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  • How do you enable webcam support in facebook for ubuntu 10.04?

    - by Jonathan
    I think I have finally arrived at an insolvable equation: Chromium v.7 + Ubuntu 10.04 + Sun Java 6 + Webcam + Facebook + Flash 10 = non-functional All of those items listed above are potential points of failure in this situation, and any help narrowing them down would be fantastic. I am simply trying to enable webcame support directly through Facebooks website. Forum searches and the usual googling turn up few posts related to this specific equation. Two of the major suggestions include: 1) Installing the Sun (I refuse to say oracle sob)-provided Java implementation instead of the OpenJDK normally installed in ubuntu. And yes, after installing it, I did update all my default supports to use the sun commands over the openjdk. 2) Somehow enabling Facebook as a permitted site to access my webcam using Flash settings. I have not been able to explore option 2 because I cannot find a way to adjust the Flash settings in chromium 7. Other factors that do not help include the fact that I am pretty sure facebook changes its webcam interface every 10 seconds just to keep troubleshooters and support personnel on their toes. If anyone has a OTP that informs us of the next shift in the app, a leak would be greatly appreciated! Cheers!

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  • Oracle 11g Data Guard over a WAN

    - by Dave LeJeune
    Hi - We are in process of looking at using Oracle's Data Guard to replicate our 11g instance from a colo facility in Washington DC to Chicago. To give some basics we have approximately 25TB of storage and a healthy transaction rate in the 1-2K/sec range. Also, because we are processing data in real-time we have a 24x7x365 requirement for processing data. We don't have any respites as far as volume except for system upgrades (once every few months) where we take the system offline but then course experience a spike in transactions when we bring the system back on-line. Ideally we would want the second instance in the DG configuration semi-online in a read-only fashion for reports/etc. We evaluated DG in 10g and were not overly impressed and research seemed to show that earlier versions had issues with replication over a WAN but I have heard good things about modifications the product has gone through w/ 11g. Can anyone confirm an instance of this size and transaction rate being replicated over a WAN and if so what is the general latency? An information or experiences with a DG implementation that is of this size and scope would really be helpful (or larger - I also realize we are still relatively small compared to many others out there). Many thanks in advance.

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  • How do you enable webcam support in Facebook for Ubuntu 10.04?

    - by Jonathan
    I think I have finally arrived at an insolvable equation: Chromium v.7 + Ubuntu 10.04 + Sun Java 6 + Webcam + Facebook + Flash 10 = non-functional All of those items listed above are potential points of failure in this situation, and any help narrowing them down would be fantastic. I am simply trying to enable webcame support directly through Facebooks website. Forum searches and the usual googling turn up few posts related to this specific equation. Two of the major suggestions include: 1) Installing the Sun (I refuse to say oracle sob)-provided Java implementation instead of the OpenJDK normally installed in Ubuntu. And yes, after installing it, I did update all my default supports to use the sun commands over the openjdk. 2) Somehow enabling Facebook as a permitted site to access my webcam using Flash settings. I have not been able to explore option 2 because I cannot find a way to adjust the Flash settings in chromium 7. Other factors that do not help include the fact that I am pretty sure facebook changes its webcam interface every 10 seconds just to keep troubleshooters and support personnel on their toes. If anyone has a OTP that informs us of the next shift in the app, a leak would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Isn't a hidden volume used when encrypting a drive with TrueCrypt detectable?

    - by neurolysis
    I don't purport to be an expert on encryption (or even TrueCrypt specifically), but I have used TrueCrypt for a number of years and have found it to be nothing short of invaluable for securing data. As relatively well known free, open-source software, I would have thought that TrueCrypt would not have fundamental flaws in the way it operates, but unless I'm reading it wrong, it has one in the area of hidden volume encryption. There is some documentation regarding encryption with a hidden volume here. The statement that concerns me is this (emphasis mine): TrueCrypt first attempts to decrypt the standard volume header using the entered password. If it fails, it loads the area of the volume where a hidden volume header can be stored (i.e. bytes 65536–131071, which contain solely random data when there is no hidden volume within the volume) to RAM and attempts to decrypt it using the entered password. Note that hidden volume headers cannot be identified, as they appear to consist entirely of random data. Whilst the hidden headers supposedly "cannot be identified", is it not possible to, on encountering an encrypted volume encrypted using TrueCrypt, determine at which offset the header was successfully decrypted, and from that determine if you have decrypted the header for a standard volume or a hidden volume? That seems like a fundamental flaw in the header decryption implementation, if I'm reading this right -- or am I reading it wrong?

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  • Expanding raidz vdev

    - by Blubber
    I'm currently planning on installing FreeBSD 9 on my home server. The machine has 4x 1.5TB disks, and at some point, when HDD prices drop I'll be upgrading to something bigger, perhaps 3TB. The disks are connected to an IBM ServerRaid m1015 in IT mode, this card has room for up to eight disks. Now here is the problem, currently the 4x 1.5TB will be connected to the m1015. Then when prices drop I'll be adding something like 4x 3TB, also connected to the m1015. No problem yet, I can just run 2 raidz2 vdevs and put them in the same pool. But, at some point the 1.5TBs will start to break, or I will have to upgrade them when the pool runs out of space. So I started researching if it's possible to expand a raidz vdev, and I found several pages explaining the same procedure, like this on SF: How to upgrade a ZFS RAID-Z array to larger disks on OpenSolaris?. So I went a head and tried that in vmware, I installed FreeBSD 9 and created 6 virtual disks, 3 of 1GB each and 3 of 10GB each. After building a raidz vdev of the 1GBs I replaced them one by one with the 10GB, but the pool did not increase in size. Is this a limitation of the ZFS implementation in FreeBSD? Or am I just doing something wrong?

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  • SSH & SFTP: Should I assign one port to each user to facilitate bandwidth monitoring?

    - by BertS
    There is no easy way to track real-time per-user bandwidth usage for SSH and SFTP. I think assigning one port to each user may help. Idea of implementation Use case Bob, with UID 1001, shall connect on port 31001. Alice, with UID 1002, shall connect on port 31002. John, with UID 1003, shall connect on port 31003. (I do not want to lauch several sshd instances as proposed in question 247291.) 1. Setup for SFTP: In /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Port 31001 Port 31002 Port 31003 Subsystem sftp /usr/bin/sftp-wrapper.sh The file sftp-wrapper.sh starts the sftp server only if the port is the correct one: #!/bin/sh mandatory_port=3`id -u` current_port=`echo $SSH_CONNECTION | awk '{print $4}'` if [ $mandatory_port -eq $current_port ] then exec /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server fi 2. Additional setup for SSH: A few lines in /etc/profile prevents the user from connecting on the wrong port: if [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] then mandatory_port=3`id -u` current_port=`echo $SSH_CONNECTION | awk '{print $4}'` if [ $mandatory_port -ne $current_port ] then echo "Please connect on port $mandatory_port." exit 1 fi fi Benefits Now it should be easy to monitor per-user bandwidth usage. A Rrdtool-based application could produce charts like this: I know this won't be a perfect calculation of the bandwidth usage: for example, if somebody launches a bruteforce attack on port 31001, there will be a lot of traffic on this port although not from Bob. But this is not a problem to me: I do not need an exact computation of per-user bandwidth usage, but an indicator that is approximately correct in standard situations. Questions Is the idea of assigning one port for each user is a good one? Is the proposed setup an reliable one? If I have to open dozens of ports for many users, should I expect a performance drawback? Do you know a rrdtool-based application which could make the chart above?

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  • Using GPO to collect data about VMware view activity

    - by MoSiAc
    Our security group wants us to begin logging data for external access to our view enviroment. At first we thought that view security would be logging all source ip's that are external in nature so if for some reason there is an intrusion we would have record of it there. Of course our firewall logs all that information but correlating it to view is sketchy at best with our current implementation. We know on viewdesktops there is a set of keys in VolitateEnviroment that contains stuff such as source ip and username, etc. We have a script in place that, when run as a logon script attached to a user account in AD collects the information as we need it. If we have a GPO run the same script the information does not get collected. We feel like there is a piece of the puzzle we're missing but we don't know what. If anyone knows what we're forgetting or misconfiguring that would be great, or if you have a better way of us collecting external source ip's for view specifically we'd be interested in that as well. Thanks, EDIT CODE Batch script to dump to text file @echo off timeout 20 echo %computername%/%username% %time% %date% c:\vdi\vmware.txt echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~c:\vdi\vmware.txt reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment" /v "ViewClient_LoggedOn_Username"c:\vdi\vmware.txt reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment" /v "ViewClient_IP_Address"c:\vdi\vmware.txt echo.c:\vdi\vmware.txt VB Script to display values Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 Set wmiLocator=CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set wmiNameSpace = wmiLocator.ConnectServer(".", "root\default") Set objRegistry = wmiNameSpace.Get("StdRegProv") sPath = "Volatile Environment" lRC = objRegistry.GetStringValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, sPath, "ViewClien_Machine_Name", vMachine) lRC = objRegistry.GetStringValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, sPath, "ViewClien_IP_Address", vIP) lRC = objRegistry.GetStringValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, sPath, "ViewClien_MAC_Address", vMAC) msgbox "The Remote Device Name is " & vMachine & " @ " & vIP & " (" & vMAC & ") " he wanted me to mention that the batch file actually runs and I can see it counting down when I reconnect but it does not grab the registry values.

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  • Cisco 7206vxr cpu reducing

    - by naimson
    I have a 7206VXR (NPE-G2) . At the rate of 140 kpps i gain 80% of cpu . So i looking for ways how to reduce it? So i want to turn off netflow(but don't want to this,monitoring is highly important for me), but it will give me only 10-20% ? At this moment with 84kpps i have 58% sh processes cpu sorted give me this. PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process 109 163534600 537236763 304 35.38% 32.83% 16.85% 0 IP Input 67 829396 52280 15864 0.15% 0.01% 0.00% 0 Per-minute Jobs 68 5542736 3053476 1815 0.15% 0.18% 0.16% 0 Per-Second Jobs 51 635852 1116315 569 0.07% 0.03% 0.02% 0 Net Background 329 120396 4607274 26 0.07% 0.00% 0.00% 0 EIGRP-IPv4 Hello 105 50508 95032488 0 0.07% 0.05% 0.05% 0 IPAM Manager 6 4068580 476916 8531 0.00% 0.07% 0.05% 0 Check heaps 7 7768 3634 2137 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 Pool Manager 8 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 DiscardQ Backgro 10 8 708 11 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 WATCH_AFS 5 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 RO Notify Timers 12 0 2 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 ATM VC Auto Crea 9 0 2 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 Timers 11 0 2 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 ATM AutoVC Perio 13 296 610532 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Event Notifi 16 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Zone Manager 17 3584 2980311 1 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Periodic Tim 4 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 EDDRI_MAIN 19 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Process leve 20 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Seat Manager 21 96 174453 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Check Queue 14 4 50890 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Dynamic Cach 3 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 cpf_process_tpQ 24 756 305371 2 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Keep Alive M 25 2340 610561 3 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Loadometer 22 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Seat RX Cont 15 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Session Serv 18 1620 2980310 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 IPC Deferred Por 29 0 1 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0 Exception contro sh run(greped): http://pastie.org/5483194 Hardware: c7200p-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M1.bin Cisco 7206VXR (NPE-G2) processor (revision A) with 917504K/65536K bytes of memory. Processor board ID 2xxxxxxx MPC7448 CPU at 1666Mhz, Implementation 0, Rev 2.2 6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.1

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  • Why is "start in" needed for Windows scheduled tasks?

    - by GomoX
    We develop a web application that can be deployed on Windows or Linux. The Linux implementation uses cron, and the Windows one uses scheduled tasks to run a single PHP script that processes all scheduled tasks for our system. The task is scheduled using schtasks during the install process, like: This has always worked both under W2003 and W2008. A week ago a customer reported that scheduled tasks were not running. He is running on Windows 2008. We checked over and over and finally solved the issue by entering the folder that contains the .vbs script as the "start in" folder for the scheduled task. This said, there is no way to set up the "start in..." value from schtasks without using an XML definition of the tasks. XML definitions don't work in Windows 2003, so I would have to add windows version detection to the installer, additional testing, etc (I'd like to avoid this if at all possible). The only atypical thing I noticed about the install is that the system is installed in D:\ as opposed to the default C:\Program Files (x86)\, but I don't see how this would matter. All the paths are absolute in all the scripts. Can anyone suggest a reasonable solution for this?

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  • Looking for VCS wrapper that tracks system files changing across the whole *nix OS and sends diffs through email

    - by nextus
    I need some software that looks after custom directories across the whole OS (i.e. /etc) and alerting me if someone edit something file inside. Additionally, this tool must automatically commit and push changes into backup server, so I can easily determine when specific change in specific file was made. I'm using cvsbackup right now but I want to create or found something more modern. I think using git as VCS is a great idea. I could have local repository and easily revert changes in my configuration files. Furthermore, pushing changes to the remote repository would helps me to recover my configuration files when the server is fault. It doesn't seems difficult to write some wrapper around the git but there are a lot of problems. For example, I need to track custom directories: /usr/local/nginx/ and /etc/. So the destination point for my git repository is /. I don't need to track the other directories so I must to write overwhelming .gitignore rule: * !.gitignore !/etc/ !etc/* !/usr /usr/* !/usr/local /usr/local/* !/usr/local/nginx !/usr/local/nginx/* It's very daunting and prone to error. So it's maybe a good idea to create intermediate file that wrapper reads and converts to .gitignore format. Additionally, I don't want to keep my .git folder in / partition so I need to set appropriate GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE variables for git. Is there any ready to use tools for implementation this task? I don't found any but I don't believe that no one needs this feature.

