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• Windows Defender Update KB915597 (Definition 1.135.415.0)? Killed My Live Discs

  - by user88311

  Here's my problem, for those willing to read for about 2 minutes here's the entire story, http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-windows_update/bsod-after-windows-defender-update-kb915597/a4b5fca3-0274-47b4-97c4-61b34c4c4599, for those who want the short version here's what happened. After windows update automatically updated windows defender to kb915597, my computer starting getting bsods on shut down and start up and started experiencing problems withe the usb ports. So I decided to go to the microsoft answers site for help, I know that was probably my first mistake, so I followed their advice and they turned my computer into a large paper weight. Luckily I make physical backups of my c drive every few months and I have one from back in july, so I figured I'd boot up a ubuntu live disc, copy all my files from the past 2 months to a external drive and just copy the backup back to the c drive, that's where I ran into this problem. When I put in either a ubuntu or kubuntu disc, everything goes well, until it finishes the loading bar then when the OS would presumably start up, the computer resets, I've tried with ubuntu, kubuntu and gparted, and only gparted is able to get to the point where it starts up, but even then when I try to access the internet from it, the computer resets, and when I tried to copy the entire C drive partition to a blank external I wasn't able to. So I figured somehow maybe the C drive had something to do with it, so I unplugged the C drive so my computer was just a 2.8 ghz processor and 2 gigs of ram, should have had no problem starting a live disc but the problem still continues. After doing some googling around I've found whenever windows gets a update with the title KB915597 it's pretty much the kill switch for windows, I've tried contacting microsoft tech support and even managed to directly contact a software engineer but as soon as I mention KB915597 they all just blew me off. I hope anybody who reads this has any idea how to fix this, I'm going to attempt to install ubuntu or kubuntu to a external drive using the same computer and see what happens now.

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• Packaging MATLAB (or, more generally, a large binary, proprietary piece of software)

  - by nfirvine

  I'm trying to package MATLAB for internal distribution, but this could apply to any piece of software with the same architecture. In fact, I'm packaging multiple releases of MATLAB to be installed concurrently. Key things Very large installation size (~4 GB) Composed of a core, and several plugins (toolboxes) Initially, I created a single "source" package (matlab2011b) that builds several .debs (mainly matlab2011b-core and matlab2011b-toolbox-* for each toolbox). The control file is just the standard all: dh $@ There is no Makefile; only copying files. I use a number of debian/*.install files to specify files to copy from a copy of an installation to /usr/lib/. The problem is, every time I build the thing (say, to make a correction to the core package), it recopies every file listed in the *.install file to e.g debian/$packagename/usr/ (the build phase), and then has to bundle that into a .deb file. It takes a long time, on the order of hours, and is doing a lot of extra work. So my questions are: Can you make dh_install do a hardlink copy (like cp -l) to save time? (AFAICT from the man page, no.) Maybe I should just get it to do this in the Makefile? (That's gonna b e big Makefile.) Can you make debuild only rebuild .debs that need rebuilding? Or specify which .debs to rebuild? Is my approach completely stupid? Should I break each of the toolboxes into its own source package too? (I'll have to do some silly templating or something, because there's hundreds of them. :/)

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• How similiar should the environments of PreProd and Prod be?

  - by RoboShop

  I've just recently been on a project and during the release, we realized that it didn't work in Production. It works in all other environments but because we have a separate release team, and we cannot set up the servers and environments ourselves, we have no visibility of the configuration on them. We suspect that Prod has some user permissions in its account or IIS settings that are different, so we are working though it now. So I think this whole thing has been a learning experience for me and I don't want the same thing repeated again. I would like to ask, how different should these environments be? I always thought that PreProd should be an identical copy to the Prod environment using a copy of the same database, using a copy of the same user account, should be installed on the same servers etc. But how far should I take it? If the web site is externally facing, should PreProd be externally facing? What if the website has components that don't require a user account or password to navigate to? Is it still okay to expose it to the outside world?

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• Move entire OS from NTFS drive to bigger ext4 drive.

  - by pangel

  According to SMART data, the hard drive I curently use is about to fail. I bought a new, bigger drive to copy the system to a safer place. The old drive is 160GB. Ubuntu was installed with Wubi, and the partition is NTFS. There are a few other partitions around (recovery partition, swap...) that I don't care about. The new drive is 320GB. I would like the new system to run on ext4, not on NTFS. I looked at solutions that use dd, or clonezilla, but it seems that moving to a different filesystem prevents me from using them. I considered installing a brand new ubuntu on the new hard drive and then copy /home from the old drive to the new drive, but I heard that there would be file permission problems. I would also have to reinstall all my software. One last thing: the NTFS drive has dead sectors. I don't know how this can influence the copy process, but I mention it just in case. edit: I do not care about the windows partition. I just want Ubuntu to make the transition.

