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  • How did the Lunar Lander example make the image backgrounds transparent?

    - by user279112
    Hello. I'm trying to make a GUI program with the Android SDK, using their Lunar Lander example as a significant self-teaching tool in the process. I've noticed their sprites' images' backgrounds, which were at least usually pure white, did not show up in their program. I want to ask how they did that, since their site doesn't explain simple things very well. I've managed to pull that off before on another GUI SDK, wherein all I had to do was to call a function and pass it a few floats to define a certain color, and until my code told it to do otherwise, that function would make sure that that particular color in my sprites' images was totally transparent. However I've wrestled with the Lunar Lander example and getting my own program to show some custom graphics for a week or two now, and I haven't noticed any such function call in the Lunar Lander example. I tried to look for it, but I did not find anything. I've tried to Google some tutorial or other reference material, but what I've found so far is just straying off into unrelated areas and totally dodging this EXTREMELY important lesson on the SDK's basics. Any ideas? Thanks!

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  • EAAccessory Notification problem

    - by Deepak
    Hi, I am using a POS device for card swipe. its working good. i have used following codes. (id) init { self = [super init]; if (self != nil) { NSNotificationCenter *notificationCenter = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]; EAAccessoryManager *accessoryMamaner = [EAAccessoryManager sharedAccessoryManager]; [accessoryMamaner registerForLocalNotifications]; [notificationCenter addObserver: self selector: @selector (accessoryDidConnect:) name: EAAccessoryDidConnectNotification object: nil]; [notificationCenter addObserver: self selector: @selector (accessoryDidDisconnect:) name: EAAccessoryDidDisconnectNotification object: nil]; NSArray *accessories = [accessoryMamaner connectedAccessories]; accessory = nil; session = nil; for (EAAccessory *obj in accessories) { if ([[obj protocolStrings] containsObject:@"com.XXXXX"] || [[obj protocolStrings] containsObject:@"com.YYYYYY"] ) { accessory = obj; break; } } if (accessory) { session = [[EASession alloc] initWithAccessory:accessory forProtocol:@"com.dailysystems.DS247"]; if (!session) session = [[EASession alloc] initWithAccessory:accessory forProtocol:@"com.usaepay.ipos"]; if (session) { self.deviceConnected = YES; [[session inputStream] setDelegate:self]; [[session inputStream] scheduleInRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode]; [[session inputStream] open]; [[session outputStream] setDelegate:self]; [[session outputStream] scheduleInRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode]; [[session outputStream] open]; } else { UIAlertView *accessoryInfo = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Alert!" message:@"Hardware is not connected." delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil]; [accessoryInfo show]; [accessoryInfo release]; } } } return self; } When i disconnect the accessory it gives me accessoryDidDisconnect and when i connect it gives me accessoryDidConnect, But Problem is after that accessory stop working it does not respond to command. i tried to release the alloc and alloc again but no use. Please tell me if some one have any idea how to get the accessory work again. Thanks in advance.

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  • thesis in LaTeX without memoir

    - by yCalleecharan
    Hi, I'm preparing a thesis report in LaTeX. I don't want to use the memoir class as I would like total control. I have two questions: My thesis consists of an introduction and then a series of articles pasted one after the other. Thus each article has its own abstract, introduction, etc... and a bibliography at its end. I understand that perhaps a package like multibib can help when we have multiple bibliographies. The idea that I came with is to write each article separately and then use pdfpages to combine the final document. Long time ago dvi files concatenation was popular but with graphics I think that pdfpages is better. I saw that another package exists, named combine which can help with what I am doing. I'm still exploring my options. Any suggestions? If I decide to use a book class instead to make my thesis resemble more into a book-like format which is better, then using the book class format gives me section headings like 0.1 Introduction with the leading 0. This 0 doesn't show in the article class format. How to change this default book class numbering format so that I'll have e.g. 1. Introduction? Thanks a lot...

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  • Problem using setEmptyView on a ListActivity

    - by Pentium10
    I have the following setup, and the empty view text doesn't show up... protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); getListView().setEmptyView(findViewById(R.id.empty)); getListView().setTextFilterEnabled(true); setListAdapter(null);// to have empty list } The layout file is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/myScrollLayout" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <FrameLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"> <ListView android:id="@android:id/list" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:drawSelectorOnTop="false" /> <!-- Here is the view to show if the list is emtpy --> <ScrollView android:id="@android:id/empty" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"> <TextView android:id="@+id/emptyText" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:text="@string/contact_empty_help" android:textSize="20sp" android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorSecondary" android:paddingLeft="10dip" android:paddingRight="10dip" android:paddingTop="10dip" android:lineSpacingMultiplier="0.92" /> </ScrollView> </FrameLayout> </LinearLayout> String is defined as: <string name="contact_empty_help">"You don't have any contacts to display.\n\nTo add contacts, you have to:\n \n<li><font fgcolor="#ffffffff">Go to <b>Contacts</b></font> application to create new contacts\n</li> \n<li><font fgcolor="#ffffffff"><b>Import from VCF file</b></font>, this is available in Contacts menu, the file most be on the root of the SD card\n</li>" </string> Since the list is empty, it should show me the text defined. I followed the example from the List8 http://developer.android.com/intl/de/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/view/List8.html http://developer.android.com/intl/de/resources/samples/ApiDemos/res/layout/list_8.xml