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  • iPhone SDK Tableview Datasource singleton error

    - by mrburns05
    I basically followed apple "TheElements" sample and changed "PeriodicElements" .h & .m to my own "SortedItems" .h & .m During compile I get this error: "Undefined symbols: "_OBJC_CLASS_$_SortedItems", referenced from: __objc_classrefs__DATA@0 in SortedByNameTableDataSource.o ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status " here is my SortedItems.m file #import "SortedItems.h" #import "item.h" #import "MyAppDelegate.h" @interface SortedItems(mymethods) // these are private methods that outside classes need not use - (void)presortItemsByPhysicalState; - (void)presortItemInitialLetterIndexes; - (void)presortItemNamesForInitialLetter:(NSString *)aKey; - (void)presortItemsWithPhysicalState:(NSString *)state; - (NSArray *)presortItemsByNumber; - (NSArray *)presortItemsBySymbol; - (void)setupItemsArray; @end @implementation SortedItems @synthesize statesDictionary; @synthesize itemsDictionary; @synthesize nameIndexesDictionary; @synthesize itemNameIndexArray; @synthesize itemsSortedByNumber; @synthesize itemsSortedBySymbol; @synthesize itemPhysicalStatesArray; static SortedItems *sharedSortedItemsInstance = nil; + (SortedItems*)sharedSortedItems { @synchronized(self) { if (sharedSortedItemsInstance == nil) { [[self alloc] init]; // assignment not done here } } return sharedSortedItemsInstance; // note: Xcode (3.2) static analyzer will report this singleton as a false positive // '(Potential leak of an object allocated') } + (id)allocWithZone:(NSZone *)zone { @synchronized(self) { if (sharedSortedItemsInstance == nil) { sharedSortedItemsInstance = [super allocWithZone:zone]; return sharedSortedItemsInstance; // assignment and return on first allocation } } return nil; //on subsequent allocation attempts return nil } - (id)copyWithZone:(NSZone *)zone { return self; } - (id)retain { return self; } - (unsigned)retainCount { return UINT_MAX; //denotes an object that cannot be released } - (void)release { //do nothing } - (id)autorelease { return self; } // setup the data collection - init { if (self = [super init]) { [self setupItemsArray]; } return self; } - (void)setupItemsArray { NSDictionary *eachItem; // create dictionaries that contain the arrays of Item data indexed by // name self.itemsDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; // physical state self.statesDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; // unique first characters (for the Name index table) self.nameIndexesDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; // create empty array entries in the states Dictionary or each physical state [statesDictionary setObject:[NSMutableArray array] forKey:@"Solid"]; [statesDictionary setObject:[NSMutableArray array] forKey:@"Liquid"]; [statesDictionary setObject:[NSMutableArray array] forKey:@"Gas"]; [statesDictionary setObject:[NSMutableArray array] forKey:@"Artificial"]; MyAppDelegate *ad = (MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication]delegate]; NSMutableArray *rawItemsArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; [rawItemsArray addObjectsFromArray:ad.items]; // iterate over the values in the raw Items dictionary for (eachItem in rawItemsArray) { // create an atomic Item instance for each Item *anItem = [[Item alloc] initWithDictionary:eachItem]; // store that item in the Items dictionary with the name as the key [itemsDictionary setObject:anItem forKey:anItem.title]; // add that Item to the appropriate array in the physical state dictionary [[statesDictionary objectForKey:anItem.acct] addObject:anItem]; // get the Item's initial letter NSString *firstLetter = [anItem.title substringToIndex:1]; NSMutableArray *existingArray; // if an array already exists in the name index dictionary // simply add the Item to it, otherwise create an array // and add it to the name index dictionary with the letter as the key if (existingArray = [nameIndexesDictionary valueForKey:firstLetter]) { [existingArray addObject:anItem]; } else { NSMutableArray *tempArray = [NSMutableArray array]; [nameIndexesDictionary setObject:tempArray forKey:firstLetter]; [tempArray addObject:anItem]; } // release the Item, it is held by the various collections [anItem release]; } // release the raw Item data [rawItemsArray release]; // create the dictionary containing the possible Item states // and presort the states data self.itemPhysicalStatesArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"something",@"somethingElse",@"whatever",@"stuff",nil]; [self presortItemsByPhysicalState]; // presort the dictionaries now // this could be done the first time they are requested instead [self presortItemInitialLetterIndexes]; self.itemsSortedByNumber = [self presortItemsByNumber]; self.itemsSortedBySymbol = [self presortItemsBySymbol]; } // return the array of Items for the requested physical state - (NSArray *)itemsWithPhysicalState:(NSString*)aState { return [statesDictionary objectForKey:aState]; } // presort each of the arrays for the physical states - (void)presortItemsByPhysicalState { for (NSString *stateKey in itemPhysicalStatesArray) { [self presortItemsWithPhysicalState:stateKey]; } } - (void)presortItemsWithPhysicalState:(NSString *)state { NSSortDescriptor *nameDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"title" ascending:YES selector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)] ; NSArray *descriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:nameDescriptor]; [[statesDictionary objectForKey:state] sortUsingDescriptors:descriptors]; [nameDescriptor release]; } // return an array of Items for an initial letter (ie A, B, C, ...) - (NSArray *)itemsWithInitialLetter:(NSString*)aKey { return [nameIndexesDictionary objectForKey:aKey]; } // presort the name index arrays so the items are in the correct order - (void)presortItemsInitialLetterIndexes { self.itemNameIndexArray = [[nameIndexesDictionary allKeys] sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)]; for (NSString *eachNameIndex in itemNameIndexArray) { [self presortItemNamesForInitialLetter:eachNameIndex]; } } - (void)presortItemNamesForInitialLetter:(NSString *)aKey { NSSortDescriptor *nameDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"title" ascending:YES selector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)] ; NSArray *descriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:nameDescriptor]; [[nameIndexesDictionary objectForKey:aKey] sortUsingDescriptors:descriptors]; [nameDescriptor release]; } // presort the ItemsSortedByNumber array - (NSArray *)presortItemsByNumber { NSSortDescriptor *nameDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"acct" ascending:YES selector:@selector(compare:)] ; NSArray *descriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:nameDescriptor]; NSArray *sortedItems = [[itemsDictionary allValues] sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:descriptors]; [nameDescriptor release]; return sortedItems; } // presort the itemsSortedBySymbol array - (NSArray *)presortItemsBySymbol { NSSortDescriptor *symbolDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"title" ascending:YES selector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)] ; NSArray *descriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:symbolDescriptor]; NSArray *sortedItems = [[itemsDictionary allValues] sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:descriptors]; [symbolDescriptor release]; return sortedItems; } @end I followed the sample exactly - don't know where I went wrong. Here is my "SortedByNameTableDataSource.m" #import "SortedByNameTableDataSource.h" #import "SortedItems.h" #import "Item.h" #import "ItemCell.h" #import "GradientView.h" #import "UIColor-Expanded.h" #import "MyAppDelegate.h" @implementation SortedByNameTableDataSource - (NSString *)title { return @"Title"; } - (UITableViewStyle)tableViewStyle { return UITableViewStylePlain; }; // return the atomic element at the index - (Item *)itemForIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { return [[[SortedItems sharedSortedItems] itemsWithInitialLetter:[[[SortedItems sharedSortedItems] itemNameIndexArray] objectAtIndex:indexPath.section]] objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; } // UITableViewDataSource methods - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { static NSString *MyIdentifier = @"ItemCell"; ItemCell *itemCell = (ItemCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier]; if (itemCell == nil) { itemCell = [[[ItemCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:MyIdentifier] autorelease]; itemCell = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 320.0, ROW_HEIGHT); itemCell.backgroundView = [[[GradientView alloc] init] autorelease]; } itemCell.todo = [self itemForIndexPath:indexPath]; return itemCell; } - (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView { // this table has multiple sections. One for each unique character that an element begins with // [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,U,V,X,Y,Z] // return the count of that array return [[[SortedItems sharedSortedItems] itemNameIndexArray] count]; } - (NSArray *)sectionIndexTitlesForTableView:(UITableView *)tableView { // returns the array of section titles. There is one entry for each unique character that an element begins with // [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,U,V,X,Y,Z] return [[SortedItems sharedSortedItems] itemNameIndexArray]; } - (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView sectionForSectionIndexTitle:(NSString *)title atIndex:(NSInteger)index { return index; } - (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section { // the section represents the initial letter of the element // return that letter NSString *initialLetter = [[[SortedItems sharedSortedItems] itemNameIndexArray] objectAtIndex:section]; // get the array of elements that begin with that letter NSArray *itemsWithInitialLetter = [[SortedItems sharedSortedItems] itemsWithInitialLetter:initialLetter]; // return the count return [itemsWithInitialLetter count]; } - (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section { // this table has multiple sections. One for each unique character that an element begins with // [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,U,V,X,Y,Z] // return the letter that represents the requested section // this is actually a delegate method, but we forward the request to the datasource in the view controller return [[[SortedItems sharedSortedItems] itemNameIndexArray] objectAtIndex:section]; } @end

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  • What is the fastest cyclic synchronization in Java (ExecutorService vs. CyclicBarrier vs. X)?

    - by Alex Dunlop
    Which Java synchronization construct is likely to provide the best performance for a concurrent, iterative processing scenario with a fixed number of threads like the one outlined below? After experimenting on my own for a while (using ExecutorService and CyclicBarrier) and being somewhat surprised by the results, I would be grateful for some expert advice and maybe some new ideas. Existing questions here do not seem to focus primarily on performance, hence this new one. Thanks in advance! The core of the app is a simple iterative data processing algorithm, parallelized to the spread the computational load across 8 cores on a Mac Pro, running OS X 10.6 and Java 1.6.0_07. The data to be processed is split into 8 blocks and each block is fed to a Runnable to be executed by one of a fixed number of threads. Parallelizing the algorithm was fairly straightforward, and it functionally works as desired, but its performance is not yet what I think it could be. The app seems to spend a lot of time in system calls synchronizing, so after some profiling I wonder whether I selected the most appropriate synchronization mechanism(s). A key requirement of the algorithm is that it needs to proceed in stages, so the threads need to sync up at the end of each stage. The main thread prepares the work (very low overhead), passes it to the threads, lets them work on it, then proceeds when all threads are done, rearranges the work (again very low overhead) and repeats the cycle. The machine is dedicated to this task, Garbage Collection is minimized by using per-thread pools of pre-allocated items, and the number of threads can be fixed (no incoming requests or the like, just one thread per CPU core). V1 - ExecutorService My first implementation used an ExecutorService with 8 worker threads. The program creates 8 tasks holding the work and then lets them work on it, roughly like this: // create one thread per CPU executorService = Executors.newFixedThreadPool( 8 ); ... // now process data in cycles while( ...) { // package data into 8 work items ... // create one Callable task per work item ... // submit the Callables to the worker threads executorService.invokeAll( taskList ); } This works well functionally (it does what it should), and for very large work items indeed all 8 CPUs become highly loaded, as much as the processing algorithm would be expected to allow (some work items will finish faster than others, then idle). However, as the work items become smaller (and this is not really under the program's control), the user CPU load shrinks dramatically: blocksize | system | user | cycles/sec 256k 1.8% 85% 1.30 64k 2.5% 77% 5.6 16k 4% 64% 22.5 4096 8% 56% 86 1024 13% 38% 227 256 17% 19% 420 64 19% 17% 948 16 19% 13% 1626 Legend: - block size = size of the work item (= computational steps) - system = system load, as shown in OS X Activity Monitor (red bar) - user = user load, as shown in OS X Activity Monitor (green bar) - cycles/sec = iterations through the main while loop, more is better The primary area of concern here is the high percentage of time spent in the system, which appears to be driven by thread synchronization calls. As expected, for smaller work items, ExecutorService.invokeAll() will require relatively more effort to sync up the threads versus the amount of work being performed in each thread. But since ExecutorService is more generic than it would need to be for this use case (it can queue tasks for threads if there are more tasks than cores), I though maybe there would be a leaner synchronization construct. V2 - CyclicBarrier The next implementation used a CyclicBarrier to sync up the threads before receiving work and after completing it, roughly as follows: main() { // create the barrier barrier = new CyclicBarrier( 8 + 1 ); // create Runable for thread, tell it about the barrier Runnable task = new WorkerThreadRunnable( barrier ); // start the threads for( int i = 0; i < 8; i++ ) { // create one thread per core new Thread( task ).start(); } while( ... ) { // tell threads about the work ... // N threads + this will call await(), then system proceeds barrier.await(); // ... now worker threads work on the work... // wait for worker threads to finish barrier.await(); } } class WorkerThreadRunnable implements Runnable { CyclicBarrier barrier; WorkerThreadRunnable( CyclicBarrier barrier ) { this.barrier = barrier; } public void run() { while( true ) { // wait for work barrier.await(); // do the work ... // wait for everyone else to finish barrier.await(); } } } Again, this works well functionally (it does what it should), and for very large work items indeed all 8 CPUs become highly loaded, as before. However, as the work items become smaller, the load still shrinks dramatically: blocksize | system | user | cycles/sec 256k 1.9% 85% 1.30 64k 2.7% 78% 6.1 16k 5.5% 52% 25 4096 9% 29% 64 1024 11% 15% 117 256 12% 8% 169 64 12% 6.5% 285 16 12% 6% 377 For large work items, synchronization is negligible and the performance is identical to V1. But unexpectedly, the results of the (highly specialized) CyclicBarrier seem MUCH WORSE than those for the (generic) ExecutorService: throughput (cycles/sec) is only about 1/4th of V1. A preliminary conclusion would be that even though this seems to be the advertised ideal use case for CyclicBarrier, it performs much worse than the generic ExecutorService. V3 - Wait/Notify + CyclicBarrier It seemed worth a try to replace the first cyclic barrier await() with a simple wait/notify mechanism: main() { // create the barrier // create Runable for thread, tell it about the barrier // start the threads while( ... ) { // tell threads about the work // for each: workerThreadRunnable.setWorkItem( ... ); // ... now worker threads work on the work... // wait for worker threads to finish barrier.await(); } } class WorkerThreadRunnable implements Runnable { CyclicBarrier barrier; @NotNull volatile private Callable<Integer> workItem; WorkerThreadRunnable( CyclicBarrier barrier ) { this.barrier = barrier; this.workItem = NO_WORK; } final protected void setWorkItem( @NotNull final Callable<Integer> callable ) { synchronized( this ) { workItem = callable; notify(); } } public void run() { while( true ) { // wait for work while( true ) { synchronized( this ) { if( workItem != NO_WORK ) break; try { wait(); } catch( InterruptedException e ) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } // do the work ... // wait for everyone else to finish barrier.await(); } } } Again, this works well functionally (it does what it should). blocksize | system | user | cycles/sec 256k 1.9% 85% 1.30 64k 2.4% 80% 6.3 16k 4.6% 60% 30.1 4096 8.6% 41% 98.5 1024 12% 23% 202 256 14% 11.6% 299 64 14% 10.0% 518 16 14.8% 8.7% 679 The throughput for small work items is still much worse than that of the ExecutorService, but about 2x that of the CyclicBarrier. Eliminating one CyclicBarrier eliminates half of the gap. V4 - Busy wait instead of wait/notify Since this app is the primary one running on the system and the cores idle anyway if they're not busy with a work item, why not try a busy wait for work items in each thread, even if that spins the CPU needlessly. The worker thread code changes as follows: class WorkerThreadRunnable implements Runnable { // as before final protected void setWorkItem( @NotNull final Callable<Integer> callable ) { workItem = callable; } public void run() { while( true ) { // busy-wait for work while( true ) { if( workItem != NO_WORK ) break; } // do the work ... // wait for everyone else to finish barrier.await(); } } } Also works well functionally (it does what it should). blocksize | system | user | cycles/sec 256k 1.9% 85% 1.30 64k 2.2% 81% 6.3 16k 4.2% 62% 33 4096 7.5% 40% 107 1024 10.4% 23% 210 256 12.0% 12.0% 310 64 11.9% 10.2% 550 16 12.2% 8.6% 741 For small work items, this increases throughput by a further 10% over the CyclicBarrier + wait/notify variant, which is not insignificant. But it is still much lower-throughput than V1 with the ExecutorService. V5 - ? So what is the best synchronization mechanism for such a (presumably not uncommon) problem? I am weary of writing my own sync mechanism to completely replace ExecutorService (assuming that it is too generic and there has to be something that can still be taken out to make it more efficient). It is not my area of expertise and I'm concerned that I'd spend a lot of time debugging it (since I'm not even sure my wait/notify and busy wait variants are correct) for uncertain gain. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Error with JSF2 and RichFaces

