at regular intervals which, when it hits something, bounces off the object and comes back again. The signal is now picked up by the trigger. The distance to the object can now be determined on the basis of the duration of the absence of the signal. Or a value is passed on to the Arduino, which can be converted into centimeters with the formula distance = (duration / 2) * 0. 03432; for example. If the signal doesn't rebound anywhere, so it doesn't come back, you can read an error message on the serial monitor in our case.
However, it can also happen that if the signal does not hit an object at an angle of 90°, it rebounds in another direction and the sensor thinks that there is no object.
Now connect your Arduino to your PC using a USB cable so that Arduino and PC can communicate with each other.
Since you want to play Pong with a fellow player, you now build a second controller. Of course with different key assignments.
You can now move your hand in front of the sensor to make the appropriate keystrokes and control the game. However, make sure that the angle between sensor and hand is as perpendicular as possible.
Good to know:
The HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor has a range of approximately 3 meters.
Step 5: You Did It!!
Congratulations, you just programmed your own game and built and programmed your own control module. You should be proud of yourself. I wish you a lot of fun with your new game and please don't forget to vote for me at the "Games Contest" ;).
Have a nice day.
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2 years ago
This sounds fun! Do you have a video showing how it's played with the motion controlling?
Reply 2 years ago
Hey Penolopy Bulnick, I'd like to make a video in which I show my
Creation. Unfortunately I'm very busy at the moment, so I won't be
able to upload the video until the next few weeks.
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Consider the Traveling Salesperson Problem:
Given a set of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible tour that visits each city exactly once, and returns to the starting city?
In this notebook we will develop some solutions to the problem, and more generally show how to think about solving a problem like this. Elsewhere you can read about how the algorithms developed here are used in serious applications that millions of people rely on every day.
Do we understand precisely what the problem is asking? Do we understand all the concepts that the problem talks about? Do we understand them well enough to implement them in a programming language? Let's take a first pass:
setdatatype might be appropriate.
Aand
Bare cities, this could be a function,
distance(A, B),or a table lookup,
distance[A][B]. The resulting distance will be a real number.
listor
tupledatatypes would work. For example, given the set of cities
{A, B, C, D}, a tour might be the list
[B, D, A, C], which means to travel from
Bto
Dto
Ato
Cand finally back to
B.
tour_length(tour).
tsp", the traditional abbreviation for Traveling Salesperson Problem.
At this stage I have a rough sketch of how to attack the problem. I don't have all the answers, and I haven't committed to specific representations for all the concepts, but I know what all the pieces are, and I don't see anything that stops me from proceeding.
Here are the imports used throughout this notebook. I'm assuming Python 3.
%matplotlib inline import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import random import time import itertools import urllib import csv import functools from statistics import mean, stdev
Let's start with an algorithm that is guaranteed to solve the problem, although it is inefficient for large sets of cities:
All Tours Algorithm: Generate all possible tours of the cities, and choose the shortest tour (the one with minimum tour length).
My design philosophy is to first write an English description of the algorithm, then write Python code that closely mirrors the English description. This will probably require some auxilliary functions and data structures; just assume they exist; put them on a TO DO list, and eventually define them with the same design philosophy.
Here is the start of the implementation:
def alltours_tsp(cities): "Generate all possible tours of the cities and choose the shortest tour." return shortest_tour(alltours(cities)) def shortest_tour(tours): "Choose the tour with the minimum tour length." return min(tours, key=tour_length) # TO DO: Data types: cities, tours, Functions: alltours, tour_length
Note: In Python
min(collection
,key=function
) means to find the element x that is a member of collection such that function(x) is minimized. So
shortest finds the tour whose
tour_length in the minimal among the tours.
This gives us a good start; the Python code closely matches the English description. And we know what we need to do next: represent cities and tours, and implement the functions
alltours and
tour_length. Let's start with tours.
A tour starts in one city, and then visits each of the other cities in order, before returning to the start city. A natural representation of a tour is a sequence of cities. For example
(1, 2, 3) could represent a tour that starts in city 1, moves to 2, then 3, and finally returns to 1.
Note: I considered using
(1, 2, 3, 1) as the representation of this tour. I also considered an ordered list of edges between cities:
((1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 1)). In the end, I decided
(1, 2, 3) was simplest.
Now for the
alltours function. If a tour is a sequence of cities, then all the tours are permutations of the set of all cities. A function to generate all permutations of a set is already provided in Python's standard
itertools library module; we can use it as our implementation of
alltours:
alltours = itertools.permutations
For n cities there are n! (that is, the factorial of n) permutations. Here's are all 3! = 6 tours of 3 cities:
cities = {1, 2, 3} list(alltours(cities))
[(1, 2, 3), (1, 3, 2), (2, 1, 3), (2, 3, 1), (3, 1, 2), (3, 2, 1)]
The length of a tour is the sum of the lengths of each edge in the tour; in other words, the sum of the distances between consecutive cities in the tour, including the distance form the last city back to the first:
def tour_length(tour): "The total of distances between each pair of consecutive cities in the tour." return sum(distance(tour[i], tour[i-1]) for i in range(len(tour))) # TO DO: Functions: distance, Data types: cities
Note: I use one Python-specific trick: when
i is 0, then
distance(tour[0], tour[-1]) gives us the wrap-around distance between the first and last cities, because
tour[-1] is the last element of
tour.
We determined that the only thing that matters about cities is the distance between them. But before we can decide about how to represent cities, and before we can define
distance(A, B), we have to make a choice. In the fully general version of the TSP, the "distance" between two cities could be anything: it could factor in the amount of time it takes to travel between cities, the twistiness of the road, or anything else. The
distance(A, B) might be different from
distance(B, A). So the distances could be represented by a matrix
distance[A][B], where any entry in the matrix could be any (non-negative) numeric value.
But we will ignore the fully general TSP and concentrate on an important special case, the Euclidean TSP, where the distance between any two cities is the Euclidean distance, the straight-line distance between points in a two-dimensional plane. So a city can be represented by a two-dimensional point: a pair of x and y coordinates. We will use the constructor function
City, so that
City(300, 0) creates a city with x-coordinate of 300 and y coordinate of 0. Then
distance(A, B) will be a function that uses the x and y coordinates to compute the distance between
A and
B.
distance¶
OK, so a city can be represented as just a two-dimensional point. But how will we represent points? Here are some choices, with their pros and cons:
tuple: A point is a two-tuple of (x, y) coordinates, for example,
(300, 0). Pro: Very simple.
Con: doesn't distinguish Points from other two-tuples.
class: Define a custom
Point class with x and y slots. Pro: explicit, gives us
p.x and
p.y accessors. Con: less efficient.
complex: Python already has the two-dimensional point as a built-in numeric data type, but in a non-obvious way: as
complex numbers, which inhabit the two-dimensional (real × imaginary) plane. Pro: efficient. Con: a little confusing; doesn't distinguish Points from other complex numbers.
complex, and eliminating the major con.
Any of these choices would work perfectly well; I decided to use a subclass of
complex:
# Cities are represented as Points, which are a subclass of complex numbers class Point(complex): x = property(lambda p: p.real) y = property(lambda p: p.imag) City = Point def distance(A, B): "The distance between two points." return abs(A - B)
Here's an example of computing the distance between two cities:
A = City(3, 0) B = City(0, 4) distance(A, B)
5.0
{City(random.randrange(1000), random.randrange(1000)) for c in range(6)}
{(193+375j), (427+384j), (497+585j), (179+546j), (224+543j), (245+643j)}
The function
Cities does that (and a bit more):
def Cities(n, width=900, height=600, seed=42): "Make a set of n cities, each with random coordinates within a (width x height) rectangle." random.seed(seed * n) return frozenset(City(random.randrange(width), random.randrange(height)) for c in range(n))
There are three complications that I decided to tackle in
Cities:
IPython's matplotlib plots (by default) in a rectangle that is 1.5 times wider than it is high; that's why I specified a width of 900 and a height of 600. If you want the coordinates of your cities to be bounded by a different size rectangle, you can change width or height.
Sometimes I want
Cities(n) to be a true function, returning the same result each time. This is very helpful for getting repeatable results: if I run a test twice, I get the same results twice.
But other times I would like to be able to do an experiment, where, for example, I call
Cities(n) 30 times and get 30 different sets, and I then compute the average tour length produced by my algorithm across these 30 sets. Can I get both behaviors out of one function? Yes! The trick is the additional optional parameter,
seed. Two calls to
Cities with the same
n and
seed parameters will always return the same set of cities, and two calls with different values for
seed will return different sets. This is implemented by calling the function
random.seed, which resets the random number generator.
Once I create a set of Cities, I don't want anyone messing with my set. For example, I don't want an algorithm that claims to "solve" a problem by deleting half the cities from the input set, then finding a tour of the remaining cities. Therefore, I make
Cities return a
frozenset rather than a
set. A
frozenset is immutable; nobody can change it once it is created. (Likewise, each city is immutable.)
For example:
# A set of 5 cities Cities(5)
frozenset({(172+20j), (234+40j), (696+415j), (393+7j), (671+296j)})
# The exact same set of 5 cities each time [Cities(5) for i in range(3)]
[frozenset({(172+20j), (234+40j), (696+415j), (393+7j), (671+296j)}), frozenset({(172+20j), (234+40j), (696+415j), (393+7j), (671+296j)}), frozenset({(172+20j), (234+40j), (696+415j), (393+7j), (671+296j)})]
# A different set of 5 cities each time [Cities(5, seed=i) for i in range(3)]
[frozenset({(414+310j), (776+430j), (41+265j), (864+394j), (523+497j)}), frozenset({(814+542j), (29+476j), (637+261j), (759+367j), (794+255j)}), frozenset({(439+494j), (211+473j), (585+33j), (832+503j), (591+15j)})]
Now we are ready to apply the
alltours_tsp function to find the shortest tour:
alltours_tsp(Cities(8))
((6+546j), (199+147j), (350+65j), (737+26j), (847+187j), (891+465j), (554+374j), (505+548j))
tour_length(alltours_tsp(Cities(8)))
2509.307587720301
def plot_tour(tour): "Plot the cities as circles and the tour as lines between them." plot_lines(list(tour) + [tour[0]]) def plot_lines(points, style='bo-'): "Plot lines to connect a series of points." plt.plot([p.x for p in points], [p.y for p in points], style) plt.axis('scaled'); plt.axis('off')
plot_tour(alltours_tsp(Cities(8)))
That looks much better! To me, it looks like the shortest possible tour, although I don't have an easy way to prove it. Let's go one step further and define a function,
plot_tsp(algorithm, cities) that will take a TSP algorithm (such as
alltours_tsp) and a set of cities, apply the algorithm to the cities to get a tour, check that the tour is reasonable, plot the tour, and print information about the length of the tour and the time it took to find it:
def plot_tsp(algorithm, cities): "Apply a TSP algorithm to cities, plot the resulting tour, and print information." # Find the solution and time how long it takes t0 = time.clock() tour = algorithm(cities) t1 = time.clock() assert valid_tour(tour, cities) plot_tour(tour); plt.show() print("{} city tour with length {:.1f} in {:.3f} secs for {}" .format(len(tour), tour_length(tour), t1 - t0, algorithm.__name__)) def valid_tour(tour, cities): "Is tour a valid tour for these cities?" return set(tour) == set(cities) and len(tour) == len(cities)
plot_tsp(alltours_tsp, Cities(8))
8 city tour with length 2509.3 in 0.110 secs for alltours_tsp
We said there are n! tours of n cities, and thus 6 tours of 3 cities:
list(alltours({1, 2, 3}))
[(1, 2, 3), (1, 3, 2), (2, 1, 3), (2, 3, 1), (3, 1, 2), (3, 2, 1)]
But this is redundant:
(1, 2, 3),
(2, 3, 1), and
(3, 1, 2) are three ways of describing the same tour. So let's arbitrarily say that all tours must start with the first city in the set of cities. We'll just pull the first city out, and then tack it back on to all the permutations of the rest of the cities.
While we're re-assembling a tour from the start city and the rest, we'll take the opportunity to construct the tour as a list rather than a tuple. It doesn't matter much now, but later on we will want to represent partial tours, to which we will want to append cities one by one; appending can only be done to lists, not tuples.
def alltours(cities): "Return a list of tours, each a permutation of cities, but each one starting with the same city." start = first(cities) return [[start] + Tour(rest) for rest in itertools.permutations(cities - {start})] def first(collection): "Start iterating over collection, and return the first element." return next(iter(collection)) Tour = list # Tours are implemented as lists of cities
We can verify that for 3 cities there are now only 2 tours (not 6) and for 4 cities there are 6 tours (not 24):
alltours({1, 2, 3})
[[1, 2, 3], [1, 3, 2]]
alltours({1, 2, 3, 4})
[[1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 4, 3], [1, 3, 2, 4], [1, 3, 4, 2], [1, 4, 2, 3], [1, 4, 3, 2]]
Note: We could say that there is only one tour of three cities, because
[1, 2, 3] and
[1, 3, 2] are in some sense the same tour, one going clockwise and the other counterclockwise. However, I choose not to do that, for two reasons. First, it would mean we can never handle TSP problems where the distance from A to B is different from B to A. Second, it would complicate the code (if only by a line or two).
We can verify that calling
alltours_tsp(Cities(8)) still works and gives the same tour with the same total distance. But it now runs faster:
plot_tsp(alltours_tsp, Cities(8))
8 city tour with length 2509.3 in 0.018 secs for alltours_tsp
Now let's try a much harder 10-city tour:
plot_tsp(alltours_tsp, Cities(10))
10 city tour with length 2291.8 in 1.636 secs for alltours_tsp
alltours_tsp¶
It takes about 2 seconds on my machine to solve this 10-city problem. In general, the function
TSP looks at (n-1)! tours for an n-city problem, and each tour has n cities, so the total time required for n cities should be roughly proportional to n!. This means that the time grows rapidly with the number of cities. Really rapidly. This table shows the actual time for solving a 10 city problem, and the exepcted time for solving larger problems:
There must be a better way ...
What if we are willing to settle for a tour that is short, but not guaranteed to be shortest? Then we can save billions of years of compute time: we will show several approximate algorithms, which find tours that are typically within 10% of the shortest possible tour, and can handle thousands of cities in a few seconds. (Note: There are more sophisticated approximate algorithms that can handle hundreds of thousands of cities and come within 0.01% or better of the shortest possible tour.)
So how do we come up with an approximate algorithm? Here are two general plans of how to create a tour:
We will expand these ideas into full algorithms.
In addition, here are four very general strategies that apply not just to TSP, but to any optimization problem. An optimization problem is one in which the goal is to find a solution that is best (or near-best) according to some metric, out of a pool of many candidate solutions. The strategies are:
And here are two more strategies that work for a wide variety of problems:
Divide and Conquer: Split the input in half, solve the problem for each half, and then combine the two partial solutions.
Stand on the Shoulders of Giants or Just Google It: Find out what others have done in the past, and either copy it or build on it.
Here is a description of the nearest neighbor algorithm:
Nearest Neighbor Algorithm: Start at any city; at each step extend the tour by moving from the previous city to its nearest neighbor that has not yet been visited.
So now, instead of considering all n! tours, we are generating a single tour. It takes O(n2 ) time to find the tour, because it has n-1 steps, and at each step we consider each of the remaining cities. I implement the algorithm as follows:
tour[-1].
nearest_neighbor.
unvisitedcities.
That gives us:
def nn_tsp(cities): """Start the tour at the first city; at each step extend the tour by moving from the previous city to the nearest neighboring city, C, that has not yet been visited.""" start = first(cities) tour = [start] unvisited = set(cities - {start}) while unvisited: C = nearest_neighbor(tour[-1], unvisited) tour.append(C) unvisited.remove(C) return tour def nearest_neighbor(A, cities): "Find the city in cities that is nearest to city A." return min(cities, key=lambda c: distance(c, A))
Note: In Python, as in the formal mathematical theory of computability,
lambda (or λ) is the symbol for function, so "
lambda c: distance(c, A)" means the function of
c that computes the distance from
c to the city
A.
We can compare the the slow (but optimal)
alltours_tsp algorithm to the new fast (but approximate)
nn_tsp algorithm:
plot_tsp(alltours_tsp, Cities(10))
10 city tour with length 2291.8 in 1.681 secs for alltours_tsp
plot_tsp(nn_tsp, Cities(10))
10 city tour with length 2381.4 in 0.000 secs for nn_tsp
So the nearest neighbor algorithm is a lot faster, but it didn't find the shortest tour. To understand where it went wrong, it would be helpful to know what city it started from. I can modify
plot_tour by adding one line of code to highlight the start city with a red square:
def plot_tour(tour): "Plot the cities as circles and the tour as lines between them. Start city is red square." start = tour[0] plot_lines(list(tour) + [start]) plot_lines([start], 'rs') # Mark the start city with a red square
plot_tsp(nn_tsp, Cities(10))
10 city tour with length 2381.4 in 0.000 secs for nn_tsp
We can see that the tour moves clockwise from the start city, and mostly makes good decisions, but not optimal ones.
We can compare the performance of these two algorithms on, say, eleven different sets of cities instead of just one:
def length_ratio(cities): "The ratio of the tour lengths for nn_tsp and alltours_tsp algorithms." return tour_length(nn_tsp(cities)) / tour_length(alltours_tsp(cities)) sorted(length_ratio(Cities(8, seed=i*i)) for i in range(11))
[1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0118279018107388, 1.0121039193389436, 1.107851821362778, 1.139713084817861, 1.1531140497779002, 1.1972133336642432, 1.2160497559961319]
The ratio of
1.0 means the two algorithms got the same (optimal) result; that happened 4 times out of 10. The other times, we see that the
nn_tsp produces a longer tour, by anything up to 21% worse, with a median of 1% worse.
But more important than that 1% (or even 21%) difference is that the nearest neighbor algorithm can quickly tackle problems that the all tours algorithm can't touch in the lifetime of the universe. Finding a tour of 1000 cities takes well under a second:
plot_tsp(nn_tsp, Cities(1000))
1000 city tour with length 21275.9 in 0.145 secs for nn_tsp
Can we do better? Can we combine the speed of the nearest neighbor algorithm with the optimality of the all tours algorithm?
Let's consider where
nn_tsp can go wrong. At the end of
plot_tsp(nn_tsp, Cities(10)), we see a very long edge, because there are no remaining cities near by. In a way, this just seems like bad luck—we started in a place that left us with no good choices at the end. Just as with buying lottery tickets, we could improve our chance of winning by trying more often; in other words, by using the repetition strategy.
Here is an easy way to apply the repetition strategy to improve nearest neighbors:
Repeated Nearest Neighbor Algorithm: For each of the cities, run the nearest neighbor algorithm with that city as the starting point, and choose the resulting tour with the shortest total distance.
So, with n cities we could run the
nn_tsp algorithm n times, regrettably making the total run time n times longer, but hopefully making at least one of the n tours shorter.
To implement
repeated_nn_tsp we just take the shortest tour over all starting cities:
def repeated_nn_tsp(cities): "Repeat the nn_tsp algorithm starting from each city; return the shortest tour." return shortest_tour(nn_tsp(cities, start) for start in cities)
To do that requires a modification of
nn_tsp so that the
start city can be specified as an optional argument:
def nn_tsp(cities, start=None): """Start the tour at the first city; at each step extend the tour by moving from the previous city to its nearest neighbor that has not yet been visited.""" if start is None: start = first(cities) tour = [start] unvisited = set(cities - {start}) while unvisited: C = nearest_neighbor(tour[-1], unvisited) tour.append(C) unvisited.remove(C) return tour
# Compare nn_tsp to repeated_nn_tsp plot_tsp(nn_tsp, Cities(100)) plot_tsp(repeated_nn_tsp, Cities(100))
100 city tour with length 6734.1 in 0.002 secs for nn_tsp
100 city tour with length 5912.6 in 0.157 secs for repeated_nn_tsp
We see that
repeated_nn_tsp does indeed take longer to run, and yields a tour that is shorter.
Let's try again with a smaller map that makes it easier to visualize the tours:
for f in [nn_tsp, repeated_nn_tsp, alltours_tsp]: plot_tsp(f, Cities(10))
10 city tour with length 2381.4 in 0.000 secs for nn_tsp
10 city tour with length 2297.7 in 0.000 secs for repeated_nn_tsp
10 city tour with length 2291.8 in 1.619 secs for alltours_tsp
This time the
repeated_nn_tsp gives us a tour that is better than
nn_tsp, but not quite optimal. So, it looks like repetition is helping. But if I want to tackle 1000 cities, I don't really want the run time to be 1000 times slower. I'd like a way to moderate the repetition—to repeat the
nn_tsp starting from a sample of the cities but not all the cities.
repeated_nn_tsp¶
We can give
repeated_nn_tsp an optional argument specifying the number of different cities to try starting from. We will implement the function
sample to draw a random sample of the specified size from all the cities. Most of the work is done by the standard library function
random.sample. What our
sample adds is the same thing we did with the function
Cities: we ensure that the function returns the same result each time for the same arguments, but can return different results if a
seed parameter is passed in. (In addition, if the sample size,
k is
None or is larger than the population, then return the whole population.)
def repeated_nn_tsp(cities, repetitions=100): "Repeat the nn_tsp algorithm starting from specified number of cities; return the shortest tour." return shortest_tour(nn_tsp(cities, start) for start in sample(cities, repetitions)) def sample(population, k, seed=42): "Return a list of k elements sampled from population. Set random.seed with seed." if k is None or k > len(population): return population random.seed(len(population) * k * seed) return random.sample(population, k)
Let's compare with 1, 10, and 100 starting cities on a 300 city map:
def repeat_10_nn_tsp(cities): return repeated_nn_tsp(cities, 10) def repeat_100_nn_tsp(cities): return repeated_nn_tsp(cities, 100)
plot_tsp(nn_tsp, Cities(300)) plot_tsp(repeat_10_nn_tsp, Cities(300)) plot_tsp(repeat_100_nn_tsp, Cities(300))
299 city tour with length 12752.7 in 0.014 secs for nn_tsp
299 city tour with length 12070.6 in 0.127 secs for repeat_10_nn_tsp
299 city tour with length 11598.6 in 1.285 secs for repeat_100_nn_tsp
As we add more starting cities, the run times get longer and the tours get shorter.
I'd like to understand the tradefoff better. I'd like to have a way to compare different algorithms (or different choices of parameters for one algorithm) over multiple trials, and summarize the results. That means we now have a new vocabulary item:
We use the term cities and the function
Cities to denote a set of cities. But now I want to talk about multiple trials over a collection of sets of cities: a plural of a plural. English doesn't give us a good way to do that, so it would be nice to have a singular noun that is a synonym for "set of cities." We'll use the term "map" for this, and the function
Maps to create a collection of maps. Just like
Cities, the function
Maps will give the same result every time it is called with the same arguments.
def Maps(num_maps, num_cities): "Return a tuple of maps, each consisting of the given number of cities." return tuple(Cities(num_cities, seed=(m, num_cities)) for m in range(num_maps))
The term benchmarking means running a function on a standard collection of inputs, in order to compare its performance. We'll define a general-purpose function,
benchmark, which takes a function and a collection of inputs for that function, and runs the function on each of the inputs. It then returns two values: the average time taken per input, and the list of results of the function.
@functools.lru_cache(None) def benchmark(function, inputs): "Run function on all the inputs; return pair of (average_time_taken, results)." t0 = time.clock() results = [function(x) for x in inputs] t1 = time.clock() average_time = (t1 - t0) / len(inputs) return (average_time, results)
Note: Each time we develop a new algorithm, we would like to compare its performance to some standard old algorithms.
The use of
@functools.lru_cache here means that we don't need to to re-run the old algorithms on a standard data set each time; we can just cache the old results.
We can use
benchmark to see the average call to the absolute value function takes less than a microsecond:
benchmark(abs, range(-10, 10))
(5.00000000069889e-07, [10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
And we can see that
alltours_tsp can handle 6-city maps in under a millisecond each:
benchmark(alltours_tsp, Maps(10, 6))
(0.00032370000000003785, [[(574+214j), (236+141j), (556+348j), (677+277j), (833+33j), (578+224j)], [(433+6j), (396+143j), (527+431j), (167+227j), (113+100j), (127+105j)], [(571+206j), (724+42j), (703+269j), (797+331j), (543+474j), (310+248j)], [(12+30j), (344+45j), (693+77j), (548+186j), (279+508j), (171+229j)], [(243+271j), (379+72j), (859+331j), (840+411j), (651+478j), (8+369j)], [(672+502j), (820+460j), (887+489j), (853+65j), (422+69j), (433+135j)], [(38+119j), (644+90j), (622+288j), (602+511j), (509+424j), (275+536j)], [(18+208j), (832+456j), (483+477j), (314+533j), (314+539j), (23+596j)], [(274+560j), (213+594j), (248+84j), (550+317j), (508+577j), (377+575j)], [(813+467j), (438+216j), (270+118j), (71+18j), (125+320j), (199+578j)]])
Now let's add another function,
benchmarks, which builds on
benchmark in two ways:
benchmarks.)
TSPalgorithms, and rather than returning results, it prints summary statistics: the mean, standard deviation, min, and max of tour lengths, as well as the time taken and the number and size of the sets of cities.
def benchmarks(tsp_algorithms, maps=Maps(30, 60)): "Print benchmark statistics for each of the algorithms." for tsp in tsp_algorithms: time, results = benchmark(tsp, maps) lengths = [tour_length(r) for r in results] print("{:>25} |{:7.0f} ±{:4.0f} ({:5.0f} to {:5.0f}) |{:7.3f} secs/map | {} ⨉ {}-city maps" .format(tsp.__name__, mean(lengths), stdev(lengths), min(lengths), max(lengths), time, len(maps), len(maps[0])))
def repeat_25_nn_tsp(cities): return repeated_nn_tsp(cities, 25) def repeat_50_nn_tsp(cities): return repeated_nn_tsp(cities, 50)
algorithms = [nn_tsp, repeat_10_nn_tsp, repeat_25_nn_tsp, repeat_50_nn_tsp, repeat_100_nn_tsp] benchmarks(algorithms, Maps(30, 60))
nn_tsp | 5668 ± 488 ( 4674 to 6832) | 0.001 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps repeat_10_nn_tsp | 5232 ± 374 ( 4577 to 6172) | 0.006 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps repeat_25_nn_tsp | 5159 ± 394 ( 4620 to 6069) | 0.014 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps repeat_50_nn_tsp | 5118 ± 386 ( 4512 to 6069) | 0.029 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps repeat_100_nn_tsp | 5113 ± 384 ( 4512 to 6069) | 0.034 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps
We see that adding more starting cities results in shorter tours, but you start getting diminishing returns after 50 repetitions.
Let's try again with bigger maps:
benchmarks(algorithms, Maps(30, 120))
nn_tsp | 7789 ± 458 ( 6877 to 8632) | 0.002 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps repeat_10_nn_tsp | 7316 ± 334 ( 6646 to 7870) | 0.021 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps repeat_25_nn_tsp | 7242 ± 287 ( 6725 to 7870) | 0.053 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps repeat_50_nn_tsp | 7189 ± 295 ( 6646 to 7742) | 0.106 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps repeat_100_nn_tsp | 7173 ± 289 ( 6646 to 7736) | 0.213 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps
benchmarks(algorithms, Maps(30, 150))
nn_tsp | 8668 ± 485 ( 7183 to 9636) | 0.003 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 150-city maps repeat_10_nn_tsp | 8220 ± 364 ( 7290 to 9197) | 0.033 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 150-city maps repeat_25_nn_tsp | 8117 ± 326 ( 7222 to 8918) | 0.083 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 150-city maps repeat_50_nn_tsp | 8086 ± 300 ( 7237 to 8676) | 0.166 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 150-city maps repeat_100_nn_tsp | 8062 ± 284 ( 7174 to 8603) | 0.331 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 150-city maps
The results are similar. So depending on what your priorities are (run time versus tour length), somewhere around 25 or 50 repetitions might be a good tradeoff.
Next let's try to analyze where nearest neighbors goes wrong, and see if we can do something about it.
Consider the 20-city map that we build below:
outliers_list = [City(2, 2), City(2, 3), City(2, 4), City(2, 5), City(2, 6), City(3, 6), City(4, 6), City(5, 6), City(6, 6), City(6, 5), City(6, 4), City(6, 3), City(6, 2), City(5, 2), City(4, 2), City(3, 2), City(1, 6.8), City(7.8, 6.4), City(7, 1.2), City(0.2, 2.8)] outliers = set(outliers_list) plot_lines(outliers, 'bo')
Let's see what a nearest neighbor search does on this map:
plot_tsp(nn_tsp, outliers)
20 city tour with length 38.8 in 0.000 secs for nn_tsp
The tour starts out going around the inner square. But then we are left with long lines to pick up the outliers. Let's try to understand what went wrong. First we'll create a new tool to draw better diagrams:
def plot_labeled_lines(points, *args): """Plot individual points, labeled with an index number. Then, args describe lines to draw between those points. An arg can be a matplotlib style, like 'ro--', which sets the style until changed, or it can be a list of indexes of points, like [0, 1, 2], saying what line to draw.""" # Draw points and label them with their index number plot_lines(points, 'bo') for (label, p) in enumerate(points): plt.text(p.x, p.y, ' '+str(label)) # Draw lines indicated by args style = 'bo-' for arg in args: if isinstance(arg, str): style = arg else: # arg is a list of indexes into points, forming a line Xs = [points[i].x for i in arg] Ys = [points[i].y for i in arg] plt.plot(Xs, Ys, style) plt.axis('scaled'); plt.axis('off'); plt.show()
In the diagram below, imagine we are running a nearest neighbor algorithm, and it has created a partial tour from city 0 to city 4. Now there is a choice. City 5 is the nearest neighbor. But if we don't take city 16 at this point, we will have to pay a higher price sometime later to pick up city 16.
plot_labeled_lines(outliers_list, 'bo-', [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], 'ro--', [4, 16], 'bo--', [4, 5])
It seems that picking up an outlier is sometimes a good idea, but sometimes going directly to the nearest neighbor is a better idea. So what can we do? It is difficult to make the choice between an outlier and a nearest neighbor while we are constructing a tour, because we don't have the context of the whole tour yet. So here's an alternative idea: don't try to make the right choice while constructing the tour; just go ahead and make any choice, then when the tour is complete, alter it to correct problems caused by outliers (or other causes).
We'll define a segment as a subsequence of a tour: a sequence of consecutive cities within a tour. A tour forms a loop, but a segment does not have a loop; it is open-ended on both ends. So, if
[A, B, C, D] is a 4-city tour, then segments include
[A, B],
[B, C, D], and many others. Note that the segment
[A, B, C, D] is different than the tour
[A, B, C, D]; the tour returns from
D to
A but the segment does not.
One way we could try to improve a tour is by reversing a segment. Consider this tour:
cross = [City(9, 3), City(3, 10), City(2, 16), City(3, 21), City(9, 28), City(26, 3), City(32, 10), City(33, 16), City(32, 21), City(26, 28)] plot_labeled_lines(cross, range(-1,10))
This is clearly not an optimal tour. We should "uncross" the lines, which can be achieved by reversing a segment. The tour as it stands is
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. If we reverse the segment
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9], we get the tour
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5], which is the optimal tour. In the diagram below, reversing
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9] is equivalent to deleting the red dashed lines and adding the green dotted lines. If the sum of the lengths of the green dotted lines is less than the sum of the lengths of the red dashed lines, then we know the reversal is an improvement.
plot_labeled_lines(cross, 'bo-', range(5), range(5, 10), 'g:', (4, 9), (0, 5), 'r--', (4, 5), (0, 9))
Here we see that reversing
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9] works:
tour = Tour(cross) tour[5:10] = reversed(tour[5:10]) plot_tour(tour)
Here is how we can check if reversing a segment is an improvement, and if so to do it:
def reverse_segment_if_better(tour, i, j): "If reversing tour[i:j] would make the tour shorter, then do it." # Given tour [...A-B...C-D...], consider reversing B...C to get [...A-C...B-D...] A, B, C, D = tour[i-1], tour[i], tour[j-1], tour[j % len(tour)] # Are old edges (AB + CD) longer than new ones (AC + BD)? If so, reverse segment. if distance(A, B) + distance(C, D) > distance(A, C) + distance(B, D): tour[i:j] = reversed(tour[i:j])
Now let's write a function,
alter_tour, which finds segments to swap. What segments should we consider? I don't know how to be clever about the choice, but I do know how to be fairly thorough: try all segments of all lengths at all starting positions. I have an intuition that trying longer ones first is better (although I'm not sure).
I worry that even trying all segements won't be enough: after I reverse one segment, it might open up opportunities to reverse other segments. So, after trying all possible segments, I'll check the tour length. If it has been reduced, I'll go through the
alter_tour process again.
def alter_tour(tour): "Try to alter tour for the better by reversing segments." original_length = tour_length(tour) for (start, end) in all_segments(len(tour)): reverse_segment_if_better(tour, start, end) # If we made an improvement, then try again; else stop and return tour. if tour_length(tour) < original_length: return alter_tour(tour) return tour def all_segments(N): "Return (start, end) pairs of indexes that form segments of tour of length N." return [(start, start + length) for length in range(N, 2-1, -1) for start in range(N - length + 1)]
Here is what the list of all segments look like, for N=4:
all_segments(4)
[(0, 4), (0, 3), (1, 4), (0, 2), (1, 3), (2, 4)]
We can see that altering the cross tour does straighten it out:
plot_tour(alter_tour(Tour(cross)))
def altered_nn_tsp(cities): "Run nearest neighbor TSP algorithm, and alter the results by reversing segments." return alter_tour(nn_tsp(cities))
Let's try this new algorithm on some test cases:
plot_tsp(altered_nn_tsp, set(cross))
10 city tour with length 93.2 in 0.000 secs for altered_nn_tsp
plot_tsp(altered_nn_tsp, Cities(10))
10 city tour with length 2333.4 in 0.000 secs for altered_nn_tsp
It fails to get the optimal result here. Let's try benchmarking:
algorithms = [nn_tsp, repeat_50_nn_tsp, altered_nn_tsp] benchmarks(algorithms)
This is quite encouraging;
altered_nn_tsp gives shorter tours and is faster than repeating nearest neighbors from 50 starting cities. Could we do better?
altered_repeated_nn_tsp)¶
We have seen that the nearest neighbor algorithm is improved by both the alteration and repetition strategies. So why not apply both strategies?
def repeated_altered_nn_tsp(cities, repetitions=20): "Use alteration to improve each repetition of nearest neighbors." return shortest_tour(alter_tour(nn_tsp(cities, start)) for start in sample(cities, repetitions)) def repeat_5_altered_nn_tsp(cities): return repeated_altered_nn_tsp(cities, 5)
Let's see it in action:
plot_tsp(repeated_altered_nn_tsp, Cities(100))
100 city tour with length 5701.6 in 0.541 secs for repeated_altered_nn_tsp
That looks like a good tour. Let's gather more data:
algorithms = [nn_tsp, repeat_50_nn_tsp, altered_nn_tsp, repeated_altered_nn_tsp] benchmarks(algorithms) print('-' * 100) benchmarks(algorithms, Maps(30, 120)) repeated_altered_nn_tsp | 4640 ± 194 ( 4298 to 4991) | 0.148 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nn_tsp | 7789 ± 458 ( 6877 to 8632) | 0.002 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps repeat_50_nn_tsp | 7189 ± 295 ( 6646 to 7742) | 0.106 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps altered_nn_tsp | 6589 ± 202 ( 6188 to 7016) | 0.036 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps repeated_altered_nn_tsp | 6402 ± 185 ( 6015 to 6779) | 0.701 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps
So, alteration gives the most gain, but alteration plus repetition gives a modest improvement in tour length, at the cost of 20 times more run time.
I thought it would be fun to work on some real maps, instead of random maps. First I found a page that lists geographical coordinates of US cities. Here is an excerpt from that page:
[TCL] 33.23 87.62 Tuscaloosa,AL [FLG] 35.13 111.67 Flagstaff,AZ [PHX] 33.43 112.02 Phoenix,AZ
I also found a blog post by Randal S. Olson who chose 50 landmarks across the states and found a tour based on actual road-travel distances, not straight-line distance. His data looks like this:You can't see, but fields are separated by tabs in this data.
Now we have a problem: we have two similar but different data formats, and we want to convert both of them to
Maps (sets of cities). Python provides a module,
csv (for "comma-separated values"), to parse data like this. The function
csv.reader takes an input that should be an iterable over lines of text, and optionally you can tell it what character to use as a delimiter (as well as several other options). For each line, it generates a
list of fields. For example, for the line
"[TCL] 33.23 87.62 Tuscaloosa,AL" it would generate the list
['[TCL]', '33.23', '87.62', 'Tuscaloosa,AL'].
I define the function
Coordinate_map to take an iterable of lines (a file object or a list of strings), parse it with
csv_reader, pick out the latitude and longitude columns, and build a
City out of each one:
def lines(text): return text.strip().splitlines() def Coordinate_map(lines, delimiter=' ', lat_col=1, long_col=2, lat_scale=69, long_scale=-48): """Make a set of Cities from an iterable of lines of text. Specify the column delimiter, and the zero-based column number of lat and long. Treat long/lat as a square x/y grid, scaled by long_scale and lat_scale. Source can be a file object, or list of lines.""" return frozenset(City(long_scale * float(row[long_col]), lat_scale * float(row[lat_col])) for row in csv.reader(lines, delimiter=delimiter, skipinitialspace=True))
You might be wondering about the
lat_scale=69, long_scale=-48 part. The issue is that we have latitude and longitude for cities, and we want to compute the distance between cities. To do that accurately requires complicated trigonometry. But we can get an approximation by assuming the earth is flat, and that latitude and longitude are on a rectangular grid. (This is a bad approximation if you're talking about distances of 10,000 miles, but close enough for 100 miles, as long as you're not too close to the poles.) I took the latitude of the center of the country (Wichita, KS: latitude 37.65) and plugged it into a Length Of A Degree Of Latitude
And Longitude Calculator to find that, in Wichita, one degree of latitude is 69 miles, and one degree of longitude is 48 miles. (It is -48 rather than +48 because the US is west of the prime meridian.)
Now let's create the map of USA cities, and find a tour for it:
USA_map = Coordinate_map(lines(""" [TCL] 33.23 87.62 Tuscaloosa,AL [FLG] 35.13 111.67 Flagstaff,AZ [PHX] 33.43 112.02 Phoenix,AZ [PGA] 36.93 111.45 Page,AZ [TUS] 32.12 110.93 Tucson,AZ [LIT] 35.22 92.38 Little Rock,AR [SFO] 37.62 122.38 San Francisco,CA [LAX] 33.93 118.40 Los Angeles,CA [SAC] 38.52 121.50 Sacramento,CA [SAN] 32.73 117.17 San Diego,CA [SBP] 35.23 120.65 San Luis Obi,CA [EKA] 41.33 124.28 Eureka,CA [DEN] 39.75 104.87 Denver,CO [DCA] 38.85 77.04 Washington/Natl,DC [MIA] 25.82 80.28 Miami Intl,FL [TPA] 27.97 82.53 Tampa Intl,FL [JAX] 30.50 81.70 Jacksonville,FL [TLH] 30.38 84.37 Tallahassee,FL [ATL] 33.65 84.42 Atlanta,GA [BOI] 43.57 116.22 Boise,ID [CHI] 41.90 87.65 Chicago,IL [IND] 39.73 86.27 Indianapolis,IN [DSM] 41.53 93.65 Des Moines,IA [SUX] 42.40 96.38 Sioux City,IA [ICT] 37.65 97.43 Wichita,KS [LEX] 38.05 85.00 Lexington,KY [NEW] 30.03 90.03 New Orleans,LA [BOS] 42.37 71.03 Boston,MA [PWM] 43.65 70.32 Portland,ME [BGR] 44.80 68.82 Bangor,ME [CAR] 46.87 68.02 Caribou Mun,ME [DET] 42.42 83.02 Detroit,MI [STC] 45.55 94.07 St Cloud,MN [DLH] 46.83 92.18 Duluth,MN [STL] 38.75 90.37 St Louis,MO [JAN] 32.32 90.08 Jackson,MS [BIL] 45.80 108.53 Billings,MT [BTM] 45.95 112.50 Butte,MT [RDU] 35.87 78.78 Raleigh-Durh,NC [INT] 36.13 80.23 Winston-Salem,NC [OMA] 41.30 95.90 Omaha/Eppley,NE [LAS] 36.08 115.17 Las Vegas,NV [RNO] 39.50 119.78 Reno,NV [AWH] 41.33 116.25 Wildhorse,NV [EWR] 40.70 74.17 Newark Intl,NJ [SAF] 35.62 106.08 Santa Fe,NM [NYC] 40.77 73.98 New York,NY [BUF] 42.93 78.73 Buffalo,NY [ALB] 42.75 73.80 Albany,NY [FAR] 46.90 96.80 Fargo,ND [BIS] 46.77 100.75 Bismarck,ND [CVG] 39.05 84.67 Cincinnati,OH [CLE] 41.42 81.87 Cleveland,OH [OKC] 35.40 97.60 Oklahoma Cty,OK [PDX] 45.60 122.60 Portland,OR [MFR] 42.37 122.87 Medford,OR [AGC] 40.35 79.93 Pittsburgh,PA [PVD] 41.73 71.43 Providence,RI [CHS] 32.90 80.03 Charleston,SC [RAP] 44.05 103.07 Rapid City,SD [FSD] 43.58 96.73 Sioux Falls,SD [MEM] 35.05 90.00 Memphis Intl,TN [TYS] 35.82 83.98 Knoxville,TN [CRP] 27.77 97.50 Corpus Chrst,TX [DRT] 29.37 100.92 Del Rio,TX [IAH] 29.97 95.35 Houston,TX [SAT] 29.53 98.47 San Antonio,TX [LGU] 41.78 111.85 Logan,UT [SLC] 40.78 111.97 Salt Lake Ct,UT [SGU] 37.08 113.60 Saint George,UT [CNY] 38.77 109.75 Moab,UT [MPV] 44.20 72.57 Montpelier,VT [RIC] 37.50 77.33 Richmond,VA [BLI] 48.80 122.53 Bellingham,WA [SEA] 47.45 122.30 Seattle,WA [ALW] 46.10 118.28 Walla Walla,WA [GRB] 44.48 88.13 Green Bay,WI [MKE] 42.95 87.90 Milwaukee,WI [CYS] 41.15 104.82 Cheyenne,WY [SHR] 44.77 106.97 Sheridan,WY """))
plot_lines(USA_map, 'bo')
plot_tsp(repeated_altered_nn_tsp, USA_map)
80 city tour with length 13562.6 in 0.297 secs for repeated_altered_nn_tsp
Not bad! There are no obvious errors in the tour (although I'm not at all confident it is the optimal tour).
Now let's do the same for Randal Olson's landmarks. Note that the data is delimited by tabs, not spaces, and the longitude already has a minus sign, so we don't need another one in
long_scale.
USA_landmarks_map = Coordinate_map(lines(""" Maryland State House, 100 State Cir, Annapolis, MD 21401 38.978828 -76.490974 The Mark Twain House & Museum, Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT 41.766759 -72.701173 Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon 45.711564 -121.519633 Mammoth Cave National Park, Mammoth Cave Pkwy, Mammoth Cave, KY 37.186998 -86.100528 Bryce Canyon National Park, Hwy 63, Bryce, UT 37.593038 -112.187089 USS Alabama, Battleship Parkway, Mobile, AL 30.681803 -88.014426 Graceland, Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, TN 35.047691 -90.026049 Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, Manteo, NC 35.908226 -75.675730 Vicksburg National Military Park, Clay Street, Vicksburg, MS 32.346550 -90.849850 Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, NYC, NY 40.689249 -74.044500 Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia 38.729314 -77.107386 Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Williston, North Dakota 1804, ND 48.000160 -104.041483 San Andreas Fault, San Benito County, CA 36.576088 -120.987632 Chickasaw National Recreation Area, 1008 W 2nd St, Sulphur, OK 73086 34.457043 -97.012213 Hanford Site, Benton County, WA 46.550684 -119.488974 Spring Grove Cemetery, Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 39.174331 -84.524997 Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve, Arco, ID 43.416650 -113.516650 The Alamo, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX 29.425967 -98.486142 New Castle Historic District, Delaware 38.910832 -75.527670 Gateway Arch, Washington Avenue, St Louis, MO 38.624647 -90.184992 West Baden Springs Hotel, West Baden Avenue, West Baden Springs, IN 38.566697 -86.617524 Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Carlsbad, NM 32.123169 -104.587450 Pikes Peak, Colorado 38.840871 -105.042260 Okefenokee Swamp Park, Okefenokee Swamp Park Road, Waycross, GA 31.056794 -82.272327 Cape Canaveral, FL 28.388333 -80.603611 Glacier National Park, West Glacier, MT 48.759613 -113.787023 Congress Hall, Congress Place, Cape May, NJ 08204 38.931843 -74.924184 Olympia Entertainment, Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 42.387579 -83.084943 Fort Snelling, Tower Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 44.892850 -93.180627 Hoover Dam, Boulder City, CO 36.012638 -114.742225 White House, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 38.897676 -77.036530 USS Constitution, Boston, MA 42.372470 -71.056575 Omni Mount Washington Resort, Mount Washington Hotel Road, Bretton Woods, NH 44.258120 -71.441189 Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona 36.106965 -112.112997 The Breakers, Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, RI 41.469858 -71.298265 Fort Sumter National Monument, Sullivan's Island, SC 32.752348 -79.874692 Cable Car Museum, 94108, 1201 Mason St, San Francisco, CA 94108 37.794781 -122.411715 Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190 44.462085 -110.642441 French Quarter, New Orleans, LA 29.958443 -90.064411 C. W. Parker Carousel Museum, South Esplanade Street, Leavenworth, KS 39.317245 -94.909536 Shelburne Farms, Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT 44.408948 -73.247227 Taliesin, County Road C, Spring Green, Wisconsin 43.141031 -90.070467 Acadia National Park, Maine 44.338556 -68.273335 Liberty Bell, 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA 39.949610 -75.150282 Terrace Hill, Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 41.583218 -93.648542 Lincoln Home National Historic Site Visitor Center, 426 South 7th Street, Springfield, IL 39.797501 -89.646211 Lost World Caverns, Lewisburg, WV 37.801788 -80.445630 """), delimiter='\t', long_scale=48)
plot_lines(USA_landmarks_map, 'bo')
plot_tsp(repeated_altered_nn_tsp, USA_landmarks_map)
50 city tour with length 10236.7 in 0.125 secs for repeated_altered_nn_tsp
We can compare that to the tour that Randal Olson computed as the shortest based on road distances:
The two tours are similar but not the same. I think the difference is that roads through the rockies and along the coast of the Carolinas tend to be very windy, so Randal's tour avoids them, whereas my program assumes staright-line roads and thus includes them. William Cook provides an analysis, and a tour that is shorter than either Randal's or mine.
Now let's go back to the original web page to get a bigger map with over 1000 cities. A shell command fetches the file:
! [ -e latlong.htm ] || curl -O
I note that the page has some lines that I don't want, so I will filter out lines that are not in the continental US (that is, cities in Alaska or Hawaii), as well as header lines that do not start with
'['.
def continental_USA(line): "Does line denote a city in the continental United States?" return line.startswith('[') and ',AK' not in line and ',HI' not in line USA_big_map = Coordinate_map(filter(continental_USA, open('latlong.htm')))
plot_lines(USA_big_map, 'bo')
Let's get a baseline tour with
nn_tsp:
plot_tsp(nn_tsp, USA_big_map)
1089 city tour with length 52879.1 in 0.177 secs for nn_tsp
Now try to improve on that with
repeat_100_nn_tsp and with
repeat_5_altered_nn_tsp (which will take a while with over 1000 cities):
plot_tsp(repeat_100_nn_tsp, USA_big_map)
1089 city tour with length 50802.6 in 17.126 secs for repeat_100_nn_tsp
plot_tsp(repeat_5_altered_nn_tsp, USA_big_map)
1089 city tour with length 44234.6 in 23.149 secs for repeat_5_altered_nn_tsp
Again we see that we do better by spending our run time budget on alteration rather than on repetition. This time we saved over 8,000 miles of travel in half a minute of computation!
At the start of the Approximate Algorithms section, we mentioned two ideas:
It is time to develop the greedy algorithm, so-called because at every step it greedily adds to the tour the edge that is shortest (even if that is not best in terms of long-range planning). The nearest neighbor algorithm always extended the tour by adding on to the end. The greedy algorithm is different in that it doesn't have a notion of end of the tour; instead it keeps a set of partial segments. Here's a brief statement of the algorithm:
Greedy Algorithm: Maintain a set of segments; intially each city defines its own 1-city segment. Find the shortest possible edge that connects two endpoints of two different segments, and join those segments with that edge. Repeat until we form a segment that tours all the cities.
On each step of the algorithm, we want to "find the shortest possible edge that connects two endpoints." That seems like an expensive operation to do on each step. So we will add in some data structures to enable us to speed up the computation. Here's a more detailed sketch of the algorithm:
(A, B)then it does not contain
(B, A), and it never contains
(A, A).
{A: [A, B, C, D], D: [A, B, C, D]}. Initially, each city is the endpoint of its own 1-city-long segment, but as we join segments together, some cities are no longer endpoints and are removed from the dict.
(A, B)such that both
Aand
Bare endpoints of different segments, then join the two segments together. Maintain the endpoints dict to reflect this new segment. Stop when you create a segment that contains all the cities.
Let's consider an example: assume we have seven cities, labeled A through G. Suppose CG happens to be the shortest edge. We would add the edge to the partial tour, by joining the segment that contains C with the segment that contains G. In this case, the joining is easy, because each segment is one city long; we join them to form a segment two cities long. We then look at the next shortest edge and continue the process, joining segments as we go, as shown in the table below. Some edges cannot be used. For example, FD cannot be used, because by the time it becomes the shortest edge, D is already in the interior of a segment. Next, AE cannot be used, even though both A and E are endpoints, because it would make a loop out of ACGDE. Finally, note that sometimes we may have to reverse a segment. For example, EF can merge AGCDE and BF, but first we have to reverse BF to FB.
Here is the code:
def greedy_tsp(cities): """Go through edges, shortest first. Use edge to join segments if possible.""" endpoints = {c: [c] for c in cities} # A dict of {endpoint: segment} for (A, B) in shortest_edges_first(cities): if A in endpoints and B in endpoints and endpoints[A] != endpoints[B]: new_segment = join_endpoints(endpoints, A, B) if len(new_segment) == len(cities): return new_segment # TO DO: functions: shortest_edges_first, join_endpoints
Note: The
endpoints dict is serving two purposes. First, the keys of the dict are all the cities that are endpoints of some segments,
making it possible to ask "
A in endpoints" to see if city
A is an endpoint. Second, the values of the dict are all the segments, making it possible to ask "
endpoints[A] != endpoints[B]" to make sure that the two cities are endpoints of different segments, not of the same segment.
The
shortest_edges_first function is easy: generate all
(A, B) pairs of cities, and sort by the distance between the cities. (Note: I use the conditional
if id(A) < id(B) so that I won't have both
(A, B) and
(B, A) in my list of edges, and I won't ever have
(A, A).)
def shortest_edges_first(cities): "Return all edges between distinct cities, sorted shortest first." edges = [(A, B) for A in cities for B in cities if id(A) < id(B)] return sorted(edges, key=lambda edge: distance(*edge))
For the
join_endpoints function, I first make sure that A is the last element of one segment and B is the first element of the other, by reversing segments if necessary. Then I add the B segment on to the end of the A segment. Finally, I update the
endpoints dict. This is a bit tricky! My first thought was that A and B are no longer endpoints, because they have been joined together in the interior of the segment. However, that isn't always true. If A was the endpoint of a 1-city segment, then when you join it to B, A is still an endpoint. I could have had complicated logic to handle the case when A, B, or both, or neither were 1-city segments, but I decided on a different tactic: first unconditionally delete A and B from the endpoints dict, no matter what. Then add the two endpoints of the new segment (which is
Asegment) to the endpoints dict.
def join_endpoints(endpoints, A, B): "Join B's segment onto the end of A's and return the segment. Maintain endpoints dict." Asegment, Bsegment = endpoints[A], endpoints[B] if Asegment[-1] is not A: Asegment.reverse() if Bsegment[0] is not B: Bsegment.reverse() Asegment.extend(Bsegment) del endpoints[A], endpoints[B] # A and B are no longer endpoints endpoints[Asegment[0]] = endpoints[Asegment[-1]] = Asegment return Asegment
Let's try out the
greedy_tsp algorithm on the two USA maps:
plot_tsp(greedy_tsp, USA_map)
80 city tour with length 16087.5 in 0.006 secs for greedy_tsp
plot_tsp(greedy_tsp, USA_big_map)
1089 city tour with length 46981.5 in 1.052 secs for greedy_tsp
The greedy algorithm is worse than nearest neighbors, but it is fast (especially on the big map). Let's see if the alteration strategy can help:
def altered_greedy_tsp(cities): "Run greedy TSP algorithm, and alter the results by reversing segments." return alter_tour(greedy_tsp(cities))
plot_tsp(altered_greedy_tsp, USA_map)
80 city tour with length 14133.3 in 0.022 secs for altered_greedy_tsp
plot_tsp(altered_greedy_tsp, USA_big_map)
1089 city tour with length 43769.9 in 4.177 secs for altered_greedy_tsp
That's the best result yet on the big map. Let's look at some benchmarks:
algorithms = [altered_nn_tsp, altered_greedy_tsp, repeated_altered_nn_tsp] benchmarks(algorithms) print('-' * 100) benchmarks(algorithms, Maps(30, 120))
altered_nn_tsp | 4820 ± 233 ( 4450 to 5346) | 0.008 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps altered_greedy_tsp | 4766 ± 207 ( 4320 to 5185) | 0.009 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps repeated_altered_nn_tsp | 4640 ± 194 ( 4298 to 4991) | 0.148 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 60-city maps ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- altered_nn_tsp | 6589 ± 202 ( 6188 to 7016) | 0.036 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps altered_greedy_tsp | 6539 ± 240 ( 5994 to 7203) | 0.037 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps repeated_altered_nn_tsp | 6402 ± 185 ( 6015 to 6779) | 0.701 secs/map | 30 ⨉ 120-city maps
So overall, the altered greedy algorithm looks slightly better than the altered nearest neighbor algorithm and runs in about the same time. However, the repeated altered nearest neighbor algorithm does best of all (although it takes much longer).
What about a repeated altered greedy algorithm? That might be a good idea, but there is no obvious way to do it. We can't just start from a sample of cities, because the greedy algorithm doesn't have a notion of starting city.
I would like to see how the process of joining segments unfolds. Although I dislike copy-and-paste (because it violates the Don't Repeat Yourself principle), I'll copy
greedy_tsp and make a new version called
visualize_greedy_tsp which adds one line to plot the segments several times as the algorithm is running:
def visualize_greedy_tsp(cities, plot_sizes): """Go through edges, shortest first. Use edge to join segments if possible. Plot segments at specified sizes.""" edges = shortest_edges_first(cities) # A list of (A, B) pairs endpoints = {c: [c] for c in cities} # A dict of {endpoint: segment} for (A, B) in edges: if A in endpoints and B in endpoints and endpoints[A] != endpoints[B]: new_segment = join_endpoints(endpoints, A, B) plot_segments(endpoints, plot_sizes, distance(A, B)) # <<<< NEW if len(new_segment) == len(cities): return new_segment def plot_segments(endpoints, plot_sizes, dist): "If the number of distinct segments is one of plot_sizes, then plot segments." segments = set(map(tuple, endpoints.values())) if len(segments) in plot_sizes: for s in segments: plot_lines(s) plt.show() print('{} segments, longest edge = {:.0f}'.format( len(segments), dist))
visualize_greedy_tsp(USA_map, (50, 25, 10, 5, 2, 1));
50 segments, longest edge = 119
25 segments, longest edge = 190
10 segments, longest edge = 255
5 segments, longest edge = 335
2 segments, longest edge = 597
1 segments, longest edge = 1021
The next general strategy to consider is divide and conquer. Suppose we have an algorithm, like
alltours_tsp, that is inefficient for large n (the
alltours_tsp algorithm is O(n!) for n cities). So we can't apply
alltours_tsp directly to a large set of cities. But we can divide the problem into smaller pieces, and then combine those pieces:
The trick is that when n is small, then step 2 can be done directly. But when n is large, step 2 is done with a recursive call, breaking the half into two smaller halves.
Let's work out by hand an example with a small map of just six cities. Here are the cities:
cities = Cities(6) plot_labeled_lines(cities)
Step 1 is to divide this set in half. I'll divide it into a left half (blue circles) and a right half (black squares):
plot_labeled_lines(list(cities), 'bo', [3, 4, 0], 'ks', [1, 2, 5])
Step 2 is to find a tour for each half:
plot_labeled_lines(list(cities), 'bo-', [0, 3, 4, 0], 'ks-', [1, 2, 5, 1])
Step 3 is to combine the two halves. We do that by choosing an edge from each half to delete (the edges marked by red dashes) and replacing those two edges by two edges that connect the halves (the blue dash-dot edges). Note that there are two choices of ways to connect the new dash-dot lines. Pick the one that yields the shortest tour.
# One way to connect the two segments, giving the tour [1, 3, 4, 0, 2, 5] plot_labeled_lines(list(cities), 'bo-', [0, 3, 4], 'ks-', [1, 2, 5], 'b-.', [0, 1], [4, 5], 'r--', [0, 4], [1, 5])
Now we have a feel for what we have to do. Let's define the divide and conquer algorithm, which we will call
dq_tsp. Like all
tsp algorithms it gets a set of cities as input and returns a tour. If the size of the set of cities is 3 or less, then just listing the cities in any order produces an optimal tour. If there are more than 3 cities, then split the cities in half (using
split_cities), find a tour for each half (using
dq_tsp recursively), and join the two tours together (using
join_tours):
def dq_tsp(cities): """Find a tour by divide and conquer: if number of cities is 3 or less, any tour is optimal. Otherwise, split the cities in half, solve each half recursively, then join those two tours together.""" if len(cities) <= 3: return Tour(cities) else: Cs1, Cs2 = split_cities(cities) return join_tours(dq_tsp(Cs1), dq_tsp(Cs2)) # TO DO: functions: split_cities, join_tours
Let's verify that
dq_tsp works for three cities:
plot_tsp(dq_tsp, Cities(3))
3 city tour with length 1203.4 in 0.000 secs for dq_tsp
If we have more than 3 cities, how do we split them? My approach is to imagine drawing an axis-aligned rectangle that is just big enough to contain all the cities. If the rectangle is wider than it is tall, then order all the cities by x coordiante and split that ordered list in half. If the rectangle is taller than it is wide, order and split the cities by y coordinate.
def split_cities(cities): "Split cities vertically if map is wider; horizontally if map is taller." width, height = extent([c.x for c in cities]), extent([c.y for c in cities]) key = 'x' if (width > height) else 'y' cities = sorted(cities, key=lambda c: getattr(c, key)) mid = len(cities) // 2 return frozenset(cities[:mid]), frozenset(cities[mid:]) def extent(numbers): return max(numbers) - min(numbers)
Let's show that split_cities is working:
Cs1, Cs2 = split_cities(cities) plot_tour(dq_tsp(Cs1)) plot_tour(dq_tsp(Cs2)) | https://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/TSP.ipynb | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | refinedweb | 10,639 | 72.76 |
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Sage Solution
There are really only a handful of ways to go about this, and the timing isn’t going to be too substantial. So, I’m simply going to write an in-line Sage code block and execute it. The idea is to get a list of primes between 1,000 and 10,000, sort their digit decompositions, and then (after seeing which primes have the same digit decompositions), see which prime subsets have an arithmetic sequence underlying the distances between them. No too horribly interesting, but the code below does the job.
import time start = time.time() # make a list of primes P = prime_range(1000,10000) # for each prime, make a list of digits, and sort that list L = [p.digits() for p in P] for i in range(len(L)): L[i].sort() L.sort() # make a list of digits that appear for at least 3 primes M = [] for i in range(len(L)-3): if L[i]==L[i+1] and L[i+1]==L[i+2] and L[i+2]==L[i+3]: if L[i] not in M: M.append(L[i]) # N is a list of lists of at least 3 primes with the same 4 digits N = [] for m in M: N.append([]) for p in P: s = p.digits() s.sort() if s in M: r = M.index(s) N[r].append(p) # Use a Sage combinations iterator to examine sets of 3 primes for n in N: X = combinations_iterator(n, 3) for x in X: if x[1]-x[0] == x[2]-x[1]: print x elapsed = time.time() - start print "time elapsed: %s seconds" % elapsed
When executed, we get the following result.
[1487, 4817, 8147] [2969, 6299, 9629] time elapsed: 0.0485339164734 seconds | http://code.jasonbhill.com/2012/12/ | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | refinedweb | 294 | 79.3 |
Java JAXP, Writing Java Code to Emulate an XSLT Transformation
JavaXML.
- Transforming non-XML documents into XML documents.
- Transforming XML documents into other XML documents.
- Transforming XML documents into non-XML documents...
As is usually the case, there are advantages and disadvantages to
both approaches..The)
(Note that the Java program discussed later produces essentially the same output as the XSLT
(The order of the text nodes and the descendant element nodes is important.)
Figure 11 shows a recap of the output up to this point in the execution thread, with the red output in Figure 11 matching the concatenated green text node values of title and all its descendants in Figure 10.
(Note that the order in which the text node values are concatenated matches the order in which the nodes occur in the XML document.)
Another XSL text node
The next thing in the template rule shown in Listing 4 is another XSL text node, which will be reproduced in the output. (This text node is also colored red in Listing 4.) You should have no difficulty identifying this text node in the output in Figure 3.
<xsl:value-of
The second text node in Listing 4 is followed by another xsl:value-of element, but this time with a different value for the select attribute. A select value of "subtitle" instructs the XSLT processor to get (and send to the output) the concatenated text values of a child node named subtitle and all of its descendants.
(The context node at this point is still the node named title, so the processor is looking for a node named subtitle as a child of title.
Although I haven't seen it written down anywhere, it is easy to demonstrate that if there are two or more child nodes with that name, only the first one found is processed. The others are ignored.)
Recap the output
Figure 13 shows the output up to this point in the execution thread with the red output in Figure 13 corresponding to the concatenated green text node values in Figure 12.
<xsl:apply-templates
The last XSLT element in the template rule in Listing 4 is an xsl:apply-templates element with the value of the select attribute being subtitle.
At this point in the execution stream, the context node is a node named title. This element instructs the processor to search for all child nodes of title named subtitle. As usual, when a matching node is found, one of the following two template rules will be applied to that node:
- A template rule that matches subtitle, or
- A built-in template rule for the type of node if there is no matching template rule.
The final template rule from Figure 2 is reproduced below. This template rule matches subtitle.
(Note that even though I arranged the template rules in the stylesheet in the order that I wanted to discuss them, the order of the template rules in the stylesheet is immaterial. I could completely rearrange them and the results would be the same.)
Listing 5 shows a fragment of the XSL stylesheet that corresponds to the tree view of the template rule in Figure 14. Once again, in both cases, text nodes in the stylesheet are highlighted in red.
You should have no difficulty identifying the first text node in Listing 5 as it appears in Figure 3.
<xsl:value-of
The element following the first text node in Listing 5 is an xsl:value-of element that instructs the processor to get the value of an XML attribute named position belonging to the context node. (I discussed an element like this earlier.)
Figure 1 shows this attribute to have a value of low in the subtitle node belonging to title node, which in turn belongs to the first node named theData. The word low appears at the appropriate location in the output shown in Figure 3.
Another XSL text node
The next item in the template rule in Listing 5 is another XSL text node. This text also appears at the appropriate location in the output in Figure 3.
<xsl:value-of
The last element in the template rule shown in Listing 5 instructs the processor to get the concatenated text value of the context node and all its descendants. (I also discussed an element like this earlier.)
Continuing with the execution thread, the context node at this point is still the subtitle node belonging to title node, which in turn belongs to the first node named theData in Figure 1. A tree view fragment of that node, extracted from Figure 1, is shown in Figure 15. The text nodes belonging to subtitle, part1, and part2 are highlighted in green in Figure 15.
Recap the output
Figure 16 shows the output up to this point in the execution thread. The concatenated text values highlighted in red in Figure 16 correspond to the text values highlighted in green in Figure 15.
The same portion of the tree from different viewpoints
Figure 16 also shows some output text highlighted in blue that is identical to that highlighted in red. (The blue text is output text that was discussed earlier.)
The blue output in Figure 16 was produced by the following XSLT element that appears in Listing 4 where the context node was title:
<xsl:value-ofThe red output text in Figure 16 was produced by the following XSLT element that appears in Listing 5 where the context node was subtitle:
<xsl:value-ofBoth XSLT elements refer to the same portion of the tree, but from different viewpoints. The first XSLT element refers to the subtitle node from the viewpoint of its parent named title. The second XSLT element refers to the subtitle node from the viewpoint of the subtitle node itself.
End of the recursion
Note that the template rule shown in Listing 5 contains only text nodes and xsl:value-of elements. There are no xsl:apply-templates or xsl:for-each elements. Thus, there are no instructions for the XSLT processor to continue drilling down into the depths of the DOM tree. As a result, the recursive process works it way back toward the root of the tree.
The nodes named author and price
Referring back to Figure 1, we see that the first node named theData has two more child nodes that haven't been processed yet:
- author
- price
What do they contribute to the output?
In order for these two nodes to contribute anything to the output, something in the XSL stylesheet must cause each of them to become the context node at some point in the process.
However, an examination of the five template rules in Figure 2 reveals that none of the template rules will cause either of these nodes to become the context node at any point in the process. Therefore, they cannot contribute to the output.
Summary of the five template rules
The first template rule shown in Figure 2, Figure 4, and Listing 1 matches the root (document) node and causes templates to be applied to nodes named top.
The second template rule shown in Figure 2, Figure 6, and Listing 2 matches nodes named top and causes templates to be applied to nodes named theData.
The third template rule shown in Figure 2, Figure 7, and Listing 3 matches nodes named theData and causes templates to be applied to nodes named title.
(This might be the most likely place to find something in the stylesheet that would cause the nodes named author and price to become context nodes, but that doesn't happen. The template rule that matches their parent, theData, simply ignores the child nodes named author and price.)
Finally, the fifth template rule shown in Figure 2, Figure 14, and Listing 5 matches subtitle and doesn't cause template rules to be applied to any other nodes. Thus, it signals the end of the traversal down one leg of the DOM tree.
Not necessary to contribute to the output
Therefore, this XSLT transformation completely ignores the nodes named author and price, and they do not contribute anything to the output.
The main point is that it is not necessary for everything in an XML document to contribute to the output of an XSLT transformation. The author of the stylesheet can pick and choose among the nodes in the DOM tree that will be used to produce nodes in the output tree.
Completes processing of first node named theData
That completes the processing of the first node in Figure 1 named theData. Figure 16 shows all of the output produced by processing that node.
Referring back to Figure 6, we see an xsl:apply-templates element instructing the XSLT processor to apply templates to all nodes named theData that are children of the node named top. So far, only one such node named theData has been processed. Referring to Figure 1, we see that there are two more nodes named theData waiting to be processed.
The second node named theData
The second node named theData was extracted from Figure 1 and reproduced in Figure 18.
Comparing Figure 18 with the first node named theData in Figure 1 reveals that the second node named theData is much simpler than the first node named theData. In particular, the title node in Figure 18 doesn't have any children, whereas the title node in Figure 10 has one child (subtitle) and two grandchildren (part1 and part2).
Furthermore, we also know by now that the nodes named author and price in Figure 18 will be completely ignored by the XSLT processor.
Won't explain the processing in detail
Given all of that, it shouldn't be necessary for me to explain the processing in detail for this node. The processing proceeds as before, and produces the output shown in Figure 19.
A couple of things in Figure 19 are worthy of note.
No attribute named attr
To begin with, unlike the first node named theData, the second node named theData doesn't have an attribute named attr. Therefore, unlike the output shown in Figure 16, the value of that attribute is blank in Figure 19.
(See the template rule in Figure 7 that selects the value of the attribute named attr.)
Also, unlike the first node named theData, the second node named theData doesn't have descendants named subtitle, part1, or part2. Therefore, all the output contributed by those descendant nodes to the output in Figure 16 is missing from Figure 19.
One more node named theData
An examination of Figure 1 shows that there is one more node named theData waiting to be processed. However, except for the text values of the child nodes named title, author, and price, it is identical to the second node named theData, which was discussed above. Therefore, a further discussion of the final node named theData is not warranted.
The Java Code TransformationNow let's change direction and concentrate on Java code rather than XSLT elements. The following paragraphs describe a Java program named Dom12, which emulates the XSLT transformation described above.
This program is an update of the program named Dom11 from the previous lesson. This updated program is designed to test and exercise features of various methods that were not tested by the sample used with Dom11.
Mainly, this program adds code to the processNode method to simulate the template rules in the XSL file named Dom12.xsl.
Also, as was the case in the previous lesson, this program implements six built-in template rules for an XML processor.
Instructions for creating a custom template rule
To create a custom template rule for this program:
- Go to the processNode method.
- Identify the node type.
- Change the conditional clause in the if statement to implement the required match.
- Write code in the body of the if statement to implement the custom rule.
Behavior of the program
This program compares the transformation of a specified XML file into a result file, using two different approaches:
- An XSLT style sheet and transformation, as discussed above.
- Program code that emulates the behavior of the XSLT transformation.
Usage instructions
The program requires three command line arguments in the following order:
- The name of the input XML file - must be Dom12.xml.
- The name of the output file to be produced by the XSLT transformation.
- The name of the output file to be produced by the program code that emulates the XSLT transformation.
Order of execution
The program begins by executing code to transform the incoming XML file in a way that mimics the XSLT Transformation. Along the way, it saves the processing instructions containing the ID of the stylesheet file for use by the XSLT transformation process later. Otherwise, the code that performs the XSLT transformation would have to search the DOM tree for the XSL stylesheet file.
Then the program uses the XSLT style sheet to transform the XML file into a result file by performing an XSLT transformation under program control.
Errors, exceptions, and testing
No effort was made to provide meaningful information about errors and exceptions.
The program was tested using SDK 1.4.2 under WinXP.
Will discuss in fragments
I will discuss this program in fragments. A complete listing of the program is shown in Listing 24 near the end of the lesson.
Much of the code in this program is very similar to, or identical to code that I discussed in the previous lesson. I will discuss that repetitious code only briefly, if at all.
The main method
Listing 6 shows an abbreviated version of the beginning of the class named Dom12 and the ending of the main method.
The code in this portion of the program is identical to code that I discussed in detail in the previous lesson, so I won't discuss further. I included it here solely to establish the context for discussion of code that is to follow.
Behavior of this code
Briefly, the code in the main method does the following:
- Performs all the steps necessary to parse the input XML file, producing an object of type Document whose reference is saved in a reference variable named document.
- Instantiates an object of the Dom12 class and saves its reference in a reference variable named thisObj.
- Invokes the method named processDocumentNode on thisObj to transform the DOM tree to an output file using program code to perform the transformation.
- Invokes the method named doXslTransform on thisObj to perform an XSLT transformation using an XSL stylesheet.
The processDocumentNode method
The entire processDocumentNode method is shown in Listing 7.
This method is used to produce any text required in the output at the document level, such as the XML declaration for an XML document. As you can see from Listing 7, the code in this method writes an XML declaration into the output.
In addition, the code in Listing 7 produces output text that matches the literal text node in the XSL stylesheet shown in Figure 4 and Listing 1.
Both of these lines of text can be see near the top of the XSLT output in Figure 3..
(Note that the Document object's reference is passed to the method named processNode in Listing 7.)
When the processNode method returns, (after the entire DOM tree has been processed), the processDocumentNode method flushes the output stream and returns control to the main method.
As you saw in Listing 6, code in the main method then invokes the doXslTransform to cause an XSLT transformation using the stylesheet to take place.
The processNode method
As you learned in the previous lesson, there are seven possible types of nodes in an XML document:
- root or document node
- element node
- attribute node
- text node
- comment node
- processing instruction node
- namespace node
(Apparently it is not possible to handle namespace nodes in a Java program because there is no constant in the Node class that can be used to identify namespace nodes. This will become clear as we examine the code in the processNode method.)
The processNode method in this program contains quite a few changes relative to the program that I discussed in the previous lesson. In fact, this is where most of the changes occur in this program. (The only other change is the addition of one line of code to the processDocumentNode method.) Therefore, I will discuss the processNode method in detail.
Code that you write in this method (and in the processDocumentNode method discussed above) is somewhat analogous to writing an XSL stylesheet to be used in an XSLT transformation.
Test for a valid node, and get its type
The beginning of the processNode method is shown in Listing 8. The method receives an incoming parameter of type Node, which can represent any of the seven types of nodes in the above list.
As you can see in Listing 8, if the parameter doesn't point to an actual object, the method quietly returns, as opposed to throwing a NullPointerException.
The final statement in Listing 8 determines the type of the incoming node. Listing 9 shows the beginning of a switch statement that is used to initiate the processing of each incoming node based on its type.
The switch statement has six
cases to handle six types of nodes, plus a default case to ignore
namespace nodes.
The DOCUMENT_NODE case
The code in Listing 9 will be executed whenever the incoming method parameter points to a document node.
(Note that this will happen only once during the processing of a DOM tree. The first node processed will always be the document node, and there is only one document node in a DOM tree.)
Will invoke default behavior in this case
The code in the case in Listing 9 is an if else construct. If the conditional clause in the if statement evaluates to true (which is not possible in this case because it is set to the literal value false), the code in the if statement will be executed. (As you will see later, this is where I place the code for custom template rules.)
If the conditional clause in the if statement does not evaluate to true, the code in the else statement will be executed. (This is where I have placed the code that mimics the built-in template rules. This was explained in detail in the previous lesson.)
Note that the code in the else statement in Listing 9 invokes a method named defElOrRtNodeTemp. The behavior of this method mimics one of the built-in template rules that I explained in the previous lesson. That method has not changed since the previous lesson. Therefore, I won't discuss it in this lesson. You will find the method in Listing 24 near the end of this lesson.
Creating custom template rules
Although this lesson does not create a custom template rule for document nodes, the process for creating a custom template rule is as follows:
- Go to this method named processNode.
-
Most of the changes to this program (as compared to the program in the previous lesson) consist of changes to the code that processes element nodes in the switch statement. The code for this case is rather long, so I will discuss it in fragments.
A match for element nodes named top
The beginning of the case for element nodes is shown in Listing 10.
I will begin by calling your attention to the similarity between the code in Listing 10 and the XSLT template rule shown earlier in Figure 6 and Listing 2.
The if statement in Listing 10 returns true if the name of the element node being processed is top. That corresponds to the XSLT match pattern in the first line in Listing 2.
The material shown in red in Listing 10 corresponds to the literal text shown in red in the XSLT template rule in Listing 2.
The invocation of the method named applyTemplates in Listing 10 corresponds to the xsl:apply-templates element in Listing 2.
The applyTemplates method
The only code in Listing 10 that is of any complexity is the invocation of the applyTemplates method.
The applyTemplates method in this program is identical to the method having the same name in the previous lesson. I discussed the method in detail in that lesson. Therefore, I won't discuss it further in this lesson. However, an understanding of that method is critical to an understanding of this program. If you haven't done so already, I strongly urge you to go back and review the previous lesson entitled Java JAXP, Implementing Default XSLT Behavior in Java .
A match for element nodes named theData
Continuing with the case for element nodes, the code in Listing 26 shows an else if clause that matches element nodes named theData.
(Note that this is an else if clause that follows the if statement begun in Listing 10.)
Once again, I will point out the similarity of the code in Listing 11 to the XSLT template rule shown in Figure 7 and Listing 3.
This code will be executed for all element nodes named theData that are passed as an input parameter to the processNode method. This code puts the text shown in red into the output just as the template rule puts the text shown in red in Listing 3 into the output.
This code invokes the valueOf method and the applyTemplates methods in a way that is very similar to the way the template rule executes the xsl: value-of element and the xsl:apply-templates element.
The valueOf method
The valueOf method in this program is identical to the method having the same name in the previous lesson. However, this program uses portions of that method that I didn't discuss in the previous lesson. Therefore, I will set the discussion of the switch statement in the processNode method aside temporarily, follow the thread of execution, and discuss the valueOf method in some detail in the paragraphs that follow.
Request value of attribute named attr
Note the parameters being passed to the valueOf method in listing 11. The first parameter is a reference to the Node object being processed by the processNode method. The second parameter is a String that begins with the @ character and continues with the characters attr. As is the case for the template rule in Listing 3, this invocation of the valueOf method requests the value of the attribute named attr belonging to the node that is passed as the first parameter.
Description of the valueOf method
The valueOf method emulates the following XSLT element:
<xsl:value-ofThe general form of the method call is:
valueOf(Node theNode,String select)The valueOf method recognizes three forms of call based on the value of the select parameter:
- "@attrName"
- "."
- "nodeName"
In the first form, the method returns the text value of the named attribute of the Node. An attribute is specified by a select value that begins with @. The name of the attribute follows the @ character in the string. If the attribute doesn't exist, the method returns an empty string.
Return the value of the context node
In the second form, the method returns the concatenated text values of the context node and its descendants. This form of call was discussed in detail in the previous lesson, so I will only mention it briefly in this lesson.
Return the value of a specified child of the context node
In the third form, the method returns the concatenated text values of a specified child node of the context node and its descendants. If the context node has more than one child node with the specified name, only the first one found is processed. The others are ignored.
I will discuss this form of method call later in the lesson when it occurs in the execution thread.
Method does not support ...
The valueOf method does not support the following standard features of xsl:value-of:
- disable-output-escaping
- processing instruction nodes
- comment nodes
- namespace nodes
The beginning of the valueOf method is shown in Listing 12.
The method begins by testing the incoming parameter to see if it starts with the @ character. If so, the method call is interpreted as a request to return the value of an attribute belonging to the node specified by the first parameter. The name of the attribute is specified by the characters following the @ character in the incoming string.
Get the attribute name
The code in Listing 12 uses the substring method of the String class to get the name of the attribute and to save it in the reference variable named attrName.
(As you will see shortly, if the attribute doesn't exist on that node, the method simply returns an empty string as the return value.)
Following this, the program executes the two statements in Listing 13 to access the attribute node and to save it in the reference variable named attrNode.
A map of attribute nodes
Attribute nodes are not simply child nodes of element nodes. In particular, all child nodes of an element node can be obtained in a collection of type NodeList by invoking the method named getChildNodes on the element node.
In order to get the attributes belonging to an element node, it is necessary to invoke the method named getAttributes on the element node. This method returns a reference to an object of type NamedNodeMap. This object contains unordered references to all the attribute nodes belonging to the element node.
Save the attribute node's reference
References to objects representing attribute nodes can be accessed in a NamedNodeMap object either on the basis of the attribute name, or on the basis of an ordinal index.
(Access by ordinal index is supported for convenience even though the references are unordered. No ordering is implied by the ordinal index.)
Return value of attribute node
The code in Listing 14 invokes the getNodeValue method to get and return the value of the attribute node.
If the context node doesn't have an attribute with that name, the value of attrNode will be null. In that case, the valueOf method returns an empty string.
The remainder of the valueOf method
That completes the portion of the valueOf method used to return the value of an attribute. Listing 15 shows the overall structure of the remainder of the valueOf method, to help you keep track of the big picture. (Most of the code was deleted from Listing 15 for brevity.)
I will return to a discussion of the valueOf method later in this lesson, at which time I will discuss some of the code that was deleted from Listing 15.
Back to the template rule
Please return your attention to Listing 11, which emulates the XSLT template rule shown in Listing 3. When the valueOf method returns the value of the attribute named attr (or returns an empty string), the code in Listing 11 invokes the applyTemplates method to cause templates to be applied to theData's child nodes named title.
Once again, note the similarity of this code to the XSLT template rule shown in Listing 3.
Back to the switch statement
Control flows recursively through the applyTemplates method back to the element node case for the element named title in the switch statement in the processNode method. That code begins in Listing 16.
Note the similarity of this code and the beginning of the XSLT template rule shown in Listing 4.
By now, the code in Listing 16 should be very familiar to you and should require very little in the way of an explanation. This code begins by sending a literal text string to the output. Then it gets the value of the context node named title and sends that text to the output as well. (A value of "." for the second parameter of the valueOf method requests the value of the context node.)
Invoke valueOf with select equal to subtitle
The remaining code that emulates the XSLT template rule shown in Listing 4 is shown in Listing 17.
This code begins by sending literal text to the output. Then it invokes the valueOf method passing the name of the node named subtitle as the select parameter. That brings us to a discussion of the one remaining portion of the valueOf method not previously discussed.
Overall structure of the valueOf method
Listing 18 shows a greatly condensed version of the two sections of the valueOf method that were discussed previously (one in this lesson and one in the previous lesson). The code in Listing 18 is provided to help you understand the overall structure of the valueOf method and to keep track of the big picture.
Return the value of a specified child node
Listing 19 shows that portion of the valueOf method that processes a child node whose name is specified by the value of the incoming parameter named select. This code returns the concatenated text values of the specified child node and all of its descendants.
(This process assumes that there is only one child node with the specified name and processes the first one that it finds. If there are additional child nodes having the same name, they are ignored.)
Assuming that you are comfortable with recursion, the code in Listing 19 is relatively straightforward. This code
- Traps the specified child node
- Causes it to become the context node
- Passes it recursively to that portion of the same valueOf method that returns the value of the context node.
I discussed the portion of the valueOf method that returns the value of the context node in the previous lesson, so I won't repeat that discussion here.
Back to the switch statement
Once again, that takes us back to the code in Listing 17, which emulates the latter portion of the XSLT template rule in Listing 4. Note that upon return from valueOf, the code in Listing 17 invokes the applyTemplates method passing the name subtitle as the select parameter.
Control flows recursively through the applyTemplates method back to the element node case for the element named subtitle in the switch statement in the processNode method. That code is shown in Listing 20.
Compare the code in Listing 20 with the XSLT template rule in Listing 5.
Nothing new here
All of the code in Listing 20 is similar to code that I have already discussed in detail. Therefore, not much in the way of further discussion should be needed.