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• Using WPF controls in a background or ASP.Net environment

  - by Moo

  Hi, I have noticed that some WPF controls have some decent effects available to them (drop shadow, reflection etc), and was wondering if it was possible to use these WPF controls solely for their available effects? For example, I have an image manipulation library that resizes and letterboxes disparate sized images but I would like to add drop shadow effects to the resulting images. The WPF image control has this effect available, but how easy is it to use in an environment where there will never be a GUI (console app or ASP.Net library/handler for example). Thoughts? Cheers Moo

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• How do I backup and restore the system clipboard in C#?

  - by gtaborga

  Hey everyone, I will do my best to explain in detail what I'm trying to achieve. I'm using C# with IntPtr window handles to perform a CTRL-C copy operation on an external application from my own C# application. I had to do this because there was no way of accessing the text directly using GET_TEXT. I'm then using the text content of that copy within my application. The problem here is that I have now overwritten the clipboard. What I would like to be able to do is: Backup the original contents of the clipboard which could have been set by any application other than my own. Then perform the copy and store the value into my application. Then restore the original contents of the clipboard so that the user still has access to his/her original clipboard data. This is the code I have tried so far: private void GetClipboardText() { text = ""; IDataObject backupClipboad = Clipboard.GetDataObject(); KeyboardInput input = new KeyboardInput(this); input.Copy(dialogHandle); // Performs a CTRL-C (copy) operation IDataObject clipboard = Clipboard.GetDataObject(); if (clipboard.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text)) { // Retrieves the text from the clipboard text = clipboard.GetData(DataFormats.Text) as string; } if (backupClipboad != null) { Clipboard.SetDataObject(backupClipboad, true); // throws exception } } I am using the System.Windows.Clipboard and not the System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard. The reason for this was that when I performed the CTRL-C, the Clipboard class from System.Windows.Forms did not return any data, but the system clipboard did. I looked into some of the low level user32 calls like OpenClipboard, EmptyClipboard, and CloseClipboard hoping that they would help my do this but so far I keep getting COM exceptions when trying to restore. I thought perhaps this had to do with the OpenClipboard parameter which is expecting an IntPtr window handle of the application which wants to take control of the clipboard. Since I mentioned that my application does not have a GUI this is a challenge. I wasn't sure what to pass here. Maybe someone can shed some light on that? Am I using the Clipboard class incorrectly? Is there a clear way to obtain the IntPtr window handle of an application with no GUI? Does anyone know of a better way to backup and restore the system clipboard?

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• Dojo extending dojo.dnd.Source, move not happening. Ideas?

  - by Soulhuntre

  Hey all, Ok... I have a simple dojo page with the bare essentials. Three UL's with some LI's in them. The idea si to allow drag-n-drop among them but if any UL goes empty due to the last item being dragged out, I will put up a message to the user to gie them some instructions. In order to do that, I wanted to extend the dojo.dnd.Source dijit and add some intelligence. It seemed easy enough. To keep things simple (I am loading Dojo from a CDN) I am simply declating my extension as opposed to doing full on module load. The declaration function is here... function declare_mockupSmartDndUl(){ dojo.require("dojo.dnd.Source"); dojo.provide("mockup.SmartDndUl"); dojo.declare("mockup.SmartDndUl", dojo.dnd.Source, { markupFactory: function(params, node){ //params._skipStartup = true; return new mockup.SmartDndUl(node, params); }, onDndDrop: function(source, nodes, copy){ console.debug('onDndDrop!'); if(this == source){ // reordering items console.debug('moving items from us'); // DO SOMETHING HERE }else{ // moving items to us console.debug('moving items to us'); // DO SOMETHING HERE } console.debug('this = ' + this ); console.debug('source = ' + source ); console.debug('nodes = ' + nodes); console.debug('copy = ' + copy); return dojo.dnd.Source.prototype.onDndDrop.call(this, source, nodes, copy); } }); } I have a init function to use this to decorate the lists... dojo.addOnLoad(function(){ declare_mockupSmartDndUl(); if(dojo.byId('list1')){ //new mockup.SmartDndUl(dojo.byId('list1')); new dojo.dnd.Source(dojo.byId('list1')); } if(dojo.byId('list2')){ new mockup.SmartDndUl(dojo.byId('list2')); //new dojo.dnd.Source(dojo.byId('list2')); } if(dojo.byId('list3')){ new mockup.SmartDndUl(dojo.byId('list3')); //new dojo.dnd.Source(dojo.byId('list3')); } }); It is fine as far as it goes, you will notice I left "list1" as a standard dojo dnd source for testing. The problem is this - list1 will happily accept items from lists 2 & 3 who will move or copy as apprriate. However lists 2 & 3 refuce to accept items from list1. It is as if the DND operation is being cancelled, but the debugger does show the dojo.dnd.Source.prototype.onDndDrop.call happening, and the paramaters do look ok to me. Now, the documentation here is really weak, so the example I took some of this from may be way out of date (I am using 1.4). Can anyone fill me in on what might be the issue with my extension dijit? Thanks!

