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  • Using inheritance and polymorphism to solve a common game problem

    - by Barry Brown
    I have two classes; let's call them Ogre and Wizard. (All fields are public to make the example easier to type in.) public class Ogre { int weight; int height; int axeLength; } public class Wizard { int age; int IQ; int height; } In each class I can create a method called, say, battle() that will determine who will win if an Ogre meets and Ogre or a Wizard meets a Wizard. Here's an example. If an Ogre meets an Ogre, the heavier one wins. But if the weight is the same, the one with the longer axe wins. public Ogre battle(Ogre o) { if (this.height > o.height) return this; else if (this.height < o.height) return o; else if (this.axeLength > o.axeLength) return this; else if (this.axeLength < o.axeLength) return o; else return this; // default case } We can make a similar method for Wizards. But what if a Wizard meets an Ogre? We could of course make a method for that, comparing, say, just the heights. public Wizard battle(Ogre o) { if (this.height > o.height) return this; else if (this.height < o.height) return o; else return this; } And we'd make a similar one for Ogres that meet Wizard. But things get out of hand if we have to add more character types to the program. This is where I get stuck. One obvious solution is to create a Character class with the common traits. Ogre and Wizard inherit from the Character and extend it to include the other traits that define each one. public class Character { int height; public Character battle(Character c) { if (this.height > c.height) return this; else if (this.height < c.height) return c; else return this; } } Is there a better way to organize the classes? I've looked at the strategy pattern and the mediator pattern, but I'm not sure how either of them (if any) could help here. My goal is to reach some kind of common battle method, so that if an Ogre meets an Ogre it uses the Ogre-vs-Ogre battle, but if an Ogre meets a Wizard, it uses a more generic one. Further, what if the characters that meet share no common traits? How can we decide who wins a battle?

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  • App logicstics & changes due to scope creep

    - by Kevin Brown
    I started an app that was initially a testing platform--user management, and managers that can view their employees tests. Recently, functionality has been extended (not built yet) to allow users to complete a test in place of an employee--basically adding a record, but no user. I have three tables in use for this: users(contains user info for login/security), profiles (all personal info: address, height, etc.), and survey (contains survey answers for user). How do I extend my application to encompass this functionality with minimal change to the structure? I assume that the best way to do this would be to insert records to the tables profiles and survey, and have no username/password/email? There MUST be a user_id associated b/c the tables are linked through the user_ids...

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  • Multi-Part form in Codeigniter

    - by Kevin Brown
    I'm building a survey w/ Codeigniter, and it's getting cumbersomely long...so I want to split it up into sections (about 5). If I want each section to validate, and submit to db after the user clicks "next", what is the best way to do this? I've never made a multi-step process before. Any advice for a noob? :)

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  • UIAlertView is not showing. What am I doing wrong?

    - by Josh Brown
    Here is the code: -(IBAction)signUpBtnPressed:(id)sender { UIAlertView *alert = [ [UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"k" message:@"Thanks for Signing up!" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Continue..." otherButtonTitles:nil ]; [alert show]; [alert release]; } I also have my Sign Up button attached to this action in my view.

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  • How do I echo out something different when reached last row?

    - by Josh Brown
    I am wanting to not echo out the comma at the end of the echo after the last row. How can I do that? Here is my code: <?php header("Content-type: application/json"); echo '{"points":['; mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password"); mysql_select_db("database"); $q = "SELECT venues.id, venues.lat, venues.lon, heat_indexes.temperature FROM venues, heat_indexes WHERE venues.id = heat_indexes.venue_id"; $res = mysql_query($q) or die(mysql_error()); while ($point = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) { echo $point['lat'] . "," . $point['lon'] . "," . $point['temperature'] . ","; } mysql_free_result($res); echo ']}'; ?>

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  • WiX, how to prevent files from uninstalling though we forgot to set Permanent="yes"

    - by Doc Brown
    We have a product installer created with Wix, containing a program package ("V1") and some configuration files. Now, we are going to make a major upgrade with a new product code, where the old version of the product is uninstalled and "V2" is installed. What we want is to save one of the configuration files from uninstalling, since it is needed for the V2, too. Unfortunately, we forgot to set the Permanent="yes" option when we delivered V1 (read this question for more information). Here comes the question: is there an easy way of preventing the uninstall of the file anyhow? Of course, we could add a custom action to the script to backup the file before uninstallation, and another custom action to restore it afterwards, but IMHO that seems to be overkill for this task, and might interfere with other parts of the MSI registration process.

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  • Play DVDs in Python?

    - by Zachary Brown
    I want to write a custom DVD player using python that plays for 30 seconds, then pauses and asks a question. Once the question is anwered, it tells the user if they are right or wrong and gives them a Resume button to resume DVD playback. How do I do this. I have never written a DVD player before, but I am open to learning!