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  • How to print data form C#

    - by Hybryd
    I've searched Stackoverflow and google and found many ways how I can print stuff in C#. The best way for me would be to populate blank white windows form with some label, textbox and picturebox elements and print it as a windows form. This way is very poor because it prints in 72 DPI, and is not flexible for multiple pages print. Next way that I found that would be good is using iTextSharp, but there is a problem that iTextSharp only generates PDF-s, and you have to open it in PDF viewer and print from there. I love this way of thinking where I create a paragraph, and then fill it with text and graphic, so I found this thread http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/C-Sharp/Printing-Using-C-sharp/ where it discusses how to create your own printing engine in C#, something like iTextSharp, but very lightweight... Now that I've said that, I want to know is there any ready to use printing engine that would be like iTextSharp, made for printing, not for PDF generation? What is the best way to print something, without using reporting services like CrystalReports. I think Crystal Reports wouldn't work for my case cause I don't want to print generic reports, but some text and graphics that I need to dynamicaly generate every time I need to print.

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  • How to copy file using NSIS ?

    - by Xinus
    I want to copy war file to tomcat web-app directory using NSIS setup. I have successfully installed tomcat and jdk using following script !define PRODUCT_NAME "App Deploy" !define PRODUCT_VERSION "1.0" !define PRODUCT_PUBLISHER "ZippySoft" SetCompressor lzma ;!include "UserManagement.nsh" ; MUI 1.67 compatible ------ !include "MUI.nsh" ; MUI Settings !define MUI_ABORTWARNING ;!define MUI_ICON "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Graphics\Icons\modern-install.ico" ; Welcome page !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_WELCOME ; Components page !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_COMPONENTS ; Instfiles page !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES ; Finish page !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH ; Language files !insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English" ; Reserve files !insertmacro MUI_RESERVEFILE_INSTALLOPTIONS ; MUI end ------ Name "${PRODUCT_NAME} ${PRODUCT_VERSION}" OutFile "AppDeploy.exe" InstallDir "$PROGRAMFILES\App Deploy" ShowInstDetails show ;Section -SETTINGS ; SetOutPath "$INSTDIR" ; SetOverwrite ifnewer ;SectionEnd ;Section "JDK" SEC01 ; File "Prerequisites\jdk-1_5_0_15-windows-i586-p.exe" ; ExecWait "$INSTDIR\jdk-1_5_0_15-windows-i586-p.exe" ;SectionEnd ;System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("name", "value").r0' ;StrCmp $0 0 error ; ExecWait ProgThatReadsEnv.exe ; Goto done ;error: ; MessageBox MB_OK "Can't set environment variable" ;done: ;Section "Tomcat" SEC02 ; File "Prerequisites\apache-tomcat-6.0.16.exe" ; ExecWait "$INSTDIR\apache-tomcat-6.0.16.exe" ;SectionEnd Section "Data Submission Tool" SEC03 File "Prerequisites\DataSubmissionToolFinal.war" CopyFiles `$INSTDIR\DataSubmissionToolFinal.war` `c:\DataSubmissionToolFinal.war` StrCpy $0 "$INSTDIR\DataSubmissionToolFinal.war" ;Path of copy file from StrCpy $1 "c:\DataSubmissionToolFinal.war" ;Path of copy file to StrCpy $2 1 ; only 0 or 1, set 0 to overwrite file if it already exists System::Call 'kernel32::CopyFile(t r0, t r1, b r2) l' Pop $0 ; pops a bool. if overwrite is off and there is a file then error will be 1 SectionEnd There are no script errors but war file is not getting copied to c drive . How to do it? Also is it possible to identify path to JDK and Tomcat installation using NSIS ? Sorry if the question is too obvious, I am quite new to NSIS..

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  • Storing a digital signature for bookings on a web based system

    - by Duncan
    I have a web based bookings system built for a UK higher education client to allow students to sign out equipment (laptops, camera's etc). It's been in use successfully for a couple of years, in the current workflow equipment is collected and the booking is printed, signed by the student and kept until the equipment is returned. They are emailed a pdf copy of the booking and reminders if equipment is outstanding. Students can login and prebook equipment using their university LDAP credentials, the booking is then authorised by staff for later collection, but can also walk in and have equipment booked out by staff. They would like to remove the signed paper part of the process and replace this with some sort of digital signature. The suggestion was a graphics tablet but with a web based system this would require a local software package and in my view be impractical. My thought is that students would enter their LDAP username and password upon collection of the equipment, verifying their identity and effectively digitally signing the booking. My question is what would be best to store as a signature or whether to simply authenticate the user and use a boolean flag to indicate that this has been done could be deemed sufficient?

