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• I can''t figure out how to use the comboBox to remove radiobuttons

  - by user3576336

  import java.awt.EventQueue; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder; import javax.swing.ButtonGroup; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JDesktopPane; import javax.swing.JRadioButton; import javax.swing.JComboBox; import java.awt.GridBagLayout; import java.awt.GridBagConstraints; import java.awt.Insets; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; @SuppressWarnings("serial") public class Calendar1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener { private JPanel contentPane; String[] Months = { "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" }; JDesktopPane desktopPane; ButtonGroup bG = new ButtonGroup(); JRadioButton radioButton, rdbtnNewRadioButton, radioButton_1, radioButton_2, radioButton_3, radioButton_4, radioButton_5, radioButton_6, radioButton_7, radioButton_8, radioButton_9, radioButton_10, radioButton_11, radioButton_12, radioButton_13, radioButton_14, radioButton_15, radioButton_16, radioButton_17, radioButton_18, radioButton_19, radioButton_20, radioButton_21, radioButton_22, radioButton_23, radioButton_24, radioButton_25, radioButton_26, radioButton_27, radioButton_28, radioButton_29; /** * Launch the application. */ public static void main(String[] args) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { try { Calendar1 frame = new Calendar1(); frame.setVisible(true); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }); } /** * Create the frame. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public Calendar1() { setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setBounds(100, 100, 521, 300); contentPane = new JPanel(); contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5)); setContentPane(contentPane); contentPane.setLayout(null); JComboBox comboBox = new JComboBox(Months); comboBox.setBounds(28, 16, 132, 27); contentPane.add(comboBox); comboBox.setSelectedIndex(0); comboBox.addActionListener(this); JLabel label = new JLabel("2014"); label.setBounds(350, 20, 61, 16); contentPane.add(label); desktopPane = new JDesktopPane(); desktopPane.setBackground(new Color(30, 144, 255)); desktopPane.setBounds(0, 63, 495, 188); contentPane.add(desktopPane); GridBagLayout gbl_desktopPane = new GridBagLayout(); gbl_desktopPane.columnWidths = new int[] { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }; gbl_desktopPane.rowHeights = new int[] { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }; gbl_desktopPane.columnWeights = new double[] { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, Double.MIN_VALUE }; gbl_desktopPane.rowWeights = new double[] { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, Double.MIN_VALUE }; desktopPane.setLayout(gbl_desktopPane); // JLabel lblSun = new JLabel("Sun"); // lblSun.setForeground(Color.RED); // // GridBagConstraints gbc_lblSun = new GridBagConstraints(); // gbc_lblSun.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); // gbc_lblSun.gridx = 2; // gbc_lblSun.gridy = 0; // desktopPane.add(lblSun, gbc_lblSun); // // JLabel lblMon = new JLabel("Mon"); // GridBagConstraints gbc_lblMon = new GridBagConstraints(); // gbc_lblMon.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); // gbc_lblMon.gridx = 4; // gbc_lblMon.gridy = 0; // desktopPane.add(lblMon, gbc_lblMon); // // JLabel lblTues = new JLabel("Tues"); // GridBagConstraints gbc_lblTues = new GridBagConstraints(); // gbc_lblTues.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); // gbc_lblTues.gridx = 6; // gbc_lblTues.gridy = 0; // desktopPane.add(lblTues, gbc_lblTues); // // JLabel lblWed = new JLabel("Wed"); // GridBagConstraints gbc_lblWed = new GridBagConstraints(); // gbc_lblWed.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); // gbc_lblWed.gridx = 8; // gbc_lblWed.gridy = 0; // desktopPane.add(lblWed, gbc_lblWed); // // JLabel lblThurs = new JLabel("Thurs"); // GridBagConstraints gbc_lblThurs = new GridBagConstraints(); // gbc_lblThurs.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); // gbc_lblThurs.gridx = 10; // gbc_lblThurs.gridy = 0; // desktopPane.add(lblThurs, gbc_lblThurs); // // JLabel lblFri = new JLabel("Friday"); // GridBagConstraints gbc_lblFri = new GridBagConstraints(); // gbc_lblFri.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); // gbc_lblFri.gridx = 12; // gbc_lblFri.gridy = 0; // desktopPane.add(lblFri, gbc_lblFri); // // JLabel lblSat = new JLabel("Sat"); // lblSat.setForeground(Color.RED); // GridBagConstraints gbc_lblSat = new GridBagConstraints(); // gbc_lblSat.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); // gbc_lblSat.gridx = 14; // gbc_lblSat.gridy = 0; // desktopPane.add(lblSat, gbc_lblSat); radioButton = new JRadioButton("1"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton.gridx = 8; gbc_radioButton.gridy = 1; desktopPane.add(radioButton, gbc_radioButton); bG.add(radioButton); rdbtnNewRadioButton = new JRadioButton("2"); GridBagConstraints gbc_rdbtnNewRadioButton = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_rdbtnNewRadioButton.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_rdbtnNewRadioButton.gridx = 10; gbc_rdbtnNewRadioButton.gridy = 1; desktopPane.add(rdbtnNewRadioButton, gbc_rdbtnNewRadioButton); bG.add(rdbtnNewRadioButton); radioButton_1 = new JRadioButton("3"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_1 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_1.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_1.gridx = 12; gbc_radioButton_1.gridy = 1; desktopPane.add(radioButton_1, gbc_radioButton_1); bG.add(radioButton_1); radioButton_2 = new JRadioButton("4"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_2 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_2.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_2.gridx = 14; gbc_radioButton_2.gridy = 1; desktopPane.add(radioButton_2, gbc_radioButton_2); bG.add(radioButton_2); radioButton_3 = new JRadioButton("5"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_3 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_3.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_3.gridx = 2; gbc_radioButton_3.gridy = 2; desktopPane.add(radioButton_3, gbc_radioButton_3); bG.add(radioButton_3); radioButton_4 = new JRadioButton("6"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_4 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_4.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_4.gridx = 4; gbc_radioButton_4.gridy = 2; desktopPane.add(radioButton_4, gbc_radioButton_4); bG.add(radioButton_4); radioButton_5 = new JRadioButton("7"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_5 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_5.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_5.gridx = 6; gbc_radioButton_5.gridy = 2; desktopPane.add(radioButton_5, gbc_radioButton_5); bG.add(radioButton_5); radioButton_6 = new JRadioButton("8"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_6 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_6.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_6.gridx = 8; gbc_radioButton_6.gridy = 2; desktopPane.add(radioButton_6, gbc_radioButton_6); bG.add(radioButton_6); radioButton_7 = new JRadioButton("9"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_7 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_7.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_7.gridx = 10; gbc_radioButton_7.gridy = 2; desktopPane.add(radioButton_7, gbc_radioButton_7); bG.add(radioButton_7); radioButton_8 = new JRadioButton("10"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_8 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_8.