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  • Codeigniter: Simple ajax submit not working

    - by Kevin Brown
    jQuery: $('#welcome-message').submit(function() { // inside event callbacks 'this' is the DOM element so we first // wrap it in a jQuery object and then invoke ajaxSubmit $(this).ajaxSubmit({}); $(this).fadeTo(400, 0, function () { // Links with the class "close" will close parent $(this).slideUp(400); }); return false; }); Controller: function welcome_message() { if(isset($_POST['welcome_message'])) { $this-_my_private_function(); } } private function _my_private_function() { $id = $this->session->userdata('id'); $profile['welcome_message'] = '0'; $this->db->update('be_user_profiles',$profile, array('user_id' => $id)); redirect('home', 'location'); } html: <?php print form_open('home/welcome_message',array('class'=>'horizontal','id'=>'welcome-message'))?> <p> Before you can complete the assessment, you need to complete your profile. Once that's done you'll be ready! After you have completed the assessment, you will be able to view the results from your profile. </p> <input type="checkbox" value="0" name="welcome_message" checked="false"> Don't show me this again </input> <p> <input class="button submit" type="submit" class="close-box" value="Close" /> </p> <?php print form_close()?> This should be working. My hypothesis is that the data isn't being passed to the function...but I really have no idea! It works when I visit the function in the url.

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  • How to add a "handle bar" to a sliding div

    - by Josh Brown
    I have a small splash page and have a browser-wide div that acts as a wrapper and have a div inside of #wrapper that is attached to a $.click(); event to slide the wrapper div out to view the browser-size background photo. I'm wanting to implement a small button/link that will slide in on the bottom right corner after the wrapper div is hidden. I know it is probably mainly CSS, but am needing some help. Thanks in advance for your help! PS: Using jQuery as my framework.

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  • intersection of three sets in python?

    - by Phil Brown
    Currently I am stuck trying to find the intersection of three sets. Now these sets are really lists that I am converting into sets, and then trying to find the intersection of. Here's what I have so far: for list1 in masterlist: list1=thingList1 for list2 in masterlist: list2=thingList2 for list3 in masterlist: list3=thingList3 d3=[set(thingList1), set(thingList2), set(thingList3)] setmatches c= set.intersection(*map(set,d3)) print setmatches and I'm getting set([]) Script terminated. I know there's a much simpler and better way to do this, but I can't find one...

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  • Refactor custom wizard to reduce flicker

    - by Matthew Brown
    I have implemented a custom wizard control in C# windows forms by creating a base form which has the shared components and then making child forms for each step of the process. I then have a class which hides/shows the child forms when you move from one step to another. The problem is that flickering is bad when moving between forms. Does anyone know a way to either keep this method and reduce the flicker or refactor it to make it use a single form (which should definitely reduce the flicker)?

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  • CI PHP if statement w/ sql syntax

    - by Kevin Brown
    This is a quick syntax question... I need to block out an HTML element if two SQL statements are true w/ php. If the status = 'closed', and if the current user is logged in. I can figure out the calls, I just need to see an example of the syntax. :) So, If SQL status=closed, and if current_user=is_logged_in()...something like that.

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  • Why can't decimal numbers be represented exactly in binary?

    - by Barry Brown
    There have been several questions posted to SO about floating-point representation. For example, the decimal number 0.1 doesn't have an exact binary representation, so it's dangerous to use the == operator to compare it to another floating-point number. I understand the principles behind floating-point representation. What I don't understand is why, from a mathematical perspective, are the numbers to the right of the decimal point any more "special" that the ones to the left? For example, the number 61.0 has an exact binary representation because the integral portion of any number is always exact. But the number 6.10 is not exact. All I did was move the decimal one place and suddenly I've gone from Exactopia to Inexactville. Mathematically, there should be no intrinsic difference between the two numbers -- they're just numbers. By contrast, if I move the decimal one place in the other direction to produce the number 610, I'm still in Exactopia. I can keep going in that direction (6100, 610000000, 610000000000000) and they're still exact, exact, exact. But as soon as the decimal crosses some threshold, the numbers are no longer exact. What's going on? Edit: to clarify, I want to stay away from discussion about industry-standard representations, such as IEEE, and stick with what I believe is the mathematically "pure" way. In base 10, the positional values are: ... 1000 100 10 1 1/10 1/100 ... In binary, they would be: ... 8 4 2 1 1/2 1/4 1/8 ... There are also no arbitrary limits placed on these numbers. The positions increase indefinitely to the left and to the right.

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  • Get location of element you just pushed into vector C++

    - by Satchmo Brown
    I am curious about how pushing back into a vector works. I want a way to push back an element and then be able to add it's location in the vector to a double array serving as a type of map. Something like this: // Create a bomb Bomb b; b.currentTime = SDL_GetTicks(); b.explodeTime = SDL_GetTicks() + 3000; b.owner = player; b.power = 2; b.x = x; b.y = y; bombVec.push_back(b); bombs[y][x] = THIS_IS_WHAT_I_WANT; This way when I explode the bomb, I can check the map and then have an ID in the vector to deal with. Every non bomb square will have a -1. Also, just curious. Imagine I have 3 elements in a vector. I delete the second one and then add another. Does the new element go in the same location as the one that was deleted? Thanks!