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  • Subscription Management with Merchant Account via API

    - by Josh
    I'm researching gateways/vendors that provide the ability to create subscription based transitions for merchant accounts. In other words, I want to allow customers to signup for a subscription for a website service that charges once a month. Authorize.Net has an ARB (Automated Recurring Billing) Module. The cost is cheap, $10 a month for the service, with unlimited subscriptions, and they have an API that allows XML or SOAP access to create, update and cancel. The LARGE negative of the service is that it doesn't have elegant way to obtain the current status of a subscription. They can send a daily email with an attached CSV file, or someone can login into the site and review statuses – neither is an enterprise solution. The parent company "CyberSource" has a "Recurring Billing Service" which implies a more robust solution, including API access to subscription information. I’m currently waiting for a sales call back on costs related to the service. I also looked at PayPal's Recurring Billing Service, but that appears to require that users are redirected to the PayPal site to signup for the subscription -- again, not an an elegant solution. Does anyone know of any other vendors/gateways that offer subscription service, that meet the following criteria: Vendor/Gateway must host the credit card number and be PCI compliant Have an API that accessible via a Web Service, Post over HTTPS or SOAP Have an API that allows querying the status of subscriptions and/or the ability to query for activity since a certain date. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

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  • UITouch Event Propagation To Background UIViews

    - by drewww
    I'm having troubles getting any UIView that's not the foreground UIView to receive UITouch events. I'm building an all-Core Graphics-app, so I'm not using any built in UIViews or IB or anything - everything is programmatically constructed and drawn into. Here's my view hierarchy: Root View Type A Container Type A View Type A View Type A View Type B Container Type B View Type B View Type B View The containers are just vanilla UIView objects that I create programmatically and add instances of Type A and B to when they're created. I did this originally to make hitTesting easier—Type A objects can be drag-and-dropped onto Type B objects. Type A objects receive touch events fine, but Type B objects (which are contained by Type B Container which is behind Type A Container) don't receive touch events. Both containers occupy the entire screen; they're basically just convenience containers. If I pull Type B Container to the front (eg [self.view bringSubviewToFront:Type B Container]) it receives events properly, but then the Type A Container doesn't get events. How do I propagate events from the view that's on top? Both views occupy the entire screen, so it makes sense that the top-most view is catching the events, but how should I get it to pass those events on to Type B Container? I could inject some code in the container that passes the touch events back to the main ViewController which can pass them on to Type B Container but that feels really messy to me. Is there a nicer way to not have the Type A Container stop propagation? What's the best practice here?

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  • Are there any decent free JAVA data plotting libraries out there?

    - by Kurt W. Leucht
    On a recent JAVA project, we needed a free JAVA based real-time data plotting utility. After much searching, we found this tool called the Scientific Graphics Toolkit or SGT from NOAA. It seemed pretty robust, but we found out that it wasn't terribly configurable. Or at least not configurable enough to meet our needs. We ended up digging very deeply into the JAVA code and reverse engineering the code and changing it all around to make the plot tool look and act the way we wanted it to look and act. Of course, this killed any chance for future upgrades from NOAA. So what free or cheap JAVA based data plotting tools or libraries do you use? Followup: Thanks for the JFreeChart suggestions. I checked out their website and it looks like a very nice data charting and plotting utility. I should have made it clear in my original question that I was looking specifically to plot real-time data. I corrected my question above to make that point clear. It appears that JFreeChart support for live data is marginal at best, though. Any other suggestions out there?

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  • Change ObjectChoiceField Color not working on Blackberry OS 5.0

    - by Ari R. Fikri
    I want to create a custom ObjectChoiceField, the expected behavior is if the data change then upon leavinge the focus the font color will change. I have succeded in BB OS upto 4.7 but when tested on simulator and on real device with BB OS 5.0 the color won't change. This is my class : public class MyObjectChoiceField extends ObjectChoiceField { int color; Object oldValue, newValue; boolean isChanged; public MyObjectChoiceField(){ super(); oldValue = new Object(); newValue = new Object(); } public MyObjectChoiceField(int color, String label, String[] choices, int intP, long styleP){ super(label, choices, intP, styleP); this.color = color; } public void onUnfocus(){ if (getSelectedIndex() != -1){ newValue = getChoice(getSelectedIndex()); if (oldValue != newValue){ isChanged = true; invalidate(); } } super.onUnfocus(); } public void onFocus(int directionInt){ if (getSelectedIndex() != -1) oldValue = getChoice(getSelectedIndex()); super.onFocus(directionInt); } public void paint(Graphics g){ if (isChanged){ g.setColor(this.color); } super.paint(g); } What should I do to make this also work on BB OS 5.0. FYI : The ObjectChoiceField in BB 5.0 is look like a button with a triangle point down in the right side, which is different with BB OS 4.7.