    - by Miguel Ping
    Hi, I'm trying to use RichFaces on a working JSF2 application. I incorporated the RichFaces jars, changed the web.xml but got the following error: 17:49:13,097 SEVERE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.application] Error Rendering View[/login.xhtml]: java.lang.NullPointerExcept ion at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.createComponent(ApplicationImpl.java:936) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.CompositeComponentTagHandler.createComponent(CompositeComponentTagHandler.java:154) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.createComponent(ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.java:311) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.apply(ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.java:145) at javax.faces.view.facelets.DelegatingMetaTagHandler.apply(DelegatingMetaTagHandler.java:114) at javax.faces.view.facelets.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:91) at javax.faces.view.facelets.DelegatingMetaTagHandler.applyNextHandler(DelegatingMetaTagHandler.java:120) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.apply(ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.java:204) at javax.faces.view.facelets.DelegatingMetaTagHandler.apply(DelegatingMetaTagHandler.java:114) at javax.faces.view.facelets.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:91) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:86) at javax.faces.view.facelets.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:91) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:75) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:301) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:360) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:339) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeFacelet(DefaultFaceletContext.java:191) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.ui.CompositionHandler.apply(CompositionHandler.java:149) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:86) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:75) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.apply(DefaultFacelet.java:145) at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.buildView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:716) at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.renderView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:351) at com.sun.faces.application.view.MultiViewHandler.renderView(MultiViewHandler.java:126) at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:100) at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:176) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:127) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:313) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:336) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:242) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:206) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.handleRequest(BaseFilter.java:290) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.processUploadsAndHandleRequest(BaseFilter.java:388) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:515) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:274) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:242) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:541) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:479) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:407) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.forwardToLoginPage(FormAuthenticator.java:318) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.authenticate(FormAuthenticator.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:559) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:95) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:368) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:872) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:653) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:951) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) It seems that some jars are missing, but I cannot seem to find this cause. The above error is the only thing that the log spits out. Here's web.xml: <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-validator-tags/general.taglib.xml; /WEB-INF/faces-converter-tags/general.converter.taglib.xml </param-value> </context-param> <!-- Startup Servlet <servlet> <servlet-name>StartUpServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>pt.cgd.agile.util.StartupServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> --> <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.DISABLE_FACELET_JSF_VIEWHANDLER</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name> <param-value>blueSky</param-value> </context-param> <!-- Making the RichFaces skin spread to standard HTML controls --> <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING</param-name> <param-value>enable</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name> <param-value>server</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name> <param-value>blueSky</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING</param-name> <param-value>enable</param-value> </context-param> <filter> <display-name>RichFaces Filter</display-name> <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name> <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher> <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher> <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher> </filter-mapping> <listener> <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class> </listener> <!-- Just here so the JSF implementation can initialize, *not* used at runtime --> <servlet> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <!-- Just here so the JSF implementation can initialize --> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <login-config> <auth-method>FORM</auth-method> <form-login-config> <form-login-page>/login.jsf</form-login-page> <form-error-page>/loginError.jsf</form-error-page> </form-login-config> </login-config> <error-page> <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type> <location>/errors/error.jsf</location> </error-page>

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  • rotating bitmaps. In code.

    - by Marco van de Voort
    Is there a faster way to rotate a large bitmap by 90 or 270 degrees than simply doing a nested loop with inverted coordinates? The bitmaps are 8bpp and typically 2048*2400*8bpp Currently I do this by simply copying with argument inversion, roughly (pseudo code: for x = 0 to 2048-1 for y = 0 to 2048-1 dest[x][y]=src[y][x]; (In reality I do it with pointers, for a bit more speed, but that is roughly the same magnitude) GDI is quite slow with large images, and GPU load/store times for textures (GF7 cards) are in the same magnitude as the current CPU time. Any tips, pointers? An in-place algorithm would even be better, but speed is more important than being in-place. Target is Delphi, but it is more an algorithmic question. SSE(2) vectorization no problem, it is a big enough problem for me to code it in assembler Duplicates How do you rotate a two dimensional array?. Follow up to Nils' answer Image 2048x2700 - 2700x2048 Compiler Turbo Explorer 2006 with optimization on. Windows: Power scheme set to "Always on". (important!!!!) Machine: Core2 6600 (2.4 GHz) time with old routine: 32ms (step 1) time with stepsize 8 : 12ms time with stepsize 16 : 10ms time with stepsize 32+ : 9ms Meanwhile I also tested on a Athlon 64 X2 (5200+ iirc), and the speed up there was slightly more than a factor four (80 to 19 ms). The speed up is well worth it, thanks. Maybe that during the summer months I'll torture myself with a SSE(2) version. However I already thought about how to tackle that, and I think I'll run out of SSE2 registers for an straight implementation: for n:=0 to 7 do begin load r0, <source+n*rowsize> shift byte from r0 into r1 shift byte from r0 into r2 .. shift byte from r0 into r8 end; store r1, <target> store r2, <target+1*<rowsize> .. store r8, <target+7*<rowsize> So 8x8 needs 9 registers, but 32-bits SSE only has 8. Anyway that is something for the summer months :-) Note that the pointer thing is something that I do out of instinct, but it could be there is actually something to it, if your dimensions are not hardcoded, the compiler can't turn the mul into a shift. While muls an sich are cheap nowadays, they also generate more register pressure afaik. The code (validated by subtracting result from the "naieve" rotate1 implementation): const stepsize = 32; procedure rotatealign(Source: tbw8image; Target:tbw8image); var stepsx,stepsy,restx,resty : Integer; RowPitchSource, RowPitchTarget : Integer; pSource, pTarget,ps1,ps2 : pchar; x,y,i,j: integer; rpstep : integer; begin RowPitchSource := source.RowPitch; // bytes to jump to next line. Can be negative (includes alignment) RowPitchTarget := target.RowPitch; rpstep:=RowPitchTarget*stepsize; stepsx:=source.ImageWidth div stepsize; stepsy:=source.ImageHeight div stepsize; // check if mod 16=0 here for both dimensions, if so -> SSE2. for y := 0 to stepsy - 1 do begin psource:=source.GetImagePointer(0,y*stepsize); // gets pointer to pixel x,y ptarget:=Target.GetImagePointer(target.imagewidth-(y+1)*stepsize,0); for x := 0 to stepsx - 1 do begin for i := 0 to stepsize - 1 do begin ps1:=@psource[rowpitchsource*i]; // ( 0,i) ps2:=@ptarget[stepsize-1-i]; // (maxx-i,0); for j := 0 to stepsize - 1 do begin ps2[0]:=ps1[j]; inc(ps2,RowPitchTarget); end; end; inc(psource,stepsize); inc(ptarget,rpstep); end; end; // 3 more areas to do, with dimensions // - stepsy*stepsize * restx // right most column of restx width // - stepsx*stepsize * resty // bottom row with resty height // - restx*resty // bottom-right rectangle. restx:=source.ImageWidth mod stepsize; // typically zero because width is // typically 1024 or 2048 resty:=source.Imageheight mod stepsize; if restx>0 then begin // one loop less, since we know this fits in one line of "blocks" psource:=source.GetImagePointer(source.ImageWidth-restx,0); // gets pointer to pixel x,y ptarget:=Target.GetImagePointer(Target.imagewidth-stepsize,Target.imageheight-restx); for y := 0 to stepsy - 1 do begin for i := 0 to stepsize - 1 do begin ps1:=@psource[rowpitchsource*i]; // ( 0,i) ps2:=@ptarget[stepsize-1-i]; // (maxx-i,0); for j := 0 to restx - 1 do begin ps2[0]:=ps1[j]; inc(ps2,RowPitchTarget); end; end; inc(psource,stepsize*RowPitchSource); dec(ptarget,stepsize); end; end; if resty>0 then begin // one loop less, since we know this fits in one line of "blocks" psource:=source.GetImagePointer(0,source.ImageHeight-resty); // gets pointer to pixel x,y ptarget:=Target.GetImagePointer(0,0); for x := 0 to stepsx - 1 do begin for i := 0 to resty- 1 do begin ps1:=@psource[rowpitchsource*i]; // ( 0,i) ps2:=@ptarget[resty-1-i]; // (maxx-i,0); for j := 0 to stepsize - 1 do begin ps2[0]:=ps1[j]; inc(ps2,RowPitchTarget); end; end; inc(psource,stepsize); inc(ptarget,rpstep); end; end; if (resty>0) and (restx>0) then begin // another loop less, since only one block psource:=source.GetImagePointer(source.ImageWidth-restx,source.ImageHeight-resty); // gets pointer to pixel x,y ptarget:=Target.GetImagePointer(0,target.ImageHeight-restx); for i := 0 to resty- 1 do begin ps1:=@psource[rowpitchsource*i]; // ( 0,i) ps2:=@ptarget[resty-1-i]; // (maxx-i,0); for j := 0 to restx - 1 do begin ps2[0]:=ps1[j]; inc(ps2,RowPitchTarget); end; end; end; end;

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  • Implementing union of Set using basic java array