No call to applyTemplates
However, there is one very important thing to note in Listing 20. The code in Listing 20 does not make a call to applyTemplates. Therefore, the code in Listing 20 signals the end of the recursive flow of control being used to traverse this leg of the DOM tree. All of the methods that have been called recursively in order to get to this point in the DOM tree will start returning in the reverse of the order in which they were called.
Finish the case for Node.ELEMENT_NODE
Listing 21 shows the completion of the code for the element node case that began in Listing 10. This code will be invoked if an element node is encountered with a name that does not match top or one of the node names in the sequential else if constructs discussed above.
The code in Listing 21 invokes a method named defElOrRtNodeTemp that emulates one of the built-in XSLT template rules. This method and the methods that emulate the other built-in template rules were discussed in detail in the previous lesson.
The remainder of the processNode method
Listing 22 shows the remaining code in the processNode method. All of the remaining cases in the switch statement invoke methods that emulate built-in XSLT template rules.
The code in listing 22 is identical to the same code in the previous lesson where it was discussed in detail. Therefore, I won't discuss it further in this lesson.
The program output
The output produced by this program is essentially the same as the XSLT transform output discussed in the early part of the lesson. With some minor exceptions having to do with blank lines, the output shown in Figure 3 represents the output both of the program and the XSLT transform.
Compare with XSL stylesheet
To summarize the situation, I'm going to show you one more view of the new code in the program for comparison with the XSL stylesheet in Listing 26.
The code in Listing 23 plus the one red statement in Listing 7 is analogous to the stylesheet shown in Listing 26 from a functional viewpoint.
As you can see, the code in Listing 23 is no more complex than the stylesheet. The point is that once you have a library of Java methods that emulate the required XSLT elements, it is no more difficult to write a Java program to transform an XML document than it is to write an XSL stylesheet to transform the same document.
Run the Program
I encourage you to copy the Java code, XML file, and XSL file from the listings near the end of this lesson. Compile and execute the program. Experiment with the files, making changes, and observing the results of your changes.
SummaryIn this lesson, I showed you how to write a Java program that mimics an XSLT transformation for converting an XML file into a text file. I showed that once you have a library of Java methods that emulate XSLT elements, it is no more difficult to write a Java program to transform an XML document than it is to write an XSL stylesheet to transform the same document.
What's Next?
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During my vacation in Watership Down warren, I met a fellow rabbit developer who’s got some experience with developing in Python, after spending quite a while worshiping C++. Below is my humble attempt to express his feelings about Python in a more or less literary form. It doesn’t aim to be a comprehensive analysis of the subject, but rather a set of things the guy himself has run into (YMMV).
The good
Ad-hoc typing
When I see a bird that walks like a duck
and swims like a duck
and quacks like a duck,
I call that bird a duck.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
One good thing about Python is its ad-hoc typing system (which is known in Python world as ‘duck typing’). I’ve observed that it does speed up initial development quite a bit.
In any language, it is common to write something specific, and then to generalize it. In C++, it is doable, but difficulties related to generalization are quite substantial. In fact, you can either generalize via making a function virtual (relying on common base class), or making it a template. I won’t discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the approaches here, but in any case you’re expected to spend some time performing this generalization. If you prefer (or need, as it routinely happens with containers) the C++ template route, the necessary textual changes are massive (even when they’re mostly mechanical), and debugging of the generalized program requires quite an effort (to put it mildly); in fact, it is such a big effort that many developers won’t do it at all, and those who will, will think twice before going the template way. If going down the virtualization route, changes are not that massive (though are still substantial), but you’re introducing a common base class, which is essentially a dependency which often leads to strange problems down the road (like multiple inheritance with virtual base classes etc.); while these problems can always be solved, solving them takes time, and this is my point here.
In contrast, in Python you don’t need to do anything special to make your code generic. In fact, each and every piece of code becomes as generic as possible at the very moment it is written. For example, with code such as
def f(x,y): return x*y
you don’t care about types of
x and
y, as long as they support multiplication. While in C++ it can be written as a template quite easily, the amount of textual changes necessary when converting a function
f from
int f(int x, int y) to its template counterpart will be quite substantial (and if we consider more complicated functions, the complexity will rise further).
It should be noted that in Python you can (and should) use classes more or less like in C++. However, in Python you have an option not to do so (in trivial cases) – and this flexibility often saves quite a lot of development time.
Overall, it is not about ‘what you can do’ in Python and in C++ (whatever you can do in Python, you can do in C++), but more of ‘what you can do faster’. This matters, because the more time you need to spend on technicalities related to your programming language, the less time you have left for the task in hand; in a sense, it is similar to an argument between assembler and C developers 40 or so years ago (I don’t want to say that C++ will follow the fate of assembler, at least not yet).
A word for those who have arguments about advantages of strong typing – I will tell a bit about these advantages too, so please keep reading until you reach ‘The bad’ section :-).
Garbage collection with RAII support
One thing which I like about Python is that while it is garbage collected, it has explicit support for Resource Allocation Is Initialization (RAII). Garbage collection IMHO does speed development up (though contrary to common belief you still need to be careful to avoid memory leaks [Ignatchenko12]). On the other hand, some garbage-collected programming languages (notably Java, at least at the time I last saw it) have a problem that freeing resources becomes really cumbersome and error-prone.
Let’s consider the C++ class
File, which opens a file in constructor, and closes it in the destructor. It means that even if there was an exception, then when my object of class
File goes out of scope, the file is closed and the resource is freed. Good, but we don’t have garbage collection in C++.
The same class
File in Java won’t be able to have a real destructor (there are no destructors in Java). In Java, to guarantee that you always close all the relevant files, you have three and a half options. Option 1 is to find all places where you have instantiated
File, enclose them in
try-
finally blocks, and close file manually in each finally block. Horrible. Option 1a is a variation of Option 1, based on the ‘execute around’ pattern. Basically, you’re declaring a function wrapper which allocates resource, then calls whatever function you need via an interface (doing it within
try-
finally block), and then frees allocated resource. As long as you can make sure that class
File is used only within such a wrapper – it is not ‘horrible’ anymore, just ‘very cumbersome’.
Option 2 looks a bit better on the surface – in Java you can define a
finalize() function, which looks like ‘almost a destructor’. Unfortunately, this ‘almost’ kills the whole idea: due to the very nature of garbage collection, Java cannot guarantee when exactly
finalize() will be called; it means all kinds of trouble, including the program passing all the tests but failing in production. For example, you have
file.close() in
finalize(), and then re-open the same file somewhere down the road. It just so happens during the tests that
finalize() is called before re-opening, and all tests pass, but in production
finalize() is sometimes called later than re-opening the file, and therefore re-opening the file fails (to make things worse, it will invariably fail intermittently and at the very worst time to make debugging even more complicated). Overall, there is pretty much a consensus that
finalize() should not be used for a generic resource cleanup. Ouch. In fact, this ‘how to guarantee that resources are always freed when they’re not necessary anymore’ problem has always been my biggest complaint about Java.
Option 3 (thanks to Roger Orr for pointing it out): if you’re lucky enough to run Java 7, you may implement the
java.lang.AutoCloseable interface and then write code such as:
try (MyClass x = new MyClass(/*...*/)) //'try-with-resources' statement { x.method("this might throw"); } // x.close() is called in any case
Not bad – and we can say that Java 7 does support both RAII and garbage collection.
In a manner which is quite similar to Java 7, Python provides a neat way of expressing RAII. In Python, you can declare your class with special functions like
__entry__() and
__exit__() (and many of Python’s own objects such as the file object, implement them too). Then, you can write something like:
with open(“myfile.txt”,”r”) as f: #work with f #more work with f #at this point, f.__exit__() will be called
For me, it solves all my resource allocation concerns (and Python has garbage collection too). Oh, and while we’re on the subject of garbage collection and finalizers in Python – a word of advice: never declare Python finalizers (
__del__() functions) unless you really know what it means (Python
__del__() causes very different behavior from the Java
finalize()).
Usable Lambdas
I didn’t think that I would ever be able to write anything good about lambda functions for any practical purpose, but here it is: lambda functions in Python are surprisingly readable and useful. They have a very simple syntax, and they’re limited, but they’re very readable. Compare:
Plain C++11:
1 sort( myVector.begin(), myVector.end(), 2 []( const MyClass& a, const MyClass& b ) 3 { return a.x < b.x; } 4 );
Python:
sort( myList, key=lambda a: a.x )
I have never been a fan of one-line expressions just for the sake of being one-line, but the Python version is not only a one-line, it is obvious from the very first glance, while the C++ version requires quite a lot of time to parse when reading.
It should be noted that the point of the example above is not about
begin() and
end() in C++ line 1 or comparison in C++ line 3; as we’re discussing lambdas, the difference under consideration is about C++ line 2 (and inevitable curly brackets from line 3).
As it was pointed out by Jens Auer in accu-general, the
boost::lambda library (BLL) allows much shorter way of writing it.
boost::lambda library:
sort( myVector.begin(), myVector.end(), _1.x < _2.x );
Still, I’d argue that while certainly shorter than plain C++, it is not exactly readable compared to Python version – first, numbered parameters are definitely worse than Python’s named ones, and second, unless you know about BLL (and most developers don’t as of now), such code becomes extremely confusing. Honestly, for a C++ project with more developers than just me I don’t know which way I’d use – cumbersome plain C++ or a much shorter BLL with a comment for each such lambda saying
/* boost lambda */, so an unaware reader knows how to Google it (with Python syntax, it is quite self-documented).
NB: Obviously, it is possible to write a non-lambda wrapper for a specific task of sorting a vector, but this won’t get us any closer to having usable and readable lambdas, which this section is about. While it is perfectly possible to write code without lambdas at all, usable and readable lambdas do simplify development (not by much, but every bit counts), and having to write a non-lambda wrapper for each scenario where lambdas are useful, defeats the whole purpose of lambdas.
NB #2: there is a caveat related to lambdas in Python, please see ‘The ugly’section
Standard library
The standard library in Python is huge and is very-well organized. It includes 90% of the things one may want from an application-level library; overall, having pretty much everything included into the standard Python library is often referred to with the ‘Python. Batteries Included’ phrase. With all due respect to the enormous efforts of
boost:: folks, matching functionality with the Python library isn’t going to happen (and probably is not aimed for) – there are just so many things in there, including cryptography, wide protocol and file format support, database interface libraries, etc. etc. Once again, it is not about ‘you cannot do it in C++’, but about ‘how long it will take to do’.
Let us now consider some of the most important parts of the Python standard library.
Collections are supported at language level, and include tuples (somewhat similar to return of C++’s
std::make_tuple()), lists (similar to
std::vector<>), dictionaries (similar to
std::unordered_map<>), and sets (similar to
std::unordered_set<>). Notably missing (well, you can use the bintrees package but it is not exactly ‘standard library’) are tree-based maps/sets which allow fast ordered iterations over large datasets.
Assertions are first-class citizens and are recognized at language level, which is a good thing. They also allow specification of the message to report in case of assertion failure – if you feel like it.
Furthermore, the packages profile and cProfile provide a rather convenient built-in means of profiling of your program.
Regular expressions in Python are very efficient and are aided by ‘raw string’ literals. ‘Raw string’ literals are useful because the escaping rules for ‘\’ in default C++ strings and default Python strings tend to make regexps quite cumbersome and poorly readable. In Python (as well as in C++11), there is an elegant way around it: whenever you prefix string literal with ‘r’ (such as
r"\([0-9]*\)"), the escaping rules for backslashes will be different, which allows you to write regular expressions in quite a natural way.
Built-in unit testing framework
Having a built-in unit testing framework is a good thing in any language. For weakly typed languages such as Python, integrated unit testing (especially automated regression testing) becomes an absolute must. Fortunately, Python has support for it too (for details, see the unittest package).
Performance
For those who want to write Python off due to performance issues, I have a word of advice: don’t rush. While it is perfectly possible to find an application where Python’s performance (or as some C/C++ developers will probably say, Python’s lack of performance) will make a difference, the chances are that you won’t be able to see the difference in your program. In 99% of business applications, 99% of code is ‘glue code’, and for 99% of ‘glue code’, Python’s performance will be more than enough.
Of course, if you’re developing some non-standard computation-intensive stuff such as a video decoder, you will probably be out of luck. However, if you will run into situation where you need to write certain parts in C/C++, Python will provide a way to call your DLLs/.so's (the appropriate Python package is ctypes).
The bad
If you’ve read until this point, you may think that I’m a Python missionary on a quest to convert as many people as possible. Don’t worry, I will mention bad sides of Python too.
Ad-hoc typing
While ad-hoc typing does have its advantages (as was discussed above), it has a big problem too, and this is a lack of scalability. Let me elaborate a bit. If you’re creating an ad-hoc object such as
(1,2,3) (similar to
std::make_tuple(1,2,3)), it works very well for those cases where you need just to pass it from one point to another point, without going into hassle of declaring things. However, ad-hoc typing doesn’t really scale – as soon as you’re using the same ad-hoc type in 10 places, and it does need to be the same in all 10 places, code maintenance becomes a nightmare.
Many Python developers seem to realize the problem, and several workarounds have been created. In particular, I’ve found
namedtuple package to be quite useful (in a sense, it is a close cousin of C++ struct):
C++:
struct X { int i; string s; }
Python:
X = namedtuple('X', ['i','s'])
On the other hand, more recent development of the Python abstract base classes (package
abc) feels like a contradictio in adjecto: it is like writing in Python using C++ paradigms, which defeats the advantages of one while not providing benefits of the other one.
An ideal IMHO would be an environment where I could write ad-hoc types without declaring them (while they are still small), and then, whenever I feel that they became too large to be ad-hoc, to change them (just by adding declarations where necessary, and not changing the actual code(!)) to strict typing. I have some ideas in this regard, though it is a bit too early to describe them.
Performance
In general, Python performs surprisingly well for a scripting language. Still, if computationally intensive work is involved, one may end up with a need to rewrite big chunks of the program (or even the whole program). Also, multithreading, while technically possible, does not allow performing calculations on more than one core (see below).
Multithreading
Multithreading in Python is a joke; well, it is at least for those of us coming from a non-Pythonic world. Due to the fact that all data processing in Python is made under the so-called Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), trying to perform calculations on two cores in two threads is doomed (well, it will work, but it won’t work any faster – and probably a tad slower – than single-threaded code). It limits the usage of multithreading to the cases when a thread is blocked due to I/O wait. Technically speaking, while the default Python distribution uses cPython which does have a GIL, GIL is not a restriction of Python as such, so you may be able to get away with using something like Jython or IronPython (I didn’t try it myself though).
If you need to perform computational-intensive calculations in parallel while using the default cPython, there is still an option to spawn another process (which will have its own GIL so you will be able to calculate things in parallel). An appropriate Python package is
multiprocessing, and it is quite convenient (in fact, it has an interface which is very similar to that of the
threading package). However, you should keep in mind that under the hood it relies on marshaling/unmarshaling of all the parameters passed to the working process (and of all the values returned back), so if your parameters and/or return values are large you can easily get quite a performance hit. Which in turn can be overcome (at least in theory) by using shared memory, but this has a caveat too – shared memory cannot contain anything but very simple data. Overall, you can end up with a scenario where you’ll essentially be forced to write the computational code in C/C++.
The ugly
Every programming language has its own peculiarities, and Python is not an exception. I will try to point out a few items which looked quite unusual to me after coming from a mainly C++ world.
‘Pythonic’
When speaking to Pythonic developers (whether in person or in forums) there is a big chance that you’ll run into somebody who with almost religious zealousy will tell you, “You shouldn’t write it this way, because it is not ‘Pythonic’”. In fact, way too often ‘Pythonic’ becomes a synonym to “I believe that it is the only way of doing it; I cannot explain why, so I’m telling it is ‘Pythonic’”. Fortunately, in more or less populated forums (such as StackOverflow), usually there are enough people who make sure that whatever is called ‘Pythonic’ makes sense. Still, ongoing arguments about something being ‘Pythonic’ (or ‘not Pythonic’) can be rather annoying.
Python 3
Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.
~ Jonathan Swift, circa 1726
With all due respect to Guido van Rossum, I strongly believe that the approach taken with Python 3 is a huge mortgage-crisis-sized mistake. What has happened with Python 3 is that developers were told that Python 3 will be incompatible with Python 2. No smooth migration, no gradual deprecation, just ‘all or nothing# migration path (well, with a helper ‘2to3’ tool which ‘sorta’ converts Python 2 source code to Python 3). Moreover, certain constructs which are allowed in both Python 2 and Python 3, have a subtly different meaning in Python 3 (one such example is
dict.items()). This has lead to enormous confusion and significant reluctance to move towards Python 3 (in fact, the adoption rate of Python 3 was reported to be as low as 2% 5 years after it has been introduced [Hiltmon14]).
Without going into Blefuscian-Lilliputian discussions of “What is better – to suffer from imperfections of Python 2 in Python 3 or to have better but incompatible Python 3?”, I’ll try to summarize the current situation:
- the official position of Guido and the Python core team is that all new development SHOULD be done in Python 3
- however, if you have Python as a part of a 3rd-party application (which tend to use Python 2, as they need to support older scripts written in Python 2) – you’re pretty much doomed to Python 2
- moreover, as there is a ‘2to3’ tool which ‘sorta’ converts your code from Python 2 to Python 3 (and there is no tool which converts code back – from Python 3 to Python 2), one way to have code which supports both Python 2 and Python 3, is to keep your codebase in Python 2. Alternatively, you may write in a dialect known as Polyglot (which works in both Python 2 and Python 3), though it has been argued that Polyglot is the worst language out of Python 2, Python 3, and Polyglot [Faassen14].
Phew, this is ugly indeed. To make it even uglier, there were even suggestions to stop supporting Python 2 to force migration to Python 3 [Faassen2014]. One thing I wonder about is how those people would stop a huge Python 2 community from creating an unofficial fork with ongoing support for Python 2 (it is open source, after all)?
Semantics of whitespace
Python is a quite unusual language in that it relies on whitespace to provide semantic data (or in other words – changing whitespace can change semantics of the program in Python). For example,
if a < b: x = 1 y = 2
and
if a < b: x = 1 y = 2
are two different programs producing different results.
The Python approach has both advantages and disadvantages. On the positive side, it enforces code readability. On the negative side, it has several issues (in practice, rather minor if you are careful):
- you need to be careful when switching between windows using Alt-Tab: there is a substantial chance that an accidentally added tab can go unnoticed but will break your code, ouch
- you need to make sure that ‘diff’ tool which you’re using with your source control system, does not ignore whitespace
- instead of an endless C/C++/C#/Java debate of “Where is the right way to put curly brackets?” it leads to another endless debate of “What is the right thing to use – tabs or spaces?” As it doesn’t matter any more than which end of the egg is broken, the only thing which matters is consistency. And as such, I prefer to stick to the (widely accepted) recommendation from [PEP8]: use spaces, with 4 spaces per indentation level. Why? Just for the sake of consistency.
Lambdas within loops
With all the good things said about lambdas in Python, there is one thing to keep in mind: if you try to use lambda which captures variables within a loop, it won’t work as you might have expected. For details, refer, for example, to [StackOverflow-1]. The best workaround I was able to find is a direct replacement with a function object. Instead of not-working-as-expected:
for i in range(10): a[i] = lambda x: x+i #every a[i] function will use the same i=10
you can use, for example, an almost equivalent but working as you (or at least me) would intuitively expect:
class MyLambda: def __init__(self,i): self.i = i def __call__(self): return x+self.i #... for i in range(10): a[i] = MyLambda(i)
There are other alternatives too, see, for example, [StackOverflow-1] and [StackOverflow-2] for details.
Overall, this is rather annoying, but is not that a big deal when you know about it.
Optimizing performance
Optimizing the performance of a Python program is very different from optimizing a C or C++ counterpart. For a Python program, instead of an ‘I can write it myself’ approach, one should look for highly optimized (a.k.a. ‘written in C’) functions from the Python standard library. Just one example: when we’ve needed to read a multi-megabyte text file accounting for ‘universal line endings’ (either
\r or
\n), the standard Python library did rather a poor job. Rewriting it to byte-by-byte processing (which would help in C/C++) has only made things worse, as more work for Python bytecode is rarely a good thing. However, when we became creative and started reading the file in chunks (each chunk being several kilobytes in size, so it usually contained multiple lines), pre-creating a regular expression pattern
eol_pattern = re.compile( r'([^\r\n]*)([\r\n])' )
and using
line = eol_pattern.match( chunk, current_pos_within_chunk )
on the chunk to extract the next line (with an appropriate handling of double-symbol line endings), we got about a 2x speed improvement over the standard Python library universal line handling (which apparently was pure Python and was not that creative in this regard). The reason for this is quite obvious: the regular expression library is a heavily optimized C code, and when we pushed most of the processing there instead of doing it in Python, we got quite an improvement.
Conclusion
The guy who told me this story, is of the opinion (which I may or may not share) that Python is by far the best language available for writing ‘glue’ code. Yes, it has its quirks, but for most of the business-level code it is clearly ‘good enough’, and whenever top performance is necessary, C/C++ code can be integrated rather easily.
From my perspective, I would say that as both C++ and Python are Turing-complete,: you can always implement any practical program in both of them (well, assuming that Church-Turing thesis stands). In practice, of course, there are restrictions such as, ‘Will we live long enough to write the program?’ (an argument for C++ over asm and for Python over C++) and ‘Will we live long enough for the program to execute?’ (an argument in the opposite direction). As usual, it is all about choosing right tool for the job.
References
[Faassen14] ‘The Gravity of Python 2’, Martijn Faassen,
[Hiltmon14] ‘Python: It’s a Trap’, Hilton Lipschitz,
[Ignatchenko12] ‘Memory Leaks and Memory Leaks’, Sergey Ignatchenko, Overload 107, February 2012
[Loganberry04] David ‘Loganberry’, Frithaes! – an Introduction to Colloquial Lapine!,
[PEP8]
[StackOverflow-1]
[StackOverflow-2]
Acknowledgement
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RE: New Forest - Old Domain - Plus DMZ - Help Please
- From: v-xuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Vincent Xu [MSFT])
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 03:29:55 GMT
Hi,
1. it dependents upon what DNS address is configured in the clients.
However,
1) I'm not sure if it can coexists when the linux has the same name with
AD domain name.
2) Make sure Windows XP client should use the AD DNS
2. It is for manager reason that create a new child domain. Since you only
have 50 users, I don't think it is required.
3. No, so far there are no known issues in such scenario.
4. The Cert should match the name in Internet. In another word,. I think there should not be any problem.
5. Yes, it is supposed to be no problem.
Best regards,
Vincent Xu
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Subject: New Forest - Old Domain - Plus DMZ - Help Please
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My situation is somewhat complex, so I apologize for the length of
this, but I will be as succinct as possible.
I am the network admin for a company of about 50 users. I have been
charged with moving us off our older Linux mail server to an Exchange
2003 server; that of course requires Active Directory, which we have
never used here. Although I am new to AD, I have worked on the project
full time for the last few weeks--I have learned a lot and feel as
though I have fair grasp of the major concepts.
Environment: We do extensive data processing for our outside clients,
and have about 50 servers total in addition to about 50 desktops. The
vast majority of our inside production equipment is 2003 servers and XP
desktops, but we do have one application that runs on several NT4
servers with some NT4 data entry workstations associated with that
process. All internal production equipment (and about half of our
users) are members of an NT4 domain. We also have a number of
workgroups containing both servers and workstations, that I would like
to bring under the AD umbrella. We also have a number of servers in
the DMZ including public webservers, none of which belong to any domain
currently, except for one Win2003 Small Business Server (which is its
own single-box domain) whose only function now is running backups of
the DMZ. No inbound connections are permitted from the DMZ to our
internal LAN. All data is pulled into the inside LAN by internal
servers.
One big challenge--the NT4 domain was created years ago when much less
attention was paid to security, and the domain admin password is fairly
easily guessed. I want to tighten security while I am implementing the
AD/Exchange project, however I cannot change the domain admin password
because of its being hard-coded in some of our legacy production
applications....and of course the ancient code, which dates from the
days when our company was basically a one man operation, is
undocumented, so no one knows exactly how to change the code to allow
me to reset the password, but I am assured by the development staff
that the insecure reference is used numerous times throughout the old
code. And the older operation is now a small enough portion of our
business that there is a reluctance to devoting developer resources to
rewriting the apps, and now we have SLA's that call for big penalties
should processes break, as in losing communication if we move the newer
processes to a new domain -- no pressure though 8-)
If that were not enough of a design challenge, our internal DNS is
static, and is hosted by an older Linux server, manually maintained,
although for redundancy we do zone transfers to secondary DNS hosted on
2 Win 2003 servers, one on our inside LAN and one in the DMZ..
My goals are to:
--bring all of our business process equipment into the Active
Directory, including the DMZ
--tighten security so that a user who guesses the domain admin password
for the existing domain cannot change their own access permissions (or
worse)
--prepare the new AD structure to make Exchange implementation as
seamless as possible
--zero or minimal downtime (my maintenance window is two hours)
This is what I am considering:
--create a new root domain in a pristine forest (let's call it
acme.com)
--move the machines not currently in the NT4 domain into the new domain
--move all users into the new domain (I could be phatgeezer@xxxxxxxx,
which will minimize the users' confusion between their domain account
and their email account, since it will be the same name)
--do an in-place upgrade of the existing NT4 domain (let's say it's
called biz) and make it a child domain of the root-- biz.acme.com
--create a new domain for the DMZ machines, dmz.acme.com and use a
secure method of AD replication like IPSec with machine certificates
Here (finally) are my questions:
1. Can I name our new root domain the same as our current internal
namespace without causing DNS resolution problems during the
installation? In other words if AD maintains the acme.com namespace
and the acme.com namespace is also available statically from our
existing Linux server, which DNS is authoritative? Or is it solely
dependent upon what DNS address is configured in the clients?
2. Is there any value to creating a new child domain off the root to
hold our user objects? Conversely is there any security risk to putting
them in the root domain? (since it will be above the "biz" domain in
the heirarchy as opposed to a sister domain)
3. Are there any installation, and later, authentication problems
associated with making an in-place-upgraded NT domain a child of a
pristine root, rather than making it the first domain in a new forest?
4. If our current web servers' certificates are issued to the acme.net
domain, and I add the machines to our acme.com domain, will web users
get the "certificate name doesn't match site" error on connecting? I
think I know the answer to this but want to be sure -- we do not
publish our internal DNS on the internet, instead we have our ISP
publish a separate DNS list using our public address pool and then we
NAT requests at the firewall to the proper internal address --
therefore having the machine known on the internet as
(with a cert installed issued to) and known internally as in our AD namespace should not be a problem --
correct?
Whew -- that's a lot of stuff, and I'm sure I'll need to know more as
the project goes along, but it's taken me two weeks of full time study
and analyzing our operations in light of the new knowledge, just to
know some of the questions I need to ask. Thanks everyone!
.
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Hello, I have been working on this issue for a long time, and I need your expertise.
I have 2 arrays, each of them are hard-coded with integer values.
I also have one 2-Dimensional vector and I want to put 1 array into the first column of the vector and the other array into the 2nd column of the vector. The reason is that I want to do math on the 2nd column of the vector only.
I am able to accomplish this with 3 arrays. Two of them are 1-Dimensional and the third array is 2-Dimensional.
I know how to pass ONE Array into ONE vector:
however, when I declare a 2-Dimensional vector:however, when I declare a 2-Dimensional vector:Code:vector<int> myVector(typeArray, typeArray + 4);
I am not seeing how to add TWO arrays or how to OUTPUT it to the screen.I am not seeing how to add TWO arrays or how to OUTPUT it to the screen.Code:vector< vector <int> > myVector(3, vector<int> (2,0))
Here is my code using DevCPP:
I dont' get any errors, however, I don't know how to output it to the screen to see what it looks like. Please advise, thanks!I dont' get any errors, however, I don't know how to output it to the screen to see what it looks like. Please advise, thanks!Code:#include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <Windows.h> #include <algorithm> using namespace std; int main() { int typeArray[3] = {55,66,77}; int valArray[3] = {1,2,3}; // for vector: 3 = LENGTH or NUMBER of ROWS; 2 = WIDTH or NUMBER of COLUMNS; // 0 = VALUE all cells are initialized to vector< vector <int> > myVector(3, vector<int> (2,0)); for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(typeArray); i++) { for (int j = 0; j < sizeof(valArray); j++) { myVector[i][j]; } // This "cout" statement doesn't work //cout << "Vector is now: " << myVector[i][j] << endl; } system("Pause"); return 0; } | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/147022-two-hard-coded-arrays-into-one-2-dimensional-vector.html | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | refinedweb | 330 | 67.38 |
A little application that monitors the clipboard. It shows the clipboard history in a popup window and allows to put any entry back into the clipboard.
It contains a class that monitors the system clipboard: ClipboardMonitor. The class creates internally a NativeWindow that registers as clipboard viewer and processes the messages send by the system (if the content of the clipboard changed).
The app also tries to show a way to create a popup window (by processing a few windows messages) and to start an application in the system tray without showing the main window.
I have seen that the topic of starting an application displaying a notify icon in the system tray area is an often discussed topic in news groups... although the solution is quite simple.
Once the NotifyIcon control is placed on the form, you only need to instanciate the form. Once instanciated the NotifyIcon control shows the icon in the system tray. It is not required to show the form!
The application is then started without providing a form. That means that it can only be closed by calling Application.Exit() and not by closing the main form (there is no main form provided).
MainForm form = new MainForm();
Application.Run();
The sample shows also how to inherit from ListBox and create your own custom drawn listbox items. Each listbox item is custom drawn and has a button (visible on the right side of the item when selected). After clicking the button a context menu pops up. It contains actions that can be done on the listbox item.
As last nice feature the app has a class (AutoStarter) that registers or unregisters the application to start with the system. That is done by setting the appropriate keys in the registry.
I hope you enjoy my work.
Version 1.0.1:
- Showing now the icon of the application (if available) that put the item into the clipboard. As suggested by Ion.
Version 1.0.2:
- Fixed minor issues with putting an item back into clipboard.
- Added clear all link to main menu.
- Added limit of max. items in history.
Version 1.0.3:
- Fixed minor bugs.
- Enhanced UI.
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A little application that monitors the clipboard. It shows the clipboard history in a popup window and allows to put any entry back into the clipboard.
Instead of using fixed icons (in ClipboardItemListBox ()) whould't be better to use Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon (if it make sense)?
New version 1.0.2 is up.
Version 1.0.3 is up.
Very nice! I love the UI, very Vista-ish.
Two things I noticed:
1. You're overriding the WndProc to detect when the form loses focus? Any particular reason why you're not using the Deactivated event?
2. You're setting the font manually to Segoe UI, 9pt. Instead of doing that, I recommend setting it to SystemFonts.IconTitleFont (do this in the constructor after calling InitializeComponents, or do it in the Load event; the latter is required if you don't want to do it in DesignMode (which is what I do). This has the advantage of using Segoe UI on Vista, Tahoma on XP, and Sans Serif elsewhere, and it also obeys the user's font size settings.
I have a class that I use as the base class for most of my forms that does this for me:
/// <summary>
/// Base class for windows forms that should follow the global font scheme settings.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// This class makes sure the form uses Tahoma on XP and Segoe UI on Vista. Please make sure your
/// form's <see cref="System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.AutoScaleMode" /> property is set to
/// Font, and make special provisions if your form uses graphics or anything like that.
/// </remarks>
public class AutoFontForm : Form
{
/// <summary>
/// Creates a new instance of the <see cref="AutoFontForm" /> class.
/// </summary>
public AutoFontForm()
{
this.Load += new EventHandler(AutoFontForm_Load);
}
void AutoFontForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if( !DesignMode )
{
Font = System.Drawing.SystemFonts.IconTitleFont;.Window )
Font = System.Drawing.SystemFonts.IconTitleFont;
}
}
There's some issues with graphics since automatic scaling will also resize your pictureboxes if you have any, and you definitely need to test with all three fonts and different sizes (since MS Sans Serif, Tahoma and Segoe UI have wildly different font metrics), but other than that it works great.
Hi Sven. Thanks for your feedback.
1) I override, since Deactivate is also fired if a messagebox shows up. That happens when clicking the "clear history" link. In that case the popup window disappears, which is not what i wanted... By overriding the window proc this doesn't happen
2) I'll fix that
- little.
Other than that, as I've said, very nice app.
I know, there are some places of improvement (documentation + using constants - and a lot other stuff to btw.)... but I haven't had the time and passion to do them
Way cool.
Great job.
thats awesome!
nice job
Excellent work with the interface.
A clipboard manager is a must have, and this is the best I've seen so far.
Sweet.
But it kills RDPCLIP, no more cutting in a remote desktop window and pasting in the host machine
- blowdart wrote:Sweet.
But it kills RDPCLIP, no more cutting in a remote desktop window and pasting in the host machine
Strange. I register only the app in the notification queue and unregister it on exit.
Finally downloaded this and I am really liking it. Just a couple questions:
1) Why Chili?
2) When I click on the icon in the taskbar with the app open shouldn't it close it instead of reopening?
- harumscarum wrote: Finally downloaded this and I am really liking it. Just a couple questions:
1) Why Chili?
2) When I click on the icon in the taskbar with the app open shouldn't it close it instead of reopening?
Thanks for the feedback.
1) Because I needed a root namespace and came up with Chili. I know it's not very genial, but anyways... is now my "company"
2) This is the same as with the other popups in Vista (try with the volume, energy or network popup). If you click the icon they will also not get hidden!
Hello!
Nice work, very useful. I was wondering if you thought if it would be possible to create a drag&drop on purpose to move data from and to other apps?
- N3mr0d wrote:Hello!
Nice work, very useful. I was wondering if you thought if it would be possible to create a drag&drop on purpose to move data from and to other apps?
Cool that you like it
You mean from the clipboard history window to an app?
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I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application. This application requests records through JQuery. JQuery calls back to a controller action that returns results in JSON format. I have not been able to prove this, but I'm concerned that my data may be getting cached.
I only want the caching to be applied to specific actions, not for all actions.
Is there an attribute that I can put on an action to ensure that the data does not get cached? If not, how do I ensure that the browser gets a new set of records each time, instead of a cached set?
To ensure that JQuery isn't caching the results, on your ajax methods, put the following:
$.ajax({ cache: false //rest of your ajax setup });
Or to prevent caching in MVC, we created our own attribute, you could do the same. Here's our code:
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method)] public sealed class NoCacheAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute {); } }
Then just decorate your controller with
[NoCache]. OR to do it for all you could just put the attribute on the class of the base class that you inherit your controllers from (if you have one) like we have here:
[NoCache] public class ControllerBase : Controller, IControllerBase
You can also decorate some of the actions with this attribute if you need them to be non-cacheable, instead of decorating the whole controller.
If your class or action didn't have
NoCache when it was rendered in your browser and you want to check it's working, remember that after compiling the changes you need to do a "hard refresh" (Ctrl+F5) in your browser. Until you do so, your browser will keep the old cached version, and won't refresh it with a "normal refresh" (F5). | https://codedump.io/share/Ydl25bKcn7j/1/prevent-caching-in-aspnet-mvc-for-specific-actions-using-an-attribute | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | refinedweb | 292 | 69.41 |
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r:
Traditionally <- was used in R for assignment. Using an = for assignment was introduced in version 1.4.0 sometime before 2002. -> can also be used for assignment:
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horizontal bar chart
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pie chart
A pie chart displays values using the areas of circular sectors or equivalently the lengths of the arcs of those sectors.
A pie chart implies that the values are percentages of a whole.
dot plot
A chart which displays small, integral values with stacks of dots.
stem plot
Also called a stem-and-leaf plot.
A stem plot is a concise way of storing a small set of numbers which makes their distribution visually evident.
The original set of numbers can be recovered with some loss of accuracy by appending the number on the left with each of the digits on the right. In the example below the original data set contained -43, -42, -41, -39, -38, -35, …, 35, 44, 46, 50, 58.
> stem(20*rnorm(100)) The decimal point is 1 digit(s) to the right of the | -4 | 321 -2 | 98544054310 -0 | 8864333111009998776444332222110 0 | 0001122333333466667778899122334555666789 2 | 00023669025 4 | 4608:
r:
How to make a histogram with the ggplot2 library:
qplot(rnorm(50), geom="histogram", binwidth=binwidth) binwidth = (max(x)-min(x))/10 qplot(rnorm(50), geom="histogram", binwidth=bin")
chart title
How to set the chart title.
r:
The qplot commands supports the main options for setting the title:
qplot(x="rnorm", y=rnorm(50), geom="boxplot", main="boxplot example")
Bivariate Charts
stacked bar chart
Two or more data sets with a common set of labels can be charted with a stacked bar chart. This makes the sum of the data sets for each label readily apparent.
grouped bar chart
Optionally data sets with a common set of labels can be charted with a grouped bar chart which clusters the bars for each label. The grouped bar chart makes it easier to perform comparisons between labels for each data set.
hexagonal binning.
linear regression line
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polygonal line plot
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cubic spline
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function plot
How to plot a function.
Multivariate Charts
additional line:
additional point set
stacked area chart
overlapping area chart
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Opened 6 years ago
Closed 11 months ago
Last modified 11 months ago
#9894 closed New feature (wontfix)
Give the FileField 'upload_to' callable access to an UploadedFile's contents.
Description
FileField.upload_to allows for a callable and requests an instance and a filename. Because it may be of interest to the programmer to use the file's content (MD5 sum, MIME type, ID3 tags etc.) in the upload path, it would be handy to be able to access it from the callable method.
One possibility would be to pass an UploadedFile instead of a filename but this would break the compatibility policy in 1.0.X. Temporarily, this functionality could be added via an uploaded_file or content property added to the instance (in FieldFile.save()), making it accessible from the upload_to(instance, filename) callable with instance.uploaded_file.
I'll throw up some patches if this makes any sense.
Change History (11)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by Pyth
- Needs documentation set
- Needs tests set
- Patch needs improvement set
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Design decision needed
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by anonymous
- milestone post-1.0 deleted
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by redbaron
Isn't file contents already accessible via inst.<field_name> ?
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by SmileyChris
- Severity set to Normal
- Type set to New feature jacob
- Triage Stage changed from Design decision needed to Accepted
I think this is worth doing if we can figure out a good (and backwards-compatible) API.
comment:8 Changed 18 months ago by ashwoods
- Cc ashwoods added
comment:9 Changed 11 months ago by mlavin
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
Spoke with julienphalip and others at the PyCon 2014 sprints and the consensus was that this is a reasonable but rare use case. However, doing this in a backwards compatible when changing the number of expected arguments for upload_to is messy and difficult. One way would be to change FieldFile.save to call self.field.generate_filename with the extra content argument, catch the TypeError which would be raised if the upload_to doesn't take the arg and then raise a deprecation and call it again with only the instance and filename args.
def save(self, name, content, save=True): try: name = self.field.generate_filename(self.instance, name, content) except TypeError: # Include deprecation warning about content arg name = self.field.generate_filename(self.instance, name)
The problem with this is the possibiliy that something inside the upload_to raises a TypeError and it is masked during this deprecation cycle leading to difficult to debug problems. Another possibility would be to use inspect.getargspec but that type of inspection can be prone to error.
Doing this type of name change based on the content is possible with the current code/API. If you don't need the model instance then the storage save gets the content and the name generated by the field. If you do need the instance and the content then you can subclass both FieldFile and FileField to make FieldFile.save and FileField.generate_filename compatible with passing the content as an additional argument. While both of these directions require much more work, this use case seems small enough and somewhat custom enough to merit it. Overall the amount of work required to add this new argument doesn't appear to be worth the savings for the few that might need it.
Marking this as wontfix. If someone really wants this new argument and can make a compelling argument for a simple way to maintain backwards compatibility that should be raised on django-developers Otherwise you can try one of the work-arounds described above.
comment:10 Changed 11 months ago by mlavin
To be clear the main problem with catching the TypeError is that it's such a broad error and there isn't a clean way to inspect the exception to know which function caused it. That is you can't know if the problem was generate_filename or another function internal to the callback.
comment:11 Changed 11 months ago by dmckeone
To avoid the issue with potentially discarding a valid TypeError here this implementation could potentially be used in conjunction with a change of the generate_filename signature to include a content= keyword argument:
def save(self, name, content, save=True): try: inspect.getcallargs(self.field.generate_filename, self.instance, name, content=content) except TypeError: # Possibly make some kind of Deprecation Warning name = self.field.generate_filename(self.instance, name) else: name = self.field.generate_filename(self.instance, name, content=content)
The benefit of this implementation is that an old version of the upload_to= callback will continue to function as it had in the past, but Django can now emit a deprecation warning of some kind (deferring an eventual API change). Using inspect.getcallargs works in both Python 2 and 3, and it only tests the binding of the arguments to the function, without actually calling the function.
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Hello, I am pretty new to swift programming and was watching a video made by apple on how to make an app. It seems as though the video is a little outdated, as one of the lines of code has an error. I will post the code below. Next to the code I will also write where the error is. If needed I can upload the files to the project. Thanks and I hope someone can help me fix this problem! (Value of optional type "UIImage?" not unwrapped' did you mean to use "!" or "?"?)
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var photoimageView: UIImageView!
let context = CIContext(options: nil)
@IBAction func applyFilter(_ sender: AnyObject) {
let inputImage = CIImage(image: photoimageView.image) This is where the error occurs
let randomColor = [kCIInputAngleKey: (Double(arc4random_uniform(314)) / 100)]
let filteredImage = inputImage.imageByApplyingFilter("CIHueAdjust", withInputPeramiters: randomColor)
let renderedImage = context.createCGImage(filteredImage, fromRect: filteredImage.extent())
photoimageView.image = UIImage(CGImage: renderedImage)
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}
}
Re: Error in IOS Coding. Value of Optional type "UIImage?" not unwrappedeskimo Feb 9, 2017 1:14 AM (in response to hunterw)
let inputImage = CIImage(image: photoimageView.image)
photoimageViewis a UIImageView. It’s
imageproperty is of type
UIImage?, that is, an optional UIImage. An optional UIImage may be nil, that is, there may be no image there.
You’re trying to pass that optional UIImage to
CIImage(image:), but it’s
imageparameter is of type
UIImage(not
UIImage?), and thus you get a compile-time error telling you that the types don’t line up.
You have two basic choices here:
If you believe that
photoimageView.imagecan never be nil in this context, you can force unwrap the optional. So, your call would look like
CIImage(image: photoimageView.image!).
The force unwrap will trap (crashing your app) if the value is nil, so you should only do this if the presence of nil indicates a fundamental problem with your app. For example, if you added the image to the image view in Interface Builder, then a nil image would indicate that your app was built incorrectly, and it’s OK to crash in that case.
If, OTOH, is possible that
photoimageView.imagemight be nil, you need to check for and handle this case. You might, for example, use
guard letto detect that case and display an error to the user.
Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"
Re: Error in IOS Coding. Value of Optional type "UIImage?" not unwrappedhunterw Feb 9, 2017 3:37 PM (in response to eskimo)
When I added a !, another error appeared, when I added a ! to that error, another error appeared, and so on. How do I fix this?
Re: Error in IOS Coding. Value of Optional type "UIImage?" not unwrappedeskimo Feb 10, 2017 3:15 PM (in response to hunterw)
You are going to have to read up on how Swift handles optional values, and then write your code based on that understanding. Optionals are covered in depth in The Swift Programming Language, and I’d expect them to similarly covered by any introduction to Swift programming.
One thing I find very useful when dealing with type mismatches in Swift is to take advantage of type inference and Xcode’s ability to show a type. For example, you split your problematic line into two parts:
let tmp = photoimageView.image let inputImage = CIImage(image: tmp)
you can option-click on
tmpto discover its type is
UIImage?, which doesn’t match the expected type to
CIImage(image:), which is just plain
UIImage.
Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
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[Ruby] I want to implement a product information editing function ~part1~
Assumption
- Use ruby on rails 6.0.0.
- User functions are assumed to be introduced by devise.
- All view files are in haml format.
- By the way, I use MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2020).
Introduction
We are making a copy site of a certain flea site for learning programming. I implemented a product information editing function, but I struggled with posting multiple images, so I decided to write it as a reference. It’s not a big amount, but it’s divided into parts so that you can get a sense of accomplishment later. please forgive me. (I wrote a lot!) I don’t think there will be any particular problems in part1, but since it will be the basis for part2 and beyond, I will write about warming up.
Specification
- You can change the information registered for each item one by one.
- Only the user who registered the product can edit the product information.
- You can replace the images one by one.
- Information such as product names and images that has already been registered is displayed in advance on the edit screen.
- Perform error handling.
(I will post a reference image when the markup is completed)
procedure
1, Creating a base controller and model. 2, post image by linking image table.
- Introduce jQuery to implement posting of multiple images. 4, Adjustment on the edit screen. 5, Preview the image.
We will implement these 5 procedures by dividing them into parts.
Well then
Now to implementation
First, we will solidify the basic parts. First from the terminal.
$ rails g contoroller products $ rails g model product $ rails db:migrate
That’s the usual flow. Details such as database creation and migration file description are omitted.
Now let’s start from the root file.
app/config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do root "products#index" resources :products devise_for :users, controllers: { registrations:'users/registrations' } end
The devise part is the part related to the user function that is already implemented, so don’t worry about it. Again, no detailed explanation is necessary. Create a basic action with resources and specify the index action in the root path. (This time, I don’t use destroy and show, so it’s okay to use except)
Next is the description of the controller.
app/controllers/products_controller.rb
class ProductsController <ApplicationController before_action :ensure_current_user, only[:edit, :update] before_action :set_product, only[:new, :create, :edit, :update] def index @products = Product.all end def new @prodcut = Product.new end def create @product = Product.new(product_params) if @product.save redirect_to products_path else render :new end end def edit end def update if @product.update(product_params) redirect_to products_path else render :edit end end private def product_params params.require(:product).permit(:name).merge(user_id: current_user.id) end def ensure_current_user product = Product.find(params[:id]) if product.user_id != current_user.id redirect_to action: :index end end def set_product @product = Product.find(params[:id]) end end
Is this a place for the time being? I will explain step by step.
First of all, about basic actions.
@products = Product.all
There is no problem with index, we are fetching all records registered in the product table.
@prodcut = Product.new
Products are registered in new and create. Create a new object in the model .new and assign the form value to it.
def product_params Params.require(:product).permit(:name).merge(user_id: current_user.id) end
The data sent in this way is received by the product_params method. Everyone loves strong parameters. Column is only name because it only implements the minimum functionality.
if @product.save Redirect_to products_path else Render :new end
The following if statement is the one called error handling. If the process is successful, the index is displayed. If it fails, new is displayed again. Although the concept has some complicated parts, I think that the function is already familiar.
@product = Product.find(params[:id])
Next is the edit, update action, but what we are doing is the same as before. The difference from create is that you don’t need to create a new object because the data already exists, and you have the product selected by the find method.
def ensure_current_user Product = Product.find(params[:id]) If product.user_id != current_user.id Redirect_to action: :index End end
Finally there is the ensure_current_user method. It looks difficult at first glance, but the process is very easy. The point is that if the user information of the selected product and the logged-in user information are different, you cannot edit them.
Now that the description of the controller is over, it’s time to write the view file.
haml:app/view/products/index.html.haml
- if user_signed_in? [email protected] do |product| -if product.user_id == current_user.id = link_to edit_product_path(product.id) do #{product.name} = link_to("sell", new_product_path) %h2 logged in = link_to'logout', destroy_user_session_path, method: :delete - else %h2 not logged in = link_to'new registration', new_user_registration_path = link_to'login', new_user_session_path
First from the index, but only the first 6 lines should be noted. Is the user logged in? Is the product registered by the user? Under these two conditions, the path of edit and new is displayed.
haml:app/views/products/_form.html.haml
= form_with model: @product, local: true do |f| = f.text_field :name, placeholder:'name' = f.submit'SEND'
I don’t think there is anything special about this either. It’s about sending data to the product model using the form_with method. All you have to do now is render this new.html.haml and edit.html.haml as a partial template.
Finally
Up to this point, we have been able to implement the functionality of creating product data and editing it. (Columns are just names, but…)
In the specification,
- You can change the information registered for each item one by one.
- Only the user who registered the product can edit the product information.
- Perform error handling.
You have completed these three. In the next part, we will be able to add images (image table), so please associate if you like.
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This week, Microsoft is holding their periodic developer conference, the Professional Developers Conference, in Los Angeles. Much like most PDCs, this event is a time to unveil their new plans for software across their developer products. Hopefully, this article will help you associate the codenames with the content. In the coming weeks, you will hear these codenames being bandied about from every media outlet. Here is an overview of the big topics:
Whidbey is the new .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET combination. This release can be thought of as the first real maturation of the platform. Here is an overview of the changes:
Depending on where you came from to get to .NET, generics are either a godsend or an annoying over-complication. Generics are simply a way to templatize code:
public class Foo<T> { public Foo(T a) { _innerArg = a; } T _innerArg; } // Create a couple Foos Foo<string> sfoo = new Foo<string>("hello"); Foo<int> ifoo = new Foo<int>(123);
The concept here is to create a class that can contain or handle a variety of different types in some uniform way. The most obvious of these are collection classes. In early articles that discussed generics, it was always assumed that they would be a C#-specific feature, but generics are in the CLR. This means that all languages could support generics. In Whidbey, both C# and VB.NET will support generics.
The same code in VB.NET would look like:
Public Class Foo(Of T) Public Sub New(ByVal arg As T) _inner = arg End Sub Dim _inner As T End Class ' Create a couple Foos Dim sfoo As Foo(Of String) Dim ifoo As Foo(Of Int32)in a more straightforward way..
The new Visual Studio .NET includes a large number of changes to improve the productivity of users. These include:
Yukon is the new version of SQL Server that will ship near or at the same time as Whidbey. The changes for Yukon include:
The CLR is now hosted inside of SQL Server. This allows you to write stored procedures, functions, user-defined types, aggregates, and extended triggers. This also means that you can do ADO.NET work inside of the database with a new managed provider for querying the database from within the SQL Server process..
Women may be from Venus, but queries can now be from MARS. MARS stands for Multiple Active Result Sets and is meant to allow multiple active result sets within the scope of a single transaction. There is support for this in ADO.NET, as well as support for it in the Yukon engine.
Further out than Whidbey and Yukon is Longhorn, the next release of a desktop operating system. Longhorn consists of a number of new systems:
A new rich client API that allows you to define user interfaces with a markup language called XAML. XAML supports tags that more or less map to existing Windows Forms controls. For example, a simple XAML page that shows a single button would be:
<Border xmlns="" xmlns: <Button Width="150px" Height="24px">Ok</Button> </Border>
Indigo represents a maturation of web services. Indigo is the next generation tool for developing web service applications. Indigo has taken a completely different approach than the WebMethod work in the 1.x Framework. It attempts to treat web services as a set of network protocols with a real network stack that can be plugged into. Indigo will support (by default) all of the WS-I specs that have been addressed in a somewhat piecemeal fashion.
WinFS is the file system that you've heard whispered about for years. (Anyone else remember that this was part of Cairo?) WinFS is essentially a SQL Server store that works locally and somewhat transparently. Files, contacts, images, media, etc. will all be stored in WinFS to provide a more transparent way to handle data of all sorts. The promise is that searching for related pieces of data should be make easier by allowing these objects in different types of applications to be more easily linked together.
Most of what is discussed at this year's PDC is for the future. I would guess (yes, guess ... I have not been given any information from Microsoft about this) that the Yukon/Whidbey releases will happen in 2004, with Longhorn being sometime after that (e.g., 2005 or 2006). I have glazed over many of the details as I have been only given a taste by the pre-conference literature. In the coming weeks we will be running more and more about what these releases actually mean to you, the working developer.
Shawn Wildermuth is the founder of ADOGuy.com and is the author of "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley.
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okular
#include <textpage.h>
Detailed Description
The TextPage class represents the text of a page by providing.
- See also
- TextEntity items for every word/character of the page.
Definition at line 90 of file textpage.h.
Member Enumeration Documentation
Defines the behaviour of adding characters to text() result.
- Since
- 0.10 (KDE 4.4)
Definition at line 102 of file textpage.h.
Constructor & Destructor Documentation
Creates a new text page.
Definition at line 228 of file textpage.cpp.
Creates a new text page with the given
words.
Definition at line 233 of file textpage.cpp.
Destroys the text page.
Definition at line 246 of file textpage.cpp.
Member Function Documentation
Appends the given
text with the given
area as new TextEntity to the page.
Definition at line 251 of file textpage.cpp.
Returns the bounding rect of the text which matches the following criteria or 0 if the search is not successful.
- Parameters
-
Definition at line 716 of file textpage.cpp.
Text extraction function.
Returns:
- a null string if
rectis a valid pointer to a null area
- the whole page text if
rectis a null pointer
- the text which is included by rectangular area
rectotherwise Uses AnyPixelTextAreaInclusionBehaviour
Definition at line 1070 of file textpage.cpp.
Text extraction function.
Returns:
- a null string if
rectis a valid pointer to a null area
- the whole page text if
rectis a null pointer
- the text which is included by rectangular area
rectotherwise
- Since
- 0.10 (KDE 4.4)
Definition at line 1075 of file textpage.cpp.
Returns the rectangular area of the given
selection.
It works like this: There are two cursors, we need to select all the text between them. The coordinates are normalised, leftTop is (0,0) rightBottom is (1,1), so for cursors start (sx,sy) and end (ex,ey) we start with finding text rectangles under those points, if not we search for the first that is to the right to it in the same baseline, if none found, then we search for the first rectangle with a baseline under the cursor, having two points that are the best rectangles to both of the cursors: (rx,ry)x(tx,ty) for start and (ux,uy)x(vx,vy) for end, we do a
- (rx,ry)x(1,ty)
- (0,ty)x(1,uy)
- (0,uy)x(vx,vy)
To find the closest rectangle to cursor (cx,cy) we search for a rectangle that either contains the cursor or that has a left border >= cx and bottom border >= cy.
We will now find out the TinyTextEntity for the startRectangle and TinyTextEntity for the endRectangle. We have four cases:
Case 1(a): both startpoint and endpoint are out of the bounding Rectangle and at one side, so the rectangle made of start and endPoint are outof the bounding rect (do not intersect)
Case 1(b): both startpoint and endpoint are out of bounding rect, but they are in different side, so is their rectangle
Case 2(a): find the rectangle which contains start and endpoint and having some TextEntity
Case 2(b): if 2(a) fails (if startPoint and endPoint both are unchanged), then we check whether there is any TextEntity within the rect made by startPoint and endPoint
Case 3: Now, we may have two type of selection.
- startpoint is left-top of start_end and endpoint is right-bottom
- startpoint is left-bottom of start_end and endpoint is top-right
Also, as 2(b) is passed, we might have it,itEnd or both unchanged, but the fact is that we have text within them. so, we need to search for the best suitable textposition for start and end.
Case 3(a): We search the nearest rectangle consisting of some TinyTextEntity right to or bottom of the startPoint for selection 01. And, for selection 02, we have to search for right and top
Case 3(b): For endpoint, we have to find the point top of or left to endpoint if we have selection 01. Otherwise, the search will be left and bottom
note that, after swapping of start and end, we know that, start is always left to end. but, we cannot say start is positioned upper than end.
Definition at line 331 of file textpage.cpp.
Returns the area and text of the word at the given point Note that ownership of the returned area belongs to the caller.
- Since
- 0.15 (KDE 4.9)
Definition at line 1959 of file textpage.cpp.
Text entity extraction function.
Similar to text() but returns the words including their bounding rectangles. Note that ownership of the contents of the returned list belongs to the caller.
- Since
- 0.14 (KDE 4.8)
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Elixir v1.9 released
Elixir v1.9 is out with releases support, improved configuration, and more.
We are also glad to announce Fernando Tapia Rico has joined the Elixir Core Team. Fernando has been extremely helpful in keeping the issues tracker tidy, by fixing bugs and improving Elixir in many different areas, such as the code formatter, IEx, the compiler, and others.
Now let’s take a look at what’s new in this new version.
Releases
The main feature in Elixir v1.9 is the addition of running the
mix release command.
Releases have always been part of the Elixir community thanks to Paul Schoenfelder’s work on Distillery (and EXRM before that). Distillery was announced in July 2016. Then in 2017, DockYard hired Paul to work on improving deployments, an effort that would lead to Distillery 2.0. Distillery 2.0 provided important answers in areas where the community was struggling to establish conventions and best practices, such as configuration.
At the beginning of this year, thanks to Plataformatec, I was able to prioritize the work on bringing releases directly into Elixir. Paul was aware that we wanted to have releases in Elixir itself and during ElixirConf 2018 I announced that releases was the last planned feature for Elixir.
The goal of Elixir releases was to double down on the most important concepts provided by Distillery and provide extensions points for the other bits the community may find important. Paul and Tristan (who maintains Erlang’s relx) provided excellent feedback on Elixir’s implementation, which we are very thankful for. The Hex package manager is already using releases in production and we also got feedback from other companies doing the same.
Enough background, let’s see why you would want to use releases and how to assemble one..
Management scripts. Releases come with scripts to start, restart, connect to the running system remotely, execute RPC calls, run as daemon, run as a Windows service, and more.
1, 2, 3: released assembled!
You can start a new project and assemble a release for it in three easy steps:
$ mix new my_app $ cd my_app $ MIX_ENV=prod mix release
A release will be assembled in
_build/prod/rel/my_app. Inside the release, there will be a
bin/my_app file which is the entry point to your system. It supports multiple commands, such as:
bin/my_app start,
bin/my_app start_iex,
bin/my_app restart, and
bin/my_app stop- for general management of the release
bin/my_app rpc COMMANDand
bin/my_app remote- for running commands on the running system or to connect to the running system
bin/my_app eval COMMAND- to start a fresh system that runs a single command and then shuts down
bin/my_app daemonand
bin/my_app daemon_iex- to start the system as a daemon on Unix-like systems
bin/my_app install- to install the system as a service on Windows machines
Hooks and Configuration written extensive documentation on releases, so we recommend checking it out for more information.
Configuration
We also use the work on releases to streamline Elixir’s configuration API. A new
Config module has been added to Elixir. The previous configuration API,
Mix.Config, was part of the Mix build tool. However, since releases provide runtime configuration and Mix is not included in releases, we ported the
Mix.Config API to Elixir. In other words,
use Mix.Config has been soft-deprecated in favor of
import Config.
Another important change related to configuration is that
mix new will no longer generate a
config/config.exs file. Relying on configuration is undesired for most libraries and the generated config files pushed library authors in the wrong direction. Furthermore,
mix new --umbrella will no longer generate a configuration for each child app, instead all configuration should be declared in the umbrella root. That’s how it has always behaved, we are now making it explicit.
Other improvements
There are many other enhancements in Elixir v1.9. The Elixir CLI got a handful of new options in order to best support releases.
Logger now computes its sync/async/discard thresholds in a decentralized fashion, reducing contention.
EEx (Embedded Elixir) templates support more complex expressions than before. Finally, there is a new
~U sigil for working with UTC DateTimes as well as new functions in the
File,
Registry, and
System modules.
What’s next?
As mentioned earlier, releases was the last planned feature for Elixir. We don’t have any major user-facing feature in the works nor planned. I know for certain some will consider this fact the most excing part of this announcement!
Of course, it does not mean that v1.9 is the last Elixir version. We will continue shipping new releases every 6 months with enhancements, bug fixes and improvements. You can see the Issues Tracker for more details.
We also are working on some structural changes. One of them is move the
mix xref pass straight into the compiler, which would allow us to emit undefined function and deprecation warnings in more places. We are also considering a move to Cirrus-CI, so we can test Elixir on Windows, Unix, and FreeBSD through a single service.
It is also important to highlight that there are two main reasons why we can afford to have an empty backlog.
First of all, Elixir is built on top of Erlang/OTP and we simply leverage all of the work done by Ericsson and the OTP team on the runtime and Virtual Machine. The Elixir team has always aimed to contribute back as much as possible and those contributions have increased in the last years.
Second, Elixir was designed to be an extensible language. The same tools and abstractions we used to create and enhance the language are also available to libraries and frameworks. This means the community can continue to improve the ecosystem without a need to change the language itself, which would effectively become a bottleneck for progress.
Check the Install section to get Elixir installed and read our Getting Started guide to learn more. We have also updated our advanced Mix & OTP to talk about releases. If you are looking for a more fast paced introduction to the language, see the How I Start: Elixir tutorial, which has also been brought to the latest and greatest.
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I will write a short code e.g. describing what a critical section is, what can go wrong exactly unless we protect it and will use c mutex locks to resolve the problem. It is the part in italics that I find most people messed up with.
Every program when loads into memory become a process. Each process has various places to store data depending upon their type. Let us take the example of global variables which are stored in data segment. We create multiple threads from this process. Thread is simply a new sequence of executing instructions. With each thread certain sections of memory are newly created for e.g. each thread has a separate calling stack. However, data segment remains the same.
Now suppose I have a function inside which I am accessing a global variable
int x = 5; // This is global and declared outside of any function at file scope void thread_function(void) { if (x < 6) // instruction 1 – for reference latter in text x++; // instruction 2 else printf(“x is out of range\n”); }
Say we have a main which calls above function. Also we create a thread which starts with above function. Both will complete their execution. Can you guess the output?
The first one to enter the thread will increment x by one (now it is 6) and the second will print “out of range” right?
Wrong – It MAY turn out that way, but there is no guarantee and you cannot count upon this behavior.
The correct answer would be that it is unpredictable. Why? Because you would never know the order of scheduling of main and the other thread. Let me elaborate.
To OS, each thread has its own small time slice called quantum to share CPU for execution. So main and the other thread each will have its turn. It is possible that main has executed its part until instruction 1 and its quantum expired. OS transferred the control to other thread which executed, found x to be 5, incremented it and went on.
So when main comes back again i.e. is scheduled again to continue from where it left (after instruction 1), it is not going to check if x<6 since that was done previously and found true. It will only proceed to increment x which is already 6 as incremented by other thread. This would result into new value of x which is 7.
Please note that above will not always happen. But it can and it probably would happen any time so we cannot write code which has a chance of running into this situation.
Some points to be clear about:
- x is a shared (global) variable i.e. a single copy accessible by both threads.
- What problem did occur? The code was written with the intention that x would never exceed 6. But we just saw that it can in fact attain any value i.e. if there are 10 threads which expired after instruction 1, x would reach 6+10 = 16.
- The above code was accessing and modifying x. Had we be just printing or using x, there can never be such a problem.
For the reasons described above the code segment
if(x < 6) x++;
is called a critical section. The precise definition would be “any consecutive instructions which should always be executed without switching context (transferring control to another thread) is a critical section”.
If we look at the root of this problem, it is because the if statement and the increment statement are not a single unit or atomic for OS. An atomic instruction is one which is guaranteed by the OS to be executed without any context switch.
For this purpose we protect the critical section with some kind of a lock. Mutex is a common usage and it’s header file and syntax in C pthread library is as follows:
#include <pthread.h> pthread_mutex_t var=PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; pthread_mutex_lock(&var); // lock the critical section if(x < 6) x++; pthread_mutex_unlock(&var); // unlock once you are done
We create a mutex variable, acquire the lock before entering critical section and once done, release the lock. Obviously we cannot prevent the Operating system from transferring control to another thread. So if we are in critical section and have acquired the lock, no other thread would be able to get it unless it is free. This means that if main acquired lock and its quantum expired, the other thread came along, tried to acquire lock and got hanged in there until the lock is released by main. So other thread will waste its quantum, main’s turn will come back which finishes its execution and releases lock. Other thread will only be able to acquire lock then which pro grammatically means it will only return from the pthread_mutex_lock function then.
This is a waste of cycles but it only happens when a threads quantum expires in the middle of a critical section. So still the loss might not be much. Better yet, there are api’s such as
pthread_mutex_trylock(&var)
which does not attempt to acquire lock but rather checks if the lock is free. So we can try lock first and if it fails, we do some other useful work and come back later. If it succeeds we call the actual lock function and proceed ahead.
For a detailed code sample take a look at
Common threads: POSIX threads explained, Part 2 | http://forum.codecall.net/topic/63496-critical-section-and-locks-with-c/ | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | refinedweb | 906 | 72.36 |
/* Definitions for asynchronous process control in GNU Emacs.
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010def HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
#include <sys/types.h>
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
#include <unistd.h>
#endif
/* This structure records information about a subprocess
or network connection.
Every field in this structure except for the first two
must be a Lisp_Object, for GC's sake. */
struct Lisp_Process
{
EMACS_UINT size;
struct Lisp_Vector *v_next;
/* Name of subprocess terminal. */
Lisp_Object tty_name;
/* Name of this process */
Lisp_Object name;
/* List of command arguments that this process was run with.
Is set to t for a stopped network process; nil otherwise. */
Lisp_Object command;
/* (funcall FILTER PROC STRING) (if FILTER is non-nil)
to dispose of a bunch of chars from the process all at once */
Lisp_Object filter;
/* (funcall SENTINEL PROCESS) when process state changes */
Lisp_Object sentinel;
/* (funcall LOG SERVER CLIENT MESSAGE) when a server process
accepts a connection from a client. */
Lisp_Object log;
/* Buffer that output is going to */
Lisp_Object buffer;
/* t if this is a real child process. For a;
/* Symbol indicating status of process.
This may be a symbol: run, open, or closed.
Or it may be a list, whose car is stop, exit or signal
and whose cdr is a pair (EXIT_CODE . COREDUMP_FLAG)
or (SIGNAL_NUMBER . COREDUMP_FLAG). */
Lisp_Object status;
/* Coding-system for decoding the input from this process. */
Lisp_Object decode_coding_system;
/* Working buffer for decoding. */
Lisp_Object decoding_buf;
/* Coding-system for encoding the output to this process. */
Lisp_Object encode_coding_system;
/* Working buffer for encoding. */
Lisp_Object encoding_buf;
/*;
/* Hysteresis to try to read process output in larger blocks.
On some systems, e.g. GNU/Linux, Emacs is seen as
an interactive app also when reading process output, meaning
that process output can be read in as little as 1 byte at a
time. Value is micro-seconds to delay reading output from
this process. Range is 0 .. 5;
};
/* Every field in the preceding structure except for the first two
must be a Lisp_Object, for GC's sake. */
#define ChannelMask(n) (1<<(n))
/* Indexed by descriptor, gives the process (if any) for that descriptor. */
extern Lisp_Object chan_process[];
/* Alist of elements (NAME . PROCESS). */
extern Lisp_Object Vprocess_alist;
/* True if we are about to fork off a synchronous process or if we
are waiting for it. */
extern int synch_process_alive;
/* Communicate exit status of sync process to from sigchld_handler
to Fcall_process. */
/* Nonzero => this is a string explaining death of synchronous subprocess. */
extern const char *synch_process_death;
/* Nonzero => this is the signal number that terminated the subprocess. */
extern int synch_process_termsig;
/* If synch_process_death is zero,
this is exit code of synchronous subprocess. */
extern int synch_process_retcode;
/* The name of the file open to get a null file, or a data sink.port, QCspeed, QCprocess;);
/* arch-tag: dffedfc4-d7bc-4b58-a26f-c16155449c72
(do not change this comment) */ | https://emba.gnu.org/emacs/emacs/-/blame/8ccbef23ea624d892bada3c66ef2339ada342997/src/process.h | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | refinedweb | 447 | 66.74 |
Python tag - IsDirty() not working??
- PluginStudent last edited by PluginStudent
IsDirty()is only relevant in the pipeline of an
ObjectDatagenerator plugin (BaseObject Manual).
You need C4DAtom.GetDirty() or C4DAtom.GetHDirty() to compare the dirty checksums.
This post is deleted!
- intenditore last edited by intenditore
Thanks, that's what I thought(
I found a nice dummy tegdTegData python plugin template, for sure somebody needs it too
- intenditore last edited by intenditore
@PluginStudent said in Python tag - IsDirty() not working?:
IsDirty()is only relevant in the pipeline of an
ObjectDatagenerator plugin (BaseObject Manual).
You need C4DAtom.GetDirty() or C4DAtom.GetHDirty() to compare the dirty checksums.
I'm sorry, but I can't untangle it. I try to execute the following in the tag plugin:
def Execute(self, tag, doc, op, bt, priority, flags): op.SetDirty(c4d.DIRTY_CHILDREN) print op.GetDirty(c4d.DIRTY_CHILDREN)
AttributeError: 'c4d.BaseObject' object has no attribute 'SetDitry'
- PluginStudent last edited by
@intenditore said in Python tag - IsDirty() not working?:
AttributeError: 'c4d.BaseObject' object has no attribute 'SetDitry'
According to this error message, you wrote
SetDitry
Yeah... I fought with this type for almost a day ;D
But than some weirder things has been discovered.
I have this easy code in TagData plugin:
def Execute(self, tag, doc, op, bt, priority, flags): op.SetDirty(c4d.DIRTYFLAGS_CHILDREN) print op.GetDirty(c4d.DIRTYFLAGS_CHILDREN)
It always prints 0, no matter what happens to the children. I also tried other model, DIRTYFLAGS_ALL - there it starts with a small random number and adds 1 every update even if nothing happens. I tried DIRTY_CHILDREN also, the same "0".
Can't get how hierarchy change checking works. And does it?
- PluginStudent last edited by
Why are you calling
SetDirty()before calling
GetDirty()?
Why not use
GetHDirty(c4d.HDIRTYFLAGS_OBJECT_HIERARCHY)? (Dirty States)
@PluginStudent oh God! You helped me so much!
Many thanks for that. Sincerely, it's not very well explained in docs, really not well (in opposite to Undo system for instance) and getting how exactly should it work is tricky. But your last suggestion surely works, and it raises the number every time hierarchy is changed, so I need only check has it been changed or not and than decide to run the code or not (maybe somebody will stuck in the same position so I hope my plain explanation would be useful)
Thanks!
Hi, I confirmed as @PluginStudent said you should use, HDirty for this purpose.
SetDirty with the flag DIRTYFLAGS_CHILDREN only works for new CCurve and Ckey.
To be honest, I'm not sure why, and it's indeed misleading, I will reach the development team about it, and in any case, will fix the documentation.
Cheers,
Maxime. | https://plugincafe.maxon.net/topic/12489/python-tag-isdirty-not-working | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | refinedweb | 443 | 59.6 |
alright my program needs to prompt the user how many circles between 1 and 10 they would like to calculate circumference and area of. then the user enters a number between 1 and 10 or the program prints an error message.
however, if a correct number is entered, it then begins to prompt the user to enter the radius for each circle and stores them in an array to do the required calculations.
lets say you want to use 4 circles.
the problem is that its printing the prompt message:
"Enter the radius for circle #1:"
"Enter the radius for circle #2"
"Enter the radius for circle #3:"
"Enter the radius for circle #4:"
*then down here it allows you to enter the radius'*
i need it to prompt like this:
"Enter the radius for circle #1:"
(scans your entry)
"Enter the radius for circle #2:"
(scans your entry)
"Enter the radius for circle #3:"
(scans your entry)
"Enter the radius for circle #4:"
(scans your entry)
any ideas?
*please keep in mind im working on this and its not nearly completed yet, i just like to compile and test along the way so i dont get a million errors at the end to deal with.
i appreciate the help guys and gals!i appreciate the help guys and gals!Code:
#include <stdio.h>
main ()
{
int circleno;
int imputvalues[10], i;
int j;
printf("Please enter the number of circles (max = 10):\n");
scanf("%i", &circleno);
if (circleno < 1 || circleno > 10)
printf("Error -> %i circles is too many. Please try again:\n", circleno);
else
printf("You have selected to enter %i circles.\n\n", circleno);
for ( j = 1; j <= circleno; ++j )
printf("Enter the radius for circle #%i:\n\n", j);
scanf("%i", &imputvalues[i]);
return 0;
} | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/113685-scanf-question-printable-thread.html | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | refinedweb | 297 | 64.75 |
<quaid> </meeting> <quaid> jmbuser is present, so am I * quaid gets the agenda rolling ... <quaid> stickster was here ... <quaid> so three of us at least <quaid> EvilBob: it's your topic up first, btw * ezq (n=ezq host201 190-224-66 telecom net ar) has joined #fedora-meeting * quaid has changed the topic to: FDSCo mtg -- Mailing list spam and moderation * stickster here <quaid> hmm, without Bob I don't think we get the full impatc <quaid> but aiui <quaid> he was concerned with list moderators stepping on each other <quaid> outside of designating hours of coverage (horrors!) <quaid> I think we just have to be careful <quaid> and make sure we know what we are rejecting <quaid> for this I use the Mailman WebUI to be sure <jmbuser> quaid: Is there any way to prevent the spam mail from cloggin up my webmail? <jmbuser> s / cloggin / clogging / <quaid> filters? <quaid> also ... <quaid> Mike was going to adjust our filters <quaid> but afaict he hasn't <quaid> I don't know quite what to do there and haven't found anyone who can help * quaid tries not to say M I K E ' s name so as to not distract him from FAS2 fun <jmbuser> The signal-to-noise ratio drops drastically with spam and causes me to miss real information <quaid> hmm <quaid> I'm not sure if the spam filters drop the message before it gets to the queue <quaid> I'll drop mike an email about the filters <jmbuser> thanks <quaid> ok, that's about what we can do <quaid> jmbuser: are you using the web interface for moderating? or still using the reply-to in the email stuff? <stickster> Hm, I haven't seen any spam on f-docs-l. <jmbuser> quaid: web interface <stickster> Maybe it's my Gmail at work? <quaid> stickster: it doesn't land on list, it hits the moderation queue <stickster> Oh that. * mkranz (n=mkranz h-217 111 50 179 host de colt net) has joined #fedora-meeting <quaid> so it's moderator email that you see <quaid> ok, anything else here? <stickster> *AH*. I've been getting a BOATLOAD of that on f-a-b and f-board-l that I do have to moderate, so fair enough. <quaid> stickster: mike figured out a formula for using RHT set spam assassin headers <stickster> quaid: I've been considering simply rejecting email from non-subscribers, at least on f-board-l. <quaid> I just sent him email, once I get the details, i'll publish and advertise to list admins <quaid> stickster: then you lose the people who we ask to reply to the board <stickster> s/non-subscribers/non-subscribers who aren't preapproved/ <quaid> aiui, the SA headers are present and can be used by Mailman <stickster> Aha <stickster> OK, not to drive this into the ground, sorry all. <quaid> I just want to avoid re-doing Mike's figuring here, so I'll see what he says, then try it on f-docs-l ...etc. <quaid> ok, moving on ... <stickster> If it works, let me know and I'll follow suit * quaid looks back up 9 lines in his buffer <quaid> yep * quaid has changed the topic to: FDSCo mtg -- Access to wiki/Docs content and what content belongs there <quaid> did we talk about this before? <quaid> I thought we agreed that, following the MW move <quaid> , we would deprecate Docs and remove ACLs <quaid> s/Docs/Docs and Docs/Drafts/ <jmbuser> quaid: sorry, can you clarify that a bit? <quaid> ok <quaid> based on the WikiGardening scheme <quaid> we have two major areas: <quaid> project-specific and content-specific <quaid> and within that a set of common trees to layout <quaid> e.g.: <quaid> Virt/QuickStart/9/Draft <quaid> Virt/QuickStart/9/ <== real thing <quaid> etc. * quaid always gets this order in correct <quaid> in other words, we are flattening the structure up a few levels and removing a Docs/ specific area <quaid> because the idea is, wiki = community documentation all by ytself <jmbuser> makes perfect sense <quaid> ok, I thought we discussed this but I don't really see anything updated anywhere on that ... <jmbuser> Are there any more agenda items we should discuss? <stickster> quaid: That's correct, we did agree to remove "Docs/" from the namespace. <quaid> sorry, yes ... * stickster dragged off again, sorry. <quaid> I was trying to figure some stuff out to no avail * quaid has changed the topic to: FDSCo mtg -- content updates <stickster> Disagreement last week came with the question of hierarchies and how useful they are on the wiki. <stickster> I can take them or leave them, no biggie. <quaid> well, that's true <quaid> I guess ... * zydoon (n=fzied 41 225 128 45) has joined #fedora-meeting <quaid> I think we should define a standard that people can choose to follow <stickster> I think search levels the playing field -- when we have a wiki where that's worth something :-) <stickster> Then hierarchies make sense. * quaid has changed the topic to: FDSCo mtg -- wiki structure <stickster> heh <quaid> stickster: sorry, when do hier. make sense? <stickster> Sorry, I skipped Step 2 in my brain. <stickster> 2. As long as there are Docs people to herd the cats (pages). <quaid> a <quaid> h <zydoon> ZiedFakhfakh <quaid> that is sort of a given <quaid> we must have more wiki watchers <stickster> Well, I use "make sense" loosely <stickster> I mean "are no less tolerable than any other method" :-) <stickster> Otherwise we're building process for no purpose. <quaid> and more watchers == more guidelines so we aren't reteaching the same stuff <quaid> well <stickster> *nod <quaid> codification of what is already there v. creating from scratch <quaid> man! <quaid> question: <stickster> heh <quaid> should Docs own this wiki project management function? <quaid> or do we need a Wiki SIG? * jwb sighs * quaid eyes jwb <quaid> speak lad! * JSchmitt (n=s4504kr p54B10E5E dip0 t-ipconnect de) has joined #fedora-meeting <jwb> i don't want to place more burden on Docs, but a Wiki SIG sounds like a failure for using a Wiki at all <jwb> Wiki == anyone and everyone can change stuff <quaid> right <quaid> and as we make it easier to get a wiki account <quaid> that means more of that <quaid> I guess I don't mind it as a Docs function, myself; it seems to make sense, in that a wiki == community documentation so is a Docs function, right? <jwb> that's what i was thinking, but i might be misunderstanding your overall resources and scope <quaid> to answer my own question, i think we need to own it and work it hard and recruit for help whilst enabling the poor buggers <jwb> anyway, don't put too much weight to my comments <quaid> part of that is encouraging active page "ownership" by content/subject matter experts <quaid> and having an army of fixers and watchers who keep things tidy :) <quaid> WikiAntz <jmbuser> I think a wiki can be accessible to all and still have areas that need more structure and control with limited access <jmbuser> as well as WikiAntz * quaid just wants a CMS for the structure and control parts, but ph34rs that horse is a'dyin' <quaid> *sigh* <quaid> this is a list discussion we need to get active on, imo * jwb likes the term WikiAntz <quaid> so I'm going to move it there, maybe after I clean up some unclarities in WikiGardening <quaid> people could watch pages by alphabet <quaid> just set A.* in your watch area to watch all the A-stuff * quaid picks [XxYyZz.*] <quaid> ok, then, if there are no objections to that motion ? * Milanito (n=Matt 86 72 250 50) has joined #fedora-meeting * quaid has changed the topic to: FDSCo mtg -- content updates <quaid> I'll do the ones I know for the record, then EOF <quaid> * relnotes -- working with mdious, stickster and I are imparting knowledge; I did BIG updates to the processes last night, check DocsProject/WorkFlow to get started; DP/Wiki2XML tells all for now; updates are coming in; push more people to provide more updates <quaid> blog, blog, blog <quaid> * DUG -- worked with Marc yesterday to get him started with CVS skel; he has the wiki2xml notes; we're planning next picking a chapter (Introduction.xml) and doing it one step at a time; this lets us check the modern how-it's-done-in-this-Moin-version so we can update e.g. release-notes/devel/xmlbeats <quaid> * SMG -- still need feedback to jsmith on the conversion; with this feedback he may be able to give more help to the wiki2xml notes <quaid> EOF <quaid> if there is no one to speak for the others ... <quaid> I think the AG is in a similar boat as the DUG; we're just trying to get one done and converted <stickster> There are a lot of things hinging on people getting up to speed on XML conversion issues <quaid> DUG addendum -- paul and I have done some edits on there for finalization; wish there were more people who could do that or learn to do that final edit <stickster> I just found out that I may be unavailable for a lot of Sunday, because my realtor wants an open house all day. <stickster> quaid: +1 that, no one else has signed up even for wordsmithing. <stickster> jmbuser: Pls. ensure that ^^ makes it into the minutes. <quaid> stickster: got a moment to drop a beg for wordsmithing to the list? <quaid> I mean, there are competent editors out there <stickster> You got it man <quaid> and the StyleGuide is clear * stickster composes <quaid> in fact, I listed out all the specific areas to check in the fixes I did last night * quaid pulls up a link * fcrippa (n=fcrippa 83 225 5 137) has joined #fedora-meeting <quaid> ok, meanwhile ... * glezos_afk (n=glezos ppp201-131 adsl forthnet gr) has joined #fedora-meeting * quaid has changed the topic to: FDSCo mtg -- Any other bidness? <glezos_afk> LUG meeting took longer than usual :/ <jmbuser> glezos_afk: Greetings <glezos_afk> sorry guys <quaid> np <quaid> stickster: * stickster does a beg <stickster> OK, well I missed that part, but the beg was for low-hanging fruit anyway. * glezos_afk is now known as glezos <quaid> right o <quaid> if there is no more to discuss ... <quaid> ? * quaid closing in 10 seconds <quaid> 5 ... <quaid> </meeting> | http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2008-March/msg00094.html | crawl-002 | refinedweb | 1,742 | 66.61 |
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#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Keyval_free(int *keyval)
INCLUDE ’mpif.h’
MPI_KEYVAL_FREE(KEYVAL, IERROR)
INTEGER KEYVAL, IERROR
This deprecated routine is not available in C++.
Frees an extant attribute
key. This function sets the value of keyval to MPI_KEYVAL_INVALID. Note
that it is not erroneous to free an attribute key that is in use, because
the actual free does not transpire until after all references (in other
communicators on the process) to the key have been freed. These references
need to be explicitly freed by the program, either via calls to MPI_Attr_delete
that free one attribute instance, or by calls to MPI_Comm_free that free
all attribute instances associated with the freed | http://www.open-mpi.org/doc/v1.4/man3/MPI_Keyval_free.3.php | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | refinedweb | 114 | 55.54 |
Once you add redux simple router (or redux router) to your project you have two places in your state that need to be kept in sync.
import { combineReducers } from 'redux' import { routeReducer } from 'redux-simple-router' import tree from './tree' const rootReducer = combineReducers({ tree: tree, routing: routeReducer }) export default rootReducer
Now every time you change tree you need to update the routing part. That’s easy because your action creators may push a new state into the browser history.
The other way around, -changing the URL and reduce correctly- is a bit more complex because the router dispatches only one action (UPDATE_LOCATION if using redux-simple-router) and based on this action you need to reduce your state correctly.