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_8.gridx = 12; gbc_radioButton_8.gridy = 2; desktopPane.add(radioButton_8, gbc_radioButton_8); bG.add(radioButton_8); radioButton_9 = new JRadioButton("11"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_9 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_9.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_9.gridx = 14; gbc_radioButton_9.gridy = 2; desktopPane.add(radioButton_9, gbc_radioButton_9); bG.add(radioButton_9); radioButton_10 = new JRadioButton("12"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_10 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_10.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_10.gridx = 2; gbc_radioButton_10.gridy = 3; desktopPane.add(radioButton_10, gbc_radioButton_10); bG.add(radioButton_10); radioButton_11 = new JRadioButton("13"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_11 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_11.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_11.gridx = 4; gbc_radioButton_11.gridy = 3; desktopPane.add(radioButton_11, gbc_radioButton_11); bG.add(radioButton_11); radioButton_12 = new JRadioButton("14"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_12 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_12.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_12.gridx = 6; gbc_radioButton_12.gridy = 3; desktopPane.add(radioButton_12, gbc_radioButton_12); bG.add(radioButton_12); radioButton_13 = new JRadioButton("15"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_13 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_13.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_13.gridx = 8; gbc_radioButton_13.gridy = 3; desktopPane.add(radioButton_13, gbc_radioButton_13); bG.add(radioButton_13); radioButton_14 = new JRadioButton("16"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_14 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_14.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_14.gridx = 10; gbc_radioButton_14.gridy = 3; desktopPane.add(radioButton_14, gbc_radioButton_14); bG.add(radioButton_14); radioButton_15 = new JRadioButton("17"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_15 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_15.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_15.gridx = 12; gbc_radioButton_15.gridy = 3; desktopPane.add(radioButton_15, gbc_radioButton_15); bG.add(radioButton_15); radioButton_16 = new JRadioButton("18"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_16 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_16.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_16.gridx = 14; gbc_radioButton_16.gridy = 3; desktopPane.add(radioButton_16, gbc_radioButton_16); bG.add(radioButton_16); radioButton_17 = new JRadioButton("19"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_17 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_17.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_17.gridx = 2; gbc_radioButton_17.gridy = 4; desktopPane.add(radioButton_17, gbc_radioButton_17); bG.add(radioButton_17); radioButton_18 = new JRadioButton("20"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_18 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_18.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_18.gridx = 4; gbc_radioButton_18.gridy = 4; desktopPane.add(radioButton_18, gbc_radioButton_18); bG.add(radioButton_18); radioButton_19 = new JRadioButton("21"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_19 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_19.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_19.gridx = 6; gbc_radioButton_19.gridy = 4; desktopPane.add(radioButton_19, gbc_radioButton_19); bG.add(radioButton_19); radioButton_20 = new JRadioButton("22"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_20 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_20.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_20.gridx = 8; gbc_radioButton_20.gridy = 4; desktopPane.add(radioButton_20, gbc_radioButton_20); bG.add(radioButton_20); radioButton_21 = new JRadioButton("23"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_21 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_21.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_21.gridx = 10; gbc_radioButton_21.gridy = 4; desktopPane.add(radioButton_21, gbc_radioButton_21); bG.add(radioButton_21); radioButton_22 = new JRadioButton("24"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_22 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_22.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_22.gridx = 12; gbc_radioButton_22.gridy = 4; desktopPane.add(radioButton_22, gbc_radioButton_22); bG.add(radioButton_22); radioButton_23 = new JRadioButton("25"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_23 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_23.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_23.gridx = 14; gbc_radioButton_23.gridy = 4; desktopPane.add(radioButton_23, gbc_radioButton_23); bG.add(radioButton_23); radioButton_24 = new JRadioButton("26"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_24 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_24.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_24.gridx = 2; gbc_radioButton_24.gridy = 5; desktopPane.add(radioButton_24, gbc_radioButton_24); bG.add(radioButton_24); radioButton_25 = new JRadioButton("27"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_25 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_25.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_25.gridx = 4; gbc_radioButton_25.gridy = 5; desktopPane.add(radioButton_25, gbc_radioButton_25); bG.add(radioButton_25); radioButton_26 = new JRadioButton("28"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_26 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_26.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_26.gridx = 6; gbc_radioButton_26.gridy = 5; desktopPane.add(radioButton_26, gbc_radioButton_26); bG.add(radioButton_26); radioButton_27 = new JRadioButton("29"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_27 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_27.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_27.gridx = 8; gbc_radioButton_27.gridy = 5; desktopPane.add(radioButton_27, gbc_radioButton_27); bG.add(radioButton_27); radioButton_28 = new JRadioButton("30"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_28 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_28.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_28.gridx = 10; gbc_radioButton_28.gridy = 5; desktopPane.add(radioButton_28, gbc_radioButton_28); bG.add(radioButton_28); radioButton_29 = new JRadioButton("31"); GridBagConstraints gbc_radioButton_29 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_radioButton_29.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 5); gbc_radioButton_29.gridx = 12; gbc_radioButton_29.gridy = 5; desktopPane.add(radioButton_29, gbc_radioButton_29); bG.add(radioButton_29); } @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { JComboBox cb = (JComboBox) e.getSource(); String months = (String) cb.getSelectedItem(); if (months.equals("February")) { desktopPane.remove(radioButton_28); desktopPane.revalidate(); } } } I'm trying to use the combobox to remove radiobuttons in the actionperformed, but when I run the program, nothing happens, nor can I enable new buttons in the actionperformed. Thank you so much in advance for helping me out.