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• Node.js + Express.js. How to RENDER less css?

  - by Paden

  Hello all, I am unable to render less css in my express workspace. Here is my current configuration (my css/less files go in 'public/stylo/'): app.configure(function() { app.set('views' , __dirname + '/views' ); app.set('partials' , __dirname + '/views/partials'); app.set('view engine', 'jade' ); app.use(express.bodyDecoder() ); app.use(express.methodOverride()); app.use(express.compiler({ src: __dirname + '/public/stylo', enable: ['less']})); app.use(app.router); app.use(express.staticProvider(__dirname + '/public')); }); Here is my main.jade file: !!! html(lang="en") head title Yea a title link(rel="stylesheet", type="text/css", href="/stylo/main.less") link(rel="stylesheet", href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/cssfamily=Droid+Sans|Droid+Sans+Mono|Ubuntu|Droid+Serif") script(src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js") script(src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.7/jquery-ui.min.js") body!= body here is my main.less css: @import "goodies.css"; body { .googleFont; background-color : #000000; padding : 20px; margin : 0px; > .header { border-bottom : 1px solid #BBB; background-color : #f0f0f0; margin : -25px -25px 30px -25px; /* important */ color : #333; padding : 15px; font-size : 18pt; } } AND here is my goodies.less css: .rounded_corners(@radius: 10px) { -moz-border-radius : @radius; -webkit-border-radius: @radius; border-radius : @radius; } .shadows(@rad1: 0px, @rad2: 1px, @rad3: 3px, @color: #999) { -webkit-box-shadow : @rad1 @rad2 @rad3 @color; -moz-box-shadow : @rad1 @rad2 @rad3 @color; box-shadow : @rad1 @rad2 @rad3 @color; } .gradient (@type: linear, @pos1: left top, @pos2: left bottom, @color1: #f5f5f5, @color2: #ececec) { background-image : -webkit-gradient(@type, @pos1, @pos2, from(@color1), to(@color2)); background-image : -moz-linear-gradient(@color1, @color2); } .googleFont { font-family : 'Droid Serif'; } Cool deal. Now: I have installed less via npm and I had heard from another post that @imports should reference the .css not the .less. In any case, I have tried the combinations of switching .less for .css in the jade and less files with no success. If you can help or have the solution I'd greatly appreciate it. Note: The jade portion works fine if I enter any ol' .css. Note2: The less compiles if I use lessc via command line.

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• PhantomJS not exactly rendering HTML to PNG

  - by John Leonard

  I'm having trouble adjusting PhantomJS to create a PNG file that matches the original browser presentation. Here is the entire sample html file. It's a sankey diagram creating using rCharts and d3-sankey. (You'll need to save the file to your hard drive and view it from there.) I'm running on Windows and using rasterize.js: >> phantomjs.exe rasterize.js test.html test.png ISSUE: Below is a snip of one of the text strings when viewed in a browser: And here is a snip of the same string from the PNG created by PhantomJS: How do I make the text-shadow go away? I've played around with various CSS attributes (text-shadow) and webkit-specific attributes (e.g., -webkit-text-rendering), but can't seem to make it go away. Is this a setting in PhantomJS? in the underlying webkit? or somewhere else? Many thanks!

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• Using CSS Classes for individual effects - opinions?

  - by Cool Hand Luke UK

  Hey, Just trying to canvas some opinions here. I was wondering how people go about adding individual effects to html elements. Take this example: you have three types of h1 titles all the same size but some are black some are gold and some are white. Some have a text-shadow etc. Would you create separate CSS classes and add them do the h1 tag or would you create a new single class for each different h1 title type (with grouped CSS elements)? With singular class for each effect you can build up combos of classes in html class="gold shadow" but also how would you name them. For example its bad practice to give classes and id names associated to colours, because it doesn't define what it does well. However is this ok with textual CSS classes? Just wondering what others do, I know there are no hard and fast rules. Cheers.