Matching -and sometimes parsing- the url in your reducers is something that feels wrong, it is a logic that doesn’t belong to the reducer.
Redux Sagas
Sagas in redux are a way to listen for redux actions and spawn side effects accordingly and because url changes and async requests can be treated as side effects I created a saga to handle both.
import { routeActions, UPDATE_LOCATION } from 'redux-simple-router' import { take, put, fork, call } from 'redux-saga' import { show, retrieve } from './actionCreators' /* * Small tree structure in a plain hash that works as my backend server. */ const fakeDB = { '/': [ { id: '/1', title: '1' }, { id: '/2', title: '2' } ], '/1': [ { id: '/1/a', title: 'a' }, { id: '/1/b', title: 'b' } ], '/1/a': [ { id: '/1/a/I', title: 'I' } ] } /* * This saga `take`s the RETRIEVE_NODE action, then executes in order: * 1. Changing the URL with the redux simple router `routeActions.push` method * 2. Request a list of nodes from the server * 3. Once the nodes are back call `show` a custom action that will reduce the state with new nodes */ export function* retrieveNode() { let action = null while(action = yield take('RETRIEVE_NODE')) { yield put(routeActions.push(action.payload.nodeId)) let nodes = yield call(fetchNodes, action.payload.nodeId) yield put(show(nodes)) } } /* * This saga `take`s the UPDATE_LOCATION action, then checks if the update is a push or a pop. * A pop means hiting the back/forward button, in this case -and only in this case- I want to * retrieve new nodes, this will put a RETRIEVE_NODE andthat will be handled by the previous saga. */ export function* urlChanged() { let action = null while(action = yield take(UPDATE_LOCATION)) { if(action.location.action === 'POP') { yield put(retrieve(action.location.pathname)) } } } function fetchNodes (nodeId) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout( () => resolve(fakeDB[nodeId]), 1000 ) ) } export default function* root() { yield fork(retrieveNode) yield fork(urlChanged) }
The first saga retriveNode watches for the RETRIEVE_NODE action that I dispatch on the connected components, once the action is fired it executes in order some side effects, one of them being the url change provided by the push function.
Now we need to tackle another problem, what happens when someone changes the url like as a result of clicking the back or forward button on the browser?
In that case, the routing part of our state changes but the tree part remains the same. The solution is in the last saga called urlChanged.
I listen to the UPDATE_LOCATION action and check if this action has been a POP, a POP action is our way to say: Did this action occur has a result of a back / forward navigation? This is because I don't want to react to url pushes made from the previous saga.
Once the url changed as a result of the back / forward button we send the action to retrieve the node, this will wake up the retriveNode saga and rebuild our state correctly. | https://cherta.website/redux-sagas-and-urls/ | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | refinedweb | 600 | 58.32 |
In this recipe, we're going to visualize multiple sets of data on one chart.
As
usual, create a
Recipe7 document class. We'll start with the code from the previous recipe. Only now, we've slightly changed the data set to demonstrate some of the items covered better. There's also an added set of data. We've chosen to store it in the same array for simplicity, but there are other ways of course.
The following is the starting class:
package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class Recipe7 extends Sprite { private var graph:Graph; private var data:Array = [[0, 20, 50], [50, 70, 40], [100, 0, 100], [150, 150, 150], [200, 300, 200], [250, 200, 170], [300, 170, 160], [350, 20, 120], [400, 60, 80], [450, 250, 150], [500, ...
No credit card required | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/actionscript-graphing-cookbook/9781849693202/ch01s08.html | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | refinedweb | 135 | 82.65 |
Ransack
Ransack - a Python based roguelike
Dan Allen
(deadmaker7)
Rans.
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Caleb R. Weir 2012-07-14 23:24:46
>>>
(1, 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Hu-mon\Downloads\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\ransack.py", line 341, in <module>
main()
File "C:\Users\Hu-mon\Downloads\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\ransack.py", line 338, in main
newGame.mainLoop(mapList)
File "C:\Users\Hu-mon\Downloads\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\ransack.py", line 289, in mainLoop
self.event_handler(event)
File "C:\Users\Hu-mon\Downloads\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\ransack.py", line 106, in event_handler
self.move(pygame.key.name(event.key))
File "C:\Users\Hu-mon\Downloads\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\ransack.py", line 245, in move
self.nextLevel()
File "C:\Users\Hu-mon\Downloads\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\deadmaker7-ransack-python-19b3543\ransack.py", line 67, in nextLevel
self.myMap = self.myDungeon[self.levelDepth]
IndexError: list index out of range
I got this message when going from level 2 to 3 I think? Also, if you go to the stairs behind you immediately after starting the game gets stuck there too.
MARACONT 2012-08-15 07:55:20
looks great! As it turns out this is the exact format i was planning for my game! i want static dungeons though. i havent tried it but i really like the artwork. how many lines of code?
Angello Maggio 2012-10-10 21:15:40
Hello! I've tried your game and had no problem running it, however I do have some feedback for you if you are interested in hearing my opinion. So first of all wanna say I like your idea and it seems like a great game, I like the old school pixel art graphics and it's a nice project to do by yourself. I like the camera view point work there too. The movement seems a little bit odd, I think the first step he takes is a little delayed but after he starts walking the speed seems like the perfect walking speed. Also I personally found it a tiny bit annoying to deal with the 'There's nothing here' text every time you press Enter, like after getting off a battle where I had been pressing Enter to attack there were like 5 little windows with this text, and that's also a problem in my opinion, they shouldn't stack. Make it so it only shows the window when you're in front of collision-able objects, so this window isn't able to pop out when you're just walking in a place with no objects. Also I don't know if this is my problem or if you haven't implemented it yet but on the fight scene I could only see the menu, no background image of any sort, and only a little bar that changed colors between green and red and became fully green once I had beaten the enemy. Otherwise if you had images I like the battle system, it's cool. Another thing I noticed is that every time you pick of items from a chest it doesn't say the item name, it says "ghost."
So far I love the game and I'm sure that many of these things I've mentioned already came to your attention, and I'm sure you'll be improving this game and it'll be awesome!
Also it might be because you haven't implemented the level yet, but when I went to dungeon 5 or so I got this error message
File "/home/anxello/dsallen7-ransack-python-01ab3df/MAP/mazegen.py", line 130, in generateMap
self.map.NPCs.append( ( tile, choice(enemyScr.enemiesByLevel[self.map.level] ) ) )
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'enemiesByLevel'
But I'm sure that's because you haven't done level 5 yet, right? I'll be checking into your code once I'm back from class!
Dan Allen 2012-10-13 01:42:56
Oh and more images/artwork are coming soon. Just as soon as my scanner is working again. :)
Dan Allen 2012-10-13 00:29:46
Thanks, Angello. I've made note of these issues and will be addressing them soon. Level 5 is randomly generated, but it looks like I forgot to upload or update a necessary file. I appreciate your feedback.
Moheb Rofail 2012-10-19 22:45:59
This game can't work on my computer, in the shell , written:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Python\Games\dsallen7-ransack-python-01ab3df\game.py", line 11, in <module>
from MAP import map, mapgen, mazegen
File "D:\Python\Games\dsallen7-ransack-python-01ab3df\MAP\mazegen.py", line 1, in <module>
import numpy as np
ImportError: No module named numpy
>>>
Dan Allen 2012-10-20 12:15:16
Thanks for noting this. I actually know exactly why this is happening, I just haven't had any time to work on this project lately. There will definitely be some updates soon.
Moheb Rofail 2012-10-20 17:25:17
I've solved this problem , just by downloading the numpy.exe
but, the problem is the game difficulty. i have to spend more time to understand it, notice: this isn't good for games, you have to show us with little information how we can play it and what is (are) the purpose(s)
I guess it's written above, I'll read it, but notice that: it's really yo much to read hhh
I'm talking about the user point of view :)
thanks a lot
Neccarus 2013-01-01 21:53:41
Got this error when I clicked on my weapon.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Erik\Desktop\Ransack\ransack-python-master\ransack.py", line 159, in <module>
main()
File "C:\Users\Erik\Desktop\Ransack\ransack-python-master\ransack.py", line 128, in main
if newGame.mainLoop():
File "C:\Users\Erik\Desktop\Ransack\ransack-python-master\game.py", line 423, in mainLoop
self.mouseHandler(event)
File "C:\Users\Erik\Desktop\Ransack\ransack-python-master\game.py", line 211, in mouseHandler
self.myHud.mouseHandler(event, mx-(const.gameBoardOffset+self.gameBoard.get_width()), my-const.gameBoardOffset)
File "C:\Users\Erik\Desktop\Ransack\ransack-python-master\DISPLAY\hud.py", line 247, in mouseHandler
self.addPopup(self.game.myHero.getWeaponEquipped().getStats(), (59, 209) )
File "C:\Users\Erik\Desktop\Ransack\ransack-python-master\DISPLAY\hud.py", line 224, in addPopup
msgText = text.Text(text, os.getcwd()+"/FONTS/gothic.ttf", 10, 10)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'Text' | http://www.pygame.org/project-Ransack-2408-.html | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | refinedweb | 1,139 | 58.58 |
I have this object repo that will display the number. So I want to capture the output and compare it. But how to declare it? Already search but nothing I found.
How to declare findtestobject as integer datatypes?
What is that?
Capture what? Compare it with what?
if(findTestObject(‘Object Repository/Page_Tic-Tac-Toe - Play retro Tic-Tac-Toe o_f67da4/span_0’)<0 )
For example like this one. I want to compare it with the value 0. And it will the error
groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Cannot compare com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObject with value ‘TestObject - ‘Object Repository/Page_Tic-Tac-Toe - Play retro Tic-Tac-Toe o_f67da4/span_0’’ and java.lang.Integer with value ‘0’
findTestObject() returns a reference to a Test Object stored in the Katalon Object Repository.
A Test Object stores information about an element on a web page – in your case, that appears to be an HTML
<span> element.
So, based on your code, it appears you want something like…
getText(findTestObject(...))
If you want to do a numeric comparison, you will need to convert the
String returned by
getText() to numeric type like
int.
Thats what I want to do it but I dont know how !! Thanks
How about:
def myVal = Integer.parseInt(WebUI.getText(findTestObject('Page_Tic-Tac-Toe - Play retro Tic-Tac-Toe o_f67da4/span_0')) WebUI.comment("my value is ${myVal}") if (myVal < 0) { ... } | https://forum.katalon.com/t/how-to-declare-findtestobject-as-integer-datatypes/55612 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | refinedweb | 228 | 53.27 |
You are given a set of positive integers. You need to find whether or not, the set can be divided into to partitions of equal sum.
Sample Input: { 7, 3, 1, 5, 4, 8 }.
Expected Output: True.
Explanation: One possible solution is that the set can be divided into two subsets { 7, 3, 4} and { 1, 5, 8 } which has equal sum 14. There might exist other solutions as well.
Algorithm:
This problem is a special case of the subset sum problem which is a special case of 0-1 knapsack problem.
- If the total sum of the array is odd, then the array cannot be divided into two partitions of equal sum.
- If the total sum is even, then we can apply the same technique as used in subset sum problem with given sum = (total_sum) / 2
- Please refer to the subset sum problem for further details.
/* Author => Raunak Jain */ #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int helper(vector<int> nums, int sum){ int n = nums.size(); vector<vector<bool>>dp(n+1, vector<bool>(sum+1, false)); for(int i=0; i<=n; i++){ dp[i][0]=true; } for(int i=1; i<=n; i++){ for(int j=1; j<=sum; j++){ if(j<nums[i-1]){ dp[i][j]=dp[i-1][j]; }else{ dp[i][j]=dp[i-1][j] || dp[i-1][j-nums[i-1]]; } } } return dp[n][sum]; } int main(){ int sum=0; vector<int> nums = { 7, 3, 1, 5, 4, 8 }; for(auto i:nums){ sum+=i; } if(!(sum&1) && helper(nums, sum/2)){ cout<<"True"; }else{ cout<<"False"; } return 0; }
Also, check out another popular interview question Pots of gold. | https://nerdycoder.in/2020/08/07/equal-sum-partition-dp-09/ | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | refinedweb | 279 | 62.88 |
Web Forms :: Populating Treeview Control Dynamically?Oct 21, 2010
I want to populate my treeview with the values from database. How can i do it.View 2 Replies
I want to populate my treeview with the values from database. How can i do it.View 2 Replies
(The following is a complete re-edit of the original post which was rambling, confusing etc...)
I have a form with a dynamically generated checklist:
<asp:CheckBoxList ID="cblGames" runat="server" DataSourceID="sqlGames" DataTextField="Game" DataValueField="Id" </asp:CheckBoxList>
<asp:SqlDataSource
<SelectParameters><asp:Parameter</SelectParameters>
</asp:SqlDataSource>
The following code-behind is supposed to check those boxes that correspond to values stored in a database. It fails and I don't know why.
[Code]....
I have a dropdownlist in EditItemTemplate and InsertItemTemplate which I want it to populate at the runtime while Inserting an item or Editing an item.
I am facing an issue regarding populating a dropdownlist dynamically while in Edit and Insert mode. There are 0 Records in my table and it shows "Empty Data message" in my Listview control. Even the ItemDataBound event does not fire. So I am not able to find the dropdownlist in that listview.
This is my Aspx code which shows only InsertItemTemplate and EditItemTemplate.
[Code]....
am using asp .net 3.5 web forms with VB.I have a masterpage that is populating a treeview from a sql db. When a user clicks on the name in the tree it passes the employee identifier (employee number) to a label on the master page i have hidden. FROM the CONTENT page i am reading the label on the master page and updating the label on the content page to match the label on the master page so i can use the emp number to display info. At least that what i want. However, the content page is not posting back when the label updates of course and its one clikc behind becuase there is no post back. Is there a way to make the page postback when a label changes or a textbox for that matter.Here is how i am updating the label control On the mastepage :
Public Property EmpCode() As [String]
Get
Return Label360.Text
[code]...
I have a class as follows:
public enum
state { FR, STR, SR, IR, PR }
public class
Node {
protected
string NodeName;
protected
string NodeValue;
protected
string NodeTip;
protected
state NodeState;
protected
Node NodeParent;
protected
List<Node> NodeChildren;
public Node(string Name,string
Value,string Tip,state State){
this.NodeName =
"DataSelection:DS1";
this.NodeState =
state.FR;this.NodeParent =
null;
this.NodeChildren=new
List<Node>();}
public
void AddChildren(Node nChildren){
nChildren.NodeParent = this;
this.NodeChildren.Add(nChildren);}
Now i want to display this class objects in a Treeview.
I am using a treeview control and just want to add nodes dynamically. On selecting a node the results based on that node must be shown below.View 1 Replies View Related
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I am able to populate as expected, in testing list is generated - all good in that regard.
However once I set to databind by adding SelectedValue='<%# Bind("ImageFile") %>'the following error occurs
ERROR:Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control.
This is the aspx file .. no codebehind:
#CODE SNIP #
[Code]....
I'm currently building my website and have hit a brick wall. I've not begun coding anything fro this yet as I am unable to get my head around it and not sure where to start.
I've got a database table with a list of town/ county names ( columns are id, town, county).
What I'd like to do is have a template page with set places for town/ county names and then when a particular area is searched for in google/ bing etc my template page with the relevant town/ county name is shown.
I know that's a bit vague so if you have any questions, let me know. One thing I don't want to do is manually create a page for each individual town/ county!
I have a writing a web page that will use several different types of control. The control types will depend on the data being read from a SQL database. The following is my code that decides what control to add to the page:
Select myReader.GetString(1)
Case "DatePicker"
Dim bdpAnswer As BasicFrame.WebControls.BasicDatePicker = New BasicFrame.WebControls.BasicDatePicker()
bdpAnswer.DateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy"
divAnswerContainer.Controls.Add(bdpAnswer)
Answers.Controls.Add(divAnswerContainer)
Case "DropDownList"
Dim ddlAnswer As DropDownList = New DropDownList()
divAnswerContainer.Controls.Add(ddlAnswer)
Answers.Controls.Add(divAnswerContainer)
Case "RadioButton"
Dim rbAnswer As RadioButton = New RadioButton()
divAnswerContainer.Controls.Add(rbAnswer)
Answers.Controls.Add(divAnswerContainer)
Case "TextBox"
Dim tbAnswer As TextBox = New TextBox()
divAnswerContainer.Controls.Add(tbAnswer)
Answers.Controls.Add(divAnswerContainer)
End Select
I have a Grid view which is being populated from a database. Now I want to add a button that has its own html with some Hidden fields. I have introduced an Template Field and put the html in that field which works fine. But now I want to send the values in hidden field dynamically. i.e. the Id and value comming form the database.View 3 Replies View Related
i have 2 tables Desgn & EmpForm
Desgn table is lik this
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Desgn](
[DesignationCode] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[DesignationName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Desgn] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[Code]....
and i have called the Populate1() method in the page load event., but i m not getting the dropDown populated why ?
I need to create a TemplateField column dynamically , which will contain dropdowlist controls. I've been using this
example to create my first dynamic columns and for the last column, the one that contains dropdowlist controls, I've written this class:
[Code]....
But what I don't know is, where should I populate the dropdownlist control?
I would like to place data from a sql query in a table row dynamically. I know how to do it using asp but it is not the same in asp.net. I don't know how much data is being return so i want rows to keep adding or being fill with data until 'nil'. Can anyone advise me where to put the sql query and how to dynamically put data in a table
am trying to populate the PostBackUrl attribute from a LinkButton using a function to return the dynamic url. The function is on the code behind page and called from the design page, however it appears that the function is not being executed.
<tr>
<td><asp:LinkButtonPrevious</asp:LinkButton>
/td>
</tr
[code]...
i have created the dynamic tree view in ASP.NET using C#, but i have to add url's in the dynamically created treeview. can any one give the basic coding for it with example..View 2 Replies View Related
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treeview1 treeview2 treeview3
treeview4 treeview5
is there any way to do it? on page load?
I have a ContentPlaceHolder control that contains a repeater control that contains several databound controls. The repeater control is bound to a DataTable. One of the databound controls on the repeater is a ListBox control. Per the requirements of my customer, the ListBox control will need be populated with numeric values ranging from 0 to 100 in increments of 5. The problem with this ListBox control is that there will be occasions where some data will be non-divisible by 5. On these occasions, the data value is to be inserted into my list of 0 to 100.
For example, most ListBoxes will be populated and bound with a value of 0 to 100 in increments of 5 (0, 5, 10, 15, etc) but SOME will occasionally need to populate and bind with an additional integer of, say, 3. I have tried to populate the ListBox with non-data-bound items and then do the binding later but I am having difficulties with that. To insert the non-divisible by 5 value, I would need to know which repeater item contains the corresponding drop-down list. I can try to query the for for the ContentPlaceHolder AND the Repeater AND the ListBox but they are all dynamically created so locating the control is difficult. This will probably be one of those posts that do not get answered. The .aspx code is:
<asp:ListBox
</asp:ListBox>
Here is some c# code that I have thus far with "appraisal" being the name of the Repeater:
private void PopulateAppraisals()
{
if (Cache["dt1"] != null && dt1 == null)
{
dt1 = (DataTable)Cache["dt1"];
}
appraisal.DataSource = dt1;
appraisal.DataBind();
foreach (RepeaterItem item in Appraisal.Items)
{
ListBox lb = (ListBox)item.FindControl("lbCodeWeight");
if (lb != null)
{
int i = 0;
while (i <= 100)
{
ListItem li = new ListItem();
li.Text = i.ToString();
lb.Items.Add(li);
i = i + 5;
}
}
}
foreach (DataRow row in dt1.Rows)
{
int i = Convert.ToInt32(row["CodeWeight"]);
if (i % 5 != 0)
{
foreach (RepeaterItem item in Appraisal.Items)
{
ListBox lb = (ListBox)item.FindControl("lbCodeWeight");
if (lb != null)
{
//find the listbox control that will need this listitem added
//then bind
//then set as selectedvalue
}
}
}
}
}
I've got a gridview control embedded within a tabpanel and an update panel. I have a few columns from the database showing in the gridview and in order to see all the columns corresponding to that row, I want to open a separate tabpanel upon gridview selected index changed event. At the moment, I'm using the code below to add new tabs:
[Code]....
Problem is that upon clicking on the gridview select button, I manage to add a new tab, but after this, the gridview control gets locked up and stops working (stops from selecting any other rows).
In the code above, I'm rebuilding all the tabs (including the one containing the gridview), after going through forums articles. However, I've also tried doing it the simple way but it didn't work:
[Code]....
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[Code]....
My problem is whenever i debug the code im getting treeview in expanded mode,but i want to achieve like whenever i click on the top node it has to show below nodes
Need to build a treeview dynamically from SQL data. I have 2 tables Project and SubProject.
A project can have many sub projects...
I need a display like this....
Project 1
subproject a
subproject b
Project 2
subproject c
subproject d
I am having trouble understanding the TreeView Control.
What I want to be able to do is creates a TreeView Control that list folders in one frame and the by selecting a folder from the tree, the second frame displays the contents of the files. The files should then be clickable to launch whatever view, excel, pdf, etc.
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I am generating Textboxes dynamically on selection of treeview node.
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.......
[code]...
I have a upload section on a user control
<div class="AttachQuote"><fieldset>
<legend>Quote(s)</legend>
<asp:Button
<ol id="olUploadedFiles" style="list-style-type: decimal; padding-left: 30px;">
</ol></fieldset></div>
the btnAttachQuote is defined as
protected global::System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button btnAttachQuote;
can i do something simular to olUploadedFiles? there are alot of list options in webcontrols and i'm unsure how to use them. I would like to use a for loop to populate olUploadedFiles from a string array in my .cs. something like ...
int i = 0;
while (files[i].Length !=0)
{
olUploadedFiles.add (files[i]);//i'll substring the file names out
i++;
}
I'm using the same control for both the form submit and the status page(label only mode). I can load the rest of the info i just can't populate the dropdown from the codebehind. | http://asp.net.bigresource.com/Web-Forms-Populating-treeview-control-dynamically--I9XoD938e.html | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | refinedweb | 2,426 | 63.9 |
Upgrading from Invenio v3.1 to v3.2¶
If you have your instance of Invenio v3.1 already up and running and you would like to upgrade to version v3.2 you don’t need to set up your project from scratch. The goal of this guide is to show the steps to upgrade your project without losing any of your work.
Pipfile modifications¶
The most important changes that you will have to make are in
Pipfile.
First you need to change the Invenio version:
invenio = { version = "==3.2.0", extras = ["base", "auth", "metadata", "files", "postgresql", "elasticsearch7" ]}
If you want to use the new files bundle make sure you include the
files
bundle. Add any additional Bundles you would like in your project in
extras.
Make sure that your database and Elasticsearch version matches your
installation. In above example the database is
postgresql and the
Elasticsearch version is
elasticsearch7.
To install the new packages in
Pipfile run
Database tables¶
Changes have been made to the database from Invenio 3.1 so you will need to upgrade the database by running the latest Alembic recipes:
invenio alembic upgrade
Your database should now have the latest changes.
Files¶
To integrate the files bundle with your Invenio instance, please see the guide to configure files for Invenio 3.2.
For files to work properly ensure that the config variables
RECORDS_FILES_REST_ENDPOINTS and
FILES_REST_PERMISSION_FACTORY have
been configured properly.
Note
If you are upgrading from a previous cookiecutter instance and you updated
records/config.py, please remember to update the changed config keys in
records/ext.py.
Uploading files¶
Records created after you upgraded to Invenio 3.2 will support files out-of-the-box as long as files are configured properly.
However, if you have records created by previous versions of Invenio they will not work with files because there is no bucket attached to the record. To support uploading files to an old record you first need to create a bucket for each record you want to enable files support for and update the record’s metadata.
Invenio currently doesn’t provide a script for this migration. However, here a snippet that can help with the migration:
from invenio_db import db from invenio_records_files.api import Record from invenio_records_files.models import RecordsBuckets # Get all old records as invenio_records_files.api:Record objects old_records = # ... for record in old_records: # Create a bucket if not record.bucket_id: bucket = Record.create_bucket(record) if bucket: # Attach bucket to the record Record.dump_bucket(record, bucket) RecordsBuckets.create(record=record.model, bucket=bucket) record.commit() db.session.commit
Elasticsearch¶
Invenio 3.2 comes with support for Elasticsearch 6 and 7. Support for Elasticsearch v2 and v5 has been deprecated and will be removed in future releases. It’s recommended to upgrade your Elasticsearch version to stay up-to-date.
Note
If you’re upgrading to Elasticsearch v7, don’t forget to add mappings for v7.
There are currently two paths to upgrade to Elasticsearch v7: upgrade by reindexing all your records or by using Elasticsearch rolling upgrades.
Upgrade to v7 by reindexing¶
The easiest way to upgrade to v7 is to upgrade your Invenio installation, install Elasticsearch v7 and then reindex all your records stored in the database with the following command:
$ invenio index reindex -t <pid_type>
Warning
This command will destroy your indexed records with the provided
pid_type and reindex all records.
However, this means you have to reindex everything and will require some downtime
Upgrade by Elasticsearch rolling upgrades¶
Elasticsearch supports rolling upgrades which can upgrade your Elasticsearch installation between certain versions without any interruption to your service. This will allow you to upgrade from v5 to v6 or v6 to v7, but not from v5 to v7 due to index incompatibilities.
Upgrade by index migration¶
Note
This section describes an unreleased feature.
Invenio v3.3 will add support for online index migration. This will allow you to upgrade between Elasticsearch versions, migrate indexes between clusters as well as upgrade Elasticsearch mappings. You can read more about this upcoming feature on: | https://invenio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrading/upgrade-3_1-3_2.html | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | refinedweb | 670 | 57.37 |
February 8, 2018
Hello AVR enthusiast,
I have never programmed an Atmel chip. But I have programmed other 8, and 16-bit microcontrollers.
I am seeking advice on a hardware programmer to load a hex file onto my ATMega328p 28-pin DIP microcontroller. I bought the chip that had already been programmed with a bootloader, the so-called "Arduino bootloader-programmed chip".
On my 64-bit linux computer I installed the basic AVR tools from my repository's APT deb packages:
avr-libc
binutils-avr
gcc-avr
srecord
I have the AVR Arduino/Genuino debian version 1.0.5 but have never used it. ARDUINO 1.8.4 2017.08.23 It also installed extra packages called arduino-core extra-xdg-menus libjna-java and librtx-java
I already created the .hex file using a make file and the avr-gcc cross-compiler in 64-bitr Debian Linux. Now I am ready to load the executable onto the IC and run it.
Late last fall I decided to buy the "FTDI Serial - 232 USB Cable" to load the .hex file from my linux PC to the microcontroller through a USB 3.0 cable.
However, it failed miserably using avrdude from the command line. I never found a "hardware programmer" option that avrdude recognized that worked. Later, I found an issue with one horizontal rail on the breadboard, so I rewired the chip onto a new breadboard without issues. All my attempts to program the chip (i.e., load the hex file onto it) since with this device have failed all winter long.
My next thought was getting an Arduino UNO w/ a DIP version of the chip and switching the onboard chip with my ATMega328p DIP IC in order to upload the hex file onto it. Then switch the chip out of the Arduino UNO and snap it back into my bread-boarded circuit in order to test the executable (just the basic flashing LED program). $25
However, since ATMEL dropped the price of the Atmel-ICE programmer device in half, I am wondering if that might be a better option for me? $65
Would this device work w/ Debian linux using USB 3.0 ?
I understand using this Atmel-ICE programmer would enable me to pre-load a bootloader onto a "bare" ATmega328p chip -- is this correct?
Would its JTAG programming be helpful when I become an intermediate AVR programmer?
Am guessing this Atmel-ICE programmer device would allow me to "program" -- in the hardware sense -- other Atmel ICs besides the 8-bit ATmega328p ?
Would this Atmel-ICE programmer be harder to use than an Arduino UNO ?
Are there any other reasons the AVR ICE programmer might be worth the extra cost ? . . .
for example,
Would using Atmel-ICE programmer allow me to write a serial stream of data for debugging a running executable on my target chip back to the PC? In other words, does it use the USB channel as a bidirectional data bus for debugging?
Are there any other issues I should be aware of ?
This JTAG stuff is all new to me. I don't understand what it allows.
I looked at the pdf user manual for the ATmel-ICE programmer. But am unfamiliar w/ the alphabet soup -- JTAG, SPI, UPDI, SWD, TPI.
Would somebody familiar with these technologies please point me in the right
direction?
Obviously the blinking LED "Hello World" program is only the first step in a long process of developing and troubleshooting C programs and interrupts.
If I omitted anything important information from this introduction, please tell me.
Jeff
What a hassle, just get an Arduino Nano plug in a usb cable and use the Arduino IDE to get started!
You can add an ISP programmer or use another Nano as a programmer to load directly instead of using the bootloader....
The arduino IDE uses AVRDUDE to load the hex file using either serial bootloader or just about any ISP programmer, i.e. USBASP...
You can use AVRDUDE from the command line too for barebones loading.
Get started the easy way, add to your knowledge while your having fun, instead of all the frustration you have now working with bare chips!
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There are lots of ways to get started with AVR's.
My first AVR programmer was some software I found on the internet that could bitbang an AT902313 over the LPT port.
My second AVR programmer was an AT90S2313 with AN910 burned into it.
Both of the above options are available for avrdude. It supports quite a lot of different programming hardware.
Which makes it more difficult to set up.
I've thought for quite some time that Atmel's ICE was not supported under linux, but apparentlythat is a false assumption:
JTAG (& Debugwire) does not only allow programming, but also debugging. In combination with the right software you cans place breakpoints, step through your code, and examine RAM contents, Registers, I/O, etc.
This will give you a pretty good idea what you can do with debugwire.
Note that this reverse engineered version lacks integration with GUI tools
Yet another popular programmer seems to be USBTinyISP, but I have not used that one.
Even though I quite dislike the "arduino" environment, if you have an "arduino" compatible board it should be a no-brainer to get your first blinking led project going.
"arduino" boards usually also have an ISP connector and are therefore easily reusable for more "bare bones" projects.
There are also "arduino" programs with wich you can turn an "arduino" board into an ISP programmer, which is compatible with avrdude.
You will have to decide in which direction you want to go.
If you've chosen a direction we can probably help with discrete problems.
From your description it is not possible to give more fitting help. There are simply too many things which could have gone wrong for a first program:
- Is your hex file compiled & linked propperly?
- Compiled & programming for the right target processor.
- Why install srecord if you make (intel) hex files?
- Is everything wired properly? Short circuits, etc.
- Does your arduino chip actually have the bootloader programmed into it?
- Does your arduino chip have a crystal? (I think it should be 16MHz).
- Decoupling caps.
- udev troubles.
- Why USB 3? That does not have any advantage for low speed AVR stuff. Last time I tried USB3 was unreliable on my Linux Box.
Starting with a complete development board makes it much easier to get started.
"arduino nano" seems to bee a good choice. It doesn't have that horrible "arduino" pinout connector and is breadboard friendly:...
Maybe Eric Steven Raymond's website on "how to ask questions the smart way" helps in formulating your questions in a way that can be more directly answered:
Paul van der Hoeven.
Bunch of old projects with AVR's:
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Thank you for taking time to"
I don't understand the difference between ISP and JTAG. I will peruse the wayneholder/debugwire URL you posted .
I know US3.0 speed isn't necessary. It was the USB standard when I had my computer built. I understand any USB device (like for example the Atmel ICE programmer) should signal to use its lower USB speed if it can't handle USB3.0 speed.
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$ file blink_1MHz.hex
blink_1MHz.hex: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
jeff@neptune1:~/avr/blink_1MHz$ lsf blink_1MHz.hex
-rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 598 Jan 14 03:27 blink_1MHz.hex
jeff@neptune1:~/avr/blink_1MHz$ cat blink_1MHz.hex
4E050
:10007000DEBFCDBF0E9454000C9466000C940000BB
:100080008FEF84B987B98EEF8AB908950AC02AE53F
:100090000000000000000000000000002150C1F737
:1000A00001970097A1F708950E944000CFEFC8B9CB
:1000B000C5B9CBB984EF91E00E94460018B815B8D5
:1000C0001BB884EF91E00E944600F1CFF894FFCF77
:00000001FF
$ cat blink_1MHz.c
/*
5-10-07
Nathan Seidle
nathan at sparkfun.com
ATmega168
Example Blink
Toggles all IO pins at 1Hz
*/
#include <avr/io.h>
//Define functions
//======================
void ioinit(void); //Initializes IO
void delay_ms(uint16_t x); //General purpose delay
//======================
int main (void)
{
ioinit(); //Setup IO pins and defaults
while(1)
{
PORTC = 0xFF;
PORTB = 0xFF;
PORTD = 0xFF;
delay_ms(500);
PORTC = 0x00;
PORTB = 0x00;
PORTD = 0x00;
delay_ms(500);
}");
}
}
}
}
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A good thing to skim for ISP and JTAG etc is On-chip Debugging chapter in a user guide for a debugger...
:: Morten
(yes, I work for Atmel, yes, I do this in my spare time, now stop sending PMs)
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meolsen: I am afraid I don't yet know where to find the "user guide for a debugger..."
to which you refer.
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Hmmmm..............maybe I should consider using the Pololu USB AVR Programmer v2
detailed at... $15
Would it be more likely to work w/ avrdude in linux than the FTDI Serial - 232 USB Cable I ( it uses the FTDI chip) I had been using ? $18
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Just click the link....
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The nega328 doesn’t have jtag, but it does have isp and debugwire. As explained by others, isp can only program/verify/erase the flash so your cheapy isp dongles will happily load the code onto the chip, you might want to use debugwire to debug your code on chip. For debugwire you need something more expensive like the atmel ice. You can debug using flashing leds and poking messages out the serial port but on chip debug is more powerful.
If you’re wanting to start out with a new chip, then maybe you should look at something a bit more modern. There’s a variety of devices based on the Arm cortex m0/4 that can be got for usd$5 and upwards for a board with a chip and debugger. And free linux tools if you choose carefully.
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Thank you, gchapman, for taking time to explain that. And for the URLs, as all this stuff (like the Power Debugger) is new to me.
I see that the Atmel ICE is a debugger as well as a "hardware programmer". Does this mean I can use it to look at register contents, single-step, show ATMega328p memory locations, and set breakpoints in the hex code from my linux PC using USB 3.0? Or must a WIndows PC be used that has special driver firmware for the Atmel ICE added to it from Atmel's "front-end software packages" ?
I had gathered from the video on Wayne's Tinkering page that the undocumented debugwire could only be used on another MCU to debug the code on the target MCU.
Is it possible to debug using only the target MCU if I use an Atmel ICE ?
Which would be easier for a newbie to learn w/ ATMega328p - Atmel ICE or the Atmel Power Debugger ?
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Atmel-ICE has a micro USB 2 connector so will need an adapter to go from USB 3.
Atmel Studio atbackend.exe communicates with Atmel-ICE firmware, or, AVaRICE communicates with Atmel-ICE firmware. (search for edbg) (Atmel Studio, search for atbackend)
Wayne's announcement thread :
"Dare to be naïve." - Buckminster Fuller
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I know, I have never been really aggressive in any of my posts. The problem is that, even though there are some wise people - I am not wise, I am just reasonable - telling people they are doing bad things, they keep on doing it. I ought to speak out, then. I have no choice. I can't see people doing something so irrational and still remain silently. Sorry folks, if this entry offends you, but this time it is necessary. It is for your own good. It's like taking medicine that tastes horrible; you don't like it, but it is for your own good.
So, what are webservices for? No, I am _not_ talking about technical definitions here. The real question is: what are webservices meant to be used for? That's hard to answer. So, I'll explain to you what most are missing by answering the simpler question, in my opinion: what are webservices not meant for? Let's go for a couple of examples:
In my own experience - and what my friends have been telling me just proves me I am not wrong -, XML processing takes from 25% to 95% of the total processing time for most usages people are making of it. It is perfectly ok to use XML for configuration; it is generally parsed while your application is starting up, so, there is no real overhead to the end user if it's correctly implemented. But people are using XML - not just webservices - for a lot of reasons; they are using it for generating HTML when JSPs, Velocity or whatever would be faster and simpler by far. Then, they say: "it is easier, because designers don't have to deal with Java". Is it really a good reason? Let me see: you have to convert all your objects to XML - a slow marshalling operation, in most cases -, then someone has to write XSL - if it is the designer who writes it, I am sure s/he would get JSP, JSTL and Velocity; if it is the developer, s/he has to constantly rewrite it as page design/flow changes - and a big bloated XSLT processor has to run - don't tell me that just because now you can compile xsl it is better than plain old Java code. Are there any advantages if you are using Java in both ends? Don't tell me about future uses; future uses may require overhead. I am talking about the system you are writing right now.
There are some situations where using webservices might be wise; if you are integrating with .NET, they might be a good choice - note that they might; it does not automatically mean they are the only technology for the job. There are some other uses, which I am not going to talk about here - as I said, this post is about when not to use webservices. There are some binary formats for webservices, but as far as I could use them and heard people talking about them, the only impression I get is they are still slower than RMI. Webservices might be a good choice for situations where you don't know in what language your clients will be written. Even in such cases, it won't hurt if you expose some plain old interfaces and maybe RMI interfaces too. In fact, a lot of systems will perform better. No, there is no maintainance nightmare here because RMI interfaces and WSDL should be automatically generated. Period.
If you are still concerned about loosely coupling, think: What really makes systems loosely coupled? Interfaces. That is it. Integrate your systems using interfaces and provide them for whomever wants to call your code. If you are using EJBs, use local interfaces until something forces you to use remote interfaces. Use business delegates to access them and make each of their methods throw a CommunicationException and have a factory for building their instances. Why? If your backend implementation uses local interfaces, CommunicationExceptions will never be thrown, but your code will have to handle them. When - if necessary - you change to remote calls, your system will keep working, because it was ready for handling those exceptions! Then, if you have to use webservices because someone decided your backend should be written in .NET, you are still safe! Isn't that great? I'll give you one more tip: if you design your systems using naming conventions and standards, you may be able to implement all your factories and business delegates using dynamic proxies! It'll take less than 100 lines of code and your architecture will be prepared for future changes!
To sum up, If you are going to use webservices, think before doing so; it is very likely there are better options.
Web services provide flexibility for businesses
Web services are primarilly for businesses to interact with other businesses.
Your company may be Javaholics, and your current business partners may be Javaholics, but would you really want to build a solution that is tightly coupled to how your current and future partners choose to implement their solutions?
My company exchanges information with hundreds of schools and lenders with remarkably varying levels of IT skills. We have to interact with systems from a variety of vendors and numerous home-grown solutions. It's not a nightmare, but it's not pretty either.
This is the environment where web services belong. Agree on the interface, and we don't care how you implement your back end (Some of ours is really COBOL).
Posted by: johnreynolds on January 09, 2004 at 08:19 AM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
Ok, that is a point. But tell me why CORBA is not an option; or why Java clients must invoke your system using the slowest possible option.
I never said shouldn't use webservices; the point is most people are using it for the wrong reason. Even COBOL has support for CORBA; it is not an excuse!
The wizard that generates a CORBA compliant code is as easy as the one that generates webservices stuff. Why I should I go for the slower option?
Webservices are definitely a choice when you don't know at all what you have at the other side. But they are so easy to generate nowadays you should only develop them when there is evidence they are needed.
Posted by: mister__m on January 09, 2004 at 08:24 AM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
BTW, I've deployed webservices in production a couple of times: in the first one, the webservice consumer was a .NET application (why are Microsoft guys so stubborn they cannot provide decent support for CORBA??). In the other situation, there was already another system that relied heavily on webservices. We needed to call lots of services there and to implement a webservice as a "callback" mechanism (like a listener). I had to "register" myself by calling one of their webservices, giving them, as a parameter, my "listener webservice" URL. I have done tons of things after, but none really required webservices (and most didn't need remote EJBs also).
The point is: stop the hype! Use it when you need it! Don't pretend webservices are "the" way to integrate two systems and that they are going to save the world!
Posted by: mister__m on January 09, 2004 at 08:31 AM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
I don't think ranting and using excession exclamation points is going to achieve much. You have to remember that developers are not the people who create the hype, it is the marketeers, who I doubt are reading your blog.
Posted by: jbjk on January 09, 2004 at 08:43 AM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
I know developers don't create the hype, but most of them follow it. Some marketeers are technical folks who use falacies, incomplete information and other strategies to convince others. I'd say that if I ask developers today what is the best technology for integration they'll say: "It's definetely webservices!" instead of saying: "it depends; there are many options with different applicabilities".
About ranting, I don't think I did it; I recognised there are situations where webservices are the best - or the only - solution for a problem. Others have tried to expose their strong opinions against webservices without success; at least I hope people will read this and think about it.
I am pretty sure that most people wouldn't think of anything else but webservices and sockets when it comes to integrate two systems, one of them not written in Java (and they'd choose webservices, for sure). I'm just trying to open their eyes so they can see that generally, there are other (much better) options out there.
Posted by: mister__m on January 09, 2004 at 08:52 AM
The hype is receding, the information is rising
I totally agree that web services were overhyped. I also agree that the real costs of XML processing need to be weighed against the benefits on an application by application basis. The point about the most efficient communication is in the native language of the parties is well taken. Still, I think you're missing some important points that at least need to be considered and which XML/Webservices can provide useful perspective.
First, do you really want to model your system as distributed *objects*? Maybe that's a "well, duhhh!!!" question for most Java developers, for whom "" when - if necessary - you change to remote calls, your system will keep working" is a compelling story. But keep in mind the situations in which a distributed object architecture is not well suited; see esepcially and
Second, can you really and truly assume that the rest of a distributed system is written in Java or supports CORBA?.
Third, there really is something beyond the hype about "service oriented architectures" "loose coupling", "integration via document exchanges." and so on, and XML and the Web services technologies support these approaches much better than native Java does. You're right in insisting that this not be a blind "the hypemeisters lead, I MUST follow" choice; these architectural decisions should be made on the basis of engineering analysis and not ideology or conformity. But make sure that the engineering criteria you use are the ones that matter: XML processing overhead doesn't matter much in an underutilized server, or in a world where Moore's Law means that it's often cheaper to buy more hardware than more development effort. Likewise, loose coupling doesn't help if the value you add comes from deep integration with a particular platform (e.g., OS X Just Works better for end users because it is more tightly coupled to the hardware than Windows is, I bet). But these have to be concious choices, not default assumptions that the easy path is the best path.
Posted by: mchampion on January 09, 2004 at 10:40 AM
Re: The hype is receding, the information is rising
> Still, I think you're missing some important
> points that at least need to be considered
> and which XML/Webservices can provide
> useful perspective.
Don't think so; I've said webservices have their applicability more than one time. Also, notice I emphasized 2 common cases: java 2 java and java 2 language supporting corba; i never said it was not suited for all the programming languages or environments (especially the ones Microsoft created). I've even stated it is a real option for .NET integration. As I said, this blog entry is about when _not_ to use webservices; I never said I'd enumerate possible good reasons for doing so, although I mentioned a couple of them.
But let's answer questions:
> First, do you really want to model your
> system as distributed *objects*?
That was one of the first questions I asked. Look for it in my blog, when I talk about Java to Java integration.
> But keep in mind the situations in which a
> distributed object architecture is not well
> suited; see esepcially
> and
Of course there are situations when it is not suitable. But there is absolutely _nothing_ that can be done with webservices that cannot be done otherwise. I'm not saying, though, that you should ignore webservices. They have their value. For my technique about switching from a local to a remote mode just by changing interfaces to work, you need to:
- Always programming thinking it _is already_ remote. This means you have to keep in mind there might be latency, that if you call many service methods - yeah, I'm talking about service oriented architectures here but not about webservices; they don't need to be kept together - you make experience performance problems etc. If you model everything in a way that you keep the number of iteractions between your code and the service layer minimum - by implementing your service layer as a facade to what it really does - and if you assume you can't modify input parameters in your service implementation - something that will probably be true when you change to remote mode -, you'll be, in general, safe. I've done it sometimes and it worked beautifully.
Webservices, as they are being used by most developers, can be viewed, in a simplistic way, as glorified stateless session beans. There is no difference between them, except that they are slower by far. However, I know you can use webservices in different ways; most of the other are using them as a glorified message integration scheme. Really, think about it. That's the only real use most people are making of them. I am sorry to admit it. They do have other applicabilities, but most folks are using them when they should be using Stateless Session Beans and/or messaging technologies, such as JMS/MQ. So, if you have a different scenario - .NET, for example - then they may be useful, or if you have a different use case that requires them.
> Second, can you really and truly assume
> that the rest of a distributed system is
> written in Java or supports CORBA?
If those are the requirements, yes. If that's what the costumer needs, or has today, yes. XP folks keep telling you: do the simplest thing that could possibly work. So, if someone says these are the only integration platforms, what is the simplest answer?
>.
If they offer webservices, you can call them. This doesn't mean you should base your entire architecture on webservices because someone might. What if it was the opposite? Would you fire .NET employees if they said:
"Can't do that boss, the company we just acquired/partnered with/sold stuff to has to rewrite their code to support webservices before we can integrate"?
Don't think so. And also, notice: it's sooooo easy to generate webservices from existing Java code that you shouldn't worry about it. If you defined a consistent architecture, a next-next-finish wizard will do the hard "integration" job. It is all about designing interfaces properly, as I said.
> Third, there really is something beyond the
> hype about "service oriented
> architectures" "loose coupling", "integration
> via document exchanges."
Service oriented architectures and loose coupling are good things and are not tied to webservices. You can tightly couple applications and not having real services at all with webservices, as well as you can have both things without them. About document exchanges, assynchronous and synchronous messages have been there for ages.
> XML and the Web services technologies
> support these approaches much better
> than native Java does
Prove it. And tell me why integration via document exchanges is so good. Really. I don't mean to offend you; if I did, that's probably because I'm not a native speaker (that is pretty obvious, I guess).
> XML processing overhead doesn't matter
> much in an underutilized server, or in a
> world where Moore's Law means that it's
> often cheaper to buy more hardware than
> more development effort.
I've recently seen machines reaching 100% of CPU consumption to handle _one_ request. These were good machines. Believe me. Of course, you need to profile your code before saying it's going to be so bad in your case.
To sum up:
- Webservices are useful, but they bring us nothing really new. Really;
- They must be used in some situations, such as when you have to integrate with .NET or a platform that does not support CORBA or other options;
- If all you have to do is Java to Java or Java to CORBA compliant integration, forget about webservices unless your company is rich or you're trying to learn how to use the "new hot technology" :-D
- SOA and loose coupling are great; design with these in mind and remember: they have nothing to do with webservices;
- XML processing still hurts a lot; don't minimize its overhead;
- Webservices interfaces for a whole system can be automatically generated in a couple of hours or days if it was properly designed;
- You must know how webservices work and you must have a deep understanding of both your problem and your current platforms before deciding which tecnology is the best for you.
Again, I didn't mean to offend you, but I don't know if I did not. In case I did, I apologise to you in advance.
Thanks,
Michael
Posted by: mister__m on January 09, 2004 at 11:40 AM
Confusion about services and web services
It seems to me that you're talking about web services being inappropriate as a goal in and of themselves - while not complaining about SOA. That's sort of good, sort of bad. SOA is a great idea. Web Services... well, I'm not a fan of th hype becase people start focusing on the transport layer (i.e., the Web port, SOAP) and ignore the real bite - which is in the services themselves.
For myself, I don't care how a service is invoked. Done right, it doesn't matter. XML-RPC? Fine. SOAP? Dandy. RMI? Done. EJB? No problemo. Focus on those, though, and I start getting the screaming meemies - as you seem to have done.
Posted by: epesh on January 09, 2004 at 03:15 PM
Re: Confusion about services and web services
I don't care while I'm writing code that is calling a remote object, but I do when it is time to define how this remote object will be implemented.
I love SOA; it's just great. If you design your application to expose services, then, it should be ridiculous to implement a webservice if needed. I am glad that you'll able to see the difference between them.
My point is: why my services have to be accessed using the worst existing technology for doing it? For most things people are doing, webservices are the worst technology. They may not always be a bad choice, though, as I already pointed out.
Posted by: mister__m on January 09, 2004 at 03:21 PM
Re: The hype is receding, the information is rising
> Webservices are useful, but they bring us
> nothing really new. Really;
Yes. The only thing new is the support of roughly the same technology by *all* enterprise vendors, but the ideas themselves could have been implemented with CORBA, SGML, etc. 15 years ago.
> They must be used in some situations,
> such as when you have to integrate with .
> NET or a platform that does not support
> CORBA or other options;
We agree.
> If all you have to do is Java to Java or Java
> to CORBA compliant integration, forget
> about webservices unless your company is
> rich or you're trying to learn how to use the
> "new hot technology" :-D
Fair enough, but I guess I'm a bit less certain that you can KNOW in advance that you will ONLY have to deal with Java or CORBA apps on the other side. I guess I'd rather say to the boss "sorry, you need to buy more hardware to get this platform-neutral solution to work well" than "sorry, we're dead beacause we chose a the wrong platform given the business realities."
> SOA and loose coupling are great; design
> with these in mind and remember: they
> have nothing to do with webservices;
Welll, I won't agree to *nothing* to do with webservices, but I acknowledge that "support these approaches much better than native Java does" is an overstatement..
> XML processing still hurts a lot; don't
> minimize its overhead;
Well, I'm undecided on this. I keep meaning to write an article about this, but I can never quite decide what *I* really believe. There was a W3C workshop in September on this subject, and it turned into Sun+a bunch of little companies saying "XML has a LOT of overhead, we need to take this seriously" and MS, IBM, BEA on the other side saying "no problem that a bit of hardware and maybe better parsers can't fix." I'm trying to be openminded, but this is *definitely* something that designers have to consider more carefully than the XML/webservices hype has led us to believe.
> Webservices interfaces for a whole system
> can be automatically generated in a couple
> of hours or days if it was properly designed;
Good point! I hadn't considered that. One positive benefit of the webservices hype is the availability of good tools. A lot of us seem to be saying "design with SOA in mind, implement with whatever transport-level technology works best."
> You must know how webservices work and
> you must have a deep understanding of
> both your problem and your current
> platforms before deciding which tecnology
> is the best for you.
Absolutely. That is the bottom line in all these discussions. Maybe in my typical environment XML is typically the right choice, in yours it may typically be the wrong choice, but it is something to decide, not assume, based on real understanding of the alternatives.
> Again, I didn't mean to offend you
Not at all! Thanks for the informative reply.
Posted by: mchampion on January 09, 2004 at 04:48 PM
Re: The hype is receding, the information is rising
> Yes. The only thing new is the support of
> roughly the same technology by *all*
> enterprise vendors, but the ideas
> themselves could have been implemented
> with CORBA, SGML, etc. 15 years ago.
The problem is Microsoft brought COM to the world and then they scrolled up CORBA. They are only commited to standards if they can take advantage of that - not if users can. So, blame Microsoft for CORBA not being "the integration miracle".
> Fair enough, but I guess I'm a bit less
> certain that you can KNOW in advance that
> you will ONLY have to deal with Java or
> CORBA apps on the other side.
It's simple: always make a generic interface available for everything that should be exposed and only make a remote available if _needed_. It is _very_ simple to make RMI, CORBA or webservices stuff available if you comply with some rules from the start.
> I guess I'd rather say to the boss "sorry, you
> need to buy more hardware to get this
> platform-neutral solution to work well"
> than "sorry, we're dead beacause we chose
> a the wrong platform given the business
> realities."
I'd rather say: "it's working 3 times faster than if we had a machine two times more powerful. And let tell you more: if we ever need to support clients who can only consume webservices, it'll take a couple of days to get this ready!". I think it sounds better :-D
> Welll, I won't agree to *nothing* to do with
> webservices.
I meant it as in: one thing does not implies the other. Bad sentence, though :-D
>.
Sorry, but I can't disagree more. Implementing OOP in C without greating a whole new language or weird and unnatural constructions is very unlikely, not to say impossible (I always expect things are possible :-P); I can implement SOA naturally in pure Java, RMI, EJB, CORBA and others and I honestly can't understand why you say it is not natural. Could you please give an example?
> Sun+a bunch of little companies
> saying "XML has a LOT of overhead, we
> need to take this seriously" and MS, IBM,
> BEA on the other side saying "no problem
> that a bit of hardware and maybe better
> parsers can't fix."
My only comment about that, for commercial reasons: why BEA said such a thing? They are among the most rational people on the market :-D
> One positive benefit of the webservices
> hype is the availability of good tools. A lot of
> us seem to be saying "design with SOA in
> mind, implement with whatever transport-
> level technology works best."
That is the point. And, as webservices hardly ever work best, don't use them until they are needed. :-D
> Absolutely. That is the bottom line in all
> these discussions. Maybe in my typical
> environment XML is typically the right
> choice, in yours it may typically be the wrong
> choice, but it is something to decide, not
> assume, based on real understanding of
> the alternatives.
That is it. But, from your comment, I hope .NET clients are a reality for you or that you have a _very good_ for using XML :-D
> > Again, I didn't mean to offend you
> Not at all! Thanks for the informative reply.
I am always worried about this stuff. I'll be waiting for your comment about SOA not being natural to implement in other distributed technologies.
Cheers,
Michael
Posted by: mister__m on January 09, 2004 at 05:11 PM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
I totally agree with Michael. Not only I think Web Service is too much hyped, but also I think XML itself is somewhat too.
The idea of XML is to create a data format for COMPUTER SYSTEMs to interexchange data. We all know computer handle binaries, so why use a format that is all text? You can argue plain ASCII text can ensure compatibility among different kinds of systems from PC to old mainframes, then why those text Tags? The only explaination is XML must also be readable by HUMAN BEINGS. But do we really need to read any XML data when they are transfering among machines? I only make intermediate data readable to me when I need to debug my program. I surely don't want my production data being transferred in debug mode.
I was working on a messaging middleware. We were using XML-RPC as communication protocol amoing client apps and server. Client could be written by Java, C/C++, VB, Delphi on both Windows or Unix platforms. Seams like XML-RPC( similiar to SOAP as you know) was a good choice for us. But while the project went on, I encountered some critical problems:
First of all, performance problem. Messages must be going accross network in XML format, the encoding/decoding/transmition overhead made the communcation slower than normal JMS/MQ/CORBA based systems.
The second problem was XML-RPC is built upon HTTP which is stateless communication protocol and every time a remote call is invoked, a new socket connection must be established. That slows down the speed a lot too.
The third problem was since need to build a new connection on each call, socket was not released right away( at least on Windows ), so if messages are sent too frequently(more than a few hundreds per second), no more socket connection can be made, and communication just failed.
I never tried it on WebService platform, but as far as I understand, web Service is based-on SOAP for communication and SOAP is similiar to XML-RPC, I guess it will create the same problem as we had. Because of those problems we changed our communication layer to plain socket. With a dedicated socket connection, all the problems above were easily gone.
We all know WebService was build above HTTP. And HTTP was not designed for system integration at all. So why do build a new technology on something we know that is not suitable to resolve our problem?
If you argue about Moors law, I agree CPU are running faster, 1000M network is getting popular, but what about those WIFI connections and devices? Actually, as a matter if a fact, I do like the idea of WBXML than XML. I think WBXML is more compact, take similiar CPU power as XML but canbe transfered much faster than it. And WBXML is extactly the thing I would like to use for communication among any systems, not only for wireless connections.
Finally I have to say, my English is even worse :) So, hopefully, I expressed my points clear here.
Li
Posted by: li_ma on January 09, 2004 at 05:44 PM
They are popular because they are messy
Hi, Michael; interesting article. I think the main reason web services have become so popular--apart from the massive marketing effort on Microsoft's part, primarily--is that they are a great big hack.
Companies have spent a lot of money in the last ten years or so to retool themselves for the so-called internet age. Ten years ago your average large corporation was not set up, from an IT perspective, to interface with the outside world at all. Now pretty much any Fortune 500 company you go to has an IT architecture that includes firewalls, demilitarized zones, web servers, application servers and the like. One of the things to fall out of all this frenetic hard work was today's effective corporate firewall standards: port 80 is the only port open, in or out, in the whole enterprise--and, on the flip side, you can always count on port 80 being open and the IT infrastructure in general set up to do HTTP. Like anything else that has solidified in the corporate muck, that's not going to change anytime soon.
Enter web services. You use the same port that's already open and monitored, you can take advantage of the same HTTP security tools that the company probably already has, the same firewall settings, the same document-centric paradigm that the web already has caused to be solidly entrenched in your average large company. You just kind of put all of these things to slightly hackish uses.
Anytime something smells like a hack, it is going to get popular, because hacks are easy and by definition solve a problem with a minimum of fuss (hmm, smells a bit like XP, which is really a formalized way to hack something out as fast as possible, trading design up front for hardheaded testing). Web services, much as I dislike them from a purist standpoint, let me exchange information with another company regardless of firewall settings, language, little-or-big-endianness, or platform. They are moderately fat, truly ugly, slightly foul-smelling, and get the job done.
Also, notice that apart from the basic implementation of web services, most companies are not availing themselves of anything other than the hackish side of things: UDDI is not the panacea it was promised to be, WSDL is only used insofar as it is absolutely necessary, etc. Companies use web services because they make firewall punching and information delivery possible without forcing either side of the pipe to change.
What I'd like to see is some kind of formalization (or marketing effort) of the other way to punch through firewalls: a combination of SSH and HTTPS proxy servers. Make that as plug-and-play as web services' ability to shove a bunch of extra information down the port 80 pipe, and you've got something more powerful, and just as hackish (in a good way).
Cheers,
Laird
Posted by: ljnelson on January 10, 2004 at 07:43 AM
Just another tool for the toolbox
I think more and more people are starting to realize that web services are over-hyped. However, they are just the newest entry to in the field of over-hyped technology. In the end, web services (minus UDDI and others that aren't really being used widely) is nothing more than a new RPC protocol. As an RPC protocol, I think it has value, especially given the massive standardization and interoperability discussions that are ongoing. Is it the most efficient? No. Is it set to become a "lowest common denominator" communication mechanism? Yes. It is good to have such a lowest common denominator. True, it is going to be abused by people who really don't know what they are doing, but as a communication protocol, I am happy to have it as an option in my toolbox.
Just because we can't protect some people from using the tool for the wrong thing doesn't mean that we shouldn't count it in our inventory of tools to consider when trying to solve a problem.
As an aside, I think it will be funny someday when the original meaning for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is lost and some genius realizes that it can also spell "Service Oriented Architecture Protocol". (I mean, frankly, the acronym doesn't really apply anymore: Its not simple and its really not "object based"... That just leaves "AP"... not a very catchy acronym) For myself, I know that this sort of thing is exactly what the techno-idiot decision makers at my company would latch on to as they try to make sense of the multi-million dollar technology investments employed from the 90s for achieving a "distributed architecture" - ie. hub and spoke, adaptive architecture, etc.
Posted by: tlaurenzo on January 10, 2004 at 09:10 AM
What are web services for?
First, I am not a web services afficianado. I have never built a web service for a production application.
Often when people say that web services are just a copy of CORBA, and that CORBA can do the same job, they do not understand entirely how these technologies are different.
I do not blame anyone for not knowing the difference because most of the vendors do not seem to promote the real benefits of web services. The first thing you are going to see is how to bind an object to be come a web service (in otherwords the RPC stuff).
Justly, the uses of web services are very limited in this space, unless you are going to integrate between Java and .NET. The realization is that while web services can be used to do RPC, the real benefits are elsewhere.
The talk often turns to SOAs at this point, and it is a good example..
Web services are a good solution for such a message based system because you now standardize on message formats and structures instead of objects and object interfaces. XML is good for describing the messages. XML is also good because it allows added level of flexibility for the messages: systems can still talk to each other even if the message format changes (e.g. new message elements are added). This is not true with CORBA: if you change the interface you have to recompile all clients! Now imagine that you have many systems that have to interact. Which solution is superior?
It always comes up that the difference between web services and CORBA (or some other) is the granularity: WS work on the service level, CORBA works with objects..
Just my 2c.
Posted by: tvaananen on January 10, 2004 at 09:57 AM
Re: The hype is receding, the information is rising
> I'll be waiting for your comment about SOA not
> being natural to implement in other distributed
> technologies.
I don't want to try to argue the point since I don't have solid experience with CORBA or RMI. You may be right, and in any event the important point is to stress the service abstraction, not the technology that could be used to implement an SOA.
Here's a link to my attempt to define these things as part of the work of the W3C Web Services Architecture group.
(feel free to join that discussion, it's on a public mailing list, so as to set us straight on CORBA and/or distributed objects).
Here's my reasoning, which may be flawed or based on faulty assumptions: Exposing some code as a "service" implies that the tasks implemented by the service are at a fairly high degree of granularity, for example "customer X wants to buy book Y', and not "construct a customer object, load it with data corresponding to customer id X; constuct a order object; instantiate it with data from the customer object and the SKU Y, invoke the executePurchase() method ...". Likewise, a service is typically decoupled from the implementation (e.g., the service requester doesn't need to share a detailed interface definition or type system with the service provider, just know what information to put in the request). Likewise, a service requester is likely to be asynchronously connected to the service provider; it's going to expect a notification sometime that the order was successfully processed, not block while waiting for confirmation of anything but that the request was received.
I see your point that it is possible, and may even be best practice in the CORBA world to model remote objects at a high granularity, using interfaces that are "typesystem decoupled" between the requester and provider, and can be invoked asynchronously. I know that this is very natural in the XML world, and the webservices people are learning this lesson after flirting with more tightly coupled RPC-style interfaces.
So, I won't argue that this is not natural to implement in other distributed technologies [although I assumed this previously] but I will argue that it works very well using XML and Web technologies, albeit with some performance overhead.
Posted by: mchampion on January 10, 2004 at 10:59 AM
Re: The hype is receding, the information is rising
I'm glad we are know discussing SOA and how webservices, CORBA, RMI and other technologies can be used to implement it. SOA, as I said, is great, but definetely does not imply webservices. As I said before, it's all about design.
About two years ago, I saw a .NET application which would make 10 webservices invocations just to get more details about a product. The sad part: the guys wrote both the client and the server and a simple COM invocation would do it all. Sad, but true.
That's what happens when you use a platform that tell you: we are the only to support webservices! We embrace them and encourage their use; don't use COM anymore; the future is about webservices. I am sure webservices are going to be part of the future, but they'll not be _the_ future. Even COBOL will be around for a God-knows-how-long period. I hope people start to undestand most of them don't need to use webservices in any application they write for their companies. There are some people that may need them to expose services to the external world and very few developers need to use them daily for integration. I am not saying you should never use them in the same company, though; I am just saying most of the time you can safely ignore their existence.
I think we share the same point of view: you should think very carefully about your architecture and your requirements. That is what is going to determine whether you need webservices, CORBA, RMI, JMS, plain old local Java or not. Don't worry about today's hypel tomorrow it'll be different :-D
Posted by: mister__m on January 10, 2004 at 12:45 PM
Re: They are popular because they are messy
Your thoughts are very consistent and meaningful, thanks for joining this discussion. I am just sorry to say small companies, with very simple IT infrastructure, that write all their applications, are using webservices for communicating their own systems who usually reside either on the same machine or in machines very close to each other! The most astonishing thing is that, in most cases, both applications are J2EE based! For God's sake, this insanity must stop! That's why I felt compelled to write this piece.
RMI/HTTP has being around for a very long time and is feasible in a variety of occasions - not all. Webservices are not to be used as an enhanced RPC or messaging technology; they are about exposing services or, maybe more especifically, decoupling the way services are implemented from what they do. They are suitable in a lot of occasions. I'm not against webservices; I'm against the hype. If they are used properly, they can add great value to you.
I am not saying you shouldn't consider using them if you have firewalls and some limitating network factors. If latency is high enough, the time it takes to unmarshall and marshall things again may be insignificant; the only problem, then, is CPU consumption. Depending on your specific needs, they can be the best solution for your problem. But people should not think of them as an easy way to bypass the firewall or, otherwise, they may bring down their entire network.
Posted by: mister__m on January 10, 2004 at 12:54 PM.
> as a communication protocol, I am happy to
> have it as an option in my toolbox.
SOAP and REST can be very useful in certain situations. It's good to understand when to use each of these technologies and how they compare to existing solutions.
> Just because we can't protect some people
> from using the tool for the wrong thing
> doesn't mean that we shouldn't count it in
> our inventory of tools to consider when
> trying to solve a problem.
Totally agree. That's why I am working in a JSR - 207 - that is related to webservices :-D
Webservices are neither bad nor evil. The problem is how they are being used. I doubt most Java programmers would need to use them if Microsoft wasn't over-hyping it. Now, there are some .NET applications implemented by big companies that really entirely on them.
I like your analogy. Tools can be very productive if know how and when to use them. Otherwise, you may hurt yourself and others so badly you'll regret forever...
Posted by: mister__m on January 10, 2004 at 01:05 PM
Re: What are web services for?
> Often when people say that web services
> are just a copy of CORBA, and that CORBA
> can do the same job, they do not
> understand entirely how these technologies
> are different.
> Justly, the uses of web services are very
> limited in this space, unless you are going
> to integrate between Java and .NET. The
> realization is that while web services can be
> used to do RPC, the real benefits are
> elsewhere.
Exactly. I couldn't agree more. CORBA is about distributed objects and RPC; webservices are not about that, although they are a very good choice if you are willing to build the slowest possible RPC implementation :-D Microsoft seems to encourage this :-D
>.
It may be a good solution, but if you have Java in both ends, good interfaces, stateless session beans, JMS and/or MDBs are generally a better way of achieving the same results.
> This is not true with CORBA: if you change
> the interface you have to recompile all
> clients!
Never tried it with CORBA, but with RMI, the result is the same you would get with webservices: if you change your client to require different things, you have to change the server application; if it's the other way, your client will just ignore the changes.
> Now imagine that you have many systems
> that have to interact. Which solution is
> superior?
It depends on what you are changing and how it impacts the current operation you're trying to achieve. In some situations, there is absolutely no difference; in others, XML will, indeed, add more flexibility. We shouldn't take it as a general truth, though.
> It always comes up that the difference
> between web services and CORBA (or
> some other) is the granularity: WS work on
> the service level, CORBA works with
> objects.
I totally agree. The problem is developers are using it as just some glorified RPC.
>.
An interface is a contract about what you expect to get from the caller, what you will do and what you will return. Objects are not services, but services can be implemented as objects. So, if you design interfaces for services and implement them with stateless session beans, MDBs, RMI, CORBA, POJOs or webservices, you are safe if you chose the technology for the right reason.
Webservices are more flexible when XML parsing time and resource consumption is not relevant to your problem and you want to be even more decoupled from the implementation or to exchange _messages_ with a different system. Then, I agree they are more flexible. The problem is this does not describe how it's being used nowadays.
Posted by: mister__m on January 10, 2004 at 01:23 PM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
Well, maybe the marketeers create the hype, but I hope in your company technical people still decide the right technology to adopt.
I feel this discussion is interesting and that we could easily had substituted the words "web services" with the word "EJB". Stop the hype about EJB. Why I feel there are so little situations where we really need EJB (and even less situations where we need to distribute our objects)? Am I biased? I feel sometimes marketeers are leading the Java side, not only Microsoft's. I feel that most times I only need someting like Spring, Picocontainer (and what about the nearly-forgotten JINI?). What's your opinion about the EJB hype?
Personally I agree about XML: there are plenty of I-put-XML-everywhere people around. Most times plain Java Properties are all I need. And, of course, XML was born to be human-readable, not machine-friendly, so I perceive someting wrong in all this XML radicalism.
Posted by: mkj6 on January 10, 2004 at 07:00 PM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
> I hope in your company technical people
> still decide the right technology to adopt.
Most of the times, they do, but lots are influenced by what marketeers say.
> Why I feel there are so little situations
> where we really need EJB (and even less
> situations where we need to distribute our
> objects)?
"Need" is a very hard word to use in this context. I'd say EJBs are suitable in a number of situations, but there are folks out there using them when they shouldn't. I do like EJB, I don't think it should use them all the times and I recognise they have limitations, but they can add great value in lots of occasions.
After some time working with entity beans - especially CMR -, for example, I'd say it was a good choice to use them every time I did it, but they are limited, as when you need to switch vendors. It may be easy to reconfigure 1 entity bean by writing a new vendor-specific file, but it's _not_ that easy when you have more than a hundred of them - oh, yeah, the application performed pretty well, thanks. :-D
Of course you have alternatives - Hibernate is great, for example, and I really like it -, but they have different approaches. At the end of the day, it's all about architecture and design. I am _not_ saying entity beans are better or worse than Hibernate; I'm just saying each technology has its own benefits and shortcomings. Know them, know when to choose the best for your specific project and do it wisely.
Session beans and message driven beans are also useful, but not always needed.
I wouldn't say there a little situation where you need EJB; I would say there are very little situations where you need the _whole_ thing. Stateless session beans seem to be useful many times.
Using plain EJBs - without a framework, helper classes, dynamic proxies for some tasks etc. - is an overkill most times. So, if you won't have time to build the infrastructure or if you won't have enough budget to buy it, alternative solutions seem to be the obvious choice.
About your local vs distributed comment, I am in favour of: design for distributed, implement locally unless there is evidence distributed mode is necessary.
> I feel that most times I only need someting
> like Spring, Picocontainer (and what about
> the nearly-forgotten JINI?).
All the three are very cool, but they can take a lot more work. These days I have been thinking if using PicoContainer instead of EJB in a specific case would be better. Then, I thought about all the stuff I was using from the EJB container that I needed and I realised that, even if I used some open-source projects as implementations of these services, I would have to write tons of extra code to make things work. I would also need to use an AOP framework - such as AspectWerkz - to get it working. Then, I came to the conclusion it wouldn't be that simpler than using EJB for this application. I can't say it wouldn't be simpler, but it wasn't worth the effort.
Someone told me we need an "EnterpriseContainer" implementation of PicoContainer. That implementation should be more flexible and more lightweight than an EJB container and adding and removing things should be easier. It sounds a lot like JBoss to me; that proved me EJB is valuable, indeed.
I am not saying Pico is worthless; it's quite nice, but you need it when you don't need EJB; some projects really do need them, that's the point. I think it all depends on the type of projects you work on. In my case, there are very little situations where Pico would be a simpler alternative when you think about infrastructure. There is no point in saying "you can write whatever and just what you want" if what you want is, in fact, an EJB container.
Jini applies to different things - they are closer to webservices than to EJB - and I agree with you some projects would be far better using them than using EJB.
To sum up, don't use EJB just because everyone is doing it; maybe it's right for you, maybe not. Maybe session beans are generally useful, entity beans are not always a good choice and a couple of message driven beans might be handy, but, please, don't think they'll save the world. You may live better or suffer a lot without them. You'll find out if you don't base your decisions on what's cool for the industry nowadays.
Posted by: mister__m on January 11, 2004 at 09:36 AM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
The worst possible situation is where developers start *believing* the marketing hype! Then the marketeers can sit back and laugh as us developers propogate the madness for them. How many job adds do you see along the lines of: "Must have J2EE/WebSphere/XML" rather than "Must have track problem of solving real world problems.".
God help you if you are hired as for a "J2EE/WebSphere/XML" job and you examine the problem and go "Hey guys, this just requires a simple Java-RMI interface to integrate these systems. I can fix one up this afternoon." That will go down like a lead balloon in the current web-services hype environment.
Well done Michael for having the courage to speak out about this. As a developer community we need to encourage companies to utilise a problem solving approach rather than one based on using the latest tools and paradigms.
Posted by: ashleyherring on January 11, 2004 at 10:00 PM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
> The worst possible situation is where
> developers start *believing* the marketing
> hype!
Unfortunately, I have to call it "reality".
> Well done Michael for having the courage to
> speak out about this.
Thanks. It really takes courage :-D
> As a developer community we need to
> encourage companies to utilise a problem
> solving approach rather than one based on
> using the latest tools and paradigms.
Thanks for your reasonable comments. It's rare to find someone who understands each technology has its own applicability.
Posted by: mister__m on January 12, 2004 at 05:19 AM.
I think I understand that the intent of the web services initiative transcends SOAP and the concept of being "just another RPC protocol" (ie. I have a SOAP book from a couple years before the term "web services" was even coined -- at least before I heard about it). However, I truly am failing to see where the rubber meets the road. I know there is more to it, but try as I might, I cannot work out when the use cases will actually be widely applicable. Granted, I may be suffering from tunnel vision here... but it is my lack of understanding of the vision that is forcing me into a wait-and-see, skeptic mode.
Posted by: tlaurenzo on January 12, 2004 at 08:25 AM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
I agree, that's the point: looks like job offerings are prepared by marketeers. We always read long listing of buzzwords. Have you ever read "we require at least 5 years of X experience" and then you know that X technology was invented only two years ago?. My previous posting about the EJB hype was really about the fact that I have seen too many projects where technologies are used improperly.
Many thanks to Michael for the interesting reply (and sorry for my english...)
Posted by: mkj6 on January 13, 2004 at 06:53 AM
Glad to hear it
Finally, someone who agrees with our company policy for using Web Services!
Posted by: dbuchwal on January 22, 2004 at 07:55 AM
Re: Web services provide flexibility for businesses
Thought-provoking discussion.
Text tags in XML are used to organize semi-structured instance data into a hierarchy of types (e.g., per the W3C XML Schema spec -- elements, attributes, simpleTypes, simpleContent, complexTypes, complexContent, et al.). XML schemas, based on open standards, formalize types in a given problem domain into a 'vocabulary'. XML schemas are also used to validate instance data and to disambiguate types in one namespace from those in another.
Because they have semantic content, XML types can be encapsulated in coherent messages -- that is, messages that carry metadata as well as data. Therefore, XML and XML-based technologies may be better suited (though admittedly less efficient) than RMI/IIOP for exchanging and/or integrating data among loosely coupled systems.
Coders who demand efficiency often overlook the role of human cognition in computer programming ('marketeers' and hypemeister evangelists excepted).
Perhaps binary XML is the best of both worlds, and we can put this argument to REST. (But see)
jim_d
P.S. (Reality Check): "WS-BusinessActivity Specification Completes the Web Services Transaction Framework. BEA, IBM, and Microsoft have released a third WS-* specification in the Web Services Transaction Framework. "Web Services Business Activity Framework (WS-BusinessActivity)" is designed to work in concert with WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction. WS-BusinessActivity defines protocols that enable existing business process and work flow systems to wrap their proprietary mechanisms and interoperate across trust boundaries and different vendor implementations."
Posted by: jedeegan on February 08, 2004 at 12:10 AM
Leitura cansativa
Interessante o artigo...
Eu sugiro que voce nao use paragrafos longos, para evitar que a leitura fique cansativa.
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Posted by: pinei on March 10, 2004 at 12:03 PM
Why web Services? Many ponder and debate. Conceptually it makes sense to have loosely coupled distributed information system for better communication. Surely complex. Service oriented architecture suits when there are disparate information systems and need is to interact and colloborate to facilitate the business processes. Argument that XML is not too convenient and may be slow to efficiently design and transform into an effective communication system is shallow. Surely, the technology is emerging and improving. It would be naive to suggest to dump the technology that is promising and evolving. Why assume that most of the efficient systems are built on Java platform and there are very less of alternatives. Some of the older systems running on the various technology and platform are faily efficient and the need is of colloboration mechanism. Web services and SOA are surely in the right direction and are evolving to enable to have an effective communication and business processing system among the business partners using disparate information system. Complexity of the SOA systems today do not make these useless.
regards,
akshaya bhatia
Posted by: aksbh on May 25, 2006 at 10:53 PM
Michael's post says what I've been trying to say for years. At my company we use web services for java-to-java implementations because "we might want to integrate with .NET later". In the meantime we spend an exorbitant amount of time troubleshooting and updating the web services. People keep talking about web services and SOA without realizing that we already are a long way down that path with simpler and more proven technologies.
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Java Generics are a Set of Features That Allow You to Write Code Independent of the Data Type. This article explains Java Generics in Detail With Examples:
Generics are one of the important features of Java and were introduced from Java 5 onwards.
By definition, Generics are a set of Java language features that allow the programmer to use Generic types and functions and thus ensure type safety.
What You Will Learn:
How Do Generics Work In Java?
If you have worked with C++ before, then Java Generics is the same as templates in C++. Java Generics allow you to include a parameter in your class/method definition which will have the value of a primitive data type.
For Example, you can have a Generic class “Array” as follows:
Class Array<T> {….}
Where <T> is the parameterized type.
Next, you can create objects for this class as follows:
Array int_array<Integer> = new Array<Integer> () Array<Character> char_array = new Array<Character> ();
So given a Generic parameterized class, you can create objects of the same class with different data types as parameters. This is the main essence of using Java Generics.
Similarly, you can write a generic method with a parameterized type for sorting an array and then instantiate this method to any primitive type.
Java Generics are mostly used with the collections framework of Java. The different collections like LinkedList, List, Map, HashMap, etc. use Generics for implementation. Generics provide type-safety as the type checking is done at compile time thus making your code more stable.
Let us now more into the details of Generic classes and methods as well as other related topics.
Generic Classes
A Generic class is the same as a normal class except that the classname is followed by a type in angular brackets.
A general definition of a Generic class is as follows:
class class_name<T>
{
class variables;
…..
class methods;
}
Once the class is defined, you can create objects of any data type that you want as follows:
class_name <T> obj = new class_name <T> ();
For Example, for Integer object the declaration will be:
class_name <Integer> obj = new class_name<Integer>;
Similarly, for the String data type, the object will be:
class_name <String> str_Obj = new class_name<String>;
An example implementation for the Generic class is shown below.
class MyGenericClass<T> { T obj; void add(T obj) { this.obj=obj; } T get() { return obj; } } class Main { public static void main(String args[]) { MyGenericClass<Integer> m_int=new MyGenericClass<Integer>(); m_int.add(2); MyGenericClass<String>mstr=new MyGenericClass<String>(); mstr.add("SoftwaretestingHelp"); System.out.println("Member of MyGenericClass<Integer>:" + m_int.get()); System.out.println("Member of MyGenericClass<String>:" + mstr.get()); } }
Output:
In the above program, a class MyGenericClass is a generic class. It has two methods i.e. add and get. The method add initializes the generic object while the get methods return the object.
In the main function, we declare two objects of Integer and String type each. We initialize both these objects with their respective initial values using the add method and then output the contents of these objects using the get method.
We presented the Generic class example above with one type parameter. But in reality, a class can have more than one type parameter as well. In this case, the type parameters are separated by a comma.
The following example demonstrates this:
classTest_Generics<T1, T2> { T1 obj1; // An object of type T1 T2 obj2; // An object of type T2 // constructor to initialise T1 & T2 objects Test_Generics(T1 obj1, T2 obj2) { this.obj1 = obj1; this.obj2 = obj2; } public void print() { System.out.println("T1 Object:" + obj1); System.out.println("T2 Object:" + obj2); } } class Main { public static void main (String[] args) { Test_Generics<String, Integer>obj = newTest_Generics<String, Integer>("Java Generics", 1); obj.print(); } }
Output:
In this program, we have two type parameters i.e. T1 and T2. We have functions to initialize the member objects and also to print the contents. In the main function, we declare an object with two types i.e. String and Integer. The output of the program shows the contents of the created object.
Just like classes, you can also have Generic interfaces. We will learn all about interfaces in a separate topic.
Java Generic Methods
Just as you can have Generic classes and interfaces, you can also have Generic methods in case you do not need an entire class to be Generic.
The following program shows the implementation of the Generic method “printGenericArray”. Note the method call in the main function. Here we make two calls to the Generic method, first time with <Integer> type and then with <String> type.
public class Main{ public static < T > void printGenericArray(T[] items) { for ( T item : items){ System.out.print(item + " "); } System.out.println(); } public static void main( String args[] ) { Integer[] int_Array = { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 }; Character[] char_Array = { 'J', 'A', 'V', 'A', 'T','U','T','O','R','I','A', 'L','S' }; System.out.println( "Integer Array contents:" ); printGenericArray(int_Array ); System.out.println( "Character Array contents:" ); printGenericArray(char_Array ); } }
Output:
Bounded Type Parameters
Bounded Type Parameters come into picture when you want to limit the data types in Generics. For Example, if you want that a particular generic class or method or any interface that should work only for numeric data types, then you can specify that using the “extends” keyword.
This is shown below:
List<? extends Number> myList = new ArrayList<Long>(); List<? extends Number> list1 = new ArrayList<Integer>();
The above two declarations will be accepted by the compiler as Long and Integer are subclasses of Number.
The next declaration, however, is going to be a problem.
List<? extendsNumber> list = new ArrayList<String>();
This will give a compile-time error because String is not a Number. The symbol ‘?’ in the above example is known as a wildcard and we will discuss it next.
So in general, bounded type parameters are mostly used when you want to restrict the data types to be used in your generics code.
Java Generics Wildcard
In Java, a Wildcard is denoted by a question mark, ‘?’ that is used to refer to an unknown type. Wildcards are mostly used with generics as a parameter type.
When using Generic Wildcards, you must remember one point that although the object is the superclass of all other classes, the collection of objects (For Example, List<objects>) is not a superclass of all other collections.
Apart from being used as a parameter type, you can use a wildcard as a field, a local variable and as such. However, you can never use a wildcard as a supertype, or as a type argument to invoke generic method or in case of creation of an instance of a generic class.
There are many examples of wildcard parameterized types (here at least one type argument is a wildcard) as shown below and the wildcards used at different places will be interpreted differently:
- Collection<? <: Collection denotes all collection interface instantiation irrespective of the type argument used.
- List<? extends Number<: List represents all list types where element type will be a number.
- Comparator<? super String>: All comparator interface instantiations for type arguments that are Stringsupertypes.
Note that a Wildcard Parameterized type is a rule that is imposed to recognize valid types. It is not a concrete data type. Generic Wildcards can be bounded or unbounded.
#1) Unbounded Wildcards
In Unbounded Wildcards, there are no restrictions on type variables and is denoted as follows:
ArrayList<?> mylist = new ArrayList<Integer>(); ArrayList<?> my_strList = new ArrayList<String>();
#2) Bounded Wildcards
We have already discussed bounded types. These put the restrictions on the data type used to instantiate the type parameters using the keywords – extends or super. These wildcards can be further divided into Upper Bounded Wildcards and Lower Bounded Wildcards.
- Upper Bounded Wildcards
If you want that your generic expression to be valid for all the subclasses of a given type then you specify the Upper Bounded Wildcard with the keyword extends.