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  • T-SQL query and group by reporting help

    - by Dayton Brown
    So I have some data that looks like this. `USERID1 USERID2` 1 10 2 20 2 30 3 40 3 50 1 10 2 20 2 30 3 50 I want a query that produces the following `USERID1 COUNT` 2 2 3 2 It's a group by query that shows me the count of unique USERID2 for each USERID1 that has more than 1 USERID2 associated with it. God I hope you aren't as confused as I am by that last statement.

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  • Hyperlink in Silverlight AccordionItem HeaderTemplate

    - by Charlie Brown
    I have created a HeaderTemplate for my accordions where I want to display a text block on one side of the header and a hyperlink on the right side. The display is working correctly, but the click event is not called when the user clicks, I'm guessing b/c the header itself is trapping the click for expand/contract. <layoutToolkit:Accordion> <layoutToolkit:AccordionItem IsSelected="True"> <layoutToolkit:AccordionItem.HeaderTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Height="20"> <TextBlock Margin="0,0,700,0">Cancel Postcards</TextBlock> <HyperlinkButton Content="Next Call" Foreground="Blue" Click="NextCancel_Click" /> </StackPanel> </DataTemplate> </layoutToolkit:AccordionItem.HeaderTemplate> ..... more code .... Is there a way to get the hyperlink to respond to events without practically creating a new control?

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  • Find all the child node of specific value in C#

    - by sara brown
    <main> <myself> <pid>1</pid> <name>abc</name> </myself> <myself> <pid>2</pid> <name>efg</name> </myself> </main> that is my XML file named simpan. I have two button. next and previous. What i want to do is, all the info will shows off on the TextBox when the user click the button. The searching node will be based on the pid. Next button will adding 1 value of pid (let's say pid=2) and it will search on the node that have the same value of pid=2. it also will show the name for the pid=2. (showing name=abc) Same goes to the previous button where it will reduce 1value of pid (pid=1). Does anybody knows how to do this? //-------------EDIT------------------ thanks to L.B, im trying to use his code. however i got an error. is my implementation of code correct? private void previousList_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { pid = 14; XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse("C:\\Users\\HDAdmin\\Documents\\Fatty\\SliceEngine\\SliceEngine\\bin\\Debug\\simpan.xml"); var name = xDoc.Descendants("myself") .First(m => (int)m.Element("PatientID") == pid) .Value; textETA.Text = name; //////////////////// }

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  • How do I create a custom network connection entry?

    - by David Brown
    I have a Sprint MiFi 3G router that exposes its current signal strength over HTTP. I've developed a very simple tray application that displays this. However, what I would really like to do is create a custom network connection entry so the router's 3G signal strength (along with the current network version) displays when clicking on the network connections tray icon (in Windows 7, at least). Is it possible to do this with a shell extension or something (preferably in C#)? If so, how?

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  • Using Mergesort to calculate number of inversions in C++

    - by Brown
    void MergeSort(int A[], int n, int B[], int C[]) { if(n > 1) { Copy(A,0,floor(n/2),B,0,floor(n/2)); Copy(A,floor(n/2),n-1,C,0,floor(n/2)-1); MergeSort(B,floor(n/2),B,C); MergeSort(C,floor(n/2),B,C); Merge(A,B,0,floor(n/2),C,0,floor(n/2)-1); } }; void Copy(int A[], int startIndexA, int endIndexA, int B[], int startIndexB, int endIndexB) { while(startIndexA < endIndexA && startIndexB < endIndexB) { B[startIndexB]=A[startIndexA]; startIndexA++; startIndexB++; } }; void Merge(int A[], int B[],int leftp, int rightp, int C[], int leftq, int rightq) //Here each sub array (B and C) have both left and right indices variables (B is an array with p elements and C is an element with q elements) { int i=0; int j=0; int k=0; while(i < rightp && j < rightq) { if(B[i] <=C[j]) { A[k]=B[i]; i++; } else { A[k]=C[j]; j++; inversions+=(rightp-leftp); //when placing an element from the right array, the number of inversions is the number of elements still in the left sub array. } k++; } if(i=rightp) Copy(A,k,rightp+rightq,C,j,rightq); else Copy(A,k,rightp+rightq,B,i,rightp); } I am specifically confused on the effect of the second 'B' and 'C' arguments in the MergeSort calls. I need them in there so I have access to them for Copy and and Merge, but

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  • Simple startup on boot of misc application (Java based) on Ubuntu Linux 8+ as a daemon

    - by Berlin Brown
    What is the easiest way to have an application launch at startup on Ubuntu server as daemon? This is a java application (java com.run.run.Run) etc. How would I have it launch as a user and possibly have access to write to some log file where the user has permissions to write? And if I don't end up doing that, how would I launch the application as the root user at startup. Edited: It is a headless server, I don't have access to the desktop applications.

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