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• Java code critique request [closed]

  - by davidk01

  Can you make sense of the following bit of java code and do you have any suggestions for improving it? Instead of writing four almost identical setOnClickListener method calls I opted to iterate over an array but I'm wondering if this was the best way to do it. Here's the code: /* Set up the radio button click listeners so two categories are not selected at the same time. When one of them is clicked it clears the others. */ final RadioButton[] buttons = {radio_books,radio_games,radio_dvds,radio_electronics}; for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { final int k = i; buttons[i].setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++) { if (buttons[j] != buttons[k]) { buttons[j].setChecked(false); } } } }); }

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• Code Structure / Level Design: Plants vs Zombies game level dissection

  - by lalan

  Hi Friends, I am interested in learning the class structure of Plants vs Zombies, particularly level design; for those who haven't played it - this video contains nice play-through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89DfdOIJ4xw. How would I go ahead and design the code, mostly structure & classes, which allows for maximum flexibility & clean development? I am familiar with data driven design concepts, and would use events to handle most of dynamic behavior. Dissection at macro level: (Once every Level) Load tilemap, props, etc -- basically build the map (Once every Level) Camera Movement - might consider it as short cut-scene (Once every Level) Show Enemies you'll face during present level (Once every Level) Unit Selection Window/Panel - selection of defensive plants (Once every Level) Camera Movement - might consider it as short cut-scene (Once every Level) HUD Creation - based on unit selection (Level Loop) Enemy creation - based on types of zombies allowed (Level Loop) Sun/Resource generation (Level Loop) Show messages like 'huge wave of zombies coming', 'final wave' (Level Loop) Other unique events - Spawn gifts, money, tombstones, etc (Once every Level) Unlock new plant Potential game scripts: a) Level definitions: Level_1_1.xml, Level_1_2.xml, etc. Level_1_1.xml :: Sample script <map> <tilemap>tilemapFrontLawn</tilemap> <SpawnPoints> tiles where particular type of zombies (land vs water) may spawn</spawnPoints> <props> position, entity array -- lawnmower, </props> </map> <zombies> <... list of zombies who gonna attack by ids...> </zombies> <plants> <... list by plants which are available for defense by ids...> </plants> <progression> <ZombieWave name='first wave' spawnScript='zombieLightWave.lua' unlock='null'> <startMessages time=1.5>Ready</startMessages> <endMessages time=1.5>Huge wave of zombies incoming</endMessages> </ZombieWave> </progression> b) Entities definitions: .xmls containing zombies, plants, sun, lawnmower, coins, etc description. Potential classes: //LevelManager - Based on the level under play, it will load level script. Few of the // functions it may have: class LevelManager { public: bool load(string levelFileName); bool enter(); bool update(float deltatime); bool exit(); private: LevelData* mLevelData; } // LevelData - Contains the details of level loaded by LevelManager. class LevelData { private: string file; // array of camera,dialog,attackwaves, etc in active level LevelCutSceneCamera** mArrayCutSceneCamera; LevelCutSceneDialog** mArrayCutSceneDialog; LevelAttackWave** mArrayAttackWave; .... // which camera,dialog,attackwave is active in level uint mCursorCutSceneCamera; uint mCursorCutSceneDialog; uint mCursorAttackWave; public: // based on cursor, get the next camera,dialog,attackwave,etc in active level // return false/true based on failure/success bool nextCutSceneCamera(LevelCutSceneCamera**); bool nextCutSceneDialog(LevelCutSceneDialog**); } // LevelUnderPlay- LevelManager class LevelUnderPlay { private: LevelCutSceneCamera* mCutSceneCamera; LevelCutSceneDialog* mCutSceneDialog; LevelAttackWave* mAttackWave; Entities** mSelectedPlants; Entities** mAllowedZombies; bool isCutSceneCameraActive; public: bool enter(); bool update(float deltatime); bool exit(); } I am totally confused.. :( Does it make sense of using class composition (have flat class hierarchy) for managing levels. Is it a good idea to just add/remove/update sprites (or any drawable stuff) to current scene from LevelManager or LevelUnderPlay? If I want to make non-linear level design, how should I go ahead? Perhaps I would need a LevelProgression class, which would decide what to do based on decision tree. Any suggestions would be appreciated very much. Thank for your time, lalan

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• Working with Reporting Services Filters–Part 1

  - by smisner

  There are two ways that you can filter data in Reporting Services. The first way, which usually provides a faster performance, is to use query parameters to apply a filter using the WHERE clause in a SQL statement. In that case, the structure of the filter depends upon the syntax recognized by the source database. Another way to filter data in Reporting Services is to apply a filter to a dataset, data region, or a group. Using this latter method, you can even apply multiple filters. However, the use of filter operators or the setup of multiple filters is not always obvious, so in this series of posts, I'll provide some more information about the configuration of filters. First, why not use query parameters exclusively for filtering? Here are a few reasons: You might want to apply a filter to part of the report, but not all of the report. Your dataset might retrieve data from a stored procedure, and doesn't allow you to pass a query parameter for filtering purposes. Your report might be set up as a snapshot on the report server and, in that case, cannot be dynamically filtered based on a query parameter. Next, let's look at how to set up a report filter in general. The process is the same whether you are applying the filter to a dataset, data region, or a group. When you go to the Filters page in the Properties dialog box for whichever of these items you selected (dataset, data region, group), you click the Add button to create a new filter. The interface looks like this: The Expression field is usually a field in the dataset, so to make it easier for you to make a selection,the drop-down list displays all of the current dataset fields. But notice the expression button to the right, which means that you can set up any type of expression-not just a dataset field. To the right of the expression button, you'll find a data type drop-down list. It's important to specify the correct data type for the field or expression you're using. Now for the operators. Here's a list of the options that you have: This Operator Performs This Action =, <>, >, >=, <, <=, Like Compares expression to value Top N, Bottom N Compares expression to Top (Bottom) set of N values (N = integer) Top %, Bottom % Compares expression to Top (Bottom) N percent of values (N = integer or float) Between Determines whether expression is between two values, inclusive In Determines whether expression is found in list of values Last, the Value is what you're comparing to the expression using the operator. The construction of a filter using some operators (=, <>, >, etc.) is fairly simple. If my dataset (for AdventureWorks data) has a Category field, and I have a parameter that prompts the user for a single category, I can set up a filter like this: Expression Data Type Operator Value [Category] Text = [@Category] But if I set the parameter to accept multiple values, I need to change the operator from = to In, just as I would have to do if I were using a query parameter. The parameter expression, [@Category], which translates to =Parameters!Category.Value, doesn’t need to change because it represents an array as soon as I change the parameter to allow multiple values. The “In” operator requires an array. With that in mind, let’s consider a variation on Value. Let’s say that I have a parameter that prompts the user for a particular year – and for simplicity’s sake, this parameter only allows a single value, and I have an expression that evaluates the previous year based on the user’s selection. Then I want to use these two values in two separate filters with an OR condition. That is, I want to filter either by the year selected OR by the year that was computed. If I create two filters, one for each year (as shown below), then the report will only display results if BOTH filter conditions are met – which would never be true. Expression Data Type Operator Value [CalendarYear] Integer = [@Year] [CalendarYear] Integer = =Parameters!Year.Value-1 To handle this scenario, we need to create a single filter that uses the “In” operator, and then set up the Value expression as an array. To create an array, we use the Split function after creating a string that concatenates the two values (highlighted in yellow) as shown below. Expression Data Type Operator Value =Cstr(Fields!CalendarYear.Value) Text In =Split( CStr(Parameters!Year.Value) + ”,” + CStr(Parameters!Year.Value-1) , “,”) Note that in this case, I had to apply a string conversion on the year integer so that I could concatenate the parameter selection with the calculated year. Pay attention to the second argument of the Split function—you must use a comma delimiter for the result to work correctly with the In operator. I also had to change the Expression value from [CalendarYear] (or =Fields!CalendarYear.Value) so that the expression would return a string that I could compare with the values in the string array. More fun with filter expressions in future posts!