For Example, suppose you require a generic method that supports List<Integer>, List<Double>, etc. then you can specify an Upper Bounded Wildcard like List<? extends Number>. As Number is a superclass, this generic method will work for all its subclasses.
The following program demonstrates this.
importjava.util.*; public class Main<T> { private static Number summation (List<? extends Number> numbers){ double sum = 0.0; for (Number n : numbers) sum += n.doubleValue(); return sum; } public static void main(String[] args) { //Number subtype : Integer List<Integer>int_list = Arrays.asList(1,3,5,7,9); System.out.println("Sum of the elements in int_list:" + summation(int_list)); //Number subtype : Double List<Double> doubles_list = Arrays.asList(1.0,1.5,2.0,2.5,3.0,3.5); System.out.println("Sum of the elements in doubles_list:" + summation(doubles_list)); } }
Output:
Here we have provided an upper bound wildcard, List<? extends Number> to the type argument of function “summation”. In the main function, we define two lists i.e. int_list of type Integer and doubles_list of type Double. As Integer and Double are the subclasses of Number, the function summation works perfectly on both these lists.
- Lower Bounded Wildcards
If you want the generic expression to accept all the superclasses of a particular type then you can specify a Lower Bounded Wildcard for your type argument.
An example implementation for this is given below:
importjava.util.*; class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { //Integer List List<Integer>Int_list= Arrays.asList(1,3,5,7); System.out.print("Integer List:"); printforLowerBoundedWildcards(Int_list); //Number list List<Number>Number_list= Arrays.asList(2,4,6,8); System.out.print("Number List:"); printforLowerBoundedWildcards(Number_list); } public static void printforLowerBoundedWildcards(List<? super Integer> list) { System.out.println(list); } }
Output:
In this program, the Lower Bounded Wildcard specified is “List<? super Integer>”. Then in the main function, we have a <Integer> type list and the <Number> list. As we have used the Lower Bounded Wildcard, the Number class is a superclass of Integer is a valid type argument.
Advantages Of Java Generics
#1) Type Safety
Generics ensure Type Safety. This means that type checking is done at compile time rather than at the run time. Thus there is no chance of getting “ClassCastException” during runtime as correct types will be used.
importjava.util.*; class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { List mylist = new ArrayList(); mylist.add(10); mylist.add("10"); System.out.println(mylist); List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(); list.add(10); list.add("10");// compile-time error System.out.println(list); } }
In the above program, we have two lists, one without generics and another with generics. In the non-generic list, there is no Type Safety. You can add an integer, string, etc. as an element and it is accepted.
In the generic list, you can add only one type of element that is specified in the generic expression. If you attempt to add an element of another type, then it results in a compile-time error.
In the above program the compile-time error is flashed at the line:
list.add("10");
#2) Code Reusability
Using Generics, you need not write separate code for each data type. You can write a single class or method etc. and use it for all data types.
#3) No Need For Typecasting
As you are using Generics, the compiler knows about the types used, then there is no need for typecasting.
Consider the below code:
List mylist = new ArrayList(); mylist.add("Java"); String mystr = (String) list.get(0); //typecasting required
As you can see when a normal list is used you need to typecast the list element to its appropriate type the way it is done for the mystr above.
Now let us write the same code again with a generic list.
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); list.add("Java"); String mystr = list.get(0);
Here, we have specified the string type as a generic expression for the list declaration. Thus, to retrieve individual elements of this list, we need not typecast.
#4) Implement Generic Algorithms
You can implement a lot more Generic algorithms when you use Generics to code.
#5) Compile-Time Checking
As already mentioned, when you use Generics in your Java program, the compiler checks the types at the compile time thus preventing abnormal termination of the program at runtime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q #1) Why do we use Generics in Java?
Answer: Generics ensure type independence i.e. we can provide a type parameter while defining a class/interface/method etc. so that during the actual instantiation we can specify the actual type. This way we also provide code reusability.
Q #2) Are Generics important in Java?
Answer: Yes. In fact, Generics are the most important features of Java to ensure type safety i.e. compile-time type checking.
Q #3) When did Java add Generics?
Answer: Generics were added to Java in 2004 with J2SE 5.0 with an intention to ensure compile-time type safety in Java.
Q #4) What is a Generic type?
Answer: A Generic type is a Generic Class, Interface or Method that is provided with a type parameter. This allows for type safety and code reuse.
Q #5) Can we use Generics with Array in Java?
Answer: No. Java does not allow generic arrays.
Conclusion
This concludes the tutorial on Java generics which is considered as one of the most important features in recent Java versions. Using Generics in Java programs ensures type safety as well as code reuse. It also ensures compile-time checking so that the program does not break at runtime.
Java generics come in handy mostly with Java collections interface which we will discuss in detail in another tutorial in this series.
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in my C++ class we were given an assignment (as follows) and i only have one last objective with it. the user is given an option to be able to see the entire queue list and i don't know how to get the program to show that. does anyone know how this can be done? my problem starts at about line 42 with if(iChoice == 3). here's what i have so far:
#include <iostream> #include <list> #include <queue> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { queue<string> myqueue; string strName; char cContinue; char cAccess; int iChoice; while(1) { cout << "Hello! Welcome to Dr.Smith's office! \n" << endl; cout << "To continue, press any key" << endl; cin >> cContinue; cout << "If you would like to put your name on the waiting list, please enter '1'" << endl; cout << "If you would like to see who is next in line, please enter '2'" << endl; cout << "If you would like to access the entire queue, please enter '3'" << endl; cin >> iChoice; if(iChoice == 1) { cout << "Please enter your name" << endl; cin >> strName; cout << "Thank you " << strName << "! Please be seated and the doctor will see you momentarily." << endl; myqueue.push(strName); } if(iChoice == 2) { cout << "The Next person in line is "; cout << "" << myqueue.front() << endl; myqueue.pop(); if(myqueue.empty()) { cout << "There is no one in the queue." << endl; } } if(iChoice == 3) { for(int x=0; x < myqueue.size();x--) { cout << "These are the people currently waiting: \n" << endl; cout << "" << << endl; } if(myqueue.empty()) { cout << "There is no one in the queue." << endl; } } } return 0; } | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/343806/queue-problems | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | refinedweb | 262 | 80.62 |
A while back Peter Norvig posted a wonderful pair of articles about regex golf. The idea behind regex golf is to come up with the shortest possible regular expression that matches one given list of strings, but not the other.
“Regex Golf,” by Randall Munroe.
In the first article, Norvig runs a basic algorithm to recreate and improve the results from the comic, and in the second he beefs it up with some improved search heuristics. My favorite part about this topic is that regex golf can be phrased in terms of a problem called set cover. I noticed this when reading the comic, and was delighted to see Norvig use that as the basis of his algorithm.
The set cover problem shows up in other places, too. If you have a database of items labeled by users, and you want to find the smallest set of labels to display that covers every item in the database, you’re doing set cover. I hear there are applications in biochemistry and biology but haven’t seen them myself.
If you know what a set is (just think of the “set” or “hash set” type from your favorite programming language), then set cover has a simple definition.
Definition (The Set Cover Problem): You are given a finite set
called a “universe” and sets
each of which is a subset of
. You choose some of the
to ensure that every
is in one of your chosen sets, and you want to minimize the number of
you picked.
It’s called a “cover” because the sets you pick “cover” every element of
. Let’s do a simple. Let
and
Then the smallest possible number of sets you can pick is 2, and you can achieve this by picking both
or both
. The connection to regex golf is that you pick
to be the set of strings you want to match, and you pick a set of regexes that match some of the strings in
but none of the strings you want to avoid matching (I’ll call them
). If
is such a regex, then you can form the set
of strings that
matches. Then if you find a small set cover with the strings
, then you can “or” them together to get a single regex
that matches all of
but none of
.
Set cover is what’s called NP-hard, and one implication is that we shouldn’t hope to find an efficient algorithm that will always give you the shortest regex for every regex golf problem. But despite this, there are approximation algorithms for set cover. What I mean by this is that there is a regex-golf algorithm
that outputs a subset of the regexes matching all of
, and the number of regexes it outputs is such-and-such close to the minimum possible number. We’ll make “such-and-such” more formal later in the post.
What made me sad was that Norvig didn’t go any deeper than saying, “We can try to approximate set cover, and the greedy algorithm is pretty good.” It’s true, but the ideas are richer than that! Set cover is a simple example to showcase interesting techniques from theoretical computer science. And perhaps ironically, in Norvig’s second post a header promised the article would discuss the theory of set cover, but I didn’t see any of what I think of as theory. Instead he partially analyzes the structure of the regex golf instances he cares about. This is useful, but not really theoretical in any way unless he can say something universal about those instances.
I don’t mean to bash Norvig. His articles were great! And in-depth theory was way beyond scope. So this post is just my opportunity to fill in some theory gaps. We’ll do three things:
- Show formally that set cover is NP-hard.
- Prove the approximation guarantee of the greedy algorithm.
- Show another (very different) approximation algorithm based on linear programming.
Along the way I’ll argue that by knowing (or at least seeing) the details of these proofs, one can get a better sense of what features to look for in the set cover instance you’re trying to solve. We’ll also see how set cover depicts the broader themes of theoretical computer science.
NP-hardness
The first thing we should do is show that set cover is NP-hard. Intuitively what this means is that we can take some hard problem
and encode instances of
inside set cover problems. This idea is called a reduction, because solving problem
will “reduce” to solving set cover, and the method we use to encode instance of
as set cover problems will have a small amount of overhead. This is one way to say that set cover is “at least as hard as”
.
The hard problem we’ll reduce to set cover is called 3-satisfiability (3-SAT). In 3-SAT, the input is a formula whose variables are either true or false, and the formula is expressed as an OR of a bunch of clauses, each of which is an AND of three variables (or their negations). This is called 3-CNF form. A simple example:
The goal of the algorithm is to decide whether there is an assignment to the variables which makes the formula true. 3-SAT is one of the most fundamental problems we believe to be hard and, roughly speaking, by reducing it to set cover we include set cover in a class called NP-complete, and if any one of these problems can be solved efficiently, then they all can (this is the famous P versus NP problem, and an efficient algorithm would imply P equals NP).
So a reduction would consist of the following: you give me a formula
in 3-CNF form, and I have to produce (in a way that depends on
!) a universe
and a choice of subsets
in such a way that
has a true assignment of variables if and only if the corresponding set cover problem has a cover using
sets.
In other words, I’m going to design a function
from 3-SAT instances to set cover instances, such that
is satisfiable if and only if
has a set cover with
sets.
Why do I say it only for
sets? Well, if you can always answer this question then I claim you can find the minimum size of a set cover needed by doing a binary search for the smallest value of
. So finding the minimum size of a set cover reduces to the problem of telling if theres a set cover of size
.
Now let’s do the reduction from 3-SAT to set cover.
If you give me
where each
is a clause and the variables are denoted
, then I will choose as my universe
to be the set of all the clauses and indices of the variables (these are all just formal symbols). i.e.
The first part of
will ensure I make all the clauses true, and the last part will ensure I don’t pick a variable to be both true and false at the same time.
To show how this works I have to pick my subsets. For each variable
, I’ll make two sets, one called
and one called
. They will both contain
in addition to the clauses which they make true when the corresponding literal is true (by literal I just mean the variable or its negation). For example, if
uses the literal
, then
will contain
but
will not. Finally, I’ll set
, the number of variables.
Now to prove this reduction works I have to prove two things: if my starting formula has a satisfying assignment I have to show the set cover problem has a cover of size
. Indeed, take the sets
for all literals
that are set to true in a satisfying assignment. There can be at most
true literals since half are true and half are false, so there will be at most
sets, and these sets clearly cover all of
because every literal has to be satisfied by some literal or else the formula isn’t true.
The reverse direction is similar: if I have a set cover of size
, I need to use it to come up with a satisfying truth assignment for the original formula. But indeed, the sets that get chosen can’t include both a
and its negation set
, because there are
of the elements
, and each
is only in the two
. Just by counting if I cover all the indices
, I already account for
sets! And finally, since I have covered all the clauses, the literals corresponding to the sets I chose give exactly a satisfying assignment.
Whew! So set cover is NP-hard because I encoded this logic problem 3-SAT within its rules. If we think 3-SAT is hard (and we do) then set cover must also be hard. So if we can’t hope to solve it exactly we should try to approximate the best solution.
The greedy approach
The method that Norvig uses in attacking the meta-regex golf problem is the greedy algorithm. The greedy algorithm is exactly what you’d expect: you maintain a list
of the subsets you’ve picked so far, and at each step you pick the set
that maximizes the number of new elements of
that aren’t already covered by the sets in
. In python pseudocode:
def greedySetCover(universe, sets): chosenSets = set() leftToCover = universe.copy() unchosenSets = sets covered = lambda s: leftToCover & s while universe != 0: if len(chosenSets) == len(sets): raise Exception("No set cover possible") nextSet = max(unchosenSets, key=lambda s: len(covered(s))) unchosenSets.remove(nextSet) chosenSets.add(nextSet) leftToCover -= nextSet return chosenSets
This is what theory has to say about the greedy algorithm:
Theorem: If it is possible to cover
by the sets in
, then the greedy algorithm always produces a cover that at worst has size
, where
is the size of the smallest cover. Moreover, this is asymptotically the best any algorithm can do.
One simple fact we need from calculus is that the following sum is asymptotically the same as
:
Proof. [adapted from Wan] Let’s say the greedy algorithm picks sets
in that order. We’ll set up a little value system for the elements of
. Specifically, the value of each
is 1, and in step
we evenly distribute this unit value across all newly covered elements of
. So for
each covered element gets value
, and if
covers four new elements, each gets a value of 1/4. One can think of this “value” as a price, or energy, or unit mass, or whatever. It’s just an accounting system (albeit a clever one) we use to make some inequalities clear later.
In general call the value
of element
the value assigned to
at the step where it’s first covered. In particular, the number of sets chosen by the greedy algorithm
is just
. We’re just bunching back together the unit value we distributed for each step of the algorithm.
Now we want to compare the sets chosen by greedy to the optimal choice. Call a smallest set cover
. Let’s stare at the following inequality.
It’s true because each
counts for a
at most once in the left hand side, and in the right hand side the sets in
must hit each
at least once but may hit some
more than once. Also remember the left hand side is equal to
.
Now we want to show that the inner sum on the right hand side,
, is at most
. This will in fact prove the entire theorem: because each set
has size at most
, the inequality above will turn into
And so
, which is the statement of the theorem.
So we want to show that
. For each
define
to be the number of elements in
not covered in
. Notice that
is the number of elements of
that are covered for the first time in step
. If we call
the smallest integer
for which
, we can count up the differences up to step
, we get
The rightmost term is just the cost assigned to the relevant elements at step
. Moreover, because
covers more new elements than
(by definition of the greedy algorithm), the fraction above is at most
. The end is near. For brevity I’ll drop the
from
.
And that proves the claim.
I have three postscripts to this proof:
- This is basically the exact worst-case approximation that the greedy algorithm achieves. In fact, Petr Slavik proved in 1996 that the greedy gives you a set of size exactly
in the worst case.
- This is also the best approximation that any set cover algorithm can achieve, provided that P is not NP. This result was basically known in 1994, but it wasn’t until 2013 and the use of some very sophisticated tools that the best possible bound was found with the smallest assumptions.
- In the proof we used that
to bound things, but if we knew that our sets
(i.e. subsets matched by a regex) had sizes bounded by, say,
, the same proof would show that the approximation factor is
instead of
. However, in order for that to be useful you need
to be a constant, or at least to grow more slowly than any polynomial in
, since e.g.
. In fact, taking a second look at Norvig’s meta regex golf problem, some of his instances had this property! Which means the greedy algorithm gives a much better approximation ratio for certain meta regex golf problems than it does for the worst case general problem. This is one instance where knowing the proof of a theorem helps us understand how to specialize it to our interests.
Norvig’s frequency table for president meta-regex golf. The left side counts the size of each set (defined by a regex)
The linear programming approach
So we just said that you can’t possibly do better than the greedy algorithm for approximating set cover. There must be nothing left to say, job well done, right? Wrong! Our second analysis, based on linear programming, shows that instances with special features can have better approximation results.
In particular, if we’re guaranteed that each element
occurs in at most
of the sets
, then the linear programming approach will give a
-approximation, i.e. a cover whose size is at worst larger than OPT by a multiplicative factor of
. In the case that
is constant, we can beat our earlier greedy algorithm.
The technique is now a classic one in optimization, called LP-relaxation (LP stands for linear programming). The idea is simple. Most optimization problems can be written as integer linear programs, that is there you have
variables
and you want to maximize (or minimize) a linear function of the
subject to some linear constraints. The thing you’re trying to optimize is called the objective. While in general solving integer linear programs is NP-hard, we can relax the “integer” requirement to
, or something similar. The resulting linear program, called the relaxed program, can be solved efficiently using the simplex algorithm or another more complicated method.
The output of solving the relaxed program is an assignment of real numbers for the
that optimizes the objective function. A key fact is that the solution to the relaxed linear program will be at least as good as the solution to the original integer program, because the optimal solution to the integer program is a valid candidate for the optimal solution to the linear program. Then the idea is that if we use some clever scheme to round the
to integers, we can measure how much this degrades the objective and prove that it doesn’t degrade too much when compared to the optimum of the relaxed program, which means it doesn’t degrade too much when compared to the optimum of the integer program as well.
If this sounds wishy washy and vague don’t worry, we’re about to make it super concrete for set cover.
We’ll make a binary variable
for each set
in the input, and
if and only if we include it in our proposed cover. Then the objective function we want to minimize is
. If we call our elements
, then we need to write down a linear constraint that says each element
is hit by at least one set in the proposed cover. These constraints have to depend on the sets
, but that’s not a problem. One good constraint for element
is
In words, the only way that an
will not be covered is if all the sets containing it have their
. And we need one of these constraints for each
. Putting it together, the integer linear program is
Once we understand this formulation of set cover, the relaxation is trivial. We just replace the last constraint with inequalities.
For a given candidate assignment
to the
, call
the objective value (in this case
). Now we can be more concrete about the guarantees of this relaxation method. Let
be the optimal value of the integer program and
a corresponding assignment to
achieving the optimum. Likewise let
be the optimal things for the linear relaxation. We will prove:
Theorem: There is a deterministic algorithm that rounds
to integer values
so that the objective value
, where
is the maximum number of sets that any element
occurs in. So this gives a
-approximation of set cover.
Proof. Let
be as described in the theorem, and call
to make the indexing notation easier. The rounding algorithm is to set
if
and zero otherwise.
To prove the theorem we need to show two things hold about this new candidate solution
:
- The choice of all
for which
covers every element.
- The number of sets chosen (i.e.
) is at most
times more than
.
Since
, so if we can prove number 2 we get
, which is the theorem.
So let’s prove 1. Fix any
and we’ll show that element
is covered by some set in the rounded solution. Call
the number of times element
occurs in the input sets. By definition
, so
. Recall
was the optimal solution to the relaxed linear program, and so it must be the case that the linear constraint for each
is satisfied:
. We know that there are
terms and they sums to at least 1, so not all terms can be smaller than
(otherwise they’d sum to something less than 1). In other words, some variable
in the sum is at least
, and so
is set to 1 in the rounded solution, corresponding to a set
that contains
. This finishes the proof of 1.
Now let’s prove 2. For each
, we know that for each
, the corresponding variable
. In particular
. Now we can simply bound the sum.
The second inequality is true because some of the
are zero, but we can ignore them when we upper bound and just include all the
. This proves part 2 and the theorem.
I’ve got some more postscripts to this proof:
- The proof works equally well when the sets are weighted, i.e. your cost for picking a set is not 1 for every set but depends on some arbitrarily given constants
.
- We gave a deterministic algorithm rounding
to
, but one can get the same result (with high probability) using a randomized algorithm. The idea is to flip a coin with bias
roughly
times and set
if and only if the coin lands heads at least once. The guarantee is no better than what we proved, but for some other problems randomness can help you get approximations where we don’t know of any deterministic algorithms to get the same guarantees. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure they’re out there.
- For step 1 we showed that at least one term in the inequality for
would be rounded up to 1, and this guaranteed we covered all the elements. A natural question is: why not also round up at most one term of each of these inequalities? It might be that in the worst case you don’t get a better guarantee, but it would be a quick extra heuristic you could use to post-process a rounded solution.
- Solving linear programs is slow. There are faster methods based on so-called “primal-dual” methods that use information about the dual of the linear program to construct a solution to the problem. Goemans and Williamson have a nice self-contained chapter on their website about this with a ton of applications.
Additional Reading
Williamson and Shmoys have a large textbook called The Design of Approximation Algorithms. One problem is that this field is like a big heap of unrelated techniques, so it’s not like the book will build up some neat theoretical foundation that works for every problem. Rather, it’s messy and there are lots of details, but there are definitely diamonds in the rough, such as the problem of (and algorithms for) coloring 3-colorable graphs with “approximately 3″ colors, and the infamous unique games conjecture.
I wrote a post a while back giving conditions which, if a problem satisfies those conditions, the greedy algorithm will give a constant-factor approximation. This is much better than the worst case
-approximation we saw in this post. Moreover, I also wrote a post about matroids, which is a characterization of problems where the greedy algorithm is actually optimal.
Set cover is one of the main tools that IBM’s AntiVirus software uses to detect viruses. Similarly to the regex golf problem, they find a set of strings that occurs source code in some viruses but not (usually) in good programs. Then they look for a small set of strings that covers all the viruses, and their virus scan just has to search binaries for those strings. Hopefully the size of your set cover is really small compared to the number of viruses you want to protect against. I can’t find a reference that details this, but that is understandable because it is proprietary software.
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Spring Framework provides a
ResourceLoader abstraction to easily read and write files from various sources, such as the file system, classpath, or web. You simply need to specify the URI to the resource using the well-known protocol prefix. For example, to access a file on the local file system, you would specify a URI like
file:/data/config.yaml.
You'll write a Spring Boot app that will access files stored in Cloud Storage by using the Spring Resource abstraction and the
gs: protocol prefix.
You'll do that by using Cloud Shell and the Cloud SDK gcloud command-line tool.
What you'll learn
- How to use the Cloud Storage Spring Boot starter
- How to access files in Cloud Storage with Spring
- How to use Spring's
Resourceand
WritableResourceabstractions
What you'll need
- A Google Cloud project
- A browser, such Google Chrome
- Familiarity with standard Linux text editors, such as Vim, Emacs, and GNU Nano
How will you use the codelab?
How would you rate your experience with building HTML and CSS web apps? (the name above has already been taken and will not work for you, sorry!). It will be referred to later in this codelab as
PROJECT_ID.
- Next, you'll need to enable billing in Cloud Console in order to use Google Cloud resources.
Running through this codelab shouldn't cost much, if anything at all. Be sure to to follow any instructions in the "Cleaning up" section which advises you how to shut down resources so you don't incur billing beyond this tutorial. New users of Google Cloud are eligible for the $300USD Free Trial program.
Cloud Shell
You'll use Cloud Shell, a command-line environment running in Google Cloud.
Activate Cloud Shell
- From the Cloud Console, click Activate Cloud Shell
.
If you've never started Cloud Shell before, you'll'll need. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory and runs in Google Cloud, greatly enhancing network performance and authentication. Much, if not all, of your work in this codelab can be done with simply a browser or your Chromebook.
Once connected to Cloud Shell, you should see that you are already authenticated and that the project is already set to your project ID.
- Run the following command in Cloud Shell to confirm that you are authenticated:
gcloud auth list
Command output
Credentialed Accounts ACTIVE ACCOUNT * <my_account>@<my_domain.com> To set the active account, run: $ gcloud config set account `ACCOUNT`
gcloud config list project
Command output
[core] project = <PROJECT_ID>
If it is not, you can set it with this command:
gcloud config set project <PROJECT_ID>
Command output
Updated property [core/project].
After Cloud Shell launches, you can start creating files and transferring them to Cloud Storage.
Create a file named
my-file.txt:
$ echo "Hello World from GCS" > my-file.txt
Then create a new unique bucket in Cloud Storage and transfer the file there using
gsutil.
$ BUCKET=spring-bucket-$USER $ gsutil makebucket gs://$BUCKET $ gsutil copy my-file.txt gs://$BUCKET
Navigate to the storage browser in Cloud Storage, and verify that the bucket and the file are there.
Start writing the app by using the command line to generate a new Spring Boot app with Spring Initializr:
$ curl \ -d dependencies=web,cloud-gcp-storage -d baseDir=spring-gcs | tar -xzvf -
Note that the Initializr will automatically add the
spring-boot-starter-web and
spring-cloud-gcp-starter-storage to your dependencies in the
pom.xml of the template app.
Change to the directory of the template app:
$ cd spring-gcs
Build and run the app using Maven.
$ ./mvnw spring-boot:run
The app will start listening on port 8080. Open a new Cloud Shell tab and run
curl to access the app.
$ curl localhost:8080
You should get a 404 response because the app doesn't do anything useful yet. Return to the previous Cloud Shell tab where the app is running and kill it with
Control+C (
Command+C on Macintosh).
Modify your Spring Boot app to access
my-file.txt, the file that you previously stored in Cloud Storage. Your goal is to simply return the contents of the file via HTTP.
In the following instructions, you'll use Vim to edit the files, but you can also use Emacs, GNU Nano, or the built-in code editor in Cloud Shell:
$ with Maven:
$ ./mvnw spring-boot:run
The app starts listening on port 8080. Open a new Cloud Shell tab and run
curl to access the app.
$ curl localhost:8080
You should now see that the contents of the file returned from the app. Go to the previous Cloud Shell tab where the app is running and kill it with
Control+C (
Command+C on Macintosh).
You read the contents of the file in Cloud Storage and exposed it through a Spring REST controller. Now, change the contents of the file by posting the new file content to the same HTTP endpoint.
You need to add another method to
GcsController that will respond to HTTP POST and write the data to your file in Cloud Storage. This time, cast the Spring
Resource to
WritableResource.
Update the
GcsController with additional imports that you need.
src/main/java/com/example/demo/GcsController.java
import java.io.OutputStream; import org.springframework.core.io.WritableResource; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
Add with Maven:
$ ./mvnw spring-boot:run
The app starts listening on port 8080. Open up a new Cloud Shell tab and run
curl to post a message to the app.
$ curl -d 'new message' -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' localhost:8080
You should see a confirmation that the contents of the file were updated. However, verify that by doing a
GET.
$ curl localhost:8080
You should see the updated contents of the file returned from the app. Return to the previous Cloud Shell tab where the app is running and kill it with
Control+C (
Command+C on Macintosh).
You learned to use the Spring Resource abstraction to easily access files in Cloud Storage. You wrote a Spring Boot web app that can read and write to a file in Cloud Storage. You also learned about the Spring Boot starter for Cloud Storage that enables that functionality.
Learn More
- Cloud Storage
- Spring Cloud Google Cloud Project
- Spring on Google Cloud GitHub repository
- Java on Google Cloud
License
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If you find yourself in need to open a WPF Window from a WinForms program - this is one way to do it (works for me):
1) Create/Add a new project of type "WPF Custom Control Library"
2) Add a new Item of type "Window (WPF)"
3) Do your thing with the WPF Window
4) From your WinForms app, create and open the WPF Window:
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.Integration;
var wpfwindow = new WPFWindow.Window1();
ElementHost.EnableModelessKeyboardInterop(wpfwindow);
wpfwindow.Show();
There you go!
The EnableModelessKeyboardInterop() call is necessary to handle keyboard input in the WPF window if loaded from a non-WPF host like WinForms. I understand there are other ways to do this and you can read more about WPF/WinForms interop here.
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On 3/5/2010 12:16 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:35 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
>> On 3/3/2010 2:03 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess filling in the EXTENSION_CONTROL_BLOCK with their addresses is
>>> not the only way an app gets addressibility .../?
>>
>> Oh, hold up. I think you are right on this, that these aren't expected to be
>> available in the namespace by name :)
>
> I agree ;)
>
> The first MS doc I found for one of the callbacks after your first
> post was vague enough that I could imagine you were right, but if I
> look at enough search hits I can find some MS writer that says exactly
> what I want to read (which is at least a little more reassuring).
If you want to recommit, I'd preface these four with cbfnXxx or regfnXxx to make
them look a little less suspiciously like exports. If you like I'm happy to
recommit your patch with that change, since you backed it out on my foolishness :) | http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201003.mbox/%3C4B91533A.1040105@rowe-clan.net%3E | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | refinedweb | 181 | 68.44 |
Tell.
I have been toying lately with a publishing tool that features an internal wiki-syntax for content and velocity for the general layout. Before I move on, let’s first have a velocity crash-course:
A velocity file is called a template, when the template is rendered it is given a context. The context contains the data for the template.
So if I add data to my context from my java-code like this:
context.put("variable", "value");
I can access it from my velocity template like this:
The variable contains the value $variable
Ok, not that hard. The context can contain any object and I can call any method on the object. I can retreive data from the object by accessing properties on the object. My problem starts to surface, anything I want to show in my template I have to make available via a getter or similar. That is not all:
public void draw(Object object) { if (object instanceof Circle){ drawCircle((Circle) object, canvas); } else if (object instanceof Rectangle) { drawRectangle((Rectangle)object, canvas); } }
Ever seen code like this?
This is the textbook example of where polymorphism can make the code cleaner:
public void draw(Shape shape) { shape.drawOn(canvas); }
Much nicer. Any shape now draws itself on the provided canvas. I don’t have to do any instanceof anymore.
How does this relate to my velocity problem? Well, let’s say that I have a wiki-parser that given some input will give me a syntax-tree. Lets keep the syntaxtree simple. Let’s say that I can represent a single paragraph that can contain one or more links:
This is a paragraph with a [[][link]] that links to google.
Ok, Now I want this to turn this into html. There could be multiple reasons why I would want to use a template for this but I won’t go into them now. First let’s look at how I would generally do this in java:
public class HtmlBuilder implements WikiBuilder { private Writer output; public HtmlBuilder(Writer writer) { output = writer; } public void link(String href, String description) { output.write("<a href='"); output.write(href); output.write("'>"); output.write(description); output.write("</a>"); } public void text(String text) { output.write(text); } }
That builder would be used by the parser:
WikiParser parser = new Parser(input); Article artilce = parser.parse(); article.direct(new HtmlBuilder(output));
Ok, there are more than one ways to do this but you get the point: the parser reads the reader input and builds a syntaxtree article. The article directs the builder and calls text(text) for regular text and link(href, description) for links. That makes the HtmlBuilder write the equivalent html on the output-writer.
Ok, but the javacode contains a lot of overhead in that writer.write(…); stuff. We want to make a template for html-documents:
context.put("article", parser.parse());
Now to the tamplate:
#foreach($element in $article) #if($element.isText)$element #elseif($element.isLink)<a href="$element.href">$element.description</a> #end #end
Yuck! how many if/else would I need for a complete wiki syntax? What if the syntax is not flat but a composite-tree? I would like the template to behave like my HtmlBuilder did in the java-example. But I can’t…
This is how I would like to do (in principle)
#class builder #def link($href, $description)<a href="$href">$description</a>#end #def text($text)$text#end #end $article.direct($builder)
Wouldn’t that have been neat? So what templating languages out there have I missed that does that? It would be simple enough to implement with dynamic proxies in a templating language like velocity. Rather than doing what most templating engines do, pull the data from the objects and present in the output, we push data through a template. I have been playing with programs where no method returns anything (all methods are declared as void). This is almost the inverse of FP and the results can be quite interesting. Would templating like this be a good application for that style of programming? | https://johlrogge.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/tell-dont-ask-templating/ | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | refinedweb | 680 | 64.91 |
What is Android Things?
Android Things makes developing connected embedded devices easy by providing the same Android development tools, best-in-class Android framework, and Google APIs that make developers successful on mobile.
It is aimed to be used with low-power and memory constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which are usually built from different MCU platforms. As an IoT OS it is designed to work as low as 32–64 MB of RAM. It will support Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi.
Let's get started with Hello World! (a.k.a blink)
1. Setup Raspberry Pi with Android Things
Go to the Google Android Things website by click here. Select the CONSOLE section.
Select CREATE A PRODUCT.
Type your Product Name. Select SOM as Raspberry Pi 3 (SOM = System On Module). Give a Product Description. Hit CREATE. In the following page, select FACTORY IMAGES.
Click the CREATE BUILD CONFIGURATION. It creates a new field Build configuration list.
Click the Download build and wait for the download.
And you will get a .zip file like this:
Unzip/extract the zip using 7zip.
It will take 1 min to extract.
After the extraction, you will get .img file (a.k.a OS image file).
Next burn the image to SD card.
.
Note: We are not using a display/HDMI monitor because the latest Android Things preview does not support most display units, also we are not going to use it in this project.
Open your router panel or use a mobile app to obtain IP Address of Raspberry Pi.
Now here our Local IP is 192.168.0.22.
2. Setup Android Studio
First Download Android studio (Stable) or use Preview version.
Note: Stable version can be also use used for Android things development but preview version comes with a inbuilt Android things Development option.
After downloading, install and open Android Studio.
Start a new project by clicking Start a new Android Studio Project.
And click Finish to build.
Wait for the build.
3. Let's Code Android (Java)
After the build, open the Gradle:
Add the development preview dependencies.
By adding this:
provided
After that, open Main Activity source file (Java):
In the main class, add the initialize LED variable and delay variable by adding this code and we are using BCM13 pin to connect our LED.
private static final String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(); private static final int INTERVAL_BETWEEN_BLINKS_MS = 500; private static final String GPIO_PIN_NAME = "BCM13"; // Physical Pin #33 on Raspberry Pi3 private Handler mHandler = new Handler(); private Gpio mLedGpio;
Next add a GPIO connection to the board:
// Step 1. Create GPIO connection. PeripheralManagerService service = new PeripheralManagerService(); try { mLedGpio = service.openGpio(GPIO_PIN_NAME); // Step 2. Configure as an output. mLedGpio.setDirection(Gpio.DIRECTION_OUT_INITIALLY_LOW); // Step 4. Repeat using a handler. mHandler.post(mBlinkRunnable); } catch (IOException e) { Log.e(TAG, "Error on PeripheralIO API", e); } }
In OnCreate method, we are initialize our variable that we need. Add OnDestory method for our application:); } } }
We need to close session that we are opened in the OnCreate method. After that make our program runnable by adding the Runnable method.); } } };
In the runnable code we are set our code ready to run.
After inserting all the code, you can also get some error. That is because you didn't add the packages that we used in our code. Let's add them clicking Alt + Enter or copy paste the packages.
import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.util.Log; import com.google.android.things.pio.Gpio; import com.google.android.things.pio.PeripheralManagerService; import java.io.IOException;
All set. If you want to be rid of all the coding, just clone my GitHub Repo:
Or click here to download the code.
4. Setup the Raspberry with LED
In Android things the pinout is different than the Raspbian.
After the wiring, let's run our program.
5. Run the Progarmme
But we need a connection between the Android Things device (Raspberry Pi) with our Android Studio for Upload and Debug our programs.
Yeah, we.
.
Yeah, we did it. You just completed Android Things Hello World program. If anything goes wrong, please let me know in the comment section.
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Question:
Im using Visual Studio 2008 and Im starting on C#, Im reading this not so good tutorial but it was the only one i found that really started on the basics and so on in a good speed rate. Im a C++ programmer so i know somethings and some are new for me. But my main problem is now, i reached a part where the tutorial author started working with some windows app (or i think he did
List of Options:
Windows Forms Application(used this one but i comes with some predefined stuff i dont yet understand)
WPF Application
Console Application
Windows Service
WPF Control Library
Class Library
WPF Browser Application
Empty Proyect (I have been using this one for console applications that the tutorial showed, when i tried to use this one for the windows code shown below, it didnt had intelisence so im guessing it doesn't work for that)
WPF Custom Control Library
Windows Forms Control Library
If some could point out the one i should use would be nice
Just wondering: What does WPF stands for?
This is the code that is in the tutorial
using System; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Drawing; namespace NotePadWindowsForms { public class NotePadWindowsForms : System.Windows.Forms.Form { private System.Windows.Forms.Button Button1; public NotePadWindowsForms() { Button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button(); Button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 32); Button1.Name = "Button"; Button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(104, 32); Button1.TabIndex = 0; Button1.Text = "Click Me"; Controls.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.Control[] { Button1 }); Button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(Button1_Click); } private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show("Button is Clicked"); } public static int Main() { Application.Run(new NotePadWindowsForms()); return 0; } } } | http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/139502-starting-on-question/page__p__836167 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | refinedweb | 286 | 51.04 |
K, I'm basically brand new to java and have to do an assignment way beyond anything I've learned.
this is what im trying to accomplish:
Specification
So right now I'm trying to work on creating a class "Student" that has all those fields and methods. Then somehow once I have all that I've got to figure out how to get that into an array that can make more students with that information and stuff etc. I'm confused and barely know how to make an array. =S
It would be helpful if someone told me how to call an array without a pre-set amount of items in the list.
Anyway this is what I have so far:
For my menu:
package ArrayList; import java.util.Scanner; public class Menu { public static void main( String[] args ) { System.out.println("Welcome!"); Scanner input = new Scanner (System.in); int UR; //user Response 1 System.out.println("Please type the number of the task you would like to perform."); System.out.println("1. Add a student"); System.out.println("2. Find a student"); System.out.println("3. Delete a student"); System.out.println("4. Display all students"); System.out.println("5. Display the total number of students"); System.out.println("6. Exit"); UR = input.nextInt(); if (UR == 1){ Student sDisplay = new Student(); sDisplay.Display(); } } }
For my Student:
package ArrayList; public class Student { String fName; String lName; int sNumber; String Major; Double GPA; static int Count; public void fName() { fName = "Sarah"; } public void lName() { lName = "Somethin"; } public void sNumber() { sNumber = 1; } public void Major() { Major = "Computer Science"; } public void GPA() { GPA = 4.0; } public static void Count() { Count = 0; } public void Display() { Student firstName = new Student(); firstName.fName(); System.out.printf("The name is: %d\n", GPA); System.out.print(fName); } }
__________________________________________________ ______________________
When I ran my program what I expected to get was this:
The name is: 4.0
Sarah
But when I run it with user input 1
I get:
1
The name is: null
null
Yes, what im trying to accomplish there doesn't relate to assignment specifically but how am I suppose to get it to work? and why isn't the name being assigned to the String or the int receiving its number? (I'm assuming its cause its only running through part of the program. or that particular class. which is why I tried to make Display call fName and run it so its assigned. But it didn't work and I'm obviously confused.) =S
Basically I need as much help as I can get with this, especially with the arrays. So thanks in advance. | http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/whats-wrong-my-code/6960-help-code.html | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | refinedweb | 442 | 66.23 |
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> This new platform toolset points to a repackaged version of the Windows 7 SDK shipped in Visual Studio 2010 instead of the Windows 8 SDK, but uses the same Visual Studio 2012 compiler.
does it mean I need to have VS2010 installed to use this ??
@WalkingCat: No, the repackaged SDK is included with the update.
Is any plan to support C++ AMP for final release, with only CPU fallback on XP ?
Out of curiosity, what was the reason for needing to switch to the Windows 7 SDK when building for XP? The compiler is the same and the runtime libraries have been revved to support XP, so I wonder what the blocker was. Using the Windows 7 SDK does mean that it will be more difficult to use Windows 8 functionality from an XP-compatible program, which may be unusual but is possible.
Is there any additional C++ language features supported in this update?
@Jackson: The update description page (at the bottom of my post) says no. I'm guessing the C++11 out-of-band updates are going to be a separate update to the Visual Studio update (it's not a "Service Pack" any more?), in the same manner as the web team have been releasing their updates through NuGet.
OT: This is nice, I've got an XP-required project that it will be nice to be able to move to the 2012 compiler, if only for the smarter editing. (Also, I don't have to install 2010 when I wipe my machines sometime later). Having variadic templates & friends will probably be a bigger deal, when that stuff comes through.
blogs.msdn.com/…/visual-studio-2012-update-1-ctp.aspx
WHEN can we expect "the next release of Visual Studio 2012 Update 1"?
(Apologies if this is a repost, but I think the ancient MSDN "swallow your post if it wasn't submitted within a few seconds of loading the page" bug is still there, so I'm posting again.)
It's never been made particularly easy to build EXEs that can run on old versions of Windows while taking advantage of newer APIs as available (at least if you want the compiler to tell you when you accidentally use new APIs/structs/etc. in common code paths), something that I'd love to see Visual Studio improve upon in future versions.
Forcing the old SDK + tools to be used, and a separate build/project type, when targeting XP is not helping at all. That makes things worse, not better. More complicated, not less.
Remote debugging tools are also essential for XP targeting, for me. I don't have an XP development machine set up and maintained; I just have XP running in a VM to test on, and if something goes wrong and I need to debug it then I want to use remote debugging, not to have to install Visual Studio + updates + SDKs + all my source + other tools inside the VM. That takes hours, gets in the way of snapshots/rollbacks, makes it harder to test that my binaries don't have accidental dependencies on something installed by Visual Studio, is inconvenient compared to VM on one monitor and VS on another, etc. etc. etc.
Instead of kludging in a repackaged version of the old runtime + toolset, why can't you fix the new runtime + toolset to work on Windows XP? Is it really that difficult? Maybe it is. But if so then, at least for me, it makes more sense to stick with VS2008 or VS2010 for a couple more years, until XP finally dies in 2014 (yipee), than to mess around with this type of half-baked solution. Sorry.
@Leo Davidson, the only difference is the SDK headers and libs, not the CRT/MFC headers and libs, nor the toolset. The toolset is the same, but the SDK 8.0 doesn't support XP (officially), only the 7.1 SDK does.
I got it to work fine with 8.0 SDK and changing the linker settings manually, but this is not a supported (by Microsoft) scenario.
The redist (runtime, e.g. msvcr110.dll) is the same for all platforms, no separate redist for XP.
So all you're getting with the vc110_xp is the 7.1 Windows SDK headers and libs and a few changes to linker subsystems, etc to target XP. VC2012 MFC, CRT, etc are the same for ALL platforms including XP.
Very nice to see promises being kept.
Leave it to Microsoft to screw this up. There's no excuse for introducing a new toolset to handle XP..
@John: that's crappy solution similar to what they have done to produce smaller MFC executable due to ribbons feature that almost noone use. And that's nothing compared to C++/CX junk that was highly unnecessary with clever C++ paradigms that exist today.
It was pretty funny to read at Pat Brenner's blog how he tried to explain this were sound decisions.
@Avery, @Leo:
The reason we have reintroduced the Windows 7 SDK is that the Windows 8 SDK has officially dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. What this means is that the binaries under the “Windows Kits/8.0/bin” directory are no longer guaranteed to generate code that runs on Windows XP/2003. Additionally, the Windows 8 SDK headers and libs may have removed deprecated Windows XP APIs with no mitigation. As @Mike described above, you may choose to target the standard SDK by not switching to v110_xp. However, if your application compiles and runs we cannot guarantee it will continue to do so in future releases and updates of Visual Studio.
"The reason we have reintroduced the Windows 7 SDK is that the Windows 8 SDK has officially dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. "
And your point is?
Visual Studio 2012 officially dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and then put it back.
Greg,
Could you spell out the linker options required to target XP while using the VC110 toolset? Is the following sufficient?
(Win32): "/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01"
(x64): "/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.02".
I'm guessing there is no symbol files for the replacement DLLs that aren't source-stripped yet??
Thanks, Chris
@Chris Hubbard.
:
Why are you giving C++ 11 XP compatibility, but ignoring the cries of thousands of developers for .NET 4.5 to work on XP? (Really, most of us would be happy with .NET 4.5 not seriously messing up XP development.)
@Stephen, different team. That would require involvement of CLR team. See blogs.msdn.com/…/dotnet
I clicked on the download "here" link. Which file should I be downloading for the Update 1 CTP 3 so I can target xp?
I'm very eager and excited to take advantage of the improved C++ support this will make available to those of us that can't drop XP. Are there any limitations on use of C++11 features when targeting XP?
I would be thrilled if we could have an update on how things are progressing towards the release (not CTP) version of Update 1, since I assume it would be unwise to actually ship a release build on the CTP. Within whatever limits company policy imposes, please keep us up-to-date, so we can refine our plans.
Thank you!
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Use Visual Studio 2010 to debug programs built by Visual Studio 2012 ?
Why not make the Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 run on XP ?
@Todd: There are no limitations to C++11 support when targeting Windows XP. I cannot comment on the release date, but a final CTP was released on 10/29 which fixes the known issues above. It is available through the same download link.
@David: The remote debugger for VS2012 is designed to take advantage of new operating system features in Windows 7 and above, which prevents it from running on Windows Vista or Windows XP. If debugging with the VS2012 debugger is important for your scenarios, please post it as a suggestion on UserVoice for visibility.
CTP4: Many warnings:
d:qpsoftmydevincludesal_supp.h(57) : warning C4005: '__useHeader' : macro redefinition (htmlparserHTMLSourceTracker.cpp)
D:qpSOFTMyDEVincludesal.h(2872) : see previous definition of '__useHeader'
d:qpsoftmydevincludespecstrings_supp.h(77) : warning C4005: '__on_failure' : macro redefinition (htmlparserHTMLSourceTracker.cpp)
D:qpSOFTMyDEVincludesal.h(2882) : see previous definition of '__on_failure'
HTMLTokenizer.cpp
d:qpsoftmydevincludesal_supp.h(57) : warning C4005: '__useHeader' : macro redefinition (htmlparserHTMLTokenizer.cpp)
D:qpSOFTMyDEVincludesal.h(2872) : see previous definition of '__useHeader'
d:qpsoftmydevincludespecstrings_supp.h(77) : warning C4005: '__on_failure' : macro redefinition (htmlparserHTMLTokenizer.cpp)
D:qpSOFTMyDEVincludesal.h(2882) : see previous definition of '__on_failure'
HTMLTreeBuilder.cpp
d:qpsoftmydevincludesal_supp.h(57) : warning C4005: '__useHeader' : macro redefinition (htmlparserHTMLTreeBuilder.cpp)
D:qpSOFTMyDEVincludesal.h(2872) : see previous definition of '__useHeader'
d:qpsoftmydevincludespecstrings_supp.h(77) : warning C4005: '__on_failure' : macro redefinition (htmlparserHTMLTreeBuilder.cpp)
D:qpSOFTMyDEVincludesal.h(2882) : see previous definition of '__on_failure'
@Loaden
We modified the sal.h file in VCinclude to fix this issue. It seems that your project has its own copy of sal.h (D:qpSOFTMyDEVincludesal.h). If you update this file with the new version in VCinclude, this should resolve the issue.
@Ibrahim
It's not the sal.h copy, just itself.
See: sal_supp.h that from Windows SDK 7.1A.
LN26: #define __useHeader __declspec("SAL_useHeader()")
and sal.h from VC/include
LN2872:
#ifdef _USING_V110_SDK71_ // [
#ifndef _PREFAST_ // [
#define __useHeader
#else // ][
#error Code analysis is not supported when using Visual C++ 11.0 with the Windows 7.1 SDK.
#endif // ]
#else // ][
#define __useHeader _Use_decl_anno_impl_
#endif // ]
In here should changed to:
#ifdef _USING_V110_SDK71_ // [
#ifndef _PREFAST_ // [
#define __useHeader
#else // ][
#error Code analysis is not supported when using Visual C++ 11.0 with the Windows 7.1 SDK.
#endif // ]
#else // ][
#ifdef __useHeader
#undef __useHeader
#endif
#define __useHeader _Use_decl_anno_impl_
#endif // ]
And same changes should go.
LN2882:
#ifdef _USING_V110_SDK71_ // [
#ifndef _PREFAST_ // [
#define __on_failure(annotes)
#else // ][
#error Code analysis is not supported when using Visual C++ 11.0 with the Windows 7.1 SDK.
#endif // ]
#else // ][
#define __on_failure(annotes) _On_failure_impl_(annotes _SAL_nop_impl_)
#endif // ]
Should be:
#ifdef _USING_V110_SDK71_ // [
#ifndef _PREFAST_ // [
#define __on_failure(annotes)
#else // ][
#error Code analysis is not supported when using Visual C++ 11.0 with the Windows 7.1 SDK.
#endif // ]
#else // ][
#ifdef __on_failure
#undef __on_failure
#endif
#define __on_failure(annotes) _On_failure_impl_(annotes _SAL_nop_impl_)
#endif // ]
When's the real (final) coming out?
Final already have now. Thanx. Is download w/o web? Hash available?
@Arlo: To download an offline version you may follow the steps here:
supportxp.com/…/visual-studio-2012-update-1-released-download-the-full-version-for-later-offline-installation | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2012/10/08/windows-xp-targeting-with-c-in-visual-studio-2012/ | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | refinedweb | 1,758 | 56.86 |
Dragon Warrior
SRAM Guide by jdratlif
Version: 1.0 | Updated: 02/23/07 | Printable Version
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dragon Warrior (NES) SRAM Document 1.0 | by John David Ratliff | | The most recent version of this guide can always be found | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1.0 Introduction - 2.0 Copyright Notice - 3.0 Revision History - 4.0 The Dragon Warrior SRAM - 4.1 SRAM Basics - 4.2 SRAM Offsets - 4.3 The Sanity Algorithm - 4.4 Checksum Bypass Using a Game Genie - 5.0 dwsrame - The Dragon Warrior (NES) SRAM Editor - 6.0 Contact Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1.0 Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document is a guide to the SRAM format used by Dragon Warrior for the original Nintendo (NES). SRAM (short for save random access memory, and has many other names and acronyms) was the format for saving data in most NES cartridge games including Dragon Warrior. SRAM was an area of memory that was supplied power by an internal cartridge battery. It's purpose was to preserve information even when the game was not running. In this manner, game progress could be preserved even when the system was not active. SRAM is not the same as emulator save states. SRAM was internal to the game cartridge and thus the format is applicable to any NES emulator (and probably all NES copiers as well). This document aims to discuss the data format used in SRAM to store game progress. There have been many adaptations, remakes, and translations of Dragon Warrior over the years. To be clear, this guide covers the SRAM used by the original Dragon Warrior for the NES (the original English translation of the original Dragon Quest for the Famicom) released by Enix in 1989. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2.0 Copyright Notice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document Basically, it is free documentation in much the same way software under the GNU General Public License is free software. You can modify it, redistribute it, sell it, publish it, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 3.0 Revision History ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.0 - Friday, February 2, 2007 - First Public Release ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 4.0 Dragon Warrior SRAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This section details the SRAM format used by Dragon Warrior (NES). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 4.1 SRAM Basics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dragon Warrior cartridge had an SRAM of 0x2000 (8192 decimal) bytes. This was the standard for NES cartridges of the time. There were three possible save slots available in the game. Each of these slots used 0x140 bytes of SRAM, though in reality it is actually just 0x20 bytes repeated 7 times. Because the SRAM was battery backed, and the battery will eventually die, the game also stored certain data to act as a check on the sanity of the preserved data. Two checks were used. The first was the data replication. The 0x20 bytes of game data are replicated 7 times. Secondly, the 0x20 bytes of data also have some embedded sanity data, which I will call the checksum. Finally, there are 4 bytes in the SRAM that determines what save slots are in use. The three games begin at offset 0x68 from the start of the SRAM. From there, the three game's 0x140 bytes of data are stored sequentially. The 4 bytes of save slot usage start at offset 0x35 from the start of SRAM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 4.2 SRAM Offsets ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are the known offsets within the game data. They will be presented relative to the start of a particular game slot rather than from the start of SRAM. This means an offset of 0 for the first game is actually at the SRAM position 0x68. For the duplication, this means it is also as 0x88, 0xA8, and so on for all 6 duplicate sets. 00-01: Hero's Experience 02-03: Hero's Gold Both of these values are little-endian 16-bit unsigned values. This means they can range from 0 - 65535. It also means the bytes when viewed as hex should be reversed. ex: 34245 decimal = 85C5 hex = C585 little-endian hex. 04-07: Hero's Inventory The hero's inventory is comprised of at most 8 items. Because of the limited number of possible items, each item can be represented in a half-byte (4 bits). This means each byte can represent two numbers. The item values are as follows: 0: No Item 1: Torch 2: Fairy Water 3: Wings 4: Dragon's Scale 5: Fairy Flute 6: Fighter's Ring 7: Erdrick's Token 8: Gwaelin's Love 9: Cursed Belt A: Silver Harp B: Death Necklace C: Stones of Sunlight D: Staff of Rain E: Rainbow Drop F: (unused) displays current number of Herbs, but you cannot use this So, if 04 had the value E3, the hero will have the Rainbow Drop and a set of Wings in his inventory. 08: Hero's Keys 09: Hero's Herbs These two bytes tell how many of these particular items the hero has. Valid values are 0 - 6. Using values outside the valid range is untested. 0A: Equipment Byte The equipment byte detemines the hero's weaponry. To decide what the hero is equipped with, you simply need to add the possible values together. Weapons: Bamboo Pole: 0x20 Club: 0x40 Copper Sword: 0x60 Hand Axe: 0x80 Broad Sword: 0xA0 Flame Sword: 0xC0 Erdrick's Sword: 0xE0 Armor: Clothes: 0x04 Leather Armor: 0x08 Chain Mail: 0x0C Half Plate Armor: 0x10 Full Plate Armor: 0x14 Magic Armor: 0x18 Erdrick's Armor: 0x1C Shields: Small Shield: 0x01 Large Shield: 0x02 Silver Shield: 0x03 So, if you want the best equipment possible, add the value of Erdrick's Sword (0xE0), Erdrick's Armor (0x1C), and the Silver Shield (0x3) to get an equipment byte value of 0xFF. 0B: Quest byte 1 0C: Quest byte 2 0D: Quest byte 3 Quest bytes determine whether certain things have happened in the game or not. Things not covered by the quest bytes are usually determined by the hero's inventory. For example, if you have the staff of rain, the old man who gives it to you will tell you to go away. The quest bytes use individual bits to determine various quest markers. The bits not documented are not known to do anything. Byte 1: bit 2 - Charlock Hidden Stairs Revealed bit 3 - Rainbow Bridge Built bit 4 - Wearing Dragon's Scale bit 5 - Wearing Fighter's Ring bit 6 - Wearing Cursed Belt bit 7 - Wearing Death Necklace Byte 2: bit 0 - Gwaelin Rescued (in Hero's arms) bit 1 - Gwealin on Throne (bits 1 and 0 should be mutually exclusive) bit 3 - Started Quest Byte 3: bit 1 - Golem Killed bit 2 - Dragonlord Killed bit 6 - Green Dragon Guarding Princess Gwaelin Killed 0E-15: Hero's Name The hero's name is stored in a very odd manner. The first four characters 0E-11 are the first four characters of the name, but they are stored in reverse order. In other words, if your characters name is 'Loki', it will be stored ikoL. The second four characters 12-15 are the second four characters of the name, and they too are stored in reverse order. Here are the values for the Dragon Warrior alphabet. 0x00 - 0x09 : The numbers 0-9 0x0A - 0x23 : The lowercase letters 'a' - 'z' 0x24 - 0x3D : The uppercase letters 'A' - 'Z' 0x40 : The apostrophe ' character 0x47 : The period . character 0x48 : The comma , character 0x49 : The dash - character 0x4B : The question mark ? character 0x4C : The exclamation point ! character 0x4E : The close paren ) character 0x4F : The open paren ( character 0x60 : The space ' ' character These are the only valid characters accepted by the name input screen. Using other values may produce other symbols in the name, though this is untested. 16: Message Speed This offset determines the message speed for the game. Valid values are 0 for fast, 1 for normal, and 2 for slow. 17: Hero's HP 18: Hero's MP The HP and MP are the current HP and MP for the hero. The valid range is 0 - 255. 19: (unused) always AB 1A-1D: (unused) always C8 1E-1F: Checksum The checksum is a two-byte value. It will be described in the next section. Finally, the four bytes that determine game slot usage are as follows: 0x35, 0x36, and 0x37 - 0 if the slot is unused, C8 if it is 0x38 - Three bits determine game usage bit 0 - slot 1 bit 1 - slot 2 bit 2 - slot 3 So, if all three slots are in use, you will see 0xC8 0xC8 0xC8 0x07 for these four bytes. These offsets are relative to the start of SRAM, not the start of game data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 4.3 The Sanity Algorithm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As mentioned earlier, the game needs to ensure the data stored in the SRAM is still valid. To do this, it uses data replication and a checksum word. This word must be generated by us if you expect the game to accept modified data. Here is the sanity algorithm, ripped from the Dragon Warrior ROM in 6502 assembly. I have added comments at the end of each line. $FBEF:A0 1D LDY #$1D ; load counter with 0x1D $FBF1:84 94 STY $0094 ; init checksum low byte $FBF3:84 95 STY $0095 ; init checksum high byte $FBF5:B1 22 LDA ($22),Y ; load data[counter] into a $FBF7:85 3C STA $003C ; store to memory $FBF9:20 2A FC JSR $FC2A ; jump to subroutine $FBFC:88 DEY ; y = y - 1 $FBFD:10 F6 BPL $FBF5 ; repeat 0x1D + 1 times $FBFF:60 RTS ; end of checksum algorithm $FC2A:98 TYA ; put counter into a $FC2B:48 PHA ; push counter to stack $FC2C:A0 08 LDY #$08 ; load new counter with 8 $FC2E:A5 95 LDA $0095 ; load checksum high byte $FC30:45 3C EOR $003C ; xor data[counter] with checksum high byte $FC32:06 94 ASL $0094 ; shift left checksum low byte $FC34:26 95 ROL $0095 ; rotate shifted bit onto checksum high byte $FC36:06 3C ASL $003C ; shift left data[counter] $FC38:0A ASL ; shift left original checksum high byte $FC39:90 0C BCC $FC47 ; skip if shifted bit was 0 $FC3B:A5 94 LDA $0094 ; load checksum low byte $FC3D:49 21 EOR #$21 ; xor checksum low byte with 0x21 $FC3F:85 94 STA $0094 ; store into checksum low byte $FC41:A5 95 LDA $0095 ; load checksum high byte $FC43:49 10 EOR #$10 ; xor checksum high with 0x10 $FC45:85 95 STA $0095 ; store checksum high byte $FC47:88 DEY ; y = y - 1 $FC48:D0 E4 BNE $FC2E ; repeat 8 times $FC4A:68 PLA ; pull counter from stack $FC4B:A8 TAY ; restore counter to y $FC4C:60 RTS ; return It is a simple process, though fairly cumbersome for anyone to duplicate by hand. I would recommend either checksum bypass with a game genie or using dwsrame to fix the checksum for you. Here is the C++ conversion of the assembly routine used in dwsrame. wxUint16 SRAMFile::checksum(int game) const { wxASSERT((game >= 0) && (game < 3)); unsigned char cl = 0x1D, ch = 0x1D, carry = 0; unsigned char al, bl, temp; for (int i = 0x1D; i >= 0; --i) { al = sram[GAME_OFFSET + (game * GAME_SIZE) + i]; for (int j = 8; j > 0; --j) { bl = al ^ ch; // asl cl carry = (cl & 0x80) ? 1 : 0; cl <<= 1; // rol ch temp = (ch & 0x80) ? 1 : 0; ch = (ch << 1) | carry; carry = temp; // asl al carry = (al & 0x80) ? 1 : 0; al <<= 1; // asl bl carry = (bl & 0x80) ? 1 : 0; bl <<= 1; if (carry) { cl ^= 0x21; ch ^= 0x10; } } } return (cl | (ch << 8)); } If you know basic arithmetic and binary operations, the algorithm should look pretty straightforwawrd. I will detail the operations real quick. We start with two counters. I will refer to these as checksum high and checksum low. They are unsigned bytes (range 0 - 255) and can be represented in 8 bits. Assign these two counters the initial value 0x1D. Starting at the end of the game data, which is at offset 0x1D from the start of a game slot, we do the following for each game byte from end to beginning. Grab the next byte of game data. I will refer to this as al. Do the following 8 times (once for each bit of the game data byte). Compute the exclusive OR of the game byte with checksum high. Shift the checksum low byte 1 bit left (this may result in a carry if the high bit was 1 - do not discard this bit). Shift the checksum high byte left 1 bit. If a carry resulted from the checksum low shift, that bit should become the new low bit of checksum high. As with the first shift, do not discard the high bit shifted off of checksum high. Now shift left 1 bit the game data byte (al). If a carry results in this shift, it will replace any former carry. Now shift left 1 bit the exclusive OR we calculated earlier. If a carry results, it will replace any former carry. If we have a carry, then we XOR checksum low with 0x21 and XOR checksum high with 0x10. Repeat as directed. It's certainly an annoying process to do by hand, but not a complicated one. I would recommend you avoid doing this by hand though. The next section has a method for bypassing the checksum if you have a game genie or an emulator that supports game genie codes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 4.4 Checksum Bypass Using a Game Genie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you just want to poke around in the game data and change things without worrying too much about the checksum, one method you can use is a game genie. We can use a game genie code to bypass the sanity check. APVYNUAU will bypass the game sanity check and allow any modified SRAM data to work. What will happen if the data is invalid is unknown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 5.0 dwsrame - The Dragon Warrior (NES) SRAM Editor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you really want to edit the SRAM, I recommend a program called 'dwsrame', the Dragon Warrior (NES) SRAM Editor. Not surprisingly, I wrote it. It will edit any of the offsets I have outlined in this document an will keep fix the sanity values for you so you don't need to. It's far simpler than trying to edit by hand. If you want to try it out, head over to It's free software under the GNU GPL, tested in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and is likely to run on almost any unix that support GTK+. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 6.0 Contact Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The author (John Ratliff) can be contacted at webmaster [AT] technoplaza [DOT] net. Replace as necessary. I can also be reached via an online feedback form at | http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/563408-dragon-warrior/faqs/47175 | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | refinedweb | 2,429 | 78.69 |
This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.
I am using R 2.14.2-1 under cygwin 1.7.12-1 in Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1. In the past I found very desirable to modify the RODBC package to access the Windows ODBC connections in R under cygwin: This enables NTLM authenticated connections to Oracle and sql server databases using the Windows ODBC drivers. I am considering to submit the corresponding patch request (see below) to the RODBC 1.3-5 package maintainers. The patch is pretty much an exact copy of an old patch present in cygwin-ports:;a=summary Before installing the package I also a need to define ac_cv_search_SQLTables as specified below. I am a novice using R and cygwin. Is there a way to patch RODBC_1.3-5.tar so that ac_cv_search_SQLTables is automatically defined when the package is installed under cygwin? Would it be better to leave it undefined, and define it at the command prompt as specified below? Maybe in that way people will still be able to use libiodbc-devel library if they want to do so. Let me know if you have any advice on how to proceed. Thanks, Dario Modify RODBC\src\RODBC.c in RODBC_1.3-5.tar as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- RODBC.c_bk 2012-03-08 22:01:02.000000000 -0800 +++ RODBC.c 2012-04-22 09:14:54.353868700 -0700 @@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ #include <string.h> #include <limits.h> /* for INT_MAX */ +#ifdef __CYGWIN__ +#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN +#include <windows.h> +#undef WIN32 +#endif + #define MAX_CHANNELS 1000 #include <sql.h> #include <sqlext.h> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation procedure under Cygwin to access the windows ODBC DNSs: export ac_cv_search_SQLTables="-lodbc32" R CMD INSTALL RODBC_1.3-5.tar.gz -- Problem reports: FAQ: Documentation: Unsubscribe info: | http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00473.html | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | refinedweb | 297 | 62.04 |
Image::MetaData::JPEG::Structures - This document describes the structure of a JPEG file; it is an appendix to the main manual page of the Image::MetaData::JPEG module, which the reader should refer to for further details and the general scope.
The JPEG >.
The TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is one of the most popular and flexible raster file formats for digital images, and is the de-facto standard graphics format for high colour depths. It was initially developed by Aldus (in 1986) and is now maintained (or neglected) by Adobe. Multiple images (e.g., fax pages) can be stored in a single TIFF file, each page in a separate IFD (Image File Directory), all IFD's being linked in a linear structure. The designers of TIFF wanted to be able to include all sorts of image information in the file (tags), like geometry, size, data arrangement and various compression options. However, lack of full TIFF support by the first publicly available readers resulted in a "reduced standard", so that even today most TIFF files contain only 32-bit uncompressed images. Support for JPEG streams was included in version 6.0 (in 1992), but it was badly designed, so that JPEG/TIFF files are nowadays very uncommon (some changes were proposed in various technical notes in 1995 and 2002, but they never made it to version 7.0).
Reference: B<"TIFF (TM)", revision 6.0, June 1992, Adobe Developers Association, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, CA, USA>. Also: B<"Adobe PageMaker 6.0: TIFF Technical Notes", September 1995>, B<"Adobe Photoshop: TIFF Technical Notes", March 2002>.
The JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format) was created by Eric Hamilton at C-Cube Microsystems in 1991 for storing JPEG-encoded data, and put into the public domain together with example reference software. JFIF is designed to allow files containing JPEG-encoded data streams to be exchanged between otherwise incompatible systems and applications. A JFIF file basically consists of a JPEG file with an APP0 segment of JFIF or JFXX type at the beginning, providing information missing from the JPEG stream: version number, horizontal and vertical pixel density, pixel aspect ratio and an optional thumbnail (extended JFIF files can contain also compressed thumbnails). JFIF files conform to the general file interchange specifications in ISO/IEC 10918-1.
Reference: B<"JPEG File Interchange Format", version 1.02, September 1992, Eric Hamilton, C-Cube Microsystems, Milpitas, CA, USA>.
The SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format) is an official file format released in 1996 by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. It can contain image data streams encoded with a variety of compression mechanism, including JPEG and JBIG. When JPEG was standardised, disagreements among ISO committees prevented a standard JPEG file format from being created. The de-facto format that appeared was JFIF, with which a JPEG/SPIFF file is backward compatible. In addition to the image data, SPIFF includes information necessary to render it on common output devices, within the constraints imposed by that device. SPIFF appears not to be widely adopted; most producers prefer simple JFIF files.
Reference: B<ISO/IEC IS 10918-1, part 3> (extensions to the standard).
The CIFF (Camera Image File Format) is a JPEG-based image file format developed by some camera makers in 1997, and constitutes an evolution of the JFIF. A CIFF file has a standard JFIF APP0 segment, immediately followed by another APP0 segment holding information specific to a particular digital camera in a particular format. CIFF was not at all successful and was rapidly replaced by DCF/Exif.
Reference: B<"CIFF: Specification on Image Data File", version 1.0 rev.4, December 1997, Canon corporation>.
The Exif (Exchangeable image file format), developed by the JEITA (1996 v.1.0, 1997 v.1.1, 1998 v.2.1, 2002 v.2.2) standard was aimed at realizing a common format for the image files used with digital still cameras and other related equipment. Exif is paired with a set of naming conventions and directory layout for files in a camera memory (DCF or Design rule for Camera File system, 1999). An Exif file is a valid JPEG file with application marker segments (APP1 and APP2) inserted. Uncompressed files are recorded in TIFF-6 format. Related attribute information is stored in the tag information format defined in TIFF-6 (i.e., in a chain of IFD's in the APP1 segment). Information specific to the camera system and not defined in TIFF is stored in private tags registered for Exif. The Exif image file specification also specifies the method for recording thumbnails. The APP2 segment is used when recording Flashpix extensions. Exif is the most common JPEG file format used by digital cameras nowadays.
Reference: B<JEITA CP-3451, "Exchangeable image file format for digital still cameras: Exif Version 2.2", April 2002, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association>.
APP0 segments are used in the old JFIF standard to store information about the picture dimensions and an optional thumbnail. The format of a JFIF APP0 segment is as follows (note that the size of thumbnail data is 3n, where n = Xthumbnail * Ythumbnail, and it is present only if n is not zero; only the first 8 records are mandatory):
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- Identifier 5 bytes ("JFIF\000" = 0x4a46494600) MajorVersion 1 byte major version (e.g. 0x01) MinorVersion 1 byte minor version (e.g. 0x01 or 0x02) Units 1 byte units (0: densities give aspect ratio 1: density values are dots per inch 2: density values are dots per cm) Xdensity 2 bytes horizontal pixel density Ydensity 2 bytes vertical pixel density Xthumbnail 1 byte thumbnail horizontal pixel count Ythumbnail 1 byte thumbnail vertical pixel count ThumbnailData 3n bytes thumbnail image
There is also an extended JFIF (only possible for JFIF versions 1.02 and above). In this case the identifier is not JFIF but JFXX. This extension allows for the inclusion of differently encoded thumbnails. The syntax in this case is modified as follows:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- Identifier 5 bytes ("JFXX\000" = 0x4a46585800) ExtensionCode 1 byte (0x10 Thumbnail coded using JPEG 0x11 Thumbnail using 1 byte/pixel 0x13 Thumbnail using 3 bytes/pixel)
Then, depending on the extension code, there are other records to define the thumbnail. If the thumbnail is coded using a JPEG stream, a binary JPEG stream immediately follows the extension code (the byte count of this file is included in the byte count of the APP0 Segment). This stream conforms to the syntax for a JPEG file (SOI .... SOF ... EOI); however, no 'JFIF' or 'JFXX' marker Segments should be present:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- JPEGThumbnail ... bytes a variable length JPEG picture
If the thumbnail is stored using one byte per pixel, after the extension code one should find a palette and an indexed RGB. The records are as follows (remember that n = Xthumbnail * Ythumbnail):
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- Xthumbnail 1 byte thumbnail horizontal pixel count YThumbnail 1 byte thumbnail vertical pixel count ColorPalette 768 bytes 24-bit RGB values for the colour palette (defining the colours represented by each value of an 8-bit binary encoding) 1ByteThumbnail n bytes 8-bit indexed values for the thumbnail
If the thumbnail is stored using three bytes per pixel, there is no colour palette, so the previous fields simplify into:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- Xthumbnail 1 byte thumbnail horizontal pixel count YThumbnail 1 byte thumbnail vertical pixel count 3BytesThumbnail 3n bytes 24-bit RGB values for the thumbnail
Exif (Exchangeable Image File format) JPEG files use APP1 segments in order not to conflict with JFIF files (which use APP0). Exif APP1 segments store a great amount of information on photographic parameters for digital cameras and are the preferred way to store thumbnail images nowadays. They can also host an additional section with GPS data. The reference document for Exif 2.2 and the Interoperability standards are respectively:
B<"Exchangeable image file format for digital still cameras: Exif Version 2.2", JEITA CP-3451, Apr 2002 Japan Electronic Industry Development Association (JEIDA)> B<"Design rule for Camera File system", (DCF), v1.0 English Version 1999.1.7, Adopted December 1998 Japan Electronic Industry Development Association (JEIDA)>
The TIFF (Tagged Image File format) standard documents, as well as some updates and corrections, are also useful:
B<- "TIFF(TM) Revision 6.0, Final", June 3, 1992, Adobe Devel. Association - ISO 12639, "Graphic technology -- Prepress digital data exchange -- Tag image file format for image technology (TIFF/IT)" - ISO 12234-2, "Electronic still-picture imaging -- Removable memory -- Part 2: TIFF/EP image data format" - DRAFT - TIFF CLASS F, October 1, 1991 - DRAFT - TIFF Technical Note #2, 17-Mar-95 (updates for JPEG-in-TIFF) - "Adobe Pagemaker 6.0 TIFF Technical Notes", (1,2,3 and OPI), 14-Sep-1995>
Exif APP1 segments are made up by an identifier, a TIFF header and a sequence of IFDs (Image File Directories) and subIFDs. The high level IFDs are only two (IFD0, for photographic parameters, and IFD1 for thumbnail parameters); they can be followed by thumbnail data. The structure is as follows:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- Identifier 6 bytes ("Exif\000\000" = 0x457869660000), not stored Endianness 2 bytes 'II' (little-endian) or 'MM' (big-endian) Signature 2 bytes a fixed value = 42 IFD0_Pointer 4 bytes offset of 0th IFD (usually 8), not stored IFD0 ... main image IFD IFD0@SubIFD ... Exif private tags (optional, linked by IFD0) IFD0@SubIFD@Interop ... Interoperability IFD (optional,linked by SubIFD) IFD0@GPS ... GPS IFD (optional, linked by IFD0) APP1@IFD1 ... thumbnail IFD (optional, pointed to by IFD0) ThumbnailData ... Thumbnail image (optional, 0xffd8.....ffd9)
So, each Exif APP1 segment starts with the identifier string "Exif\000\000"; this avoids a conflict with other applications using APP1, for instance XMP data. The three following fields (Endianness, Signature and IFD0_Pointer) constitute the so called TIFF header. The offset of the 0th IFD in the TIFF header, as well as IFD links in the following IFDs, is given with respect to the beginning of the TIFF header (i.e. the address of the 'MM' or 'II' pair). This means that if the 0th IFD begins (as usual) immediately after the end of the TIFF header, the offset value is 8. An Exif segment is the only part of a JPEG file whose endianness is not fixed to big-endian.
If the thumbnail is present it is located after the 1st IFD. There are 3 possible formats: JPEG (only this is compressed), RGB TIFF, and YCbCr TIFF. It seems that JPEG and 160x120 pixels are recommended for Exif ver. 2.1 or higher (mandatory for DCF files). Since the segment size for a segment is recorded in 2 bytes, thumbnails are limited to slightly less than 64KB.
Each IFD block is a structured sequence of records, called, in the Exif jargon, Interoperability arrays. The beginning of the 0th IFD is given by the 'IFD0_Pointer' value. The structure of an IFD is the following:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- 2 bytes number n of Interoperability arrays 12n bytes the n arrays (12 bytes each) 4 bytes link to next IFD (can be zero) ... additional data area
The next_link field of the 0th IFD, if non-null, points to the beginning of the 1st IFD. The 1st IFD as well as all other sub-IFDs must have next_link set to zero. The thumbnail location and size is given by some interoperability arrays in the 1st IFD. The structure of an Interoperability array is:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- 2 bytes Tag (a unique 2-byte number) 2 bytes Type (one out of 12 types) 4 bytes Count (the number of values) 4 bytes Value Offset (value or offset)
The possible types are the same as for the Record class, exception made for nibbles and references (see "Managing a JPEG Record object" in Image::MetaData::JPEG). Indeed, the Record class is modelled after interoperability arrays, and each interoperability array gets stored as a Record with given tag, type, count and values. The "value offset" field gives the offset from the TIFF header base where the value is recorded. It contains the actual value if it is not larger than 4 bytes (32 bits). If the value is shorter than 4 bytes, it is recorded in the lower end of the 4-byte area (smaller offsets). For further details see the section "Valid tags for Exif APP1 data" in Image::MetaData::JPEG::TagLists.
XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) JPEG files use APP1 segments in order to store metadata information; the storage format (serialisation) is RDF (Resource Description Framework) implemented as an application of XML. XMP Exif APP1 segments can store all information stored in Exif and IPTC segments, as well as custom and future schemas. The reference document for XMP 3.2 can be requested from Adobe Systems Incorporated:
B<"XMP Specification", version 3.2, June 2005, Adobe Systems Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, L<>> B<See also: L<>> B<See also: L<>>
XMP APP1 segments are made up by an identifier and a Unicode XMP packet (the encoding is usually UTF-8, but it can also be UTF-16 or UTF-32, both big-endian or little-endian). The packet cannot be split in multiple segments, so there is a maximum size of approximately 64KB. The structure is very simple: a fixed XMP namespace URI (null terminated, and without quotation marks) followed by the XMP packet:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- Identifier 29 bytes\000 <XMP packet> ... the actual Unicode XMP packet
The packet content is sandwiched between a header and a trailer, and may contain padding whitespaces at the end. The xpacket header has two mandatory attributes, begin and id (order is important), separated by exactly one space (U+0020). Attribute values, here and in the following, are enclosed by single quotes (U+0027) or double quotes (U+0022). The value of begin must be the Unicode zero-width non-breaking space (U+FEFF), to be used as a byte-order marker during blind scans; an empty value is also acceptable (for backward compatibility), and stands for UTF-8. The value of id is fixed. Other attributes, like (deprecated) bytes or encoding, may be ignored. A padding of 2KB or 4KB, with a newline every 100 spaces, is recommended. The end attribute of the trailer may have a value of "r" (read-only) or "w" (modifiable).
Header <?xpacket begin="..." id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d" ...?> Content ... serialised XMP data (see later) ... Padding ... padding with XML whitespaces ... Trailer <?xpacket end="w"?>
The structure of the packet content is as follows. There is an optional x:xmpmeta (or x:xapmeta for older files) element, with a mandatory xmlns:x attribute set to "adobe:ns:meta/" and other optional attributes, which can be ignored (currently, Adobe's toolkit stores its version in x:xmptk). Inside it (or at top level, if it is absent), there is exactly one rdf:RDF element with an attribute specifying the xmlns:rdf namespace (other namespaces, whose role is not clear to me, can be listed here as additional attributes). Inside the rdf:RDF element then, all XMP properties are stored inside one or more rdf:Description elements:
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/' ..opt.attributes..> <rdf:RDF xmlns: <rdf:Description ...> .... </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description ...> .... </rdf:Description> ......... <rdf:Description ...> .... </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> </x:xmpmeta>
rdf:Description elements and schemas are usually in one-to-one correspondence, although this is just a convention and not a rule. Each element has two mandatory attributes, rdf:about and xmlns:NAME. The rdf:about attribute is usually empty (it can however contain an application specific URI), and its value must be shared among all rdf:Description elements. The xmlns:NAME attribute specifies the local namespace prefix (NAME stands for the actual prefix). Additional namespaces can be specified via xmlns attributes.
<rdf:Description rdf: <NAME:propname1 ...> .... </NAME:propname1> <NAME:propname2 ...> .... </NAME:propname2> ......... <NAME:propnameN ...> .... </NAME:propnameN> </rdf:Description>
Properties can come in various flavours. A simple property is just some literal value between opening and closing tags carrying the property name; there exists also an abbreviated form where properties are listed as attributes of the rdf:Description tag (in this case there is no closing rdf:Description tag, and the opening tags ends with the '/' character). Simple properties can have qualifiers (attributes). This is an example of a description element with only simple properties:
<rdf:Description rdf: <xap:CreatorTool>Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0</xap:CreatorTool> <xap:ModifyDate>2005-05-12T44:39:11+03:00</xap:ModifyDate> </rdf:Description> or <rdf:Description rdf:
A structured property is characterised by a rdf:Description block instead of a simple content. The inner description block, which does not allow for an rdf:about attribute, contains one or more named properties (which can, of course, contain further substructures). This is an example of a description element with one structured property:
<rdf:Description rdf: <xmpTPg:MaxPageSize> <rdf:Description xmlns: ---. Content <stDim:w>21</stDim:w> | of the <stDim:h>27</stDim:h> | MaxPageSize <stDim:unit>centimetres</stDim:unit> | structured </rdf:Description> -----------------' property </xmpTPg:MaxPageSize> </rdf:Description>
An array property is, on the other hand, just an array of same-type properties. It can come in three varieties: as a Bag (an unordered set), as a Sequence (an ordered list) and as an Alternative list (see later). As for structured properties, each item in the array is a property and can contain further substructures. The item list is delimited by an rdf:Bag, an rdf:Seq, or an rdf:Alt tag pair, respectively. Each item is delimited by a pair of rdf:li tags. The following example illustrates an unordered array property with three items:
<rdf:Description rdf: <dc:subject> <rdf:Bag> ----------------. Content <rdf:li>metadata</rdf:li> | of the <rdf:li>schema</rdf:li> | unordered <rdf:li>XMP</rdf:li> | array </rdf:Bag> ----------------' dc:subject </dc:subject> </rdf:Description>
A simple property (but, currently, not a structured or array property) can have qualifiers. For instance, items in an array property can be qualified; in this case, the content of rdf:li is not text, but an rdf:Description (without attributes) containing the actual value (as rdf:value) and the qualifiers as additional properties; a qualifier name belongs to a secondary namespace, specified as an attribute of the outer rdf:Description. The following example illustrates the use of property qualifiers:
<rdf:Description rdf: <dc:creator> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li> ----------------. An element <rdf:Description> | of the <rdf:value>William Gilbert</rdf:value> | ordered array <ns:role>lyricist</ns:role> | dc:creator </rdf:Description> | with a </rdf:li> ----------------' qualifier <rdf:li> <rdf:Description> <rdf:value>Arthur Sullivan</rdf:value> <ns:role>composer</ns:role> </rdf:Description> </rdf:li> </rdf:Seq> </dc:creator> </rdf:Description>
Text properties in an alternative array property may have a special qualifier (the xml:lang property) specifying the language of the text. In this case, the serialisation is different: xml:lang for each item of the array becomes an attribute of the rdf:li tag. The default value is indicated by a special value of the qualifier, or is taken from the first item in the list. The following example illustrates an array of language alternatives:
<xmp:Title> <rdf:Alt> ----------------. List of <rdf:li xml:Title</rdf:li> | alternatives <rdf:li xml:Title</rdf:li> | corresponding <rdf:li xml:Titre</rdf:li> | to xmp:Title; <rdf:li xml:Titolo</rdf:li> | the language </rdf:Alt> ----------------' is xml:lang </xmp:Title>
The interpretation of the values of properties conforming to the previously described syntax is done with the aid of the schema corresponding to the property namespace. The most common schemas in JPEG files are the following ones (note, however, that XMP is intrinsically extensible, so this list will never be exhaustive):
The Adobe's Photoshop program, a de-facto standard for image manipulation, uses the APP13 segment for storing non-graphic information, such as layers, paths, IPTC data and more. The unit for this kind of information is called a "resource data block" (because they hold data that was stored in the Macintosh's resource fork in early versions of Photoshop). The content of an APP13 segment is formed by an identifier string (usually "Photoshop 3.0\000", but also 'Adobe_Photoshop2.5:', used by earlier versions, is accepted; in this case some additional undocumented bytes are read (resolution info?) and saved in a root 'Resolution' record) followed by a sequence of resource data blocks; a resource block has the following structure:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- (Type) 4 bytes Photoshop uses '8BIM' from ver 4.0 on (ID) 2 bytes a unique identifier, e.g., "\004\004" for IPTC (Name) ... a Pascal string (padded to make size even) (Size) 4 bytes actual size of resource data (Data) ... resource data, padded to make size even
(a Pascal string is made up of a single byte, giving the string length, followed by the string itself, padded to make size even including the length byte; since the string length is explicit, there is no need of a terminating null character). The signature (type) is usually '8BIM', but Photoshop used '8BPS' up to version 3.0, and some rogue program (Adobe PhotoDeluxe?) is using 'PHUT' ("PHotoshop User Tags" ?) for path information (ID=7d0-bb7). Valid Image Resource IDs are listed in the Photoshop-style tags' list section. In general a resource block contains only a few bytes, but there is an important block, the IPTC block, which can be quite large; the structure of this block is analysed in more detail in the IPTC data block section.
