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41,541 | 2 | null | 41,511 | 2 | null | The PixelFormat enumeration lists the formats of 'bitmaps' you can create in .Net, so you'd want PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb:
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.imaging.pixelformat.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.imaging.pixelformat.aspx)
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:18:52.697 | 2008-09-03T12:18:52.697 | null | null | 1,908 | null |
41,526 | 2 | null | 3,049 | 5 | null | If it needs to be cross platfrom, I would suggest looking at Boost [Asio](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:12:46.500 | 2008-09-03T12:12:46.500 | null | null | 4,086 | null |
41,528 | 2 | null | 41,453 | 9 | null | The two reflection-like solutions I know of from my C++ days are:
1) Use RTTI, which will provide a bootstrap for you to build your reflection-like behaviour, if you are able to get all your classes to derive from an 'object' base class. That class could provide some methods like GetMethod, GetBaseClass etc. As for ho... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:13:09.620 | 2008-09-03T12:13:09.620 | null | null | 4,385 | null |
41,544 | 2 | null | 7,596 | 3 | null | One thing that I found very helpful for unit tests was to have a myApp/src/ and also myApp/test_src/ directories. This way, I can place unit tests in the same packages as the classes they test, and yet I can easily exclude the test cases when I prepare my production installation.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:21:37.760 | 2008-09-03T12:21:37.760 | null | null | null | null |
41,545 | 2 | null | 41,525 | 0 | null | There are quite a few vi clones (e.g. vim) and also various Emacs implementations (Gnu Emacs vs. XEmacs spring to mind).
These clones differ on Unix themselves and will thus also differ on Windows.
One thing I found with vim is that the directory structure for plugins etc. is very different on Windows - `~/vim.rc` tr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:22:02.830 | 2008-09-03T12:22:02.830 | null | null | 2,260 | null |
41,550 | 2 | null | 32,044 | -2 | null | I had a similar issue, however I had first implemented the solution using JavaScript, and just afterwards considered how I would have done the same thing in django templates.
I used the serializer utility to turn a list off models into json, and used the json data as a basis for my hierarchy.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:25:19.000 | 2008-09-03T12:25:19.000 | null | null | 3,355 | null |
41,548 | 2 | null | 41,525 | 0 | null | The Windows versions typically use the same base source code as the "regular", Unix-based versions. There may be sections of the code that are specific to Windows, just as there are sections specific to certain flavours of Unix. In general, though, the Windows versions of these packages will behave identically to the U... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:23:25.540 | 2008-09-03T12:23:25.540 | null | null | 107 | null |
41,551 | 2 | null | 41,407 | 0 | null | You might find it a lot easier to parse the file with a proper parser generator - ANTLR can generate one in C#... Context Free parsers only seem hard until you "get" them - after that, they are much simpler and friendlier to use than Regular Expressions...
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:26:07.703 | 2008-09-03T12:26:07.703 | null | null | 2,260 | null |
41,549 | 2 | null | 41,525 | 2 | null | I use [GNU emacs built for Windows](http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/), and have found very few, if any, differences. There's the option to load your .emacs file from _emacs or .emacs (although .emacs works fine on XP and above). You can configure it to use Windows-style or Unix-style line endings by default (w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:24:40.793 | 2008-09-03T12:24:40.793 | null | null | 1,199 | null |
41,538 | 2 | null | 21,593 | 44 | null | The `<file>` include tells the preprocessor to search in `-I` directories and in predefined directories , then in the .c file's directory. The `"file"` include tells the preprocessor to search the source file's directory , and then revert to `-I` and predefined. All destinations are searched anyway, only the order of s... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:17:00.173 | 2014-12-28T18:25:27.993 | 2014-12-28T18:25:27.993 | null | null | null |
41,543 | 2 | null | 41,089 | 0 | null | Do you have access to the OCX code? You shouldn't really be directly invoking the click of a button. You should refactor the code so that the OCX button click code calls a function, e.g.
```
CMyWindow::OnLButtonDown()
{
this->FooBar();
}
```
Then from your VB6 app, directly call the FooBar method. If you can't dir... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:20:24.703 | 2017-08-20T23:07:21.153 | 2017-08-20T23:07:21.153 | 3,641,067 | 986 | null |
41,558 | 2 | null | 41,547 | 20 | null | In a more general sense of not having to explicitly set variables in each view, it sounds like you want to look at writing your own [context processor](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#writing-your-own-context-processors).
From the docs:
> A context processor has a very simple interface: It's j... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:31:58.703 | 2008-09-03T12:31:58.703 | null | null | 2,696 | null |
41,560 | 2 | null | 41,547 | 2 | null | @Dave
To use {{user.username}} in my templates, I will then have to use
requestcontext rather than just a normal map/hash: [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#subclassing-context-requestcontext](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#subclassing-context-requestcontext)
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:33:31.583 | 2008-09-03T12:33:31.583 | null | null | 3,355 | null |
41,562 | 1 | 41,574 | null | 9 | 537 | I've had to do some introspection in python and it wasn't pretty:
```
name = sys._getframe(1).f_code
name = "%s:%d %s()" %(os.path.split(name.co_filename)[1],name.co_firstlineno,name.co_name)
```
To get something like
```
foo.py:22 bar() blah blah
```
In our debugging output.