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  • Problem with my whiteboard application

    - by swift
    I have to develop a whiteboard application in which both the local user and the remote user should be able to draw simultaneously, is this possible? If possible then any logic? I have already developed a code but in which i am not able to do this, when the remote user starts drawing the shape which i am drawing is being replaced by his shape and co-ordinates. This problem is only when both draw simultaneously. any idea guys? Here is my code class Paper extends JPanel implements MouseListener,MouseMotionListener,ActionListener { static BufferedImage image; int bpressed; Color color; Point start; Point end; Point mp; Button elipse=new Button("elipse"); Button rectangle=new Button("rect"); Button line=new Button("line"); Button empty=new Button(""); JButton save=new JButton("Save"); JButton erase=new JButton("Erase"); String selected; int ex,ey;//eraser DatagramSocket dataSocket; JButton button = new JButton("test"); Client client; Point p=new Point(); int w,h; public Paper(DatagramSocket dataSocket) { this.dataSocket=dataSocket; client=new Client(dataSocket); System.out.println("paper"); setBackground(Color.white); addMouseListener(this); addMouseMotionListener(this); color = Color.black; setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black)); //save.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,20)); save.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(75,27)); erase.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(75,27)); } public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { try { g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this); Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; g2.setPaint(Color.black); if(selected==("elipse")) g2.drawOval(start.x, start.y,(end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); else if(selected==("rect")) g2.drawRect(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); else if(selected==("line")) g2.drawLine(start.x,start.y,end.x,end.y); } catch(Exception e) {} } //Function to draw the shape on image public void draw() { Graphics2D g2 = image.createGraphics(); g2.setPaint(color); if(selected=="line") g2.drawLine(start.x, start.y, end.x, end.y); if(selected=="elipse") g2.drawOval(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); if(selected=="rect") g2.drawRect(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); repaint(); g2.dispose(); start=null; } //To add the point to the board which is broadcasted by the server public synchronized void addPoint(Point ps,String varname,String shape,String event) { try { if(end==null) end = new Point(); if(start==null) start = new Point(); if(shape.equals("elipse")) selected="elipse"; else if(shape.equals("line")) selected="line"; else if(shape.equals("rect")) selected="rect"; else if(shape.equals("erase")) { selected="erase"; erase(); } if(end!=null && start!=null) { if(varname.equals("end")) end=ps; if(varname.equals("mp")) mp=ps; if(varname.equals("start")) start=ps; if(event.equals("drag")) repaint(); else if(event.equals("release")) draw(); } } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } //To set the size of the image public void setWidth(int x,int y) { System.out.println("("+x+","+y+")"); w=x; h=y; image = new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); Graphics2D g2 = image.createGraphics(); g2.setPaint(Color.white); g2.fillRect(0,0,w,h); g2.dispose(); } //Function which provides the erase functionality public void erase() { Graphics2D pic=(Graphics2D) image.getGraphics(); pic.setPaint(Color.white); pic.fillRect(start.x, start.y, 10, 10); } //Function to add buttons into the panel, calling this function returns a panel public JPanel addButtons() { JPanel buttonpanel=new JPanel(); JPanel row1=new JPanel(); JPanel row2=new JPanel(); JPanel row3=new JPanel(); JPanel row4=new JPanel(); buttonpanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(80,80)); //buttonpanel.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(150,150)); row1.setLayout(new BoxLayout(row1,BoxLayout.X_AXIS)); row1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(150,150)); row2.setLayout(new BoxLayout(row2,BoxLayout.X_AXIS)); row3.setLayout(new BoxLayout(row3,BoxLayout.X_AXIS)); row4.setLayout(new BoxLayout(row4,BoxLayout.X_AXIS)); buttonpanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(buttonpanel,BoxLayout.Y_AXIS)); elipse.addActionListener(this); rectangle.addActionListener(this); line.addActionListener( this); save.addActionListener( this); erase.addActionListener( this); buttonpanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(10,10))); row1.add(elipse); row1.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0))); row1.add(rectangle); buttonpanel.add(row1); buttonpanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(10,10))); row2.add(line); row2.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0))); row2.add(empty); buttonpanel.add(row2); buttonpanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(10,10))); row3.add(save); buttonpanel.add(row3); buttonpanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(10,10))); row4.add(erase); buttonpanel.add(row4); return buttonpanel; } //To save the image drawn public void save() { try { ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); JPEGImageEncoder encoder = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(bos); JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser(); fc.showSaveDialog(this); encoder.encode(image); byte[] jpgData = bos.toByteArray(); FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fc.getSelectedFile()+".jpeg"); fos.write(jpgData); fos.close(); //add replce confirmation here } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println(e); } } public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent arg0) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } @Override public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent arg0) { } public void mouseExited(MouseEvent arg0) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) { if(selected=="line"||selected=="erase") { start=e.getPoint(); client.broadcast(start,"start", selected,"press"); } else if(selected=="elipse"||selected=="rect") { mp = e.getPoint(); client.broadcast(mp,"mp", selected,"press"); } } public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) { if(start!=null) { if(selected=="line") { end=e.getPoint(); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"release"); } else if(selected=="elipse"||selected=="rect") { end.x = Math.max(mp.x,e.getX()); end.y = Math.max(mp.y,e.getY()); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"release"); } draw(); } //start=null; } public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) { if(end==null) end = new Point(); if(start==null) start = new Point(); if(selected=="line") { end=e.getPoint(); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"drag"); } else if(selected=="erase") { start=e.getPoint(); erase(); client.broadcast(start,"start", selected,"drag"); } else if(selected=="elipse"||selected=="rect") { start.x = Math.min(mp.x,e.getX()); start.y = Math.min(mp.y,e.getY()); end.x = Math.max(mp.x,e.getX()); end.y = Math.max(mp.y,e.getY()); client.broadcast(start,"start", selected,"drag"); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"drag"); } repaint(); } @Override public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent arg0) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { if(e.getSource()==elipse) selected="elipse"; if(e.getSource()==line) selected="line"; if(e.getSource()==rectangle) selected="rect"; if(e.getSource()==save) save(); if(e.getSource()==erase) { selected="erase"; erase(); } } } class Button extends JButton { String name; public Button(String name) { this.name=name; Dimension buttonSize = new Dimension(35,35); setMaximumSize(buttonSize); } public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); //g2.setStroke(new BasicStroke(1.2f)); if (name == "line") g.drawLine(5,5,30,30); if (name == "elipse") g.drawOval(5,7,25,20); if (name== "rect") g.drawRect(5,5,25,23); } }