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• eBooks on iPad vs. Kindle: More Debate than Smackdown

  - by andrewbrust

  When the iPad was presented at its San Francisco launch event on January 28th, Steve Jobs spent a significant amount of time explaining how well the device would serve as an eBook reader. He showed the iBooks reader application and iBookstore and laid down the gauntlet before Amazon and its beloved Kindle device. Almost immediately afterwards, criticism came rushing forth that the iPad could never beat the Kindle for book reading. The curious part of that criticism is that virtually no one offering it had actually used the iPad yet. A few weeks later, on April 3rd, the iPad was released for sale in the United States. I bought one on that day and in the few additional weeks that have elapsed, I’ve given quite a workout to most of its capabilities, including its eBook features. I’ve also spent some time with the Kindle, albeit a first-generation model, to see how it actually compares to the iPad. I had some expectations going in, but I came away with conclusions about each device that were more scenario-based than absolute. I present my findings to you here.   Vital Statistics Let’s start with an inventory of each device’s underlying technology. The iPad has a color, backlit LCD screen and an on-screen keyboard. It has a battery which, on a full charge, lasts anywhere from 6-10 hours. The Kindle offers a monochrome, reflective E Ink display, a physical keyboard and a battery that on my first gen loaner unit can go up to a week between charges (Amazon claims the battery on the Kindle 2 can last up to 2 weeks on a single charge). The Kindle connects to Amazon’s Kindle Store using a 3G modem (the technology and network vary depending on the model) that incurs no airtime service charges whatsoever. The iPad units that are on-sale today work over WiFi only. 3G-equipped models will be on sale shortly and will command a $130 premium over their WiFi-only counterparts. 3G service on the iPad, in the U.S. from AT&T, will be fee-based, with a 250MB plan at $14.99 per month and an unlimited plan at $29.99. No contract is required for 3G service. All these tech specs aside, I think a more useful observation is that the iPad is a multi-purpose Internet-connected entertainment device, while the Kindle is a dedicated reading device. The question is whether those differences in design and intended use create a clear-cut winner for reading electronic publications. Let’s take a look at each device, in isolation, now.   Kindle To me, what’s most innovative about the Kindle is its E Ink display. E Ink really looks like ink on a sheet of paper. It requires no backlight, it’s fully visible in direct sunlight and it causes almost none of the eyestrain that LCD-based computer display technology (like that used on the iPad) does. It’s really versatile in an all-around way. Forgive me if this sounds precious, but reading on it is really a joy. In fact, it’s a genuinely relaxing experience. Through the Kindle Store, Amazon allows users to download books (including audio books), magazines, newspapers and blog feeds. Books and magazines can be purchased either on a single-issue basis or as an annual subscription. Books, of course, are purchased singly. Oddly, blogs are not free, but instead carry a monthly subscription fee, typically $1.99. To me this is ludicrous, but I suppose the free 3G service is partially to blame. Books and magazine issues download quickly. Magazine and blog subscriptions cause new issues or posts to be pushed to your device on an automated basis. Available blogs include 9000-odd feeds that Amazon offers on the Kindle Store; unless I missed something, arbitrary RSS feeds are not supported (though there are third party workarounds to this limitation). The shopping experience is integrated well, has an huge selection, and offers certain graphical perks. For example, magazine and newspaper logos are displayed in menus, and book cover thumbnails appear as well. A simple search mechanism is provided and text entry through the physical keyboard is relatively painless. It’s very easy and straightforward to enter the store, find something you like and start reading it quickly. If you know what you’re looking for, it’s even faster. Given Kindle’s high portability, very reliable battery, instant-on capability and highly integrated content acquisition, it makes reading on whim, and in random spurts of downtime, very attractive. The Kindle’s home screen lists all of your publications, and easily lets you select one, then start reading it. Once opened, publications display in crisp, attractive text that is adjustable in size. “Turning” pages is achieved through buttons dedicated to the task. Notes can be recorded, bookmarks can be saved and pages can be saved as clippings. I am not an avid book reader, and yet I found the Kindle made it really fun, convenient and soothing to read. There’s something about the easy access to the material and the simplicity of the display that makes the Kindle seduce you into chilling out and reading page after page. On the other hand, the Kindle has an awkward navigation interface. While menus are displayed clearly on the screen, the method of selecting menu items is tricky: alongside the right-hand edge of the main display is a thin column that acts as a second display. It has a white background, and a scrollable silver cursor that is moved up or down through the use of the device’s scrollwheel. Picking a menu item on the main display involves scrolling the silver cursor to a position parallel to that menu item and pushing the scrollwheel in. This navigation technique creates a disconnect, literally. You don’t really click on a selection so much as you gesture toward it. I got used to this technique quickly, but I didn’t love it. It definitely created a kind of anxiety in me, making me feel the need to speed through menus and get to my destination document quickly. Once there, I could calm down and relax. Books are great on the Kindle. Magazines and newspapers much less so. I found the rendering of photographs, and even illustrations, to be unacceptably crude. For this reason, I expect that reading textbooks on the Kindle may leave students wanting. I found that the original flow and layout of any publication was sacrificed on the Kindle. In effect, browsing a magazine or newspaper was almost impossible. Reading the text of individual articles was enjoyable, but having to read this way made the whole experience much more “a la carte” than cohesive and thematic between articles. I imagine that for academic journals this is ideal, but for consumer publications it imposes a stripped-down, low-fidelity experience that evokes a sense of deprivation. In general, the Kindle is great for reading text. For just about anything else, especially activity that involves exploratory browsing, meandering and short-attention-span reading, it presents a real barrier to entry and adoption. Avid book readers will enjoy the Kindle (if they’re not already). It’s a great device for losing oneself in a book over long sittings. Multitaskers who are more interested in periodicals, be they online or off, will like it much less, as they will find compromise, and even sacrifice, to be palpable.   