    - by lupindeterd
    Note: This is an assignment. Hi, Continuing with my Set implementation using Java basic array, I'm now struggling with the 3 to last function namely the union. import java.io.*; class Set { private int numberOfElements = 0; private String[] setElements = new String[5]; private int maxNumberOfElements = 5; // constructor for our Set class public Set(int numberOfE, int setE, int maxNumberOfE) { int numberOfElements = numberOfE; String[] setElements = new String[setE]; int maxNumberOfElements = maxNumberOfE; } // Helper method to shorten/remove element of array since we're using basic array instead of ArrayList or HashSet from collection interface :( static String[] removeAt(int k, String[] arr) { final int L = arr.length; String[] ret = new String[L - 1]; System.arraycopy(arr, 0, ret, 0, k); System.arraycopy(arr, k + 1, ret, k, L - k - 1); return ret; } int findElement(String element) { int retval = 0; for ( int i = 0; i < setElements.length; i++) { if ( setElements[i] != null && setElements[i].equals(element) ) { return retval = i; } retval = -1; } return retval; } void add(String newValue) { int elem = findElement(newValue); if( numberOfElements < maxNumberOfElements && elem == -1 ) { setElements[numberOfElements] = newValue; numberOfElements++; } } int getLength() { if ( setElements != null ) { return setElements.length; } else { return 0; } } String[] emptySet() { setElements = new String[0]; return setElements; } Boolean isFull() { Boolean True = new Boolean(true); Boolean False = new Boolean(false); if ( setElements.length == maxNumberOfElements ){ return True; } else { return False; } } Boolean isEmpty() { Boolean True = new Boolean(true); Boolean False = new Boolean(false); if ( setElements.length == 0 ) { return True; } else { return False; } } void remove(String newValue) { for ( int i = 0; i < setElements.length; i++) { if ( setElements[i].equals(newValue) ) { setElements = removeAt(i,setElements); } } } int isAMember(String element) { int retval = -1; for ( int i = 0; i < setElements.length; i++ ) { if (setElements[i] != null && setElements[i].equals(element)) { return retval = i; } } return retval; } void printSet() { for ( int i = 0; i < setElements.length; i++) { System.out.println("Member elements on index: "+ i +" " + setElements[i]); } } String[] getMember() { String[] tempArray = new String[setElements.length]; for ( int i = 0; i < setElements.length; i++) { if(setElements[i] != null) { tempArray[i] = setElements[i]; } } return tempArray; } Set union(Set x, Set y) { String[] newtemparray = new String[x.getLength]; newtemparray = x.getMember; return x; } } // This is the SetDemo class that will make use of our Set class class SetDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { //get input from keyboard BufferedReader keyboard; InputStreamReader reader; String temp = ""; reader = new InputStreamReader(System.in); keyboard = new BufferedReader(reader); try { System.out.println("Enter string element to be added" ); temp = keyboard.readLine( ); System.out.println("You entered " + temp ); } catch (IOException IOerr) { System.out.println("There was an error during input"); } /* ************************************************************************** * Test cases for our new created Set class. * ************************************************************************** */ Set setA = new Set(1,10,10); setA.add(temp); setA.add("b"); setA.add("b"); setA.add("hello"); setA.add("world"); setA.add("six"); setA.add("seven"); setA.add("b"); int size = setA.getLength(); System.out.println("Set size is: " + size ); Boolean isempty = setA.isEmpty(); System.out.println("Set is empty? " + isempty ); int ismember = setA.isAMember("sixb"); System.out.println("Element six is member of setA? " + ismember ); Boolean output = setA.isFull(); System.out.println("Set is full? " + output ); setA.printSet(); int index = setA.findElement("world"); System.out.println("Element b located on index: " + index ); setA.remove("b"); setA.emptySet(); int resize = setA.getLength(); System.out.println("Set size is: " + resize ); setA.printSet(); Set setB = new Set(0,10,10); Set SetA = setA.union(setB,setA); } } Ok the method in question will be the implementation of union. As such this: Set union(Set x, Set y) { String[] newtemparray = new String[x.getLength]; newtemparray = x.getMember; return x; } I got this error: symbol : variable getLength location: class Set String[] newtemparray = new String[x.getLength]; ^ d:\javaprojects\Set.java:122: cannot find symbol symbol : variable getMember location: class Set newtemparray = x.getMember; ^ 2 errors My approach for union would be: *) create temporary array of string with size of the object x length. *) store object x members to temporary array by looping the object and calling the getMember *) loop object y members and check if element exist against temporary array. *) discard if it exist/add if it is not there *) return obj x with the union array. thanks, lupin

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  • Authoritative sources about Database vs. Flatfile decision

    - by FastAl
    <tldr>looking for a reference to a book or other undeniably authoritative source that gives reasons when you should choose a database vs. when you should choose other storage methods. I have provided an un-authoritative list of reasons about 2/3 of the way down this post.</tldr> I have a situation at my company where a database is being used where it would be better to use another solution (in this case, an auto-generated piece of source code that contains a static lookup table, searched by binary sort). Normally, a database would be an OK solution even though the problem does not require a database, e.g, none of the elements of ACID are needed, as it is read-only data, updated about every 3-5 years (also requiring other sourcecode changes), and fits in memory, and can be keyed into via binary search (a tad faster than db, but speed is not an issue). The problem is that this code runs on our enterprise server, but is shared with several PC platforms (some disconnected, some use a central DB, etc.), and parts of it are managed by multiple programming units, parts by the DBAs, parts even by mathematicians in another department, etc. These hit their own platform’s version of their databases (containing their own copy of the static data). What happens is that every implementation, every little change, something different goes wrong. There are many other issues as well. I can’t even use a flatfile, because one mode of running on our enterprise server does not have permission to read files (only databases, and of course, its own literal storage, e.g., in-source table). Of course, other parts of the system use databases in proper, less obscure manners; there is no problem with those parts. So why don’t we just change it? I don’t have administrative ability to force a change. But I’m affected because sometimes I have to help fix the problems, but mostly because it causes outages and tons of extra IT time by other programmers and d*mmit that makes me mad! The reason neither management, nor the designers of the system, can see the problem is that they propose a solution that won’t work: increase communication; implement more safeguards and standards; etc. But every time, in a different part of the already-pared-down but still multi-step processes, a few different diligent, hard-working, top performing IT personnel make a unique subtle error that causes it to fail, sometimes after the last round of testing! And in general these are not single-person failures, but understandable miscommunications. And communication at our company is actually better than most. People just don't think that's the case because they haven't dug into the matter. However, I have it on very good word from somebody with extensive formal study of sociology and psychology that the relatively small amount of less-than-proper database usage in this gigantic cross-platform multi-source, multi-language project is bureaucratically un-maintainable. Impossible. No chance. At least with Human Beings in the loop, and it can’t be automated. In addition, the management and developers who could change this, though intelligent and capable, don’t understand the rigidity of this ‘how humans are’ issue, and are not convincible on the matter. The reason putting the static data in sourcecode will solve the problem is, although the solution is less sexy than a database, it would function with no technical drawbacks; and since the sharing of sourcecode already works very well, you basically erase any database-related effort from this section of the project, along with all the drawbacks of it that are causing problems. OK, that’s the background, for the curious. I won’t be able to convince management that this is an unfixable sociological problem, and that the real solution is coding around these limits of human nature, just as you would code around a bug in a 3rd party component that you can’t change. So what I have to do is exploit the unsuitableness of the database solution, and not do it using logic, but rather authority. I am aware of many reasons, and posts on this site giving reasons for one over the other; I’m not looking for lists of reasons like these (although you can add a comment if I've miss a doozy): WHY USE A DATABASE? instead of flatfile/other DB vs. file: if you need... Random Read / Transparent search optimization Advanced / varied / customizable Searching and sorting capabilities Transaction/rollback Locks, semaphores Concurrency control / Shared users Security 1-many/m-m is easier Easy modification Scalability Load Balancing Random updates / inserts / deletes Advanced query Administrative control of design, etc. SQL / learning curve Debugging / Logging Centralized / Live Backup capabilities Cached queries / dvlp & cache execution plans Interleaved update/read Referential integrity, avoid redundant/missing/corrupt/out-of-sync data Reporting (from on olap or oltp db) / turnkey generation tools [Disadvantages:] Important to get right the first time - professional design - but only b/c it's meant to last s/w & h/w cost Usu. over a network, speed issue (best vs. best design vs. local=even then a separate process req's marshalling/netwk layers/inter-p comm) indicies and query processing can stand in the way of simple processing (vs. flatfile) WHY USE FLATFILE: If you only need... Sequential Row processing only Limited usage append only (no reading, no master key/update) Only Update the record you're reading (fixed length recs only) Too big to fit into memory If Local disk / read-ahead network connection Portability / small system Email / cut & Paste / store as document by novice - simple format Low design learning curve but high cost later WHY USE IN-MEMORY/TABLE (tables, arrays, etc.): if you need... Processing a single db/ff record that was imported Known size of data Static data if hardcoding the table Narrow, unchanging use (e.g., one program or proc) -includes a class that will be shared, but encapsulates its data manipulation Extreme speed needed / high transaction frequency Random access - but search is dependent on implementation Following are some other posts about the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1499239/database-vs-flat-text-file-what-are-some-technical-reasons-for-choosing-one-over http://stackoverflow.com/questions/332825/are-flat-file-databases-any-good http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2356851/database-vs-flat-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514455/databases-vs-plain-text/514530 What I’d like to know is if anybody could recommend a hard, authoritative source containing these reasons. I’m looking for a paper book I can buy, or a reputable website with whitepapers about the issue (e.g., Microsoft, IBM), not counting the user-generated content on those sites. This will have a greater change to elicit a change that I’m looking for: less wasted programmer time, and more reliable programs. Thanks very much for your help. You win a prize for reading such a large post!

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  • My App crashes when launched on my Iphone

    - by Miky Mike
    hi guys, I have a problem here : my app crashed on my Iphone (JB) though Xcode doesn't complain about anything. The app works fine on the simulator though. However, there is this in the device logs : Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00078ac8 kill + 8 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00078ab8 kill + 4 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00078aaa raise + 10 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0008d03a abort + 50 4 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00044a20 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() + 376 5 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00005958 _objc_terminate + 104 6 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00042df2 _cxxabiv1::_terminate(void (*)()) + 46 7 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00042e46 std::terminate() + 10 8 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00042f16 __cxa_throw + 78 9 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00004838 objc_exception_throw + 64 10 CoreFoundation 0x0009fd0e +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 62 11 CoreFoundation 0x0009fd48 +[NSException raise:format:] + 28 12 Foundation 0x000125d8 -[NSURL(NSURL) initFileURLWithPath:] + 64 13 Foundation 0x000371e0 +[NSURL(NSURL) fileURLWithPath:] + 24 14 TheLearningMachine 0x00002d08 0x1000 + 7432 15 TheLearningMachine 0x00002e8c 0x1000 + 7820 16 TheLearningMachine 0x00002be4 0x1000 + 7140 17 TheLearningMachine 0x000029b6 0x1000 + 6582 18 UIKit 0x0000e47a -[UIApplication _callInitializationDelegatesForURL:payload:suspended:] + 766 19 UIKit 0x000049e0 -[UIApplication _runWithURL:payload:launchOrientation:statusBarStyle:statusBarHidden:] + 200 20 UIKit 0x0005dfd6 -[UIApplication handleEvent:withNewEvent:] + 1390 21 UIKit 0x0005d8fa -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 38 22 UIKit 0x0005d330 _UIApplicationHandleEvent + 5104 23 GraphicsServices 0x00005044 PurpleEventCallback + 660 24 CoreFoundation 0x00034cdc __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION + 20 25 CoreFoundation 0x00034ca0 __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 160 26 CoreFoundation 0x00027566 __CFRunLoopRun + 514 27 CoreFoundation 0x00027270 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 224 28 CoreFoundation 0x00027178 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 52 29 UIKit 0x000040fc -[UIApplication _run] + 364 30 UIKit 0x00002128 UIApplicationMain + 664 31 TheLearningMachine 0x00002948 0x1000 + 6472 32 TheLearningMachine 0x000028fc 0x1000 + 6396 Thread 1: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0002d330 kevent + 24 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x000d6b6c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 88 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x000d65bc _dispatch_queue_invoke + 96 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x000d675c _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 120 4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0007a67a _pthread_wqthread + 258 5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00073190 start_wqthread + 0 Thread 2: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0007b19c __workq_kernreturn + 8 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0007a790 _pthread_wqthread + 536 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00073190 start_wqthread + 0 Thread 3: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00000c98 mach_msg_trap + 20 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00002d64 mach_msg + 44 2 CoreFoundation 0x00027c38 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 88 3 CoreFoundation 0x000274c2 __CFRunLoopRun + 350 4 CoreFoundation 0x00027270 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 224 5 CoreFoundation 0x00027178 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 52 6 WebCore 0x000024e2 RunWebThread(void*) + 362 7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0007a27e _pthread_start + 242 8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0006f2a8 thread_start + 0 Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State: r0: 0x00000000 r1: 0x00000000 r2: 0x00000001 r3: 0x3e0862b4 r4: 0x00000006 r5: 0x0015a2ec r6: 0x2fffe090 r7: 0x2fffe0a0 r8: 0x3e1a378c r9: 0x00000065 r10: 0x33028e5a r11: 0x3e1ab89c ip: 0x00000025 sp: 0x2fffe0a0 lr: 0x30277abf pc: 0x30277ac8 cpsr: 0x000f0010 Any idea what the problem can be ? I've already spent my whole day on that, but... I'm stuck. Thanks in advance... Miky Mike Ok, Here is more then from the console, I get this : This GDB was configured as "--host=i386-apple-darwin --target=arm-apple-darwin".tty /dev/ttys002 Loading program into debugger… Program loaded. target remote-mobile /tmp/.XcodeGDBRemote-17280-65 Switching to remote-macosx protocol mem 0x1000 0x3fffffff cache mem 0x40000000 0xffffffff none mem 0x00000000 0x0fff none run Running… Error launching remote program: failed to get the task for process 456. Error launching remote program: failed to get the task for process 456. The program being debugged is not being run. The program being debugged is not being run. [Session started at 2010-12-23 20:33:33 +0100.] GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1472) (Thu Aug 5 05:54:10 UTC 2010) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "--host=i386-apple-darwin --target=arm-apple-darwin".tty /dev/ttys004 Loading program into debugger… Program loaded. target remote-mobile /tmp/.XcodeGDBRemote-17280-72 Switching to remote-macosx protocol mem 0x1000 0x3fffffff cache mem 0x40000000 0xffffffff none mem 0x00000000 0x0fff none run Running… Error launching remote program: failed to get the task for process 508. Error launching remote program: failed to get the task for process 508. The program being debugged is not being run. The program being debugged is not being run. And here is the code page that calls the URL import "TheLearningMachineAppDelegate.h" import "RootViewController.h" @implementation TheLearningMachineAppDelegate @synthesize window; @synthesize navigationController; pragma mark - pragma mark Application lifecycle (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions { RootViewController *rootViewController = (RootViewController *)[navigationController topViewController]; rootViewController.managedObjectContext = self.managedObjectContext; [window addSubview:[navigationController view]]; [window makeKeyAndVisible]; return YES; } (void)applicationWillResignActive:(UIApplication )application { / Sent when the application is about to move from active to inactive state. This can occur for certain types of temporary interruptions (such as an incoming phone call or SMS message) or when the user quits the application and it begins the transition to the background state. Use this method to pause ongoing tasks, disable timers, and throttle down OpenGL ES frame rates. Games should use this method to pause the game. */ } (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application { [self saveContext]; } (void)applicationWillEnterForeground:(UIApplication )application { / Called as part of the transition from the background to the inactive state: here you can undo many of the changes made on entering the background. */ } (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication )application { / Restart any tasks that were paused (or not yet started) while the application was inactive. If the application was previously in the background, optionally refresh the user interface. */ } // Method that saves the managed object context before the application terminates. (void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application { [self saveContext]; } (void)saveContext { NSError *error = nil; if (managedObjectContext != nil) { if ([managedObjectContext hasChanges] && ![managedObjectContext save:&error]) { NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]); abort(); //Replace this implementation with code to handle the error appropriately. //abort() causes the application to generate a crash log and terminate. You should not use this function in a shipping application, although it may be useful during development. If it is not possible to recover from the error, display an alert panel that instructs the user to quit the application by pressing the Home button. } } } pragma mark - pragma mark Core Data stack // Returns the managed object context for the application. (NSManagedObjectContext *)managedObjectContext { if (managedObjectContext != nil) { return managedObjectContext; } NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *coordinator = [self persistentStoreCoordinator]; if (coordinator != nil) { managedObjectContext = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] init]; [managedObjectContext setPersistentStoreCoordinator:coordinator]; } return managedObjectContext; } // Returns the managed object model for the application. (NSManagedObjectModel *)managedObjectModel { if (managedObjectModel != nil) { return managedObjectModel; } NSString *modelPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"TheLearningMachine" ofType:@"momd"]; NSURL *modelURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:modelPath]; managedObjectModel = [[NSManagedObjectModel alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:modelURL]; return managedObjectModel; } pragma mark - pragma mark Application's Documents directory // Returns the path to the application's Documents directory. - (NSString *)applicationDocumentsDirectory { return [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject]; } // Returns the persistent store coordinator for the application. - (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator { if (persistentStoreCoordinator != nil) { return persistentStoreCoordinator; } NSURL *storeURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath: [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"TheLearningMachine.sqlite"]]; NSError *error = nil; persistentStoreCoordinator = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel:[self managedObjectModel]]; if (![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeURL options:nil error:&error]) { NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]); abort(); } return persistentStoreCoordinator; } pragma mark - pragma mark Memory management (void)applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning:(UIApplication )application { / Free up as much memory as possible by purging cached data objects that can be recreated (or reloaded from disk) later. */ } (void)dealloc { [managedObjectContext release]; [managedObjectModel release]; [persistentStoreCoordinator release]; [window release]; [super dealloc]; } @end