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  • Developing a GPS car tracking system in C#

    - by Click Ok
    I'm in the brainstorming phase to develop a GPS car tracking system requested by a customer. I myself know the directions to build some GPS system to mobile phones and etc. But sincerely I don't know how to start in that project. That is the scenario: 1) The cars will get a device with a SIM CARD that will emit GPS signals. 2) My customer will in any place (home, work, etc) with a web connection will see in the map where the car is located. For me, I have not problems at get the GPS data, convert to usable info and show the position in some map system (like Google Maps or MS Bing Maps, by example). My problem is, how I do to retrieve that "GPS Signal" from device in the car? I will need some kind of "Receiver Device" connected to a web server machine in order to my application to consume that data? Or "automagically" my sodtware will receive the info from a third-party web-service? Or what? I thank for any help!

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  • How to explain to users the advantages of dumb primary key?

    - by Hao
    Primary key attractiveness I have a boss(and also users) that wants primary key to be sophisticated/smart/attractive control number(sort of like Social Security number, or credit card number format) I just padded the primary key(in Views) with zeroes to appease their desire to make the control number sophisticated,smart and attractive. But they wanted it as: first 2 digits as client code, then 4 digits as year year, then last 4 digits as transaction number on that client on a given year, then reset the transaction number of client to 1 when next year flows. Each client's transaction starts with 1. e.g. WM20090001, WM20090002, BB2009001, WM20100001, BB20100001 But as I wanted to make things as simple as possible, I forgo embedding their suggested smartness in primary key, I just keep the primary key auto increments regardless of client and year. But to make it not dull-looking(they really are adamant to make the primary key as smart control number), I made the primary key appears to them smart, on view query, I put the client code and four digit year code on front of the eight-zero padded autoincrement key, i.e. WM200900000001. Sort of slug-like information on autoincremented primary key. Keeping primary key autoincrement regardless of any other information, we are able keep other potential side effects problem when they edit a record, for example, if they made a mistake of entering the transaction on WM, then they edit the client code to BB, if we use smart primary key, the primary keys of WM customer will have gaps in their control number. Or worse yet, instead of letting the control numbers have gaps/holes, the user will request that subsequent records of that gap should shift up to that gap and have their subsequent primary keys re-adjust(decremented). How do you deal with these user requests(reasonable or otherwise)? Do you yield to their request? Or just continue using dumb primary key and explain them the repercussions of having a very smart/sophisticated primary key and educate them the significant advantages of having a dumb primary key? P.S. quotable quote(http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1044961.html): "If you hold your tongue the first time users ask what is for them a reasonable request, things will work a lot better in the end."

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  • Java random values and duplicates

    - by f-Prime
    I have an array (cards) of 52 cards (13x4), and another array (cardsOut) of 25 cards (5x5). I want to copy elements from the 52 cards into the 25 card array by random. Also, I dont want any duplicates in the 5x5 array. So here's what I have: double row=Math.random() *13; double column=Math.random() *4; boolean[][] duplicates=new boolean[13][4]; pokerGame[][] cardsOut = new pokerGame[5][5]; for (int i=0;i<5;i++) for (int j=0;j<5;j++){ if(duplicates[(int)row][(int)column]==false){ cardsOut[i][j]=cards[(int)row][(int)column]; duplicates[(int)row][(int)column]=true; } } 2 problems in this code. First, the random values for row and column are only generated once, so the same value is copied into the 5x5 array every time. Since the same values are being copied every time, I'm not sure if my duplicate checker is very effective, or if it works at all. How do I fix this?