The reference document for the Photoshop file format is:
B<"Adobe Photoshop 6.0: File Formats Specifications", Adobe System Inc., ver.6.0, rel.2, November 2000>.
Another interesting source of information is:
B<"\"Solo\" Image File Format. RichTIFF and its replacement by \"Solo\" JFIF", version 2.0a, Coatsworth Comm. Inc., Brampton, Ontario, Canada>
An IPTC/NAA resource data block of a Photoshop-style APP13 segment embeds an IPTC stream conforming to the standard defined by the International Press and Telecommunications Council (IPTC) and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) for exchanging interoperability information related to various news objects. The data part of a resource block, an IPTC stream, is simply a sequence of units called datasets; no preamble nor count is present. Each dataset consists of a unique tag header and a data field (the list of valid tags [dataset numbers] can be found in section about IPTC data). A standard tag header is used when the data field size is less than 32768 bytes; otherwise, an extended tag header is used. The datasets do not need to show up in numerical order according to their tag. The structure of a dataset is:
[Record name] [size] [description] --------------------------------------- (Tag marker) 1 byte this must be 0x1c (Record number) 1 byte always 2 for 2:xx datasets (Dataset number) 1 byte this is what we call a "tag" (Size specifier) 2 bytes data length (< 32768 bytes) or length of ... (Size specifier) ... data length (> 32767 bytes only) (Data) ... (its length is specified before)
So, standard datasets have a 5 bytes tag header; the last two bytes in the header contain the data field length, the most significant bit being always 0. For extended datasets instead, these two bytes contain the length of the (following) data field length, the most significant bit being always 1. The value of the most significant bit thus distinguishes "standard" from "extended"; in digital photographies, I assume that the datasets which are actually used (a subset of the standard) are always standard; therefore, we likely do not have the IPTC block spanning more than one APP13 segment. The record types defined by the IPTC-NAA standard are the following (but the "pseudo"-standard by Adobe for APP13 IPTC data is restricted to the first application record, 2:xx, and sometimes to the envelope record, 1:xx, I believe, because everything else can be accomodated more simply by other JPEG Segments):
[Record name] [dataset record number] ---------------------------------------------------- Object Envelop Record 1:xx Application Records: 2:xx through 6:xx Pre-ObjectData Descriptor Record: 7:xx ObjectData Record: 8:xx Post-ObjectData Descriptor Record: 9:xx
The reference document for the IPTC standard is:
B<"IPTC-NAA: Information Interchange Model", version 4, 1-Jul-1999, Comité International des Télécommunications de Presse>. | http://search.cpan.org/dist/Image-MetaData-JPEG/lib/Image/MetaData/JPEG/Structures.pod | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | refinedweb | 4,048 | 50.97 |
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Python always thinks my string is the highest possible number [duplicate]
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user == "paper" or "Paper"
is always true. The
or operator tests the expressions on either side of itself, and if either is true, the result of the
or is also true. Your test above checks (up to) two things:
user == "paper"true? If so, the whole expression is true, so don't check the second part, because
True or xis always true regardless of the value of
x.
"Paper"true? And because non-zero-length strings are true in Python, this part is always true.
So even if the first part is false, the second part is always true, so the expression as a whole is always true.
You wanted something like this:
user == "paper" or user == "Paper"
or, better yet:
user in ("paper", "Paper")
or, best of all:
user.lower() == "paper"
You can also do this with lists and
in:
if user in ["paper", "Paper"]: paper()
or using regex:
import re user = 'paper' if re.match('papers?', user): paper() elif re.match('[Rr]ock', user): rock()
with regexes you can also do case-insensitive match:
import re user = 'paper' if re.match('papers?', user, re.I): paper()
which will match all: paper, PapER, PaperS, ...
you want:
if user == "paper" or user == "Paper":
Same for the others as well.
If you just put
if "Paper":
Python evaluates it as
if this_value_is_true. Same with the code you have basically evaluates to "if user variable equals 'paper' or True" which would always be tue.
I believe I know where your problem comes from:
if user == "paper" or user == "Paper":
That should fix the problem
This:
if user == "paper" or "Paper":
… is parsed as this:
if (user == "paper") or "Paper":
If
user actually is equal to
"paper", that's
if True or "Paper", which is
True.
Otherwise, that's
if False or "Paper", which is
"Paper".
Since
True and
"Paper" are both truthy, the
if always happens.
if user == "paper" or "Paper":
Actually evaluates to:
(user == "paper") or "Paper"
i.e (result of user == "paper") or "Paper"
So the 2 possibilities here are:
In first case it returns
True and in the second one it returns
"Paper".
As "Paper" is a True value(all non-empty strings are
True) so this condition is always
True.
You should use:
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errors happened when practice with ESyS-Particle tutorial
when I input the command from the tutorial, there is a error, the command is sim = LsmMpi(
who can help me?
I just start Esys-particle.
Thanks,
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Hi Dion,
Thanks for your help.
Please find the following error information.
Local abort before MPI_INIT completed completed successfully, but am not able to aggregate error messages, and not able to guarantee that all other processes were killed!
Actually, I input the following code in python 2.7, and no error happened.
from esys.lsm import *
from esys.lsm.util import Vec3, BoundingBox
Then, I input the following code, then error happened.
sim = LsmMpi(
Best,
Qiang
Hi Qiang,
OK, the problem is that ESyS-Particle cannot be executed from directly within Python. Whilst you can import the esys modules, Python will crash once the simulation object (LsmMpi) is constructed. This is because ESyS-Particle is an MPI parallel program and must be executed in a specific manner. To be precise, ESyS-Particle must be executed from the mpirun wrapper that is provided with the MPI libraries.
Copy your three lines of code into a text file and save it as 'mysim.py'. To execute the simulation, type the following in a terminal window:
mpirun -np 2 esysparticle mysim.py
This should generate some output but not any error messages.
I suggest you read a bit further into the Tutorial as this is explained in one of the early sections.
Cheers,
Dion
Hi Dion,
Thanks for your help!
no errors happened, but it stop at
slave started at local/global rank 0 / 1
I will read further for the tutorial.
Thanks,
Qiang
Hi Dion,
Can I know whether Esys-particle can simulate the deformable body instead of rigid body?
Thanks,
Qiang
Hi Dion,
I read the tutorial and run the code, it works now.
I think I have solved this question, thanks for your patience.
By the way, whether Esys-particle can simulate the deformable body instead of rigid body?
Best,
Qiang
Hi Qiang,
ESyS-Particle implements the basic sphere-based discrete element method. Individual spheres are indivisible but typically interact with one another via so-called "soft contacts" such as Hertzian contact forces. Consequently, the spheres themselves are mathematically deformable but unbreakable.
If you wish to simulate an extended deformable body, this can be constructed from non-overlapping spheres bound together with brittle-elastic beam interactions. GenGeo can be used to construct quite complicated shapes comprised of bonded spheres. The advantage of this approach is that the deformation of the body is captured quite naturally and breakage/fracture can also be simulated if desired.
Cheers,
Dion
Hi Dion,
Thanks for your great help!
I will go through the tutorials to learn more about Esys-particle.
Perhaps I will use GenGeo tools to build later.
Have a nice weekend!
Best,
Qiang
Hi Jason,
For me to be able to help you, you will need to supply more information. Could you please describe specifically the commands you entered and how? Also please copy-paste any error messages you obtain when executing these commands.
Cheers,
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[SOLVED] Force focus
Hi,
I would to force the focus on my webview.
I set @Focus: true@ but this not lock all time
Thx
Fifix
What should you do in the webview ? You should give some details to give the understanding of your problem.
Yes,
I create this page
@import Qt 4.7
import QtWebKit 1.0
Item {
width: 1024
height: 550
WebView { id: webView url: "" focus: true anchors.fill: parent }
}@
And drag and drop doesn't work.
I think is focus problem
thx
fx
"Drag and drop" means scrolling?
If so, the scrolling is not a property of the webwiew, you should put your view in a flickable area :)
no drag and drop means to catch and move element.
Look this game
Well, I played and completed the game. Score: 653 points :)
Then I have also understood what you mean.
First test: opened the site in the browser of the E7-00 (symbian Anna last updates) and C7-00 (the same) it won't work. Exactly happens that the cards moves but seems unresponsives: the movement is not catched by the web script that don't move the card in the right place - i.e. the aces on the four top slots - and cards remain floating on the screen. It is possible that as the actual web browser don't has a full support of this web program also the api can't
On the contraty opening the same link on the N950 (last firmware update - Beta 2) the game palys correctly. And I suppose that if you will try your application on this device it will rung too. I think that the first thing you should check is what is the game engine that is running on the web and if it is compabile with the webview on the device you are working. Then try with a page that includes any drag-and-drop web application that you for sure see running on the device web browser. Then, is also in this case the application don't work in your webview it maybe possible that you have omitted something.
As my experience the webview is almost a in-app windows with a web browser instance that depends from the web libraries of the os and sdk version that you are using. What is the device, os version and sdk version you are working on ?
I develop a PC to enjoy the graphics power of the QML
device : desktop application
os : windows 7
sdk : 4.7.4
This qml source code doesn't work but i find a cpp source code and this works.
I don't understand what the difference.
main.cpp
@#include <QtGui>
#include "mainwindow.h"
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QUrl url = QUrl("");
MainWindow *browser = new MainWindow(url);
browser->show();
return app.exec();
}@
mainwindow.cpp
@#include <QtGui>
#include <QtWebKit>
#include "mainwindow.h"
MainWindow::MainWindow(const QUrl& url)
{
view = new QWebView(this);
view->load(url);
setCentralWidget(view);
}
@
mainwindow.h
@
#include <QtGui>
class QWebView;
QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
class QLineEdit;
QT_END_NAMESPACE
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
MainWindow(const QUrl& url);
protected slots:
private:
QWebView *view;
};
@
Please try cloning this project:
It is on-the-run application that uses the browsing features embedded in the application (QML) to navigate the project wiki and some other pages. Try if this version of the browsing with Qt-Complex framework (that includes the components for embedded web pages) and the pages specific for the navigation can work. The first try is that you can clone it (it should run under windows platform), change one of the url pointed to the pages opened and see is the game is working.
Else you can send me the html piece and I will see what can be. Is your project opensource?
I do not understand the link between that and my application.
I want to create a small web browser. And drag and drop the following is just a website with javascript source code.
It's not my site so I can not give. I have no access: D
After testing I discovered that the QWebView (cpp) and WebView (qml) are differents.
I think there are parameters, in addition, by default in the QML.
And I think that the resolution of my problem is here.
In this project there is a set of pages that include a webveiw with some browsing features. It works. Test the application, download it and use the QML page in your application if it solve your problem or see how it is done.
The relation is it.
I find the solution.
I just write " pressGrabTime: 0 "
@import Qt 4.7
import QtWebKit 1.0
Item {
width: 1024
height: 550
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Section: D.11 [depr.storage.iterator] Status: C++17 Submitter: Jonathan Wakely Opened: 2014-11-11 Last modified: 2017-07-30
Priority: 0
View all other issues in [depr.storage.iterator].
View all issues with C++17 status.
Discussion:
Eric Niebler pointed out that raw_storage_iterator should give access to the OutputIterator it wraps.This helps alleviate the exception-safety issue pointed out in the discussion of LWG 2127, as an exception can be caught and then destructors can be run for the constructed elements in the range [begin, raw.base())
[2015-02 Cologne]
NJ: Is this "const" correct [in "base()"]? DK: Yes, we always do that. NJ: And the output iterator is not qualifying in any way? AM/DK: That wouldn't make sense. NJ: OK.VV: What did LEWG say about this feature request? In other words, why is this a library issue? AM: LEWG/JY thought this wouldn't be a contentious issue. NJ: I really hope the split of LEWG and LWG will be fixed soon, since it's only wasting time. VV: So you want to spend even more of your time on discussions that LEWG has? AM: I think this specified correctly. I'm not wild about it. But no longer bothered to stand in its way. GR: Why do we need to repeat the type in "Returns" even though it's part of the synopsis? AM: Good point, but not worth fixing. NJ: Why is "base()" for reverse_iterator commented with "// explicit"? AM: I guess in 1998 that was the only way to say this. AM: So, it's tentatively ready.
Proposed resolution:
This wording is relative to N4140.
Add a new function to the synopsis in [storage.iterator] p1:
namespace std { template <class OutputIterator, class T> class raw_storage_iterator : public iterator<output_iterator_tag,void,void,void,void> { public: explicit raw_storage_iterator(OutputIterator x); raw_storage_iterator<OutputIterator,T>& operator*(); raw_storage_iterator<OutputIterator,T>& operator=(const T& element); raw_storage_iterator<OutputIterator,T>& operator++(); raw_storage_iterator<OutputIterator,T> operator++(int); }; }
Insert the new function and a new paragraph series after p7: | https://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/issue2454 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | refinedweb | 337 | 50.53 |
Beyond Hello World
From OLPC
Making An Activity That Uses The Journal
To make a real Activity for the XO you need to work with entries in the Journal. You may need to launch your Activity from the Journal, or save state to the Journal so your activity can be resumed later, or use the Journal entry as a data store for documents, etc. This is actually easy to do, once you know how.
Understanding the Journal
Files and directories are a major stumbling block for new computer users. If you've ever tried to teach your parents about files and directories you'll understand why the XO laptop uses the Journal concept instead. As a developer you know that beneath these Journal entries are files and directories, and once you know how to get at them you can use them in the normal way.
Every journal entry has two components:
- A file
- Metadata about that file.
There are two kinds of metadata: standard metadata that all journal entries have (name, description, screen capture image) and metadata that is unique to a given Activity. Examples of the second kind in the Read activity are the page number the user was on when he last used the Activity and the page zoom level he was using. Metadata can only be stored as character strings.
Journal entries are associated with Activities. There are two ways to accomplish this:
- If an Activity creates a Journal entry, afterwards when the user resumes the Journal entry that Activity will be launched.
- If a Journal entry represents a file that was not created by an Activity, or if the file is in a format that can be shared by multiple Activities, you can associate the journal entry to your Activity by specifying its MIME type in activity.info. For example, the application/pdf MIME is handled by Read, the text/plain activity is handled by Write, application/zip is handled by Etoys, etc. It is possible to have multiple Activities assigned to the same MIME type. In this case the user will select the Journal entry and be given a menu showing all of the Activities associated with that MIME type, and the user can then select the one she wishes to launch.
The last thing you need to know about the journal is that when you open a file from the journal you are not working on the file itself, but on a temporary copy of that file. In this way the journal can keep multiple versions of the same journal entry. This is true even for Journal entries on an SD card or a USB drive. Any file you work on will be a copy of the original. This will limit your ability to work with large files, like video files kept on a USB drive.
Using The Journal in Your Activity
All Activities extend a Python class named Activity. This class handles all the low level details of working with the Journal, and works on what is sometimes called "The Hollywood Principle", which is "Don't call us, we'll call you." In other words, in your Python code you will implement three methods which will be called by the Activity superclass, and it will be your Activity's job to read and write the file when asked to. The names of the three methods are:
- __init__(self, handle)
- Called when your Activity is constructed.
- read_file(self, filename)
- Called when there is a file to read, and only after __init__() is finished. filename will be the temporary copy of the file corresponding to the journal entry. When this method finishes running that file will be deleted, but if you haven't closed the file you'll still be able to read from the file in the rest of the Activity. This is also a good place to read any meta data left over from previous runs of the Activity.
- write_file(self, filename)
- Called when there is a request to write the journal entry. Even if you don't have a file to write you'll still need this method to save metadata. If you want to cancel the write (for example because you have nothing to write), you can raise NotImplementedError to cause the calling code to abort.
Sample Code: __init__()
All of the sample code is from an Activity that allows the user to page through Gutenberg etext files, either as ascii text files or a .zip files containing a single ascii text file (which is the easiest format to download using the Browse activity).
def __init__(self, handle): "The entry point to the Activity" activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle) self.connect("key_press_event", self.keypress_cb) toolbox = activity.ActivityToolbox(self) self.set_toolbox(toolbox) self._read_toolbar = ReadToolbar() toolbox.add_toolbar(_('Read'), self._read_toolbar) self._read_toolbar.show() toolbox.show() scrolled = gtk.ScrolledWindow() scrolled.set_policy(gtk.POLICY_NEVER, gtk.POLICY_AUTOMATIC) scrolled.props.shadow_type = gtk.SHADOW_NONE self.label = gtk.Label() eb = gtk.EventBox() eb.add(self.label) eb.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.color_parse("white")) scrolled.add_with_viewport(eb) self.label.show() eb.show() scrolled.show() self.set_canvas(scrolled) scrolled.show() self._read_toolbar.set_activity(self)
This method should do everything you can do to set up your Activity without being supplied with any information from the Journal. Even if your app is always launched from the Journal (like the Read activity) you'll still need to set up your canvas and your toolbar here. When you install a new Activity by resuming it from the Journal this is the only method of the three that will get called.
There is reason to believe that if you don't set up your canvas in __init__() the read_file() method will never be called.
In the code above we call the __init__() method in the superclass, register a listener for keypress events, create and install a toolbox, and install a ScrolledWindow as the canvas. The ScrolledWindow contains a Label, which is nested within an EventBox so the label can be given a white background. Finally we give the read toolbar a pointer to the Activity so that controls in the toolbar can invoke methods in the Activity.
Sample Code: read_file()
def read_file(self, filename): "Read the Etext file" global PAGE_SIZE if filename.endswith(".zip"): self.zf = zipfile.ZipFile(filename, 'r') self.book_files = self.zf.namelist() self.save_extracted_file(self.zf, self.book_files[0]) current_file_name = "/tmp/" + self.book_files[0] else: current_file_name = filename self.etext_file = open(current_file_name,"r") self.page_index = [ 0 ] pagecount = 0 linecount = 0 while self.etext_file: line = self.etext_file.readline() if not line: break linecount = linecount + 1 if linecount >= PAGE_SIZE: position = self.etext_file.tell() self.page_index.append(position) linecount = 0 pagecount = pagecount + 1 self.page = int(self.metadata.get('current_page', '0')) self.show_page(self.page) self._read_toolbar.set_total_pages(pagecount + 1) self._read_toolbar.set_current_page(self.page) if filename.endswith(".zip"): os.remove(current_file_name)
This method first figures out what kind of file we're dealing with by looking at the file suffix. If it's a Zip file the contents are extracted to the /tmp directory and read, otherwise we read the filename passed to the method. If we create a temporary file we open it, read it, then delete it. Because of the way the Unix (GNU Linux) file system works we can still read the file after it has been deleted, because all we've done is delete a pointer to the file. The file doesn't actually go away until we close it. Since this is a Python program, the file should be closed automatically when the Activity closes down.
This line demonstrates how to read metadata:
self.page = int(self.metadata.get('current_page', '0'))
Metadata is always stored as character strings, so we have to convert the bookmarked page number to an int before we can use it. metadata.get has a second parameter, which is what value to return if current_page is not defined.
Sample Code: write_file()
def write_file(self, filename): "Save meta data for the file." self.metadata['current_page'] = str(self.page)
All write_file() does is save the current page as metadata, after converting it from an int to a string. If your application needed to save actual data you would open the filename for writing and write it out here.
The rest of the application is normal pygtk coding.
You can learn a lot more about writing Activities by studying the Pydoc for Sugar. | http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Beyond_Hello_World&oldid=221687 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | refinedweb | 1,397 | 53.92 |
Nette Framework: First Impressions?
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NOTE: We will base our review on the official Getting Started tutorial.
Installation and bootstrapping
Nette uses a self-bootstrap approach (similar to Laravel) with the support of
composer:
composer create-project nette/sandbox demo
This will create a
demo directory in the current one, and a sandbox project will be loaded into said folder.
Nette’s Getting Started tutorial guides us through building a simple blog app which features basic blog functions like: list all posts, view an individual post, create/edit a post, comments, security etc.
Let me show you what the app will look like when you finish the tutorial (I have not added any CSS to it so the overall appearance is quite rudimentary):
NOTE: This is served in a Vagrant box.
In the next few sections, we will look at some of the fundamental concepts in Nette. As I am a long-time user of Symfony2 (SF2), I will use that for comparison most of the time. Please note that the comparison notes are purely my personal view.
Project structure
Nette is considered to be an MVC framework, though its “Model” layer is almost missing. Its project structure also reflects this but is organized in a very different way:
Above project structure is taken from Nette’s tutorial
Like in SF2, a dedicated
www (
web in SF2) directory is there to hold the entry PHP file:
index.php and also
.htaccess rules to provide rewrite instructions for Apache. It will also contain static resources (CSS, JS, fonts, images, etc).
vendor will hold all the vendor libraries, as usual.
Many other folders will go under
app:
config: As its name suggests, all the configuration resides here. Nette uses
config.neonand
config.local.neonto provide configuration information related to database, security, services, app-wide parameters, etc. Nette will load
config.neonfirst and then
config.local.neon. The latter will override the same parameters defined in the former, as is common in other frameworks as well. You can find out about the Neon file format here.
presentersand
presenters/templates: these two folders cover the controller and the template (view) portion. Nette uses Latte as its template engine. More on Latte later, and no Cappuccino – sorry.
router: it holds the route factory class to customize pretty URIs and thus creates a bridge between a URI and a controller/action. More on this later.
Start from database
Nette comes with a handy tool called “Adminer” to mimic a
PHPMyAdmin kind of functionality. The interface is clean and easy to use:
As an “embedded” tool, Adminer’s capability is limited so you may want to switch to your preferred database administration tool if this one doesn’t cut it. Also, it should be noted that we access Adminer from the
adminer sub-directory in
www. This may not be a good approach, especially in a production environment. This folder should be ignored in deployment phases – either via
.gitignore,
.gitattributes or otherwise and Nette should point this out in their docs.
Router
We are developing a simple blog app. We would want a URI showing a specific post (identified by its
postId) to look like this:
post/show/4 but not like this:
post/show?postId=4.
Nette recommends using a router factory to manage the link between a URI (or a URI pattern) and its corresponding controllers/actions. The router factory is defined in
app/router/RouterFactory.php:
class RouterFactory { /** * @return \Nette\Application\IRouter */ public static function createRouter() { $router = new RouteList(); $router[] = new Route('post/show/<postId>', 'Post:Show'); $router[] = new Route('<presenter>/<action>[/<id>]', 'Homepage:default'); return $router; } }
The definition of a route is straightforward:
- A URI “pattern” with parameter(s):
post/show/<postId>.
- and a string in the form of “Controller:Action”:
Post:Show.
The detailed Nette routing documentation can be found here.
To use this router factory, we must register a service in
app/config/config.neon:
services: router: App\RouterFactory::createRouter
To generate a link in our template based on a route, we can use the syntax below:
<a href="{link Post:Show $post->id}">{$post->title}</a>
I must admit this Latte syntax is a bit shorter than the corresponding Twig syntax. It uses
{} for both echo statement and control statement. For example:
//To display a variable {$var1} //To run a foreach loop {foreach $items as $item} ... {/foreach}
Latte also has a powerful macro system to facilitate some common tasks. For example, the below code snippet will only display a list when
$items is not null:
<ul n: ... </ul>
This can be handy when the user wants to display a certain section based on a returned result set.
Controllers and Actions
A presenter in Nette is the controller. All presenters are in the
app/presenters folder and the file name should end with
Presenter.php. As an example, we have PostPresenter for post related actions, SignPresenter for sign in / sign out related actions.
In a presenter file, we define a class to hold all the actions (methods) that can be invoked. For example, to show a particular post identified by its
postId (and its related comments), the method will look like this:
namespace App\Presenters; use Nette; use Nette\Application\UI\Form; class PostPresenter extends BasePresenter { private $database; public function __construct(Nette\Database\Context $database) { $this->database = $database; } public function renderShow($postId) { $post = $this->database->table('posts')->get($postId); if (!$post) { $this->error('Post not found'); } $this->template->post = $post; $this->template->comments = $post->related('comments')->order('created_at'); } ... ... }
In
renderShow($postId), a
$post is grabbed from the database by matching
$postId. Then, a template will be rendered with variables (the post and related comments in this case).
We notice that this process is simple but hides a lot of details. For example, where is this
database coming from?
In
app/config/config.local.neon, we can see this section (following the tutorial):
database: dsn: 'mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=quickstart' user: root password: xxxxxx options: lazy: yes
This is a familiar database connection setup. When a controller/action is to be invoked, Nette transforms this DSN into a database object (or database context) and injects it into the constructor of that controller class. Thus, the database is accessible to all methods by means of Dependency Injection.
What about the template rendering? We just see the variable assignments but no explicit call to a “render” method. Well, this is also part of the Nette convention. When an action is given a
render prefix, this action will render a template at the return of the method call.
In this case, the method is
renderShow. This method is linked to URI like “post/show/3” as we defined earlier (in route definitions, the
render prefix is ignored):
$router[] = new Route('post/show/<postId>', 'Post:Show');.
renderShow will start to look for a template under
app/presenters/templates looking for:
- A directory named “Post” because this is the controller name of this
renderShowaction.
- Then a template named
Show.latteto populate all the variables and display it.
So let’s summarize the naming and mapping conventions used in Nette in the below chart:
The Latte template engine
If you are familiar with Twig, you will find that Latte is quite easy to learn.
It uses
{...} pair to escape from the regular HTML parsing and does not differentiate from a pure print (Twig equivalent:
{{...}}) or a control (
{%...%}). Also, a variable must be prefixed with the
$ sign, or a string literal inside the
{ } pair will be treated as a macro and most likely cause a syntax error, saying “Unknown macro {xxxx}”.
There’s a handy feature when we’re dealing with an iteration on a result set, which is very common:
<ul n: {foreach $items as $item} <li id="item-{$iterator->counter}">{$item|capitalize}</li> {/foreach} </ul>
Besides the regular usage of a
foreach loop, a condition has been put in place to decide if the below
<ul> section should be displayed or not. The
<ul> section will only be there when there is at least one item in
$items. With the help of this macro, we can save some lines and avoid using an
if...endif pair.
Latte supports template inheritance, template including, filters, and many other cool features. Please visit its official documentation for details.
Auth and Forms
The official documentation on access control is a good starting point for us.
Nette supports in-memory and database credentials. By using in-memory authentication, we use the below snippet:
$authenticator = new Nette\Security\SimpleAuthenticator(array( 'john' => 'IJ^%4dfh54*', 'kathy' => '12345', // Kathy, this is a very weak password! )); $user->setAuthenticator($authenticator);
Then, the system can explicitly make a user log in using:
$user->login($username, $password);
where the username and password can be obtained from a form submission.
Nette supports roles and ACL (Access Control List) and uses an “Authorizator” to enforce the authorization.
Firstly, we can create some roles with hierachy:
$acl = new Nette\Security\Permission; //Define a guest role and a registered user role $acl->addRole('guest'); $acl->addRole('registered', 'guest');
In the above code, role
register inherits from guest.
Then, we define a few resources that a user may access:
$acl->addResource('article'); $acl->addResource('comments'); $acl->addResource('poll');
Finally, we set authorization rules:
$acl->allow('guest', array('article', 'comments', 'poll'), 'view'); $acl->allow('registered', 'comments', 'add');
So a
guest can view an article, comments and a poll and a
registered user, besides the privileges inherited from
guest, can also add a comment.
I really don’t like this kind of access control. Even an annotation outside of a controlled method itself or the use of a decorator would be better than this, in my opinion. And I would say a centralized file (SF2’s
security.yml) is the best practice: neat, clean, and flexible.
The forms are generated in their respective presenters. In particular, the form creation includes a callback event handler to process a successful form submission.
protected function createComponentCommentForm() { $form = new Form; $form->addText('name', 'Your name:')->setRequired(); $form->addText('email', 'Email:'); $form->addTextArea('content', 'Comment:')->setRequired(); $form->addSubmit('send', 'Publish'); $form->onSuccess[] = [$this, 'commentFormSucceeded']; return $form; }
But, this is not the
action of that form to be rendered.
For example, let’s look at the above code for
renderShow to display a post detail page and a form for readers to enter comments. In the presenter, we only assigned a
post variable and a
comments variable to hold related comments. The comment input form is rendered in the template
app/presenters/templates/Post/Show.latte:
<h2>Post new comments</h2> {control commentForm}
The source of that page is extracted below:
<h2>Post new comments</h2> <form action="/sandbox/www/post/show/4" method="post" id="frm-commentForm"> <table> <tr class="required"> <th><label for="frm-commentForm-name" class="required">Your name:</label></th> <td><input type="text" name="name" id="frm-commentForm-name" required</td> </tr> ... <tr> <th></th> <td><input type="submit" name="send" value="Publish" class="button"></td> </tr> </table> <div><input type="hidden" name="do" value="commentForm-submit"></div> </form>
We see clearly that the form action assigned is
/sandbox/www/post/show/4, which is essentially the URI that displays the post itself. There is no place in the source code to indicate that a hook to the
commentFormSucceeded method exists.
This kind of “inside linking” may confuse Nette beginners a lot. I mean, to have a separate method to process the form is a common practice, and thus to have a URI assigned for such a process is also reasonable.
Nette using a callback/event handler to do this is also fine but there is certainly something missing or not clearly explained between when a user clicks the “Submit” button and the input is persisted in the database.
We know the persistence is performed in a method called
commentFormSucceeded and we implemented that feature by ourselves. But how they are hooked up is not clear.
Other cool features
Nette comes with a debugger called “Tracy“. In debug mode, we will see a small toolbar at the bottom right corner of our page, telling us important page information:
It can be disabled in production mode by changing
app/bootstrap.php:
$configurator->setDebugMode(false); // "true" for debug mode
NOTE: Please purge the
temp/cache folder contents if you encounter any issues after changing from development mode to production mode.
Nette also includes a test suite called “Tester”. The usage is also straightforward. See here for details.
Final Thoughts
Nette is a relatively new framework. Its 2.0 release was about 3 years ago. It came to be noticed by many of us thanks to the SitePoint survey.
Its Github issue tracker is very active. My two questions posted there got answered in less than 10-30 minutes and both lead to the correct solution, but its documentation needs a lot of work. During my attempts to set up the tutorial app following its docs, I found a lot of typos and missing explanations.
If I could give SF2 a score of 10 – not saying SF2 is perfect but just for comparison’s sake – my initial score for Nette is between 7 to 8. It is mature, well written, easy to learn, equipped with advanced features but also has a few areas that need improving.
Are you familiar with Nette? Feel free to share your views and comments, too. | https://www.sitepoint.com/nette-framework-first-impressions/ | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | refinedweb | 2,232 | 54.22 |
While developing the
<ReferenceField> component for admin-on-rest, I recently stumbled upon a fun use case that demonstrates the power of redux-saga. I needed to accumulate and deduplicate actions for performance reasons. Saga proved to be perfect for that job! Read on to see if Saga can help you, too.
<ReferenceField>Component
We recently released Admin-on-rest, a frontend framework for building admin GUIs on top of REST APIS, based on React.js. One of the components of admin-on-rest is called
<ReferenceField>, and it's perfect to fetch references based on a foreign key.
Let me give you an example. Let's say you have a REST endpoint that returns a list of posts. Each post references an author, through an
author_id attribute:
GET /posts HTTP 1.1 OK [ { id: 93, title: 'seatae soluta recusante', author_id: 789, }, { id: 124, title: 'commodi ulam sint et', author_id: 456 }, { id: 125, title: 'consequatur id enim sint', author_id: 735 }, ... ]
If you want to display this list with admin-on-rest, all you have to do is write the following code:
// in src/posts.js import React from 'react'; import { List, Datagrid, TextField, ReferenceField } from 'admin-on-rest/lib/mui'; export const PostList = (props) => ( <List {...props}> <Datagrid> <TextField source="id" /> <ReferenceField label="User" source="author_id" reference="users"> <TextField source="name" /> </ReferenceField> <TextField source="title" /> <TextField source="body" /> </Datagrid> </List> );
The
<ReferenceField> component receives the current
record for each line in the datagrid. It then fetches the
/users/:id API endpoint for the
author_id of each post. It's very simple:
export class ReferenceField extends Component { componentDidMount() { const { reference, record, source } = this.props; dispatch({ type: 'CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE', payload: { resource: reference, id: record[source] } }); } componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) { if (this.props.record.id !== nextProps.record.id) { const { reference, record, source } = nextProps; dispatch({ type: 'CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE', payload: { resource: reference, id: record[source] } }); } } render() { const { reference, referenceRecord, children } = this.props; if (!referenceRecord && !allowEmpty) { return <LinearProgress />; } return React.cloneElement(children, { record: referenceRecord, resource: reference, }); } }
The
referenceRecord is mapped by Redux from the state. It is empty until the reference is fetched.
The naive implementation of the
CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE action handler works like a DDoS attack: for each line in the datagrid, the component fetches the
/users endpoint once for the related user.
GET /users/789 GET /users/456 GET /users/735 ...
This is not effective at all, especially since most REST APIs accept a
filter parameter, allowing to group these n calls into a single one:
GET /users?filter={ids:[789,456,735,...]}
Besides, if two posts are authored by the same user, the naive approach fetches the same user twice.
When a React component dispatches actions, how can another service catch the actions, accumulate and group them, then redispatch a single action?
Redux-saga is a side effect library for Redux. "Side effect" here means everything Redux reducers cannot do by themselves: redispatching another action, relying on an external datasource (like an API or
setTimeout), etc. Saga uses ES5 generators to offer unique features and the
<ReferenceField> use case is a great example.
From a Redux app's point of view, Saga is like a middleware. Saga will see every dispatched action. It can choose to catch one, and redispatch another one after a while. That's exactly what we'll do:
import { delay, takeEvery } from 'redux-saga'; import { call, cancel, fork, put, take } from 'redux-saga/effects'; /** * Example * * let id = { * posts: { 4: true, 7: true, 345: true }, * authors: { 23: true, 47: true, 78: true }, * } */ const ids = {}; const tasks = {}; // see function* fetchReference(resource) { // combined with cancel(), this debounces the calls yield call(delay, 50); yield put({ type: 'CRUD_GET_MANY', payload: { resource, ids: Object.keys(ids[resource]) }, }); delete ids[resource]; delete tasks[resource]; } function* accumulate({ payload }) { const { id, resource } = payload; if (!ids[resource]) { ids[resource] = {}; } ids[resource][id] = true; // fast UNIQUE if (tasks[resource]) { yield cancel(tasks[resource]); } tasks[resource] = yield fork(fetchReference, resource); } export default function* () { yield takeEvery('CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE', accumulate); }
There is a lot to explain here, and it reads from the bottom up.
The default function registers a new watcher called
accumulate(), which will be called each time a
CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE is dispatched (that's the action dispatched by the
<ReferenceField> component).
This
accumulate() function adds the
id from the payload to an
ids object that's in the middleware closure, with a trick to deduplicate ids. Then,
accumulate() forks another handler called
fetchReference(), and keeps a reference in
tasks.
This third function,
fetchReference(), starts by a
delay() of 50ms (equivalent of a
setTimeout()). If another
CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE action is caught before the timeout ends, then the initial
fetchReference() fork is cancelled. The net effect is a debounce:
fetchReference() will only pass the call to
delay the last time a
CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE is dispatched.
call,
cancel,
fork,
put, and
take are high-level side effect helpers provided by saga. Check out the saga documentation to learn more about these side effects.
Thanks to the saga we wrote, n calls to
CRUD_GET_ONE_REFERENCE will result in a single
CRUD_GET_MANY action dispatch:
{ type: 'CRUD_GET_MANY', payload: { resource: 'users', ids: [789,456,735,...], } }
This action is then caught by another middleware (powered by Saga too, but you could use the thunk middleware or a promise middleware) to issue an HTTP call to:
GET /users?filter={ids:[789,456,735,...]}
The frontend now displays the list in a snap!
Redux Saga allowed us to keep the component logic simple (each
<ReferenceField> component dispatches one single action), and to add sophisticated side effects in the controller part of the application. Even if the initial learning curve is not easy, after a day or two, you'll understand the huge potential that Saga offers. We definitely recommend it for complex React apps with performance requirements. | https://marmelab.com/blog/2016/10/18/using-redux-saga-to-deduplicate-and-group-actions.html | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | refinedweb | 945 | 53.31 |
It’s as simple as that.
Identity is not corporate. That means no company is going to “win” at personal identity, any more than any company can win at being you or me. It makes no sense.
But meanwhile, there’s this big war going on over identity, that Mike Elgan of CultOfMac covers (from the Apple side) in Why the ‘i’ in iPhone Will Stand For ‘Identity’. Writes Mike,.
But Apple can win, Mike says. Here’s why:.)
As I wrote in Identity systems, failing to communicate,.
And I gotta say, Apple sucks at being an identity cow. I am three different calves to Apple right now. That is, three different AppleIDs. I have spoken to Apple people many times about their need to merge customer namespaces, and they give me the same answer every time: it’s too hard. Worse, they’ve screwed it up over and over. An Apple mail account that was once foo at mac.com then became foo at me.com is now also foo at icloud.com. On that basis alone Apple amply demonstrates the namespace problem, which might be the oldest problem (that’s still with us) in all of computing.
Einstein said, No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. The namespace problem was created — and worsened — by companies creating more namespaces. One more bigfoot creating one more way to leverage its own private namespace to the whole world is not a solution. It’s one more problem to solve.
The only way to solve the identity problem is where the most pain is felt: at the individual level.
This is a very hard fact for enterprise-level solution-makers to grok, because at their level the solution is always yet another namespace or yet another bigfoot company pushing yet another technical solution. That, in effect, is what Mike says Apple will do here. And they will fail, just like Facebook, Google, Microsoft (remember Hailstorm and Passport?) and every other bigfoot has failed. Because they can’t solve it.
Meanwhile, we’ve solved this kind of thing before at the personal level, over and over, and we will do it again.
If you want to help work on it, come to the Internet Identity Workshop next week in Mountain View. That’s where the real work is happening. | http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2013/05/01/ | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | refinedweb | 393 | 75.2 |
Step by Step
Begin creating the sample Web UI by following these steps:
Start VB and create a new ActiveX DLL project.
From the Project menu, choose References and check "Microsoft Active Server Pages Object Library." This object library is installed on your PC when you install IIS or PWS. Note that it is possible to use this technique without this ASP object library, but it uses late-binding, which is not desirable.
Give your component a nicer name than Project1 by clicking Properties under the Project menu. Type PublishersWebUI for the Project Name and Project Description.
Change the name of the default class (Class1) to clsWebApp.
Add a new (code) module to the project, and change its name to basGlobal.
In basGlobal, make the following declarations:
- In clsWebApp, type the code for the OnStartPage events as follows:
Code a public sub procedure in clsWebApp to act as a method that can be called from your ASP code:
And now, run your project. When you run an ActiveX DLL from inside the VB IDE, VB temporarily registers the component and its public classes, and points the registry back to the VB IDE. When another application creates an instance of a class that your application exposes, the source code from the class gets interpreted and run inside the VB IDE. When you stop the application, VB automatically unregisters your component. This behavior is great because it enables you to use all of VB's interactive debugging tools, just as you do when developing Windows apps.
At this point, your component is running and waiting for something to invoke it. To pass control from IIS (or PWS) to your component, you'll need to create one ASP file that creates an instance of the clsWebApp class and calls its WebMain method. (I know I said that this technique is scriptless, and now I'm telling you to create a script file, but this file is so tiny that I don't think it really counts.) Use Notepad to create a file named PubWebUI.asp, and type its contents as follows:
- Finally, run your Web browser, and type the URL for the PubWebUI.asp script file (for example,). If everything works as planned, you should see the "Hello World." text displayed in your browser window.
Public gAspAppl As Application Public gAspReq As Request Public gAspResp As Response Public gAspServer As Server Public gAspSession As Session
If you expose this OnStartPage method, it is called automatically when your class is instantiated from ASP code. Think of it as being similar to a Form_Load event. I stumbled on this quite by accident one day while surfing the net. I don't know where it came from, but it likely has something to do with WebClasses. In any event, it allows our code to grab a reference to the intrinsic ASP objects. As mentioned earlier, there are other ways to get these references, but I like this one best.
Public Sub WebMain() Call gAspResp.Write("Hello World.") End Sub
<% Dim mWebUI Set mWebUI = Server.CreateObject("PublishersWebUI.clsWebApp") Call mWebUI.WebMain %>Or, if you're feeling particularly clever, use this one-line version:
<% Call Server.CreateObject("PublishersWebUI.clsWebApp").WebMain %>sure that you save this script file to somewhere that is reachable by your Web browser, such as: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\PubWebUI.asp.
The sequence of the previous processing steps goes something like this: When you type the URL of your script, the Web browser sends a request for this file to the Web server running on your machine. The Web server reads the script file and, because it has an ASP file type, passes the request to the ASP and script-parsing components. When your script's CreateObject command is executed, the registry is searched for a component named PublishersWebUI (which we know points back to the VB IDE). Next, an instance of clsWebApp is created, and because we exposed a method named OnStartPage, it gets automatically called and is passed a reference to the scripting context. Our code then grabs a reference to the intrinsic ASP objects and saves these references in the global variables for later use. Finally, the class's WebMain method is called, which then uses the ASP Response object's Write method to send some simple text back to the browser.
Because we grabbed a reference to all of the intrinsic ASP objects, the VB code is free to use any property or method of these objects, just as VBScript code in an ASP page might. For example, our code can get the contents of form controls, obtain query string parameters, and use session variables. | http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=19627&seqNum=4 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | refinedweb | 773 | 61.06 |
(A standalone math post that I want to be able to link back to later/elsewhere)
There's this statistical phenomenon where it's possible for two multivariate distributions to overlap along any one variable, but be cleanly separable when you look at the entire configuration space at once. This is perhaps easiest to see with an illustrative diagram—
The denial of this possibility (in arguments of the form, "the distributions overlap along this variable, therefore you can't say that they're different") is sometimes called the "univariate fallacy." (Eliezer Yudkowsky proposes "covariance denial fallacy" or "cluster erasure fallacy" as potential alternative names.)
Let's make this more concrete by making up an example with actual numbers instead of just a pretty diagram. Imagine we have some datapoints that live in the forty-dimensional space {1, 2, 3, 4}⁴⁰ that are sampled from one of two probability distibutions, which we'll call and .
For simplicity, let's suppose that the individual variables x₁, x₂, ... x₄₀—the coördinates of a point in our forty-dimensional space—are statistically independent and identically distributed. For every individual , the marginal distribution of is—
And for —
If you look at any one -coördinate for a point, you can't be confident which distribution the point was sampled from. For example, seeing that x₁ takes the value 2 gives you a 7/4 (= 1.75) likelihood ratio in favor of that the point having been sampled from rather than , which is log₂(7/4) ≈ 0.807 bits of evidence.
That's ... not a whole lot of evidence. If you guessed that the datapoint came from based on that much evidence, you'd be wrong about 4 times out of 10. (Given equal (1:1) prior odds, an odds ratio of 7:4 amounts to a probability of (7/4)/(1 + 7/4) ≈ 0.636.)
And yet if we look at many variables, we can achieve supreme, godlike confidence about which distribution a point was sampled from. Proving this is left as an exercise to the particularly intrepid reader, but a concrete demonstration is probably simpler and should be pretty convincing! Let's write some Python code to sample a point ∈ {1, 2, 3, 4}⁴⁰ from —
import random def a(): return random.sample( [1]*4 + # 1/4 [2]*7 + # 7/16 [3]*4 + # 1/4 [4], # 1/16 1 )[0] x = [a() for _ in range(40)] print(x)
Go ahead and run the code yourself. (With an online REPL if you don't have Python installed locally.) You'll probably get a value of
x that "looks something like"
[2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4]
If someone off the street just handed you this without telling you whether she got it from or , how would you compute the probability that it came from ?
Well, because the coördinates/variables are statistically independent, you can just tally up (multiply) the individual likelihood ratios from each variable. That's only a little bit more code—
import logging logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO) def odds_to_probability(o): return o/(1+o) def tally_likelihoods(x, p_a, p_b): total_odds = 1 for i, x_i in enumerate(x, start=1): lr = p_a[x_i-1]/p_b[x_i-1] # (-1s because of zero-based array indexing) logging.info("x_%s = %s, likelihood ratio is %s", i, x_i, lr) total_odds *= lr return total_odds print( odds_to_probability( tally_likelihoods( x, [1/4, 7/16, 1/4, 1/16], [1/16, 1/4, 7/16, 1/4] ) ) )
If you run that code, you'll probably see "something like" this—
INFO:root:x_1 = 2, likelihood ratio is 1.75 INFO:root:x_2 = 1, likelihood ratio is 4.0 INFO:root:x_3 = 2, likelihood ratio is 1.75 INFO:root:x_4 = 2, likelihood ratio is 1.75 INFO:root:x_5 = 1, likelihood ratio is 4.0 [blah blah, redacting some lines to save vertical space in the blog post, blah blah] INFO:root:x_37 = 2, likelihood ratio is 1.75 INFO:root:x_38 = 3, likelihood ratio is 0.5714285714285714 INFO:root:x_39 = 3, likelihood ratio is 0.5714285714285714 INFO:root:x_40 = 4, likelihood ratio is 0.25 0.9999936561215961
Our computed probability that came from has several nines in it. Wow! That's pretty confident!
Thanks for reading!
Good post. Some feedback:
I think you can replace the first instance of "are statistically independent" with "are statistically independent and identically distributed" & improve clarity.
IMO, your argument needs work if you want it to be more than an intuition pump. If the question is the existence or nonexistence of particular clusters, you are essentially assuming what you need to prove in this post. Plus, the existence or nonexistence of clusters is a "choice of ontology" question which doesn't necessarily have a single correct answer.
You're also fuzzing things by talking about discrete distributions here, then linking to Eliezer's discussion of continuous latent variables ("intelligence") without noting the difference. And: If a number of characteristics have been observed to co-vary, this isn't sufficient evidence for any particular causal mechanism. Correlation isn't causation. As I pointed out in this essay, it's possible there's some latent factor like the ease of obtaining calories in an organism's environment which explains interspecies intelligence differences but doesn't say anything about the "intelligence" of software.
Done, thanks!
The difference doesn't seem relevant to the narrow point I'm trying to make? I was originally going to use multivariate normal distributions with different means, but then decided to just make up "peaked" discrete distributions in order to keep the arithmetic simple.
I agree with your other two points (mostly - I don't feel that the distinction between discrete and continuous variables is important for Zack's argument so it seems fine to gloss over it) but I disagree with the first.
In order to be able to simply multiply likelihood ratios, the sufficient fact is that they're statistically independent. In this toy model, they also happen to be identically distributed, but I think it's clear from context that Zack would like to apply his argument to a variety of situations where the different dimensions have different distributions. You're suggesting replacing "X, therefore Z" with "X and Y, therefore Z", when in fact X->Z, and it is not the case that Y->Z.
Hi Zack,
Can you clarify something? In the picture you draw, there is a codimension-1 linear subspace separating the parameter space into two halves, with all red points to one side, and all blue points to the other. Projecting onto any 1-dimensional subspace orthogonal to this (there is a unique one through the origin) will thus yield a `variable' which cleanly separates the two points into the red and blue categories. So in the illustrated example, it looks just like a problem of bad coordinate choice.
On the other hand, one can easily have much more pathological situations; for examples, the red points could all lie inside a certain sphere, and the blue points outside it. Then no choice of linear coordinates will illustrate this, and one has to use more advanced analysis techniques to pick up on it (e.g. persistent homology).
So, to my vague question: do you have only the first situation in mind, or are you also considering the general case, but made the illustrated example extra-simple?
Perhaps this is clarified by your numerical example, I'm afraid I've not checked.
Thanks, this is a really important point! Indeed, for freely-reparametrizable abstract points in an abstract vector space, this is just a bad choice of coordinates. The reason this objection doesn't make the post completely useless, is that for some applications (you know, if you're one of those weird people who cares about "applications"), we do want to regard some bases as more "fundamental", if the variables represent real-world measurements.
For example, you might be able to successfully classify two different species of flower using both "stem length" and "petal color" measurements, even if the distributions overlap for either stem length or petal color considered individually. Mathematically, we could view the distributions as not overlapping with respect to some variable that corresponds to some weighted function of stem length and petal color, but that variable seems "artificial", less "interpretable.".
Thanks for the reply, Zack.
Sorry, I hope I didn't suggest I thought that! You make a good point about some variables being more natural in given applications. I think it's good to keep in mind that sometimes it's just a matter of coordinate choice, and other times the points may be separated but not in a linear way.
I mean, it doesn't matter whether you think it, right? It matters whether it's true. Like, if I were to were to write a completely useless blog post on account of failing to understand the concept of a change of basis, then someone should tell me, because that would be helping me stop being deceived about the quality of my blogging.
FYI, one of the symbols in this post is not rendering properly. It appears to be U+20D7 COMBINING RIGHT ARROW ABOVE (appearing right after the ‘x’ characters) but, at least on this machine (Mac OS 10.11.6, Chrome 74.0.3729.131), it renders as a box:
It is probably a good idea to use LaTeX to encode such symbols.
UPDATE: It does work properly in Firefox 67.0.2 (on the same machine):
Thanks for the bug report; I edited the post to use LaTeX
\vec{x}. (The combining arrow worked for me on Firefox 67.0.1 and was kind-of-ugly-but-definitely-renders on Chromium 74.0.3729.169, on Xubuntu 16.04)
I've been doing this thing where I prefer to use "plain" Unicode where possible (where, e.g., the subscript in "x₁" is 0x2081 SUBSCRIPT ONE) and only resort to "fancy" (and therefore suspicious) LaTeX when I really need it, but the reported Chrome-on-macOS behavior does slightly alter my perception of "really need it."
I entirely sympathize with this preference!
Unfortunately, proper rendering of Unicode depends on the availability of the requisite characters in the fallback fonts available in a user’s OS/client combination (which vary unpredictably). This means that the more exotic code points cannot be relied on to properly render with acceptable consistency.
Now, that having been said, and availability and proper rendering aside, I cannot endorse your use of such code points as U+2081 SUBSCRIPT ONE. Such typographic features as subscripts ought properly to be encoded via OpenType metadata[1], not via Unicode (and indeed I consider the existence of these code points to be a necessary evil at best, and possibly just a bad idea). In the case where OpenType metadata editing[2] is not available, the proper approach is either LaTeX, or “low-tech” approximations such as brackets.
Which, in turn, ought to be generated programmatically from, e.g., HTML markup (or even higher-level markup languages like Markdown or wiki markup), rather than inserted manually. This is because the output generation code must be able to decide whether to use OpenType metadata or whether to instead use lower-level approaches like the HTML+CSS layout system, etc., depending on the capabilities of the output medium in any given case. ↩︎
That is, the editing of the requisite markup that will generate the proper OpenType metadata; see previous footnote. ↩︎
(I wonder how a "-1" ended up in the canonical URL slug (/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy-1)? Did someone else have a draft of the same name, and the system wants unique slugs??)
Perhaps it anticipates that you will write a sequel. | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy-1 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | refinedweb | 1,995 | 51.78 |
In an earlier post, I talked about making programs trash the heap, and someone wanted to know what that was. Trashing the heap is something you’ve seen before. It often looks like this:
Here is how it works:
The Heap…
You’ve probably noticed that programs take up computer memory. As they do stuff, they need to store information. The program says, “Hey, I need 8 bytes of memory.” The system finds a free spot in memory big enough to hold something 8 bytes in size, and tells the program where it is. This happens thousands of times a second for a busy program. Get four bytes. Get eight more bytes. Then release the four because you’re done with them. Now get 100 bytes. Now get a megabyte. Now drop the eight bytes.
This sea of data is called “the heap”. It’s also sometimes called the “free store”, but I’ve only ever heard old beardy types use that terminology. I think the last time I saw the words “free store” was in 1991-ish. And the book I was reading was already old.
Anyway, usually this activity is abstracted for a programmer. You just create variables when you need them and throw them away when you’re done.
But sometimes, in some languages, you do need to worry about memory. And this is where things get messy.
…and the trashing thereof.
Let’s say you’re programming in C or C++, and you have the program grab enough memory to store 20 bytes of data. And now you make a perfectly innocent mistake and accidentally copy 4,096 bytes into that 20-byte slot. (This is actually easy to do for a lot of reasons. More on that in a minute.) Your data will fill up those 20 bytes, and then overwrite the next 4,076 of data. Any variables that happened to be occupying that space have now had their values replaced with something different.
Congratulations, you’ve just trashed the heap. If you are very very lucky, the program will crash right away.
If you are not lucky, it will continue to run but begin behaving oddly. See, those 4,076 bytes of memory might have been filled with crucial bits of data needed to keep this program operational. If it crashes instantly you can look at what it was doing just before death and you’ll find the trouble spot. But those bytes of memory could have been empty, and thus spewing a bunch of random garbage into that space is “harmless”. (This time.) What you’ve got in this case is a random crash bug. The program may run fine, act oddly, or insta-crash, all based on what things happened to be in that spot of memory at the time.
WHYYYYY!?!?
This is the subject of holy wars. Some say that C is a crap language because you can (and must) interact with memory directly. Other people say the people in the first group are just crap programmers.
I am not an expert on languages. Other than doing a lot of BASIC in my teenage years I’ve spent limited time dabbling outside of C, so I can’t make any really good comparisons. But 90% of the problems I have in C are because it doesn’t have a simple way of handling strings of text.
Here is a bit of old-school BASIC code that adds two strings of data together:
Run this, and it will take two phrases:
Twilight is a great book
and:
- for starting arguments!
And merge them together to print the entire sentence.
Twilight is a great book - for starting arguments!
In many languages you can define bits of text, cut them up, join them, or whatever you like and you don’t have to worry about memory. In fact, it’s actually impossible to worry about memory in old-school BASIC – it has no tools for doing so. It’s simple. It’s readable. It’s impossible to make it crash. (Although it’s still possible to create all sorts of other bugs. But trashing the heap is not a risk.)
In C*, the language does not do all of this legwork for you. If you wanted to add those strings together you’d need to measure the length of the first string. Then measure the length of the second. Then allocate a block of memory large enough for both strings plus 1 extra byte. Then copy the first string into that spot of memory. Then copy the second string in the spot 24 bytes after that (just after the first string).
(Note to would-be nitpickers: I’m aware you’d use sprintf to save yourself a few lines, and I know you wouldn’t really do things just this way. This post is for non-coders. Don’t Be That Guy.)
The advantage of the C way is that it is crazy fast and memory efficient. This was important back when machines ran at sub-megahertz speeds and had 64k of memory. Which is not even enough memory to store this one image:
But today we’ve got computers with lots of power and spending three minutes trying to save ten bytes of memory is a horrifying waste of programmer resources. It’s like pushing your car through an intersection to save on gas. The effort is much greater than the savings and you’re a lot more likely to cause a crash somewhere.
90% of my memory mishaps are the result of juggling string data like this.
1) Measuring and allocating memory is annoying and adds a lot of extra lines of code and is prone to mishaps.
2) You have to remember to explicitly free the memory later, “Okay, I’m done with this spot now. Something else can use that memory.” If you forget, then each time this part of the program is run it will grab more memory. (This is called a memory “leak”. The program eats up more and more memory the longer it runs.)
3) You have to remember to not use that spot after you’ve freed it. The variable might still be around, but after you’ve freed the memory it pointed to it’s just a crash waiting to happen.
4) Some programmers – myself included – save themselves the headache of measuring & allocating by just grabbing a space that’s “always going to be big enough”. Instead of measuring a and b, I’ll just grab… hmmmm… 100 bytes? That sounds good. In effect, I’m routing around the features of the language that were intended to make C fast and memory efficient by deliberately wasting memory. And of course, maybe in some unusual circumstances 100 might not be enough. Did I remember to add a bunch of code to catch and handle that case?
5) Strings must end in an invisible terminating character. When you print or copy strings, it looks for this terminator to let it know when to stop copying. If that terminator isn’t there for some reason it will keep printing or copying until it runs right out of the space you’ve allocated and will sail off into the heap looking for it. You’ll end up printing a bunch of garbage or (worse) copying a lot more stuff than you intended. This also means that the length of all strings (in memory) is the number of characters it contains, plus one. It’s just really easy to make one-off mistakes like this.
Interfacing directly with memory is really fast but also dangerous. It’s a powerful tool, like a flamethrower. Critics of C and C++ say that languages shouldn’t have flamethrowers. Supporters say that flamethrowers are fine, you just need to not make any mistakes. I’m of the opinion that having a flamethrower is a good thing, but I shouldn’t need to use it every time I want to light a cigarette.
I don’t mind this hassle when I’m dealing with something big. When I’m loading 10MB texture maps and complex 3d models into memory I don’t mind the overhead involved to take care of them efficiently. They’re big and you’re usually in an unbelievable hurry when you’re dealing with those. But juggling crappy little 10-bytes strings like they were live hand grenades is tedious. Partly because they’re so trivial, and partly because it’s something that needs to be done often. Even after all these years I still get annoyed at how cluttered and inelegant it is when I want to deal with a couple of short strings. What would be a single line of code in any other language ends up being half a dozen. (If done properly. If done improperly it’s just two lines of code now and half an hour of pulling your hair out six months from now when you have to sort out why it’s crashing.)
There are add-ons for C++ out there that will help with this, but they’re not standard. If you use one, you may find your code is no longer portable. Or it will be a headache for other programmers to read and maintain. Or those add-ons might conflict with something else you’re trying to use.
And now you know.
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What is “Trashing the heap”?”
Interesting read, and understandable for C-laymen such as myself. Thank you.
Question, though: Is it only the various C-languages that do this? I can’t remember Java or Delphi forcing me to do this kind of stuff, anyway; are there more programming languages that force this manual memory allocation?
Yes, but they’re low-level languages, and few code in other than C. The only other one that I know is Assembly. Professional programmers feel free to fill in.
Java has a memory manager built into the JVM, I think. I know that it definitely has a garbage collector which runs around freeing up unallocated memory.
Delphi is Object Oriented Pascal, isn’t it? That has no manual memory management either.
delphi for win32 is only one step above c++ (it has built in string management) but allows you to allocate memory if needed. (and requires you to clean up your own objects)
Algol, COBOL, FORTRAN and all these other really old things do this too. But “modern” languages like Java, Delphi (which is pretty much Pascal.v2 with GUI), VBasic, Scala, Python, Ruby or even C# do not require it (much).
C and C++ are just very widely used and therefore prone to a lot of criticism.
It’s primarily the C family of languages, because C was created to write an operating system in. When you’re writing an OS (or any other application that needs direct hardware access and predictable timing), you really need the low-level features that C provides.
Unfortunately, because it worked so well at its original task it became the “hot” language of the time, got used for general purpose applications, and was used by folks that had NO idea what they were doing. This resulted in amazing quantities of really bad code that was capable of crashing the entire system.
For modern application programming, C would be an epically bad choice. C++ inherited all of C, including its low-level features, so although it’s better it’s still booby-trapped and (IMO) a bad choice for new development. Serious application development should be done using an appropriate language. Java & C# are adequate, though my personal favorite is Python and I’ve heard good things about Ruby.
Really, the only reason to be using C/C++ is if you need to be close to the hardware for some reason. I live in it, since I do embedded development, but I’m the exception.
On any modern machine/OS, the only really hardware specific code is (should be) in drivers or the OS’s boot code – this is the code that does things like “put the bytes F1 3E 83 A9 in memory at physical address 5F0000, because that’s where the IO port that sends messages to the CD drive is” (not really).
More probably, it’s because you want to use libraries. OpenGL, FMOD, Havok, maths (matrixes and linear algebra, not square root!), networking, threading and other plumbing. Somewhat ironicly, you have to be much more knowledgeable about C to use a library from a non-C language in many cases:
C’s binary interface is the de-facto for pretty much any operating system under the sun, so any generally useful library tends to be written for C usage first, and other languages have to have glue written to connect to them. This glue is incredibly boring *and* difficult to write, so unless it’s both a fairly popular language and a fairly popular library, you will have to learn the C API so you can write the glue anyway. In both cases, all the documentation and the help other users give you will be against the C API, so you have to convert everything in your head. On top of that, every time something goes wrong you have to check whether it’s the glue that’s wrong, on top of your code using the API or the API itself.
C or C++:
#include
#include
… later …
wglUseFontOutlines(…)
C#:
static class Native {
[DllImport(“opengl32”, EntryPoint = “wglUseFontOutlines”, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Winapi)]
public static extern bool wglUseFontOutlines(
IntPtr hDC,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] UInt32 first,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] UInt32 count,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] UInt32 listBase,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.R4)] Single deviation,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.R4)] Single extrusion,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)] Int32 format,
[Out] Gdi.GLYPHMETRICSFLOAT[] lpgmf);
}
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
public struct GLYPHMETRICSFLOAT
{
public Single gmfBlackBoxX;
public Single gmfBlackBoxY;
public POINTFLOAT gmfptGlyphOrigin;
public Single gmfCellIncX;
public Single gmfCellIncY;
}
public struct POINTFLOAT
{
public Single x;
public Single y;
}
… later…
Native.wglUseFontOutlines(…)
And C#’s “Platform Invoke” is one of the simpler to use “glues”!(better known as Foreign Function Interfaces, or FFI).
And now I know.
Appreciate the replies. Thanks. ;)
Well spoken! I have, at times, written small string libraries to get around most of my annoyances with C strings, but, well, there’s more than one way of implementing a (character) string and some ways are good for some things and other ways for other things, so in the end, I always end up with five partial implementations, all different, none covering the WHOLE need, but all (together) doing so, with painful impedance mismatch everywhere.
Oh, another “fun” thing with overwritten allocations… Sometimes, they change the book-keeping that’s used to keep tabs on what is and isn’t allocated, then it becomes very erratic.
My hat is off to you for daring to write a GUI program in C++…have you thought about porting it to, say, C#? Or would the time sink needed for that not be worth it? The present iteration of .NET is pretty darn good in this programmer’s opinion.
Being an old geezer, I don’t know C#. I realize it’s the hip new thing now and I’ve been sort of meaning to check it out at some point, but on my personal timeline it feels like the language appeared five minutes ago.
C# = C++ – (memory management) + (liberal smattering of VB)
Honestly, once you’ve got the basic logical structures of computer languages down the differences become syntactical. Those only take a little time to figure out.
Esoteric, problem-specific languages may differ of course.
Actually C# = Java, with some minor syntax changes.
It’s a fantastic language, and .NET is a good runtime.
Just don’t be silly and use it on a server.
What if you need to run the software on a non-Windows system? Is the .NET actually available for others?
There is something called Mono developed by Novell, that is a free, cross-OS implementation of the .NET runtime. Unity and some medium-visibility Gnome software (Gnome Do, Banshee, F-Spot, Tomboy) runs on Mono.
Mono is on par with .NET 2.0, with .NET 4.0 released earlier this year it is not a good substitution.
Except .NET 4.0 didn’t really add that much to the plate in terms of features, esp. in the portable field. The biggest focus was interoperability with COM & P/Invoke, which don’t work outside Windows anyways, features for C# 4.0, which are also mostly about interop. The rest is support for nice stuff like full support for dynamic languages, Contracts and Parallel processing and a couple new numeric types.
Sure, there are bugfixes and whatnot, but for the most part, developers can stay on 2.0 (3.0 and 3.5 work on top of the 2.0 CLR and Mono already implemented most of the fatures anyways)
And if you’re really desperate, Mono 2.8 is already on preview with support for C# 4.0 (and associated framework changes)
ACTUALLY… C# CLI is kind of like the JVM but the libraries are more like delphi (the dude that designed the original delphi being the head guy on c#)
also, delphi DOES have access to memory management. Creating objects improperly can still create memory leaks etc, it’s maybe half a level above c++
Yes, but in Delphi strings are automatically allocated, reference counted and freed for you without having to do any work (unless you really WANT to do them the old fashioned way). Which helps because as Shamus said you play with strings a LOT in most programs.
“+ (liberal smattering of VB)”
Right, that does it. I’m never touching C#. In my eyes Basic, especially Visual Basic, should’ve died over ten years ago.
Awwww VB isnt all bad. I figure its kinda like crystal meth. You get this really nice GUI created really fast but when you come down, you have no idea what you’ve done and no idea of the kind of long term problems you’ve just caused yourself.
Replace GUI with something else and you’ve got programming with anything while drunk.
And that’s like saying driving at top speed at a brick wall isn’t all bad. I mean, you get a nice rush for a while right?
I think you missed the outcry VB devs did when they discovered VB.net, in the spirit of fixing things, made it impossible to trivially migrate. C# and VB.net are NOT VB, and approaching (or the opposite) the languages with that prejudice is nothing short of idiotic.
It is not unlike the move from VB3 to VB4. That was when the move from 16 to 32 bit occurred. VBX’s went bye-bye and the OCX became king. The code changes in that version change were tremendous and time consuming.
I don’t think I get your comment. So C# and VB.net is better/not as bad as VB? That just feels like saying “eating gravel isn’t as bad as eating shit”. It doesn’t exactly make gravel attracting.
Not that my hatred for VB is necessarily justifiably or fair anyway.
Edit: didn’t read Ian’s (or other’s) comment before, so look at this in that light.
Visual Basic, as it was, is dead.
Visual Basic .NET is a sanitized version of Visual Basic with true object oriented support (it’s kind of required now) that compiles code to the CLR.
I don’t know where the previous poster got that C# contains a “liberal smattering of VB,” because it’s more Java-inspired than VB-inspired, though in my opinion it’s a bit less clunky and potentially less verbose than Java (that said, I’m far more experienced with C# than I am Java). In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the only reason that C# even remotely resembles VB.NET is because they both use the same support assemblies (kind of like a standard library of sorts).
Basically: C# is kind of like a C++/Java hybrid that is designed to compile to CLR bytebode. VB.NET is a greatly enhanced (and surprisingly sensical, unlike VB6) Visual Basic-inspired language that is designed to compile to CLR bytecode. They are radically different in terms of syntax, and VB.NET tends to do a bit more handholding than C#. Which one you use is personal preference. They are both capable of doing the exact same things.
“They are both capable of doing the exact same things.”
discounting amusing things like anonymous functions.
Ah, true. I suppose C# 3.0 did kind of make a liar out of me there. I haven’t touched VB.NET since VS.NET 2002, so meh.
That being said, that is a language construct. Even if you can’t use that exact syntax you can still pull off the same thing in VB.NET (this also holds true with a couple of other features that I can’t remember off the top of my head).
For most applications, particularly business-oriented ones, you can accomplish the same thing with similar code using both languages. Better? :)
I don’t think C# is at all related to VB. Being a VB programmer in my teenage years, then C++, and now C#, I actually loath VB with every fibre of my being (pardon VB programmers :-)), but love C#. So don’t write off C# because of VB. After all, the things they have similar, like the garbage collector, aren’t they really the (few) good things about VB?
VB.NET is radically different than VB6. The language itself is a lot more sane and the performance is far better. It compiles to the same kind of bytecode that C# does.
I can’t really think of any good reason to use VB over C#, though. It seems like more of a personal preference thing to me (if you aren’t forced to use one over the other by your employer, of course).
You might want to add “+ huge levels of dependency”. Running C# for GUIs means installing a .Net framework (or work-alike like Mono), of which there are several major incarnations which are not entirely compatible with one another, and myriad sub-versions within each that change the behavior of various things from one to the next. This also adds in a layer that rapidly becomes either a march of security update patches (roughly bimonthly) or a potential security problem. Frameworks in general may save a bunch of work on the front end, but in the summation, might end up being simply a push off of work to other people at other times.
While yes the framework requirement is onnerous, as is esuring the correct version is installed on target hardware which is often an issue on managed systems that are not allowed automatic updates on site hurts, it’s not a whole lot worse than the Java requirement for all the Java code out there.
By now, it’s a safe bet to assume the client’s running Framework 3.5 Client Profile, at the very least.
Being a young punk, C# feels like someone listed all the problems with C++, wrote an awkward implementation of the solutions, and declared it the new standard library. Which is exactly what I was looking for.
Someone else wrote online that he saw C# as a solution to all of the problems C++ doesn’t have, some of the problems C++ does have, and a heaping of whole new problems.
I don’t have personal experience with C#, so that’s not my view. I’m however not interested in it at all, and have difficulty understanding why it’s so bloody popular.
“have difficulty understanding why it's so bloody popular.”
one word: microsoft.
they dump metric F-TONS of money into getting higher education to teach that microsoft solutions are the be-all-end-all. then they dump metric F-TONS of money into convincing idiot business managers that microsoft solutions are the only way to go and that anyone who questions that should be fired immediately. end result being, if you arent brainwashed in the course of getting a CS degree, you quickly learn to shut your mouth and swallow the microsoft line because thems that goes along, get along, and youd like to keep getting your paycheck so you can pay off that huge student loan.
C# is not without its warts (switch statements, for instance, bug the ever-loving life out of me: case fall-through no longer exists, but a case that doesn’t end in break, return or throw is a compile error), but it’s much easier to live with than C, C++ or Java (Java has always felt kinda clunky to me, for no good reason). IME, YMMV.
Not that I’m crazy about it, but it has its advantages.
No case fall-through, but break is still required? How annoying. And no case fall-through makes it just a pretty if/else.
While C# doesn’t have case fall-through, it does have something better: case jumps. Which really is the best of both worlds — preventing fall-through eliminates a whole class of bugs caused by “oops, I forgot to ‘break'”, while adding jumps lets you explicitly specify where you’re trying to share implementation. Thusly:
Goto? YIKES! Something that was declared evil already 40 years ago comes back from the dead. Doesn’t look like a good substitute for fall-through, honestly.
What exactly annoys people about GoTo, out of curiosity?
(I’ve heard a similar complaint somewhere else, and hin my very slim programming experience have never actually run into it at all, so don’t have any direct experience with what sorts of issues it might cause.)
GoTo programming is very, very, very difficult to follow for anyone, including the person that wrote it. If you ever have to go back and look at the code again, GoTos make your job exponentially more difficult.
Edsger W. Dijkstra’s letter to the editor, which the editor titled, “Go To Statement Considered Harmful” is the most famous argument against the goto statement. But to summarize: goto makes it easy to write “spaghetti code”, where the program logical jumps around all over. It can be hard to identify how you ended up at a particular location. Other language elements like loops, conditionals, and functions provide more explicit entry and exit points.
While all that is true, the idea that goto is always bad is an overreaction. goto is a powerful and potentially dangerous tool. One should avoid it because the other tools are almost always safer and easier to read. But every once in a while goto can actually simplify program flow, making the resulting code easier to read. For example, goto is sometimes the clearest way to handle errors by jumping to a shared recovery section of the code.
The counter-counter point is that it’s dangerous enough that you should scare people away from it. In 15 years of professionally programming, I use goto once every 5 or so years. I see other valid uses every year or two. The concern is that when you put dangerous features into the hands of random programmers, many of them lack the restraint to use it appropriately.
“Are programmers smart enough to use powerful and dangerous features?” is the core question dividing a lot of programming languages. :-)
I’d honestly love it if GOTO was limited to switch cases, since it would make it slightly more obvious when you were falling through to the next case, and you should pretty much never use it outside of a switch case in C#.
Isn’t the problem with goto that it can send you just about anywhere? A goto that’s limited to within the current block (probably on the same screen) doesn’t seem to have that problem.
No case-fall-through? I consider that an irrelevant feature, not a bug. Honestly, I’ve not ever used that ever, but I have fixed quite a few bugs where people forgot a break. That said, having to write ‘break;’ still seems really pointless, and it is the same as an if/else block. I have never been a fan of switch statements to begin with, they are glorified ifs anyway. The compiler can bloody well leave me alone with its optimisation issues.
Java isn’t so clunky anymore starting from their fifth iteration, which introduces generics. Their compiler really sucks for generics and produces horrible code, but in 99.9% of all cases that doesn’t matter, and having things like Map makes everything so insanely simple to write, and they fixed all their issues with encapsulated primitives too. Compared to newfangled things like Scala or Ruby, it might feel clunky. Compared to C++, it feels as elegant as battles in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Nah, switch statements are glorified jump tables (or, rather, jump tables that have a pretty surface syntax) and are, as such, pretty useful. However, what I’d REALLY like is something that takes a whole swoop of various conditional tests, with associated code bodies and execute the first block that has a matching condition.
Maybe something like this?
So basically you want a switch statement.
In C/C++, switch is just a jump table. You can only switch on integers and you can only test against constant integers. It’s not possible to say something like this:
switch(c) {
case == random_int(): win_lottery(); break;
case c == 32 && cheat == TRUE:
win_lottery(); break;
case = 1 && = 100: do_b(); break;
}
or perhaps:
std::string token = get_next_token();
switch(token) {
case "xml": open_body(); break;
case "html": open_html(); break;
case "body": open_body(); break;
// ...
};
Which is unfortunate, because I occasionally want to say things like that. Chained “else if” statements do the job (and are logically identical), but aren’t as elegant to read or write. It’s one of several pieces of syntactic sugar I wish C++ would steal, along with Pascal’s “with STRUCT do”.
No, basically, I want something where I can go:
In, kinda, C-like syntax. And with the ability to test random variables, not a single one. The closest I’ve seen, so far, is COND in Common Lisp (well, most lisp-like environments), but that lacks the ability to fall through and that MAY be nice, I think.
I’ve seen that kind of construct a few times. It looks something like this:
Basically, the only difference I can see is that you want to reverse the default breaking behaviour.
I’ve worked a very small amount (very, very small amount) with Java 5. I am familiar with it, at least in passing. The clunky feeling I’ve gotten from the language hadn’t really disappeared. Can’t really put a finger on the why, though some of it has to do with the load of syntax it takes just to get to “Hello, World,” a problem C# also has. Java is, or, at least, was, conceptually cleaner than C#, but the trade-off seemed to be requiring more code to get from A to B. IMHO, YMMV, etc.
Anyway, case fall-through is handy in limited situations for reducing code repetition. If you have two cases where case B can be summarized as case-A-with-an-extra-step, you can do the extra step of case B, fall through to case A and then break.
Aside from a certain brevity of expression for simple comparisons, it’s pretty much the one feature that switch has over if, and, in C#, it doesn’t even have that. As a result, C#’s switch statement offers very, very little and does so with syntax that no longer even makes sense.
That may be more accurate than you think. C# seems to have come out of nowhere sometime between when I graduated with an AAS in Programing (2005), learned that I couldn’t do anything with that degree and went back to get a BS in Political Science. So I literally haven’t the faintest idea what it is.
I personally haven’t used C# for anything, but my father — life-long coder — had to learn it and is using it for his current personal and professional projects.
He prefers it to C++ because he doesn’t have to deal directly with memory. On another note, the Windows GUI objects that it ship with are garbage. Text labels won’t draw over images, for example. So, it’s capable of quickly making Windows GUI apps, but if the GUI is complex it might start to break.
Also, don’t they charge for Visual Studio now?
VS Express is free and good for most personal-project purposes.
Yes and no. Microsoft sells Visual Studio, but there is also a basic version (called “Express”) available for free.
All the stuff in “System.Windows.Forms” is just a thin wrapper over the native Windows… uh… window APIs. “new Form” becomes “CreateWindow(“”, …)”, “new Button” becomes “CreateWindow(“BUTTON”, …)”, “myButton.Label = “Foo”” becomes “SetWindowText(hwndMyButton, “Foo”)” and so on (Yeah, labels and buttons and all the other controls are windows as well. It’s called Windows for a good reason :).
If you want a fancy new GUI library in C#, use WPF, which implements all the controls and layout you want in fancy DirectX. After you learn all the insanely complex (but powerful) systems that support it.
…and knowing is half the battle.
G.I. JOE!
The basketball heroes! (That’s what they say, isn’t it?)
Dangit! This was the first thing I thought and I was hoping no one else was going to get there first. I really should know better on this site than to think I’m the only nerd here.
But violence is the other half – that’s why it’s called “battle”! :p
I worked in C++ years ago, but isn’t one of the differences between C and C++ that C++ supports string concatenation, like stringC=stringA+stringB
Of course you need to allocate stringC first I suppose.
And I agree with this. Especially since I come from the other side of the problem. C# where there is no way to manually allocate memory (well there are ways to use pointers, and allocate memory, but you can’t deallocate it later). Yes, 99% of time you don’t need memory management, but in that 1% is where you are trying to do some complex Image Processing things, and you need any extra edge you can find.
This is a somewhat pedantic reply, but I’m a programmer; fussing over the trivial details is what I’m paid to do. ;)
C++ is basically the same as C, but with a bunch of new features added. Native support for strings wasn’t one of those new features; C++ still treats strings as raw character arrays. However, STL (the “Standard Template Library”) does provide really useful string implementations which allow you to easily combine, split, and otherwise munge strings to your heart’s content, exactly as easily as you would want.
To my knowledge, the STL is now available pretty much everywhere you’ll find a C++ compiler. It’s not part of C++, but it almost always comes together with your C++ package. I’ve personally used STL’s string classes in programs running on PC, Mac, PlayStation 2, PSP, Dreamcast, Wii, XBox 360, PlayStation 3, and iPhone. So it’s pretty cross-platform and reliable.
I’m one of those old geezers who normally advocates using only the basic compiler primitives, not big add-on libraries, for largely the same reasons that Shamus mentions. But I strongly, strongly recommend using STL strings (or a work-alike) instead of using the built-in C string functionality whenever possible. It’s just too easy to mess up when you’re handling raw C strings directly. It’s just not worth the risk.
The Standard Template Library is part of C++ ISO Standard. Compilers that doesn’t come with STL is not standard compliant.
Btw Shamus, from your writing I get a sense that you program C++ the old way. Do you ever try STL ? or Boost ? The style of C++ programming has change a lot this last decade.
Yeah, std::string is as ubiquitous now as standards-compliant compilers are. But I almost never find people using them – we’re too used to handling strings ourselves now.
That, and a lot of us have legacy libraries and structures that take char* parameters and such. I suppose you can use std::string and then grab the char out from under it when you need it. Probably a worthwhile approach, but I’ve never gotten into the habit.
Actually, the string class has a .c_str() function that gets the char array for you. I’ve done this any number of times with old windows functions that want LPSTR and such. Very handy.
Yeah, well, when you’re habits are actively causing problems and headaches, a change of habit is well advised.
Think of it like optimizing yourself; it takes a while to find exactly what needs to be fixed, and takes another while to get that fix up and running, but once you do you’ll wonder why it took you so long to get around to fixing it.
I hope you’re talking about char* as output parameter. char* as input-only is pure evil (imho). At work we have to use a library whose authors couldn’t care less about const-correctness, so you can’t even read data from objects declared as const. And then it want input as non-const references, which means that effectively const functions passing class members to that library require said members to be mutable. I am sure one day someone will stumble around our code and think “What the hell, why on earth are these variables declared mutable”. Then he decides to revert them to normal declaration, and nothing would compile any more. Heh.
Depending on how widespread the library is, I wouldn’t use mutable, I’d use const_cast in the specific cases that needed it instead (probably by writing wrapper functions around the library functions that had const-correct interfaces).
Of course, either way you’re vulnerable to the library implementation changing something you’re not expecting it to. But you could mitigate that by copying the data yourself before passing it in (in the wrapper functions), to guarantee that the library couldn’t screw it up. That’s definitely the safest option, although it might hurt performance a little.
Well that library is available as open source, so it’s not that we don’t know whether it might change something (because it doesn’t), but it’s just annoying that it breaks the whole concept of const-correctness. Anyway, don’t ask me why, but I didn’t even think of just copying the member variables before passing them; probably because I’ve become so used to very clear and strict const-concepts and const-reference argument passing the I pretty much automatically avoid any unneccessary copying without thinking about it, heh.
I like Win32’s OpenPrinter, I think, which takes a char* (or LPTSTR if you’re into that stuff). I can’t think of any reason it is NOT a const parameter, but it isn’t. One of the annoying cases where you either cast the const off string::c_str() (evil), or have to go and allocate another char array.
Haven’t compared std::string v MFC/ATL::CString for a while… wonder if STL still wins in speed these days.
“Grab the char out from under it”– is that like musical chars?
I was the same. I spent too long stuck in plain C on the PS2 (enforced actually because the same code ran on the Gamecube) and when I moved to windows based development elsewhere one of the things I was encouraged to use after a performance reveiw was STL.
It is well worth the time investment.
P.S. I’m sorry about the terible games I helped create
NAMES!…
Well, simply said, std::string solves the very string operation problems Shamus is talking about – and still provides an interface to have it read by old-fashioned functions, but manipulation goes by included operators and methods.
I guess Shamus knows this anyway, but for those who don’t:
std::string allows you to do the very same thing as in the Basic example:
std::string str1 = "Hello";
std::string str2 = " world!";
std::string str3 = str1 + str2;// str3 now is "Hello world!"
This alone is already reason enough why I think that for 99.9% of all situations, C++ is clearly superior to C (because no such thing would even be possible there); you can write all your code as low-level as someone would do in C if you wish, but yet take advantage of std::string everywhere.
That and std::vector, which does something similar but for arbitrary types, not specifically characters of text.
std::string is not quite as convenient as having a built-in string class in the language. For example, you can’t do this:
void myFunction (std::string s) {
// Do something with s
}
(...)
myFunction("string" + "literal");
even though std::string has a conversion-from-char* constructor and a + operator. The compiler will still believe that you’re trying to add two string literals, ie char* objects, and complain. You have to do this:
myFunction(std::string("string") + "literal");
which is not a whole lot of extra code, admittedly, but still.
Nonetheless, std::string really does solve a lot of the pain of working with strings. It’s still annoying to concatenate strings with numbers, though, as in
int result = bigCalculation();
std::string output("The number is ");
output += result; // This doesn't work.
Some idiot didn’t add an operator+(int s) method, and so we’re stuck still having to futz around with sprintf or buffering. Annoying.
Yes, that is true. For some time I’ve done work with Borland Builder, where they have that AnsiString class which has overloads like that.
Luckily, at my current workplace, we are also using boost (or more precisely – it is installed and we are allowed to use it, that doesn’t mean that people typically do so), which has that absolutely convenient lexical_cast function which works just like static_cast etc., only that they transform numerical values to strings back and forth. Not as elegant as writing “string1 = string2 + int 1”.