iPad The iPad is a very different device from the Kindle. While the Kindle is oriented to pages of text, the iPad orbits around applications and their interfaces. Be it the pinch and zoom experience in the browser, the rich media features that augment content on news and weather sites, or the ability to interact with social networking services like Twitter, the iPad is versatile. While it shares a slate-like form factor with the Kindle, it’s effectively an elegant personal computer. One of its many features is the iBook application and integration of the iBookstore. But it’s a multi-purpose device. That turns out to be good and bad, depending on what you’re reading. The iBookstore is great for browsing. It’s color, rich animation-laden user interface make it possible to shop for books, rather than merely search and acquire them. Unfortunately, its selection is rather sparse at the moment. If you’re looking for a New York Times bestseller, or other popular titles, you should be OK. If you want to read something more specialized, it’s much harder. Unlike the awkward navigation interface of the Kindle, the iPad offers a nearly flawless touch-screen interface that seduces the user into tinkering and kibitzing every bit as much as the Kindle lulls you into a deep, concentrated read. It’s a dynamic and interactive device, whereas the Kindle is static and passive. The iBook reader is slick and fun. Use the iPad in landscape mode and you can read the book in 2-up (left/right 2-page) display; use it in portrait mode and you can read one page at a time. Rather than clicking a hardware button to turn pages, you simply drag and wipe from right-to-left to flip the single or right-hand page. The page actually travels through an animated path as it would in a physical book. The intuitiveness of the interface is uncanny. The reader also accommodates saving of bookmarks, searching of the text, and the ability to highlight a word and look it up in a dictionary. Pages display brightly and clearly. They’re easy to read. But the backlight and the glare made me less comfortable than I was with the Kindle. The knowledge that completely different applications (including the Web and email and Twitter) were just a few taps away made me antsy and very tempted to task-switch. The knowledge that battery life is an issue created subtle discomfort. If the Kindle makes you feel like you’re in a library reading room, then the iPad makes you feel, at best, like you’re under fluorescent lights at a Barnes and Noble or Borders store. If you’re lucky, you’d be on a couch or at a reading table in the store, but you might also be standing up, in the aisles. Clearly, I didn’t find this conducive to focused and sustained reading. But that may have more to do with my own tendency to read periodicals far more than books, and my neurotic . And, truth be known, the book reading experience, when not explicitly compared to Kindle’s, was still pleasant. It is also important to point out that Kindle Store-sourced books can be read on the iPad through a Kindle reader application, from Amazon, specific to the device. This offered a less rich experience than the iBooks reader, but it was completely adequate. Despite the Kindle brand of the reader, however, it offered little in terms of simulating the reading experience on its namesake device. When it comes to periodicals, the iPad wins hands down. Magazines, even if merely scanned images of their print editions, read on the iPad in a way that felt similar to reading hard copy. The full color display, touch navigation and even the ability to render advertisements in their full glory makes the iPad a great way to read through any piece of work that is measured in pages, rather than chapters. There are many ways to get magazines and newspapers onto the iPad, including the Zinio reader, and publication-specific applications like the Wall Street Journal’s and Popular Science’s. The New York Times’ free Editors’ Choice application offers a Times Reader-like interface to a subset of the Gray Lady’s daily content. The completely Web-based but iPad-optimized Times Skimmer site (at www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer) works well too. Even conventional Web sites themselves can be read much like magazines, given the iPad’s ability to zoom in on the text and crop out advertisements on the margins. While the Kindle does have an experimental Web browser, it reminded me a lot of early mobile phone browsers, only in a larger size. For text-heavy sites with simple layout, it works fine. For just about anything else, it becomes more trouble than it’s worth. And given the way magazine articles make me think of things I want to look up online, I think that’s a real liability for the Kindle.   Summing Up What I came to realize is that the Kindle isn’t so much a computer or even an Internet device as it is a printer. While it doesn’t use physical paper, it still renders its content a page at a time, just like a laser printer does, and its output appears strikingly similar. You can read the rendered text, but you can’t interact with it in any way. That’s why the navigation requires a separate cursor display area. And because of the page-oriented rendering behavior, turning pages causes a flash on the display and requires a sometimes long pause before the next page is rendered. The good side of this is that once the page is generated, no battery power is required to display it. That makes for great battery life, optimal viewing under most lighting conditions (as long as there is some light) and low-eyestrain text-centric display of content. The Kindle is highly portable, has an excellent selection in its store and is refreshingly distraction-free. All of this is ideal for reading books. And iPad doesn’t offer any of it. What iPad does offer is versatility, variety, richness and luxury. It’s flush with accoutrements even if it’s low on focused, sustained text display. That makes it inferior to the Kindle for book reading. But that also makes it better than the Kindle for almost everything else. As such, and given that its book reading experience is still decent (even if not superior), I think the iPad will give Kindle a run for its money. True book lovers, and people on a budget, will want the Kindle. People with a robust amount of discretionary income may want both devices. Everyone else who is interested in a slate form factor e-reading device, especially if they also wish to have leisure-friendly Internet access, will likely choose the iPad exclusively. One thing is for sure: iPad has reduced Kindle’s market, and may have shifted its mass market potential to a mere niche play. If Amazon is smart, it will improve its iPad-based Kindle reader app significantly. It can then leverage the iPad channel as a significant market for the Kindle Store. After all, selling the eBooks themselves is what Amazon should care most about.