I'd ideally like to prepend anything... | How do I do monkeypatching in python? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:35:45.683 | 2015-04-16T05:10:13.843 | 2015-04-16T05:10:13.843 | 707,364 | 4,319 | [
"python",
"monkeypatching"
] |
41,547 | 1 | 41,558 | null | 36 | 31,225 | I am working on a small intranet site for a small company, where user should be able to post. I have imagined a very simple authentication mechanism where people just enter their email address, and gets sent a unique login url, that sets a cookie that will always identify them for future requests.
In my template setup... | Always including the user in the django template context | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:22:44.043 | 2019-11-03T19:10:54.303 | null | null | 3,355 | [
"python",
"django",
"authentication",
"session",
"cookies"
] |
41,567 | 2 | null | 41,405 | 3 | null | We use branching in source control; everyone uses the head branch until they make a release. When they branch the release, they'll branch the common utilities project as well.
Additionally, our utilities project has its own unit tests. That way, other teams can know if they would break the build for other teams.
Of... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:39:44.067 | 2008-09-03T12:39:44.067 | null | null | 1,206 | null |
41,563 | 2 | null | 40,302 | 1 | null | @Joel (re: complex queries, joins, etc)
The NHibernate and Castle ActiveRecord tool can handle very complex queries and joins via class relationships and a thorough 'Expression' class (which you can add to the query methods) or the use of the 'Hibernate Query Language' (HQL).
You can Google any of these details, chec... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:36:16.367 | 2008-09-03T12:36:16.367 | null | null | 3,619 | null |
41,566 | 2 | null | 40,689 | 9 | null | [Matt Cutts](http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/common-google-chrome-objections/) (the Google
SEO guru) has a Q&A about chrome, and
writes about it:
>
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:38:11.963 | 2008-09-03T12:38:11.963 | null | null | 2,757 | null |
41,555 | 2 | null | 41,547 | 2 | null | If you can hook your authentication into the [Django authentication scheme](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/authentication/#authentication-in-web-requests) you'll be able to use `request.user`.
I think this should just be a case of calling `authenticate()` and `login()` based on the contents of your Cookie.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:28:34.810 | 2008-09-03T12:46:08.963 | 2008-09-03T12:46:08.963 | 3,171 | 3,171 | null |
41,574 | 2 | null | 41,562 | 3 | null | A print statement does its IO through "sys.stdout.write" so you can override sys.stdout if you want to manipulate the print stream.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:42:43.950 | 2008-09-03T12:42:43.950 | null | null | 533 | null |
41,577 | 2 | null | 41,561 | 2 | null | Read up at [6.1 Namespace Scoping](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#scoping) and [6.2 Namespace Defaulting](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#defaulting) on w3c.
Basically:
> The scope of a namespace declaration declaring a prefix extends from the beginning of the start-tag in which it appears to the end of the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:43:53.383 | 2008-09-03T12:43:53.383 | null | null | 3,355 | null |
41,561 | 1 | null | null | 48 | 33,437 | I'm trying to understand how namespaces work in XML. When I have an element like foo:bar, the attributes will often not have namespaces on them. But sometimes they will. Are the attribute in the namespace of the element, even when the default namespace has been declared? Looking over the xsd for xhtml it seems the attr... | XML namespaces and attributes | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:34:44.467 | 2008-10-24T23:19:22.117 | null | null | 4,315 | [
"xml",
"xsd",
"namespaces"
] |
41,514 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 167 | null | I use `var` extensively. There has been criticism that this diminishes the readability of the code, but no argument to support that claim.
Admittedly, it may mean that it's not clear what type we are dealing with. So what? This is actually the point of a decoupled design. When dealing with interfaces, you are emphatic... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:01:01.087 | 2008-09-03T12:01:01.087 | null | null | 1,968 | null |
41,578 | 2 | null | 41,568 | -2 | null | Your idea should work fine. Basically you just want to spawn a bunch of threads, and make sure the ones writing the file take long enough to do it to actually make the readers wait. If all of your threads return without error, and without blocking forever, then the test succeeds.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:45:55.923 | 2008-09-03T12:45:55.923 | null | null | 1,219 | null |
41,589 | 2 | null | 41,568 | 20 | null | In .NET, `ThreadPool` threads won't return without setting up `ManualResetEvent`s or `AutoResetEvent`s. I find these overkill for a quick test method (not to mention kind of complicated to create, set, and manage). Background worker is a also a bit complex with the callbacks and such.
Something I have found that works... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:52:52.613 | 2014-09-03T03:00:29.080 | 2014-09-03T03:00:29.080 | 54,026 | 3,619 | null |
41,583 | 1 | 41,591 | null | 4 | 3,588 | I am about to write an audio file converter for my side job at the university.
As part of this I would need sample rate conversion. However, my professor said that it would be pretty hard to write a sample rate converter that was of good quality fast.