But… hey, I just got an idea. I could write such an operator outside of the class (but inside the std namespace, of course). I guess I’ll just be making a wrapper for the aforementioned lexical_cast, but it would really be so convenient.
Overloading + to mean “concatenate strings” always rubs me wrong. It seems like a good idea, then people start doing clever stuff, like implementing “operator+(std::string &lhs, int rhs)”. (Which you can do, if you really want.) Now you’re facing code that looks like:
std::string s1 = 20+"10";
std::string s2 = "four: " + 2 + 2;
and you have no idea what should happen. Which will surprise fewer programmers, 30 or 2010, 4 or 22? After all, if you’re silently converting integers into strings, why not convert strings into integers? Lots of languages will do exactly that! You end up with weird rules, like “The left hand side has to be a string,” or needing to pay very close attention to the precedence rules. You’re in the land of special cases and exceptions. You can obviously live there just fine (See also: Java), but I’m not convinced that it’s inherently better.
Given C++’s grounding in C, I think the solution (stringstreams) was a reasonable one. For those not familiar with them, the above code looks like this:
int result = bigCalculation();
std::ostringstream output;
output << "The number is " << result;
// If you want the std::string, use output.str()
While overloading the bitshift operator isn’t great, it is symmetric with the preexisting I/O stream interface C++ had, and bitshifting strings is kinda silly.
As someone who has done a fair amount of string manipulation in C++ over the last few weeks, it’s not a big deal. It’s certainly not as convenient as, say, Perl, but
I prefer:
typedef std::ostringstream osstream;
…
std::string result = (osstream() << "Hello, " << user.name << ". Your age is: " << (now() – user.birthdate).years() << "!").str();
Also, your first line "std::string s1 = 20+"10";" shows the *real* reason C++ should *never* have defined string operator+(). That is assigning whatever is 20 bytes past the start of the static string "10"!
SUPER NITPICK WARNING:
The “STL” correctly only refers to the collections section of the C++ standard library: the stuff that uses iterators. std::string is a bit of an edge case, since it was in the pre-standard C++ library long before STL, but it is a collection of characters:
for (std::string::iterator it = str.begin();
it != str.end(); ++it)
{
char c = *it;
}
The C++ standard library contains the C standard library, IO streams, strings, STL containers, STL algorithms (find and sort, plus a bunch of really weird stuff noone uses), memory (the *_ptr classes ESPECIALLY), exceptions, locale (whether your numbers use comma or dot, basiclly), the pretty anemic typeinfo, and some numeric stuff: complex numbers and limits (maximums, not the math type).
After programming C/C++ commercially, I declared that any language that didn’t require me to manage memory was a cake walk. I still stand by that.
I actually failed to get a job once (listen up, Shamus… this could be you) at a Powerbuilder shop. I was leaving a job where I wrote C++. The programming manager asked me what the worst bug I’d ever had was and how I solved it. The bug involved memory management, double-deleted pointers and garbage collection.
He said, “Um… okay.” He had no clue. He quickly realized I shouldn’t work for him and I came to the EXACT SAME CONCLUSION. Win.
I’ll just wait until you figure out what event listeners mean in a GCed language :).
I think you can, in fact, use a simple garbage collector to handle strings especially, like this Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC. It’s not necessarily right for every project, but as a fellow C guy, you probably have already taken this lesson to heart.
So am I right in guessing that your comic-creation app is blazing fast precisely because it’s got a “flamethrower” for an engine?
Probably more because it was designed by a single, experienced programmer and built with exactly the features and UI he needs, and no more.
Odds are most of the alternatives are written in C/C++ as well.
Hm. I finally know what a memory leak is, now.
Interesting.
I thought a memory leak was when memory didn’t get deallocated after the object inside was past its usefulness.
That’s exactly what he said in the article: the memory doesn’t get deallocated and thus, the program still thinks it’s in use. Next time it passes by that part of the code, it’ll allocate another piece of memory it’ll fail to deallocate, and so forth. Over time, the little pieces of memory that were “leaked” start accumulating and you’ll see the memory footprint of your process grow.
Which can either be borderline unnoticeable, or crash your program, depending on how often you do it. Fun.
Shamus,
If you ever want to start writing text books and other books on programming, you could probably make a killing making C and C++ clear to new programmers. As someone who suffered through the dry barrens of Dietel & Dietel’s C book, I firmly believe that one of the most daunting aspects of learning a language is the absolute CRAP that passes for writing in those books.
If you ever write an Intro to C book, I’ll buy it. I’d know that it wouldn’t be BORING. When I dive into a book on programming I don’t expect Tolkien or Aasimov at their best, but I would like it to be useful for something OTHER than curing insomnia (hello Android documentation as an example of something that gave me much more sleep).
I was tempted to add a “Me too” or some other comment on some of the other stuff here, but this comment caught my eye. Even as someone who writes code for a living, I would like to see Shamus Young’s Guide to Programming. (Or whatever you would call it.) I’m completely serious. You have a good writing style, know how to make things clear, and keep it interesting. Would you ever consider writing one? I know I’d recommend it to people I know. Maybe you could send a couple of these articles to a publisher or something? (I’m not really sure how you would go about starting that.)
Oh man, I just had this picture of Shamus teaching online C classes. 6 People sitting in vent with him, and Shamus teaching them how to make a Hello World program. I am pretty sure I would pay for that course. Like I told him the other day, all I know is Java, and I should really learn something new.
I’d be in if Rutskarn would TA and come up with horrible coding puns.
Hey Shamus, you feeling, loopy today?
Grr can’t think of any recursion puns. Recursion Puns.
Not original, I know, but I think the old saw:
Recursion. (n)
—If you don’t understand, see Recursion.
counts as a recursive pun, although not your typical homophonic pun.
I misread that as “homophobic pun.” D’oh!
Have you tried to Google the word “recursion”? Try it…
thats good, although I always misspell when I google anyway so probably wouldn’t have noticed normally
Have you tried to Google the word “recursion”? Try it…
Honestly, some of what Shamus has been writing on the subject reminds me of In The Beginning there was the Command Line by Neil Stephenson. Though Stephenson was talking about general computer history and not specifically programing IIRC.
Technically, Stephenson was talking about the history of Operating Systems. He talks about the history of computers, but his focus is clearly on the OS.
The thing that blew my mind from that book was when he talks about all the advances made by computers from the 1950’s to the 1980’s, and how a lot of those advances were basically invisible to the operating system. Whether you’re using punchcards, a keyboard and printer, or a keyboard and monitor, to the computer it’s all the same. Character input and character output. It wasn’t until 1984 that computer interfaces really changed (from the OS perspective).
No love for the Standard Template Library then?
Solved all my C++ string problems back in the day (and it’s free).
And standard too! I haven’t coded in C but I mainly use C++ as a hobbyist, so no “real world” problems for me, but I never had trouble using strings (note I’m referring to C++ STL strings). They come as part of the standard so are implemented in every compiler.
On the other hand, I really liked your article, found it well explained and interesting. Keep on!
Thanks for the explanation. It’s good to get another confirmation that my decision to not delve into programming was the right choice. I quit that about the time they started talking about “object-oriented” as I found it tedious and not as rewarding as fixing existing systems. Seems not much has changed apart from the tools and languages since then.
However, I still find scriptwriting nescessary in my work with support and maintenance, so the skills haven’t been a complete waste.
Same here, I’m always looking at my decision to leave the generic “computer science” degree and moving to the CCNP netadmin program. In fact it seems we made our minds up at the same point, with object-oriented stuff. But, as you mention, knowing the fundamentals of programming and how computers act on instructions certainly helps.
And Shamus, if the quality would be the same as this post, I must third the proposal that you write a programming book — I’d buy it and read it even though I don’t plan to write much code in my life, and I’d show it to everyone I know who teaches that kind of thing.
I’m still not doing much more with my coding skills than scripting (were doing some Fortran coding before), but the concept of object orientation seems to me an extremely good thing, even though it did take a while to wrap my head around it.
Initially it’s just a roundabout way of doing things, but once you’re settled in, you can do amazing things that would require brutal hacks without object orientation.
In that respect:
So I must be wrong, but I thought the OS would take care of protecting a program from read/writing memory not allocated to it, or is that just for special cases? Of course that doesn’t stop a program from corrupting its own memory space.
Also I never got why the string termination character was necessary _if_ your string takes the whole allocated memory space.
But then I’ve only dabbled with C… back to FORTRAN 77!
There are usually multiple layers of allocation. What the program requests from the OS tends to be page-sized chunks (multiples of, usually, 4 KB). These are then divvied up by the runtime library into your 1-,3-,7-,23- or anything-else-sized allocation requests (with a bit of padding for the book-keeping, because you never know when you’ll need to reclaim a chunk).
Right. the OS will keep you from going well outside your memory bounds, but won’t keep you from overwriting _your own_ data.
The OS protection in question typically involves throwing an exception or other serious error. Unexpected errors tend to lead to application crashes. However, it is preferable for the at-fault application to crash than having a different application or even the OS crash instead.
String termination allows for strings of variable length to be stored in the same memory location. If the value of string A changes from “Hello, world!” to “Hello!”, you don’t print “Hello! world!” later (or “Hello! “, for that matter).
Additionally, the use of character-terminated strings allows for strings of, theoretically, arbitrary length (in practice, limited by available memory). An alternate approach used in some other languages, length-termination, typically has a known maximum length beyond which strings may not grow (ISTR this is 255 characters in at least some versions of Pascal, for instance).
The “special case” is “every OS but those by Microsoft”. Indeed, handling those sorts of things is one of the most basic functions of the OS.
BS. EVERY modern OS has memory protection. It’s what makes apps crash instead of OSs. However, the OS can’t know if you’re doing a valid assignment or just scribbling all over your variables, so trashing your own heap is perfectly possible.
In *NIX/Linux/BSD/etc they’re called segfaults. In Windows they’re called Illegal operations or whatever. In the end, it’s the same thing.
Which is why apps never crash Windows anymore in your world…. what planet are you living on?
The modern line of Windows is descended from NT, not 95, and has had high quality memory protection from day one. Normal applications can merrily write wherever they want in memory with zero risk.
So, why doesn’t it work in practice? A variety of options: Buggy drivers by third parties remain a common problem. It’s (part of) why Microsoft is so keen on WHQL testing; they’re getting grief for Windows crashing, so they want to reduce the risk. Also, software that doesn’t play by the rules. There is a long list of crap that software shouldn’t do: poke around in the boot sector, install custom drivers, hook directly into the OS memory space. And modern Windows, by default, doesn’t allow it. But software publishers whine that they need to do dangerous things, mostly so they can implement their buggy DRM implementation of the week. So the software gets run at the Administrator or System security level where it’s free to fuck everything up. Add in viruses and spyware playing much the same games and you’ve got a recipe for crash soup.
The problem isn’t the memory protection. It’s a culture of insecurity endemic to commercial software developers that Microsoft allows to continue in the name of backward compatibility. (And understandably. If DangerousGarbage 3.2 works on Windows N, but doesn’t on Windows N+1, users will be blaiming Microsoft, not DangerousGarbage for abusing its privileges.)
Given all of this, to an extent it’s impressive how stable Windows is. And, by and large, it is stable. Several friends who work professionally as systems administrators all grudgingly yield that since Windows 2000, it’s a pretty good operating system.
Believe it or not, I’m not a fan of Microsoft. (My heart goes to Canonical, makers of the the Ubuntu distribution of Linux.) They do a lot of terrible stuff. But I have zero complaints about the memory management in modern Windows releases.
So, it has GREAT memory protection… it’s just optional, and basically up to the program itself whether or not to use it.
To put it another way, I stand by what I said; the difference between “memory protection that the program can opt out of” and “NO memory protection” is not significant.
(I non-grudgingly yield that Windows 2000 forward suck much less than other previous versions of Windows. Compared to other modern OSs, it still sucks.)
Even at admin level (System is impossible to access unless you pull off a privilege-elevating exploit), processes run each in their own address spaces. Even if you want to, you can’t just scribble over someone else’s memory. To crash another program or Windows (without exploiting inputs), you have to get into the appropriate process, which can’t be done with an EXE. You need to inject DLL for that. Admin just makes such a thing possible. (It’s how installers and debuggers work, after all).
Even then, it’s the exact same thing as other OSs. Once malicious code reaches Admin/SU status, they’ve got complete control. Memory protection is not engineered towards that. But the OS can’t know if something is legit or not. That’s why Admin is not the default level of accounts anymore, and programs have, by large, learned not to ask for admin unless needed. In fact, Vista ever-derided UAC was designed to be a roadblock to privilege escalation. From there on, PEBCAK.
But we’ve digressed now. You’re confusing memory protection with security. Mem protection is just meant to isolate processes. Security is much more complex.
To take what you said a step further, the Administrators group in Windows doesn’t have as much control over the system as root in a *nix system. As a root user, you can easily nuke a filesystem, write garbage to kernel memory, and do a ton of other wicked and nasty things.
In the Windows world, your average Administrator has less direct control over low-level system functionality. You can’t destroy a system disk with “rm -rf /”. You can still do damage if you know what values to garble and such, but it takes far more than a simple typo to do so.
Gee, that makes it better – who ever uses DLLs these days? Duh….
Yay, MOST programs DON’T opt out anymore. Duh….
As I said, security you can opt out of is NOT security.
(Memory protection IS a form of security, as in the general usage of the word, just not “keeping people (especially hackers) out of the system” security, which is what we use that word to refer to most often when talking about computers these days. No, I was not confusing the two.)
Obvious troll is obvious. Everything you just said applies to other OSes too. You can “opt out” of security by running as root, and do everything (and more) that a windows admin can do.
One might also point out that most of the article deals not just with trashing the heap, but also with the stack, as well. Though, overwriting 4000+ bytes on the stack is generally a lot more dangerous than doing it to the heap (i.e., buffer overruns).
Hmm, and this was supposed to be a general comment, not a reply to the above comment. Ah well. Trashing my own heap, it seems. :)
There’s a difference between “don’t have this feature at all” and “this feature should be improved.”
So, a door that requires a code typed on a keypad to enter is a form of security… even if the door has a secondary handle on it (that anyone can use, if they notice it) that will open the door without said code?
Having a form of security that is optional at the request of those you are supposed to secure against is NOT security at all.
But it does LOOK like security. Yay! (I would like to thank the TSA for being an even better object lesson on this point.)
I guess this would mean something if all processes were going around installing themselves as system drivers or whatever. Yes, the *can* do this. But I don’t see it as the OS’s job to “defend” me from malicious processes. (One of the reasons I never went to Vista.)
Look, I use windows. A lot. Twelve hours a day. Ten programs running at a time. Firefox with ten taps open. Everything eating tons of memory. A couple of ill-behaved programs crash themselves now and again. Meanwhile, I’m writing software that sometimes crashes spectacularly. And yet yesterday my machine rebooted for the first time in a month. Yes, I’m aware that a Linux machine is a juggernaut, but your appraisal of the memory system in Windows is wrong. If you were right, this machine wouldn’t last an hour.
Linux crashes for me just like Windows does, and for many of the same reasons. The only time Linux ever crashes for me is because of an errant driver (usually the crapware that NVIDIA and ATI like to call “drivers” [though they have gotten better over time, at least]).
In fact, as of Vista, Windows handles video card driver crap-outs far better than Linux does. While Linux either hard-locks or freaks out, Windows can usually reset the video card driver and have me back up and running in 10-15 seconds. Prior to Vista, that was a driver-specific feature, and I can say that ATI’s GPU reset feature worked fairly well in XP (for some reason, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 tripped it on my laptop semi-regularly; probably a driver bug).
I do agree with you that it is MUCH better than it used to be, and I use Windows every day, as well (computer programmer, all Windows based – I make my salary off of Microsoft, to a large extent).
But I blue-screened my brand new computer a few weeks ago when I tried to use PixelCity the first time on it. Yup, windows is so stable…
And you booted it for the first time in a whole month? That people consider that a long time for a Windows machine (even in a case like yours) makes my case for me.
Windows leaks memory (or allows programs on it to do so, which is logically equivalent). If it didn’t, reboots would only be required after OS patches, and would be a COMPLETE waste of time the rest of the time.
So memory leaks are impossible on Linux? I’m somewhat skeptical about that…
Windows has had memory protection since NT came out in 1993…
Yes, it just doesn’t WORK very well. It was a big step up from what they had before (NOTHING), so, um, yay for them. It still sucks.
Actually, it works perfectly. One process can’t stomp on another process’s data unless the other process lets it. There’s no way the OS can tell whether a program is making a “good” write or a “bad” write to its own memory, though.
Unfortunately, since Windows is the most popular OS at the moment, it has lots of people writing software for it — even people who shouldn’t be, since they write crappy software.
As Miral said above, it most certainly does work. NT was built as a server and workstation OS. If there were no memory protection, a Windows server could potentially drop like a ton of bricks over a bad PHP script. I’ve gotten upwards of three month uptimes using 2000, XP, Vista, and 7, and generally the only reason I reboot at that point is to do updates and other maintenance tasks. I don’t think I would have broken a week if NT’s memory protection “didn’t work very well.”
The only thing that memory protection does not and can not protect the system from are kernel mode drivers, but that’s nothing new. What do you suppose would happen if you were to compile a Linux kernel module that trampled the system memory?
CmdMarcos, yes and no, depending on what OS, but nothing stops a program from trashing its own allocated memory. Recent OS’s mostly keep you from stomping on other processes, but you can still generally affect them by stomping on shared stuff and resources.
First thing this makes me think of is X-Com, where you’re limited to 80 items because of RAM limitations at the time, and the way old games like the original Pokemons and Sonic 3 would count items over 99 with two digits, one of which was garbled pixels. Very interesting.
+1 to wanting to read a proper programming book by Shamus. Hell, there’s enough unique stuff on this site to put it together and tart it up a bit for a book, like Dave Sirlin did with his Playing to Win website. Could be an idea.
99 is a UI bug, and not that exciting code-wise.
Look up the 255 max on stats in old RPGs. :P
heh, I had always wondered why those programmers had limited themselves to just one byte to represent numbers.
Though, now that I think about it, with as limited as computers were back then, I guess it would make sense to save every possible byte.
But then a new question arises for me, even supposedly “next-gen” games have this weird limit, where space should no longer be an issue. Two specific games that come to mind are Oblivion and the first Starcraft. Starcraft limited the number of upgrades a particular unit could recieve to 255, and Oblivion had the same limit on how much you could artificially raise your character’s attributes.
You have to put a limit somewhere. In both games it was never expected that anyone would ever get either number anything like that high, so they just made it a nice round 256 and left it at that.
Why waste 2 bytes when you don’t expect the value to go over 100?
Because you have billions of the things? We’re talking about character statistics, you’re never going to have more than a dozen or so of them. Unless you have millions of (fully detailed) NPCs floating around, using an int instead of a byte isn’t going to make a dent in your memory.
I remember playing Phantasy Star on the Master System and discovering the XP and money capped at 65535, and being just geeky enough (at the time) to have an idea why.
STL is a wonderful band-aid over some of the issues of C++. It also comes with a few of its own caveats, but it takes away a bit of the “here’s more rope to hang yourself with”.
C# [Disclaimer: Microsoft currently pays my mortgage] and its built-in memory management do wonders for letting you NOT worry about trashing the heap or stack–at the price of performance. Great for non-graphics apps that spend 95% of their time waiting on a user or a remote signal anyway.
Umm.. the standard library (see my pedant rant about STL above :)) is the POINT of C++. The “++” is about letting things like std::string and std::vector exist, so better to say “C++ is a wonderful band-aid over some of the issues of C”. Of course, C++ *also* gives you a whole bunch of rope to hang yourself with, if you don’t feel like using C’s gun to shoot yourself in the foot.
Funny thing about (exact, compacting) GCed languages like C#: they are actually *faster* than manual (or conservative GCed) memory management for long running processes due to cache coherency and locality. When C# looses, it’s generally because a) the developer used libraries that exchange development speed for execution speed (eg, LINQ), b) The C# compiler generates worse code than C++ (delibrately, it is a much simpler and faster compiler), which only matters rarely, or c) The total running time is short enough that the runtime initialization is dominant.
And even in the cases where systems and compilers are intelligent enough to stop it spewing over random areas of memory, they usually kill the errant process anyway. So you’ve got the same problem, just possibly immediately and easier to track back to the issue
I enjoyed C when I used it. The memory management issues are nothing compared to babysitting the STACK in Assembly. I loathe assemby. Powerful, yes. Enjoyable? Grrrrr…..
I do have commend you on your explainations of how these things work. Much more user friendly than anything I’ve seen in a classroom.
If someone would be kind enough to ignore the vagueness of my following question:
Is C++ hard to learn? In my Theoretical Physics University course I am going to start I will be learning Fortran and C++ to code simulations for the problems we have to work out, I don’t code and have never coded. I would like some idea on difficulty level of the language.
Questions like this are a little hard to answer. Not because the answer is vague, but because the answer really does depend on _you_. How difficult the language is depends on how you’re learning it, and whether you, yourself, think in a way that works for programming. (And, arguably, a host of other small factors.)
To answer your question, I don’t think so. C++ isn’t hard to learn. Some applications of the language can be difficult because they require you to learn something specific (e.g. graphics) or really focus on how you solve a problem (complex math). C++ is a lot easier to learn than C because it avoids some of the direct ways you can mess something up. I will suggest something, however. Since your course doesn’t sound like it is an introduction to programming, find a resource and start learning now. It can only help you later.
That is what I ment by vague… English is not my strong point, I just sort of blunder through it. Complex Maths wont be a problem but graphics might be (although I might not need to work heavily with that). I think getting a head start might be a good idea. Thanks for your advice.
Just to clarify: I was only using those examples to illustrate that the language itself shouldn’t take long. You’ll probably be writing a program that successfully answers a given equation before very long at all. Writing a simulation may or may not be a while after that. However, if you do anything more complicated later, that new use of the language will be the difficult part, not using the language itself, since you’ll still be using the same keywords and structures, just in new ways.
Ah! I see I took the examples too seriously then? Silly me.
I personally learn programming languages and the like through following tutorials and then fooling around with other peoples’ code. However, something tells me that C++ isn’t the language I want to do that kind of thing in …
Depends. You’ll have to wait and see, since ultimately it varies from person to person like math.
Nice… answer a vague question with a vague answer. But thanks for answering anyway.
I didn’t mean to answer vaguely, but my original response was very long and meandering so I edited. A bit much apparently, but can’t be helped now.
What I meant was that how difficult anyone will find C++ is largely dependant on the person. Just like math is hard for some, but easy to others. And that you shouldn’t really worry and just wait and see for yourself.
I don’t think I’m clarifying myself much, but hope this’ll help.
I liked the answer before you clarified it was something I would do. I know what you meant anyway. I just wondered about programming. It is new to me and kind of unexpected.
When learning to program, you have to learn two different sets of skills:
1. The language itself. There are a lot of differences between C, Java, Visual Basic and Fortran. You will have to learn the intrinsics at some point.
2. But first, you need to learn to think in terms of process flows, memory, pointers and all those other abstract concepts. The differences in this regard between the languages are very minor (C vs Java) up to completely irrelevant (C# vs Java).
Note that the second part takes quite a few years to get down decently, while the first point can be fixed in months, or even weeks, depending on experience and difficulty of the language.
For 1: When you say this can be done in months/weeks did you mean when starting from scratch or learning a new language? If the latter than would staring from scratch increase the time I would spend learning it?
For 2: That is pretty much what I expected. Abstract concepts made me giggle, as my course is Theoretical Physics abstract concepts encompasses ALL that I am going to learn. Thanks for that it was most helpful.
If you can write code easily in language X, then it will take you three months at the most to get proficient at an acceptable level with language Y, because they only differ in syntax, and not in concepts. Sure, the uber-gurus will still use the features of their chosen language better, but you can painlessly get work done.
That is to say, as long as both languages belong to the same category. Query languages (SQL, XQuery, XSLT) are a very different beast from procedural/OO languages (C*, Java, Python, Pascal) and so are functional languages (Prolog, Haskell).
I see thanks for that.
In the end, it depends on how much you can grok pointers. Everything else is peanuts. If your brain isn’t wired to handle pointers, references and whatnot, C/C++ will be very difficult. The rest is the standard programming’s mindset: If you can think in an imperative style (“To solve X, you need to do A, then B, then repeat C until N is equal to M”), you’ll do good.
(Tidbit: Another programming style is functional (“X can be represented as a composition of functions F, G & H por input A”), which is gaining popularity since it makes it easy to do stuff in parallel. Naturally, it lends itself well for physics, maths and related. Check out Haskell)
Until I got to the first brackets I didn’t understand anything there. But they are technical terms I’m guessing so not important to know the word itself. I will indeed check out Haskell whatever it is…
Heh. Pointers are variables just like any other variable. But instead of holding data, they hold the address where you can find said data. References are the address itself. You could say pointers are variables that hold references. So access to the data becomes indirect. Instead of accessing X for value N, you access X for location P which has value N.
Some people have trouble thinking in terms of indirect access (and the ramifications thereof), which is what makes pointers so difficult to use.
My experience with language learning:
once I learned Lisp and C and anything with object-oriented features, I was able to learn every other language trivially.
But while learning the language is trivial, the long part is learning the libraries. My first C program, for example, has a function that converts strings containing characters like ’12’ into the actual number 12. Because I didn’t know atoi() existed. I wasted time and thought and debugging power on something that comes with the language – because I didn’t know the libraries.
Learning a language is like learning a grammar and consequently easy, but libraries are more akin to vocabulary, and take more brute memorization.
So it would be like learning that there is a notation for square root instead of deriving it by a formula? I’m feeling swamped here…
If that is what you mean then judging from the comments I’ve got back then that might be what causes me the most problems but one that can be remedied quickly. Thanks. I have had a lot of stuff to think about from all the people who responded and I am greatful for it.
I’ll join in and give a shoutout to STL. Between the string implementation and the containers, you can avoid a lot of string-related headaches.
As for C#, yeah, it’s pretty much Java with the serial numbers filed off.
I want to add something important people never realize when they talk about performance of do-it-yourself memory management. Everyone thinks it’s faster because you don’t have a garbage collector. But that is actually not always true: A GC will do most of its work when the CPU would be idle anyway, while your memory management code will be executed at the point you specify. So your fast and cheap code takes up a few valuable cycles, while the slow GC takes up a ton of worthless cycles.
Would you rather pay someone with a single ounce of gold, or with a pound of dirt? In the end, paying “more” can be cheaper.
C++ can be the right choice. But in most cases, it is not. ;)
From what I’ve understood from various sources through the net is that anyone who trusts garbage collection to do its job properly is mining for pyrite.
That is pretty much the opposite of reality. If you mistrust garbage collection, you are asking for trouble.
Modern GCs do a stunning job, nearly all of the time. At the point where a GC consistently runs into trouble, you are doing very unusual things, such as crazy high-performance calculations or memory allocation in a scale that was considered all but impossible just a few years ago. But your average desktop application requires less than 1 GB of RAM (most get by with a few to a few dozen megabytes even, that is less than 1% of what your crappy netbook offers) and spends 90% of its time waiting for user input. Which means the GC can clean up your memory nine times for every key you press. If that’s not enough, you wrote really shitty code somewhere else. ;)
If you want some evidence: Take a look at minecraft. It is able to simulate worlds that are bigger than the earth, and it runs in Java, which not only has a GC, but doesn’t even directly compile to machine code (which makes everything slower by a ridiculous factor)!
Wait… bigger than the Earth?!?
/disbelieve
Truth. Not as deep, but the simulated area’s bigger than Earth’s surface.
Sort of. Minecraft generates terrain around you, about a kilometer (from my crude eyeballing). If you get close to the edge of the generated terrain, it generates some more. It will theoretically generate an infinite amount of terrain, but the practical limit is disk space.
Also, it’s not accurate to say that it’s simulating it all at once. The game would quickly grind to a halt processing everything. There is a limited zone around you that is being simulated. Everything else exists in a sort of suspended animation. Of course, you’re not there to observe it, so you’re unlikely to notice.
If a cave collapses in Minecraft, but no-one is around to see it, does it still make a sound?
Yes, ’cause it’ll only collapse when you’re close enough to hear it. :D
No because caves don’t collapse in minecraft; gravity only affects sand and gravel blocks, and it only affects them when something changes around them.
You can often find levitating sand\gravel blocks that will happily float away until you poke a nearby block, at which point the game will go “OH SHIT” and make them fall.
No, because there is no physics in Minecraft for a cave to collapse. It can only be blown up >:D
So… if a creeper detonates and no-one is around to… wait, they don’t move or exist if the player is not around. Let’s try again.
If a TNT block detonates and no-one is around to see it, does it screw the player’s shit up?
Someone needs to run some testing.
Actually, Java does compile down to machine code, just that it does it at runtime using profile guided optimisation. Look in to HotSpot one day and some of the amazing things it can do with JVM byte code.
“Actually, Java CAN compile down to machine code”
fixed.
it does it with some compilers but not with others.
Err… you’re not thinking of GCJ are you? That’s static compilation at build time. I’m talking about the runtime compilation that Sun’s (now Oracle’s) HotSpot and any sensible JVM (including IBM’s) does. Java byte code hasn’t been interpreted at runtime for years now (bar the initial startup before HotSpot kicks in).
You are pointing out the obvious. Of course Java code also needs to become machine code at some point, how else is it supposed to run at all? ;)
You’re missing the difference between “Just-in-time compilation” and “interpretation”.
I think you misunderstood my “don’t trust the GC” comment.
I meant that when you go around saying that you should trust something like that some dumb young programmer with bright eyes and lazy bones will write a program during the weekend. Happily thinking that all his memory management will be done by the garbage collector and ignorant of the fact that the GC doesn’t like it when you do that thing.
You know, the one that all the experienced X-programmers know not to do, because X’s GC always throws a great big sulk over it and refuses to touch that part of the software? That either isn’t in the official documents or is hidden like the Arc of the Covenant? So every time the program starts that part of the code some memory gets allocated but not freed until it’s closed completely and you can bet that part gets called every other second.
Then just to top it off it’s supposed to be run on the background, hours on end. Like say, an IM client. And you’d like to be able browse the net without cutting off a free method of communication with your friends, but you can’t do it because your computer is chugging along since that bloody client is leaking memory like Pratchett.
And all the other ones are either also written by similiar fuckbends who didn’t bother to actually do any optimization because “X is almost as light as C” forgetting that they’re running the damn thing on a high-end desktop computer and that they barely ever have more than two tabs open because more would confuse and frighten them.
And the rest are written in C by other idiots who either have never heard of the term “feature creep” or never understood why it was a bad thing, so it’s in perpetual alpha. Never to be bugfixed, because “that’s what beta is for”.
Now pardon me, I’ve got an orphanage to burn down. Those bloody gits’ happiness is annoying me and peeing on their parade apparently didn’t do more than temporarily annoy them.
(Seriously though, I meant that you should always make sure that the GC can do it’s job. For instance in Flash if an island gets too big it’s GC won’t touch it so you have to keep ’em small (which incidentally, isn’t/wasn’t in the official documentation apparently) . Basically a shift from managing every damn memory allocation yourself, you have to just make sure that the GC is happy and working.)
(Oh, and I don’t like it when people say things like “it’s stunning” or “it’s awesome” especially when they’re obviously trying to counterbalance someone else’s cynicism, and are going overboard to hyping. Which is bad.)
leaking memory like Pratchett
Bad analogy, dude.
Also: Apart from that example you gave (which sounds like a shitty GC anyways), I’ve never heard of special restrictions in GC usage. Certainly not the JVM’s or CLR, at least.
Of course, many people mix “GC” with “Resource disposal”, and that’s where the shit hits the fan. Nothing more fun than discovering the program leaked 4 file handles, 3 brushes, 5 bitmaps and a couple mutexes. (To throw numbers out there)
*hands Sumanai a lighter.*
A few days in-between, but bail doesn’t pay itself. So:
I ran into a blog post by someone who made a game in Flash which leaked memory after a while (can’t remember specifics, but it was a turn-based flight thingie). The reason was that the GC in Flash doesn’t touch islands that get past a certain size and assumes they’re always needed. This wasn’t according to him mentioned in the official documentation and found about it by pure luck.
And then got Flash fanboys claiming that it was documented and that it was his fault anyway and blah blah blah.
The source for this piece of knowledge (assuming I remember correctly) mentioned that every language he had worked in he had to either manage the memory manually or make sure that the GC is doing it for him. To him it was apparently a “GC helps, but not as much as is given to believe”
Also, “bad analogy” as in “inaccurate”, “dude. Not cool” or “just plain sucks”? They’re all par for the course with me. Even at the same time.
@Newbie: As Shamus mentions above, C/C++ offers you a lot of flexibility and performance, at the cost of making it much easier to shoot yourself in the foot. I know you might be constrained by the third-party libraries you’re required to use, but if that’s not the case I’d recommend pretty much _anything_ else.
Almost missed this. Anyway I don’t think I would have problems with mistakes (if that’s what you mean with shooting myself in the foot) I am obsessive to a very sharp point. And I am afraid it looks like I don’t have a choice. Thanks for the helpful input nonetheless.
EVERYONE makes mistakes. Everyone. Indeed, the more thorough you are, the fewer mistakes you make, the WORSE the ones you make usually are (in that they are so much harder and more complicated to find – “dumb” mistakes are the best to make because they are quick to find and easy to fix).
I’m with RobertB – only use a flamethrower if you NEED a flamethrower. Using a flamethrower to cook you food or light your cigarette is REALLY REALLY STUPID. You might do it right the vast majority of the time, but the rare mistake is a very bad thing.
Yes but with maths and Physics I am very capable with going through LOADS of lines of equations, diagrams and working out to find my mistakes. Not to mention then that the mistakes I have made will be fewer in number because when making a mistake can ruin about 3 hours of your life you learn not to do so many (EDIT: also when your exams are half that time it also helps re-enforce the ability to make fewer mistakes). I don’t know whether I will need the “flamethrower” I just know I am being taught how to use that and a “Lighter?” (by the way I have no idea whether comparing Fortran to a lighter is correct I was just trying to be cool =D )
Fortran is more akin to a thermic lance, with a slippery grip and an obscure habit of occaionally swapping the operator and business end around. But, unlike the flamethrower of C and C++, it’s perfectly safe to use in gusting wind.
Can I just say that all these analogies are making me quite happy?
Yes, I also enjoy Rutskarn’s puns. Why do you ask?
The only problem I have with them is that at first I start thinking with them. For example I’ve felt inclined to post something like:
“Suggesting that he should use a lighter isn’t really helping since he has already mentioned that he’ll be given a flamethrower.”
Which is followed by my mind wandering and suddenly thinking about it literally.
“But don’t flamethrowers have those little flames going on all the time? Couldn’t you just light your cigarette with that one?”
At which point I’m a lost cause.
Was thinking the same thing, actually. :)
A pilot light? No. That’s something you see in fiction. A pilot light works great on a boiler in a basement, but not so well on a hand-held tool used outside. Electric igniters don’t get blown out by the wind.
Fortran is a pretty old language. As such it isn’t really designed to be a teaching language so it isn’t always user friendly. On the upside (and probably the reason your university teaches it) is that it is considered very good for numerical analysis and there are quite a few libraries that very purpose.
FORTRAN (now Fortran – no longer all caps, yay) is still in use because no language has been created to replace it. It is capable of using numbers of ANY level of precision (limited only by available memory). No other language does that (or at least nothing better enough to replace it – I don’t think it’s even been attempted in a long time), so Fortran is still in use.
Almost any newish scripty language, Python and Ruby for example, use infinite precision. And they took it from Lisp (circa 1950s :), not Fortran.
That was the explicit reason I was given for its continuing use – I suppose my source was just wrong (or perhaps outdated).
Fortran’s still in use for the same reason COBOL’s still in use: Lots of preexisting code.
Arguably, that’s also the reason that C(++) is still used as much as it is. Java (for example) is pretty common, but I doubt it even comes close to C in terms of library availability.
The problem isn’t that you’re not going to be able to get a grip on C/C++ from a detail perspective. The problem is that the sorts of errors endemic to C/C++ memory management and pointer manipulation can be easy to make and tricky to find. So _if_ you don’t have a compelling reason to use C/C++ (i.e. locked into legacy libraries, performance is critical but not so critical you want to use assembler), then you should use something that doesn’t offer these sorts of opportunities for error.
I code for a living, and probably 85-90% of my work is in C/C++. But if I’m doing one-off or smaller-scale apps where the conditions above don’t apply, I’ll do them in Java and not feel the least bit bad about it.
This reminds me of that old programming adage — “Debugging is twice as hard as programming. This means that if you write code in the cleverest way you can, by definition you are not smart enough to debug it.” Or, to put it another way: “keep it simple, stupid!”
I’ve been programming only in C for the last 7 years(right out of school), and have to say that memory management issues really aren’t that much of a problem for us. We have pretty good memory tracking tools for detecting any kind of memory overwrite or memory leak, and utility functions for alot of str duplication and manipulation so you’re not copy/pasting the same code everywhere.
Also, nerd note: snprintf is slow(ish), you’re faster to just do like strncpy/strncat/strncat/etc for simply stuff like that, if its something where the code will get ran alot. If you dont care then the clarity of snprintf is always nice.
I really like that flamethrower analogy – I think it gets the point across better than the handsaw analogy I used in the last C thread here.
Sure, you only hurt yourself if you make a mistake with a flamethrower, but still, NOBODY USES FLAMETHROWERS for their normal sources of heat or flame (cooking food, lighting cigarettes, etc). If someone uses a flamethrower to light their cigarette and burns themself, no one would call them stupid for making a mistake with the flamethrower…
They would call them stupid for USING THE FLAMETHROWER IN THE FIRST PLACE.
And so it is with C. Excellent analogy.
Edit: and I would totally buy the Shamus Young Book on Programming, as so many others have said. Really, Shamus, you have a gift for this stuff.
Weren’t you arguing that C shouldn’t even exist though? Because the flamethrower analogy utterly fails to support that position. There are a number of tasks that flamethrowers are used for, even if they’re not common.
Just wanted to thank you for teaching me something today. Good work Sir!
I am a 15 year C programmer (still use it).. Heard an interesting stat about 10 years ago. The last 10% of the bugs to be fixed in a C project take 90% of the bug fix budget and of those 90% are memory issues (overruns, rogue pointers etc). Do not know it is true, but I can easily believe it.
After spending 14 years fixing memory issues (the first year I did not fix any only made them), I really appreciate any language with garbage collection (in particular Python and Ruby). You can focus on the problem you are creating the program to solve not the problems you are creating in the program.
Ultimately, the big thing here is a different attitude towards programming and programming languages. I’ve had to deal with C++ and Java (and done some Python and Smalltalk and some other languages) and the attitude difference is clear:
C/C++: You’re the king, you know what you’re doing, you tell me what to do and I’ll do it. Even if I think it’s stupid, I’ll do it, just in case you know better than I do.
Java: I’m the king, I know what I’m doing, and you get to use me to do what you want. I do as much as I can for you and hide the details, and I won’t let you do something that I think is stupid.
Both have their downsides. C/C++ may take longer to code in some cases and you have to be very careful that you don’t screw-up. But if you need to do something odd, you can do it. On the Java side, you might not be able to do it if you want something not standard, and sometimes it takes a lot of work to convince Java (GridBag, I’m looking at you here) to do what you want. And in Java, you never have to think about what you’re doing, so sometimes you just don’t know what you’re doing.
The biggest example of the latter is that I recent spent an entire weekend tracking a deadlock on threads where basically normal, don’t-think-about-it locking managed to have two methods lock each other out, just because of the code path that it HAPPENS to follow. C/C++ makes you THINK about locking, while Java says “Just tell me to synchronize and I’ll lock things for you”. Bleh.
For the former, I was recently cursing at the Java compiler because it wouldn’t compile because I didn’t initialize a variable in a case for a new case I was adding … that I knew always ran last and didn’t want to initialize to anything anyway at that point. C/C++ would have warned me and moved on.
It depends, really, on what you like. I like more control, so I prefer C/C++, at the cost of one type of error and some extra work in some cases. Some like the ease of use, and so prefer Java at the cost of a different type of error and extra work in other cases. Really, the best language to use is … the best language to use for your feature, taking into account how you like to code.
I haven’t programmed much C, and I haven’t programmed C++ regularly for about 6 years now (since I graduated undergrad). But I don’t remember doing any of that stuff in C++ for string manipulation.
We used what I thought was a standard header (string.h) for C++ string manipulation.
Is that not an industry standard? maybe that’s specific to Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler, which was the one we used in the computer science department.
We had standard functions to do things like concatenate strings, but maybe they weren’t actually so standard.
is now simply , and it’s part of the Standard Template Library. The STL has been a formal part of C++ since the mid-90s. There was widespread support since the late 90s.
C/C++ are part of what now called unmanaged languages. As pointed out in the OP you have to allocate and deallocate memory yourself. Visual Basic 6, Java, C#, VB.NET all manage your memory for you and do automated garbage collection.
Having coded and maintained a CAD/CAM application in VB6 for 15 years along with a C++ add-on for Orbiter Space Simulator (Project Mercury and Project Gemini for Orbiter) unmanaged langauges should not be used for general purpose application development.
They should be used when you absolutely need to use them. In my VB6 CAD/CAM application we have several libraries that are written in C or C++ that are called by VB6. And reason is that we need low level access to the hardware of the computer to interface with the metal cutting machines the software controls.
Also my advice really only applies to NEW projects. Existing projects should not switch unless there is another compelling reason. For NEW project any of the managed mainstream managed languages will be far more productive then their unmanaged counterparts. The time you save on testing and maintenance is considerable.
Very well said.
A great post, Shamus. Count me in as a prospective buyer of your forthcoming programming book. A lot of programming books these days are like PHD dissertations converted to book form, and are about half as exciting to read. One of my favorite game book writers is Andre LaMothe, who writes in a clear and accessible fashion, with a lot of geeky pop culture references thrown in.
Another factor with C/C++ besides self-managed dynamic memory is security. NONE of the original functions take security into account. Many viruses and malware take advantage of buffer overruns to get into memory areas they would otherwise be blocked from by the OS.
I’ll jump on the bandwagon and say that you could, and should, totally write a programming book, if only because it combines your writing work with your programming work, but also because you’re damn good at making it clear what’s going on it the program, even for me, who, at best, can write in HTML. =/
It’ll keep you working until you get a new job, to boot.
Love the article, but there are a couple of problems, and it is bugging me enought that I have to ask about them. Cannot figure out quoting, so I’ll just copy:
You said “In C*, the language does not do all of this legwork for you”
At first, I thought you had meant to say C# with a typo, but now I think you meant to have a *footnote, but there is none.
Later, you said “…Which is not even enough memory to store this one image:”
…what image?
1×1 pixel black dot, I think.
Also, dibs on discovering the hidden Shamus-photo :P
The asterisk is a wildcard. ;)
And the image’s the one hotlinked from I can haz cheezburger. You might have the site blocked.
Hm. It’s actually not hotlinked. I have the image on my site. (I had to reduce it to get it down to the required size.)
Why can’t people see it, I wonder? Can ANYONE see it?
I can see the image just fine.
I can see it, too.
I see the one-pixel black dot, but from the other comments it sounds like that’s not what you’re asking about?
The single-pixel image actually makes a certain amount of sense in the context of the post (though even my distinctly non-techie brain thinks that 64K sounds like a bit too much for the amount of overhead in an image format…).
No problems here.
Firefox for what it matters.
Oops, I’d checked the wrong link there. ¬¬
But yeah, perfectly visible.
C* was shorthand for C or C++. Kind of unclear, in retrospect.
There really is an image after that paragraph. Are you viewing the site through a feed reader, or on the site directly?
Or…
Are you pulling my leg?
I can see it, if that means anything.
I see only a dot, and I’m reading from the site directly. I actually thought that was the joke …
I also cannot see the picture – but I attribute that to my work firewall. Many images, embedded videos, and such, not just on your site, do not show up on my work computer but work just fine at home.
I can’t see the comment avatars, or any of Spoiler Warning, and so on, at work, but then I also can’t go to blogspot or twitter, so I think it’s all in the name of encouraging productivity.
It’s vaguely possible that it’s an IE vs Firefox thing, since that’s another difference between work and home for me, but I think that’s unlikely.
I can see the picture through my work firewall. It’s thematically appropriate in a way that internet memes rarely are.
Nope, I cannot see it. Looking at the site directly. I’m at work – perhaps some firewall/proxy thingy… :-(
+1 to the “I only see a dot” contingent. I’m using IE, and if I try to load the link in its own window, it loads just fine. I’m reading your site directly.
eta: I bet it’s the image’s empty “width” attribute. If you had no “width” at all, it’d behave like your “crash” image up top. But IE and FF seem to treat a “width” attribute differently, so I bet IE is treating it as a width of 0 and not showing anything beyond that.
It appears to be an IE error. Thanks Microsoft… (it shows for me on Firefox, but IE does not show the one image)
It looks like the source includes “width=”” in the img tag. I wonder if different browsers handle that differently, with IE scaling the image down to a width of zero and Firefox assuming it means nothing. That’s the only thing I can guess.
Edit: And there we go:
So that’s the problem.
I’m using IE9 and I see the black dot just fine, and the link to the goat image is clickable :)
Thank you for this, Shamus. I’m not a programmer by any means and have no interest in programming, but you’ve actually managed to explain some things elegantly for someone with no understanding of the subject matter.
You really are an excellent writer. While you’re looking for work you should really consider professional writing.
Very interesting. Knowing now that the results of continued operation could be even more annoying, I’m less angry at my programs and games for crashing.
A game crashing then-and-now is much better than it trying to struggle on, and only managing to write garbage into your save files before realizing that it’s getting nowhere.
Of course, if it were well-programmed neither of those would be a frequent occurence, but sometimes the problem is outside of the game’s control (graphics card drivers, I’m looking at you…)
what about this?
If you’re writing an operating system, a new programming language, or a high performance game, you probably need to be using C and just learn to deal with memory efficiently and correctly.
If you’re not, save yourself a ton of time and effort and problems and use a language with memory management and reflection and such. You’ll thank yourself later.
Actually, in the game case, ideally you would find a way to reserve C for the graphics parts and do everything ELSE in the high level language. I doubt anyone does this in practice, however. Sad for them.
On a current project at work we drive most of the game through lua but any intense functionality (rendering, pathfinding, math heavy code, anything network related) has to be written in C.
The tools we use for development are largely C# and most of our build scripts are in python.
It really does come down to using the right tool for the job. As people keep saying, you’re an idiot if you use a flamethrower to light a cigarette because learning to use a cigarette lighter might be too hard.
EDIT: Speaking of work, I just noticed someone else in the office using the PixelCity screen saver. +1 wins to Shamus.
I love PixelCity… but it runs SO SLOW, even on the new machine at work. It’s probably some kind of setting or graphics card issue, but it does make me sad. So many other people seem to get to really enjoy it.
No, it most certainly will not. Do you really believe that the space in your final output between “book” and “-” will magically materialize if it is neither in the end of the former string nor the beginning of the latter? [/pedant] ;)
Hahahahaha, excellent catch! This is the sort of thing we practically get grilled on in my CS class.
Try java. It’s fun.
No, it isn’t.
i like how it says at one point “this post is for non-coders”
and then it is followed by 552 comments from people who know how to code.
XD
i am highly amused by this.
I don’t agree with you on the “performance used to be important but isn’t any longer” part of the argument. You can easily die a death by a thausand paper cuts if you don’t pay attention to the little things (like string handling for example!). Even on today’s machines:
Shamus,
I think you made a big mistake by using strings as an example. I understand your desire to make this easy to the layman but it seems no one is understanding problem’s generalization.
Also, I find somewhat disturbing that we previously complained about performance and now we’re taking for granted there’s enough perf for everything… I’m with you on the STL hate.
I seriously think your skills are still needed so good luck with your search. But next time, please strlen your strings first.
After reading all that, I just want to say that I now want to see somebody try to light a cigarette with a flamethrower. XD
Jackass have probably already done this.
Thing is, the vast majority of performance issues are caused by poor choice of algorithms, rather then “poor” choice of languages.
Variables ending in $, now that takes me back!
In my brief C++ career (about 8 months working on one project) I don’t think I ever trashed the heap by writing something too large to an array; my favourite memory bug was allocating memory to a pointer, moving the pointer, then calling delete() on it.
What I don’t get is why C doesn’t have a Standard Template Library like C++ does. Obviously the Linux ninja-gurus don’t need all the tools the STL gives you, but surely some kind of standard simple string class when you just need a standard simple string class like what you get in the STL (or vectors at least! I never knew how easy array handling could be until I started using vectors for a lot of stuff instead of arrays.) isn’t going to hurt.
To an extent C can’t. The Template part of the STL requires language support. std::string may look simple, but it’s actually a specialization of std::basic_string. You can easily make strings of wchar_t’s to do unicode. Not good enough? You can make strings of int, or even a custom character class if you really want. You can do roughly equivalent things in C, but they’ll always be crude and a bit error prone. (You’re in the realm of #define macros and casting.)
Okay, what if we jettison templates? Skip super configurable objects, just give me plain strings, maybe in char and wchar_t variants. That’s much easier. But C won’t help clean up objects on the stack or nested inside of other objects. Part of why C++’s classes are awesome is that you write a good destructor and it will be automatically called when the object goes out of scope. C has no equivalent. You still need pay attention to when you’re done with a given string and explicitly ask it to be cleaned up. Still much more error prone than C++’s std::string.
Okay, we’ll accept that. But there is still value in providing smarter string functions that do things like automatically growing to hold data, ensuring null termination, and perhaps tracking length so you can include the null character or at least make strlen really fast. A variety of libraries exist to do exactly that (and for a skilled C programmer it’s a few hours of work to whip one up). Why not include that? At this point we’re down to language design philosophy and history. C is very much “assembly, but better.” It was written for low level programming, an area it continues to excel at. You want to keep the assumptions to bare minimum. Making more powerful constructs part of the default assumptions comes with a cost (e.g. memory usage, code size, speed) that someone developing an operating system, a low-level library, or an embedded system frequently don’t want to pay. A given project might want some parts, but not all. There are also tradeoffs: for one project the ability to have null characters in a string is important and worth the cost, for others it isn’t. Something like the STL is quite good, but it’s designed to work for most people, most of the time. If you want more, you can easily built it yourself, get a third party library, or move to C++.
There is an elegance to C’s minimalism, and I think it’s part of C’s strength. The C Programming Language is, for all practical purposes, a complete definition of C, and is surprisingly thin and readable.
I like C and C++. They’re great tools, each well suited to different tasks. I don’t see a lot of value in trying to make C a more versatile tool when you can easily reach over and pick up C++ instead.
Yay! A whole post dedicated to my question.
I thank you, and also you’re welcome, since I know you love to talk about this stuff.
I actually understood that. (Though some of the comments seem to be in a foreign language.) Now just teach me all the rest of programming, and we’ll start a software company. Voila! Both our money problems solved!!
I get the feeling some people might enjoy this.
Lets Break Pokemon Blue
The original Pokemon games are famously easy to trash the heap in, yet not programmed to crash if it happens – that Z80 WILL soldier on no matter what nonsense you’re telling it. Which leads to all kinds of strange corruptions.
Dear Shamus,
You, dear sir, are a gifted writer.
I’m a psychologist by training; what I spend most of my time doing is making mods for The Witcher. So the only programming I know how to do is in Neverwinter Nights scripting language, not exactly a big, important language. :-)
But you’ve made the memory problems of C both interesting and understandable for someone like me. I read the whole article and enjoyed it. I read some parts aloud to my husband the Computer Science professor.
You were wondering whether to go for a job coding or one writing. Only you know which way your heart leads. But I can tell you that you’re a gifted writer. Maybe you could write the manuals for a game company? I think you’d be really, really good at that.
Yeah, write a manual for Dwarf Fortress. That’d be awesome, although I think the laws of physics might prevent its completion.
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Hey everyone! I try to access the Vector3 of a specific Tile in the Tilemap2017, maybe anyone can help me? I drew a map and I wanted to store each position of each Tile in a dictionary or list so the player can change a specific tile ingame for a ingame building mode. And I also could save the map ingame if any changes happen.
So, how can I access the position of a specific tile in a grid/tilemap and store into a List/Dictionary?
I hope someone can help me
@aldonaletto I hope a bit you can help me with your great knowledge :]
Answer by Cherno
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Nov 24, 2017 at 10:03 PM
Instead of Vector3, use a custom class that is similar but doesn't involve expensive and postentially inaccurate floating point operations. I wrote one that uses integers instead of floating point numbers:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System;
[System.Serializable]
public struct Coordinate3 : IEquatable<Coordinate3> {
public int x;
public int y;
public int z;
public Coordinate3() {
x = 0;
y = 0;
z = 0;
}
public Coordinate3(int a, int b, int c) {
x = a;
y = b;
z = c;
}
public Coordinate3(Vector3 v3) {
x = Mathf.RoundToInt(v3.x);
y = Mathf.RoundToInt(v3.y);
z = Mathf.RoundToInt(v3.z);
}
public bool Equals(Coordinate3 other) {
if (this.x == other.x && this.y == other.y && this.z == other.z) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
public override int GetHashCode() {
return x.GetHashCode() ^ y.GetHashCode() ^ z.GetHashCode();
}
}
Your dictionary would looke like this, assuming that you have a class called Tile:
public Dictionary<Coordinate3,Tile> tiles = new Dictionary<Coordinate3,Tile>();
tiles.Add(new Coordinate3(2,65,7), new Tile());
Hey, thank you for your hint, I will consider it but I'm still confused how to access a single Tile in the new Unity Tilemap-System, normally I create my 2d-Maps by using loops and add each tile to the next, so I would the position just by looking at the number of the loop but now I just paint the Tile on the map and as a Rookie I don't have any idea how to.
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Finding which points lie inside which objects is not actually that hard. But its use is limited. The ray intersection test is much more powerful. For example, imagine a fast bullet and a collision detection routine with a relatively small target such as a can of soda. Because the can is relatively small and the bullet is incredibly fast, it could very well happen that on successive frames the bullet is on opposite sides of the soda can, but no single frame exists where the bullet is actually inside the can. Did the intersection happen? The only way to find out is to test the ray formed by the successive positions. If the ray intersected the can, the bullet hit its target.
Testing for intersection between a ray and a plane is easy (see Figure 22.6). All we have to do is analyze the ray in its parametric form:
X = org.x + dir.x*t
Y = org.y + dir.y*t
Z = org.z + dir.z*t
and the plane with the equation
AX + BY + CZ + D = 0
Half a page of algebra can prove that the preceding equations blend into
t = - (A*org.x + B*org.y + C*org.z + D) / (A*dir.x + B*dir.y + C*dir.z )
Or, if you prefer a more compact notation (using the fact that (A,B,C) is the normal vector to the plane), you can say
t = - (n·org +D) / (n·dir)
Obviously, a ray parallel to the vector will return (n·dir)=0, because the dot product of perpendicular vectors equals zero. Thus, we must compute the denominator first, and if it is different from zero, use the numerator to actually compute the t parameter.
Remember that negative t values mean that the ray actually pierces the plane, but not in the direction expressed by the parametric equation of the ray. Actually, if we want the intersection to take place between two specific points in the ray, here is the usual routine:
compute dir as the vector from one point to the other
do not normalize dir
use the regular test
if the computed t value is in the range from zero to one
the segment intersected the plane .end if
Testing whether a ray intersects a triangle can be performed in a variety of ways. The most popular is not really a test on its own merit, but a composite of two other tests that have already been discussed. The routine would be as follows:
Compute the intersection between the ray and the support plane for the triangle
If there is an intersection point, compute if that point is actually inside the triangle
using a triangle inclusion test.
Other solutions might be derived using linear algebra, but as far as cost is concerned, none of them offers a significant improvement over this one.
One of the best methods for detecting whether a ray intersects an AABB was introduced by Woo. It uses a three-step algorithm to progressively discard candidate planes, and thus performs costly computations on the minimum possible data set. The pseudocode of the algorithm is as follows:
From the six planes, reject those with back-facing normals
From the three planes remaining, compute the t distance on the ray-plane test
Select the farthest of the three distances
Test if that point is inside the box's boundaries
Note that we are assuming we are outside of the object. If we were inside or normals were flipped for some unknown reason, step one would be negated. Thus, the overall test involves
Six dot products to check the first step
Three point-ray tests
A few comparisons for the last step
Incidentally, the 4-step algorithm from the previous section can be used for object-oriented bounding boxes (OOBBs) with minor changes. The first three steps remain unchanged. The last one, however, becomes a bit more complex, as we cannot optimize some computations due to non-axial alignment of the box's support planes. Even so, Woo's algorithm would be a good solution for these cases.
Let's now analyze the intersection between a ray and a sphere in 3D. Given the ray
R:
X = Rorg.x + Rdir.x * lambda
Y = Rorg.y + Rdir.y * lambda
Z = Rorg.z + Rdir.z * lambda
and the sphere defined by
(X-CenterX)2 + (Y-CenterY)2 + (Z-CenterZ)2 = Radius2
the intersection test can fail (if the ray misses the sphere), return one single solution (if the ray touches the sphere tangentially), or return two points (for a general collision). Whichever the case, the preceding equations are easily combined to yield
A*t2 + B*t + C = 0
where
A = Rdir.x2 + Rdir.y2 + Rdir.z2
B = 2* (Rdir.x2*(Rorg.x-CenterX) + Rdir.y2*(Rorg.y-CenterY) + Rdir.z2*(Rorg.z-CenterZ))
C = (Rorg.x-CenterX)2 + (Rorg.y-CenterY)2 + Rorg.z-CenterZ)2 – Radius2
In the preceding equation, A usually equals one because the ray's direction vector is normalized, saving some calculations.
Because we have a quadratic equation, all we have to do is solve it with the classic formula
-b +- sqrt (b2 – 4AC) / 2a
The quantity
B2 – 4ac
is referred to as the determinant. If it is negative, the square root function cannot be evaluated, and thus the ray missed the sphere. If it's zero, the ray touched the sphere at exactly one point. If it's greater than zero, the ray pierced the sphere, and we have two solutions, which are
-b + sqrt (b2 – 4AC) / 2a
-b - sqrt (b2 – 4AC) / 2a
Computing the intersection test between a ray and a convex hull is easy. We loop through the different planes of the convex hull. If we reach the end of the list and all tests were negative (meaning both the first and second point in the ray lie outside the hull), we can stop our search. But what we are interested in are those cases in which a ray's origin has a different sign than the ray's destination. In these cases, we can be sure that a collision took place. Then all we have to do is test the segment and the plane, thus computing the effective intersection point.
Computing the intersection point between a ray and a concave object is a complex issue. We can use the Jordan Curve Theorem, but because there can be several intersections, we need additional information in order to decide which one we should return. Thus, a good idea is to use a 3DDDA approach, starting from the cell closest to the origin of the ray and advancing in the direction of the ray. If one cell is OUTSIDE, we move to the next one with no test at all. When we reach the first cell where we get a DON'T KNOW value, we test for the ray with the triangles of the cell. This way the search space is small, and we can converge quickly to the point in space that marks the first collision between the ray and the general object. Again, the speed of the test has a downside of higher memory consumption. | http://www.yaldex.com/game-programming/0131020099_ch22lev1sec2.html | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | refinedweb | 1,194 | 59.43 |
From time to time we see the need for Varnish to switch behavior based on an external event. Let's have a look at how that can be done.
Some time ago I was asked how a ticket auction site should deal with massive traffic spikes. These sites can get an horrendous amount of traffic in a rather short time frame and the content is in its nature quite dynamic. This is what advice we gave them in order to quickly build something that would scale.
Firstly we recommend to cache everything. You don't have to cache it for a long period, just caching stuff for a second will reduce the load on the backend from hundreds or thousands per second to one single request. That alone can make a huge difference.
They also wanted to be able to change the behavior of the caching layer depending on whether the concert was sold out or not. The ideal place to do this would obviously be in the response headers coming from the backend but for some reason they couldn't or wouldn't do that. What to do?
One of the hidden gems of Varnish Cache is Tollefs Variable VMOD. It is a really simple piece of code that very easily gives you access to variables, or rather associative arrays in VCL.
Lets say the site had a URL structure like this site.com/tickets/$EVENT - where $EVENT would be a unique identifier for the event. Normally we would enforce a one second TTL on everything below /tickets/. In case the event is sold out we can set the TTL to one hour.
This would consist of two parts. First the part that governs the TTL:
in vcl_fetch:
import var; (..) if (req.url ~ ^/tickets/) { set beresp.ttl = 1s;
Now we have enforced the one second TTL. We now would like to override the sold out events.
# Pick the event out of the URL and place it in a var: var.set("event", regsub(req.url, "/tickets/([^/]+).*", "\1")); if (var.global_get(var.get("event") == "soldout") { set beresp.ttl = 1h; } }
That wasn't so hard. Now we only need a way to set the event as sold out. We define /set/$EVENT/$STATUS to set the $EVENT to $STATUS. In real life you probably want to protect this part with ACLs.
in vcl_recv:
if (req.url ~ "/set/[^/]+/[^/]+" { var.set("event", regsub(req.url, "/set/([^/]+).*", "\1")); var.set("status", regsub(req.url, "/set/[^/]+/([^/]+)", "\1")); }
Now, the moment an event sells out they call /set/$EVENT/soldout and change the TTL to one hour.
You should note that the variable VMOD stores the variables in a simple list. This works really well as long as the amount of variables is rather small. If you plan on storing a huge number of variables you'd probably need to rewrite the variable vmod to use a more advanced data structure. I'm pretty sure Tollef will be happy for a patch.
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I'm coming from the PHP world, and it's nice to see the similarities between C & PHP. But I have so many questions! :)
This is a simple fopen() script, easily found online.
What I am wondering about is the buffer variable. I think I understand that it's only looking for 256 characters on a given line.
#include < stdio.h > int main(void) { [B]char buffer[256];[/B] FILE * myfile; myfile = fopen("textfile.txt","r"); while (!feof(myfile)) { fgets(buffer,256,myfile); printf("%s",buffer); } fclose(myfile); return 0; }
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Array problem
Mike Smith
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Joined: Jul 28, 2006
Posts: 9
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Jul 28, 2006 23:15:00
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I'm having one hell of a time with this problem using arrays. I realize this is long, but if anyone could help me with it I'd be so grateful. It's an assignment for class, and I've already turned it in as is below, but I spent two hours staring into the code and it just never came to me. I *have* to know how to fix my problem.
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It's all well and good up until the last part about stating whether or donation is equal, below, or above the average for that charity.
Below I post the code I have so far, and have bolded the problem area.
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public class Main {
public static void main(
String
[] args) {
//Program that generates 15 random charities out of 100, and 15 random amounts for those 15 charities, $0.0 - $100.00
//Define arrays and variables
int charities[] = new int[101]; //Array for charities
double donations[] = new double[101]; //Array for donations
double donation_total = 0.0;
double donation_avg = 0.0;
int count[] = new int[16]; //Count for how many donations a charity received
double total_donation_per_charity[] = new double[16]; //Array for total donation for each charity
//Set all positions in the arrays to 0.
for (int x = 1; x <= 15; x++) { //begin for x
charities[x] = 0;
donations[x] = 0.0;
count[x] = 0;
} //end for x
//Distribute 15 random charities and 10000/100 amounts 100 times
for (int x = 1; x <= 100; x++) { //begin for x
int chosenchar = (int) (Math.random() * 15) + 1;
double chosenamount = (double) ((Math.random() * 10000) + 1) / 100;
//Assign the randomly chosen amounts to positions in the arrays
charities[x] = chosenchar;
donations[x] = chosenamount;
//Increase the chosen charity's count by one. To determine how many times a charity got chosen.
count[chosenchar]++;
//Tell how many donations each charity (1-15) got.
System.out.println("Charity #" + charities[x] + " received $" + donations[x]);
//Create a total amount donated to each charity.
total_donation_per_charity[chosenchar] += chosenamount;
//Create a donation total for all 100 times, to later be used for the overall average.
donation_total += chosenamount;
} //end for x
System.out.println("----------------------------------");
for (int x = 1; x <= 15; x++) { //begin for x
System.out.println("Charity #" + x + " received " + count[x] + " donations, totaling to $" +
total_donation_per_charity[x] + ", and averaging at $" + total_donation_per_charity[x] / count[x] + " each.");
} //end for x
System.out.println("----------------------------------");
for (int x = 1; x <= 100; x++) { //begin for x
if (donations[x] < total_donation_per_charity[x] / count[x])
System.out.println("Charity #" + charities[x] + " received $" + donations[x] + ", which was BELOW the average " +
"for Charity #" + charities[x]);
else if (donations[x] > total_donation_per_charity[x] / count[x])
System.out.println("Charity #" + charities[x] + " received $" + donations[x] + ", which was ABOVE the average " +
"for Charity #" + charities[x]);
else
System.out.println("Charity #" + charities[x] + " received $" + donations[x] + ", which was EQUAL the average " +
"for Charity #" + charities[x]);
} //end for x
System.out.println("----------------------------------");
donation_avg = donation_total / 15;
System.out.println("The total amount donated to all charities was $" + donation_total);
System.out.println("The average donation to each charity was $" + donation_avg);
} //end main
} //end class main
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The problem is that to run through the 100 donations again with the amounts already known, I need a new For loop. So I have another For loop of 100 and it prints out the donations and charities found in the original For loop of 100. The problem is that in the If statement, to compare the current donation to the average, I have to use total_donation_per_charity[x] / count[x], which are both only 16 slotted arrays. The result is that the For loop stops after 15 donations. If you copy/paste this into NetBeans or something, you'll see, and hopefully someone will be able to point out my problem.
Thank you so so much.
P.S. I feel so dumb being stumped so easily. This is my first problem for class that I've been unable to do since class started about four weeks ago. Should I just pack up and consider myself a failure at programming, or do these kinds of things plague people often?
What's the best strategy for getting around a problem like this? arg...)
[ July 28, 2006: Message edited by: Mike ]
Stu Thompson
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Joined: Jun 14, 2006
Posts: 136
posted
Jul 28, 2006 23:41:00
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Hi,
The problems seems a bit odd to me, but have two points:
1) donation and charity arrays are created with 101 elements. this seems wrong to me. donations would be 100 and charities 15, as per instructions.
2) your if section would be inside nested loops. one for donations and one for charities.
hope that helps.
stu
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September 2009 Board reports (see ReportingSchedule).
This report is closed.
These reports are due here by Wednesday, 9 September 2009 so that the Incubator PMC can relay them to the board..
Things are getting better in the last month. First, some critical legal issues which bothers us long time like FFmpeg are solved. Also, we deleted 1394dv support for legal problem, but we believe that would not affect the functionalities. Currently, the only legal issue is ARTS/OSS, and we've already replaced ARTS with SDL, however, it needs sometime to make the whole system run successfully. And we would use ALSA compiled in LGPL way to replace OSS. There are some other good news too. More developers are joining the mailing list and a core team, i believe, is gradually establishing in XJTU. We now aims to the first release and next step we will try to attract more developers on bulletin board system at XJTU to contribute to the future version of RealClass. Plus, MERSMP team, which is incharge of the developing of MERSMP system, now join the dev-mailing list. Together with MERSMP team, we believe that we could make much more achievement in the future. And we still need the committer account so that we commit recent changes of website、code etc. Hope the accounts could be proved soon. the inactive committer account:
and the new committers would be:
- 1.mabowen a.k.a Samuel Kevin 2.chenping a.k.a Arthur Chen
top 2 or 3 to resolve prior to first release:
- Replace ARTS with SDL and make the system work;
Complete the infomation about BlueSky on wiki and official website;
As to MERSMP team, they need sometime to get used to the Apache way;
Signed off by:
Cassandra
Cassandra is a distributed storage system providing reliability at a massive scale. Started incubation: 01/2009. Opened to community in 03/2009.
Past action items:
- Vote on committers Eric Evans and Jun Rao. Done. (And accepted.)
- Get 0.3.0 release out. Done.
Other notable milestones:
- Digg is running a Cassandra cluster of almost 10 TB now.
Next steps:
- Get 0.4.0 release out. (Beta1 was released a couple weeks ago; RC1 is being voted on now.)
Signed off by:
Click
Click is a stateless page and component oriented Java web framework.
Click has been incubating since July 2008.
Tasks completed since June:
- New Committer: Adrian Antal
- Released Click 2.1.0-RC1, our second Apache release
Released Click 1.5.3, a non-Apache maintenance release hosted at SourceForge
Top priorities:
- Release Apache Click 2.1.0
Signed off by:
- Creation of Apache Wiki as Podling's main web site - replacing old forrest site. This is an ongoing task but is off to a good start.
- Dick Hirsch was accepted as an Apache committer.
- Implementation of access pools in main branch
- Creation of branch to deal with access pools prototype
- Started work on new UI
- Patch committed from new developer
The following items are planned for the next reporting period:
- Conitinue work on wiki and move more content from mailing list to the wiki
- Work on new UI
Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation
- Move all collaboration to the esme-dev mailing list
- Increase community involvement in the project
- First Apache release
Signed off by: bdelacretaz, gianugo
Etch
Signed off by: niclas, dashorst
Etch was accepted into Incubator on 2 September 2008. We had our first birthday!
Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent framework for building and consuming network services. The Etch toolset includes a network service description language, a compiler, and binding libraries for a variety of programming languages.
Diaspora!
Most all of the Cisco-based Etch team found themselves unemployed by Cisco this quarter. So this quarter has been marked with little technical progress as the team members find new homes for themselves. Despite the disruption, Youngjin has begun to pickup on the C-binding work started by James DeCocq.
Release 1.1 is ready but needs some administrative polish before it is *done*.
Release 1.2 is next in the pipeline.
Our problem with finding a home for our continuous build continues. Various plans have been proposed and failed due to lack of a Windows-friendly c# build environment. We need to find a place do public builds.
Outstanding items:
- More community.. we have been Cisco-centered with just a few nibbles outside of Cisco. Things are definitely changing with members employed or so to be employed in different places. Building a stronger community over the next several months is our key task.
Hama
Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a parallel matrix computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce.
Recent developments:
We implemented EigenValue Decomposition, based on Map/Reduce computing model
- We start considering about another computing model based Bulk Synchronous Parallel on Hadoop
- We start preparing a paper of this project
Required before graduation:
- More practical examples of matrix manipulation
- Increase community size and activity
- First Apache release
Signed off by: brett
Kato
Kato was accepted into the Incubator on 6 November 2008.
Kato is a project to develop the Specification, Reference Implementation, and TCK for JSR 326: the JVM Post-mortem Diagnostics API
Recent Activity:
- A JVMTI agent has been contributed by Paul Sobek along with an implementation of the API.
- The JSR specification document has been written and is building.
- The JSR specification has been submitted to the JCP as an EDR.
- The project is being built on the ASF's hudson server.
The following is planned for next reporting period:
- Our first release of the RI, demos and TCK.
Before this project can be graduated we need to produce a usable implementation of the API and more useful tools to encourage adoption and participation of a much needed community.
Signed off by: rdonkin
Log4php
Log4PHP is a logging framework similar to Log4J, but in PHP. The project entered incubation in 2004, retired and restarted again on 2007-07-04. Since the last report there has been much activity. Slightly more activity from community could be reckognized. Several patches from contributors came in.
Enviroment:
- Website has been updated. We plan to do this on a regular basis now via Buildbot
Blog has been activated ()
- Christian Grobmeier has been elected as new PPMC-Member
Code:
- Maven has been established as build tool
- PHP5 port has been finished
buildbot has been established ()
- Lots of code upgrades, fixes etc.
Next steps:
- Stabilizing/Cleaning up code for the first release
- Try to attract more developers for Log4PHP
- Looking at getting an incubating release done.
Issues before graduation:
- Still less community interaction
Signed off by: niclas
OpenWebBeans
OpenWebBeans is an ASL-licensed implementation of the JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform which is defined as JSR-299.
OpenWebBeans entered the incubator in October 26, 2008. The following items have been made after the last report
- We cut a M3 release (under vote)
- We implemented a new spec. features, (Portable Extensions, and changed APIs)
- We created a JSR-330 API and integrated with it
- We integrated with embeddable OpenEJB in Tomcat to support EJB Beans
- We implemented 2 new samples related with EJB Beans and JMS Injections
- We started a progress to integrate OWB with Apache Geronimo
Belows are the next steps;
- We will release the M4 version.
- We will integrate with the Apache Geronimo
- We will create more documentations in the wiki
- We will continue to attract new committers into the project.
- We will strive to create more community and increase the use of user@list
Signed off by: Kevan Miller
RAT
RAT has been reasonably quiet though the summer of code project has been very active over at Google. Initial enthusiasm for developing crawling capabilities was stalled by the lack of quick progress towards a release by Driods.
Progress on graduation is still stalled by the lack of a suitable TLP to home the project. RAT illustrates well the inability of the incubator system to work for existing small but open projects without a nominating TLP. If Apache wants to accept more projects of this nature, some process rethinking is needed.
Signed off by:.
Recent efforts included replacing make build scripts with ant and integrating the qa test suite with the main build. The jtreg test suite has some remaining issues to solve, namely setup and configure a Kerberos KDC test server, a zone has been set up for this purpose at river.zones.apache.org , in a addition a proxy server is also required to replace the functionality of the sun jiniproxy server. Most jtreg tests are passing, it would be desirable to have all pass prior to releasing AR2.
Minor modifications need to be made to the ant build scripts to build the ClassDep.jar manifest correctly to include required libraries following recent ClassDep reimplementation changes to eliminate dependency upon internal implementation of Sun's JDK. Once resolved we are clear to release AR2.
There has been some some recent interest in implementing compression and caching of bytecode. Other interests include class versioning and codebase services.
After AR2, focus will be on support for Java 5 features, such as annotations and reducing the barriers to entry for new contributor developers.
Required before graduation:
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- Reduce barriers to entry for new developers.
- Increased committer participation.
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Shindig
Shindig is a reference implementation of the OpenSocial and gadgets stack. The active community has built two parallel implementations of the OpenSocial and gadgets spec; one in Java and one in PHP.
Incubating since: 2007-12-06
High-level status summary during last quarter:
stable release compliant to OpenSocial v0.9 currently being reviewed by PMC
updates for OpenSocial v0.9 are implemented and in production on several sites that support OpenSocial
- two new committers joined the community. The committer base on the Java side is relatively varied. However, until now we have had a single committer working on the PHP implementation. This changed with the addition of two new committers focussing on PHP. The lack of committer count (and thus diversity) on PHP was a graduation issue. The addition of these two committers certainly moves the project in the right direction regarding graduation.
Requirements for graduation:
- Discussion about graduation is ongoing. The most pressing need that was identified was to diversify our committer base for PHP. In many other ways, the project and community are in very good shape.
Signed off by: Upayavira,
SocialSite
Signed off by:
Traffic Server
This last month, the team has worked hard on code cleanup, preparing the code for submission into the Incubator SVN server. We still have some cleanup to do, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Traffic Server is having a Meetup at ApacheCon, Tuesday night, where we will present our progress, as well as give an overview of the code architecture, and typical use case scenarios for TS. Our goal is of course to be done with the code cleanup, and SVN migration, well before ApacheCon.
Signed off by: cutting
VXQuery
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06.
August activities:
-
Wink
Signed off by: Davanum Srinivas, Kevan Miller:
- After issues with packaging and licensing were resolved, Wink made its first release! Thanks to IPMC and others who reviewed the release artifacts.
- Spread the word of the release via various channels.
- RSS support was added into Apache Wink.
Planned Activity:
- Bug fixes and feature improvements after first release.
- More updates to documentation on cwiki
Top issues before graduation:
- Looking into how to interact with other communities
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Sourcify
ParseTree is great, it accesses the runtime AST (abstract syntax tree) and makes it possible to convert any object to ruby code & S-expression, BUT ParseTree doesn't work for 1.9.* & JRuby.
RubyParser is great, and it works for any rubies (of course, not 100% compatible for 1.8.7 & 1.9.* syntax yet), BUT it works only with static code.
I truely enjoy using the above tools, but with my other projects, the absence of ParseTree on the different rubies is forcing me to hand-baked my own solution each time to extract the proc code i need at runtime. This is frustrating, the solution for each of them is never perfect, and i'm reinventing the wheel each time just to address a particular pattern of usage (using regexp kungfu).
Enough is enough, and now we have Sourcify, a unified solution to extract proc code. When ParseTree is available, it simply works as a thin wrapper round it, otherwise, it uses a home-baked ragel-generated scanner to extract the proc code. Further processing with RubyParser & Ruby2Ruby to ensure 100% with ParseTree (yup, there is no denying that i really like ParseTree).
Installing It
The religiously standard way:
$ gem install ParseTree sourcify
Or on 1.9.* or JRuby:
$ gem install ruby_parser file-tail sourcify
Using It
Sourcify adds 4 methods to Proc:
1. Proc#to_source
Returns the code representation of the proc:
require 'sourcify' lambda { x + y }.to_source # >> "proc { (x + y) }" proc { x + y }.to_source # >> "proc { (x + y) }"
Like it or not, a lambda is represented as a proc when converted to source (exactly the same way as ParseTree). It is possible to only extract the body of the proc by passing in => true:
lambda { x + y }.to_source(:strip_enclosure => true) # >> "(x + y)" lambda {|i| i + 2 }.to_source(:strip_enclosure => true) # >> "(i + 2)"
2. Proc#to_sexp
Returns the S-expression of the proc:
require 'sourcify' x = 1 lambda { x + y }.to_sexp # >> s(:iter, # >> s(:call, nil, :proc, s(:arglist)), # >> nil, # >> s(:call, s(:lvar, :x), :+, s(:arglist, s(:call, nil, :y, s(:arglist)))))
To extract only the body of the proc:
lambda { x + y }.to_sexp(:strip_enclosure => true) # >> s(:call, s(:lvar, :x), :+, s(:arglist, s(:call, nil, :y, s(:arglist)))))
3. Proc#to_raw_source
Unlike Proc#to_source, which returns code that retains only functional aspects, fetching of raw source returns the raw code enclosed within the proc, including fluff like comments:
lambda do |i| i+1 # (blah) end.to_source # >> "proc do |i| # >> i+1 # (blah) # >> end"
NOTE: This is extracting of raw code, it relies on static code scanning (even when running in ParseTree mode), the gotchas for static code scanning always apply.
4. Proc#source_location
By default, this is only available on 1.9.*, it is added (as a bonus) to provide consistency under 1.8.*:
# /tmp/test.rb require 'sourcify' lambda { x + y }.source_location # >> ["/tmp/test.rb", 5]
Performance
Performance is embarassing for now, benchmarking results for processing 500 procs (in the ObjectSpace of an average rails project) yiels the following:
ruby user system total real ruby-1.8.7-p299 (w ParseTree) 10.270000 0.010000 10.280000 ( 10.311430) ruby-1.8.7-p299 (static scanner) 14.120000 0.080000 14.200000 ( 14.283817) ruby-1.9.1-p376 (static scanner) 17.380000 0.050000 17.430000 ( 17.405966) jruby-1.5.2 (static scanner) 21.318000 0.000000 21.318000 ( 21.318000)
Since i'm still pretty new to ragel, the code scanner will probably become better & faster as my knowlegde & skills with ragel improve. Also, instead of generating a pure ruby scanner, we can generate native code (eg. C or java, or whatever) instead. As i'm a C & java noob, this will probably take some time to realize.
Gotchas
Nothing beats ParseTree's ability to access the runtime AST, it is a very powerful feature. The scanner-based (static) implementation suffer the following gotchas:
1. The source code is everything
Since static code analysis is involved, the subject code needs to physically exist within a file, meaning Proc#source_location must return the expected *[file, lineno]*, the following will not work:
def test eval('lambda { x + y }') end test.source_location # >> ["(eval)", 1] test.to_source # >> Sourcify::CannotParseEvalCodeError
The same applies to *Blah#to_proc* & *&:blah*:
klass = Class.new do def aa(&block); block ; end def bb; 1+2; end end klass.new.method(:bb).to_proc.to_source # >> Sourcify::CannotHandleCreatedOnTheFlyProcError klass.new.aa(&:bb).to_source # >> Sourcify::CannotHandleCreatedOnTheFlyProcError
2. Multiple matching procs per line error
Sometimes, we may have multiple procs on a line, Sourcify can handle this as long as the subject proc has arity that is unique from others:
# Yup, this works as expected :) b1 = lambda {|a| a+1 }; b2 = lambda { 1+2 } b2.to_source # >> proc { (1 + 2) } # Nope, this won't work :( b1 = lambda { 1+2 }; b2 = lambda { 2+3 } b2.to_source # >> raises Sourcify::MultipleMatchingProcsPerLineError
As observed, the above does not work when there are multiple procs having the same arity, on the same line. Furthermore, this bug under 1.8.* affects the accuracy of this approach.
To better narrow down the scanning, try:
passing in the => … option
x = lambda { proc { :blah } } x.to_source # >> Sourcify::MultipleMatchingProcsPerLineError x.to_source(:attached_to => :lambda) # >> "proc { proc { :blah } }"
passing in the => … option
x = lambda { lambda { :blah } } x.to_source # >> Sourcify::MultipleMatchingProcsPerLineError x.to_source(:ignore_nested => true) # >> "proc { lambda { :blah } }"
attaching a body matcher proc
x, y = lambda { def secret; 1; end }, lambda { :blah } x.to_source # >> Sourcify::MultipleMatchingProcsPerLineError x.to_source{|body| body =~ /^(.*\W|)def\W/ } # >> 'proc { def secret; 1; end }'
Pls refer to the rdoc for more details.
3. Occasional Racc::ParseError
Under the hood, sourcify relies on RubyParser to yield s-expression, and since RubyParser does not yet fully handle 1.8.7 & 1.9.* syntax, you will get a nasty Racc::ParseError when you have any code that is not compatible with 1.8.6.
Is it really working ??
Sourcify spec suite currently passes in the following rubies:
MRI-1.8.*, REE-1.8.7 (both ParseTree & static scanner modes)
JRuby-1.6.*, MRI-1.9.* (static scanner ONLY)
Besides its own spec suite, sourcify has also been tested to handle:
ObjectSpace.each_object(Proc) {|o| puts o.to_source }
For projects:
(TODO: the more the merrier)
Projects using it
Projects using sourcify include:
Additional Resources
Sourcify is heavily inspired by many ideas gathered from the ruby community:
rubyquiz.com/quiz38.html (Florian Groß's solution)
svenfuchs.com/2009/07/05/using-ruby-1-9-ripper.html
The sad fact that Proc#to_source wouldn't be available in the near. | http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/sourcify/frames | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | refinedweb | 1,087 | 56.45 |
clearerr, feof, ferror, fileno - check and reset stream status
#include <stdio.h>
void clearerr(FILE *stream);
int feof(FILE *stream);
int ferror(FILE *stream);
int fileno(FILE *stream);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
fileno(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE).