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  • How do I prove I should put a table of values in source code instead of a database table?

    - by FastAl
    <tldr>looking for a reference to a book or other undeniably authoritative source that gives reasons when you should choose a database vs. when you should choose other storage methods. I have provided an un-authoritative list of reasons about 2/3 of the way down this post.</tldr> I have a situation at my company where a database is being used where it would be better to use another solution (in this case, an auto-generated piece of source code that contains a static lookup table, searched by binary sort). Normally, a database would be an OK solution even though the problem does not require a database, e.g, none of the elements of ACID are needed, as it is read-only data, updated about every 3-5 years (also requiring other sourcecode changes), and fits in memory, and can be keyed into via binary search (a tad faster than db, but speed is not an issue). The problem is that this code runs on our enterprise server, but is shared with several PC platforms (some disconnected, some use a central DB, etc.), and parts of it are managed by multiple programming units, parts by the DBAs, parts even by mathematicians in another department, etc. These hit their own platform’s version of their databases (containing their own copy of the static data). What happens is that every implementation, every little change, something different goes wrong. There are many other issues as well. I can’t even use a flatfile, because one mode of running on our enterprise server does not have permission to read files (only databases, and of course, its own literal storage, e.g., in-source table). Of course, other parts of the system use databases in proper, less obscure manners; there is no problem with those parts. So why don’t we just change it? I don’t have administrative ability to force a change. But I’m affected because sometimes I have to help fix the problems, but mostly because it causes outages and tons of extra IT time by other programmers and d*mmit that makes me mad! The reason neither management, nor the designers of the system, can see the problem is that they propose a solution that won’t work: increase communication; implement more safeguards and standards; etc. But every time, in a different part of the already-pared-down but still multi-step processes, a few different diligent, hard-working, top performing IT personnel make a unique subtle error that causes it to fail, sometimes after the last round of testing! And in general these are not single-person failures, but understandable miscommunications. And communication at our company is actually better than most. People just don't think that's the case because they haven't dug into the matter. However, I have it on very good word from somebody with extensive formal study of sociology and psychology that the relatively small amount of less-than-proper database usage in this gigantic cross-platform multi-source, multi-language project is bureaucratically un-maintainable. Impossible. No chance. At least with Human Beings in the loop, and it can’t be automated. In addition, the management and developers who could change this, though intelligent and capable, don’t understand the rigidity of this ‘how humans are’ issue, and are not convincible on the matter. The reason putting the static data in sourcecode will solve the problem is, although the solution is less sexy than a database, it would function with no technical drawbacks; and since the sharing of sourcecode already works very well, you basically erase any database-related effort from this section of the project, along with all the drawbacks of it that are causing problems. OK, that’s the background, for the curious. I won’t be able to convince management that this is an unfixable sociological problem, and that the real solution is coding around these limits of human nature, just as you would code around a bug in a 3rd party component that you can’t change. So what I have to do is exploit the unsuitableness of the database solution, and not do it using logic, but rather authority. I am aware of many reasons, and posts on this site giving reasons for one over the other; I’m not looking for lists of reasons like these (although you can add a comment if I've miss a doozy): WHY USE A DATABASE? instead of flatfile/other DB vs. file: if you need... Random Read / Transparent search optimization Advanced / varied / customizable Searching and sorting capabilities Transaction/rollback Locks, semaphores Concurrency control / Shared users Security 1-many/m-m is easier Easy modification Scalability Load Balancing Random updates / inserts / deletes Advanced query Administrative control of design, etc. SQL / learning curve Debugging / Logging Centralized / Live Backup capabilities Cached queries / dvlp & cache execution plans Interleaved update/read Referential integrity, avoid redundant/missing/corrupt/out-of-sync data Reporting (from on olap or oltp db) / turnkey generation tools [Disadvantages:] Important to get right the first time - professional design - but only b/c it's meant to last s/w & h/w cost Usu. over a network, speed issue (best vs. best design vs. local=even then a separate process req's marshalling/netwk layers/inter-p comm) indicies and query processing can stand in the way of simple processing (vs. flatfile) WHY USE FLATFILE: If you only need... Sequential Row processing only Limited usage append only (no reading, no master key/update) Only Update the record you're reading (fixed length recs only) Too big to fit into memory If Local disk / read-ahead network connection Portability / small system Email / cut & Paste / store as document by novice - simple format Low design learning curve but high cost later WHY USE IN-MEMORY/TABLE (tables, arrays, etc.): if you need... Processing a single db/ff record that was imported Known size of data Static data if hardcoding the table Narrow, unchanging use (e.g., one program or proc) -includes a class that will be shared, but encapsulates its data manipulation Extreme speed needed / high transaction frequency Random access - but search is dependent on implementation Following are some other posts about the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1499239/database-vs-flat-text-file-what-are-some-technical-reasons-for-choosing-one-over http://stackoverflow.com/questions/332825/are-flat-file-databases-any-good http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2356851/database-vs-flat-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514455/databases-vs-plain-text/514530 What I’d like to know is if anybody could recommend a hard, authoritative source containing these reasons. I’m looking for a paper book I can buy, or a reputable website with whitepapers about the issue (e.g., Microsoft, IBM), not counting the user-generated content on those sites. This will have a greater change to elicit a change that I’m looking for: less wasted programmer time, and more reliable programs. Thanks very much for your help. You win a prize for reading such a large post!

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  • C++ simple logging class with UTF-8 output [code example]

    - by Andrew
    Hello everyone, I was working on one of my academic projects and for the first time I needed pure C++ without GUI. After googling for a while, I did not find any simple and easy to use implementation for logging and created my own. This is a simple implementation with iostreams that logs messages to screen and to the file simultaneously. I was thinking of using templates but then I realized that I do not expect any changes and removed that. It is modified std::wostream with two added modifiers: 1. TimeStamp - prints time-stamp 2. LogMode(LogModes) - switches output: file only, screen only, file+screen. *Boost::utf8_codecvt_facet* is used for UTF-8 output. // ############################################################################ // # Name: MyLog.h # // # Purpose: Logging Class Header # // # Author: Andrew Drach # // # Modified by: <somebody> # // # Created: 03/21/10 # // # SVN-ID: $Id$ # // # Copyright: (c) 2010 Andrew Drach # // # Licence: <license> # // ############################################################################ #ifndef INCLUDED_MYLOG_H #define INCLUDED_MYLOG_H // headers -------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <string> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <exception> #include <boost/program_options/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp> using namespace std; // definitions ---------------------------------------------------------------- // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // DblBuf class // Splits up output stream into two // Inspired by http://wordaligned.org/articles/cpp-streambufs // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- class DblBuf : public wstreambuf { private: // private member declarations DblBuf(); wstreambuf *bf1; wstreambuf *bf2; virtual int_type overflow(int_type ch) { int_type eof = traits_type::eof(); int_type not_eof = !eof; if ( traits_type::eq_int_type(ch,eof) ) return not_eof; else { char_type ch1 = traits_type::to_char_type(ch); int_type r1( bf1on ? bf1->sputc(ch1) : not_eof ); int_type r2( bf2on ? bf2->sputc(ch1) : not_eof ); return (traits_type::eq_int_type(r1,eof) || traits_type::eq_int_type(r2,eof) ) ? eof : ch; } } virtual int sync() { int r1( bf1on ? bf1->pubsync() : NULL ); int r2( bf2on ? bf2->pubsync() : NULL ); return (r1 == 0 && r2 == 0) ? 0 : -1; } public: // public member declarations explicit DblBuf(wstreambuf *bf1, wstreambuf *bf2) : bf1(bf1), bf2(bf2) { if (bf1) bf1on = true; else bf1on = false; if (bf2) bf2on = true; else bf2on = false; } bool bf1on; bool bf2on; }; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // logstream class // Wrapper for a standard wostream with access to modified buffer // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- class logstream : public wostream { private: // private member declarations logstream(); public: // public member declarations DblBuf *buf; explicit logstream(wstreambuf *StrBuf, bool isStd = false) : wostream(StrBuf, isStd), buf((DblBuf*)StrBuf) {} }; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Logging mode Class // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- enum LogModes{LogToFile=1, LogToScreen, LogToBoth}; class LogMode { private: // private member declarations LogMode(); short mode; public: // public member declarations LogMode(short mode1) : mode(mode1) {} logstream& operator()(logstream &stream1) { switch(mode) { case LogToFile: stream1.buf->bf1on = true; stream1.buf->bf2on = false; break; case LogToScreen: stream1.buf->bf1on = false; stream1.buf->bf2on = true; break; case LogToBoth: stream1.buf->bf1on = true; stream1.buf->bf2on = true; } return stream1; } }; logstream& operator<<(logstream &out, LogMode mode) { return mode(out); } wostream& TimeStamp1(wostream &out1) { time_t time1; struct tm timeinfo; wchar_t timestr[512]; // Get current time and convert it to a string time(&time1); localtime_s (&timeinfo, &time1); wcsftime(timestr, 512,L"[%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S %p] ",&timeinfo); return out1 << timestr; } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // MyLog class // Logs events to both file and screen // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- class MyLog { private: // private member declarations MyLog(); auto_ptr<DblBuf> buf; string mErrorMsg1; string mErrorMsg2; string mErrorMsg3; string mErrorMsg4; public: // public member declarations explicit MyLog(string FileName1, wostream *ScrLog1, locale utf8locale1); ~MyLog(); void NewEvent(wstring str1, bool TimeStamp = true); string FileName; wostream *ScrLog; wofstream File; auto_ptr<logstream> Log; locale utf8locale; }; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // MyLog constructor // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MyLog::MyLog(string FileName1, wostream *ScrLog1, locale utf8locale1) : // ctors mErrorMsg1("Failed to open file for application logging! []"), mErrorMsg2("Failed to write BOM! []"), mErrorMsg3("Failed to write to file! []"), mErrorMsg4("Failed to close file! []"), FileName(FileName1), ScrLog(ScrLog1), utf8locale(utf8locale1), File(FileName1.c_str()) { // Adjust error strings mErrorMsg1.insert(mErrorMsg1.length()-1,FileName1); mErrorMsg2.insert(mErrorMsg2.length()-1,FileName1); mErrorMsg3.insert(mErrorMsg3.length()-1,FileName1); mErrorMsg4.insert(mErrorMsg4.length()-1,FileName1); // check for file open errors if ( !File ) throw ofstream::failure(mErrorMsg1); // write UTF-8 BOM File << wchar_t(0xEF) << wchar_t(0xBB) << wchar_t(0xBF); // switch locale to UTF-8 File.imbue(utf8locale); // check for write errors if ( File.bad() ) throw ofstream::failure(mErrorMsg2); buf.reset( new DblBuf(File.rdbuf(),ScrLog->rdbuf()) ); Log.reset( new logstream(&*buf) ); } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // MyLog destructor // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MyLog::~MyLog() { *Log << TimeStamp1 << "Log finished." << endl; // clean up objects Log.reset(); buf.reset(); File.close(); // check for file close errors if ( File.bad() ) throw ofstream::failure(mErrorMsg4); } //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #endif // INCLUDED_MYLOG_H Tested on MSVC 2008, boost 1.42. I do not know if this is the right place to share it. Hope it helps anybody. Feel free to make it better.