On my research on the subject, I found some functions in the OSX ... | How to do a sample rate conversion in Windows (and OSX) | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:48:42.203 | 2012-06-09T00:30:49.463 | null | null | 1,034 | [
"c++",
"windows",
"macos",
"audio"
] |
41,590 | 1 | 41,598 | null | 240 | 199,343 | I come from a Java background, where packages are used, not namespaces. I'm used to putting classes that work together to form a complete object into packages, and then reusing them later from that package. But now I'm working in C++.
How do you use namespaces in C++? Do you create a single namespace for the entire ap... | How do you properly use namespaces in C++? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:54:06.637 | 2021-03-22T10:23:08.403 | 2014-05-23T10:11:39.347 | 1,271,598 | 1,585 | [
"c++",
"namespaces"
] |
41,591 | 2 | null | 41,583 | 5 | null | Try Secret Rabbit Code (= SRC = Sample Rate Conversion ) It's GPL, it's fast and it's high quality. [http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/license.html](http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/license.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:54:16.417 | 2008-09-03T12:54:16.417 | null | null | 3,320 | null |
41,571 | 2 | null | 41,513 | 2 | null | To expand on what Mendelt Siebenga suggested, I would also add a `web` directory (for JSP files, WEB-INF, web.xml, etc).
Tests should go in a folder named `test` that is a sibling of the main `src` folder - this way your unit test classes can have the same package name as the source code being tested (to ease with si... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:41:22.190 | 2008-09-03T12:41:22.190 | null | null | 4,249 | null |
41,592 | 2 | null | 38,090 | 0 | null | To offer one option to my own question. There are [temp tables](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-createtable.html) - "temporary tables are automatically dropped at the end of a session, or optionally at the end of the current transaction (see ON COMMIT below)" - which I think don't generate WALs. Even... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:54:39.177 | 2008-09-03T12:54:39.177 | null | null | 4,045 | null |
41,579 | 2 | null | 40,962 | 0 | null | I agree with davidg; you can add a reference to the parent form to the child form's constructor, and then close the parent form as you need:
```
private Form pForm;
public ChildForm(ref Form parentForm)
{
pForm = parentForm;
}
private closeParent()
{
if (this.pForm != null)
this.pForm.Close();
thi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:46:46.950 | 2008-09-03T12:46:46.950 | null | null | 1,206 | null |
41,594 | 1 | 41,985 | null | 2 | 4,032 | I have a table in an access table which contains Product entries, one of the columns has a jpg image stored as an OLE Object. I am trying to import this table to MySQL but nothing seems to work. I have tried the MySQL migration tool but that has a known issue with Access and OLE Objects. (The issue being it doesnt ... | Import OLE Object from Access to MySQL | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:55:25.743 | 2012-04-07T23:24:42.537 | null | null | 2,720 | [
"mysql",
"ms-access",
"import",
"data-transfer"
] |
41,600 | 2 | null | 39,712 | 8 | null | [StyleCop](http://stylecop.codeplex.com/), originally called ["Source Analysis"](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis) is the best choice for C#. The first version was rather inflexible, but after recognizing the value that it provides for the community, Microsoft has opened it up to extensions and customizat... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:57:18.173 | 2013-05-15T09:59:35.307 | 2013-05-15T09:59:35.307 | 588,916 | 308 | null |
41,604 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 3 | null | I prefer using a top-level namespace for the application and sub namespaces for the components.
The way you can use classes from other namespaces is surprisingly very similar to the way in java.
You can either use "use NAMESPACE" which is similar to an "import PACKAGE" statement, e.g. use std. Or you specify the packa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:00:50.457 | 2008-09-03T13:00:50.457 | null | null | 4,194 | null |
41,603 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 3 | null | Generally speaking, I create a namespace for a body of code if I believe there might possibly be function or type name conflicts with other libraries. It also helps to brand code, ala [boost::](http://www.boost.org/) .
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:00:19.070 | 2008-09-03T13:00:19.070 | null | null | 4,069 | null |
41,607 | 2 | null | 41,601 | 19 | null | There are GUI testing tools that will click buttons and stuff for you but they're pretty fragile in my experience.
The best thing to do is to keep your UI layer as thin as possible. Your event handler classes should optimally be only one or two lines that call out to other more testable classes. That way you can tes... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:02:12.793 | 2008-09-03T13:02:12.793 | null | null | 4,223 | null |
41,608 | 2 | null | 41,601 | 0 | null | I can't really help with organization or best practices, but an [NUnit](http://www.nunit.org/index.php) extension appears to be available for forms testing, [NUnitForms](http://www.google.com/search?q=nunitforms).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:02:43.293 | 2008-09-03T13:02:43.293 | null | null | 3,619 | null |
41,611 | 2 | null | 39,053 | 1 | null | @Michael Well, java.sql.Connection is an Interface - it might technically be possible for the concrete implementation you're getting from JBoss to be Serializable - but I don't think you're really going to have any options you can use. If it was possible, it would probably be easy :)
I think @toolkit might have said t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:03:38.690 | 2008-09-03T13:03:38.690 | null | null | 2,362 | null |
41,613 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 2 | null | If you have industry specific translations, you will likely need a thesaurus. For example, I worked in the jewelry industry and there were abbreviate in our descriptions such as kt - karat, rd - round, cwt - carat weight... Endeca (the search engine at that job) has a thesaurus that will translate from common misspell... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:04:31.730 | 2008-09-03T13:04:31.730 | null | null | 2,017 | null |
41,614 | 2 | null | 41,601 | 1 | null | The following book is an introduction to the subject.