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• My block is not retaining some of its objects

  - by Drew Crawford

  From the Blocks documentation: In a reference-counted environment, by default when you reference an Objective-C object within a block, it is retained. This is true even if you simply reference an instance variable of the object. I am trying to implement a completion handler pattern, where a block is given to an object before the work is performed and the block is executed by the receiver after the work is performed. Since I am being a good memory citizen, the block should own the objects it references in the completion handler and then they will be released when the block goes out of scope. I know enough to know that I must copy the block to move it to the heap since the block will survive the stack scope in which it was declared. However, one of my objects is getting deallocated unexpectedly. After some playing around, it appears that certain objects are not retained when the block is copied to the heap, while other objects are. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Here's the smallest test case I can produce: typedef void (^ActionBlock)(UIView*); In the scope of some method: NSObject *o = [[[NSObject alloc] init] autorelease]; mailViewController = [[[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease]; NSLog(@"o's retain count is %d",[o retainCount]); NSLog(@"mailViewController's retain count is %d",[mailViewController retainCount]); ActionBlock myBlock = ^(UIView *view) { [mailViewController setCcRecipients:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"[email protected]",nil]]; [o class]; }; NSLog(@"mailViewController's retain count after the block is %d",[mailViewController retainCount]); NSLog(@"o's retain count after the block is %d",[o retainCount]); Block_copy(myBlock); NSLog(@"o's retain count after the copy is %d",[o retainCount]); NSLog(@"mailViewController's retain count after the copy is %d",[mailViewController retainCount]); I expect both objects to be retained by the block at some point, and I certainly expect their retain counts to be identical. Instead, I get this output: o's retain count is 1 mailViewController's retain count is 1 mailViewController's retain count after the block is 1 o's retain count after the block is 1 o's retain count after the copy is 2 mailViewController's retain count after the copy is 1 o (subclass of NSObject) is getting retained properly and will not go out of scope. However mailViewController is not retained and will be deallocated before the block is run, causing a crash.

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• Using CSS Classes for indivdual effects - opinions?

  - by Cool Hand Luke UK

  Hey, Just trying to canvas some opinions here. I was wondering how people go about adding individual effects to html elements. Take this example: you have three types of h1 titles all the same size but some are black some are gold and some are white. Some have a text-shadow etc. Would you create separate CSS classes and add them do the h1 tag or would you create a new single class for each different h1 title type (with grouped CSS elements)? With singular class for each effect you can build up combos of classes in html class="gold shadow" but also how would you name them. For example its bad practice to give classes and id names associated to colours, because it doesn't define what it does well. However is this ok with textual CSS classes? Just wondering what others do, I know there are no hard and fast rules. Cheers.

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• How to Redraw or Refresh a screen

  - by viky

  I am working on a wpf application. Here I need to use System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog in my Wpf application. System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog openFolderBrowser = new System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog(); openFolderBrowser.Description = "Select Resource Path:"; openFolderBrowser.RootFolder = Environment.SpecialFolder.MyComputer; if (openFolderBrowser.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK) { //some logic } when I select a Folder and click OK, I launch another System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog with same code, My problem is when I select a Folder and click OK, the shadow of FolderBrowserDialog remains on the screen(means my screen doesn't refresh). I need to minimize or resize it in order to remove the shadow of FolderBrowserDialog. How can I solvet his issue? Any help plz?

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• Add shading to clipped UIView

  - by huggie

  I'm creating an iphone application. I have this UIView whose content is clipped with a path. I want to add shading and/or shadow to it. What's the best way to do this? For shadow, I tried CGContextSetShadow() but it doesn't seem to have an effect (perhaps it's drawing outside the shown region?) . How about shading? I want it to appear along the path. What's the best way to go about it? Is it to create another narrow clip strip along the original clipping path (if it's possible to have two clip path... ) Or does this need to be done in another CALayer? I am not even sure what that is yet.

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• How to do the following in ListView

  - by Johnny

  How to do the following stuffs in ListView Only show scroll bar when user flip the list. By default, if the list is more than the screen, there is always a scrollbar on the right side. Is there a way to set this scrollbar only shows when user flip the list? Keep showing the list background image when scrolling. I've set an image as the background of the ListView, but when I scroll the list, the background image will disappear and only shows a black list view background. Is there any way to keep showing the list background image when scrolling? Don't show the shadow indicator. When the list has more items to display, there is a black-blur shadow to indicate user that there are more items. Is there a way to remove this item?