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• Building a &ldquo;real&rdquo; extension for Expression Blend

  - by Timmy Kokke

  .Last time I showed you how to get started building extensions for Expression Blend. Lets build a useful extension this time and go a bit deeper into Blend. Source of project  => here Compiled dll => here (extract into /extensions folder of Expression Blend)   The Extension When working on large Xaml files in Blend it’s often hard to find a specific control in the "Objects and Timeline Pane”. An extension that searches the active document and presents all elements that satisfy the query would be helpful. When the user starts typing a search query a search will be performed and the results are shown in the list. After the user selects an item in the results list, the control in the "Objects and Timeline Pane” will be selected. Below is a sketch of what it is going to look like. The Solution Create a new WPF User Control project as shown in the earlier tutorial in the Configuring the extension project section, but name it AdvancedSearch this time. Delete the default UserControl1.Xaml to clear the solution (a new user control will be added later thought, but adding a user control is easier then renaming one). Create the main entry point of the addin by adding a new class to the solution and naming this  AdvancedSearchPackage. Add a reference to Microsoft.Expression.Extensibility and to System.ComponentModel.Composition . Implement the IPackage interface and add the Export attribute from the MEF to the definition. While you’re at it. Add references to Microsoft.Expression.DesignSurface, Microsoft.Expression.FrameWork and Microsoft.Expression.Markup. These will be used later. The Load method from the IPackage interface is going to create a ViewModel to bind to from the UI. Add another class to the solution and name this AdvancedSearchViewModel. This class needs to implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface to enable notifications to the view.  Add a constructor to the class that takes an IServices interface as a parameter. Create a new instance of the AdvancedSearchViewModel in the load method in the AdvanceSearchPackage class. The AdvancedSearchPackage class should looks like this now:   using System.ComponentModel.Composition; using Microsoft.Expression.Extensibility;   namespace AdvancedSearch { [Export(typeof(IPackage))] public class AdvancedSearchPackage:IPackage {   public void Load(IServices services) { new AdvancedSearchViewModel(services); }   public void Unload() { } } }   Add a new UserControl to the project and name this AdvancedSearchView. The View will be created by the ViewModel, which will pass itself to the constructor of the view. Change the constructor of the View to take a AdvancedSearchViewModel object as a parameter. Add a private field to store the ViewModel and set this field in the constructor. Point the DataContext of the view to the ViewModel. The View will look something like this now:   namespace AdvancedSearch { public partial class AdvancedSearchView:UserControl { private readonly AdvancedSearchViewModel _advancedSearchViewModel;   public AdvancedSearchView(AdvancedSearchViewModel advancedSearchViewModel) { _advancedSearchViewModel = advancedSearchViewModel; InitializeComponent(); this.DataContext = _advancedSearchViewModel; } } }   The View is going to be created in the constructor of the ViewModel and stored in a read only property.   public FrameworkElement View { get; private set; }   public AdvancedSearchViewModel(IServices services) { _services = services; View = new AdvancedSearchView(this); } The last thing the solution needs before we’ll wire things up is a new class, PossibleNode. This class will be used later to store the search results. The solution should look like this now:   Adding UI to the UI The extension should build and run now, although nothing is showing up in Blend yet. To enable the user to perform a search query add a TextBox and a ListBox to the AdvancedSearchView.xaml file. I’ve set the rows of the grid too to make them look a little better. Add the TextChanged event to the TextBox and the SelectionChanged event to the ListBox, we’ll need those later on. <Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="32" /> <RowDefinition Height="*" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <TextBox TextChanged="SearchQueryTextChanged" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="4" Name="SearchQuery" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" /> <ListBox SelectionChanged="SearchResultSelectionChanged" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="4" Name="SearchResult" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Row="1" /> </Grid>   This will create a user interface like: To make the View show up in Blend it has to be registered with the WindowService. The GetService<T> method is used to get services from Blend, which are your entry points into Blend.When writing extensions you will encounter this method very often. In this case we’re asking for an IWindowService interface. The IWindowService interface serves events for changing windows and themes, is used for adding or removing resources and is used for registering and unregistering Palettes. All panes in Blend are palettes and are registered thru the RegisterPalette method. The first parameter passed to this method is a string containing a unique ID for the palette. This ID can be used to get access to the palette later. The second parameter is the View. The third parameter is a title for the pane. This title is shown when the pane is visible. It is also shown in the window menu of Blend. The last parameter is a KeyBinding. I have chosen Ctrl+Shift+F to call the Advanced Search pane. This value is also shown in the window menu of Blend.   services.GetService<IWindowService>().RegisterPalette( "AdvancedSearch", viewModel.View, "Advanced Search", new KeyBinding { Key = Key.F, Modifiers = ModifierKeys.Control | ModifierKeys.Shift } );   You can compiler and run now. After Blend starts you can hit Ctrl+Shift+F or go the windows menu to call the advanced search extension. Searching for controls The search has to be cleared on every change of the active document. The DocumentServices fires an event every time a new document is opened, a document is closed or another document view is selected. Add the following line to the constructor of the ViewModel to handle the ActiveDocumentChanged event:   _services.GetService<IDocumentService>().ActiveDocumentChanged += ActiveDocumentChanged;   And implement the ActiveDocumentChanged method:   private void ActiveDocumentChanged(object sender, DocumentChangedEventArgs e) { }   To get to the contents of the document we first need to get access to the “Objects and Timeline” pane. This pane is registered in the PaletteRegistry in the same way as this extension has registered itself. The palettes are accessible thru an associative array. All you need to provide is the Identifier of the palette you want. The Id of the “Objects and Timeline” pane is “Designer_TimelinePane”. I’ve included a list of the other default panes at the bottom of this article. Each palette has a Content property which can be cast to the type of the pane.   var timelinePane = (TimelinePane)_services.GetService<IWindowService>() .PaletteRegistry["Designer_TimelinePane"] .Content;   Add a private field to the top of the AdvancedSearchViewModel class to store the active SceneViewModel. The SceneViewModel is needed to set the current selection and to get the little icons for the type of control.   private SceneViewModel _activeSceneViewModel;   When the active SceneViewModel changes, the ActiveSceneViewModel is stored in this field. The list of possible nodes is cleared and an PropertyChanged event is fired for this list to notify the UI to clear the list. This will make the eventhandler look like this: private void ActiveDocumentChanged(object sender, DocumentChangedEventArgs e) { var timelinePane = (TimelinePane)_services.GetService<IWindowService>() .PaletteRegistry["Designer_TimelinePane"].Content;   _activeSceneViewModel = timelinePane.ActiveSceneViewModel; PossibleNodes = new List<PossibleNode>(); InvokePropertyChanged("PossibleNodes"); } The PossibleNode class used to store information about the controls found by the search. It’s a dumb data class with only 3 properties, the name of the control, the SceneNode and a brush used for the little icon. The SceneNode is the base class for every possible object you can create in Blend, like Brushes, Controls, Annotations, ResourceDictionaries and VisualStates. The entire PossibleNode class looks like this:   using System.Windows.Media; using Microsoft.Expression.DesignSurface.ViewModel;   namespace AdvancedSearch { public class PossibleNode { public string Name { get; set; } public SceneNode SceneNode { get; set; } public DrawingBrush IconBrush { get; set; } } }   Add these two methods to the AdvancedSearchViewModel class:   public void Search(string searchText) { } public void SelectElement(PossibleNode node){ }   Both these methods are going to be called from the view. The Search method performs the search and updates the PossibleNodes list.  The controls in the active document can be accessed thru TimeLineItemsManager class. This class contains a read only collection of TimeLineItems. By using a Linq query the possible nodes are selected and placed in the PossibleNodes list.   var timelineItemManager = new TimelineItemManager(_activeSceneViewModel); PossibleNodes = new List<PossibleNode>( (from d in timelineItemManager.ItemList where d.DisplayName.ToLowerInvariant().StartsWith( searchText.ToLowerInvariant()) select new PossibleNode() { IconBrush = d.IconBrush, SceneNode = d.SceneNode, Name = d.DisplayName }).ToList() ); InvokePropertyChanged(InternalConst.PossibleNodes);   The Select method is pretty straight forward. It contains two lines.The first to clear the selection. Otherwise the selected element would be added to the current selection. The second line selects the nodes. It is given a new array with the node to be selected.   _activeSceneViewModel.ClearSelections(); _activeSceneViewModel.SelectNodes(new[] { node.SceneNode });   The last thing that needs to be done is to wire the whole thing to the View. The two event handlers just call the Search and SelectElement methods on the ViewModel.   private void SearchQueryTextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e) { _advancedSearchViewModel.Search(SearchQuery.Text); }   private void SearchResultSelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e) { if(e.AddedItems.Count>0) { _advancedSearchViewModel.SelectElement(e.AddedItems[0] as PossibleNode); } }   The Listbox has to be bound to the PossibleNodes list and a simple DataTemplate is added to show the selection. The IconWithOverlay control can be found in the Microsoft.Expression.DesignSurface.UserInterface.Timeline.UI namespace in the Microsoft.Expression.DesignSurface assembly. The ListBox should look something like:   <ListBox SelectionChanged="SearchResultSelectionChanged" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="4" Name="SearchResult" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding PossibleNodes}"> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> <tlui:IconWithOverlay Margin="2,0,10,0" Width="12" Height="12" SourceBrush="{Binding Path=IconBrush, Mode=OneWay}" /> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/> </StackPanel> </DataTemplate> </ListBox.ItemTemplate> </ListBox>   Compile and run. Inside Blend the extension could look something like below. What’s Next When you’ve got the extension running. Try placing breakpoints in the code and see what else is in there. There’s a lot to explore and build extension on. I personally would love an extension to search for resources. Last but not least, you can download the source of project here.  If you have any questions let me know. If you just want to use this extension, you can download the compiled dll here. Just extract the . zip into the /extensions folder of Expression Blend. Notes Target framework I ran into some issues when using the .NET Framework 4 Client Profile as a target framework. I got some strange error saying certain obvious namespaces could not be found, Microsoft.Expression in my case. If you run into something like this, try setting the target framework to .NET Framework 4 instead of the client version.   Identifiers of default panes Identifier Type Title Designer_TimelinePane TimelinePane Objects and Timeline Designer_ToolPane ToolPane Tools Designer_ProjectPane ProjectPane Projects Designer_DataPane DataPane Data Designer_ResourcePane ResourcePane Resources Designer_PropertyInspector PropertyInspector Properties Designer_TriggersPane TriggersPane Triggers Interaction_Skin SkinView States Designer_AssetPane AssetPane Assets Interaction_Parts PartsPane Parts Designer_ResultsPane ResultsPane Results