There are as many ways as there are developers out there..
[http://pragprog.com/titles/idgtr/scripted-gui-testing-with-ruby](http://pragprog.com/titles/idgtr/scripted-gui-testing-with-ruby)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:04:53.397 | 2008-09-03T13:04:53.397 | null | null | 4,189 | null |
41,568 | 1 | 41,589 | null | 23 | 28,149 | this kind of follows on from another [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41290/file-access-strategy-in-a-multi-threaded-environment-web-app) of mine.
Basically, once I have the code to access the file (will review the answers there in a minute) what would be the best way to it?
I am thinking of creating a m... | Whats the best way to unit test from multiple threads? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:39:52.630 | 2021-08-18T06:19:33.640 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 832 | [
"c#",
"multithreading",
"unit-testing",
"testing"
] |
41,617 | 2 | null | 41,594 | 1 | null | As far as I remember, the Microsoft "[SQL Server Migration Assistant for Access](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D842F8B4-C914-4AC7-B2F3-D25FFF4E24FB&displaylang=en)" will properly migrate OLE Images, but this is only for Access->SQLServer. However, what you can do is use this to migrate to SQL... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:05:52.520 | 2008-09-03T13:05:52.520 | null | null | 1,111 | null |
41,612 | 2 | null | 41,492 | 1 | null | I don't use VB, but here it goes.
I found [Using the Value of a Control](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa733705%28VS.60%29.aspx), but it's not a programmatic solution.
If you have access to the code, look for
```
Attribute Value.VB_UserMemId = 0
```
using Notepad.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:03:55.473 | 2008-09-03T13:03:55.473 | null | null | 3,827 | null |
41,598 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 174 | null | Namespaces are packages essentially. They can be used like this:
```
namespace MyNamespace
{
class MyClass
{
};
}
```
Then in code:
```
MyNamespace::MyClass* pClass = new MyNamespace::MyClass();
```
Or, if you want to always use a specific namespace, you can do this:
```
using namespace MyNamespace;
MyCla... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:57:13.900 | 2020-01-23T11:09:41.110 | 2020-01-23T11:09:41.110 | 1,536,976 | 986 | null |
41,542 | 2 | null | 41,525 | 0 | null | [GNU Emacs](http://directory.fsf.org/project/emacs/) has long been working natively on Windows as part of the main source, and can be compiled with Visual Studio (you can also find some pre-compiled binaries). As far as I know, there are no significant differences.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:20:11.443 | 2008-09-03T12:20:11.443 | null | null | 1,441 | null |
41,619 | 2 | null | 41,568 | 1 | null | @ajmastrean, since unit test result must be predictable we need to synchronize threads somehow. I can't see a simple way to do it without using events.
I found that `ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem` gives me an easy way to test such use cases
```
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(x => {
File.Open(fileName, FileMode.Open);... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:06:50.863 | 2021-08-18T06:19:33.640 | 2021-08-18T06:19:33.640 | 1,698,987 | 1,196 | null |
41,623 | 2 | null | 41,492 | 0 | null | > you have access to the code, look for
Unfortunetly I don't have access to the code for most of the controls. However the link is useful for the Microsoft Controls, but I still would like a way to know for other controls.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:09:47.707 | 2008-09-03T13:09:47.707 | null | null | 1,111 | null |
41,621 | 2 | null | 41,601 | 6 | null | You can automate GUI testing using [White](http://www.codeplex.com/white) framework.
Also consider using TDD friendly design, i.e. use [MVP/MVC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller) pattern.
I would highly recommend you to read documentation from Microsoft patterns&practies teams.
Especially have a l... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:09:44.570 | 2008-09-03T13:15:48.720 | 2008-09-03T13:15:48.720 | 1,196 | 1,196 | null |
41,620 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 6 | null | @[marius](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41590/how-do-you-properly-use-namespaces-in-c#41615)
Yes, you can use several namespaces at a time, eg:
```
using namespace boost;
using namespace std;
shared_ptr<int> p(new int(1)); // shared_ptr belongs to boost
cout << "cout belongs to std::" << endl; // c... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:08:02.967 | 2014-02-21T18:57:38.973 | 2017-05-23T11:54:50.260 | -1 | 4,069 | null |
41,624 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 122 | null | To avoid saying everything Mark Ingram already said a little tip for using namespaces:
Avoid the "using namespace" directive in header files - this opens the namespace for all parts of the program which import this header file. In implementation files (*.cpp) this is normally no big problem - altough I prefer to use t... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:10:02.370 | 2012-03-11T15:51:48.417 | 2012-03-11T15:51:48.417 | 113,124 | 3,056 | null |
41,559 | 2 | null | 41,290 | 7 | null | Here is the code that I use to make sure a file is not locked by another process. It's not 100% foolproof, but it gets the job done most of the time:
```
/// <summary>
/// Blocks until the file is not locked any more.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="fullPath"></param>
bool WaitForFile(string fullPath)... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:33:29.370 | 2008-09-03T12:33:29.370 | null | null | 1,219 | null |
41,618 | 2 | null | 41,453 | 15 | null | I would recommend using [Qt](https://www.qt.io/).