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• RUN FUNCTION AFTER SOMETIME IN JQUERY & AUTOMATIC SLICING OF IMAGES

  - by user2697032

  I am not being able to start the automatic slicing of images, it is happening only after a click, how should i modify my code so that i get to change the slicing of the images automatically. <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Slicebox - 3D Image Slider</title> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta name="description" content="Slicebox - 3D Image Slider with Fallback" /> <meta name="keywords" content="jquery, css3, 3d, webkit, fallback, slider, css3, 3d transforms, slices, rotate, box, automatic" /> <meta name="author" content="Pedro Botelho for Codrops" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../favicon.ico"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/demo.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/slicebox.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/custom.css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/modernizr.custom.46884.js"></script> </head> <body onload="funct()"> <div class="container"> <div class="codrops-top clearfix"> <a href="http://tympanus.net/Development/AutomaticImageMontage/"><span>&laquo; Previous Demo: </span>Automatic Image Montage</a> <span class="right"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/">Images by <strong>ND Strupler</strong></a> <a href="http://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=5657"><strong>Back to the Codrops Article</strong></a> </span> </div> <h1>Slicebox <span>A fresh 3D image slider with graceful fallback</span></h1> <div class="more"> <ul id="sb-examples"> <li>More examples:</li> <li class="selected"><a href="index.html">Example 1</a></li> <li><a href="index2.html">Example 2</a></li> <li><a href="index3.html">Example 3</a></li> <li><a href="index4.html">Example 4</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="wrapper" id="checkthis"> <ul id="sb-slider" class="sb-slider"> <li> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/2969141180" target="_blank"><img src="images/1.jpg" alt="image1"/></a> <div class="sb-description"> <h3>Creative Lifesaver</h3> </div> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/2968268187" target="_blank"><img src="images/2.jpg" alt="image2"/></a> <div class="sb-description"> <h3>Honest Entertainer</h3> </div> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/2968114825" target="_blank"><img src="images/3.jpg" alt="image1"/></a> <div class="sb-description"> <h3>Brave Astronaut</h3> </div> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/2968122059" target="_blank"><img src="images/4.jpg" alt="image1"/></a> <div class="sb-description"> <h3>Affectionate Decision Maker</h3> </div> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/2969119944" target="_blank"><img src="images/5.jpg" alt="image1"/></a> <div class="sb-description"> <h3>Faithful Investor</h3> </div> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/2968126177" target="_blank"><img src="images/6.jpg" alt="image1"/></a> <div class="sb-description"> <h3>Groundbreaking Artist</h3> </div> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/2968945158" target="_blank"><img src="images/7.jpg" alt="image1"/></a> <div class="sb-description"> <h3>Selfless Philantropist</h3> </div> </li> </ul> <div id="shadow" class="shadow"></div> <div id="nav-arrows" class="nav-arrows"> <a href="#x">Next</a> <a href="#y">Previous</a> </div> <div id="nav-dots" class="nav-dots"> <span class="nav-dot-current"></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> </div> </div><!-- /wrapper --> <p class="info"><strong>Example 1:</strong> Default settings</p> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.slicebox.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { var Page = (function() { var $navArrows = $( '#nav-arrows' ).hide(), $navDots = $( '#nav-dots' ).hide(), $nav = $navDots.children( 'span' ), $shadow = $( '#shadow' ).hide(), slicebox = $( '#sb-slider' ).slicebox( { onReady : function() { $navArrows.show(); $navDots.show(); $shadow.show(); }, onBeforeChange : function( pos ) { $nav.removeClass( 'nav-dot-current' ); $nav.eq( pos ).addClass( 'nav-dot-current' ); } } ), init = function() { initEvents(); }, initEvents = function() { // add navigation events $navArrows.children( ':first' ).on( 'click', function() { setInterval("callme()", 1000); return false; } ); //$(function(){ //callme(); //}); function callme(){ //$('#checkit').append("callme loaded<br />"); slicebox.next(); setInterval("callme()", 1000); } $navArrows.children( ':last' ).on( 'click', function() { slicebox.previous(); return false; } ); $nav.each( function( i ) { $( this ).on( 'click', function( event ) { var $dot = $( this ); if( !slicebox.isActive() ) { $nav.removeClass( 'nav-dot-current' ); $dot.addClass( 'nav-dot-current' ); } slicebox.jump( i + 1 ); return false; } ); } ); }; return { init : init }; })(); Page.init(); }); </script> <script> // make sure the "myContainer" id in the script is the same id of the div $(document).ready(function() { slicebox.next(); $('#nav-arrows').sbslider(); // this is the piece of code that will do the magic thing }); </script> </body> </html> I am not being able to start the automatic slicing of images, it is happening only after a click, how should i modify my code so that i get to change the slicing of the images automatically.

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• Overloading framework methods in objective-c, or retaining local changes with framework updates.