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• How to Set RadioButtonFor() in ASp.net MVC 2 as Checked by default

  - by coolguy97

  hi, How can i Set RadioButtonFor() as Checked By Default <%=Html.RadioButtonFor(m => m.Gender,"Male")%> there is way out for (Html.RadioButton) but not for (Html.RadioButtonFor) any Ideas?

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• refresh user control inside multiview

  - by daisy

  In my parentpage I have dropdownlist, multiview and button. Multiview has a user control. On click of the button i pass the selected value from dropdown to the user control and call the databind method to populate the user control with corresponding data. User control has gridview which is populated using objectDataSource. I'm using the ObjectCreating (ObjectDataSource) to set the objectInstance. 1st time everything works fine. But when the dropdown selection is changed and the button is clicked again then the user control does not refresh. What do I need to do so that the user control refreshed each time the drop down selection is changed. All the help is appreciated Thanks

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• How to set selected segment index in UISegmentedControl? (iPhone SDK)

  - by seanny94

  Hello all! I'm trying to avoid an app crash here... I have a button that will remove a segment from a UISegmentedControl. If that button is pressed and the user has the segment to be removed selected, the segment will remove and no selection will be highlighted. However, when another button is pushed that does an action that retrieves the selectedSegmentIndex, the app crashes. In short: Is there any way to force the selection of a segment in a UISegmentedControl? edit it seems as though the UISegmentedControl is returning a selectedSegmentIndex of -1 when no segment is selected... let's see what I can do from here.

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• Saving custom attributes in NSAttributedString

  - by regulus6633

  I need to add a custom attribute to the selected text in an NSTextView. So I can do that by getting the attributed string for the selection, adding a custom attribute to it, and then replacing the selection with my new attributed string. So now I get the text view's attributed string as NSData and write it to a file. Later when I open that file and restore it to the text view my custom attributes are gone! After working out the entire scheme for my custom attribute I find that custom attributes are not saved for you. Look at the IMPORTANT note here: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/AttributedStrings/Tasks/RTFAndAttrStrings.html So I have no idea how to save and restore my documents with this custom attribute. Any help?

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• Databinding a ListBox with SelectionMode = Multiple

  - by David Veeneman

  I have a WPF ListBox that I would like to Enable multiple selection in the ListBox, and Databind the ListBox to my view model. These two requirements appear to be incompatible. My view model has an ObservableCollection<T> property to bind to this ListBox; I set up a binding in XAML from the property to the ListBox.SelectedItems property. When I compiled, I got an error saying that the SelectedItems property was read only and could not be set from XAML. Am I binding to the wrong control property? Is there a way to bind a multiple-selection ListBox in XAML to a view model collection property? Thanks for your help.

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• Trouble using Loader, can't access properties of loaded swf

  - by anne

  May not have asked question correctly so I’m asking again. I’m using Flash AS3 with code in actions layer. Main movieclip onstage is : design_mc. Within it is a movieclip already in place onstage with an instance name clipart_mc. Now I’m also loading a ListBox to the stage and each time a selection is made from listbox myLoader9 is used to load selected .swf into design_mc.clipArt_mc. Now within each of the .swf files loaded into design_mc.clipArt_mc there is a mc I’d like to color transform called color_mc. So now the listbox is onstage and I make a selection that places heart.swf inside of design_mc.clipArt_mc. I want to access heart.swf so I did this: var child:DisplayObject = myLoader9.content.contentLoaderInfo.content.color_mc; var colorTrans3:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform(); var trans3:Transform = new Transform(child); I still can not get to heart.swf. Can anyone help please? Anne

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• Customizing UIPickerView

  - by Raj

  Hi all, I have a requirement where UIPickerView should be customized. The picker view should look something like this: The application which has customized the pickerView similarly is: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/convert-the-unit-calculator/id325758140?mt=8 I have tried removing the default pickerView selection bar by resetting the property showsSelectionIndicator of UIImagePicker and adding a overlay view. But the problem is, the overlay view should be transparent so that the wheel behind it is visible. But the other application somehow does it even though the selection bar is not transparent. Any ideas on how to achieve this feat? Thanks and Regards, Raj

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• WPF tabcontrol styling

  - by BrettRobi

  I've got a UI with a fairly standard look and feel. It has a column of icons on the left side which when clicked open a different user control on the right side. Currently I'm using separate controls for the selection icons and the usercontrol containment. I'm having strange focus issues that I am tired of trying to mitigate and am wondering if I could style a tabcontrol to look like my UI (under the assumption a tabcontrol would not have focus issues when navigating tabs). Here is a screenshot of the basic UI. The styling is mostly about how to get the tabcontrols page selection to look like my column of icons. Anyone want to throw their hat in the ring as to how I might accomplish this with a tabcontrol? My xaml is pretty weak at this point.

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• Visual Studio - How to disable autoformat/correct while running macro?

  - by Sam

  When running a macro that changes the selected text, tags are automatically closed and the text formatted. How can I prevent that from happening? For example, wrapping text in a tag: DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = String.Format("<tag>{0}</tag>", DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text) Ends up with two closing tags: <tag>Text</tag></tag> Even stranger, multiple lines fails: <li>One</li> <li>Two</li> <li>Three</li> An ends up as <ul> <li>One</li> <li>Two</li> <li>Three</li></li></ul> How can I prevent that? As can be seen by the last example, the formatting is wrong and there is an extra </li>

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• Visual Studio DTE2: how to get text content of the current document

  - by Sylvain

  I developped a package to extend Visual Studio. As part of it, I have a context menu that must process the whole text content of the active document (HTML editor). I understand how to get the current selection : TextSelection txtSelection = (TextSelection)_bllManager.CurrentDocument.Selection; But I dont't understand how to get the whole content of the code window in case nothing is selected. Currently I use a work-around doing txtSelection.SelectAll() but it moves the cursor and I don't want that. Any suggestion ? Thanks.