There is an open-source licence as well as a commercial licence.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:06:38.573 | 2019-01-01T13:21:45.103 | 2019-01-01T13:21:45.103 | 10,488,923 | 2,796 | null |
41,632 | 2 | null | 35,185 | 4 | null | Kyle's solution would obviously not catch situations were the data set does not follow the rules. If all numbers were in pairs the algorithm would give a result of zero, the exact same value as if zero would be the only value with single occurance.
If there were multiple single occurance values or triples, the result ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:14:19.693 | 2008-09-03T13:14:19.693 | null | 4,549,416 | 4,549,416 | null |
41,629 | 2 | null | 41,498 | 2 | null | Have you tried using [Marshal#load](http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/classes/Marshal.html)? I'm not sure how you're generating those session files, but it's quite possible Rails just uses Marshal.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:12:54.673 | 2008-09-03T13:12:54.673 | null | null | 4,272 | null |
41,635 | 2 | null | 41,630 | 6 | null | No, that will just concatenate the output from `ls` and the contents of `directory`.
But you can do this:
```
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
directory = '/home/paulgreg/'
`ls #{directory}`
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:16:29.330 | 2008-09-03T13:16:29.330 | null | null | 4,272 | null |
41,630 | 1 | 41,635 | null | 2 | 2,704 | I would like to execute an OS command from my ruby script but I want to add an argument from a ruby variable.
I know that's possible by using keyword like that :
```
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
directory = '/home/paulgreg/'
system 'ls ' + directory
```
but is that possible by using the "backquotes or backticks syntax" ?
(... | is it possible to concat arguments to a command line using backquotes ? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:13:06.980 | 2014-06-04T10:27:02.940 | 2014-06-04T10:27:02.940 | 1,584,106 | 3,122 | [
"ruby",
"command-line",
"command-line-interface"
] |
41,576 | 1 | 43,255 | null | 0 | 1,646 | I wonder what the best practice for this scenario is:
I have a Sharepoint Site (MOSS2007) with an ASPX Page on it. However, I cannot use any inline source and stuff like Event handlers do not work, because Sharepoint does not allow Server Side Script on ASPX Pages per default.
Two solutions:
1. Change the PageParse... | Conditional Display in ASPX Pages on Sharepoint | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:43:50.920 | 2017-12-13T15:56:55.107 | 2017-12-13T15:56:55.107 | 91 | 91 | [
"asp.net",
"sharepoint"
] |
41,601 | 1 | 41,607 | null | 16 | 8,255 | We are working on a large project with a measure of new/modified GUI functionality. We've found in the past that we often introduced new problems in related code when adding new functionality.
We have non-technical users perform testing, but they often miss parts and allow bugs to slip through.
Are there any best prac... | User Interface Testing | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:57:25.443 | 2020-07-27T17:25:14.887 | 2020-07-27T17:25:14.887 | 4,685,471 | 4,392 | [
"user-interface",
"testing",
"integration-testing"
] |
41,622 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 12 | null | In Java:
```
package somepackage;
class SomeClass {}
```
In C++:
```
namespace somenamespace {
class SomeClass {}
}
```
And using them, Java:
```
import somepackage;
```
And C++:
```
using namespace somenamespace;
```
Also, full names are "somepackge.SomeClass" for Java and "somenamespace::SomeClass" fo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:09:44.977 | 2008-09-03T13:09:44.977 | null | null | 3,355 | null |
41,640 | 1 | null | null | 1 | 2,666 | I am in need of a way to mute a specific application in Vista.
Example: Mute just Firefox, but not all of the other application. Much similar to muting a specific program from within the volume mixer in vista.
If there is a program that will do this, i would appreciate that. Otherwise if there is a way to do this,... | Mute Specific Application in Vista | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:18:29.073 | 2015-05-01T16:10:43.077 | 2008-09-03T13:32:43.453 | 4,394 | 4,394 | [
"windows-vista",
"audio"
] |
41,625 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 4 | null | I think this depends on how big your website it. On our local Intranet which is used by about 500 member of staff, I simply look at the search phrases that returned zero results and enter that search phrase with the new suggested search phrase into a SQL table.
I them call on that table if no search results has been r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:11:22.867 | 2008-09-03T13:11:22.867 | 2017-05-23T12:34:08.677 | -1 | 383 | null |
41,643 | 1 | 41,661 | null | 4 | 591 | At work we have an application to play 2K (2048*1556px) OpenEXR film sequences. It works well.. apart from when sequences that are over 3GB (quite common), then it has to unload old frames from memory, despite the fact all machines have 8-16GB of memory (which is addressable via the linux BIGMEM stuff).
The frames hav... | Store more than 3GB of video-frames in memory, on 32-bit OS | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:19:39.117 | 2009-02-27T16:48:00.857 | null | null | 745 | [
"linux",
"memory",
"32-bit"
] |
41,634 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 0 | null | @Keith -
> In your comparison between
IEnumerable<int> and
IEnumerable<double> you don't need to
worry - if you pass the wrong type
your code won't compile anyway.