  - by Jeff B

  I am using cocos2d to build an iPhone game. It's mostly done, but along the way I came across some things that I would like to handle better. I am fairly new to Objective C, and honestly I do more Perl scripting in my day-to-day job than anything, so my C skills are a little rusty. One of them is the fact that I have modified cocos2d files for some specific cases in my game. However, when I update to a new version, I have to manually pull my changes forward. So, the question is, what is the best way to deal with this? Some options I have thought of: Overload/redefine the cocos2d classes. I was under the impression that I cannot overload existing class functions, so I don't think this will work. Create patches that I re-apply after library updates. I don't think this will work as the new files won't necessarily be the same as the old ones, and if they were, I could just copy the whole file forward. Turn in my changes to Cocos2d. Not an option as my changes are very specific to my application. Am I missing something obvious? UPDATE: I will explain what I am doing to be more clear. Cocos2d has a CCNode object, which can contain children, etc. I added a shadow, which is very similar to a child, but handled a little differently. The shadow has an offset from the parent, and translates with it's parent, rotates around it's own center when the parent rotates, etc. The shadow is not included as a true child, however, so given the correct z-index, the shadows can render under ALL other objects, but still move with the parent. To do this I added addShadow functions to CCNode, and modified the setPosition and setRotate functions to move the shadowSprite: CCNode.m: -(id) init { if ((self=[super init]) ) { ... shadowSprite_ = nil; ... } } ... -(BOOL) addShadow: (CCNode*) child offset: (CGPoint) offset { shadowSprite_ = child; shadowSprite_.position = CGPointMake(position_.x+offset.x, position_.y+offset.y); return YES; } ... -(void) setRotation: (float)newRotation { rotation_ = newRotation; isTransformDirty_ = isInverseDirty_ = YES; if(shadowSprite_) { [shadowSprite_ setRotation: newRotation]; } } There is more, of course, including the prototypes in the .h file, but that is the basics. I don't think I need shadowSprite to be a property, because I don't need to access it after it has been added.

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• How to achieve the recessed text style as in Apple's Messages for Mac?

  - by Thruth

  I'd like to replicate the recessed text style of Messages/iMessage, or, the text "white-shadow" style on a light gray background. Please refer to an image here for the style I desire. As you can see, the texts are with "white-shadow" even on the light gray background. The bold texts do have subpixel rendering while the gray texts don't (by design?). I've tried setBackgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyleRaised . However it was generating shadows darker than the background. setBackgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyleLowered was worse that it even overrode my font colour setting. So, what is the right way to do this? Any tricks or just have to subclass NSTextFields ? Thanks.

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• Garbage collection when compiling to C

  - by Jules

  What are the techniques of garbage collection when compiling a garbage collected language to C? I know of two: maintain a shadow stack that saves all roots explicitly in a data structure use a conservative garbage collector like Boehm's The first technique is slow, because you have to maintain the shadow stack. Potentially every time a function is called, you need to save the local variables in a data structure. The second technique is also slow, and inherently does not reclaim all garbage because of using a conservative garbage collector. My question is: what is the state of the art of garbage collection when compiling to C. Note that I do not mean a convenient way to do garbage collection when programming in C (this is the goal of Boehm's garbage collector), just a way to do garbage collection when compiling to C.

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• How do I implement .net plugins without using AppDomains?

  - by Abtin Forouzandeh

  Problem statement: Implement a plug-in system that allows the associated assemblies to be overwritten (avoid file locking). In .Net, specific assemblies may not be unloaded, only entire AppDomains may be unloaded. I'm posting this because when I was trying to solve the problem, every solution made reference to using multiple AppDomains. Multiple AppDomains are very hard to implement correctly, even when architected at the start of a project. Also, AppDomains didn't work for me because I needed to transfer Type across domains as a setting for Speech Server worfklow's InvokeWorkflow activity. Unfortunately, sending a type across domains causes the assembly to be injected into the local AppDomain. Also, this is relevant to IIS. IIS has a Shadow Copy setting that allows an executing assembly to be overwritten while its loaded into memory. The problem is that (at least under XP, didnt test on production 2003 servers) when you programmatically load an assembly, the shadow copy doesnt work (because you are loading the DLL, not IIS).

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• iPhone transparent images rendering poorly

  - by alku83

  I'm developing an iPad application. I have been provided with a PNG image that contains some transparency - basically a drop shadow. The problem I'm having is that this is rendering poorly within the application, both on the device and in the sim. I can't provide the whole image but I've made up some samples to illustrate. The first is how the image appears in the PSD (correctly that is). The second is how it appears on the device. You can see that the strip of shadow in the middle of the image is distinctly more yellow and poorly looking. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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• Minutia on Objective-C Categories and Extensions.