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  • Programmatic skins in Flex

    - by Flexer
    Hi, I am having 2 problems creating programmatic skin for Canvas. First problem: I would like to have background with rounded corners and I am using GraphicsUtil.drawRoundRectComplex in order to have round corners for only the upper two corners. The problem is that drawRoundRectComplex takes for each corner one single parameter - the corner radius. However my scaleX and scaleY factors are different and in fact the corners are not properly rounded because I either can set the radius using scaleX or scaleY. Graphics.drawRoundRect is better because it takes two parameters for the corners - elipse width and height and then you could apply both scale factors but it doesn't allow me to specify different radius for different corners. I am looking for an idea how to use GraphicsUtil.drawRoundRectComplex when scaleX and scaleY are different. Second problem: Even though I set my programmatic skin through style - < the skin's updateDisplayList gets executed only once and after that somehow "backgroundImage" style gets "undefined" and my programmatic skin is not associated anymore to the Canvas instance. As a workaround I am setting on each resize event "backgroundImage" style again but this is ugly. What could cause such "silent" resetting of the "backgroundImage" style to undefined? Thanks!

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  • Ericsson f3507g WWAN (3G Broadband) and AT commands

    - by JD
    I have a lenovo x200t tablet with WWAN built into it. I'm trying to connect to the internet using AT commands and a C# program which I am making so that the program can connect to the net and upload information on demand. I don't want to use Lenovo's "Access Connections" as it is too complicated for the end user. So far I have been able to use terminal to turn the card on and off, ring landlines and send SMS messages. However I can't seem to access the internet using it. I could access the net through it before I removed "Access Connections" software/bloatware. The commands I am using to try and access the net are: Connect on COM7 to the modem Send initialisation string "AT+CFUN=1" Send AT*ENAP=1,1 as suggested here (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ericsson%5FF3507g%5FMobile%5FBroadband%5FModule) Windows says it is "Identifying" the network and a yellow exclamation mark appears on the networking icon in the task bar, but the connection fails and drops off. An IP is assigned to the "Local Area Connection 2" of 169.254.1.192 with a subnet of 255.255.0.0 - no gateway or DNS. Definately no net connection... Anyone got any ideas?

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  • Android media thumbnails. Serious issues?

    - by Ralphleon
    I've been playing with android's thumbnails for a while now, and I've seen some inconsistencies that make me want to scream. My goal is to have a simple list of all Images (and a separate list for video) with the thumbnail and filename. Device: HTC Evo (fresh from Google I/o) First off: http://androidsamples.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-display-thumbnails-of-images.html That code doesn't seem to work at all, thumbnails are duplicated... some with the "mirror" effect and some without. Also some won't load and just display a black square. I've tried rebuilding the thumbnails by deleting the "alblum thumbs" directory from the SD card. HTC's gallery application seem to show everything fine. This approach seems to work: Bitmap thumb = MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.getThumbnail( getContentResolver(), id, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND, null); imageView.setImageBitmap(curThumb); where id is the original images id and imageView is some image view. This is great! But, strangely, way too slow to be used inside a SimpleViewBinder. Next approach: String [] proj = {MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails._ID}; Cursor c = managedQuery(MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, proj, MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.IMAGE_ID + "=" +id , null, null); if (c != null && c.moveToFirst()) { Uri thumb = Uri.withAppendedPath(mThumbUri,c.getLong(0)+""); imageView.setImageURI(thumb); } I should explain that I feel the needed WHERE condition is required because there doesn't seem to be any guarantee that your uri will have the same ID for both a thumbnail and its parent image. This works for all of the current images, but as soon as I start adding pictures with the camera they show up as blank! Debugging shows a dreaded: SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null error and the URI is returned as invalid. These are the same images that work with the previous call. Can anyone either catch my logical failure or point me to some working code?

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  • Background image in a JFrame.