That isn't quite true - if a method is overloaded to both IEnumerable<int> and IEnumerable<double> then it may silently pass the unexpected infer... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:16:09.533 | 2010-10-26T22:57:05.877 | 2010-10-26T22:57:05.877 | 80,282 | 3,394 | null |
41,642 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 4 | null | Note that a namespace in C++ really is just a name space. They don't provide any of the encapsulation that packages do in Java, so you probably won't use them as much.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:19:09.040 | 2008-09-03T13:19:09.040 | null | null | 1,175 | null |
41,637 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 20 | null | Also, note that you can add to a namespace. This is clearer with an example, what I mean is that you can have:
```
namespace MyNamespace
{
double square(double x) { return x * x; }
}
```
in a file `square.h`, and
```
namespace MyNamespace
{
double cube(double x) { return x * x * x; }
}
```
in a file `cube... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:17:11.870 | 2015-07-23T21:24:09.640 | 2015-07-23T21:24:09.640 | 717,822 | 2,638 | null |
41,653 | 2 | null | 41,601 | 4 | null | Keep the GUI layer as thin as possible. Michael Feathers article, [The Humble Dialog Box](http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/TheHumbleDialogBox.pdf), is a classic. Also check out Martin Fowler's [Passive View](http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PassiveScreen.html). I have also heard that the "automatic button c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:24:56.983 | 2008-09-03T13:24:56.983 | null | null | 3,114 | null |
41,655 | 2 | null | 41,647 | 0 | null | I see `hello, world` on the page you linked to. No problems that I can see...
I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 and Windows XP. What browser/OS are you running? Perhaps that might be the problem.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:25:13.910 | 2008-09-03T13:30:28.873 | 2008-09-03T13:30:28.873 | 572 | 572 | null |
41,645 | 2 | null | 41,640 | 2 | null | I suggest using the built in Mixer in Vista...
Why do you want to use an 3rd party program?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:20:44.060 | 2008-09-03T13:20:44.060 | null | null | 383 | null |
41,657 | 2 | null | 41,654 | 0 | null | Have you considered [GDI](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI-plus/cgdiplusbitmap.aspx)?
-- Kevin Fairchild
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:26:30.083 | 2008-09-03T13:26:30.083 | null | null | 3,743 | null |
41,638 | 1 | null | null | 13 | 3,265 | The current system that I am working on makes use of Castle Activerecord to provide ORM (Object Relational Mapping) between the Domain objects and the database. This is all well and good and at most times actually works well!
The problem comes about with Castle Activerecords support for asynchronous execution, well, m... | Suggestions on how to map from Domain (ORM) objects to Data Transfer Objects (DTO) | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:17:59.200 | 2010-06-15T08:50:09.913 | 2008-09-04T07:04:53.067 | 231 | 231 | [
"c#",
"orm",
"castle-activerecord",
"dto-mapping"
] |
41,654 | 1 | 41,668 | null | 9 | 3,663 | Do you know any open source/free software C++ libraries to manipulate images in these formats:
.jpg .gif .png .bmp ? The more formats it supports, the better. I am implementing a free program in C++ which hides a text file into one or more images, using [steganography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography).
I am... | C++ libraries to manipulate images | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:25:01.383 | 2016-03-04T15:52:09.237 | 2016-03-04T15:52:09.237 | 996,815 | 1,876 | [
"c++",
"image",
"steganography"
] |
41,661 | 2 | null | 41,643 | 2 | null | How about creating a RAM drive and loading the file into that ... assuming the RAM drive supports the BIGMEM stuff for you.
You could use multiple processes: each process loads a view of the file as a shared memory segment, and the player process then maps the segments in turn as needed.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:27:57.913 | 2008-09-03T13:27:57.913 | null | null | 3,631 | null |
41,647 | 1 | 41,691 | null | 5 | 2,971 | When using the php include function the include is succesfully executed, but it is also outputting a char before the output of the include is outputted, the char is of hex value 3F and I have no idea where it is coming from, although it seems to happen with every include.
At first I thbought it was file encoding, but... | PHP Include function outputting unknown char | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:23:43.320 | 2015-08-20T22:25:22.137 | 2008-09-03T13:54:22.357 | 1,111 | 1,111 | [
"php",
"encoding",
"byte-order-mark"
] |
41,662 | 2 | null | 41,654 | 0 | null | [FreeImage](http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/) is pretty solid. It has a C interface but is more C++-like in its implementation.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:29:24.650 | 2008-09-03T13:29:24.650 | null | null | 2,666 | null |
41,665 | 1 | 41,684 | null | 56 | 96,750 | Is there any way to convert a bmp image to jpg/png without losing the quality in C#? Using Image class we can convert bmp to jpg but the quality of output image is very poor. Can we gain the quality level as good as an image converted to jpg using photoshop with highest quality?