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  • Drupal Ctools Form Wizard in a Block

    - by Iamjon
    Hi everyone I created a custom module that has a Ctools multi step form. It's basically a copy of http://www.nicklewis.org/using-chaos-tools-form-wizard-build-multistep-forms-drupal-6. The form works. I can see it if I got to the url i made for it. For the life of me I can't get the multistep form to show up in a block. Any clues? /** * Implementation of hook_block() * */ function mycrazymodule_block($op='list', $delta=0, $edit=array()) { switch ($op) { case 'list': $blocks[0]['info'] = t('SFT Getting Started'); $blocks[1]['info'] = t('SFT Contact US'); $blocks[2]['info'] = t('SFT News Letter'); return $blocks; case 'view': switch ($delta){ case '0': $block['subject'] = t('SFT Getting Started Subject'); $block['content'] = mycrazymodule_wizard(); break; case '1': $block['subject'] = t('SFT Contact US Subject'); $block['content'] = t('SFT Contact US content'); break; case '2': $block['subject'] = t('SFT News Letter Subject'); $block['content'] = t('SFT News Letter cONTENT'); break; } return $block; } } /** * Implementation of hook_menu(). */ function mycrazymodule_menu() { $items['hellocowboy'] = array( 'title' = 'Two Step Form', 'page callback' = 'mycrazymodule_wizard', 'access arguments' = array('access content') ); return $items; } /** * menu callback for the multistep form * step is whatever arg one is -- and will refer to the keys listed in * $form_info['order'], and $form_info['forms'] arrays */ function mycrazymodule_wizard() { $step = arg(1); // required includes for wizard $form_state = array(); ctools_include('wizard'); ctools_include('object-cache'); // The array that will hold the two forms and their options $form_info = array( 'id' = 'getting_started', 'path' = "hellocowboy/%step", 'show trail' = FALSE, 'show back' = FALSE, 'show cancel' = false, 'show return' =false, 'next text' = 'Submit', 'next callback' = 'getting_started_add_subtask_next', 'finish callback' = 'getting_started_add_subtask_finish', 'return callback' = 'getting_started_add_subtask_finish', 'order' = array( 'basic' = t('Step 1: Basic Info'), 'lecture' = t('Step 2: Choose Lecture'), ), 'forms' = array( 'basic' = array( 'form id' = 'basic_info_form' ), 'lecture' = array( 'form id' = 'choose_lecture_form' ), ), ); $form_state = array( 'cache name' = NULL, ); // no matter the step, you will load your values from the callback page $getstart = getting_started_get_page_cache(NULL); if (!$getstart) { // set form to first step -- we have no data $step = current(array_keys($form_info['order'])); $getstart = new stdClass(); //create cache ctools_object_cache_set('getting_started', $form_state['cache name'], $getstart); //print_r($getstart); } //THIS IS WHERE WILL STORE ALL FORM DATA $form_state['getting_started_obj'] = $getstart; // and this is the witchcraft that makes it work $output = ctools_wizard_multistep_form($form_info, $step, $form_state); return $output; } function basic_info_form(&$form, &$form_state){ $getstart = &$form_state['getting_started_obj']; $form['firstname'] = array( '#weight' = '0', '#type' = 'textfield', '#title' = t('firstname'), '#size' = 60, '#maxlength' = 255, '#required' = TRUE, ); $form['lastname'] = array( '#weight' = '1', '#type' = 'textfield', '#title' = t('lastname'), '#required' = TRUE, '#size' = 60, '#maxlength' = 255, ); $form['phone'] = array( '#weight' = '2', '#type' = 'textfield', '#title' = t('phone'), '#required' = TRUE, '#size' = 60, '#maxlength' = 255, ); $form['email'] = array( '#weight' = '3', '#type' = 'textfield', '#title' = t('email'), '#required' = TRUE, '#size' = 60, '#maxlength' = 255, ); $form['newsletter'] = array( '#weight' = '4', '#type' = 'checkbox', '#title' = t('I would like to receive the newsletter'), '#required' = TRUE, '#return_value' = 1, '#default_value' = 1, ); $form_state['no buttons'] = TRUE; } function basic_info_form_validate(&$form, &$form_state){ $email = $form_state['values']['email']; $phone = $form_state['values']['phone']; if(valid_email_address($email) != TRUE){ form_set_error('Dude you have an error', t('Where is your email?')); } //if (strlen($phone) 0 && !ereg('^[0-9]{1,3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3,4}-[0-9]{3,4}$', $phone)) { //form_set_error('Dude the phone', t('Phone number must be in format xxx-xxx-nnnn-nnnn.')); //} } function basic_info_form_submit(&$form, &$form_state){ //Grab the variables $firstname =check_plain ($form_state['values']['firstname']); $lastname = check_plain ($form_state['values']['lastname']); $email = check_plain ($form_state['values']['email']); $phone = check_plain ($form_state['values']['phone']); $newsletter = $form_state['values']['newsletter']; //Send the form and Grab the lead id $leadid = send_first_form($lastname, $firstname, $email,$phone, $newsletter); //Put into form $form_state['getting_started_obj']-firstname = $firstname; $form_state['getting_started_obj']-lastname = $lastname; $form_state['getting_started_obj']-email = $email; $form_state['getting_started_obj']-phone = $phone; $form_state['getting_started_obj']-newsletter = $newsletter; $form_state['getting_started_obj']-leadid = $leadid; } function choose_lecture_form(&$form, &$form_state){ $one = 'event 1' $two = 'event 2' $three = 'event 3' $getstart = &$form_state['getting_started_obj']; $form['lecture'] = array( '#weight' = '5', '#default_value' = 'two', '#options' = array( 'one' = $one, 'two' = $two, 'three' = $three, ), '#type' = 'radios', '#title' = t('Select Workshop'), '#required' = TRUE, ); $form['attendees'] = array( '#weight' = '6', '#default_value' = 'one', '#options' = array( 'one' = t('I will be arriving alone'), 'two' =t('I will be arriving with a guest'), ), '#type' = 'radios', '#title' = t('Attendees'), '#required' = TRUE, ); $form_state['no buttons'] = TRUE; } /** * Same idea as previous steps submit * */ function choose_lecture_form_submit(&$form, &$form_state) { $workshop = $form_state['values']['lecture']; $leadid = $form_state['getting_started_obj']-leadid; $attendees = $form_state['values']['attendees']; $form_state['getting_started_obj']-lecture = $workshop; $form_state['getting_started_obj']-attendees = $attendees; send_second_form($workshop, $attendees, $leadid); } /*----PART 3 CTOOLS CALLBACKS -- these usually don't have to be very unique ---------------------- */ /** * Callback generated when the add page process is finished. * this is where you'd normally save. */ function getting_started_add_subtask_finish(&$form_state) { dpm($form_state); $getstart = &$form_state['getting_started_obj']; drupal_set_message('mycrazymodule '.$getstart-name.' successfully deployed' ); //Get id // Clear the cache ctools_object_cache_clear('getting_started', $form_state['cache name']); $form_state['redirect'] = 'hellocowboy'; } /** * Callback for the proceed step * */ function getting_started_add_subtask_next(&$form_state) { dpm($form_state); $getstart = &$form_state['getting_started_obj']; $cache = ctools_object_cache_set('getting_started', $form_state['cache name'], $getstart); } /*----PART 4 CTOOLS FORM STORAGE HANDLERS -- these usually don't have to be very unique ---------------------- */ /** * Remove an item from the object cache. */ function getting_started_clear_page_cache($name) { ctools_object_cache_clear('getting_started', $name); } /** * Get the cached changes to a given task handler. */ function getting_started_get_page_cache($name) { $cache = ctools_object_cache_get('getting_started', $name); return $cache; } //Salesforce Functions function send_first_form($lastname, $firstname,$email,$phone, $newsletter){ $send = array("LastName" = $lastname , "FirstName" = $firstname, "Email" = $email ,"Phone" = $phone , "Newsletter__c" =$newsletter ); $sf = salesforce_api_connect(); $response = $sf-client-create(array($send), 'Lead'); dpm($response); return $response-id; } function send_second_form($workshop, $attendees, $leadid){ $send = array("Id" = $leadid , "Number_Of_Pepole__c" = "2" ); $sf = salesforce_api_connect(); $response = $sf-client-update(array($send), 'Lead'); dpm($response, 'the final response'); return $response-id; }

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  • iOS TableView crash loading different data

    - by jollyr0ger
    Hi to all! I'm developing a simple iOS app where there is a table view with some categories (CategoryViewController). When clicking one of this category the view will be passed to a RecipesListController with another table view with recipes. This recipes are loaded from different plist based on the category clicked. The first time I click on a category, the recipes list is loaded and shown correctely. If i back to the category list and click any of the category (also the same again) the app crash. And I don't know how. The viewWillAppear is ececuted correctely but after crash. Can you help me? If you need the entire project I can zip it for you. Ok? Here is the code of the CategoryViewController.h #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import "RecipeRowViewController.h" @class RecipesListController; @interface CategoryViewController : UITableViewController { NSArray *recipeCategories; RecipesListController *childController; } @property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray *recipeCategories; @end The CategoryViewControoler.m #import "CategoryViewCotroller.h" #import "NavAppDelegate.h" #import "RecipesListController.h" @implementation CategoryViewController @synthesize recipeCategories; - (void)viewDidLoad { // Create the categories NSArray *array = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"Antipasti", @"Focacce", @"Primi", @"Secondi", @"Contorni", @"Dolci", nil]; self.recipeCategories = array; [array release]; // Set background image UIImageView *bgImg = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"sfondo_app.png"]]; [self.tableView setBackgroundView:bgImg]; [bgImg release]; [self.tableView reloadData]; [super viewDidLoad]; } - (void)viewDidUnload { self.recipeCategories = nil; // [childController release]; [super viewDidUnload]; } - (void)dealloc { [recipeCategories release]; // [childController release]; [super dealloc]; } #pragma mark - #pragma mark Table data source methods - (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section { return [recipeCategories count]; } - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { static NSString *CellId = @"RecipesCategoriesCellId"; // Try to reuse a cell or create a new one UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellId]; if (cell == nil) { cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellId] autorelease]; } // Get the right value and assign to the cell NSUInteger row = [indexPath row]; NSString *rowString = [recipeCategories objectAtIndex:row]; cell.textLabel.text = rowString; cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator; [rowString release]; return cell; } #pragma mark - #pragma mark Table view delegate methods - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { if (childController == nil) { childController = [[RecipesListController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped]; } childController.title = @"Ricette"; childController.category = [indexPath row]; [self.navigationController pushViewController:childController animated:YES]; } @end The RecipesListController.h #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import "RecipeRowViewController.h" #define kRecipeArrayLink 0 #define kRecipeArrayDifficulty 1 #define kRecipeArrayFoodType 2 #define kRecipeAntipasti 0 #define kRecipeFocacce 1 #define kRecipePrimi 2 #define kRecipeSecondi 3 #define kRecipeContorni 4 #define kRecipeDolci 5 @class DisclosureDetailController; @interface RecipesListController : UITableViewController { NSInteger category; NSDictionary *recipesArray; NSArray *recipesNames; NSArray *recipesLinks; DisclosureDetailController *childController; } @property (nonatomic) NSInteger category; @property (nonatomic, retain) NSDictionary *recipesArray; @property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray *recipesNames; @property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray *recipesLinks; @end The RecipesListcontroller.m #import "RecipesListController.h" #import "NavAppDelegate.h" #import "DisclosureDetailController.h" @implementation RecipesListController @synthesize category, recipesArray, recipesNames, recipesLinks; - (void)viewDidLoad { // Set background image UIImageView *bgImg = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"sfondo_app.png"]]; [self.tableView setBackgroundView:bgImg]; [bgImg release]; [self.tableView reloadData]; [super viewDidLoad]; } - (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated { if (self.recipesArray != nil) { // Release the arrays [self.recipesArray release]; [self.recipesNames release]; } // Load the dictionary NSString *path = nil; // Load a different dictionary, based on the category if (self.category == kRecipeAntipasti) { path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"recipes_antipasti" ofType:@"plist"]; } else if (self.category == kRecipeFocacce) { path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"recipes_focacce" ofType:@"plist"]; } else if (self.category == kRecipePrimi) { path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"recipes_primi" ofType:@"plist"]; } else if (self.category == kRecipeSecondi) { path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"recipes_secondi" ofType:@"plist"]; } else if (self.category == kRecipeContorni) { path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"recipes_contorni" ofType:@"plist"]; } else if (self.category == kRecipeDolci) { path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"recipes_dolci" ofType:@"plist"]; } NSDictionary *dict = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path]; self.recipesArray = dict; [dict release]; // Save recipes names NSArray *array = [[recipesArray allKeys] sortedArrayUsingSelector: @selector(compare:)]; self.recipesNames = array; [self.tableView reloadData]; [super viewWillAppear:animated]; } - (void)viewDidUnload { self.recipesArray = nil; self.recipesNames = nil; self.recipesLinks = nil; // [childController release]; [super viewDidUnload]; } - (void)dealloc { [recipesArray release]; [recipesNames release]; [recipesLinks release]; // [childController release]; [super dealloc]; } #pragma mark - #pragma mark Table data source methods - (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section { return [recipesNames count]; } - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { static NSString *RecipesListCellId = @"RecipesListCellId"; // Try to reuse a cell or create a new one UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:RecipesListCellId]; if (cell == nil) { cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:RecipesListCellId] autorelease]; } // Get the right value and assign to the cell NSUInteger row = [indexPath row]; NSString *rowString = [recipesNames objectAtIndex:row]; cell.textLabel.text = rowString; cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator; [rowString release]; return cell; } #pragma mark - #pragma mark Table view delegate methods - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { if (childController == nil) { childController = [[DisclosureDetailController alloc] initWithNibName:@"DisclosureDetail" bundle:nil]; } childController.title = @"Dettagli"; NSUInteger row = [indexPath row]; childController.recipeName = [recipesNames objectAtIndex:row]; NSArray *recipeRawArray = [recipesArray objectForKey:childController.recipeName]; childController.recipeLink = [recipeRawArray objectAtIndex:kRecipeArrayLink]; childController.recipeDifficulty = [recipeRawArray objectAtIndex:kRecipeArrayDifficulty]; [self.navigationController pushViewController:childController animated:YES]; } @end This is the crash log Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”. (gdb) bt #0 0x00f0da63 in objc_msgSend () #1 0x04b27ca0 in ?? () #2 0x00002665 in -[RecipesListController viewWillAppear:] (self=0x4b38a00, _cmd=0x6d81a2, animated=1 '\001') at /Users/claudiocanino/Documents/iOS/CottoMangiato/Classes/RecipesListController.m:67 #3 0x00370c9a in -[UINavigationController _startTransition:fromViewController:toViewController:] () #4 0x0036b606 in -[UINavigationController _startDeferredTransitionIfNeeded] () #5 0x0037283e in -[UINavigationController pushViewController:transition:forceImmediate:] () #6 0x04f49549 in -[UINavigationControllerAccessibility(SafeCategory) pushViewController:transition:forceImmediate:] () #7 0x0036b4a0 in -[UINavigationController pushViewController:animated:] () #8 0x00003919 in -[CategoryViewController tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:] (self=0x4b27ca0, _cmd=0x6d19e3, tableView=0x500c200, indexPath=0x4b2d650) at /Users/claudiocanino/Documents/iOS/CottoMangiato/Classes/CategoryViewCotroller.m:104 #9 0x0032a794 in -[UITableView _selectRowAtIndexPath:animated:scrollPosition:notifyDelegate:] () #10 0x00320d50 in -[UITableView _userSelectRowAtPendingSelectionIndexPath:] () #11 0x000337f6 in __NSFireDelayedPerform () #12 0x00d8cfe3 in __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ () #13 0x00d8e594 in __CFRunLoopDoTimer () #14 0x00ceacc9 in __CFRunLoopRun () #15 0x00cea240 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific () #16 0x00cea161 in CFRunLoopRunInMode () #17 0x016e0268 in GSEventRunModal () #18 0x016e032d in GSEventRun () #19 0x002c342e in UIApplicationMain () #20 0x00001c08 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffef58) at /Users/claudiocanino/Documents/iOS/CottoMangiato/main.m:15 Another bt log: (gdb) bt #0 0x00cd76a1 in __CFBasicHashDeallocate () #1 0x00cc2bcb in _CFRelease () #2 0x00002dd6 in -[RecipesListController setRecipesArray:] (self=0x6834d50, _cmd=0x4293, _value=0x4e3bc70) at /Users/claudiocanino/Documents/iOS/CottoMangiato/Classes/RecipesListController.m:16 #3 0x00002665 in -[RecipesListController viewWillAppear:] (self=0x6834d50, _cmd=0x6d81a2, animated=1 '\001') at /Users/claudiocanino/Documents/iOS/CottoMangiato/Classes/RecipesListController.m:67 #4 0x00370c9a in -[UINavigationController _startTransition:fromViewController:toViewController:] () #5 0x0036b606 in -[UINavigationController _startDeferredTransitionIfNeeded] () #6 0x0037283e in -[UINavigationController pushViewController:transition:forceImmediate:] () #7 0x091ac549 in -[UINavigationControllerAccessibility(SafeCategory) pushViewController:transition:forceImmediate:] () #8 0x0036b4a0 in -[UINavigationController pushViewController:animated:] () #9 0x00003919 in -[CategoryViewController tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:] (self=0x4b12970, _cmd=0x6d19e3, tableView=0x5014400, indexPath=0x4b2bd00) at /Users/claudiocanino/Documents/iOS/CottoMangiato/Classes/CategoryViewCotroller.m:104 #10 0x0032a794 in -[UITableView _selectRowAtIndexPath:animated:scrollPosition:notifyDelegate:] () #11 0x00320d50 in -[UITableView _userSelectRowAtPendingSelectionIndexPath:] () #12 0x000337f6 in __NSFireDelayedPerform () #13 0x00d8cfe3 in __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ () #14 0x00d8e594 in __CFRunLoopDoTimer () #15 0x00ceacc9 in __CFRunLoopRun () #16 0x00cea240 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific () #17 0x00cea161 in CFRunLoopRunInMode () #18 0x016e0268 in GSEventRunModal () #19 0x016e032d in GSEventRun () #20 0x002c342e in UIApplicationMain () #21 0x00001c08 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffef58) at /Users/claudiocanino/Documents/iOS/CottoMangiato/main.m:15 Thanks