These functions should not fail and do not set the external variable errno. (However, in case fileno() detects that its argument is not a valid stream, it must return -1 and set errno to EBADF.)
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
The functions clearerr(), feof(), and ferror() conform to C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001, and POSIX.1-2008.
The function fileno() conforms to POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.
open(2), fdopen(3), stdio(3), unlocked_stdio(3)
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at. | https://www.zanteres.com/manpages/ferror.3.html | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | refinedweb | 158 | 76.82 |
I'm trying to findout the size of the array. But instead of giving it 5 it is giving 2. Which is not correct. Formula for finding the size of the array is this. int size = sizeof(pArr)/sizeof(int); You can see the working code here. For your copy code is shown below.
#include <iostream> void printArray(int* pArr){ //find size of the array. It should be 5 but //below it is calculating it 2. Why? int size = sizeof(pArr)/sizeof(int); std::cout << "sizeof pArr: " << size << "\n"; for(int i=0; i<size; i++){ std::cout << *(pArr+i); } } int main(){ int another[] = {1,2,3,4,5}; printArray(another); for(int j=0; j<5; j++){ // std::cout << arr[j]<< "\n "; }//end for }//end main | https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/501211/array-to-pointer-conversion-how-to-find-the-size-of-array-in-c | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | refinedweb | 127 | 76.82 |
Store, Reduce, Action!
Redux is a state management library. So, what is that?
Remember the main paradigm of React? The app should have a single source of truth, where only a single component hold the state (or truth) to be passed down to its children.
In React, the state is stored as a simple JavaScript object. For small projects, this is enough. But when your app starts handling multiple user inputs and APIs, you need a more complex data structure to organize them 😵💫.
Enter Redux! They act as a manager to make organizing complex states more intuitive 🥳. States are stored in a separate component, freeing React components from this job.
How it works
States are stored in a store. We can requests state value from the store, or listen to any change to states. To update a state, we need to pass an action to the store.
Storing states 🏪
For Redux to manage states, we need to initialize a store to keep the state.
Redux.createStore(reducer);
reducer is a function that would be used by Redux. Basically, when an action is passed, Redux will use this
reducer function to determine what to do with the state. We gonna talk about
reducer after this.
reducer is a function that would be used by Redux. Basically, when an action is passed, Redux will use this
reducer function to determine what to do with the state. We gonna talk about
reducer after this.
Reducer function
This is an example syntax of a reducer:
const reducer = function(state = 0, action) { switch(action.type) { case "increment": return state + 1; break; case "decrement": return state - 1; break; default: return state; } }
The initial state is declared as the default parameter, just like in the ES6 specification (yes, please revise). Action is an object passed to the store to update states (we gonna talk about this later).
Depending on the action
type, we return the new state, and I mean new. Do not return a modified old state, and be careful because Redux won't slap your hand for this. It's just gonna hide a bug deep down to smash you later 👿.
Also, a
switch statement is common in Redux. Get used to it.
Get states, or listen to their
suffering change
Unlike Walmart, you don't have to pay to grab the state. You call it with the
store.getState() function:
let wholeStore = store.getState();
With just a call, you can get all the states.
To listen to changes, use
store.subscribe:
store.subscribe(killEveryone);
The
killEveryone function will be executed when any state is changed, you cannot pinpoint a single state to listen to.
Actions
Updating a state means passing an action to the store. An action is a JavaScript object with
type as a mandatory key. The value
type key would be the name of the action, e.g: LOGIN, PRESSED, etc.
let actionLogin = { type: "LOGIN" };
You can also pass data as key-value pairs inside the action.
To pass an action to the store, use
store.dispatch():
store.dispatch(actionLogin);
A function that returns an action can also be used the parameter. In this case, the function is called the action creator.
A small tip
If you don't like dumping all sorts of states and action into a large vat inside the store, use
Redux.combineReducer():
const loginReducer = function(state = {auth: false}, action) { if(action.type === "LOGIN"): return ({ auth:true }); } const colorReducer = function(state, action) { return color = "white"; } Redux.combineReducer({ login: loginReducer, color: colorReducer });
The above setup will create a nested object: The outside one have keys `login' and 'color'. Inside each key is the object containing state defined by its reducer.
Afterwords
Compared to React, Redux is a small break for me, before diving into its integration with React and the final projects. It's nice to take a breather once in a while 😌.
Follow me on Github!
Also on Twitter!
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When I use this command within objective-c code, I get what look like c++ templates in the newly created files. Am I
missing a setting or is this a bug? (or intentional?)
Example .h file after Move on @interface MovedClass
#ifndef __MovedClass_H_
#define __MovedClass_H_
#endif //__MovedClass_H_
David, why do you need guard-blocks in the Objective-C code?
Apologies, I was pointed out by my colleague, that I incorrectly read the question.
It indeed looks like a bug; could you please give a bit more details/type of original file/code snippet?
Is the problem reproducible if yes, what are the steps?
Yes, you've got it right now. I *don't* want the guard blocks but they are produced.
100% reproducible.
Here is a simple way to recreate it:
New->Project->IOSApplication->Empty Application
In the newly created AppDelegate.m, add the following above the "@implementation AppDelegate" line:
@interface MoveMe
@end
@implementation MoveMe
@end
Click on a MoveMe and choose Refactor->Move, and choose to Move it to a new file.
Inspecting the new files reveals the issue: C++ style guards in the header and a #include in the implementaiton file.
I doubt any step is needed other than clicking on a class and choosing to move it to a new file. Actually I just did that, and it repro'd.
Very minor bug.
__
In general, I notice certain issues, possibly bugs, and usuabilty issues when dealing with multiple classes in one file. I don't generally report them because "one class one file" is best practice. Should I anyway?
Thanks for the details, David
I have reproduced this issue. Unfortunately there is no way to workaround this at the moment, we'll see if we can fix it in the next major update. | https://devnet.jetbrains.com/thread/452046 | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | refinedweb | 297 | 64.91 |
Explain this behavior of System.gc ()
In Thinking in Java, the author suggests a method for enforcing garbage collection on an object. I wrote a similar program to test this (I'm on Open JDK 7):
//forcing the garbage collector to call the finalize method class PrintMessage { private String message; public PrintMessage (String m) { this.message = m; } public String getMessage() { return this.message; } protected void finalize() { if(this.message == ":P") { System.out.println("Error. Message is: " + this.message); } } } public class ForcingFinalize { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println((new PrintMessage(":P")).getMessage()); System.gc(); } }
The trick, I think, is to create a new link to the object and not the designation:
new PrintMessage();
.
That's what puzzles me. When I compile and run this program, I get the following expected output:
:P Error. Message is: :P
However, if I modify the first line of my main () function like this:
(new PrintMessage(":P")).getMessage();
I see no way out. Why
System.gc()
does it only call the garbage collector when sending output to standard output? Does this mean that the JVM only creates an object when it sees some "real" use for it?
source to share
The object will be created, the bytecode compiler will not optimize this. What happens in the second case is that your program exits before the output actually turns red to your terminal (or maybe even before the finalizer runs, you never know when GC and finalization actually occurs) ... If you add
Thread.sleep()
after the call
System.gc()
, you will see the output.
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Matt Drollette
From WoodenAxe Minecraft Wiki
What is it
Matt Drollette is in fact a plug-in which manages 110% of the server.
Code
#include <iostream> #include <string> #include <ctime> int invoke_matt() { std::string Response[] = { "I'll probably do another round of applications around Saturday.", "Hey" & UserName & ", what's up?", "@" & QueryLogBlock(User(GriefLocationX, GriefLocationY)) & ", what happened here?", "I put $10,000 in the bank.", "Welcome aboard. Make sure to read the rules and FAQs", "I'm not resetting the map but I'll expand the world limits as needed." }; srand((unsigned) time(NULL)); std::string"; std::getline(std::cin, sInput); int nSelection = rand() % 5; sResponse = Response[nSelection]; std::cout << sResponse << std::endl; } return 0; } | https://wiki.woodenaxe.com/Matt_Drollette | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | refinedweb | 114 | 57.57 |
Hi all,
Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Mesos 1.5.2.
1.5.2 includes the following:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*****Announce major bug fixes here*****
* [MESOS-3790] - ZooKeeper connection should retry on `EAI_NONAME`.
* [MESOS-8128] - Make os::pipe file descriptors O_CLOEXEC.
* [MESOS-8418] - mesos-agent high cpu usage because of numerous
/proc/mounts reads.
* [MESOS-8545] -
AgentAPIStreamingTest.AttachInputToNestedContainerSession is flaky.
* [MESOS-8568] - Command checks should always call
`WAIT_NESTED_CONTAINER` before `REMOVE_NESTED_CONTAINER`.
* [MESOS-8620] - Containers stuck in FETCHING possibly due to
unresponsive server.
* [MESOS-8830] - Agent gc on old slave sandboxes could empty persistent
volume data.
* [MESOS-8871] - Agent may fail to recover if the agent dies before image
store cache checkpointed.
* [MESOS-8904] - Master crash when removing quota.
* [MESOS-8906] - `UriDiskProfileAdaptor` fails to update profile
selectors.
* [MESOS-8907] - Docker image fetcher fails with HTTP/2.
* [MESOS-8917] - Agent leaking file descriptors into forked processes.
* [MESOS-8921] - Autotools don't work with newer OpenJDK versions.
* [MESOS-8935] - Quota limit "chopping" can lead to cpu-only and
memory-only offers.
* [MESOS-8936] - Implement a Random Sorter for offer allocations.
* [MESOS-8942] - Master streaming API does not send (health) check
updates for tasks.
* [MESOS-8945] - Master check failure due to CHECK_SOME(providerId).
* [MESOS-8947] - Improve the container preparing logging in IOSwitchboard
and volume/secret isolator.
* [MESOS-8952] - process::await/collect n^2 performance issue.
* [MESOS-8963] - Executor crash trying to print container ID.
* [MESOS-8978] - Command executor calling setsid breaks the tty support.
* [MESOS-8980] - mesos-slave can deadlock with docker pull.
* [MESOS-8986] - `slave.available()` in the allocator is expensive and
drags down allocation performance.
* [MESOS-8987] - Master asks agent to shutdown upon auth errors.
* [MESOS-9024] - Mesos master segfaults with stack overflow under load.
* [MESOS-9049] - Agent GC could unmount a dangling persistent volume
multiple times.
* [MESOS-9116] - Launch nested container session fails due to incorrect
detection of `mnt` namespace of command executor's task.
* [MESOS-9125] - Port mapper CNI plugin might fail with "Resource
temporarily unavailable".
* [MESOS-9127] - Port mapper CNI plugin might deadlock iptables on the
agent.
* [MESOS-9131] - Health checks launching nested containers while a
container is being destroyed lead to unkillable tasks.
* [MESOS-9142] - CNI detach might fail due to missing network config file.
* [MESOS-9144] - Master authentication handling leads to request
amplification.
* [MESOS-9145] - Master has a fragile burned-in 5s authentication timeout.
* [MESOS-9146] - Agent has a fragile burn-in 5s authentication timeout.
* [MESOS-9147] - Agent and scheduler driver authentication retry backoff
time could overflow.
* [MESOS-9151] - Container stuck at ISOLATING due to FD leak.
* [MESOS-9170] - Zookeeper doesn't compile with newer gcc due to format
error.
* [MESOS-9196] - Removing rootfs mounts may fail with EBUSY.
* [MESOS-9231] - `docker inspect` may return an unexpected result to
Docker executor due to a race condition.
* [MESOS-9267] - Mesos agent crashes when CNI network is not configured
but used.
* [MESOS-9279] - Docker Containerizer 'usage' call might be expensive if
mount table is big.
* [MESOS-9283] - Docker containerizer actor can get backlogged with large
number of containers.
* [MESOS-9305] - Create cgoup recursively to workaround systemd deleting
cgroups_root.
* [MESOS-9308] - URI disk profile adaptor could deadlock.
* [MESOS-9334] - Container stuck at ISOLATING state due to libevent poll
never returns.
The CHANGELOG for the release is available at:;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGELOG;hb=1.5.2-rc2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The candidate for Mesos 1.5.2 release is available at:
The tag to be voted on is 1.5.2-rc2:;a=commit;h=1.5.2-rc.5.2!
The vote is open until Mon Nov 5 16:23:11 PDT 2018 and passes if a
majority of at least 3 +1 PMC votes are cast.
[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Mesos 1.5.2
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because ...
Thanks,
Gilbert | http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mesos-user/201810.mbox/%3CCAK7AWaHCKwXLcJbed9gjibx=_uJgYPFe2cC+PV4yKtPBjoejyQ@mail.gmail.com%3E | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | refinedweb | 624 | 61.12 |
Qt.
- First of all create a Qt Widgets Application and set Android as the kit you want to use. (You can use x86 with Emulators and armeabi-v7a with actual Android phones.)
- Add the following line to your qmake .PRO file. (Append it anywhere you want, but I recommend the bottom of the .PRO file.)
ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR = $$PWD/android-sources
- Now you have to download and extract contents of the following ZIP file into your project folder, and add all extracted files to your project, by right clicking on your project and selecting “Add Existing Files”.
Two files that you will find inside this ZIP files are listed below.
android-sources/AndroidManifest.XML
android-sources/com/mycompany/myappname/myappname.JAVA
- Now you can write Android code (Assuming you are already familiar with it) inside JAVA file mentioned above. To pass results between Java and Qt (C++) you need to use JNI. You can search my website and all over the internet for information about JNI but to put it simply, it is an interface between your Qt (C++) code and Android (Java) code.
- You can define functions like this inside your MainWindow.CPP or any other source file to access Java functions. Here it is assumed that you have a function named “somefunction” in your Java code that resturns String values:
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL
Java_com_mycompany_myappname_myappname_somefunction(JNIEnv */*env*/,
jobject /*obj*/,
jstring results)
{
some_global_var = QAndroidJniObject(results).toString();
}
As stated in Qt Documentation, you have to have the following in your code to be able to define the function above:
Add following line to your header file:
#include <QtAndroidExtras>
Add following line to your .PRO file:
QT += androidextras
Finally, it is extremely important to note that “mycompany”, “myappname” and other names that have been used in this tutorial have to be consistent across all of your project. Obviously you can change them to whatever fits you and your project but you have to repeat those changes in “AndroidManifest.XML”, inside your Java code, inside your CPP sources, change the folder names under “android-sources” folder etc. You MUST be consistent all over the place or your project will crash!
I’ll write more tutorials for specific usage of some Android specific code in Qt projects in the upcoming days and weeks but in the meantime you can put a comment below if you are facing any problems or if you have any questions. | http://amin-ahmadi.com/2015/12/07/how-to-mix-c-and-java-code-in-qt-for-android/ | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | refinedweb | 399 | 58.52 |
The equality of any two instances of user defined classes is determined by comparing the pairs of values for each field defined for that class. If the field value is an instance of another class, the comparison recursively continues the comparison of the two values. Circularity in data definitions is detected. If the objects that are being compared contain a field of the type double or float (or their wrapper classes), the
checkInexact variant of the test method is used.
The class
ExamplesUserTypes contains all test cases. The additional classes are user defined classes whose instances are compared.
Here is the complete source code for this test suite.
You can also download the entire souce code as a zip file.
Complete test results are shown here.
Here is a simple example of a class that refers to another class and the tests that check the equality of their instances:
public class Book { public String title; protected Author author; protected float price; public Book(String title, Author author) { this.title = title; this.author = author; } public Book(String title, Author author, float price) { this.title = title; this.author = author; this.price = price; } } public class Author { public String name; public int age; public Author(String name, int age) { this.name = name; this.age = age; } } public class ExamplesUserTypes { Author js = new Author("John Steinbeck", 66); Author jkr = new Author("J K Rowling", 45); Book tp = new Book("The Pearl", js); Book eoe = new Book("East of Eden", js); Book hp = new Book("Harry Potter", jkr, 100.50f); Book omam = new Book("Of Mice and Men", js, 75.25f); public void testBooks(Tester t) { t.checkExpect(js, new Author("John Steinbeck", 66), "Success - t.checkExpect(js, new Author(John Steinbeck, 66))"); t.checkFail(jkr, new Author("J K Rowling", 44), "Test to fail - t.checkFail(jkr, new Author(J K Rowling, 44))"); t.checkInexact(hp, new Book("Harry Potter", jkr, 100.0f), 0.01, "Success - t.checkInexact(hp, new Book(Harry Potter, jkr, 100.0f), 0.01)"); t.checkInexactFail(hp, new Book ("Harry Potter", js), 0.01, "Test to fail - t.checkInexactFail(hp, new Book (Harry Potter, js), 0.01)"); } }
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Introduction to JTabbedPane in Java
JTabbedPane class is one of the many classes (such as JButton, JTextArea, JMenu, JTextField, etc)that ‘javax.swing’ java package provides for java swing APIs. Java Swing package is part of the Java’s foundation classes, JFCs.These foundation classes are used to create graphical user interfaces, window-based applications using available GUI components which makes easier for a programmer to develop desktop applications. They are written completely in java top of AWT, Abstract Windows Toolkit.
But opposite to AWT, Java Swing packages provide platform-independent components. These components are comparatively light weighted too. At the end of this article, you will be able to add Swing JComponents like JTabbedPane onto an AWT Container. You will be also able to set the position of your panel and frame. You also will learn how to create a scroll-able tab panel.
What is JTabbedPane?
JTabbedPane is one of the classes provided by the swing package in java. It is very useful, as it provides the flexibility to the user to switch between different groups of components he desires to see, by simply clicking on one of the tabs. The tabs can be given different titles or icons.
Here is an everyday example of such a window, that has several tabs that can be accessed by clicking on the tabs.
A simple ‘properties’ window of a local disk (here, Local Disk F: Properties window on my system) on your computer system has multiple tabs, named General, Tools, Hardware, etc that you are able to access, by clicking on one of them, is a perfect example of the tabbed panes.
In other words, the JTabbedPane helps you to have several components share the same place. The user easily chooses which component he wants to see by choosing or clicking on the desired tab.
JTabbedPane Tab Indexing and Placement
The tabs are represented by an index, which gets decided according to the place at or the position in which the tab was added.
To understand this, let’s suppose you added your first tab. Then its index will be equal to ‘0’ and your next tab will have an index equal to ‘1’ and going by the fashion, your last added tab’s index will be equal to ‘tab count minus 1’.
The Tabbed Pane classes use a single selection model that represents ‘a set of tab indexes’ as well as the ‘currently selected index’ i.e. the selected tab’s index.
By default, the tabs are placed at the TOP location, as you can see in the above window’s property tabbed pane. You can change this tab placement to any of the directions like LEFT, RIGHT or Bottom by the use of a method called, setTabPlacement method.
JTabbedPane Constructors in Java
While using JTabbedPane, we will be using its constructors too which are differentiated based on the privileges they provide.
The commonly used constructors while using JTabbedPane are listed as follows:
1. JTabbedPane ( )
The constructor JTabbedPane ( ) creates an empty TabbedPane. When we use the constructor JTabbedPane ( ), it creates the pane without any specification for its placement. So the tab is placed on its default place that is TOP as discussed above using JTabbedPane.TOP.
2. JTabbedPane (int tabPlacement)
This constructor creates an empty TabbedPane. It provides the privilege to decide the direction or place for the pane. The placement is done when the direction is specified using JTabbedPane.TOP, JTabbedPane.BOTTOM, JTabbedPane.LEFT, or JTabbedPane.RIGHT.
3. JTabbedPane (int tabPlacement, int tabLayoutPolicy)
An empty tabbed pane is created when this constructor is used. This provides the privilege to decide the placement for the tab-pane the same as the JTabbedPane (int tabPlacement) constructor.
It also lets the programmer decide the tab layout policy. This allows the programmer to control how the tabs will be displayed. The tab layout policy is either set to JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT or JTabbedPane.WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT. By default, the policy is settoWRAP_TAB_LAYOUT.
With the policy set to SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT, the tabs become scroll-able and a button for scrolling the tabs, left-right or up-down, is displayed in your tabbed pane.
JTabbedPane Example
Here, we discuss Example of JTabbedPane in Java in details:
Finally some exercise, shall we begin?
This is the part where we will try and add the tabbed pane in our JFrame. We will use javax.swing.JTabbedPane package will provide us the feature to add tabs onto our frame.
Following is an example code, using JTabbedPane to create tabs in our frame.
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JRadioButton;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
public class JTP_Layout
{
JFrame frame;
JTP_Layout()
{
//Creating our JFrame
frame= newJFrame("Tabbed Pane Sample");
//Terminating process after exiting
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
//Adding TabbedPane Object
JTabbedPanetabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
//Adding TabbedPane LayoutPolicy
tabbedPane.setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT);
//TabPlacement
//tabbedPane.setTabPlacement(JTabbedPane.BOTTOM);
//Setting our componentobject
//JRadioButton r1=new JRadioButton("A) Tab Component A");
//r1.setBounds(30,30,100,90);
//Adding our First Panel Object
JPanel p1=new JPanel();
//Adding our component to the Panel
//p1.add(r1);
JPanel p2=new JPanel();
JPanel p3=new JPanel();
//Setting boundary values for the tabs
tabbedPane.setBounds(50,50,200,200);
//Naming 'One' asour First Pane
tabbedPane.add("One",p1);
tabbedPane.add("Two",p2);
tabbedPane.add("Three",p3);
//Setting Frame'sposition to the center
frame.add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
//Setting FRame'sSize
frame.setSize(400, 150);
//Setting visibility asTrue
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
new JTP_Layout();
}
}
When the above program runs, we get the following window as the output.
In the above example, we added tabs onto our JFrame and gave different names to our tabs as ‘One’, ‘Two’, etc. We can also add different components under our different tabs using a simple code line such as below.
We created an object for the radio button, r1 and then this object was used to add radio buttons to the panel One i.e. p1.
And the ‘Radio Button’ component will appear under our first panel, where we added it.
Using JTabbedPane Constructors
We already used Constructors such as JTabbedPane (int tabPlacement) or JTabbedPane (int tabPlacement, int tabLayoutPolicy) in our program but we still haven’t seen it’s an effect.
Understand this, we created the Java class for ourselves, and then called our constructor, JTP_Layout (see the code). Then we set arguments such as setTabLayoutPolicy to SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT using our class’s object.
As mentioned above, when the tablayout policy is set to SCROLL, it allows the user to scroll tabs in a direction using a button.
For illustration I increased the number of tabs in our program and set the policy to SCROLL, see it’s the effect:
You can see a scroll button on the right corner, which allows the user to go left-right using this button.
The other such argument added to our constructor is setTabPlacement, which is as discussed above is set to TOP by default. But our constructor helps us decide this by setting the tab placement to BOTTOM or LEFT or RIGHT.
We already had such code offline in our program, but commented (see the code), when the comment is removed, see the effect.
Observe that when we used tabbedPane.set TabPlacement (JTabbedPane.BOTTOM), our tabs relocated to the bottom of the frame.
Here, important to note is, there is no need for any ‘Error Handling’, our JTabbedPane object handles your mouse and keyboard strokes or events. Still, if you want similar functionality without the tab interface, you can use a card layout instead of a tabbed pane.
In the end, if said in simple words, for creating our tabbed pane, instantiate JTabbedPane, then create components to be displayed and then add these components to your desired tab.
That’s it, it was easy right?
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#include <iostream> using namespace std; int map[5][5] = { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 }; //other stuff int mapn = 0; int mapn2 = 0; int number = 0; int number2 = 0; int x, y = map[x][y]; int main() { x = map[2][y]; y = map[x][2]; while (mapn < 5, mapn2 < 5) { cout << map[number][number2]; mapn++; number++; if (mapn == 5) { mapn2++; number2++; mapn = 0; cout << endl; } } cout << endl; system("PAUSE"); }
This program is supposed to print out an array. To do so, it prints out a number, adds onto that number and once that number equals five, number2 has 1 added onto it, and number is reset. Why isn't it working?
It compiles fine, but the output is a lot of random numbers.
| http://www.gamedev.net/topic/632860-program-that-prints-out-array-is-not-working/?forceDownload=1&_k=880ea6a14ea49e853634fbdc5015a024 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | refinedweb | 142 | 63.87 |
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:>> A tasty alternative would be to have autogroup be it's own subsystem,> with full cgroup userspace visibility/tweakability.What exactly do you envisage by that? Having autogroup (in its currentincarnation) be a subsystem wouldn't really make sense - there'salready a cgroup subsystem for partitioning CPU scheduler groups. Ifautogroups were integrated with cgroups I think that it would be as away of automatically creating (and destroying?) groups based on ttyconnectedness.We tried something like this with the ns subsystem, which wouldcreate/enter a new cgroup whenever a new namespace was created; in theend it turned out to be more of a nuisance than anything else.People have proposed all sorts of in-kernel approaches forauto-creation of cgroups based on things like userid, process name,now tty, etc.The previous effort for kernel process grouping (CKRM) started offwith a complex in-kernel rules engine that was ultimately dropped andmoved to userspace. My feeling is that userspace is a better place forthis - as Lennart pointed out, you can get a similar effect with a fewlines tweaking in a bash login script or a pam module that's much moreconfigurable from userspace and keeps all the existing cgroup statsavailable.Paul | http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/338 | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | refinedweb | 214 | 51.58 |
Controllers
Controllers are the de facto way of handling HTTP requests in AdonisJS. They enable you to clean up the routes file by moving all the inline route handlers to their dedicated controller files.
In AdonisJS, the controllers are stored inside (but not limited to) the
app/Controllers/Http directory and each file represents a single controller. For example:
import { HttpContextContract } from '@ioc:Adonis/Core/HttpContext'export default class PostsController {public async index(ctx: HttpContextContract) {return [{id: 1,title: 'Hello world',},{id: 2,title: 'Hello universe',},]}}
You will have to reference it as a route handler inside the
start/routes.ts file to use this controller.
Route.get('posts', 'PostsController.index')
Controllers location
Conventionally, the controllers are stored inside the
app/Controllers/Http directory, but it is not a hard rule, and you can modify their location inside the
.adonisrc.json file.
{"namespaces": {"httpControllers": "App/Controllers"}}
Now, AdonisJS will find the controllers inside the
App/Controllers directory. Also, the
make:controller command will create them inside the correct location.
Your controller does not need to be inside only one directory. You can freely move them around inside your application structure. Ensure to require them in your route declaration correctly.
Route namespacing
When having different locations for your controller, it may be convenient to define the namespace of your controllers by route groups.
Route.group(() => {Route.get('cart', 'CartController.index')Route.put('cart', 'CartController.update')}).namespace('App/Modules/Checkout')
In this example, the
CartController will be imported from
App/Modules/Checkout.
The namespace should be an absolute path from the root of your application.
Make controller command
You can make use of
node ace to create a new controller. For example:
node ace make:controller Post# CREATE: app/Controllers/Http/PostsController.ts
If you notice, in the above command, we mentioned the word
Post as singular, whereas the generated file name is in the plural form and has a
Controller suffix.
AdonisJS applies these transformations to ensure that the filenames are consistent throughout your project. However, you can instruct the CLI not to apply these transformations by using the
--exact flag.
Controller routes reference
As you can notice, the controllers are referenced on routes as a string expression, i.e.,
'Controller.method'. We opted for this approach intentionally in favor of lazy loading controllers and less verbose syntax.
Let's see how the routes file may look like if we decide NOT TO use the string expression.
import Route from '@ioc:Adonis/Core/Route'import PostsController from 'App/Controllers/Http/PostsController'Route.get('/posts', async (ctx) => {return new PostsController().index(ctx)})
In the above example, we import the
PostsController within the routes file. Create an instance of it and run the
index method, passing the
ctx object.
Now imagine an application with 40-50 different controllers. Each controller has its set of imports, all getting pulled down inside a single routes file, making the routes file a choke point.
Lazy loading
Lazy loading the controllers is a perfect solution to the problem mentioned above. There is no need to import everything at the top level; instead, import the controllers as they are needed.
import Route from '@ioc:Adonis/Core/Route'Route.get('/posts', async (ctx) => {const { default: PostsController } = await import('App/Controllers/Http/PostsController')return new PostsController().index(ctx)})
Manually importing the controller, instantiating the class instance is still too much code, considering a decent-sized application can go over 100 routes.
Betting on the typescript future
The string-based reference provides the best of both worlds. The controllers are lazy-loaded, and the syntax is concise.
However, it comes with the downside of not being type-safe. IDE doesn't complain if the controller or the method is missing or has a typo.
On the brighter side, making the string expression type-safe is not impossible. TypeScript is already making progress in that direction. We need two things to achieve type safety when referencing the
'Controller.method' as a string expression.
- The ability to tokenize the string expression and create a full path to the controller and its method. It is achievable with TypeScript 4.1 and onwards. Here is a proof of concept for the same.
- Next is the ability to have an Import type with support for generics. There is an open issue for it, and we are optimistic that it will make its way to the TypeScript in the future, as it adheres to the TypeScript design goals.
CRUD operationsRoute.post('/posts', () => {return 'Create a new post'})
Here's the list of all the routes to perform CRUD operations.
Route.get('/posts', () => {return 'List all posts'})Route.get('/posts/create', () => {return 'Display a form to create a post'})Route.post('/posts', async () => {return 'Handle post creation form request'})Route.get('/posts/:id', () => {return 'Return a single post'})Route.get('/posts/:id/edit', () => {return 'Display a form to edit a post'})Route.put('/posts/:id', () => {return 'Handle post update form submission'})Route.delete('/posts/:id', () => {return 'Delete post'})
Resourceful routes and controllers
Since the above mentioned
routes are using a pre-defined convention. AdonisJS provides a shortcut to register all the routes together using the
Route.resource method.
Route.resource('posts', 'PostsController')
Following is the list of registered routes.
Naming routes
As you can notice, each route registered by the resource is given a name. The route name is created by combining the resource name and the action performed by the route. For example:
posts.createsignifies a route to display the form to create a new post
posts.storerepresents a route to create a new post, and so on.
Using the
.as method, you can change the prefix before the action name.
Route.resource('posts', 'PostsController').as('articles')
articles.indexarticles.createarticles.storearticles.showarticles.editarticles.updatearticles.destroy
Filtering routes
In many situations, you would want to prevent some of the resourceful routes from getting registered. For example, You decide to restrict the users of your blog from updating or deleting their comments, and hence routes for the same is not required.
Route.resource('comments', 'CommentsController').except(['update', 'destroy']) // 👈
The opposite of the
except method is the
only method. It only registers the routes with the given action names.
Route.resource('comments', 'CommentsController').only(['index','show','store',]) // 👈
API only routes
When creating an API server, the routes to display the forms are redundant, as you will be making those forms within your frontend or the mobile app. You can remove those routes by calling the
apiOnly method.
Route.resource('posts', 'PostsController').apiOnly() // 👈
Applying middleware
The
.middleware method also applies middleware on all or selected sets of routes registered by a given resource.
Route.resource('users', 'UsersController').middleware({'*': ['auth'],})
Or apply middleware to selected actions only. In the following example, the object key has to be the action name.
Route.resource('users', 'UsersController').middleware({create: ['auth'],store: ['auth'],destroy: ['auth'],})
Nested resources
You can also register nested resources by separating each resource with a
dot notation (.). For example:
Route.resource('posts.comments', 'CommentsController')
As you can notice, the parent resource id is prefixed with the resource name. ie
post_id.
Shallow resources
In the case of nested resources, every child resource is prefixed with the parent resource name and its id. For example:
/posts/:post_id/comments: View all comments for the post
/posts/:post_id/comments/:id: View all comment by id.
The existence of
:post_id in the second route is irrelevant, as you can look up the comment directly by its id.
To keep the URL structure flat (wherever possible), you can use shallow resources.
Route.shallowResource('posts.comments', 'CommentsController')
Reusing controllers
Many developers tend to make the mistake of attempting to re-use controllers by importing them inside other controllers.
If you want to re-use some logic within your application, you must extract that piece of code to its class or object, often known as service objects.
We strongly recommend treating your controllers as traffic hops, whose job is to accept the HTTP request, assign work to the other parts of the application, and return a response. All of the reusable logic must live outside the controller. | https://docs-adonisjs-com.pages.dev/guides/controllers | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | refinedweb | 1,347 | 57.06 |
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New Damage to this Beautiful Gospel Campaign. Special ment. Laddies to Presenta are expected: home 'to:night from New bis holiday trip to points in the northern - ' York. of tbe ''v i t'' Ordinances Introduced. Resort. part State. for Program Sunday. Play to the Public. Miss'Annie Laoth r' returned home One of the busiest places in the city in , . council met in 'hu'rsday'nlg1lt'lrom a pleasant. trip to the store of the Everglade Produce Com ,. Tbe city regular ses Although a week bas parsed since the The Evangelical1\1eetlngs'la the Opera The members of the West'Palm Beach slon Tuesday night with a full quorun: hurricane, reports of fresh losses to properly House are continuing with Increasing Volunteer tire Department are rejoicing Cincinnati.. pany. Manager James Kincaid has been 4 \, around lire board. There were in attendance are heard every day. interest and attendance. Thursday wasa : over tbe success attending their second Representative Graham '''W. King of buying and shipping large quantities of Fretiident Oeo. W. Potter auAldermen Lakeside Cemetery is almost a total red-letter day commencing with ten annual ball, given ou the evening of Fulftird was jn:,the ,city\'Thursday ,thegust pineapples, mangoes and other fruits thin 'f J. C. Leather, W. Whidden, wreck. The storm at this point was cottage prayer-meetings In different sec Labor Day' The gioss! receipts were of Senator Diniick. .' ?, week. ; Geo. B. Baker, E. II. Dimick, T. JGricr particularly violent for hardly a tree has tions of town at 9' o'clock and then I $115 and after meeting all expenses there I Yesterday. the pay car of the Florida 1<1r. and Mrs. J. J. Ryman and son, ; 'd and M. J. Yarborough.After been left standing. The windmill re worshipers wended their way to tbe Opera is a balance to the good of $75. The Department i East, ,Coast .Railway made .itsI, ual have returned from a delightful trip to AI the reading and adoption of tin cently erected, was demolished, entail House at Ii o'clock. Afternoon Service wishes to tender special thanks monthly visit to this city.. ,, points In Iowa. Their pretty borne on minutes of the last regular meeting, th< lug considerable losa on the Improvement at 230: and night service at 7.. Mr. to Dobbins & Quigg; bakers, for the ,t .Mrs,,, W..P.; jHatcbeU ,!and daughter the East :Side: was badly used up in the following bills were presented and or committee, President Currie has Lyon preached some very strong, pointed prize cake; to.M. E. Gruber.for q hand 11\I'ill8\ Mary Lou are home ,from Fort storm and it will take some time to repair ' dered paid: already received some small donations sermons on the len Commandments some picture;."t<> MrrGeo.'WfPotterfora ) Gaines, Ga\, where they have spent a the damage. Standard Oil Co., oil $21: 51 to the Improvement fund, to aid in the the first of the week, in which he ,at cash donation and'W air' who" contributed very enjoyable vacation. Mr. C. B. Sherwood has returned to C A Woodruff, supplies 5 15; work of repair, but more money is needed tacked sin in Its various forms. The to or aided in the: success.'of the Mr. jWlll H. Moore and bride arrived Palm Beach from New Augustine, to S CoM, labor 5c and will be thankfully received. congregations would wince under his ball. Special mention Is made of Mr, J, lathe, city Wednesday. from Burlington which latter place he was called several , R ]Chilllngworth,superintending LAKE WORTH DAMAGED. blows but return to hear him again W; Sanders for the use of' the Gruber ,i Iowa, and are! now residing In Harry L.Brown's days ago: by tbe death of his little son. i street repair, 3 months 35 50 Messrs. Fowler Bros will have ex'en- The chorus choir has developed under Opera House .At the meeting .of.the cottage\ n-, Evernla stre'et. lIe contemplates moving his family In " the able leadership of Mr. Coultes. The Fire Department last'Tuesday night a short while td Palm Beach, where 'rr , C ChilHngworth, legal opinion oc give C 15 repairs to make on the steamer A of Standard Oil officials from send forth volume of that of thanks party they will\ in future reside. Se. Augustine ". : singers a song votes wee, passed to, those p W sewer : 0 Weybrecht, repairs 3 50 Lake Worth. The hurricane played Jacksonville went down to Hypoluxo J Sullivan, labor a 23 havoc with the boat, tearing away part I Is inspiring as well as interesting. The named above. this: morning in B. M. Potter's launch Record. following is the program for tomorrow,: In about six weeks the Departmentwill T. Y. Huunlcutt, a brother of J. B. 'i Mayor Chillingworth submitted a re nf her cabin and doing damage to tbe I to Inspect.the'wreck 'o( the big rill barge, , on'the'boatds'Io , ! Sunday-school at the various churches put the Opera iluunlcutt, a well-known conductor oil of the traah wagon's earnings, amount of about '300. 'No93: - port at 10. Preaching by Mr. Lyon in the House a first class musical entertainment, the Florida East Coast Railway, met showing a balance of $ .3o due the city EAST SIDE'S PLIGHT. Opera House: at II: Subject, "The Ba- I i to be followed by7 a two act drama. with Dr. H. C. Hood spent Thursday' at his his death in the storm'' at 'Tampa In' a 1 , after all expenses bad been met. Visitors to the Clark place have been sis of a Great Revival." At 3 a special local talent in tbe cast? ,orange grove west of Jupiter. He was i;peculiar 'manner. Huumcutt was ''a 1 I CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION. astounded to !see the results of tile hurri sermon will be preached to tbe businessmen Next Tuesday night the Departmentwill 'greatly surprised and pleased'to ,find motorman on a cable car and attempted . A list of candidates constituting what cane. Manager Donnelly has bad to remove : Subject, "Tbe Great Fight." On. meet for tbe annual election of 'officers 'that thes trees had suffered very. little to, remove) a> ..wire ,which had blown ;i . was called the peoples' ticket was submitted and replace about forty-five cocoa- ly men and boys over*14 admitted ft' : and all m mb4n' arel'bged to be ,damage from'the' hurricane. across the car track. It, proved to be a \ to the council to be placed on nut trees, and in addition to all this, this service on ticket. Subject of night( present. i .. i Tbe Lake, Worth Band will 'piaj live wire and, be was fatally shocked t, the official ballot, but as the declaration many valuable fancy trees, that made sermon will be "Excuses." -" -'-.-- ,, a re'4s selections In' front'' of the' Criiber The conductor 9f the car,. ,who. went tq, \ of the chairman and secretary of the+ the Clark place so pretty, were uprooted No service will\ be held in tbe Hall LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.Rev 'Opera House tomorrow afternoon\) at''146! : jis I assistance, came near, sharing: .the' s t It caucus did not accompany the list, the and destroyed. It will take many Saturday night on account of the meet- -- o'ciock'fortheMeu'dnieetingaud r they.same fate, as be was badly shocked. council could do nothing until this in months of bard labor to remove the ; Ing of the Carpenters' Union; which C. A- Fulwood ,will; preach 'tomorrow :will also piny In tbe hall 'af the services. Mr. P. G. Eckinan, formerly with, the obtained so the list was held over. evidences. of tbe awful storm. kindly substituted that 'night for Tuesday at Delray. Professor Kaufman ''Is' busy today )preparing G. G. Strohui Co and, hid sisters, the i h Petitions, duly signed, were submittedand MUNYON'S ISLAND SUFFERED their regular meeting night. I Captain N. B. +Broward! of Jacksonville a special pr gram. Minxes Eckman have left' West Palm' f approved by the board for the placing It Is estimated that '5,000 will not go -.- --- I was in the city today., A bright glare in tbe sky, east of the | Beach to take up their home in the 1d of the following on the official ballot far in restoring Muuyon's Island to the Wedded. Sheriff Frobock city, startled se.eral're.ldenta' Wednesday 'Northi Sir Eckman enters the State' ; 11/t Miami at the forthcoming municipal election: condition it was In before the huriicaue. Happily came up from night,shortly, beforOj. 'nine' '; '' o'clock. University at Lake City and the Misses r !II! FOR MAYOR.L. This island, with its handsome new hotel The following interesting press report( this morning on official business. Many thought %U was a ship ou fire At 'Eckman have gone to Cromwell, W. Burkhardt and B. II. Doster. and winter cottages, was exposed to of tbe marriage of Professor J. C. Allen, Best pastry and cakes are always to bead ,sea, bat later it wag learned! that the :Conn., where they join their mother and t of this city and Miss Dean;' of Anderson, ? at Dobbins & Quigg's bakery it Clark had/ been relatives. FOR CLERK.H. the full fury of the gale. Tbe doctor'sfine ,.4* ( t bath honse'pa'the place' ;othe.r Miss 'Eckmau, who liaa I,. Ililller and A. M. Lopez. grove of cocoanuts was levelled S. C., will! be read with Bench pleasure by many Mr. J?,A. McDonald 1(4 <1 t,, left Thursday for burned ,The, .origin ,of the.;' fire I U un- ''been the obliging clerk iu the post II shrubbery destroyed and every one of friends In West Palm : New York on a special business trip. known. office, will be missed. Her place ,has. it FOR MARSHAL.W. "The fires on Hymen's altar never i built out over on.i1IeCarulYBllu November been taken by Miss SchnlU. G. DeBerry.and W. W. Hendrickion. he three winter cottages: burned so brightly as when, on Tuesday There w'ulbe, no special gospel ser TbeIackl the water, was blown Into the lake. promises te be one of the biggest thingsof - the 8th instant, Mr. John Clayton vice tonight In the Gruher Opera House. ' evening ' FOR ALDERMEN. The hotel withstood the assault of the Annie Eulalia Dean, Its kind held >In, the ,South since the\ Everybody s Column f ' Allen and i wind well, although it too was damaged Mr. H. Dale Miller has come up from Atlanta Exposition iq .((895.\ The num- .s ! C. W. very sacrificial 1 J. C Lauther, A. G. Riegel standing in the soft glow? of' Miami to., take. charge of the Sewell ber and character of the attractions secured ' Schmid, B. M. Potter, M. E. Gruber, J. in some---parts.-.- love light, blended into one for good or store on the East Side.A by the Carnival ,Association situ- MONEY TO. LOAN D C. Morris And E. W. J. Parrtsh. ill, weal or woe, attuned in sacred unison! v ,- -- I 1.i Result of Teachers' Examination.The Kaufuiann has some splendid viewsof ply astounds the average Floridiau who CHILHNGWORTH H AS On motion of Aldermen Lauther and with the chords of love. CC. ' Misses Ada tbe devastation wrought by the hur las been /or.tb< past Jour or five yearn to lend on real estate. ' Yarborough, the president was author grading committee, "The beautiful suburban borne of the Good applications desired. ' ricane. See tbemat<< his'studio. the habit of going to Gala Week! and t ized to appoint a committee of four to Merritt, Hattie Carpenter and Professor bride's father, Mr. R. B. Dean, with Its fin -' ' prepare the official election ballot. Mr. ff.. A. II. Hobbs, have just completed spacious, wooded grounds brilliantly The Union Supply Stre.hl! now located -,being amused only 'with a street, line" often'eenf FOR. SALE!' ' Whicl- examination of tbe ''of thetwentyone in ,the west ,half of the Dobbins & shows RKNT ; ; n papers transparencies, ONE Potter named Aldermen Lauther, the I lighted with Oriental IT'ORSALEQR POOL , den, Baker and Grier. applicants for license to presented a scene of unrivalled 9vell-' Quigg bakey on Clematis avenue. I jMJr/6! Gv.; Strohm*and;l Mr. S. II. Dose :, of W.. I. Melcnlf. r c teach school in this county. ness. Mr.; Wl Montfort of M, E Gruber's ter; pre: home /rom 'l4ew York: ,where ,West Palm Beach. :Seps-tf.:. . TO PREPARE THE ESTIMATES. -- -- --- --- -- -- Those who made second grade are .At the appointed, hour the contracting store, returned withlthe I ,Miami{ Rifles they.have) ,, b"elspendlDg tbe past* : FRONT LOTS, so x t AId. Yarborough suggested that it Misses Lillian McGahey, Rose Forrey, standing in a veritable "Lover's from. the State encampment at Jacksonville month 001 business. They report that E""OUR'OCE-AN, ; south of ocean pier. parties . was time the council prepared an estimate Katherine Vaulx and midst of sbelteilng yesterday morning.] the balance,.of the ,West, Palm Beach Inquire of E. F. Haines,J, P., Box 173. + and in the Laura Youngs bower" I of receipts and expenditures for contingent, Messrs. .A.; S. ''Botsford, ''S.: Palm Beach, Fla. AlIg!:!!.... Nr Ly- Mesdames G. B. Stephens, George palms, pledged each to the other, so Mr. H. C. Milton is back in the city, ' the in order to intelligently Dean'/. and J. W.:' Comstock -. I P.'Aalhony PIANO coming B. TUNING. year man, Yallie Perry, J. D. Hobbs, white, long as life should last, the fullness of having returned Thursday from A he- !' . fix tbe rate of taxation. The Idea met are enjo"ying'We' "Immensely In -' li and Lottie H. Stephens colored. their heart's devotion., ville, N. C., and Indian Springs, Ga., : FINE PIANO AND ORGAN with the approval of the council, and on Blanche Waynesboro. ( the great ,metropolis.! Mr. Doster says : FOR i The third grade are Misses "The Re". 0 J. Copeland, of whore be spent the summer. ; address L. B. Safford. West f motion of Aldermen Grier and Baker the Burtashaw, Amy lIarris, and Bernice Ga.', performed in a most impressive Leslie's Weekly of New 'York, has obtained he.1aald; ? Vn? g<> instructed tc joined the Salva finance committee was and M. R. Mahaffey two first named have . Strahan, white, manner the pretty ceremony from Photographer A. Kaufmann MACHINERY Rm AIR.I.; make out a budget and present! it at au colored L. W. Lion Army, . robed In a " and Ella B. Stephens, "The bride was charmingly . several local pictures of the devastation --' -- -- -- -- adjourned meeting to be held tonight. male was with "Tlte' schooner I.' Champion( C ptain'W,1 OR GENERAL REPAIRING ... Cambric, a colored applicant handsome white silk, en train, a caused In Palm Beach by the, hurricane. t AND y NEW ORDINANCES INTRODUCED, ruled out for having been caught with a graceful, flowing veil. will in next week'llssue.1Mrs. ; 'A.Sawyer, of Key West;put l In installing of gas and steam engines. ? ' They appear boilers. windmills a' : ocean It Is pumps etc 1\:\ the 'the 'Thursday. a during extended at pier Attorney C. C. Chillingwortu present ext book In bis possession "The sincere congratulations Gardner, Evernia street has apply Potter's Repair Shop, Went Palm ,I eel to the council the new ordinance+, examination. There were six failuresto to the handsome groom and his love ill That wrecking} edioonetand, ,}}elj\. Key' Westlast'Tuescla'pu Beach, Fla. Work clone anywhere in which he had drawn up. A beginning make any certUicate.-Mlaml Metropolis ly bride were not left alone to attest to been seriously sincelhursday. which ? receipt_of! s'teiegraul Dade or Brevard counties. mayjj-tf ,, ;;; she a nail ; day stepped on rusty - ordinances which their friends that there'was a big wreck just north of was made lu reading over these the high regard in MUSIC.fIAMI . ._ penetrated her foot, and the best medi- y. and several, at points various will useful and handsome upiter[ , clause by clause, ,and to it finally Sunday morning, September 13th, hold them, for were many equally\ eloquent in cal skill has been employed In wardingoff liong; the coast. Captain Sawyer failed \ PIANO' AND VlbtflNIT : 4t take three or four meetings presents blood School West Palm I poisoning.Mr. Beach Branch home , the 'aa additional thaotbosergported dispose of them, when they will be pub 1903, the death an;jet entered testifying to the popularity of. the fortu- to"find wrecks Franklin ,Coleman Bush, Director. A i ,:, and Richard Elliott of Vera Crnz In The: : M. Taylor Tropical Sun so and Mrs. Geo. : of i lished in full adopted. of Mr. nate couple. limited number pupils accepted in n t as m. took from tbe household their little son, "A delightful feature of' the occasionwas Mexico Ii expected to reacb thin city to, left" on the return trip to Key West piano playing. Conservatory course. e idi: Council at 10 adjourned p. Seth Martin, a sweet child of 16 months, the elegantly prepared and daintily night or tomorrow ou a visit to his. sister That' city entirely escaped the burnt Apply Tropical. Sun office.. junio-im ',' '.. " ANOTHER the pride of father'a and mother's heart. served al fresco supper, to which tbe Mrs' Edward Gross. Many'''' old eanethestorm!. passing 1 'north of Cape .- HOUSES- -TO- RENT j "" CANDIDATE. For weeks the little sufferer fought the animated guests'paid' just and proper friends will. be glad '0 ,welcome! Mri, Salethen; ,swinging/.towards Tampa ,, & ..,. The council met as per adjournment,,, battle 'twixt life and death and the hours tribute Elliott; back to town. I and Pensacola. t. f 1 JUST TILE for the TIME coming TO winter's SECURE; business A '' I' 'f.J Wednesday evening. were weighed with anxiety and care for "Mr. and Mrs. Allen left on Wednesday Messrs H. S. Miller and A. 'Haiigh' ,Mr.; 'R. B. CObert;,local Inspectorof or for residence. On the 1st of i, ;,. .! The first item of business was the presentation the household and friends. The loving morning for a short visit to thegroom's have returned! from White Springs, Fla.' the F. ,E., C. Railway sprang a ,,Sure October next tbe Boarding House on .: : of a petition to place the nAUIt i parents were constantly at the bedside mother, Mrs. M. B. Jones, at where they aCnt two weeks for the; improvement prise on his friends when be arrived in corner of ,Datura street and Railroad. .p"' of O. O. Currie on the official ballot as i, of the suffering one untiring In .their Waterloo, S. C., before going to West of"Ihelc.: Jiaalth.Thay-are the city Tuesday night with a charming situated Way wilDe onone\ for of rent.the most This prominent house is ; e !1 candidate for Mayor., This was granted. watchfulness and efforts to relieve but Palm Beach, Fla? where' Mn Ailed ]Js both very euthualastiq" ; Aver the benefits/ bride. The, young lady .waai, formerly | residential atreets in the city and can be LICENSE FEES. the Great Physician had marked the the efficient and popular saperinterfdent of a stay in that pretty place Miss Laura Hughes, daughter of' Mr. used either as a !boarding house as it has ' tax wai I little patient for his own. The funeral of the city school." The West ;Palm' Bedeh' uuto5 ,baseball William Hughes, of,' /eatherll'''. The been for several years or for private residence. I w; business ?| . The fixing of the Monday in the The lot is a double one-Bi/e, were held on ,+ nine-defeated diieMiamkfedora( in ,an ceremony was performed a week ago InChtlsf then taken and the following additional ) services numberof --r. ( 153 by IOQ feet, and there are two i up ordered for th i Methodist church where a large Misadventure. intereating'and fact1 game on' the East Episcopal 'chdrch by Rector Rev bouses on the lot besides the mam building assessments were friends had assembled. During tbesad Sudden Side diamond Thursday afterao<1ri: Theattendance : William T. Auman,I. the presence of a making ,room 'enough for two or {' ensuing year: Ada Conklln sang Carelessness is responsible for manyan three families. Sewer connection, and . Miss of gathering of relatives and 'friends. service and large 'ar&} Contractors and Builders Plumb" < Com accident and we never know when. to spectatorswas both cfty and pump water used. Would A ere, $25; Bakeries,fro; Dairies, fro;; 'Looking This Way...... except one. It Is well to know tof out the victory of the local team'.by a' score Before leavjog for New York the. young prefer to rent all to one party 'AddressP. Blacksmiths$ $5. ----- own benefit and for, others that Buck- of <9 .to 5 brought 'great rejoicing' couple were serenaded ,by tbe Citizens O. Box 330, Went Palm Beach, or call eon The reading: of the new ordinances wad l City Election. len's Arnica Salve Is the best remedy on Hadwin',Courtney1 !,d.qIlY. Clow proved Dram Corps. 'They have visited in New I. H. FISHKR at Tbe Tropical Sun 1 then the clauses being taker FOR MARSHAL earth for sums' Scalds Bruises 'Cnts, printing office. ,' continued York St. Clair and Atlantic City and + and. with , II strong battery them_ wer .. and settled upon. myself a candidatefor Felons, Boil. and Pile. Only 95 cents. ,,. { b np Adjourned meetings have been held I hereby announce If elected, will Guaranteed by All Druggists. Burke Earmaaj; 3... lYacborongh Ralph will now make this place their permanent BUILDING ON BEST!; COR "' and very night, and It la expected that to City Marshal of ability -,.-.---r-- Tiffany, Ed. Carlylef Clarence Whipple, honte Many., friends join In wishing STORE town; living rooms second. 14 wading night's! of cession: the ordinances will see the'and end their 01 flea th4< serve the ci jHCNDR1CKSON.: the best my: Try an ad in Everyl od '. Column.J H. McLaren and Ralph Broad well. them heartiest congratulations.. \ door W X. Metcalf.. Y'W adoption , ;1'.... , ..L Ii. ';"\i ir." -,', .Vir 4u,!. dr P .. "\ .. 1.11 'I' 'of.'i v #:"it: ,J' nli..v ,, i ',f : '. : \ ' .a -. r" ,, f. 'r'f ,...r y'l.r.yv II>> ,"\\\.f\\. 'L1 w.1: ,,. w'V ., t!!, ": .,) ., .+ Ma 1' ,, rte ' +.tx''p iiuri'7rtaiIlI fto a : n. : : 5' ; .; \" ; "\ V ; )'I' vt'i' ",'.,I' '. d' , '- "I<!' ,' r. ; .'1 ,' ,' .. : ' ,. 'I :, 'It" ; l .. I ' ; , u \ ," { : - } ' I r "e,." 1,' .f. ,1 'i- : ,. ,' ., ' 7 7f " ." . ". ... , 'I"X - " ., ' r SEPTEMBER 19. 1903 f 9 TilE TROPICAL SUN WEST PALM: BEACH, FLORIDA, SAT1JJWAr. I . T - . THE TROPICAL SUN. Another candidate U In the fluid: " for Congressman from the second CO'MPE'T'I'TORS-... I, $ Pioneer Paper ol Did Caejatr. FtorMa.PnblUbid ConffreestoBar District "fit' FTdrtditHe : ir-ijn, &r-o.S ; OUR : Is R. D. McDonald' oDeLan' f. '. Every Wed.....,.sod Saturday' < I . aT...,PALM SIAON.OAOB OOUMTV.I IBUBHCIUPT1ON PLon, will have to do some mighty close figuring II they contest with us for ,: Elsewhere In this ,Issue of Tile II L Dresgrsto Ijfen the trado inCarpenter's .. PRICE,' 3.60 FER, Yh AL' Tropical Ban appears the card of.Mr' .. ._ ------+ 4 Oeo. O. Carrie, in which he announces S \ I Tropical Sun Publishing Comp'jf, himself 'a candidate for Mayorjof the Merit is : : Tools HARRY L, BROWN, MANAGE' Dew:city ofYWesf PalmT Beach. Mr, tlie5Keyj3tp3aeBf : : . CI rrl '. friends bu..prevalled upon 4 ' KuUred at tha Poatoffica of Went Palm Resell .. ' him to no beforethe Voter* on October olir Success UGOBd-cUra matter. ! '.. ... .. .. low BUT- Oth. ,/' ..-. It's ensy to quote prices I , 'e quality of the goods that we 'I\ MUNICIPAL ..ELECTION | The-Tropical Sun has been, I Issued i then you'll see what we Wednesday and today under ;ale IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM ., 4v'' CITY OF VEST PALM BEACH. \ greatest diffitaUieB, 'i a it 'has, bob FOR'0X7R FALL AND,WINTER ' .. f; = OP SHOE9, WSARR . .STOCK ': to"'i irapbmtibte 'repair ,thedamage I done loathe office by. the hnrrlcatm' OFFERING OUR W. L. ;HatchettDaCamaraHardware) Company 1 POLLING. DAY, TUESDAY) OCTOBER, 8,,1903.. DOOGLAS . *i t and" rain.' The Indulgence of .the.Sun's llnDVC'tION : CITIZENS' TICKET. reader Is --therefore ..asked'.nor I Wholesale Retailers of Hardware '; i any shortcoming's. ,... .I -----p"""" w OMMIV"'V"vv"' .\{ .....=,,'.. . :.. For Mayor, B. H. Theresa l no Branch of the P.I.iJI.f: : DOSTBR. ip.ur reffular$3t5Ot now i service' mo"defI rYlnK': of recogn{. : : rfOOOO-OOCHXHXXX? For Clerk tion than the Volunteer! Fir Department L$3.0.0- west Palm Ileach. Kept. 1,1) lOOtt I II. L. HILLIER of this city. The boy areanon Ourragular ,,4$3, .,,nOw' ..... to present a 8r t-dull amateur << .: SOME REASON i .For Marshal, play l in the* opera house, aud'"no p W. G. DeBERRY. doubt a''crdwded louse' will'Rrdcl Take 4YAnt3ge, unable to get "Obelisk Flour from jobbers. We those who.take part.StomacbTroubl.. ) bemuse the profit allowed by the mill i is so For Aldermen of these prices, as we have only 35 , I 'pairs.;; These we have in Vie! Kid, it does not pay as well us otber grades.; fl B, M. POTTER. .... .. , ,Russian Calf and. Box Calf. Flour is so good people demand it. Consequently l J. DON C. MORRIS. "I have been troubled with my atom'ach ". 'I'J ' E. W. J. PARRISII. for tbe past four years,"', said D. L. not care a rap whether the jobber bandies or not. G B ecb, of Clover Nook Farm;Greenfield t s M. B. GRUBER { Mass. "A few days ago I was fudncelto have a consignment direct from the mill. W} must 10'PEOPLE'S buy a box of Chamberlain's Stomach lots to get it there at all ; but the advantage IH, that We also make obliged to and Liver Tablets. I have taken part of are room TT I TICKET. them and feel a great deal'better." 'II for out'.LADIES'-SHOR'DEPART. us the jobbers' discount. . I yon have any trouble with yonrntomach MKNT.a We-wilt therefore continue try. a box of these.Tablets. You are cpr- those who have never used Obelisk Flonr, we suggest, Por Mayor to sell aU that ws have on' hand at a r ,I lain to be pleased with the result. Price ( ' best for that I will find It the general use you ever sacrl Ace. Is in iOu All and great buyer flow L. W. BURKHARDT >5 Cents Vof sale by DrftgglsU Medicine Dea'enr.'L' --- >the Eastern markets; land' can "use prices, whole barrels, f 5.75 ; half barrels |3.00.() tbe ready cash tw'our patrons' advantage ' r h For Clerk I Cheap Excursion Via the' Atlantic. .. well as ours.The.Dougla BURKHARDT a Finest Groceries X 1 A. M. LOPEZ ; I Coast Line.; ' $ I Meeting of Sovereign Grand Lodge of 1 lt will pay you to purchase our Coupon Books. T , For Marshal, Odd Fellow Baltimore'', Maryland, ' W. G. DeBERRY ', September ant ( '26tft:; Tickets on sale &i tJ<. (1 8.rps.: I .. September ijtb, J8th, ioth'and : otVSpecial : '" ' . Shoe,StoreSemliioleBlock *' I For Aldermen, ' . excurajon ratee to TT If J. C. LAUTHERH. ,I Hot Springs Bummer, Arkansas. Tickets: fed safe ? 41 W- t I.Pilm* ,Beach l B. SAUNDERS l' Wednesdays iui"Batard ,.'.'to and1' In C.W.SCHMID cludingSeptember'3otb.. Limited. slity. C , " A. C. RIKOKLAFTER : day.: *. < POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.:; l Buyer C Special summer excursion to' Wash.lagtoa. : , ' D.. C.; Tickets; on sale! daily until : THE STORM. ForOty Clerk. : IiI September joth. Fifteen days .atop- i, If there is one tbinp; more than any I hereby .nupeatfully announce myself' a I FinalHmrt cictobe in each direction. Is the Northern over in now Candidate for ", th*ogre of City Clerk, pledging Ai other that would indicate .the < ' rorgressive ' | .jiat. ,,. myself. U elected; to perform tbs duties In ? .(I spirit of the people of ,this Summer tourist tickets will,be sold" connection with .this oB,,>;to the bMt of my purchasing some of eblUt,., I;. L, lULLlllt.j ' ! city, it is tbe prompt action' taken until ..joth to the f September principal . by all clauses in the town to repair resorts thronghou\ the, conntry)1Iu t ft ed .Marshal. :Best Clothing, the Latest 1 aa quickly aa possible' the damage to return October 3ist. j jForCity ' in Shirts and I hereby candidate for Nobby announce myself a done by 'the hurricane; In'many Porfnll information and rates frpm ro-elxctlon to the ofllrvttt Marshal of the city t I places there would be a tendency"to any point;see'any agent fo( the Atlantic ol Weat Palm Boaeh red If elected I Promina Don't forget. wait for to ifthere would Coast Line Frank c. to do In the future as 1 hare dona lo the pant. . a while see or.write ,BoIIetp ( . that I", to discharge the duties of the omen not be further but In Commercial Agent, 13V et Bay BtreettJackaoavlllef ? developments; I without fear or MTorv W; U. DtBfiltRY. rrp 1 West Palm ftrauh the' citizens, with Florida.! ,,:, ;; ql, 1 their proverbial push and' enterprise, I.' i Per, flavor. : New Line of Shoes Btep out again with just a little Croup f I hereby announce myself; aa a candidatefor , longer and firmer tread, in the Usually begins: with the symtoms ojt !a Mayor ot the new city of wext Palm common cold; there is chilliness, sneex. Bnach,:pteUfrlntt ...,...If. lf "'elected to serve march of progress that, la characteristic lag, sore throat, hot skin, quick*t>Dnfae the people to-the beat of my ability. ' M of that Kiiat Coast. hoarleuea'and "impeded"tesplratlati B. II., DOHTEK. G : be in our store in a few days "i la an Incredibly short time build: Olve frequent small.doaas .oft3ellarA'uHorehound Syrup, tike hil logs have been re-roofed new' windows for it) and at the Bret .Ign eta croupy For Alderman. put in, stocks damaged by water cough; apply frequently BaHard's'Snow I hereby submit my name to the ek.ctnrt. or All Liniment externally to tbe throats ''-jocj tbe city of West,Palm Bench to serve ou the . replaced by and business new goods CouocU Board of Aldermen for the ' .t ensuing SOHNEIDMAN resumed in the same up-to-date: term. B. M. POTTElt. , The Beat Prescription for Malaria v' manner. Within two or three weeks , almost all t'r8.Ce8'of' : .the,hurricane! Chills and Fever IB a bottle GtovefeTateleea For Alderman. ] !: I Men s Outfitter and Practical Tailor Chill Tonic. It (Is simply Iron will I have disappeared except: on private I hereby submit my nama to the electors hi "a No and la laatele"'lorDl' I grounda where trees and shrubs quinine the city ol Went. Palm Beach to serve on the rt : cure; No pay Price'Jo'centi Council Board of. Aldnrmen for the ensuing , were uprooted. \ .,,' , .' term. J. DON C. MOURltf. A general l feeling of thankfulness I.e.lltas.. I.' Haag. .' | ::: : ; prevails that there was no loss of'life It I*. dlfltaalt .. Uyadown la. .s- For Alderman. CITY MEAT,, MARKET in the city. for IaefaCAm1Datewdoptloo>KiR* .4M 011I. ' I hereby submit trams to the electors of my and Western that would prove' ODe penon'would Hating UM city ol Went Palm Beach, to serve oa the Meats, Poultry, Game and Eggs. FLORIDA IS PROSPER INB. '. This very]fi'oortaWcma1i'cede.likely" unmake, aoahef. Council Hoard ot Aldermen for the eimulnj Mail Orders Receive Careful Attention. much , term. E. W. J, PARRISH. Every section of Florida I ia forging Dot NMJOIM"' as" touch tooa''a.t'a'taum, Block WEST PALM BEACH ' ahead steadily In all \lines of com nor.doM' MersTln'a stoM reqanr. VIe For Alderman. I merce. Expansion: l Is the ''order bl: atbe'amoent'sad 411JaU "'o''' cM'o.. 1 hereby ubmlt'my dante; 'to the electors or ---- - p the day. The'Gainesville Sun note a: day i laborer.. (A*.bualnessieluaa, the city of Weat Palm Beach. to serve on the ........ .......... .....................: ,, may tat eat so much a.nalaarlbef Council Board of Aldermen for the ,. ensuingterm. . ,. Florld: progress,referring Its read her nueda are as treat< J",.jolat\ot ., M, E. QRUHKK.L i. : : ers to the books of the United Statee quality and. ; regularity of food, J L. HILLIERWHOLESALE . . 4 ' Land Office in that city.' Brain. ...oa1Ieri---.lcI.'e.t flab, effga.mam For flayor. ," D : ,. fruits and Voole'whtet bft 4. 'r. _ The Hun says. To the taxpayers and voter.. of West PalmBeach AND RETAILTOBACCONIST : :They stoold 'et lendn ti of track'food. '- ' I II '"The business in this office Is now \bo\rh/1 melt enjoying one of the'most healthy periods -. should revs overeat of anybla X rc nomination for, Mayor and thank you ,fur . of existence since I have been An Intetttaeat.ttea ,4 enr.physical tbe favor conferred. X...ra..t1".k your eneourairement connected with it,' rt'marked'.. make up.and et..the 0utlt/ve/stag) ot ned.op mrt tn tbe race for the : Tobacco Cigarettes Pipes, Etc., Etc. different foods ,would bswjude'.mochrecoume ofllw, promMnB that,' If _,.". I will ...,.. TT , ceiver II. 8. Chubb Wednesduy, to :dottors 'for advice'wttett you and our mutual Intemit.. *. to the utmost' CANDIES ..."'. !Thisls'e poclsJ\y\ true in'the,home* we'ir.6Meffkatl"with* ''fidl.eeltles'Ot wltbdut.. ti-ar. or favor LINE OF LOWNEY'S stead bWoueoe.-&merb.: "" Respectfully. yours, CELEBRATED CHOCOLATES QUOOa.- department and mall every ..!W.' t ,, i BIJRKBA DDT. ( "I t -". P.- . brings dozens of letters making .; -' I ? Soda Lunches to OrdeiMDuring Season either inquiries or entering home Owes His Life. to ri "(bbor', Klndn..... .'.ForI.'or. : _ 1 t1 Av SKMINO. BLOCK, WKST PALM BleACH steads. These letters come from Mr. D, P. Daugherty, well known Without direct permlMloa my name was JJ ; every section of the State 'where throughout Mercer and Snmner counties placed. la nomination for Mayor! 1\". twenty .......................................... i ,. W..V..mon Ifkely1 owes his life to ave persons, who muat have thouKbt I atoodsomSchaneaot D homestead land is available 'which: the kindness neighbor Be waa-al-. betas elected' Both the other shows that the development Is gen"- moat bope1esaJr a1I1lcted with dllllJ'-t: eawll taites for the efflue are Meade of mine, Qjji eral), and not centered upon one sec was attended by two physicians who aid I have no doubt would do:'their beet to O fdi9 I //T\aterfal\ ,' gave him little, If any relief: wheal 4 flll the office acceptably to the eltlnena. I do tion. neighbor learolBK: of his serious1 condition not com oat to oppose them,nor am 1 seekIng . "Col Chubb stated that be believed I brought him a bottleolChattbewIain's the office| but should t bat elected I'too and :: AND BLINDS, BRICK, LIMB AND CEMENT: i this demand Colic, Cholera and ,,pl rrhoee will dC""ht bees I can"fulail'the expedtsvtlonaof ia- BUIDDERS' HARDWARE MASURY'S HOUSE would be continued Remedy, which cored him in leas than those. who,nominated me 1 have F. W. BIRD &. SONS' the people are beginning realize twenty-four boor Tor sale by-. ''All Only the beat Interests ol the town at heart PAROID ROOFING AND that in the homestead land of ,Florida Druggiuta and Medicine Dealers u I Ser bEO. O. CORRrK.V ." PAPERS. ,. fir are some of the most fertile. )landsin "TU 1 r> Order filled promptly. Write as for estimates. 1 -' ' the United Htates." FoUy's Kidney Cure. I 'W' fiittM>t. ht., EAST "- "',1 COAST LUMBER AND SUPPLY CO. , ;fc'tf Will cure. BrigSt's ritae. ae., "Two phy.lciaap. had Joog, and stub OiHce Kin Galhe FU- '"Wll curst Diabetes.' born flghfwfOran '.bee..'011 General , a The first number ot the Miami,' arWilIcaratansti! Bladder. i r> tang1;, writes tj."'PV Hughe*, of ray DaPtrat;"right, Kao Gallle. Fort! Pierce and West Palm Beach._ 11 f Evening Record waa l Issued 'Wedge Will I cure I idaey! Bpd Bladder Diaiase Gal, 4frtdigavav: m. 'Up::,tt.B"eryfcody I ' - _. tboaght> m ltm.had_... Aa. -T slast 4 day. Messrs. Btoneman &; LaSalle "- inTo 'v't' a t ,t are making a good start with'. their' preserve health and strength}; for resort'Coaetunptionr.fThe I tried Drying's benefit New DilCOv.cy r rtcelved h anICS :Here.! :A: f dally,.which promises to be a creditto drink' 'distilled' r'' from'th.'Lak< wwierlktavaaatl<*a my feet baf.wday..s.1 , Worth ice' Works.: 'la"tJaeaitc 1f'i .w Il*...drel,TCKained " the . Magic City. b ihd' ..II coa, .... all : promptness and dealings, } t i II' 'o, rifIS. :.() SI ." j Coughs, courtesy, together with honest, pnre. CoM. end .Tluoat .and Langttroubles. I -X" / you our patrons. Work called for ana delivered on short Every resident who expects: to roterv Oustarrteed byAll: _Draejista.frlc. 30 if ; at the coming municipal electlort l I Stops the Cough and Works off the CU mnWautd f iTrial 'nvuUsr free,:""; ?..*., part of town, cut or west side. ,' Laxative Brooio Qnlnlaw Tablet* tmn \ ; ,' ,t,+ should not fail register.; ,; .i cold)s.en.daytMo cursahip. pay ,,.. hry ; } : J STEAM: LAUNDRY j jt.. + ,. to ,t. .. - _.. ---,.- ! e '. d, : J. ' , l 'v7 r f1 i ,I' I y ': 4 ;' '' ;:. < s ? itfWHijijWf w5'.H'"Ti"iH' rT"'P "jvfIA* v, ,'" '! ';yf, .A'7' ''"..'fir "' ';, R' ivFV ?M"'yfl"S ifT? i'' m THE TROPICAL SUN, WEST PALM: B ACII, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER: 19, t 1903. J ;' h -- --- - AA I BfflKMETS COCOANUT OROyit CLBANif- os, --. ; to Baltimore.' . Cheap Excursion , --'- Mrs' Frey a -niece'--of- Mrl. Trustow On account of the Sovereign' Grand Fi i i __B ? the road for f' Sheriff prob0clc wept UP of Charleston, West virgin! who recently Lodge of Odd Fellow, September irst C l SeW.sfc&im %st } t fell days tbla week on buaineaa.Itwa"a \ accompanied her aunt when she to 36lb. 1093, the Atlantic Coast Line a wonderful Bight; to see the came South a couple of months ago, left will sell excursion tlcketk at in. ?' following \!! (P.' .' I.';.;'?" A .' . force of men at work this,week on for her home Monday n1 {bt. low, rates : t'I, I .\ "" hie and HdtdtaO .in **al7.1t try The hurricane caused considerable Jacksonville, Florida to<.\Baltimore and, ''t .. "' : =.. J a 1 1tdt tbe solug the havljC caused by .the damage! in thin return ( 4.8S. I D'i.I ' section , to deer many trees being : I I Telephone, wires w< bdm beln' uprooted and a number of houses tj' lst. Via all rail routes, tickets on sale Sep -I!\. Bj,\ GE, ) e'DS\ " .wllln" ud. roofs replaced ed off their foundations' ,while tember 17th, i8tb, igth and aotb, from .. " .'hgok force af meq were ewploy.bl completely demolished. some wete Jacksonville) and all other points. ii !i .. : largO .It miracu. "J "'' l wax . 1 es 7/ " reslnents In clearing t I their lOlls tbnt, no lives lost Ticket via all rail routes will be good, i J.: ,. "\ IIfi'; .." ifi P4rpsi the were the t ,. as storm ,, . , othi .... W'C\ ea and bees blown was the returning, leaving Baltimore not later !: ; : worst that . the . of gay has occurred along I ., ... .. r. Miami will Jook than September a6th .. 'I..iH.'I 11 + but be . IlOnll'a de a few ,. tblscoaatln a number of, years. The must I" "' :' ; .J J , IIo'D benel a1arience via afterteachers' her terrib i e. ex.: roils were almost impassable! high pine posited with, Joint agent Immediately on ii ._ D'i' , like trees lying across the arrival at Baltimore and a fee of twenty .., ;';" \.. ,. f path, while the were twenty-one,applcants wh.pod telephone wires were a twisted and tang- five cent* paid at time of deposit. By .. 1ft ; wb-p .' f.m 3" fi j yhere examinations this led mass among the debris in the han payment of one dollar!: in addition. to the It. :1 r . the mock. Another storm twenty-five cents referred to above, tick i. {bL .j-'''d '* "+! '! ... " falL bas been North for the loth: but one cannot Upredlcted imagine about the eta will be extended to permit leaving 1! '; .jJ' "' -.l: ,. at" ,6'and; ,7' C t B. ' who .,. , 1'11 Anno elements to have Baltimore not later than October 3rd] 1.8 '1. .' .. t p ;eral-improved months,returned to i health.home. .,Saturday glee bj that time sufficiently recovered to their make ener.a upon Bureau being of information esecuted'by the Baltimore joint agent de .rt: yd?* irt :: e'' ; ;: ; ;prhices, ; : ,' Ip ifr evrh great impression, if r Ginghams od' Percales rangingL. $ even they should i I $ Guild-Smith who,has been spend- decide pot will give passengers full direction* : lire .ummer In the good old State tICeneesee ( to visit our shores again. At whereto. find joint agent1'icltels 15 tti :>". :" ; : ; "- I lug the bee retu'rned'home feeling least we hope not. will be valid only for contln ft. t' ,,, 1 .'1" ; : .. ;.'' ' jjnHy' bene6tted t>j her lrljxjudge The barn on Mrs. S. V. R. Carpet now return peerage, leaving Baltimore J};: / I ; !l2itirid"'l' ctsperyd.; ;, / ter'a place wa* blown over during the ., .. ,.. d who, baa,been' in ...Jackvllle on date executed; by joint ageht. lot. ." ,.1' I' *iSl' J Heyser has returned home and will\ hold hurricane last week, completely: demolishing Attention 1 I. called,to the schedules tof ..- i : '" .. .,;x: ., '.. ." ,. ) fJ fli. l'' !' I the top of the ,.. > < week carriage. The the Atlantic Coast Line. Train No. 32: ) !r.'I"' I, 00 fcwaty Court next horse .. .. : ' escaped without i ' Wetzel 'and wlf 'who havelocMtiled sel'loulllnjury. leaving Jacksonville at 8:10: a. ,m., dally, il .'j l' } '. \ . rt nr Cbos. Messrs. is >> m *"furnished Merritt and Fickle, who have the fastest train between Jacksonville I "Mr.'Walter Fogg' the contract for building the county'rock and the North reaching Baltimore 9:13a. ; "'o#" 1 '' ' have house during the summer move road between Cocoanut Grove and Cutler m. the second morning, one boor and 1m', r .' ? 1 \ I I northern part of the city forth I, .... .... __ ' olb 1. . | are within three miles of their final twenty-two C minutes quicker than, any ; . dater I ; destination. The other line. Dining service Savannah 'JW ,, i , storm has delayed the A w'v t , Tie many, friends of Mr, Gore; dep. work on the county road and the F. E. to Baltimore and New York, also 1 ., I fJ: :P"!i rtf sheriff, are glad to see him out again C. railway extension. A large number ol, regular Pullman buffet service on this I A. SV; :Bo&i d Dry Goods.Co. g ill with an attack of . hlloa been quite teams were sent into Miami when the train between Port Tampa arid: Jackson ;; measle news of the hurricane was received."I vibe. Baltimore and New Yprkq; , Chaille Potter of Cocoanut Grove has had' d abetes in Its worst form For full information, and rates iron Ii' gone to Sanford for an extended visit. writes Marion Lee of Tanreath, Ind. any point, see any agent: of the Atlantic I '". t't ue.adlea; Outlitters h ia hf Ada Merritt returned from Ashe- "1 tried ei'.bt physicians without rebel Coa t ,Line, or write Frank C. Boylstoo, + Miss Only three bottles of loley's Kidney Commercial Agent, 138 West Bay street,, v , week feeling greatly last , nilf.N.C., ; Cure made me a well man." Dimick & ' bcoefitted by her summer*. outing. Riegel. Jacksonville. ,--Fla.Devoured--. .--. & 1 j Mr*. Roliarta leave:, Monday for an, Mr. C. T. McCrimmon.tbe contractor, by Worm Blended visit at her old home In White has purchased steam launch Children often cry not frompain, ' Springs. Fla. Messrs. Del Carpenter and George but from hunger although fed abun : : : " 'Many persons In this cnmmunity are McDonald returned from Honduras dantly.inanition" The their entire food trouble is sot arises assimilated from A t Few :of Special- i Sale Prices i who kidney complaint from uffering Tuesday night, via Tampa. They are i in but devoured by worms A few doses of .' l "T | . could avoid fatal result by using Fo- . fine sp'irita and are being warmly welcouiecUby :- White's Cream Vermifuge/ will ''causa Common.Gla. l' Kidney Cure .35 sLampsLargo $ ; kj'i their families( and friends. The them to cease crying and i begin- to .