| Bmp to jpg/png in C# | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:29:58.250 | 2015-08-23T11:29:40.150 | 2008-09-04T06:33:30.710 | 191 | 191 | [
"c#",
"image-manipulation"
] |
41,664 | 2 | null | 41,652 | 13 | null | After validation is successful, you need to sign in the user, by calling FormsAuthentication.Authenticate: [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.formsauthentication.authenticate.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.formsauthentication.authenticate.aspx)
EDIT: It is F... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:29:53.367 | 2008-09-03T13:29:53.367 | null | null | 2,972 | null |
41,660 | 2 | null | 15,995 | 11 | null | The usage of `reduce` that I found in my code involved the situation where I had some class structure for logic expression and I needed to convert a list of these expression objects to a conjunction of the expressions. I already had a function `make_and` to create a conjunction given two expressions, so I wrote `reduce... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:27:47.477 | 2008-09-03T13:27:47.477 | null | null | 4,285 | null |
41,667 | 2 | null | 41,647 | 0 | null | Character 3F actually the question mark, it isn't just displaying as one.
I get the same results as Thomas, no question mark showing up.
In theory it could be some problem with a web proxy but I am inclined to suspect a stray question mark in your PHP markup...which perhaps you have fixed by now so we don't see the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:30:26.813 | 2008-09-03T13:30:26.813 | null | null | 3,267 | null |
41,674 | 1 | null | null | 7 | 8,593 | In Visual Studio you can create a template XML document from an existing schema. The new [XML Schema Explorer](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716766.aspx) in VS2008 SP1 takes this a stage further and can create a sample XML document complete with data.
Is there a class library in .NET to do this automaticall... | Is there a class to generate a sample XML document from XSD schema in .NET | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:34:26.133 | 2012-03-03T06:51:30.877 | 2008-09-03T14:05:38.133 | 3,873 | 3,873 | [
".net",
"xml",
"xsd"
] |
41,676 | 1 | 41,710 | null | 6 | 5,289 | Is there a way of getting the process id of my C++ application? I am using the Carbon framework, but not Cocoa…
| Is there a way of getting the process id of my C++ application? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:35:30.717 | 2018-12-28T16:27:19.590 | 2013-12-02T13:30:01.003 | 2,432,317 | 259 | [
"c++",
"macos",
"macos-carbon"
] |
41,668 | 2 | null | 41,654 | 7 | null | [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/) can manipulate about anything and has interfaces for a [dozen of languages](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php), including the [Magick++](http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/) API for C++.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:31:00.963 | 2008-09-03T13:31:00.963 | null | null | 1,830 | null |
41,652 | 1 | 41,664 | null | 8 | 13,231 | We have got a custom `MembershipProvider` in `ASP.NET`. Now there are 2 possible scenario the user can be validated:
1. User login via login.aspx page by entering his username/password. I have used Login control and linked it with the MyMembershipProvider. This is working perfectly fine.
2. An authentication token is... | Using Custom MembershipProvider without a Login control in ASP.NET | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:24:56.187 | 2017-04-19T07:12:39.523 | 2017-04-19T07:09:33.243 | 3,641,067 | 191 | [
"asp.net",
"authentication"
] |
41,682 | 2 | null | 41,590 | 2 | null | I've used C++ namespaces the same way I do in C#, Perl, etc. It's just a semantic separation of symbols between standard library stuff, third party stuff, and my own code. I would place my own app in one namespace, then a reusable library component in another namespace for separation.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:38:25.593 | 2008-09-03T13:38:25.593 | null | null | 3,347 | null |
41,678 | 2 | null | 41,647 | 1 | null | It doesn't show up on the rendered page in Firefox or IE but you can see the funny character when you View Source in IE
Is this on a Linux machine? Could you do find & replace with vim or sed to see if you can get rid of the 3F that way?
If it's... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:36:34.523 | 2012-04-02T08:32:25.723 | 2012-04-02T08:32:25.723 | 1,219,121 | 305 | null |
41,677 | 2 | null | 41,665 | 1 | null | Fundamentally you won't be able to keep the same quality because jpg is (so far as I'm aware) always lossy even with the highest possible quality settings.
If bit-accurate quality is really important, consider using png, which has some modes which are lossless.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:36:10.700 | 2008-09-03T13:36:10.700 | null | null | 3,198 | null |
41,673 | 2 | null | 41,654 | 0 | null | I like [vxl](http://vxl.sourceforge.net/)
> VXL (the Vision-something-Libraries) is a collection of C++ libraries designed for computer vision research and implementation. It was created from TargetJr and the IUE with the aim of making a light, fast and consistent system. VXL is written in ANSI/ISO C++ and is designed... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:33:57.040 | 2012-08-31T17:52:21.597 | 2012-08-31T17:52:21.597 | 317,266 | 3,051 | null |
41,672 | 2 | null | 41,665 | 0 | null | You can try:
```
Bitmap.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
```
and
```
Bitmap.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
```
Which does keep the quality fairly high, but not the highest possible.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:33:47.273 | 2008-09-03T13:33:47.273 | null | null | 383 | null |
41,685 | 2 | null | 41,654 | 2 | null | @lurks: I assume that you are looking for LSB shifting? I did some stego work a couple of years ago, and that's how it appeared most apps worked. It appears that ImageMagick (suggested by others) allows you to identify and manipulate the LSBs.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:40:48.443 | 2008-09-03T13:40:48.443 | null | null | 572 | null |
41,659 | 1 | 41,814 | null | 4 | 5,202 | Is there any way in the Servlet API to access properties specified in web.xml (such as initialization parameters) from within a Bean or Factory class that is not associated at all with the web container?