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  • iOS bluetooth low energy not detecting peripherals

    - by user3712524
    My app won't detect peripherals. Im using light blue to simulate a bluetooth low energy peripheral and my app just won't sense it. I even installed light blue on two devices to make sure it was generating a peripheral signal properly and it is. Any suggestions? My labels are updating and the NSLog is showing that the scanning is starting. Thanks in advance. #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> #import <CoreBluetooth/CoreBluetooth.h> @interface ViewController : UIViewController @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *navDestination; @end #import "ViewController.h" @implementation ViewController - (IBAction)connect:(id)sender { } - (IBAction)navDestination:(id)sender { NSString *destinationText = self.navDestination.text; } - (void)viewDidLoad { } - (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated { [super viewWillDisappear:animated]; } - (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated. } @end #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> #import "ViewController.h" @interface BlueToothViewController : UIViewController @property (strong, nonatomic) CBCentralManager *centralManager; @property (strong, nonatomic) CBPeripheral *discoveredPerepheral; @property (strong, nonatomic) NSMutableData *data; @property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *textview; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *charLabel; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *isConnected; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *myPeripherals; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *aLabel; - (void)centralManagerDidUpdateState:(CBCentralManager *)central; - (void)centralManger:(CBCentralManager *)central didDiscoverPeripheral: (CBPeripheral *)peripheral advertisementData:(NSDictionary *)advertisementData RSSI:(NSNumber *)RSSI; -(void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didFailToConnectPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral error:(NSError *)error; -(void)cleanup; -(void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didConnectPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral; -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didDiscoverServices:(NSError *)error; -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didDiscoverCharacteristicsForService:(CBService *)service error:(NSError *)error; -(void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didDisconnectPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral error:(NSError *)error; -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didUpdateValueForCharacteristic:(CBCharacteristic *)characteristic error:(NSError *)error; -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didUpdateNotificationStateForCharacteristic:(CBCharacteristic *)characteristic error:(NSError *)error; @end @interface BlueToothViewController () @end @implementation BlueToothViewController - (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil { self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil]; if (self) { // Custom initialization } return self; } - (void)viewDidLoad { _centralManager = [[CBCentralManager alloc]initWithDelegate:self queue:nil options:nil]; _data = [[NSMutableData alloc]init]; } - (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated { [super viewWillDisappear:animated]; [_centralManager stopScan]; } - (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated. } - (void)centralManagerDidUpdateState:(CBCentralManager *)central { //you should test all scenarios if (central.state == CBCentralManagerStateUnknown) { self.aLabel.text = @"I dont do anything because my state is unknown."; return; } if (central.state == CBCentralManagerStatePoweredOn) { //scan for devices [_centralManager scanForPeripheralsWithServices:nil options:@{ CBCentralManagerScanOptionAllowDuplicatesKey : @YES }]; NSLog(@"Scanning Started"); } if (central.state == CBCentralManagerStateResetting) { self.aLabel.text = @"I dont do anything because my state is resetting."; return; } if (central.state == CBCentralManagerStateUnsupported) { self.aLabel.text = @"I dont do anything because my state is unsupported."; return; } if (central.state == CBCentralManagerStateUnauthorized) { self.aLabel.text = @"I dont do anything because my state is unauthorized."; return; } if (central.state == CBCentralManagerStatePoweredOff) { self.aLabel.text = @"I dont do anything because my state is powered off."; return; } } - (void)centralManger:(CBCentralManager *)central didDiscoverPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral advertisementData:(NSDictionary *)advertisementData RSSI:(NSNumber *)RSSI { NSLog(@"Discovered %@ at %@", peripheral.name, RSSI); self.myPeripherals.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",peripheral.name, RSSI]; if (_discoveredPerepheral != peripheral) { //save a copy of the peripheral _discoveredPerepheral = peripheral; //and connect NSLog(@"Connecting to peripheral %@", peripheral); [_centralManager connectPeripheral:peripheral options:nil]; self.aLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", peripheral]; } } -(void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didFailToConnectPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral error:(NSError *)error { NSLog(@"Failed to connect"); [self cleanup]; } -(void)cleanup { //see if we are subscribed to a characteristic on the peripheral if (_discoveredPerepheral.services != nil) { for (CBService *service in _discoveredPerepheral.services) { if (service.characteristics != nil) { for (CBCharacteristic *characteristic in service.characteristics) { if ([characteristic.UUID isEqual:[CBUUID UUIDWithString:@"508EFF8E-F541-57EF-BD82-B0B4EC504CA9"]]) { if (characteristic.isNotifying) { [_discoveredPerepheral setNotifyValue:NO forCharacteristic:characteristic]; return; } } } } } } [_centralManager cancelPeripheralConnection:_discoveredPerepheral]; } -(void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didConnectPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral { NSLog(@"Connected"); [_centralManager stopScan]; NSLog(@"Scanning stopped"); self.isConnected.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Connected"]; [_data setLength:0]; peripheral.delegate = self; [peripheral discoverServices:nil]; } -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didDiscoverServices:(NSError *)error { if (error) { [self cleanup]; return; } for (CBService *service in peripheral.services) { [peripheral discoverCharacteristics:nil forService:service]; } //discover other characteristics } -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didDiscoverCharacteristicsForService:(CBService *)service error:(NSError *)error { if (error) { [self cleanup]; return; } for (CBCharacteristic *characteristic in service.characteristics) { [peripheral setNotifyValue:YES forCharacteristic:characteristic]; } } -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didUpdateValueForCharacteristic:(CBCharacteristic *)characteristic error:(NSError *)error { if (error) { NSLog(@"Error"); return; } NSString *stringFromData = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:characteristic.value encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; self.charLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", stringFromData]; //Have we got everything we need? if ([stringFromData isEqualToString:@"EOM"]) { [_textview setText:[[NSString alloc]initWithData:self.data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; [peripheral setNotifyValue:NO forCharacteristic:characteristic]; [_centralManager cancelPeripheralConnection:peripheral]; } } -(void)peripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral didUpdateNotificationStateForCharacteristic:(CBCharacteristic *)characteristic error:(NSError *)error { if ([characteristic.UUID isEqual:nil]) { return; } if (characteristic.isNotifying) { NSLog(@"Notification began on %@", characteristic); } else { [_centralManager cancelPeripheralConnection:peripheral]; } } -(void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didDisconnectPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral error:(NSError *)error { _discoveredPerepheral = nil; self.isConnected.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Connecting..."]; [_centralManager scanForPeripheralsWithServices:nil options:@{ CBCentralManagerScanOptionAllowDuplicatesKey : @YES}]; } @end

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  • NetBeans Development 7 - Windows 7 64-bit … JNI native calls ... a how to guide