    - by thepandaatemyface
    Hi, This question has been asked a lot but everywhere the answers fall short. I can get a JFrame to display a background image just fine by extending JPanel and overriding paintComponent, like so: class BackgroundPanel extends JPanel { private ImageIcon imageIcon; public BackgroundPanel() { this.imageIcon = Icons.getIcon("foo"); } @Override protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); g.drawImage(imageIcon.getImage(), 0,0,imageIcon.getIconWidth(),imageIcon.getIconHeight(),this); } } But now, how do you add a component on top of that background? When I go JFrame w = new JFrame() ; Container cp = w.getContentPane(); cp.setLayout(null); BackgroundPanel bg = new BackgroundPanel(); cp.add(bg); JPanel b = new JPanel(); b.setSize(new Dimension(30, 40)); b.setBackground(Color.red); cp.add(b); w.pack() w.setVisible(true) It shows the little red square (or any other component) and not the background, but when I remove cp.setLayout(null);, the background shows up but not my other component. I'm guessing this has something to do with the paintComponent not being called by the null LayoutManager, but I'm not at all familiar with how LayoutManagers work (this is a project for college and the assignment specifically says not to use a LayoutManager) When i make the image the background has to display null (and so, transparant (??)) the red square shows up so it might be that the background is actually above my other components) Does anyone anyone have any ideas? Thanks

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  • multi thread apps crashes in release mode

    - by etzarfat
    Hello, I'm using Visual Studio 2008 (programming in c). I've a weird problem I worte a program that has 2 threads that runs simultaneously, a recording thread (using audio card to record into memory) and a translation thread (using a speech engine to recognize the words). when I run my program in debug mode (aka setting a breakpoint in the code) it runs great, however when I run in debug mode or release mode (outside the visual studio enviroment) it crashes and give me the following exception: "Unhandled exception at 0x7c911129 in LowLevel.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x014c7245." My stack looks: LowLevel.exe!__set_flsgetvalue() Line 256 + 0xc bytes C LowLevel.exe!_isleadbyte_l(int c=4359676, localeinfo_struct * plocinfo=0x00000001) Line 57 C++ 014b00d8() LowLevel.exe!PlayDateOfExam(int option=1) Line 2240 + 0x7 bytes C++ LowLevel.exe!NSCThread(void * arg=0x00000000) Line 1585 + 0xb bytes C++ kernel32.dll!7c80b729() winmm.dll!76b5b294() I uses the following file in my project "nsc.lib" and WinMM.lib" I'm not really familiar with threads I used a sample (which works great) and built on it. I saw a similiar question year on the forum but I didn't really understand the answers since I'm not familiar with with threads. Can someone help me? Thanks

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  • SDL_image/C++ OpenGL Program: IMG_Load() produces fuzzy images

    - by Kami
    I'm trying to load an image file and use it as a texture for a cube. I'm using SDL_image to do that. I used this image because I've found it in various file formats (tga, tif, jpg, png, bmp) The code : SDL_Surface * texture; //load an image to an SDL surface (i.e. a buffer) texture = IMG_Load("/Users/Foo/Code/xcode/test/lena.bmp"); if(texture == NULL){ printf("bad image\n"); exit(1); } //create an OpenGL texture object glGenTextures(1, &textureObjOpenGLlogo); //select the texture object you need glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureObjOpenGLlogo); //define the parameters of that texture object //how the texture should wrap in s direction glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT); //how the texture should wrap in t direction glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT); //how the texture lookup should be interpolated when the face is smaller than the texture glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR); //how the texture lookup should be interpolated when the face is bigger than the texture glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR); //send the texture image to the graphic card glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, texture->w, texture->h, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texture-> pixels); //clean the SDL surface SDL_FreeSurface(texture); The code compiles without errors or warnings ! I've tired all the files formats but this always produces that ugly result : I'm using : SDL_image 1.2.9 & SDL 1.2.14 with XCode 3.2 under 10.6.2 Does anyone knows how to fix this ?

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  • Created nested model setting a property on nested model before save

    - by CWitty
    I have two models a Company and a User the Company has_many :users and the User belongs_to :company. I have a form such as: <%= form_for @company, data: {toggle: :validator}, novalidate: "novalidate", html: {role: :form} do |f| %> company fields Then in there I have <%= f.fields_for :users, @company.users.build do |user_form| %> A bunch of user fields It posts the data with the nested attributes of users_attributes: {"0" => {name: "Chad"}} But it doesn't create the user only the company object. Company Model class Company < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :users, dependent: :destroy has_many :contacts, dependent: :destroy accepts_nested_attributes_for :users accepts_nested_attributes_for :contacts attr_accessor :card_token, :users_attributes before_create :create_company_customer_token before_create :create_admin_user before_destroy :set_deleted_flag validates_presence_of :name, :phone_number private def create_admin_user self.users.first.admin = true end def set_deleted_flag self.deleted = true save users.each do |u| u.destroy end false end def create_company_customer_token begin customer = Stripe::Customer.create(description: "Company: #{self.name}", card: self.card_token, plan: self.plan) self.stripe_customer_id = customer['id'] rescue Stripe::StripeError => e self.errors.add(:stripe_customer_id, "Looks like we are having an issue at the moment, please try again shortly") @logger ||= Rails.logger @logger.error(e) end end end User Model class User < ActiveRecord::Base include Clearance::User has_many :messages belongs_to :company before_destroy :set_deleted_flag after_create :send_welcome_email validates_presence_of :first_name, :last_name validates_uniqueness_of :email, scope: :company_id, conditions: -> { where.not(deleted: true) } def name "#{first_name} #{last_name}" end private def set_deleted_flag self.deleted = true save end def send_welcome_email UserMailer.welcome_email(self).deliver end end

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  • Can I make a "TCP packet modifier" using tun/tap and raw sockets?