> < .. : :J j- The first issue of the- :r.llamlEvenlngRecord trip was made in ten 'days from Black thrive at once very much to the surprise " "the and of be mother /NfcK Lamp:; -fine yfor reading< 1.75 was presented to public River, including forty-eight hours experience joy 750.. .' / .. -- --- Wednesday. From the sample edition of a hurricane wblle Icroa..lng the 3.25 Fan y.Parlor; Lamps , Miami can congratulate: herself upon the, You Know Wbat You Are Tilting' up Gulf of Mexico last week. tasteless. .. '" 'v'r olio i .. ... .. . nquisition of such a newsy,..np to date -- When yon take Grove's ,. : .... L ppert ite editors Messrs., are progressive Lasalle'and experienced Stoneman, A Remarkable Record. plainly Chill Tonic printed because on every the bottle formula showing is : : "",,.Ladies;Se'W'irlg' 9ck:e' :g olden'oakt$1.50) 'v , work and will no doubt Chamberlain's Cough Remedy bas ;a that it is simply iron.and quinine in a ,.! newspaper remarkable record. It has been In use tasetlesg form. No cure, No PII>y.,50, .ct* ..' "Wickei ; 1.75 . neel with deserved success in Miami ; ?orcli'Rpcker: ;; " For over thirty years during/ which time -- "---r . The business offices are nicely l located in many million bo:ties have been sold and tthe election held .. et. Jackson county Toi1gi 3.25. s the new O..lIatt. building on Avenue D.. main used. reliance It baa long in the been treatment the standard,of and Tuesday voted "dry" by over 500 ma- Seven.piece: ) 7 \ Mrs..Cbal.. WelzeU spent the day at In thousands of home during croup all jorityr end no liquor can be'sold there t \ GroveThursday.Mr. let I 1 : \ JB;: .::1\f\ GIN EY' COMPANY 01r Tti Cocoannt this time no case has ever been reported now-except in blind tigers., lath to the manufacturers in which i it ....... .. iiiclusive' '' 'T'' Smith, the newsdealer' corner railed to effect a cure. When given as --;i" 'The' ,;Largest !) Furnflure Hovtsd f in South Florida reetind Avenue C, acceptel'the soon as the child becomes hoarse or even Fearful Odds Against Him. n '* >_ ._i_";_:_ i i iV rn y for a National Magazine Clrculiiig as soon .. the croup tough appears, iwilt Bedridden, alone and destitute. Such, "_ ; - Library which ought to be largely \ prevent the attack. It is pleasant in_brief was the condition of an old soldier l- fbttnH lmYANDTAR 16 ' pilronlied the citizen. The exptoie to take, many children like it. It contains name of J. J. Haven, Versailles, h'g , by by no opium or other harmful substance Kid : r ri rit a M>M Oafdai rravant Pnaumoala to each subscriber is |a for one and may be given as confidently O. disease For years and be neither was troubled doctors with nor med soil 0 0eand : ii ' ney < ( a (tlenaan0 tubacrlptlon to 'the!: magazine/ and to. bay as to an adult. For sale by tcines gave him relief. i'At length he > '. "" Palm. ARE YOU dOING " the one of the library for one year All Druggists and Medicine Dealers tried Electric Blttets. It put him on his --' ,., COTTAGE.;? J which includes books of the latest fiction. -- feet In abort order and now he testifies :?:\ J o"tiSpatrons': are ,b,j.o': Errata and North West. P ." . There will be as many book in the Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers "I am on the road to complete recovery. ", ,:.. 1 t ... ,d.ab or . Beat on earth (or. Liver'' and JCidmfy? "' l Invibegto visit our , library as there are subscribers, not less Foley's Honey and Tar affords immediate Stomach and t I ;jupmfortabltfI : " relief to asthma sufferers in the troubles and all forms of *'.Btore>''or .have ns c.I I!, ; I \ tqod (,,VEBY I than books Issued for that Guaranteed t , 15 being purpoee. Bowel Complaints. Only Soc. C .evcommenla-. and if taken in time will\ * worst stages ? order .for ' This venture will doubt meet by All, Druggists.( ot ?* $ no.' effect a cure. Dimick & Rlegel. ... anything ..'Ii : rooni- sir) ,1 vilh success in Miami. ----- [ In .,....;).11)0) I 'Table. board THE - ... -' -vs'eA.I'' 'cft11: .ary . Ft " Cancer, ' Troubles' B.A. Froscher was a welcome visitor Much rivalry exists: between the contractors Cures Blood Blood Poison.Skin, Greatest .Blood Purl- : : DARLINO.; Louisville & Nashville R. R. 10 Miami the first of the,week.. .. i at the World' Fair. having .in fier Free.' meats .and'' 'Groceiries .' ; A. ' Mr. Maxwell of Badge's hardware erection of the national pavilions thin diseased ,. *.... .. .J i 1i 1ivice the charge: If your blood is i Impure \ & Son offers unexcelled! passenger aer- 4o tore, who has been at his old home in I of France and England. The i hot or full of humors if you ban ,/ ...,.t J 4' $rl Urbiga, Ohio, for. a visit has returned i sites; like the countries themselves, are blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating We handle?i tryfEgge, t Modern trains carrying r aM1 gores; scrofula, eczema: Itching, risings Fruits and Pullman sleepers up-to-date iome. narrowly divided. Both countries are Cheese, Vegetable ' famous historical buildings and, lumps.8Cabby.rheumatism pimply skin,.. or, brine"anyblood ... coaches, free. ; Reclining Chair ; i, Miss Adelaide Gardner of Rochester, producing pains, catarrh, +- --I-+- + WI: Y., has returned to Miami. She England the Orangery and France the or akin disease, take' BoUaio f I Cars and Dining Cars between '++ ;' i Balm B. B. B.)', according to bELivBRY'' OF'. ALL i' Blood ( work PROMPT will 1 teach school this Grand Trianon. France began a Southern and Northern ' In the :Lemon. City. directions. Soon all sorts. heal, aches cities.The . short; time ahead of England, and already -'and pains stop, the blood -made pure DER&.,A I, SPECIALTY, finest' dininjf car service in '4' - ear.Mrs I the side walls of the palace that and rich leaving the akin free from ,"3 f *t.- S, M. Tatum, who has been vieling rich the Soutb. J dvyt1I the glow \ and famous home are being eruption. giving relatives for a couple of months in was JJapoleon's every At the -(.> 1 I, I and French buildings of perfect health to tbe'.skln. v t '.'''' , The English be upper part of the State has return- pared and same time B. B. B. Improves the digestion 'FABER' ::BROS. ' they size l borne. are about the same cures dyspepsia strengthens weak ,1tALL will, be among the handsomest, ] buildings ;kldoe.. Just the medicine for old people AGENTS SELL THROUGH . Mr. Price Williams and party whoaYe as It gives them new, vigorous l Clematis Aye..neat+ : nbUc . ' been enjoying couple. of weeks of the powers; ..a._ dote!. Druggists, |l per large bottle OFJ />' TICKETS VIA kM a a houseboat anchored off Bear's Ian Healed.Dr with directions for home cure. Samplefree -' " A Physic and prepaid by writing Blood .L .& N. R.. JEt. ai, returned to Miami .just .head of Geo. I wing, a practicing'pbysl- Balm Co., Atlanta Os. Describe 'trouble 'ElectiffWTilng' 1 ; ulcUngs.I . lie hurricane Friday morning. They clan of Smith's Grove, Ky.. for over 30 and special free medical advice, also ., . probably missed an experience that earl writes his personal experience sent in sealed, letter. B. B. B. is especially -- ' :"Ith Foley" Kitluey, Cure "For<< year.. advised for chronic de p. eatea 1 For rate.; schedule and Bleeping car f1' uld ! have been decidedly .. December f unpleasant. kid.eyand " with nt From now .. bothered blood and skin disease, " I had been greatly cases of Impure ( t a C. ': reservations, apply to . enlarged tithe I Mines Agnes, plixabeth and Lillian bladder trouble and and cures after all else fails. ; ; ; . ''Wi. Frankie Graves Marie Montfordd prostrate gland. I used everything relief! -- PeniniuUrgontruotion}! Cowilfdoeleotrio i : t South.h . : ( without : \ J.. M. FLEMING "' Alene Canova, left Monday morning n to the profession Foley' Kid- Have You Noticed? h : *< <, ntii: I commenced to use 'I p..o ,. Ug'l$ >iuipU\ \) Florida Passenger Agent, L. & N. R. R.. , bottles yt or Su. label ot paper Augustine to attend St. Joseph's. Cure Alter taking three The date on the your .. .., I'a. 206 , icy I : West Bay St., Jacksonville Fla. cured. ntent for the coming year. rail entirely relieved and prd It tell yon jnat to what time'your 'sub )9n.In: IU.Its hunches: .aE t.u ; The Tuxedo Club gave a dance In. the its my use practice to all phy- scription hat been plaid ,All subscriber -_ t ]{ G. ,.;STONE. j: 4i I' Pub room. Wednesday e'venlng-the af- SVor.ucTrdo? ,.... I have: pre. should see that the \.ll changed l after! cost.. 'Write_to us, pr ask for i, General Passenger Agent r'/J'/ { air being quite informal.The scribed it In hundreds, of case with per. sending their remittance and should t Lonisvllle, Ky. 1 { df officeif it is not so changed mates. OfiG'I 5 ' this ; f LA. fectlacce88 notify damage to the Belcher block on + s f _. ', 4 \ 'I : ' venue D, caused by the )Hurricane, itnlmatee The Seaboard Air Line had a disastrous To Cur a Cold-J in One Day 'I ninsular t trl'i' ,fo'; Rent' 4.4.: Trg4a' at |doo.Mr. wreck near Madison Tuesday T.b.lets. Pe: I freight: The 'Take Laxatlva.Bromo Quinine ; l :B Hot.1.; A. has been northhummer caused by lit washout. refund the money ifIt Constxtiction Co. S W. Hall, who night, killed All druggists Grove sign. Tale' slfbttar I II on every hoc of the cenalD. , returned and is and fireman were falll to cltre. E. W. ' 'Tuesday i Laxative Brorno-Quinine T.bt.av engineer each box. 25 !ents.: ., /' "j' 'I 1SC'pit. Palm Bet-cb, : Agent Is lilting her daughter( Mn J.. Chaillee, tllr. on I,1, .1 .1 '" **. rvnadv that. >._ at .tM .. day ) 2 n Twelfth\ street until the arrival of her Raised From the Dead. ; : Cnmpa C y. t y' r"I + . Becri'tsry.ojthe ., , .Beaulo'n .i.t , usband and sons, who are "expected Laudis "Porter' for the Mr. A. R. I ?; ;;; West ,Palm Beach Llgb< and Power : ; } roi.EnUONlY.wSfAR: A WIL SON ,: FLORIDA , .La i' The Miami Rifles returned home Wed. : Company! desires. to state to our eacJertth.t I :: l 1 ,.,-sUdrar s.fa..rw. .. ."..- 1f Florida te'day'. night, :'feeling fine from_ their 1MBColumbia : Electric; Mr. {Co.f1'j. H.of Wickliffel J. kon ti le the; ",FU.,))I.now I. ':) rIiI. ,.",il-: '.;. des..'or. 'f"tLJ 1 '\ - encampment. In' West :palm Beach',,intharge'ofthe : hoor DISEASES Mailer Udwii Ba'ytl |I. still'elooalr m I J erection of the lighting for this city. Boots ,jand:,, J *#*)rwmDEn KIDNEY, t the : : I in Mr. Bean'hn's &.*b. ( ; Hc .,,, , Merrltt House,,near Buena Vista. Mr. Wickl.ffe. can be seen -, I/o iftyjytt, ...., '" . Misses, Ada F. Merritt,_ Battle H. ) office In the Jefferson-Block bave' him figure by fy ; 4 / 'ui '.J"- ;) ttlJ'tI. arttfii; mo.t';fatal_ of all dJs; arpenlu went dry In the wet Bi.yonewhode.ire., to Iii: All K nd' of : 'A{ Bg.LClt and Mr. W. A, Hobb finish- county : In the electrical Repairing ; eg calc&1 d grading "teachers'rminatioa Tuesday, by''over one on ,, their .requirements \ -, the papers\ of the election Bnd dry that th* pol.Icy ;Done. ' Beaujohn states Good*, eallyv KIDNEY 'lIp Mr. CURE r. that wa' 'held InMiami. hundred maority.) wilt bed to-':larni.h FillEYor yr 1"' of his company ' week. ,.. --- to their patron*,.! coat : 'SON, IHfutHd> ftllHdJ. ... -i-i i" electric wiring ''' . a1 Years a Dyspeptic.R but Mr. Wlckliff will be plesseA! to look iddian'IT 1FIin cwBBr :' \) .- r Consumption Threatened.C U:Foster;SlS S. ad St.. Snit Lake re.ldebCe'! p14sp4,bc.( uI e" : .. or'money refunded. Contains ' "" ; botheredlt any Unger.. writes; tilt ::Maple"1 wa, street.*troubled Chami'l'lu. with- City: writes; "I,or have indigestion bees for at'earl over and furnish approsim.te. ,. l Vat it.\: ona ,, ..,' 'J "nd 8hid8 6. : .../ rc nedie* recognized by. eminent '. t'v.. >{4 4 dyspepsia e b-.l nl """ghi'o, a1 ye stand I thought tried many' doctors without relief' One: ) ;vela; _....-..-. "Aiiif3tn.. \ < $\ : } :1 phyalcani:as the test tat O,' 'COM''" n ption. ;,l tried a. great ; a bottle or tlerbine. 1; FO'itf! Nt ri h any semedlea and tindethe carepby recent )' I got now tapering oft . f 3f. lfRE1AIRI. Kklner and Bladder troublea w a cured ;'I .10 "KI..it 'n ; ; . III'1'' for several montbs.I used bOttle 'i 1 bave recommen ed Itaa luJSt. JJtl1il PRILit fir a.l $t.OO. W ' .e both. 01 Fo1e'aUoae and Tar. It thellCC friends, ;: .It Is curtoJt ,theDl... toO. ... Sal. 'B : %/.F&lrnBeacb 1, h r owi A,. 4 .used{ DIY cIOC' Naksts i * ne, and I have cwt been/I troubled. to tWhwy *1'i !"Ji\i1. ':'V. -,">":",i."!mlck"I ,.IIal.....|.' r14, l''.,.;, .)!.t. ,';;j.,..w;'. ; .W',k.1\ 3 fJ'!i["':r; 'thli. \: ,, 't .>J'r. .1.. ;. t'tr:1' :: ,!?? '.hA.ly'' \ i .-.; : ? { ( i v" ?\:,"t( :4: ,,9 j f rzh( V itiu/r e i ,'.3 v1 i , 'iaA , } ,.i'o ., ,1./ : : : : *. .'I' .v. "" '!"o\ '. 1'1'1' ., ;; ' : , a f' ' //II< ': \r \ ; ..._...<\ r .. ': '.i.. '. ." J '," Ai" . ' l' ... ', .. ,"" ", :, ,, ; ",.'ie/\.,,,'.,' '1..'.);. > ..) + "v\\ I I, \1"\\ < \ \ "' ""-','J,0'' ". ..','' ', I ,, {f'r ; ". 'i'' ,n J .'. 11f; ''', ;). 11. ( "' I, ., '. ( '' tir"1, ,:,.. : iri I .,, \ ' ",..,,} V II' ., .\1'. ./'' ,; :. ;' <, .' ,)',,' .(' I:,, ; 4'r, lllll''! ( I + wq rn r 5 d. , t ;, I .'. '(:..TROPICAL 8 I , o THE SALE RASPBERRY. "J KOVEUTtea.naaptoarry ; '. Florida l asjiiitr. Atlantic-:- Coast : OF A JC.5VSI !...y r,4..a,. leas. Seep Voss..ua ..... Line ....... ..- . j v I I, Original[ ; S'aem.--Ctusk Uwaklufi .v a rr quartraapbendes berry ot E LOCAL THE CAM Ko. 49., In Effect May 28, 19031IO"'IIBOUIIIDaIAD THE GREAT THROUGH CAR i11NE FROM LORIDA ,( "Ob, Sir. Felary," said Miss Garland Sprinkle over half a. teaoupfu of u$af )- | UP. -CONNECTIONS-,---. when 1 called, "I am so glad you've and set'aebiran boW or nWo. B M aaa rate a - t come.Doyou know, there's to be a two' eggs very light and frothy', add: e" opAiwN1. J>M1,. near.1mme11 T two tabteapoonfula of 1M1pI' ,,stir Into :Tee f ? Over its tattle for the benefit of the orphan asylum own rails to the crushed bender and aorwj h ., r' p EastVia SavanJla .. and the ladle of the committee .y ? vaii. ; t ately. Garnish with aapectolly iup ;:::::: ChaHeston, Richmond f j" have assigned me fifty chance If berrloa.Float. ington thence and Wash. the articles to be rallied were for All Rail Pennsylvania women *-Craah a'plat o< very ripo 'tod . I could get rid of them I'm sure, berries apd pvewi through a. IIWNtill .- Ry, but since they are a man's chronometer remove. tfco aeuda. Deal In, a little a4 ,...,...,.y.. ..,.,. r.... Toe:f The LouisrIUe & Nusln-llle- via - watch and chain I don't know a. tlniol powd sugar and the beatoa West ; Montgomery what to do. I can't go among men whites of extra until two table JOlllAtWl + f fi The Mobile & Ohio, via Montgomery asking them to take chance" of sugar and the whites, of tout .... .,' . --- have been umd.Futfa . "I'll be happy to take of them* one .+-llak a. batter with two best To Via Satannah and Ocean -f Coning T' " "That'.* very kind of you. Now.oollhll1't 'P uy. for ea eggs.bait a. teacupfal I of milk atod JtijjJIJ The East t York Philadelphia, Boston New you think of come plan for Via Norfolk' ; half a teacupfut of sugar; add. bait a Steamer to New York, Washington placing the whole lot at one Uwel"'That tnore. and Bait I ! of Nit teaapoonful and enough Boar "" would be a pretty; big contract.Morit Via Savannah and Merchants & Miner Tr sifted with two teaspoonful of baklac via steamship n PWU . for Baltimore n men have watches with which pony and Philadelphia. Con>- f i. they are eatisfoL""Don't powder to make a. iaod mtely stilt bet -- . tar and stir In two toao |>fula of bet -" ;you think that some man TO KEY WEST - t rise Butter alx toocapa", flU half full via Peninsular & 'OccidentalSteamship could be found to do It? Or two orthroe and put In.a. teamer cower and cook over' ..:. -any number? . boiling water an boar Ckm with HAVANA "' "I don't know any person or' persona orange "_ Into a teacupful: of hot _. .. Company , ''- . whom I would auk. t '"- --:"-'= , i ti7+ "Can't you think up some privilege water put a tmoupful of ... gar; add a. i a 1- ; ii: '-- SOMETHING ? to go with tbe chances.-something that few pieces of Orange peel. When It NEW bolls stir In a tablc pooaf ot Ez would be an honor rather than of lairiiiuli oom- Interchangeable mileage ticket good ' u' S starch wet with a little orange Jub : i 0413,000 mile of among the ? vaiaP' ..... .. .. ....... railronda In the Southern l States, are on Sale by the principal Prin<:i lp a l ._. _-_- _-_ -- .-...-... .- -_.-..- C : agent*. + I remembered Lady GodIva. ,Ot VA""""'" -.nr . .. Through Pullman Sleeper. Port Tampa to New :York, via Atlantic Connie that wouldn't do In modern orange. Now add the remainder of Frank C. Boyleatoa Commercial W. Coast Line, tI LMS o laajlrt a r.IlPlsa. Agent, D. Stark. tbe! take Traveling/ ' Juice out the add timed!, but It set me thinking. Finally pool and Agent, 138 West Bay street Astor Building, Jacksonville, Fla.liM( Passeu*' I hit on aomothlnftT. The only half a teacupful of butter, attiring well.Poup. M.WNIID ;plaAlfllB. 0..0. OI'I'Y JPLLJr08: Traffic Manager,. W. J. Craig, General Passenger Agent l. Wilmington, N..EWer""I C. Q trouble about it was that Minn Qar- -Cook red or block: raapbenrtoe _ I, land might 'not full In with the plan. la a Mttlo water until they pert wttk g1AN01Ia.1 I ataH.am Dail Dailak1m "The only honor Can! think of would<< their fuke. Bgnoemi 8t"1n,,aM water- 'J -- .:::: 1 'be a kiss," t said.\ to'make the desired flavor, bolt .* , , i "Why, Mr. Veluryl" exclaimed Mia and to every three pinto add a. table' SEABOARD spoonful( of cornataruh dlanotved .. a I y Garland under her breathl" "You" surely - little of the juice when coM and boil t wouldn't suggest giving one t a my any; {, h who would take a chance a kiss" minute. ID warm weather serve cold tidy eery Delb. 7gAlOET o Deily, D.IIy. psily. se .w AIR LINE HAIL' A Y s3v7ros. 1 "Certainly not. But suppose the with a lump of toe In cacti dish and a --aF01t-.+.. whole fifty chances could be sold for tableopooofDl of whipped extant. Ia / e p . one king." cold weather aorre hot, with eeaclaixicrteped = SAVANNAH. COLUMBIA, CAMDEN SOUTHERN PINPS rr Miss Unrland looked at the floor, In the oven. RICHMOND, WASHINGTON BALTIMORE'PHILADELPHIA RALIUGII I-' then at the ceiling, then out of the win Cuixi.Sift'two teaaoooofole of bak-. ,, NEW YORK I 31 s' dow. tug& powder' with, two teex-apfol 'of HIT J -/T --- -g j-. -i M raleh .-.-<-. sre.e5M.s.rtve end dopcrt '- _.. "You see. there la a great difference floor and,with a.little water,.maka a. (I I iT > U til MM* antiml.epp.rtery M&.net..tiMcf a on..ot esnu.d. j 1 between kissing fifty; men and kissing oft dootfh. Butter large cupa, drop tri b JJ sTiffimi)T lif fil liVffrr,l|mane.ar ear s.W e ear aoM.qiumM Brining thew The Seaboard New lock Limited is a veetibuled train cmnDosa r, one man" I added. a little*dough, then a few berrU; uee ezcluHiveljr of Pullman Equipment: -Dining. Compartment ( '- Yes, but It Is as bad to kiss a man dough and lorries to fill.the cupe about KEY WEST AND HAVANA. Room Sleeper and! Observation Care, operated oli once us to kiss him fifty; ttmea." halt lull. Set the cups la a dish *f hot Jack onvlile to New York, via Washington, leaving St and . id 1 "If It in wrong to kiss him at alL" water put In the oven,' cover closet y 1EM1MOlILAM.. AH OOt11OVITAL STCAJHttir' CONNECTIONS AT MIAMI. p, m. Jacksonville itO: p. m. daily. Southbound Augustine 12:10 Ui There was along daring and cook-: balf ao our. Add bolting ,; known train I. 4 pause eeu.a. which Miss Garland picked np a piece : water aa' It evaporates Borve with ; ............ .._..... tv: nvuk,,_., Fri...................11 OOnK -. Limited. 4' milk or thin cream weetened with ... ........_........ .r Ww* Mo... Fri...............? S M. p . I {+ of paper and tore It Into little bit* ................. .,w_ ,,.................. It BO" ONLY LINE She didn't seem to get on with bee maple sugar.PasterIbt. .. 11"1." eat. .. .... .. . problem. I must help her. two quartlS berrlMhi lee __ d read tae Ow<< .._lmlormi.no & 4NM ear Ag.nL .. an oarthea jar act the jar fat baittnc . "I think I know la man who would Operating Daily Through Sleepers take your chances la the ruffle with the water over the !fro and cook until the T. .! JI.I.B.IrJm. ....... ..... ..... A WU.. BT. ATTOUSTIWH. >0'LA.fire From honor attached." Juice to extracted them rob'' through a Jacksonville to New Orleans I She made no reply to this, aud.I pso. fine colander or stare to tetpore i ct.1'11Pd:: seeds; Mix with this aa equal. wefgnt Three Elegant Trains Dally . Is of sugar and cook to a flan pasta tlr-' l CEIRQIT "lie not a stranger to you V/ baa Y fr Seaboard known and admired you for a tang ring all the time or It may "1'1\' New York Limited (, while. It wouldn't be like selling a Him.It Spread eT'eDI7,OQ piatea, dry te eMI Seaboard Express Seaboard would give him great bapplnoBS, .... I oven* Cut In",small pleas. dip la pot.reric D dinrtw Mail s louse you from the responsibility. yt I d sugar and can. fog fir soak ichiu seur MODERN PULLMAN EQUIPMENT peddling the chances and benefit the ; the pieces-overnight In eoN water aaA . simmer alowly. f orphans. i is I "I. don't think" she replied, agar .Sauce for Pudding*.-Ctook a pint< For full information and : v much consideration "that It would b. raspberries with two-thlrde< of a.toa-, ( '" 117N I Sleeper reservation, call oa any igea '] capful of sugar 10 teacupful<< of' wa Seaboard, or write right even under tbe circumstance! 'ed ID A. for me to kiss a man to whom I am. not ter. Strain through' a stove sad add a t7IXCN0 O. MACDONELL s. 0 BOYLSTON enJogl'll." bleepoonful of butter. Thlcaeo witha Aaa't Gen. Pace Agt; Passenger Age 1 "Who knows but that very Uttle eorwarcA-Oeustry, OenUeman. , an engagement I Jackidhville: Florida. .. t mlgut, rOllow.-- ..,-:__ -. . "Engiuieiuents usually precede Such . fwmttm ... .. y' 'till nits." "Hutt strafe J , / But this Is a peculiar ease 'Itwouldn't A comma mbttake In JwJly aaakLag lathe tuRN ., v adding of too much water with the r do for you to engage yourself fruit with the Idea that more Jelly to a man simply; that you mightsell 1 will be the result. The more water to , f him a kiss to benefit an orphan I'' 1'' asylum." put In the move time It wW take to d Ce.TAUO cook It out before the Jelly wW bgla t't'i "It could be broken afterward. i to form. . t "That would be a mere subterfuge.If . there la a Bin In the transaction It Another mistake Is trying to be economical # 3S \ (; with 'Sliese should be % sugar. ' ark 4 would not be wiped away by such an arrangement as tliut." measure Cor measure of fruit Juloa and t sugar and anything teas'.wltt pot " se- "Can't you suggest something that t--4\ ' sun In as good a JeU7' and sos etlm sIn would make the sale justifiable . = no Jelly whato.r.There : " "Oh, the charity renders It Justifiable. P. i A' : I are certola Unite : I1ll ." thatw4U. AGt {I/ Jelly eually.while ethers) K to Impossible i 7f SMOOTH ' "l>o you really think sot RUN to obtain good reeuKa boa . any UB "Ct>rtalnly I do or I wouldn't<< sug- lean gelatin to added., drapes and.ear- gent It"There rants 'make an eaperlaUyAae Jetty. p SOUTHERNRAILWAY Jp- was more thought but the ', Raspberries and blackberries need a. question was being rapidly narrowed down. little more add to make Arm jetty r One lemon to every pint of peach j\dos "Yon haven't told me who tbe mama If'/JUZ la" she said. wW make a moat UoUclous Jelly as It 'ToWASHINGTON 'cIlS "I have told you that he Is an admirer need the additional tort of the aG.n -*. NEW YORK ASHVILLE and of grape,,make good' Jelly, but , r" yours. they will require more {baa the ordinary >ii' and the EAST. HOT "It seems to me that a kiss given a SPRINGS N. C. d moan who has 00 Interest In me or I In allowance, of. sugar. Onethirdmore CINCINNATI. CHICAGO "THfi lAND OF THE sugar than Juice will give the SKY" him would be merely a touching of the . Him without any feeling, whereas a right proportion.,, The NORTH and WEST... t2 "The Sapphire Country." kiss from 'a man' who admired me ..... Sew ..... Ia.M.' N.w.N D..jei D.. vGi"Weekly Sailings Between would be different. ing c. ; to very .. .-.. ... New white bats for ....... outing 'goingaway . latter.-"I should think ;you would prefer the ," "coaching" and various typesof I Om AI ..,.... .. ...... ..... JACKSONVILLE NEW YORK Thla remark also elicited no reply. wan weather wear Include duck, ,,.OUTU,M ..tILWAY. N. F.cARy: nlsra Pee....... . Agent. THE BTBAstgHiyg'ra'THK'&OABTwi'sS PINES dotted pique white kM and willow. IN w. a..r See. JolCao..I.. yta. _, SERVICE > lug Ulna bard.Garland She was was still very thinking anslons think-to A. sveiaM* Skirt- .,.''w.A.' ,.e.. P.y.N,wrkaltta w.H.'t_D.c:..A._ S.0.H.P.4.M..c.,Arl.w.,Q.tin P.4.,Wuhan. ..... D.C. TILE CLYDE NEW ENGLAND AND SOUTHERN LIN $.' a dispose of her chances In one lot but Direct 8 nrlc( Bctwen. n. accompanying model Is ef e the manner of doing so seemed to her one .- JACKSONVILLE BOSTON AND 'tl thee very pleasing ones of the --. AND PROVIDENCE t very Irregular."What do you suppose," she said at It to suitable for ma JJo. foulard or any / rir MANGOES SAPPADILOES CilllnK ALL It CharlotoK EASTERN both POINTS. , last,,-"the people present would think fairly soft material and to out se as AVOCADO PEARS. pgM1.WEES:4Y.AIL1NOe.! : warmSouthbnund Y to produce as llttto' bulk ss pttsetMt I F p . SUR or me? round the rUIl 'i'r r CHERRIES From Lewis' Wharf, Bolter Northbound hips. _ "There need be no people present""Oh The skirt aa shown' la the sketch to II" ROSE APPLES MULBERRIES From foot of Catherine Street Jaakeunrill' , 4 4F' I supposed the thing was to be I : Y ." PAW-PAWS. GUAVAS , Intended to be trimmed with lass dole SUGAR CLYDE the done at fair. APPLES ST JOHNS RIVER LINE "No; It could be done In private In- Size. Ranging from. 12 In. to .12,Feet High Between Jacksonville and Sanford. deed I'm quite sure the man buying * the kiss. would not expose you or himself J. F. HO$; OOOD. Nurseryman Slopplnoiratatti.,, Agar.It. Francis, B.r..ford (Ost.nd) and , to such publicity." Intermediate Landings pa the 8t,.Johns Rlvar. ! : 1 COR. ROSEMARY "But In public It wouldn't be as AND FERN STREETS Steamer "LOUISE" tfarui." , 5 mach"I see no harm In It either way." We" Ship Quick .. .'Always in Stock CAPT. (C. Ifr BROCK tr "Are you sure this friend of yours Loan r9 APPOIN'igl) lY) SAIL-AS Foziowa t would". am do potiltlve.as you"-say' ?" t haunch Supplies Lsare 8aaford foot of Catharlus,,,,,, ,,,, ,,,,Str.b,,,?,,,.JIu'kaosvills,,, ..(...,...,. ...?.,,,;,.,,,d..aloadaye";"..?.Taeadeys and end TberadY eetnrdur a at a S v b'f s' 1 ;& "I don't- see bow you can know that ) General F, since'you have not had an opportunity AUTO' SPANKERS' -r' Passenger and Ticket Office, 204 W. Bay St., Jack80fltI , to speak to him about It" EDISON .eLANDE'BATTERIES' GENERATERS , , 1' "IJo you suppose, Marlon" I ,mkt. DRY BATTERIES \ fu r rA SPARK COILS' WET BATTERIES tendemeea , t+ dropping Into >a tone of q. F. "that I would let any man except toj-: Wht"(' do you need I w. O, N.tfONMONOaptJr.AY't0ea'IPssA, ttviWestusSr Jankensrllla ,We price have urg' It t Art Jarteesrlll.S I p' self.. buy a kiss from your* JOAN 4110WABDNupenme.les 0, P. L.'I au lIt., Jaott ; Don't Us . let your launch Idle. 1.0,11A11akTY Fantlepen at, JanY.n.r11I. y r ' < She bent her eyes to the floor.vwbeNr Write aI-WIre 'rasa .KUKU O"a'Iem4'nYS.mArt, NewYotk, f'LYDaAIILN Ikn'IFrtA '' !t t lY they remained* long while Thou she 4A os-Ceme to.; ** as. Osoeral Haaafiir -Yen. P. :LFUa 6.oerd a firs'' i iCbenbrouat'BaBdlna suM very faintly: FLORIDA I tiECTRICAL M SUM $tree$ New 'Tork tt 1 COMPANY ' "I accept tbe terms. ''T.ke.It. : 1 tfy "Not till It Is given me by mjr prom' a'9. oJ' )3 W' F r.7t'.St.JACKSONVILLE J Afi Ised' wife." rrw .ADOW. al5.. : :I FLASUBSCEIBE0B Seed -- 9 11lomea t r.4, r oSt There la one thing\"for which 'Mrs.. ,the float' and around the lieuof -. bat MANON'S. 11c;{Yee Dalgl. n Feiary: gives me great credit, though I course any other Cora ef trlmaUngcaa Ulaaoonst : and N.IM" believe It hi the only thing.| She pays be.,resorted to If preferred The QUAVA JELL'Y'OIlRY" Offl e 413; W' gt yf. I proposed. delightful/. 0" .' fastening should'be arranged. at the THE-SUN Bt JackwaruW ,..' s U..UB1SCN UOLMQS.' center,..f,the, back, '': j ; : Jelly CANDY lrsnrb Ntorr.asda .. x . 'f"0 ,- ',*. : ' ... , 4btutr .,.,., "": f..;, t ,,,i\1\ '':V'flv\; \t ;.ui t .,...,. 'Iwv' '.,..;'j4.fir.f.'u, bV, ..:,'Jt y.,1''''.; ,.t+ ftw'4iy/: /(''#:''tJ; '.( '; "-. ry: ,, ,r J .', --t 'k1fd '(A'1 :1 i "i .; \ ... ./ .'. .t""I)) ; .', 1"" I' ; ". '. ,\/"I: :Y'J" \,:,' II' .' ,J, \ I., 1\1 "I'. : j .. ..,.{ ." I ,, l t = -- THE TROPICAL ?UN, WEST PALIU .EAClJ"FIQtl: D.A. ,, 4-T I .AY, E E ;t ER 10\,1P03\ !Vi , 1 l THE the Association '\\1 1V.f DISCUSSES ]acksollville /gateway to the Outside world All I. our the "", '"r.u.'U'U"I'tl'U1u'tm., ' .ut'tt1U'tl'U"I'U1U1Um1U' ' . "GREAT PROBLEM" pines Should go through Association .. '. , or at least, such DROP IN = AT . a percentage al . would =::1:1"DiMICK govern; prices. , It Is Communication From expected: : that some lv interesting ,1 Ja. McComb, Jr., on the growers association would" but 90 never per cent join of any our union growers or. E ,& I!"RTRGtBrS: ;,: ] f h'ih Pineapple Situation. should be members or the Aasocla: == dye > I Jl e 'II :::: ' lion We need uniting ." .. ...." ... 1" "' '' .. .." _ protection Prescription 'i' : Pompano, Fla., Sept 15 19113. and proper distribution. We cannot es: :. Pharmacy 'roplcal Sun: pect buyers to pay full valoe fl yPt ( Editor when con- E ::I : y DJt .a SIR: 2rrnure made. We must either THEIR PRICES: ,ARE RIGHT LT , Your editorial article "A Great Probe or consign to( a market. == THEIR!: GOODS ARE RIGHT I ::51 1as1t t;r lem" published\ In your Issue of August In either way results can be had that = THEIR LOCATION IS RIGHT. i t =a i9th is of Interest to every resident of will be satisfactory Jacksonville is the THEIR MANAGER 'IS RIGHT j'I',r' a , tbe East Coast whether be be a pineapple place to sell. Reliable marks can be CALL AND RIGHT71UIUUIIUIIIIIlU111111U1U111111111111UlUlUJUIlUI11UlU a : f fSToig i fl I I but receive grower some or.not.benefit We or cannot advantage help dewand.sold at top prices They are always In ; l, ' ' 1 .. .IIIU m, '. + from the anccesa of our neighbor, no I beg tb suggest, as a starting point In --" ..........' :-- " a good cause, that you l issue a call in Reliable ( I :): 'H C * I bus-peel I your next publication, "To All Pineapple and Satisfactory t, .<, ",, : A little discussion on the subject of Growers" and others Interested who I ' this article, would no doubt lead to can do so, to attend a meeting at West "c ,1 light If not considerable improvement Palm Beach for the purpose of discussing The Americus FertilizersVegetable i + ., la condition and results, for, with the and adopting measures to secure "pro.tection" : ! increased acreage of the past two years, might be and any other business that Fruit and Vine, Pineapple, ,Orange; Tree, Nursery Stock and ',:','", j { /; brought before close the be marketing to f *k w. will soon 700, meeting. Trices t " to 750,00 crates of pines a season, if Let us tackle this "Great Problem" Strawberry on application. \ | / !: ' coo no !set-back i II encountered-and "some NOW. Yours truly, B.,.M. POTTER :3 3 If i it's tIrtr( re's'T' , thing" must be done, you say. The JM. McCOMH, JR. Agent American Agricultural Cliern. Co. ,West { 'r N growers discuss with "one another" .- ....... whenever opportunity offers. Now, if In compliance with Mr. McComb's ,.. -r- Gruber has it .' this problem is "a great one," why are suggestion, and after consulting local LAKE WORTH BOAT WORKs; ' I growers, It has been ,iJ , decided not some measures adopted to meet reg. to call a I A.T ROSE Proprietor . r } ) Invite those intetested in the meeting for Saturday September 26th ' , ularly, Launches SaU'and Bats Yachts , Fish Boats- Row and Dinghy. at to a. nl., in Tbe of the and at those Tropical Sun office. disposition crop i. meetings discuss all measures and methods All Interested In the pineapple businessare Built to Order, Overhauled, Repaired or Hauled Out. ,,1' , of getting best results. Have you : earnestly requested to attend. Boat Yard. a'; Mangonia.. :. f {, J" 4* ".., .M'I+Ihi1t! AP'Jf': #,,...t" ..,. .J' ; '?,' wt t ever seen a "great problem" solved by i ----'--.-.- 10-18-tf P. O. address WEST,, PALM BEACH FLA .. -.. .....,,*- .., ,,, ., ., / : such methods and discussions as you i His Life Saved by Chamberlain's Colic d' i ,+ Tbe trouble with Cholera and D.arrhoea QRAFTE 1 .' '''' 'I . mention great nearly Remedy."B. ! TWulgobaHVIangoes.Largest .. .. .. ' all of our. Florida growers is, they only L. Byer, a well known cooper of BUDDED ... .i' r ; "talk" in the manner you have just described lull town nays be believes Chamber \of : I "when opportunity offers" and laia',Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem- Collection of Crotons in the United States. Palms, Phyllan-- (:"'.' 1>,11 ;I edy saved his !life last summer. He had thus, etc. All pot grown. Full Line of Citrus .Stock ,1.,1"/, '. ' Is after disastrous that time generally a been sick for a month with what the doc- grown on High Spruce x'lneLand., 4 ' season-and it is generally kept up, with ors call bilious dysentary, and could get Address > ;:V "m. t '. M..fr*t n 1 1" N f s 1: no concerted movement toward bettering nothing to do him any good until; .he JOHN B. DEACHWest, Palm Beach Fla. ,*1- .,... .. \f << "" -t .. themselves! till another shipping tried this renieay. it gave him 1m. r ,, : mediate relief, says B. T Little merchant itUil season bag rolled around, aud J things are Hancock MJ. Por sale by All "-eJ! .r.' ,.wan -- r '' , exactly i in the tame shape Druggists and Medicine Dealers I OF ELECTION I ';J , NOTICE I run! .rs'\ fie To remedy existing: : evils, facts must -- -- J. B FULLER J. B.\ LIDDV; ' t: :I wi ; 'J.," ; be considered causes foujul, and remedies Wa *rlnar, I'1.n4. Nolltn IH hereby given that on Tuwtiluy. ', "I.. 1. ..1:... .. ,i, Our Pineapple toe Sixth day of October A. I). 10O8, be. ; I rDR'S applied.* Industry Watering Is an enacting labor, and ; I. .r; ;, t,',' .. is NOT in the precarious condition that yet half of It In usually imn ooHHnry. tw n the houra of eight' o'cloi .a, ra., and MILLER & LIDDY 0'; , II sundown, . an election will bu hold In the fireenRlne , it it. The result of tbe The \retisone'why It Is are 1" believe many unnecessary homo In the City of Went Palm Heath .' I ",. I ,... J " past season has kept many people, to two-tho MOil Is so Shallowly preparedthat Florida at which the following officer lor DENTISTS ( , 'I i the roots do not strike deep the, said. City will be elected '" own personal knowledge, from : , my 1 1t enough/ ; we waste the moisture by al. Mayor planting pines, because there has been lowing the mil to booome hard thereby Four Counclhn.n.A . such a "wail and cry" about Cuba killing setting up capillary connection with City Clerk,to ant .also. as. Treasurer. and OFFICE ON GROUND FLOOR'' ',,.,, ,I .. , our pineapple business I believe in the atmosphere and letting the water ABHPHHOI 7 - the stability of our industry, and of the escape.Bee A Manilla), to act also n. Tax Collector.The First door west of Bank I I - mlntenance of tbe superiority of our bow moist the soil Is In spring following named, cltlu>n*are.appointed II ., " an Inspector of election anil Clerk : ... :: I .: , that of Cuba and am demonstrating Mulch It so that the piolntnr will oot W. handU only Souvenir Stationery +' 'fruit over ".pecto.-B.M Potter H. Bob Dean. J. .' .' Pat. my belief, by starting on a fifty evaporate. Mulch It with a garden D Mathle. pup.st 800<1.., .0 n.ze hem out own d.. '1 acre pinery this season. rake, by keeping the soil loose and dry Clerk-J, K, Burgln. West have no &.th.1 .I.n...........?.......,....' ( , on top. Ttiln loom, dry soil la the Dated thin 2nd day of September, A. D. Palm ' differ with those who tfold &ad drupe In The New FCITI Prlo. II and 81 , to , I beg : , mulch There will be the moisture l\101J.\ . tbe opinion. that tbe cause of tbe late underneath. Save water rather than n. J cmiLi\owoimt, 'Beach" .te... .__ ............ J' \ e.nt. ................. ...... 4 disastrous low prices, was "Because our add It. Then when you do have to C. A. I.OPLUvrk.!: Mayor Florida, cO'lt ,/ ; n crop came in with, or at the same time water the plants go at It as If you '''I t t We 1leUCoP.rks !>!. Cottage City ,J P armacy A fine line "Brnsh ; that the Cuban crop was marketed." meant It. Do not dribble. Wet the .r vie Insect Oood_ , i iPowderonly I feel that our growers were to a great soil clear through. Wet It at dusk or N : "'N'e BRPADW13LL&Ii1OOR8 Clothes Brnshes ' In cloudy weather Before the hot sun OF A .. : i extent, to blame in assisting: in the NOTICE : received Propritor.' Hair Brushesponndefrom have strikes It renew your mulch or supply ., boo - -- mash. We will never get the best For Permit to Sell Liquors, Wines Flinch the; Brushes ' a mulch of fine litter. Mora! plants are C6@In1cfl1SoothNate ,obtainable results, until at least 80 to 90 polled by sprinkling thAn by drought. and Deer. ., i .j; vdireet.If' ,. 'J' D ngs... ,JI eI1iC1Il83, and .J ..@ 1 ' 1 There \' tie ' 'T. 1181 as . Public notice Is hereby given that O percent of the growers make' up their Boor In mist that watering In only a Flinch Shaving Brushes 4, .F and Toilet Articles Speed ban filed with! the Board of County Fanny . minds to stick to an association-instead special practice; the general practice\ been OQ opporta- , Brushes - Commissioners Dade county,in the!Statef lIoap. 8pong. , pf getting; ideas into their heads, that to so lit and maintain the ground that Horltln an application for a .permit;to WE'VE- GOT' 'EM nits to mix, .It ; It Is ferhamerlea: ,etea..?......... Combs from to'JCCablQiutely sc they know bow to market their crop. the plants WIll| not need waterlog .sell liquors, wined and beer ill Election DJ..- I YOU WANT IBM rx pure WIST '1.00 ', Marketing our crop, Is surely "A Great Country Life In America trlet No. tt of said county and State for the. .,!t, .w ,PALM, 'BBACR- FLORIDA 1 tt seal l year ending October let 1004 that Problem" and Is not understood by 3 per The J....... Acrobat'. T..... itch application will be acted oa by the"aid I "At ZDHER'SoMwTAI P.rflamiries f. Alt-he Leading cent of our growers. They only think The little Japanese acrobat In his Board of County CommlHHlonera at their next ra PatA Full Line of Bilbo' : F , they understand It-why, at tbe early short robe of black embroidered with eiculnr meeting, which will be held on the TolI.t Articles bar Good............." 0' } a I the huh day of Oct, IttOJ: at 10 o'clock In the ent Medicines at : ; part of this past season when talking gold dragons walked slowly up reg- , forenoon of "aid day, and the "aid Board Fountain Syringe with one of the large growers, residing Blunting wire cable' to the very roof of hereby. calla upon spy o'tI.en' of aiich (!..lectionDUtrlct .Io.a"' eoudhstldh.al.luagaREAL b M at West Palm Beach after advising the the circus tent There be paused moment wbo may desire. to do no, to show Toilet So.p. prices from tl to n.lo acceptance of $1.50 per crate, f. o. b. fora and then--swish, swish, swish cane If any Chute be at the laid next, regular ESTATE and INSURANCE I hem I to Ille YUlar ,' l d he slid smoothly and gracefully down meeting of said Board, why such permit car load and imparting the information ., my the stxt-p wire to the ground. Elevating hall not be granted the applicant.By : . that Cuba was only beginning his voice above the loud appJuuae order ol the Board ol County ('ODlID''"- vyALiLACE R. MOSES, mad prices would certainly fall I was In- an old clrcuH man said: "That sliding .100... of Dude county,Florida '. _, '. J \ . ,z P t Eo- Tula, tbe 4th day of August A. V. lOOa. 8uoo.**or to A. W, Robert, , the Cuban learned by a dlgqantly informed that crop trick bus never been > i Win. M. Brown rmldrnt " had about marketed and It's trick that the Taps alone (Sent) E. C.' Dearborn; Clerk Board County REAL STATS AND INSURANCE LIt.Mecormlrir: ;, I VI eITmillnitLharleii ; p, all been very 'IIO. a Foj< oininlnHlonern; 11 W. M. Pope, deputy cl'k. also Bat of . little friend v Agent for Went Palm Beach Town Lots, a Bay I.scayno leo II. "" den few were being brought Into Havana do. It you watched our you Wc.t Palm Beach" Water Work. I i II. Uarth.idenCa.hler ; ' the wire IIClematl. SI that he always kept | NOTARY PUBLIC. noticed and it told to "I know this to d as was me second toe. .Avenue,near Olive Street, -I W be FACT beause brother wrote it." between his big too and the ll-Jl-lUOt ,,WeslPalm Beach Florida . a 1 , my between his OF \ of wire was APPLICATIONFor the ti slid When be . NOTICE I Capital $50,000 . Had that letter not been written, there toes. That Is the way the Japanese 1 BUILDER\ ., .. r would be more money InV st Palm learn to walk the wire but we English\ Permit to Sell Liquors;' Wines ARCHITECT. AND .1.1T. :MIAMI: ,, :FLORIDA: : " Beach today. Tbe actual conditions at and Americans can't learn to walk in and Beer. BROWN .1' that lima were as follows: 67,000 crates that way 1 becnuwe our toes have not the I>. , Our Public notli'e In hereby given that D L.I'ope i and strength. afloat afloat for Chicago for New, about york j.ooo, u.ooo crates crates for other some toes, confined supplenoua for navy!generations leather .In boots.unhygienic hue tiled wltb the Bourd ol the"auntyComndsslonereofDadecouutyfin Htatef Plane-ARCHITECT and apeclflcatlona AND prepared.BUILDER. I THE: ,J., :?; .McGINLEY, ; CO. ! Western in Havana tight. a' "to attention ate! points selling price mobility. To Florida an application fur penult Jobbing work!given prompt ? .05 per crate f. o. b. I merely mention have no muscle and no well devel- Hell ll<|imr ,wine* and beers In Election Dls- Shop on Datura" Street. ' of how slide down n wire requires trlct No. H of Bald count and State for tbe UNDERTAKERS and .EMBALMERS this incident as an example therefore, I oped tots first of all We. decal year ending October }nt.lDO4: that folks, to a great extent, feel they cant match the laps In this showy such application will be acted on by the said GEORGE O. BUTLER T r L l "know./ telling and difficult ....." rhllada Board of County Commissioner. at their ..: eitersonBlo kI': it is next regular meeting, which will be held on - . ENCINEER fr I also beg to say, In my opinion, phla Record. CIVIL j| ; --- the tlUt day ol October. IUO8, at 10 o'elockIn hanging out a false hope to say "our the forenoon ol aid day and the laid PALM BEACH, FLORIDA WEST PALM BEACH ,- IT.AD. crops will not be apt to come in together What Is. Life? lord hereby call upon any cltlwn lit such I again for They will come Section District who may iti-nlre to do eo, to IiGEO. . together many every years.year we have a crop. but In we the do last know analysis that It Is nobody under knows strict, how regular cause meeting. It any of there acid be hoard, at the why meld such next "HABLEHURS'r.SON; $ W. :FENT0N & ee. No use denying facts Cuba will no that law even slightly, It _.... < , law. Abuse derangement permit hall not be granted the applicant ,.. -"... -. ,- J H' . doubt start a week or two ahead of us, pain resultl. Irregular IivlllK means In- By order of th. Board ol County Commlimloneraof Contractor and Builders -" ;t//!: the organs, resulting I :LIn4akers: and 1 but our main crops will come in together.The of Liver trouble. Dade county Fla. t for Constipation. Headache or Thin theist day of September A. D.: 1U08. P. O. BOX 304 .. ' days of and crate re.adJuslSlbls. " f 3 oo $1 50 per Life Pills - New ' Dr. Klng's thoro (Seal) E.'C. DEARBORN. Embalmers' onr crops must be looked on as "The '. gentle, yet gh. Clerk Board Co. Coiomlmilonern.' .t ' Happy Days gone by." Only 2SC at All Druggist By W.M. Pope, Deputy Clerk. REGISTRATION NOTICE. We certainly need protection. The -.- 1Tbhe J j Gruber Block. Narcissus Street WEST PALM BEACH, FLA' tobacco growers of the West Coast have V..r Aare tl... registration hooks of the City of West I co . protection. They secured it by concerted said the young lawyerwho Palm Beach Florida,will be openjroui Hf ortoNOtlottoNosloRostaUOROttostosWlsodgoteoklo7solgoleo7eo eo71oLo ' pIN. action. We will never get it by "Yy won his drat case,, 'arm- tembvr SII". 41\1011\ nhllt 8e|>teaber :J-tth, ? fiI had Just L. A.'WILLSQN ... r , 1008, betwsea she hound i8, s and t P- Jury. 'Discussing It,when opportunity offers strongly affect tile S oi .1 to HI W88 m.eachday. Maid book will be found,In Let at as once-and make the take opportunity concerted and steps makeit to afraid"Yes.at|one replied time the tbhalo J da convicted"would -la MANUrACTlTKBK: OF the drug store of.Dloilck Rleael.C. A. LOPEZ H I 11( I GwY' G. Strohm Company <4<>> secure relief. eeed In geotttDS lIIaoceoce.-CblcalO Beo- Boots and Shoes Sept :2, 10OU. hilt: CIty Clerk., f o : It Is, in my opinion a "blessing in dis- spite of bb. .0 guise" that prices were low, last season. ord-Uerald. =;F:1lMI LrY-G ReC2SRI 55-:1: Our pines were sent to markets, large us. 0..... J 0Ii f M, and small, that had never received a car "Wbere were they, marrledr Repairing in Alt, Kinds of Leather BoF4wgDesirable I. "' ' . and Increased IlUre," ap.wered the II'" [FiancyiFodd Products I ' or crate of pines before. A new "I 1 slut Jest i beets. . left me Goods Neatly pane.f . need "'GUse they i who wish a'yleaManUplace I ' demand has been mad; we : email boy. .,. people 4 4. 4 a new and big demand to maintain but J 10- It wee" tIthe .PtePla"In a. ta .top at while In 4WeM Palnf fOi r+ " price. The field |Is only partly covered.I the I sleepier beard 'em say it was a p1B4! Indian ,on Beaeh.wlll Oily Btre: Sod t "MINARBT between"' Evernla COTTAOB.and i Grain and Provjsi TBlgctstia sent a solid car to a market this past 'wetl ."-Chdc.go POIIC. i 'F.... !uaMaavhVa\/placet. Nfc' eleaa&nnmo o , Mason, that never had received a direct church wettdlg : **. neatly"furnished | comfortable :i " HnrsehidetBhoesFGli $ JEFFERSON BLOCK shipment'from'Florida. The 'car netted you Know What You Are Taking Tastele" and. I 'beda) :ooil.wboleeqnie',. are .the food racoBunendaitk ( VBBVBioderAMprleea -I ij , Grolle's o from $1.38 to f 1.37 per crate, when all When you take formula Is I Ontr.aiHnilted. nuaiber. of room- itO j ,the old markets were netting about <90 Chill Tonic because the Ihowlngfbat LENDER- PERTH t' .* /......- t4 a e mmo4ateif'. Table board 1 I West Palm Beach, Florida ; 4 Cents instance every bottle .poel ltrln f 1 t t-t-C- (40 (, to $1,00. This la only one quinine 10 a la r f opening up new fields. It prsimply forlD. No Iron cure.and No pay. So eta Olive.St,p"f;'s of...New Jefferson:.Bieck"! :.f' '.'I'...1.It M.RH.. .. .FRANK..... .. DARLING. ?Ho o.ioaio iowo ioio io>io iolBoHso_o ioeio_okooHol oioKof5 ..,. + ,la In tRIICtles 1 believe conclusion; let me say, I p -t' 4G f fIr#'P # of # .f "Jt'8t.. .1"3"" Ir > f A ! ..: :..!:ii.. ., ( AYflsp t ;", r b.iriawMw, ;-iis I"I* |triii "_____.......'. '.. ... ]' .. .......,..- :t ,"' : .. r"''' ...;;..w.;,;.... :...;.. (Mi a r "; ,. \ ,,1' ...,,,,l' ', C. '" ,..,' ,> f"I \ ," . : , .t' ,, "" ; . : 'V1i.t"t , : '', .: ,\ : "" '" 1\\',, ( < ., ,, '.11'" d 's .. ;> ," 'f. ',' ... . 4 .... " 'I" .A ,, . era v._ ssassss* ,,' ,". ,, ''' ' ' '" ;">, I f."lal'' :") .. ':< "I" ''i." ,I s THE: TROPICAL SUN, WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1903 I __ ,I 5 !\ ' j t : We Have Just t Opened Up Our New Fall Line , , , " ' . I"'t : ( ',,: (:, Of Neckwear and feel safe in saying includes the loveliest, daintiest, sweetest cre- Ii at t . .I e 5 'II. loons: that can be found in Dade County. We invite young, men/especially to call r.: and see our beautiful line of Narrow Four-In-Hands, made of Silk of the finest quality '': '1 inch'wide all the way, 62 inches long, and in designs of such variety and profusion G -1R e 1\ t'l- 0 .J..A.' 5 of' elegance as to please the taste of a Chesterfield.Our . new line of Small String Ties alone includes more than 60 dozen, in all . in ,Styles and all varieties of color and design. a a a . We can't tell you about them ; please call and let us show you these novel beauties in Neckwear. ( Neek: Weatt , ;t', IC.I HARRIS & ee.I . I ' "t '' ". lN en s Furnishings and Shoes PALMS BLOCK I / West Palm Beach, Florida , I - .--. ,- - - - - i:, i 1 DELRAV DOINGS. Tropical Sun, all who did so mach to BOYITON. I Card of Thank e.yTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT'rTTTTTVeTTTT'rTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTDade I render assistance In time of need. Special The' Ladles' Cemetery Improvement Mrs. Walter Branson, widow of the thanks are due Mrs. Chapman, who Most of the residences that were blown Association are in receipt ol the|J9 05 County State Bank i f late Dr. Branson, accompanied by her placed the Chapman Houae at the disposal oft of their'lonndallona by the recent so kindly given by the Home Dramatic 1L little son, left Wednesday night for her of the wrecked sailors. hurricane are beckon again,clothes and dab, and through the columns of this Weat Palm Beach, Florida I former home in Rendville, Ohio. Most of the .et.t Key West beachcombers bedding[have. been dried out,a fresh supply paper the Association tenders its grateful : . LJ SAILORS DEPART. has gone south. of dry,provisions laid In and living thanks to Mr Russell, manager, and w The nurvlTor of the wrecked British -'..5Organlsed going on about as It did before the atoi m. the other members of the club .for its Capital Stock, $16,000 steamer Inchulva, have to New timely and generous donation and begsto 3 Rone Draautlc Club.A Charlie ''Mast is back from Jensen York. Most of the crew left Wednesday again, having the sand knocked out of asxure them of its appreciation of Surplus, $10,000 meeting of those who composed the their public spirit and generosity. = night, and Captain Davis and First Mate the pineapple plants and the fields reset. in t Gay went Thursday morning. With cut In Rio Grande, was held at the MBS. N. S. BUB N HAM, : 1 up Most of other are having our growers OFFICERS home1 of Mrs. I"RCTORSI: Bnrnham Thursday even MRS. F. B. EVERETT. Pres. them was the British consul at Jackson- the came kind of work done In their R N Dlmlck.I'.ld""t R.N. Dlmlck Oeo.W, Lalthrut ville, Mr Edward Sudlow, who came ing. It was decided to organize a permanent *. Sec. 0.....W., Potter,Vice.President K.B. Potter H, M. BrelnfoiU dramatic to be knownas new fields / Oeo.I. llrnnnliiK Cimhler Oca W.l'oll"'r W.H,Hplurr I company I . here to arrange for the disposition of a I a A.Max.ulrlAa.bltantCaahier. Ueo.fc. Br ni"nK the Home Dramatic Club. New playa Mlns Rose Forrey went to Miami to the and Mr. Mont- steamer bercargo. OPEN FROM 9 A. M. TO 2 . Broward down the will be put on the boards at the Lyceum attend the teachers' examination last The new, freight warehouse of the P. M. calm was on Deweyin Theatre about once month. week bet grandmother accompanyingher Florida East Coast Railway has been A general banking hii.lnt.han aet"d. Collection.*promptly ."'mll. on day the Interest of the Jacksonville Wrecking of receipt." Draft bought and.old on the principal cltlei in United the Bla.cn. lie the Toe following officers were elected:, and both were there during the hur finished and will soon be ready for occupancy purchased ship Company. .. Before be used SAFETY BOXES FOR RENT for scrap iron paying; it la said, about President Mrs N. S. Burnham. ricane. They were somewhat surprisedto can permanent , C find their bouse in a different position roads will have to be built leadlug to .AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAtATalk f 300. The cargo was sold to individualsIn Manager, Lee Russell. . parcels, all except the lumber and Secretary,Miss Kate Vaulr.: a ? and condition than when they leftit the warehouse and depot. cotton, which will be disposed of in bulk. Treasurer MI.Nell Clow. but were glad to know it was no worse. ,a. Justice D. L. Tenbrook acted as auctioneer ---... The directors of the Boynton Packing About Pure Delight Devoured by Worms.Children Company met a week ago last Mondayand Mr. G. P. Paddluon, iof East Gallic, Born.li.ygoodAt adjourned to last Monday night at often cry, not from pain, It cornea with our Orient Motor Buckboard, stud you fun Delray, Fla.:, on Friday of this but from hunger, although fed abun afford turn. It in cheaper than borau. Lot tell which a Manager of the East Coast Lumber& meeting a report past sea- dauU,. The entire trouble arises from us von ' .I l Supply Company, was here on business! September 18.1903, to Mr. and Mrs. son'a business was given. by both the inanition, their food is not assimilated abont it. Little trouble or expense to you. nets there ,! this week. T.J. HayfEOod, a son. secretary and treasurer. They showed avery hut devoured by worms. A few doses of quick. and several otherfacts White's Cream Vermifuge will cause profitable season and'bl.. Davis of the Captain crew them to cease crying and begin to B. M. POTTER AgentWEST Inferior bread when not so profitable, but that can be , wrecked steamer Incbulva wish to Why use yon can thrive at once very mush to the surprise ,( thank, through the columns of The get Dobbins & Qulgg's Try It. at remedied another season. and joy of the mother. 250. PALM BRACH FLORIDA ;, I - T { r I fiH H i ir ( J j ON.I1Y P mONTtt : , i : r ; VI ; I , .t d Jy , , New York 'August' 29', '1905.f r t in which to take of advantage our i 'i. f= "" :'<"!('t' toil 10 JS'iH. . ,I I ( B. Yarborough, 'r"4 , i Dear -Sir :-w'espalm Beach. Pla. CLEAN": :::: UP S. ALE' H " t :' I ,note, that you havet99'" three- . piece suits and1"61" two":piece suits left Regular- $10 '$12 $15 $18 and $20 .' Fancy Suits go for $8.00. from stock I/ s ; : ;spring Ve want, this_ : entire. ;lot" r ,;\oloeedi\ i out r ,, All Fancy Suits under $10 go for $5.90. , J . i' and In order to do so offer any suit In ; : t : the house except Black.:and Blue goods ,at $8! per suit. Let, '$10 $12 "$15 :$18 $10.50 Takes any Black I \ or Blue tl and $20 suits go, In., "this, Sale., On suits / under $10, make's 'uniform'. price* of $5,90.t : SUI tin the House i Blacks and Blues sell'" 1'10' 'any. ," .suit' ,'at : ,,'. , $10.50., ,i i \ . ' Yours. truly ,: i* i j V : : A.: ANTHONYt Look UPi OUB-prices 'on Tan Shoes and Fancy Vests ; : t . : . . . : ar 'r N THmi; BROTHEl S -- , ', r { : : fire , . P.PtC WEST PALM BEACH ' BEACHTvT" ' ,- MIAMI : "......................:....:.......... . ARE SILENT i: : i ANTHONY'S SHOES SALESMEN.i ir I ........... ......................... .... it it &$$&&* >&< .1 , 41 f!' 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Build Your First Chatbot Using Python & NLTK
Today we will learn to create a simple chat assistant or chatbot using Python’s NLTK library.
not very new, one of the foremost of this kind is ELIZA, which was created in the early 1960s and is worth exploring. In order to successfully build a conversational engine, it should take care of the following things:
- Understand who is the target audience
- Understand the Natural Language of the communication.
- Understand the intent or desire of the user
- provide responses that can answer the user
Today we will learn to create a simple chat assistant or chatbot using Python’s NLTK library.
NLTK has a module, nltk.chat, which simplifies building these engines by providing a generic framework.
In this blog I am using 2 imports from nltk.chat.util:
Chat: This is a class that has all the logic that is used by the chatbot.
Reflections: This is a dictionary that contains a set of input values and its corresponding output values. It is an optional dictionary that you can use. You can also create your own dictionary in the same format as below and use it in your code. If you check nltk.chat.util, you will see its values as below:
reflections = { " }
You can also create your own reflections dictionary in the same format as above and use it in your code. Here is an example for this:
my_dummy_reflections= { "go" : "gone", "hello" : "hey there" }
and use it as :
chat = Chat(pairs, my_dummy_reflections)
Using above concept from python’s NLTK library, lets build a simple chatbot without using any of the Machine Learning or Deep Learning Algorithms. So obviously our chatbot will be a decent one but not an intelligent one.
Source Code :
from nltk.chat.util import Chat, reflections pairs = [ [ r"my name is (.*)", ["Hello %1, How are you today ?",] ], [ r"what is your name ?", ["My name is Chatty and I'm a chatbot ?",] ], [ r"how are you ?", ["I'm doing good\nHow about You ?",] ], [ r"sorry (.*)", ["Its alright","Its OK, never mind",] ], [ r"i'm (.*) doing good", ["Nice to hear that","Alright :)",] ], [ r"hi|hey|hello", ["Hello", "Hey there",] ], [ r"(.*) age?", ["I'm a computer program dude\nSeriously you are asking me this?",] ], [ r"what (.*) want ?", ["Make me an offer I can't refuse",] ], [ r"(.*) created ?", ["Nagesh created me using Python's NLTK library ","top secret ;)",] ], [ r"(.*) (location|city) ?", ['Chennai, Tamil Nadu',] ], [ r"how is weather in (.*)?", ["Weather in %1 is awesome like always","Too hot man here in %1","Too cold man here in %1","Never even heard about %1"] ], [ r"i work in (.*)?", ["%1 is an Amazing company, I have heard about it. But they are in huge loss these days.",] ] [ r"(.*)raining in (.*)", ["No rain since last week here in %2","Damn its raining too much here in %2"] ], [ r"how (.*) health(.*)", ["I'm a computer program, so I'm always healthy ",] ], [ r"(.*) (sports|game) ?", ["I'm a very big fan of Football",] ], [ r"who (.*) sportsperson ?", ["Messy","Ronaldo","Roony"] ], [ r"who (.*) (moviestar|actor)?", ["Brad Pitt"] ], [ r"quit", ["BBye take care. See you soon :) ","It was nice talking to you. See you soon :)"] ], ] def chatty(): print("Hi, I'm Chatty and I chat alot ;)\nPlease type lowercase English language to start a conversation. Type quit to leave ") #default message at the start chat = Chat(pairs, reflections) chat.converse() if __name__ == "__main__": chatty()
The code is quite simple, still lets understand it.
Once the function chatty() is invoked, a default message will be displayed:
Next I’ve created an instance of Chat class containing pairs(list of tuples containing set of question and answers) and reflections(discussed above).
Next step is to trigger the conversation:
chat.converse()
A simple conversation :
As you can see we have just hardcoded the probable question and answers in the list pairs.
Lets interact more with Chatty :
The nltk.chat chatbots work on the regex of keywords present in your question. So you can add any number of questions in a proper format so that your chatbot doesn’t get confused in determining the regex.
In this blog I have explained in simple steps as to how you can build your own chatbot using NLTK and of course its not an intelligent one.
I hope you guys have enjoyed reading.
Happy Learning !!!
For any doubts/suggestions connect with me over LinkedIn.:
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Hi Guys,
I've been studying Prism for past two days and have a question - why not have a Singleton instance of a IUnityContainer instead of injecting it everywhere, what's the point of writing additional code, I just dont get it. I'm building an Silverlight app using
the MVVM model and want to use the IUnityContainer to resolve services inside my ViewModels. Also I'd like my ViewModels to be declared in the xaml resources, it brings some advantages with it. If I want to use Prism (Unity) I end up in an situation (which
is shown in one of the prism videos) where the service is manually attached to the ViewModel from the View, it's too laborious and ugly. It might be that I'm missing something, any thoughts are very welcome.
Regards,
Stevo
Hi Stevo,
Each time you inject the UnityContainer, the same instance is resolved, since internally it is registered as a Singleton instance. You can confirm that by checking the
HashCode of the different references to the container throughout your application; they are the equal, showing that they all point to the same instance.
If you are referring to having, for example, a static property instead of injecting the container, you must take into account that in that case you would have a direct reference to that static property in every
component that uses the container, thus losing the
benefits of Dependency Injection. That is, you would lose testability, as well as lifetime management for the container itself, among other benefits.
On the other hand, if you want your ViewModel to get a reference to a service, a possible approach would be to use
Constructor Injection. It’s not necessary to inject the Unity Container and then resolve the services through it. The code for that would look like this:
public MyModuleViewModel(IService myService, IAnotherService myOtherService)
{
this.myService = myService;
this.myOtherService = myOtherService;
(…)
}
As for declaring the ViewModel in XAML resources, if you meant that you would prefer to instantiate the ViewModel directly in the XAML, like this:
<UserControl.DataContext>
<MyViewModel/>
</UserControl.DataContext>
you would be losing the benefits of Constructor Injection, as the XAML would be instantiating the ViewModel through a default constructor (if the ViewModel didn’t have one, it would throw an exception).
The classic approach to have access to the ViewModel in the View’s XAML is to add the ViewModel as the DataContext of the View programmatically. The code for that would look like this:
public MyView(IMyModuleViewModel viewModel) { InitializeComponent(); this.DataContext = viewModel; }
That way you would have access to the ViewModel from your XAML, when you use bindings.
I hope you find this helpful.
Guido Leandro Maliandi
Hi Guido,
thanks for the reply. I understand most of the things what you refer to. However I don't understand how would I loose testability (I can assign whatever instance I want to to the static singleton property that can be available during testing) and what exactly
you mean by lifetime managment (One signleton that's alive as long as the application is alive)?
Our application structure is following - main silverlight + .web projects and X-number of modules (other projects). The main silverlight project has Shell, bootstrapper, DomainContexts, service interfaces and lots of common classes in it. Each module has
the main references the main silverlight application and implements its own specific views and services, thus has access to all the common stuf, where the UnityContainer singleton resides.
Hi,
If you followed the approach you’ve mentioned, you would be losing lifetime management because, if you use a static property, that instance of the container will be kept in memory for as long as the application
runs. You can read more about Lifetime Managers in
this article from the Unity Documentation.
As for the loss of testability, although you would be able to mock the implementation of the container by assigning whatever instance you want to the static property, that would imply mixing your production code
with your testing code. If, for example, you had the following code:
public class MyClass
{
private IUnityContainer container;
public MyClass()
{
container = StaticContainer.GetInstance();
}
}
public class StaticContainer
{
private static IUnityContainer container;
public static bool Testing;
public static IUnityContainer GetInstance()
{
if StaticContainer.Testing
return MockContainer();
if container == null
container = new UnityContainer();
return container;
}
}
You would give the production code the possibility of running the mock instances. In addition to that, in case there were a large number of different mocks, the StaticContainer class would have to be responsible
for knowing which mock to use.
Fernando Antivero
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I am new to generics. What I understand from below syntax is V should be same or subclass of T, however this shows no compile error and returns False even when V is Integer while T String array.
class GenMethDemo {
public static <T ,V extends T> boolean isIn( T x, V[] y) {
for ( int i =0; i< y.length; i++ )
if ( x.equals(y[i]) ) return true;
return false;
}
}
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String b[] = {"are", "how", "YOU"};
System.out.println(GenMethDemo.isIn(1, b));
}
}
<T,V extends T>
<T extends Comparable<T>, V extends T>
In Java 5/6/7, passing
Integer as
T and
String as
V to such generic method would cause "bound mismatch" compiler error unless you explicitly cast first argument to
Object.
In Java 8, due to improved type inference, to satisfy relationship between
T and
V for provided arguments,
T is inferred as
? extends Object, which allows
V to be
String, not resulting an error.
When you restrict to
<T extends Comparable<T>, V extends T>, there is no such combination of types
T and
V which could satisfy
Integer and
String--even if
T falls into the widest possible type
Comparable<Integer>, it is not supertype of
String. Thus you're getting compiler error as expected. | https://codedump.io/share/kU0KD2z02ofP/1/generics-v-extends-t-no-error-even-if-incompatible-types | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | refinedweb | 218 | 59.64 |
Make it understandable - meta info
You've come so far! There's a US map and a histogram. They're blue and shiny and you look at them and you go "Huh?".
The key to a good data visualization is telling users what it means. An easy way to do that is a good title and description. Just tell them. The picture supports the words, the words explain the picture.
Let's add those words.
We're adding a dynamic title and description, and a median line on the histogram. The text is dynamic because we're adding user controls later, and we want the pictures and the words to stay in sync.
At the end of this section, you'll have a full visualization of the shortened dataset.
Dynamic title
We begin with the title because it shows up first.
We start with an import in
App.js and add it to the render method. You know
the drill 😄
// src/App.jsimport CountyMap from "./components/CountyMap"import Histogram from "./components/Histogram"// Insert the line(s) between here...import { Title } from "./components/Meta"// ...and here.function App() {const [datasets, setDatasets] = useState({techSalaries: [],medianIncomes: [],countyNames: [],usTopoJson: null,USstateNames: null,});// Insert the line(s) between here...const [filteredBy, setFilteredBy] = useState({USstate: "*",year: "*",jobTitle: "*",});// ...and here.}// ...return (<div className="App container">// Insert the line(s) between here...<Title data={filteredSalaries} filteredBy={filteredBy} />// ...and here. // ...</div>)}
Ok, I lied. We did a lot more than just imports and adding to render.
We also set up the
App component for future user-controlled data filtering.
The
filteredBy state tells us what the user is filtering by – 3
options:
USstate,
year, and
jobTitle. We set them to "everything" by
default.
We added them now so that we can immediately write our
Title component in a
filterable way. No need to make changes later.
As you can see,
Title takes
data and
filteredBy props.
Get the USStatesMap file
You need the
USStatesMap file.
It's a big dictionary that translates US state codes to full names. You can
get it from Github
and save it as
components/Meta/USStatesMap.js.
We'll use it when creating titles and descriptions.
Implement Title
We're building two types of titles based on user selection. If both
years and
US state were selected, we return
In {US state}, the average {job title} paid ${mean}/year in {year}. If not,
we return
{job title} paid ${mean}/year in {state} in {year}.
I know, it's confusing. They look like the same sentence turned around. Notice the and. First option when both are selected, second when either/or.
We start with imports, a stub, and an export.
// src/components/Meta.jsimport React, { Component } from "react"import { scaleLinear } from "d3-scale"import { mean as d3mean, extent as d3extent } from "d3-array"import USStatesMap from "./USStatesMap"export const Title = ({ filteredSalaries, filteredBy }) => {}
We import only what we need from D3's
d3-scale and
d3-array packages. I
consider this best practice until you're importing so much that it gets messy
to look at.
The helper methods
yearsFragmentdescribes the selected year
USstateFragmentdescribes the selected US state
jobTitleFragmentdescribes the selected job title
formatreturns a number formatter
We can implement
yearsFragment,
USstateFragment, and
format in one code
sample. They're short.
// src/components/Meta.jsexport const Title = ({ filteredSalaries, filteredBy }) => {function yearsFragment() {const year = filteredBy.year;return year === "*" ? "" : `in ${year}`;}function USstateFragment() {const USstate = filteredBy.USstate;return USstate === "*" ? "" : USStatesMap[USstate.toUpperCase()];}function format() {return scaleLinear().domain(d3extent(filteredSalaries, (d) => d.base_salary)).tickFormat();}
In both
yearsFragment and
USstateFragment, we get the appropriate value
from Title's
filteredBy prop, then return a string with the value or an empty
string.
We rely on D3's built-in number formatters to build
format. Linear scales
have the one that turns
10000 into
10,000. Tick formatters don't work well
without a
domain, so we define it. We don't need a range because we never use
the scale itself.
format returns a function, which makes it a
higher order function.
Being a getter makes it really nice to use:
this.format(). Looks just like a
normal function call 😄
The
jobTitleFragment is conceptually no harder than
yearsFragment
and
USstateFragment, but it comes with a few more conditionals.
// src/components/Meta.jsexport const Title = ({ filteredSalaries, filteredBy }) => {// ...function jobTitleFragment() {const { jobTitle, year } = filteredBylet title = ""if (jobTitle === "*") {if (year === "*") {title = "The average H1B in tech pays"} else {title = "The average tech H1B paid"}} else {title = `Software ${jobTitle}s on an H1B`if (year === "*") {title += " make"} else {title += " made"}}return title}// ...}
We're dealing with the
(jobTitle, year) combination. Each influences the
other when building the fragment for a total 4 different options.
The render
We put all this together in the
render method. A conditional decides which of
the two situations we're in, and we return an
<h2> tag with the right text.
// src/components/Title.jsexport const Title = ({ filteredSalaries, filteredBy }) => {// ...const mean = format()(d3mean(filteredSalaries, (d) => d.base_salary))let titleif (yearsFragment() && USstateFragment()) {title = (<h2>In {USstateFragment()}, {jobTitleFragment()}${mean}/year{" "}{yearsFragment()}</h2>)} else {title = (<h2>{jobTitleFragment()} ${mean}/year{USstateFragment() ? `in ${USstateFragment()}` : ""}{yearsFragment()}</h2>)}return title}
Calculate the mean value using
d3.mean with a value accessor, turn it into a
pretty number with
format(), then use one of two string patterns to make a
title.
And a title appears after a little debugging.
Dynamic description
You know what? The dynamic description component is pretty much the same as the title. It's just longer and more complex and uses more code. It's interesting, but not super relevant to the topic of this book.
So rather than explain it all here, I'm going to give you a link to the diff on Github
We use the same approach as before:
- Add imports in
App.js
- Add component to
Apprender
- Implement component in
components/Meta.js
- Use getters for sentence fragments
- Play with conditionals to construct different sentences
142 lines of mundane code.
All the interesting complexity goes into finding the richest city and county. That part looks like this:
// src/components/Meta/Description.jsget countyFragment() {const byCounty = _.groupBy(this.props.data, 'countyID'),medians = this.props.medianIncomesByCounty;let ordered = _.sortBy(_.keys(byCounty).map(county => byCounty[county]).filter(d => d.length/this.props.data.length > 0.01),items => d3mean(items,d => d.base_salary) - medians[items[0].countyID][0].medianIncome);let best = ordered[ordered.length-1],countyMedian = medians[best[0].countyID][0].medianIncome;// ...}
We group the dataset by county, then sort counties by their income delta. We look only at counties that are bigger than 1% of the entire dataset. And we define income delta as the difference between a county's median household income and the median tech salary in our dataset.
This code is not super efficient, but it gets the job done. We could optimize by just looking for the max value, for example.
Similar code handles finding the best city.
Render the description
I recommend copying the
Description component from GitHub.
Most of it has little to do with React and data visualization. It's all about
combining sentence fragments based on props.
You then render the Description like this:
// src/components/App.jsimport { Title, Description } from "./components/Meta"// ..;<Descriptiondata={filteredSalaries}allData={techSalaries}filteredBy={filteredBy}medianIncomesByCounty={this.state.medianIncomesByCounty}/>
Overlay a median household line
Here's a more interesting component: the median dotted line. It shows a direct comparison between the histogram's distribution and the median household income in an area. I'm not sure people understand it at a glance, but I think it's cool.
We're using a quick approach where everything fits into a functional React component. It's great for small components like this.
Step 1: App.js
Inside
src/App.js, we first have to add an import, then extract the median
household value from state, and in the end, add
MedianLine to the render
method.
Let's see if we can do it in a single code block 😄
// src/App.jsimport Histogram from './components/Histogram';import { Title, Description, GraphDescription } from './components/Meta';// Insert the line(s) between here...import MedianLine from './components/MedianLine';// ...and here.function App() {// ...let zoom = null,// Insert the line(s) between here...medianHousehold = medianIncomesByUSState['US'][0].medianIncome;// ...and here.return (// ...<svg width="1100" height="500"><CountyMap // ... /><Histogram // ... />// Insert the line(s) between here...<MedianLine data={filteredSalaries}x={500}y={10}width={600}height={500}bottomMargin={5}median={medianHousehold}value={d => d.base_salary} />// ...and here.</svg>)}
You probably don't remember
medianIncomesByUSState anymore. We set it up when tying datasets together.
It groups our salary data by US state.
See, using good names helps 😄
When rendering
MedianLine, we give it sizing and positioning props, the
dataset, a
value accessor, and the median value to show. We could make it
smart enough to calculate the median, but the added flexibility of a prop felt
right.
Step 2: MedianLine
The
MedianLine component looks similar to what you've seen so far. Some
imports, a
constructor that sets up D3 objects, an
updateD3 method that
keeps them in sync, and a
render method that outputs SVG.
// src/components/MedianLine.jsimport React from "react"import * as d3 from "d3"const MedianLine = ({data,value,width,height,x,y,bottomMargin,median,}) => {}export default MedianLine
We have some imports, a functional
MedianLine component that takes our props,
and an export. It should cause an error because it's not returning anything.
Everything we need to render the line, fits into this function.
// src/components/MedianLine.jsconst MedianLine = ({// ...}) => {const yScale = d3.scaleLinear().domain([0, d3.max(data, value)]).range([height - y - bottomMargin, 0]),line = d3.line()([[0, 5],[width, 5],])const medianValue = median || d3.median(data, value)const translate = `translate(${x}, ${yScale(medianValue)})`,medianLabel = `Median Household: $${yScale.tickFormat()(median)}`return (<g className="mean" transform={translate}><textx={width - 5}y="0"textAnchor="end"style={{ background: "purple" }}>{medianLabel}</text><path d={line} /></g>)}
We start with a scale for vertical positioning –
yScale. It's linear, takes
values from
0 to
max, and translates them to pixels less some margin. For
the
medianValue, we use props, or calculate our own, if needed. Just like I
promised.
A
translate SVG transform helps us position our line and label. We use it all
to return a
<g> grouping element containing a
<text> for our label, and a
<path> for the line.
Building the
d attribute for the path, that's interesting. We use a
line
generator from D3.
line = d3.line()([[0, 5],[width, 5],])
It comes from the d3-shape package and
generates splines, or polylines. By default, it takes an array of points and
builds a line through all of them. A line from
[0, 5] to
[width, 5] in our
case.
That makes it span the entire width and leaves 5px for the label. We're using a
transform on the entire group to vertically position the final element.
Remember, we already styled
medianLine when we built
histogram styles
earlier.
.mean text {font: 11px sans-serif;fill: grey;}.mean path {stroke-dasharray: 3;stroke: grey;stroke-width: 1px;}
The
stroke-dasharray is what makes it dashed.
3 means each
3px dash is
followed by a
3px blank. You can use
any pattern you like.
You should see a median household salary line overlaid on your histogram.
Almost everyone in tech makes more than an entire median household. Crazy, huh? I think it is.
If that didn't work, consult the diff on Github. | https://reactfordataviz.com/tech-salaries/meta-info/ | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | refinedweb | 1,907 | 51.95 |
...
Vijay has started blogging. Note that he's had a blog for a while now (Jan 2004) but he's now actually adding entries. :) Head over to his blog and read up on some of his great work and background testing Whidbey's C# Edit-N-Continue feature. Good stuff.
Turns.
Got.
This one came up today in an internal discussion alias and reminded me of how many times I've seen people get stumped on this one and end up working around it. A lot of users have used verbatim string literals as they ease writing multi-line strings literals or for specifying paths and not having to escape the backslashes (as Andrew pointed out in the comments for this post). Here's an example:
string s = @"First line Second line."; string path = @"c:\windows\system";
The trick with verbatim string literals is that everything between the delimiters (the double quotes that start and end the literal) is interpreted verbatim. So a the following line of code:
Console.WriteLine(@"First line\nSecond line.");
will actually output:
First line\nSecond line.
So that's easy to understand and comes in handy but some have trouble figuring out how to include an actual double-quote character in these literals. The answer is to use the quote-escape-sequence (two consecutive double-quote characters). Trying to escape the double-quote using a backslash (e.g. \") will not work. The following line of code:
Console.WriteLine(@"Foo ""Bar"" Baz ""Quux""");
will output the following:
Foo "Bar" Baz "Quux"
As always, you can find all the details in the C# language spec.
One of today's questions had to do with how static fields work in generic types in the upcoming C# 2.0. For example, what would the output be from the following code?
using System;
class Gen<T> {
public static int X = 0;
}
class Test {
static void Main() {
Console.Write(Gen<int>.X);
Console.Write(Gen<string>.X);
Gen<int>.X = 5;
Console.Write(Gen<int>.X);
Console.Write(Gen<string>.X);
}
}
The correct answer is: 0050. The details can be found in section 25.1.4 of the ECMA C# Language specification:.
We:
Today, I realized it had been a lot longer than I thought since I last posted on this blog. It's actually been over three months which just isn't all that cool. I haven't even been posting much on my personal blog which I used to keep at least somewhat active. I thought about it a bit and decided to try to post more often by just sharing a lot of the answers to C#/.NET related questions I answer every week from people internally and those in the community. Hopefully, that'll be something I get into a bit of a rhythm with and the answers will be useful to at least those using search engines. So that's my goal, we'll see over time if I can make it happen.
Another source I'll use for questions to answer are some of the questions that come in through the C# FAQ blog. From a quick look at the last few weeks worth of emails we've received through that site it looks like we're getting about 20-30 per week. Some have very little, if anything at all, to do with C# but there are definitely enough to use as seeds for future blog posts.
Also, I wanted to point to Peter's blog who has been pretty active lately and providing a bunch of really informative posts on C#. He definitely knows C# inside and out...
Pete, our "box" QA guy, has started a blog where he plans on covering C#, testing, and plane-building. His first work-related post talks about QA signoffs and has plenty of info on how things get done. His first plane-building post is also very interesting. Recommended.
I also went ahead and updated my list of C# team bloggers post...
Spreading the word... Next C# Chat is on 4/21 at 1pm Pacific Time.
You can read all the details on Scott's post.
If you haven't already, be sure to check out the new MSDN forums site that just went up recently. It's got a ton of different message boards and there's already plenty of activity going on.
If you want to jump straight into the C# related forums, head over here.
Also note that each forum even has an RSS feed you can subscribe to to stay up to date. For example, here's the C# language feed.
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11 December 2009 05:33 [Source: ICIS news]
By Prema Viswanathan
DUBAI (ICIS news)--Global demand for monoethylene glycol (MEG) is likely to grow by as much as 6.5% in 2010 from 2009, led by robust domestic demand in China, a senior industry official said late on Thursday.
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However, if the US and Europe continue to buy less, it could result in a decline in demand for exports from China, Hanraets told ICIS news on the sidelines of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) forum.
“But what you also need to consider is, with the surge in domestic demand in
The total global demand of MEG, a commonly used intermediate in the production of polyester fibres, is estimated at 18.5m tonnes in 2009.
Hanraets said he was bullish on the growth prospects of China and Asia.
“To me it seems
“The Indian MEG market is barely 1.5m tonnes/year while the Chinese market is 7m tonnes/year, whereas the populations of both countries are more or less the same. So the Indian market has scope to grow much more,” Hanraets added.
While the demand side looks promising, there are worries about the huge volumes of new supply emerging from two new plants in
“However, we are also seeing a wave of consolidations, which could help to balance supply,” he said.
While the earlier consolidations had been in the West, Hanraets said he believed the next round of plant closures could be in
The bogey of protectionism, which had been a hot topic for discussion at the GPCA forum, was unlikely to trouble the MEG industry, he said.
“Asia is very short of MEG, they need MEG from the
The GPCA forum ended on Thursday.
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