    - by CirrusFlyer
    I provide this for you to hopefully save you some time and pain. As part of my expereince in getting to know NB Development v7 on my Windows 64-bit workstation I found another frustrating adventure in trying to get the JNI (Java Native Interface) abilities up and working in my project. As such, I am including a brief summary of steps required (as all the documentation I found was completely incorrect for these versions of Windows and NetBeans on how to do JNI). It took a couple of days of experimentation and reviewing every webpage I could find that included these technologies as keyword searches. Yuk!! Not fun. To begin, as NetBeans Development is "all about modules" if you are reading this you probably have a need for one, or more, of your modules to perform JNI calls. Most of what is available on this site or the Internet in general (not to mention the help file in NB7) is either completely wrong for these versions, or so sparse as to be essentially unuseful to anyone other than a JNI expert. Here is what you are looking for ... the "cut to the chase" - "how to guide" to get a JNI call up and working on your NB7 / Windows 64-bit box. 1) From within your NetBeans Module (not the host appliation) declair your native method(s) and make sure you can compile the Java source without errors. Example: package org.mycompanyname.nativelogic; public class NativeInterfaceTest { static { try { if (System.getProperty( "os.arch" ).toLowerCase().equals( "amd64" ) ) System.loadLibrary( <64-bit_folder_name_on_file_system>/<file_name.dll> ); else System.loadLibrary( <32-bit_folder_name_on_file_system>/<file_name.dll> ); } catch (SecurityException se) {} catch (UnsatisfieldLinkError ule) {} catch (NullPointerException npe) {} } public NativeInterfaceTest() {} native String echoString(String s); } Take notice to the fact that we only load the Assembly once (as it's in a static block), because othersise you will throw exceptions if attempting to load it again. Also take note of our single (in this example) native method titled "echoString". This is the method that our C / C++ application is going to implement, then via the majic of JNI we'll call from our Java code. 2) If using a 64-bit version of Windows (which we are here) we need to open a 64-bit Visual Studio Command Prompt (versus the standard 32-bit version), and execute the "vcvarsall" BAT file, along with an "amd64" command line argument, to set the environment up for 64-bit tools. Example: <path_to_Microsoft_Visual_Studio_10.0>/VC/vcvarsall.bat amd64 Take note that you can use any version of the C / C++ compiler from Microsoft you wish. I happen to have Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 installed on my box so I chose to use "v10.0" but any that support 64-bit development will work fine. The other important aspect here is the "amd64" param. 3) In the Command Prompt change drives \ directories on your computer so that you are at the root of the fully qualified Class location on the file system that contains your native method declairation. Example: The fully qualified class name for my natively declair method is "org.mycompanyname.nativelogic.NativeInterfaceTest". As we successfully compiled our Java in Step 1 above, we should find it contained in our NetBeans Module something similar to the following: "/build/classes/org/mycompanyname/nativelogic/NativeInterfaceTest.class" We need to make sure our Command Prompt sets, as the current directly, "/build/classes" because of our next step. 4) In this step we'll create our C / C++ Header file that contains the JNI required statments. Type the following in the Command Prompt: javah -jni org.mycompanyname.nativelogic.NativeInterfaceTest and hit enter. If you receive any kind of error that states this is an unrecognized command that simply means your Windows computer does not know the PATH to that command (it's in your /bin folder). Either run the command from there, or include the fully qualified path name when invoking this application, or set your computer's PATH environmental variable to include that path in its search. This should produce a file called "org_mycompanyname_nativelogic_NativeInterfaceTest.h" ... a C Header file. I'd make a copy of this in case you need a backup later. 5) Edit the NativeInterfaceTest.h header file and include an implementation for the echoString() method. Example: JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_org_mycompanyname_nativelogic_NativeInterfaceTest_echoString (JNIEnv *env, jobject jobj, jstring js) { return((*env)->NewStringUTF(env, "My JNI is up and working after lots of research")); } Notice how you can't simply return a normal Java String (because you're in C at the moment). You have to tell the passed in JVM variable to create a Java String for you that will be returned back. Check out the following Oracle web page for other data types and how to create them for JNI purposes. 6) Close and Save your changes to the Header file. Now that you've added an implementation to the Header change the file extention from ".h" to ".c" as it's now a C source code file that properly implements the JNI required interface. Example: NativeInterfaceTest.c 7) We need to compile the newly created source code file and Link it too. From within the Command Prompt type the following: cl /I"path_to_my_jdks_include_folder" /I"path_to_my_jdks_include_win32_folder" /D:AMD64=1 /LD NativeInterfaceTest.c /FeNativeInterfaceTest.dll /link /machine:x64 Example: cl /I"D:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_21/include" /I"D:/Program Files/java/jdk1.6.0_21/include/win32" /D:AMD64=1 /LD NativeInterfaceTest.c /FeNativeInterfaceTest.dll /link /machine:x64 Notice the quotes around the paths to the 'include" and 'include/win32' folders is required because I have spaces in my folder names ... 'Program Files'. You can include them if you have no spaces without problems, but they are mandatory if you have spaces when using a command prompt. This will generate serveral files, but it's the DLL we're interested in. This is what the System.loadLirbary() java method is looking for. 8) Congratuations! You're at the last step. Simply take the DLL Assembly and paste it at the following location: <path_of_NetBeansProjects_folder>/<project_name>/<module_name>/build/cluster/modules/lib/x64 Note that you'll probably have to create the "lib" and "x64" folders. Example: C:\Users\<user_name>\Documents\NetBeansProjects\<application_name>\<module_name>\build\cluster\modules\lib\x64\NativeInterfaceTest.dll Java code ... notice how we don't inlude the ".dll" file extension in the loadLibrary() call? System.loadLibrary( "/x64/NativeInterfaceTest" ); Now, in your Java code you can create a NativeInterfaceTest object and call the echoString() method and it will return the String value you typed in the NativeInterfaceTest.c source code file. Hopefully this will save you the brain damage I endured trying to figure all this out on my own. Good luck and happy coding!

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  • Numpy zero rank array indexing/broadcasting

    - by Lemming
    I'm trying to write a function that supports broadcasting and is fast at the same time. However, numpy's zero-rank arrays are causing trouble as usual. I couldn't find anything useful on google, or by searching here. So, I'm asking you. How should I implement broadcasting efficiently and handle zero-rank arrays at the same time? This whole post became larger than anticipated, sorry. Details: To clarify what I'm talking about I'll give a simple example: Say I want to implement a Heaviside step-function. I.e. a function that acts on the real axis, which is 0 on the negative side, 1 on the positive side, and from case to case either 0, 0.5, or 1 at the point 0. Implementation Masking The most efficient way I found so far is the following. It uses boolean arrays as masks to assign the correct values to the corresponding slots in the output vector. from numpy import * def step_mask(x, limit=+1): """Heaviside step-function. y = 0 if x < 0 y = 1 if x > 0 See below for x == 0. Arguments: x Evaluate the function at these points. limit Which limit at x == 0? limit > 0: y = 1 limit == 0: y = 0.5 limit < 0: y = 0 Return: The values corresponding to x. """ b = broadcast(x, limit) out = zeros(b.shape) out[x>0] = 1 mask = (limit > 0) & (x == 0) out[mask] = 1 mask = (limit == 0) & (x == 0) out[mask] = 0.5 mask = (limit < 0) & (x == 0) out[mask] = 0 return out List Comprehension The following-the-numpy-docs way is to use a list comprehension on the flat iterator of the broadcast object. However, list comprehensions become absolutely unreadable for such complicated functions. def step_comprehension(x, limit=+1): b = broadcast(x, limit) out = empty(b.shape) out.flat = [ ( 1 if x_ > 0 else ( 0 if x_ < 0 else ( 1 if l_ > 0 else ( 0.5 if l_ ==0 else ( 0 ))))) for x_, l_ in b ] return out For Loop And finally, the most naive way is a for loop. It's probably the most readable option. However, Python for-loops are anything but fast. And hence, a really bad idea in numerics. def step_for(x, limit=+1): b = broadcast(x, limit) out = empty(b.shape) for i, (x_, l_) in enumerate(b): if x_ > 0: out[i] = 1 elif x_ < 0: out[i] = 0 elif l_ > 0: out[i] = 1 elif l_ < 0: out[i] = 0 else: out[i] = 0.5 return out Test First of all a brief test to see if the output is correct. >>> x = array([-1, -0.1, 0, 0.1, 1]) >>> step_mask(x, +1) array([ 0., 0., 1., 1., 1.]) >>> step_mask(x, 0) array([ 0. , 0. , 0.5, 1. , 1. ]) >>> step_mask(x, -1) array([ 0., 0., 0., 1., 1.]) It is correct, and the other two functions give the same output. Performance How about efficiency? These are the timings: In [45]: xl = linspace(-2, 2, 500001) In [46]: %timeit step_mask(xl) 10 loops, best of 3: 19.5 ms per loop In [47]: %timeit step_comprehension(xl) 1 loops, best of 3: 1.17 s per loop In [48]: %timeit step_for(xl) 1 loops, best of 3: 1.15 s per loop The masked version performs best as expected. However, I'm surprised that the comprehension is on the same level as the for loop. Zero Rank Arrays But, 0-rank arrays pose a problem. Sometimes you want to use a function scalar input. And preferably not have to worry about wrapping all scalars in at least 1-D arrays. >>> step_mask(1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<ipython-input-50-91c06aa4487b>", line 1, in <module> step_mask(1) File "script.py", line 22, in step_mask out[x>0] = 1 IndexError: 0-d arrays can't be indexed. >>> step_for(1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<ipython-input-51-4e0de4fcb197>", line 1, in <module> step_for(1) File "script.py", line 55, in step_for out[i] = 1 IndexError: 0-d arrays can't be indexed. >>> step_comprehension(1) array(1.0) Only the list comprehension can handle 0-rank arrays. The other two versions would need special case handling for 0-rank arrays. Numpy gets a bit messy when you want to use the same code for arrays and scalars. However, I really like to have functions that work on as arbitrary input as possible. Who knows which parameters I'll want to iterate over at some point. Question: What is the best way to implement a function as the one above? Is there a way to avoid if scalar then like special cases? I'm not looking for a built-in Heaviside. It's just a simplified example. In my code the above pattern appears in many places to make parameter iteration as simple as possible without littering the client code with for loops or comprehensions. Furthermore, I'm aware of Cython, or weave & Co., or implementation directly in C. However, the performance of the masked version above is sufficient for the moment. And for the moment I would like to keep things as simple as possible.

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  • Cocos2d score resetting is messing up (long post warning)

    - by Jhon Doe
    The score is not resetting right at all,I am trying to make a high score counter where every time you passed previous high score it will update.However, right now it is resetting during the game. For example if I had high score of 2 during the game it will take 3 points just to put it up to 3 as high score instead of keep going up until it is game over. I have came to the conclusion that I need to reset it in gameoverlayer so it won't reset during game. I have been trying to to do this but no luck. hello world ./h #import "cocos2d.h" // HelloWorldLayer @interface HelloWorldLayer : CCLayer { int _score; int _oldScore; CCLabelTTF *_scoreLabel; } @property (nonatomic, assign) CCLabelTTF *scoreLabel; hello world init ./m _score = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] integerForKey:@"score"]; _oldScore = -1; self.scoreLabel = [CCLabelTTF labelWithString:@"" dimensions:CGSizeMake(100, 50) alignment:UITextAlignmentRight fontName:@"Marker Felt" fontSize:32]; _scoreLabel.position = ccp(winSize.width - _scoreLabel.contentSize.width, _scoreLabel.contentSize.height); _scoreLabel.color = ccc3(255,0,0); [self addChild:_scoreLabel z:1]; hello world implement ./m - (void)update:(ccTime)dt { NSMutableArray *projectilesToDelete = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; CGRect projectileRect = CGRectMake( projectile.position.x - (projectile.contentSize.width/2), projectile.position.y - (projectile.contentSize.height/2), projectile.contentSize.width, projectile.contentSize.height); BOOL monsterHit = FALSE; NSMutableArray *targetsToDelete = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; for (CCSprite *target in _targets) { CGRect targetRect = CGRectMake( target.position.x - (target.contentSize.width/2), target.position.y - (target.contentSize.height/2), target.contentSize.width, target.contentSize.height); if (CGRectIntersectsRect(projectileRect, targetRect)) { CCParticleFire* explosion = [[CCParticleFire alloc] initWithTotalParticles:200]; explosion.texture =[[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:@"sun.png"]; explosion.autoRemoveOnFinish = YES; explosion.startSize = 20.0f; explosion.speed = 70.0f; explosion.anchorPoint = ccp(0.5f,0.5f); explosion.position = target.position; explosion.duration = 1.0f; [self addChild:explosion z:11]; [explosion release]; monsterHit = TRUE; Monster *monster = (Monster *)target; monster.hp--; if (monster.hp <= 0) { [targetsToDelete addObject:target]; [[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] playEffect:@"splash.wav"]; _score ++; } break; } } for (CCSprite *target in targetsToDelete) { [_targets removeObject:target]; [self removeChild:target cleanup:YES]; } if (targetsToDelete.count > 0) { [ projectilesToDelete addObject:projectile]; } [targetsToDelete release]; if (_score > _oldScore) { _oldScore = _score; [_scoreLabel setString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"score%d", _score]]; [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setInteger:_oldScore forKey:@"score"]; _score = 0; } } - (void)update:(ccTime)dt { NSMutableArray *projectilesToDelete = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; CGRect projectileRect = CGRectMake( projectile.position.x - (projectile.contentSize.width/2), projectile.position.y - (projectile.contentSize.height/2), projectile.contentSize.width, projectile.contentSize.height); BOOL monsterHit = FALSE; NSMutableArray *targetsToDelete = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; for (CCSprite *target in _targets) { CGRect targetRect = CGRectMake( target.position.x - (target.contentSize.width/2), target.position.y - (target.contentSize.height/2), target.contentSize.width, target.contentSize.height); if (CGRectIntersectsRect(projectileRect, targetRect)) { CCParticleFire* explosion = [[CCParticleFire alloc] initWithTotalParticles:200]; explosion.texture =[[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:@"sun.png"]; explosion.autoRemoveOnFinish = YES; explosion.startSize = 20.0f; explosion.speed = 70.0f; explosion.anchorPoint = ccp(0.5f,0.5f); explosion.position = target.position; explosion.duration = 1.0f; [self addChild:explosion z:11]; [explosion release]; monsterHit = TRUE; Monster *monster = (Monster *)target; monster.hp--; if (monster.hp <= 0) { [targetsToDelete addObject:target]; [[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] playEffect:@"splash.wav"]; _score ++; } break; } } for (CCSprite *target in targetsToDelete) { [_targets removeObject:target]; [self removeChild:target cleanup:YES]; } if (targetsToDelete.count > 0) { [projectilesToDelete addObject:projectile]; } [targetsToDelete release]; if (_score > _oldScore) { _oldScore = _score; [_scoreLabel setString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"score%d", _score]]; [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setInteger:_oldScore forKey:@"score"]; _score = 0; } The game overlayer .h file game over @interface GameOverLayer : CCLayerColor { CCLabelTTF *_label; CCSprite * background; int _score; int _oldScore; } @property (nonatomic, retain) CCLabelTTF *label; @end @interface GameOverScene : CCScene { GameOverLayer *_layer; } @property (nonatomic, retain) GameOverLayer *layer; @end .m file gameover #import "GameOverLayer.h" #import "HelloWorldLayer.h" #import "MainMenuScene.h" @implementation GameOverScene @synthesize layer = _layer; - (id)init { if ((self = [super init])) { self.layer = [GameOverLayer node]; [self addChild:_layer]; } return self; } - (void)dealloc { [_layer release]; _layer = nil; [super dealloc]; } @end @implementation GameOverLayer @synthesize label = _label; -(id) init { if( (self=[super initWithColor:ccc4(0,0,0,0)] )) { CGSize winSize = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] winSize]; self.label = [CCLabelTTF labelWithString:@"" fontName:@"Arial" fontSize:32]; _label.color = ccc3(225,0,0); _label.position = ccp(winSize.width/2, winSize.height/2); [self addChild:_label]; [self runAction:[CCSequence actions: [CCDelayTime actionWithDuration:3], [CCCallFunc actionWithTarget:self selector:@selector(gameOverDone)], nil]]; _score=0; }

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