    - by benhoyt
    I have a Linux application that talks TCP, and to help with analysis and statistics, I'd like to modify the data in some of the TCP packets that it sends out. I'd prefer to do this without hacking the Linux TCP stack. The idea I have so far is to make a bridge which acts as a "TCP packet modifier". My idea is to connect to the application via a tun/tap device on one side of the bridge, and to the network card via raw sockets on the other side of the bridge. My concern is that when you open a raw socket it still sends packets up to Linux's TCP stack, and so I couldn't modify them and send them on even if I wanted to. Is this correct? A pseudo-C-code sketch of the bridge looks like: tap_fd = open_tap_device("/dev/net/tun"); raw_fd = open_raw_socket(); for (;;) { select(fds = [tap_fd, raw_fd]); if (FD_ISSET(tap_fd, &fds)) { read_packet(tap_fd); modify_packet_if_needed(); write_packet(raw_fd); } if (FD_ISSET(raw_fd, &fds)) { read_packet(raw_fd); modify_packet_if_needed(); write_packet(tap_fd); } } Does this look possible, or are there other better ways of achieving the same thing? (TCP packet bridging and modification.)

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  • XNA Reach profile with VMWare - Vertex Buffers not working?

    - by Nektarios
    Running XNA app, using Reach profile, in VMWare Fusion host OS Mac OSX, VM is Windows XP SP 3 (my dual-boot OS). Running on MacBook Pro w/NVidia 320M graphics card When I am booted in to XP natively, my code works. The code is drawing cubes that are set up using vertex buffers When another friend runs this same code on Windows 7, it also works for him just fine When I am running my code in the VM, it doesn't work. I have billboarding sprites running in a shader program and this part displays fine. I get no crashing or errors, the geometry just doesn't appear. I tried Debug and Release. This is very basic operation so I'm thinking VMWare isn't the problem, but it's my code.... My init code: var vertexArray = verts.ToArray(); var indexArray = indices.ToArray(); indexBuffer = new IndexBuffer(GraphicsDevice, typeof(Int16), indexArray.Length, BufferUsage.WriteOnly); indexBuffer.SetData(indexArray); vertexBuffer = new VertexBuffer(GraphicsDevice, typeof(VertexPositionColor), vertexArray.Length, BufferUsage.WriteOnly); vertexBuffer.SetData(vertexArray); My Draw code: // problem isn't here, tried no cull GraphicsDevice.RasterizerState = RasterizerState.CullClockwise; GraphicsDevice.BlendState = BlendState.AlphaBlend; GraphicsDevice.DepthStencilState = new DepthStencilState() { DepthBufferEnable = true }; // Update View and Projection TileEffect.View = ((Game1)Game).Camera.View; TileEffect.Projection = ((Game1)Game).Camera.Projection; TileEffect.CurrentTechnique.Passes[0].Apply(); GraphicsDevice.SetVertexBuffer(vertexBuffer); GraphicsDevice.Indices = indexBuffer; GraphicsDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 0, indices.Count, 0, indices.Count / 3); For LoadContent: TileEffect = new BasicEffect(GraphicsDevice) { World = Matrix.Identity, View = ((Game1)Game).Camera.View, Projection = ((Game1)Game).Camera.Projection, VertexColorEnabled = true };

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  • .NET OwnerDraw ComboBox: Vista/7 themed DropDownList

    - by Stijn
    I'm working on a custom ComboBox for a project, and have the basic painting working. One of the remaining things to do is make it look like the default ComboBox in Vista and 7, when the DropDownStyle is set to DropDownList (looks like a button instead of a regular ComboBox). I read much about VisualStyleRenderer, read ComboBox.cs and ComboBoxRenderer.cs, and tried to get it working. It works in the sense of, it does something. It just doesn't do what it's supposed to do. I also found an article about Vista themed Owner-Drawn Buttons, but it is in C++ (which would be a challenge on its own for me) and it seems like an awful lot of code. If anyone could supply either VB or C# code, that would be great. Below is my current code. Public Sub New() DrawMode = Windows.Forms.DrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed ItemHeight *= 2 DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnDrawItem(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DrawItemEventArgs) If e.Index = -1 Then Return End If If Not (e.State = DrawItemState.Selected) Then e.DrawBackground() End If Dim brsh As Brush If (e.State And DrawItemState.Focus) = DrawItemState.Focus And (e.State And DrawItemState.Selected) = DrawItemState.Selected Then brsh = SystemBrushes.HighlightText Else brsh = SystemBrushes.ControlText End If e.DrawFocusRectangle() e.Graphics.DrawString(Items(e.Index), e.Font, brsh, e.Bounds) End Sub

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