  - by Matt Wilding

  I learned something new while trying to figure out why my readwrite property declared in a private Category wasn't generating a setter. It was because my Category was named: // .m @interface MyClass (private) @property (readwrite, copy) NSArray* myProperty; @end Changing it to: // .m @interface MyClass () @property (readwrite, copy) NSArray* myProperty; @end and my setter is synthesized. I now know that Class Extension is not just another name for an anonymous Category. Leaving a Category unnamed causes it to morph into a different beast: one that now gives compile-time method implementation enforcement and allows you to add ivars. I now understand the general philosophies underlying each of these: Categories are generally used to add methods to any class at runtime, and Class Extensions are generally used to enforce private API implementation and add ivars. I accept this. But there are trifles that confuse me. First, at a hight level: Why differentiate like this? These concepts seem like similar ideas that can't decide if they are the same, or different concepts. If they are the same, I would expect the exact same things to be possible using a Category with no name as is with a named Category (which they are not). If they are different, (which they are) I would expect a greater syntactical disparity between the two. It seems odd to say, "Oh, by the way, to implement a Class Extension, just write a Category, but leave out the name. It magically changes." Second, on the topic of compile time enforcement: If you can't add properties in a named Category, why does doing so convince the compiler that you did just that? To clarify, I'll illustrate with my example. I can declare a readonly property in the header file: // .h @interface MyClass : NSObject @property (readonly, copy) NSString* myString; @end Now, I want to head over to the implementation file and give myself private readwrite access to the property. If I do it correctly: // .m @interface MyClass () @property (readonly, copy) NSString* myString; @end I get a warning when I don't synthesize, and when I do, I can set the property and everything is peachy. But, frustratingly, if I happen to be slightly misguided about the difference between Category and Class Extension and I try: // .m @interface MyClass (private) @property (readonly, copy) NSString* myString; @end The compiler is completely pacified into thinking that the property is readwrite. I get no warning, and not even the nice compile error "Object cannot be set - either readonly property or no setter found" upon setting myString that I would had I not declared the readwrite property in the Category. I just get the "Does not respond to selector" exception at runtime. If adding ivars and properties is not supported by (named) Categories, is it too much to ask that the compiler play by the same rules? Am I missing some grand design philosophy?

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• JTable how to change BackGround Color

  - by mKorbel

  I inspired by MeBigFatGuy interesting question, in this conection I have very specific question about Graphisc2D, how to change BackGround Color by depends if is JTables Row visible in the JViewPort, 1) if 1st. & last JTables Row will be visible in the JViewPort, then BackGround would be colored to the Color.red 2) if 1st. & last JTables Row will not be visible in the JViewPort, then BackGround would be colored to the Color.whatever from SSCCE import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.RepaintManager; import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent; import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener; import javax.swing.table.TableModel; /* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1249278/ how-to-disable-the-default-painting-behaviour-of-wheel-scroll-event-on-jscrollpan * and * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8195959/ swing-jtable-event-when-row-is-visible-or-when-scrolled-to-the-bottom */ public class ViewPortFlickering { private JFrame frame = new JFrame("Table"); private JViewport viewport = new JViewport(); private Rectangle RECT = new Rectangle(); private Rectangle RECT1 = new Rectangle(); private JTable table = new JTable(50, 3); private javax.swing.Timer timer; private int count = 0; public ViewPortFlickering() { GradientViewPort tableViewPort = new GradientViewPort(table); viewport = tableViewPort.getViewport(); viewport.addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() { @Override public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) { RECT = table.getCellRect(0, 0, true); RECT1 = table.getCellRect(table.getRowCount() - 1, 0, true); Rectangle viewRect = viewport.getViewRect(); if (viewRect.intersects(RECT)) { System.out.println("Visible RECT -> " + RECT); } else if (viewRect.intersects(RECT1)) { System.out.println("Visible RECT1 -> " + RECT1); } else { // } } }); frame.add(tableViewPort); frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600, 300)); frame.pack(); frame.setLocation(50, 100); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); RepaintManager.setCurrentManager(new RepaintManager() { @Override public void addDirtyRegion(JComponent c, int x, int y, int w, int h) { Container con = c.getParent(); while (con instanceof JComponent) { if (!con.isVisible()) { return; } if (con instanceof GradientViewPort) { c = (JComponent) con; x = 0; y = 0; w = con.getWidth(); h = con.getHeight(); } con = con.getParent(); } super.addDirtyRegion(c, x, y, w, h); } }); frame.setVisible(true); start(); } private void start() { timer = new javax.swing.Timer(100, updateCol()); timer.start(); } public Action updateCol() { return new AbstractAction("text load action") { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { System.out.println("updating row " + (count + 1)); TableModel model = table.getModel(); int cols = model.getColumnCount(); int row = 0; for (int j = 0; j < cols; j++) { row = count; table.changeSelection(row, 0, false, false); timer.setDelay(100); Object value = "row " + (count + 1) + " item " + (j + 1); model.setValueAt(value, count, j); } count++; if (count >= table.getRowCount()) { timer.stop(); table.changeSelection(0, 0, false, false); java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { table.clearSelection(); } }); } } }; } public static void main(String[] args) { java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { ViewPortFlickering viewPortFlickering = new ViewPortFlickering(); } }); } } class GradientViewPort extends JScrollPane { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private final int h = 50; private BufferedImage img = null; private BufferedImage shadow = new BufferedImage(1, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); private JViewport viewPort; public GradientViewPort(JComponent com) { super(com); viewPort = this.getViewport(); viewPort.setScrollMode(JViewport.BLIT_SCROLL_MODE); viewPort.setScrollMode(JViewport.BACKINGSTORE_SCROLL_MODE); viewPort.setScrollMode(JViewport.SIMPLE_SCROLL_MODE); Graphics2D g2 = shadow.createGraphics(); g2.setPaint(new Color(250, 150, 150)); g2.fillRect(0, 0, 1, h); g2.setComposite(AlphaComposite.DstIn); g2.setPaint(new GradientPaint(0, 0, new Color(0, 0, 0, 0f), 0, h, new Color(0.5f, 0.8f, 0.8f, 0.5f))); g2.fillRect(0, 0, 1, h); g2.dispose(); } @Override public void paint(Graphics g) { if (img == null || img.getWidth() != getWidth() || img.getHeight() != getHeight()) { img = new BufferedImage(getWidth(), getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); } Graphics2D g2 = img.createGraphics(); super.paint(g2); Rectangle bounds = getViewport().getVisibleRect(); g2.scale(bounds.getWidth(), -1); int y = (getColumnHeader() == null) ? 0 : getColumnHeader().getHeight(); g2.drawImage(shadow, bounds.x, -bounds.y - y - h, null); g2.scale(1, -1); g2.drawImage(shadow, bounds.x, bounds.y + bounds.height - h + y, null); g2.dispose(); g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null); } }