For example, I'm writing a Factory class, and I'd like to include some logic within the Factory to check a hierarch... | Is there a way to access web.xml properties from a Java Bean? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T13:26:55.327 | 2016-11-28T08:42:43.707 | 2016-11-28T08:42:43.707 | 157,882 | 4,249 | [
"java",
"servlets"
] |
41,687 | 2 | null | 41,647 | 3 | null | Your web server (or your text editor) apparently includes a [BOM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark) into the document. I don't see the rogue character in my browser except when I set the site's encoding explicitly to Latin-1. Then, I see two (!) UTF-8 BOMs.
/EDIT: From the fact that there are BOMs I concl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:41:38.363 | 2008-09-03T13:41:38.363 | null | null | 1,968 | null |
41,684 | 2 | null | 41,665 | 58 | null | ```
var qualityEncoder = Encoder.Quality;
var quality = (long)<desired quality>;
var ratio = new EncoderParameter(qualityEncoder, quality );
var codecParams = new EncoderParameters(1);
codecParams.Param[0] = ratio;
var jpegCodecInfo = <one of the codec infos from ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders() with mime type = "imag... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:39:51.830 | 2008-09-03T13:39:51.830 | null | null | 1,196 | null |
41,695 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 2 | null | After just converting over to the 3.0 and 3.5 frameworks I learned about this keyword and decided to give it a whirl. Before committing any code I had the realization that it seemed backwards, as in going back toward an ASP syntax. So I decided to poke the higher ups to see what they thought.
They said go ahead so I ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:46:04.843 | 2008-09-03T13:46:04.843 | null | null | 36 | null |
41,694 | 2 | null | 41,686 | 0 | null | Are you sure that the image isn't coming through garbled or that you aren't dropping some packets on the way in.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:45:49.883 | 2008-09-03T13:45:49.883 | null | null | 17 | null |
41,697 | 2 | null | 40,622 | 0 | null | I've been using FlexBuilder for awhile now and just started to switch to using Eclipse with Flex SDK. I work for a non-profit so the word FREE is huge.
Initially, it is fairly intimidating so if you have the money, you might want FlexBuilder.
There is a lot you need to know and do if you use the SDK. The learning a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:46:31.627 | 2008-09-03T13:46:31.627 | null | null | 4,393 | null |
41,699 | 1 | null | null | 8 | 3,128 | So creating a Windows service using Visual Studio is fairly trivial. My question goes a bit deeper as to what actually makes an executable installable as a service & how to write a service as a straight C application. I couldn't find a lot of references on this, but I'm presuming there has to be some interface I can ... | Creating Windows service without Visual Studio | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T13:47:03.297 | 2012-12-24T16:31:00.033 | 2008-09-03T21:33:24.330 | 2,600 | 634 | [
"c",
"windows",
"visual-studio",
"windows-services"
] |
41,693 | 2 | null | 41,647 | 0 | null | > I'd also be curious to see what
happens if you copy the code out of
the include and just run it by itself.
Mark: this is on a shared hosting solution, so I can not get shell access to the file. However, as you can see [here](http://driveefficiently.com/include.inc), there are no characters that shouldn't be ther... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:45:42.283 | 2008-09-03T13:45:42.283 | null | null | 1,111 | null |
41,706 | 2 | null | 41,699 | 1 | null | Hope this helps:
[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192)
It would seem that you simple need to run this exe against a binary executable to register it as a service.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:49:57.390 | 2008-09-03T13:49:57.390 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 17 | null |
41,702 | 2 | null | 41,692 | 6 | null | This is a common layout problem in IE. If you are using CSS to style the columns width, also add the column widths to the td tags. Set the first column to a percentage that will try to suck up most of the space, like 50% or something. The first column width will take everything that it can and the other columns will... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:48:41.420 | 2008-09-03T13:48:41.420 | null | null | 17 | null |
41,691 | 2 | null | 41,647 | 11 | null | What you are seeing is a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark:
> The UTF-8 representation of the BOM is the byte sequence EF BB BF, which appears as the ISO-8859-1 characters  in most text editors and web browsers not prepared to handle UTF-8.[Byte Order Mark on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark)
PHP does not... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:44:59.447 | 2008-09-03T13:44:59.447 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 914 | null |
41,686 | 1 | 42,202 | null | 4 | 698 | I've got some Java code using a servlet and Apache Commons FileUpload to upload a file to a set directory. It's working fine for character data (e.g. text files) but image files are coming out garbled. I can open them but the image doesn't look like it should. Here's my code:
Servlet
```
protected void doPost(HttpS... | Why is my image coming out garbled? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T13:41:07.430 | 2012-05-18T15:45:03.990 | 2012-05-18T15:45:03.990 | 21,234 | 1,900 | [
"java",
"file-io",
"apache-commons-fileupload"
] |