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• Retrieving the Selected value dynamically in JQuery

  - by Chakradhar

  i have this html, this is generated dynamically based on question number <fieldset id="selectfield"> <label class="select">What ur is Profession? </label> <br> <div class="ui-select"><a href="#" role="button" id="72+_select-button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="72+_select-menu" data-theme="c" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-btn-corner-all ui-shadow ui-btn-hover-c ui-btn-up-c"><span class="ui-btn-inner ui-btn-corner-all" aria-hidden="true"><span class="ui-btn-text">Business</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-arrow-d ui-icon-shadow"></span></span></a> <select name="selectedObjects" id="72+_select" data-native-menu="false" tabindex="-1"> <option value="-1">--Select--</option> <option value="769">Salaried</option> <option selected="selected" value="770">Business</option> <option value="771">Self Emp</option> </select></div> </fieldset> click button is <div data-theme="c" class="ui-btn ui-btn-corner-all ui-shadow ui-btn-hover-c ui-btn-up-c" aria-disabled="false"><span class="ui-btn-inner ui-btn-corner-all" aria-hidden="true"><span class="ui-btn-text">Next</span></span> <input type="submit" id="72+_b" onclick="return SaveDropDown(this);" value="Next" class="ui-btn-hidden" aria-disabled="false"> </div> i have written this JS in SaveDropDown(this) function SaveDropDown(button) { var fieldsetName = getQuestionName(button.id)+'+_select'; var select = $(fieldsetName +"option:selected").val(); return false; } the questionname function is function getQuestionName(buttonid) { var splitstr = buttonid.split('+'); var fieldsetName = '#' + splitstr[0]; return fieldsetName; } but its returning the undefined how do i retrieve the select value dynamically. any help is appreciated.

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• CSS- removing horizontal space in list menu using display inline property

  - by Kayote

  Hi All, Im new to CSS and have a set target of learning & publishing my website in CSS by the end of the month. My question: Im trying to build a CSS horizontal menu with hover drop downs, however, when I use the 'display: inline' property with li (list) items, I get horizontal spaces between the li (list) items in the bar. How do I remove this space? Here is the html: <div id="tabas_menu"> <ul> <li id="tabBut0" class="tabBut">Overview</li> <li id="tabBut1" class="tabBut">Collar</li> <li id="tabBut2" class="tabBut">Sleeves</li> <li id="tabBut3" class="tabBut">Body</li> </ul> </div> And here is the CSS: #tabas_menu { position: absolute; background: rgb(123,345,567); top: 110px; left: 200px; } ul#tabas_menu { padding: 0; margin: 0; } .tabBut { display: inline; white-space: list-style: none; background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(rgba(255,142,190,1)),to(rgba(188,22,93,1))); background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,142,190,1), rgba(188,22,93,1)); font-family: helvetica, calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(99,99,99,0.5); -moz-border-radius: 0.3em; -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.5); -webkit-border-radius: 0.3em; -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.5); padding: 6px 18px; border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.4); margin: 0; } I can get the space removed using the 'float: left/right' property but its bugging me as to why I cannot achieve the same effect by just using the display property.

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