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• wpf combobox padding

  - by Jose

  This is a simple question How do you remove the space between the content of a combobox and the border of it. E.g. If the selection of a combobox is "Selection 1" then the "S" is drawn at the very top left of the ComboBox control with no whitespace spacing between it and top left portion of the control. I did this <ComboBox Padding="0"/> Even this: <ComboBox.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType="ComboBoxItem"> <Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/> </Style> </ComboBox.ItemContainerStyle> The specified ComboBox above is within a ListView GridViewColumn. Maybe that's messing with something. This doesn't remove the padding. Any ideas?

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• JQuery datePicker: start/end date should be within one year

  - by Abu Hamzah

  So if my start date is : 04/22/2010 then my end date selection can be up to 04/22/2011 and after 04/22/2011 are dates all disabled. Here is what I have for both selection start and end date: $(document).ready(function () { $('#endDate').datepicker({ showOn: 'button', buttonImage: '../images/Calendar.png', buttonImageOnly: true, onSelect: function () { }, onClose: function () { $(this).focus(); } }); $('#startDate').datepicker({ showOn: 'button', buttonImage: '../images/Calendar.png', buttonImageOnly: true, onSelect: function (dateText, inst) { $('#endDate').datepicker("option", 'minDate', new Date(dateText)); } , onClose: function () { $(this).focus(); } }); });

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• C# VSTO: Coloring pivottable cells

  - by tomboz

  HI, I'm trying to make some code color a PivotTable. It works just fine coloring the cells it's supposed to, but if I refresh the table, all the colors disappear, as if the colors haven't been properly attached to the PivotTable. I have the following code (this is a snip from a larger code): myPivotTable.PivotSelect("'" + item["Name"].ToString() + "'[All;Total]", XlPTSelectionMode.xlDataAndLabel, true); ((Range)Globals.ThisWorkbook.Application.Selection).Interior.Color = 15962653; I've tried doing a macro in Excel in VB, and when it runs, it work works perfectly, so I don't understand why the C# VSTO won't work... ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1").PivotSelect "'ItemName'[All;Total]", xlDataAndLabel, True Selection.Interior.Color = 15962653 Help is much appreciated :)

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• Django RadioButtons with icons and not label?

  - by Asinox

  Hi guy's , i have an app that have 2 fields: company_name and logo, i'm displaying the companies like radiobutton in my Form from Model, but i want to show the logo company instead of the company label (company name) Any idea ? My forms: class RecargaForm(ModelForm): compania = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Compania.objects.all(), initial=0 ,empty_label='None', widget=forms.RadioSelect()) class Meta: model = Recarga Thanks :)

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• JQuery, ASCX and webmethods not seems to be working

  - by Karthik K

  Hi all, I have a cascading dropdown (3 of them) Type, Categories and Sub Categories. Type loads first and upon selection of Type, Category load and selection of Category, Sub Category loads. Also i have 2 buttons, "Add Category" and "Add Sub Category" Upon clicking on these buttons, i call a JQuery Modal Form to add them. I use Webmethod in code behind to add them to database This works perfectly in ASPX page. Since I need use this in 3-4 pages, i thought of making the above as User control (ASCX). When i try to use this in a webpage, the webmethods in ASCX don't get called. Is my approach correct? what should be done for my scenario lOoking forward for your suggestions. Thanks in advance Karthik

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• batch file that detects keystrokes. how?

  - by daniel11

  im designing a collection of video games for the command line (such as deal or no deal, tic tac toe, racing, maze puzzle, connect four, wack a mole, etc.) however it would really make things easier for me if i could make it so that when the user makes a selection (such as what direction to move in the game) , that as soon as they press the arrow keys then it carries out the IF statements that follow. Instead of having to press enter after each selection. something like... :one1 set /p direction1= : IF %direction1%== {ARROW KEY LEFT} goto two2 IF %direction1%== {ARROW KEY RIGHT} goto three3 IF %direction1%== {ARROW KEY UP} goto four4 IF %direction1%== {ARROW KEY DOWN} goto five5 goto one1 Any Ideas?

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• EventDispatcher between an as and an fla?

  - by Christopher Richa

  Hi everyone. I am making a fighting game in Flash and while I have everything running, I am missing something: a victory/loss screen. Logically, I know how to do it: if character.hp < 0 { character.dead = true; dispatchevent("death", event) } My problem is that I have no idea as to how to code it. I know I will use two classes and my two .fla files (unless I am wrong). I have two .fla files that are in play here: the Menu.fla file and the Arena.fla file. Menu.fla contains the entire navigation of the game, options, character selection screens, etc. and when it is time for the player to engage in battle, it loads the Arena.fla file, which contains only the backgrounds (depending on the selected stage) and for now is set to a length of one frame only. For Arena.fla, the real action happens in my classes, but logically, I would only need HP.as and Character.as. In Character.as, I have declared the following variable: var isDead:Boolean = false; //is character dead? In HP.as, believe I should have the following: if(currentHp<0) { currentHp = 0; character.isDead = true; //declared as var `character:Object;` EventDispatcher.dispatchEventListener("playerDead", playerDead); } And finally, in Arena.fla, I want to be able to detect the above-mentioned eventlistener and simply move on to a second frame which will display a message in the style of "PLAYER ONE HAS WON" or "PLAYER ONE HAS LOST" with a button that will allow me to go back to the character selection screen. This is the first part in which I am stuck: how do I detect the dispatched event listener in my main .fla file? Secondly, if the player clicks on the "CONTINUE" button, which displays regardless if the player has won or lost, how can my Menu.fla (which loads the Arena.swf) detect this click event, unload the game, and go back to the character selection screen? Thank you in advance for helping me out. I realize this is a lot of text but it's the most descriptive I can be. If you have any questions or need any clarification concerning my question, feel free to speak up. -Christopher

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• How do I set a ComboBox default *not in the drop down* when a list item begins with the same text as a drop down item?

  - by John Conrad

  Using C#, say you have a ComboBox that has a DropDownStyle set to DropDown (there are items in the drop down but the user can manually enter a value as well). How do you set a default value for the ComboBox that is not in the list of values in the drop down, but begins with text from a possible selection? Normally setting ComboBox.Text works fine, but if there is an item in the drop down that begins with the text you want as the default, it automatically selects the first item in the list that starts with the text. For example: Values in the drop down: c:\program files\ c:\windows\ d:\media\ Default Value Assignment myComboBox.Text = "C:\"; Result Initial value of ComboBox when the form opens is "c:\program files\". So what am I doing wrong? How do I correctly set a default value of an item not in the drop down list that begins with a possible selection?

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• multiple records using the select_tag

  - by JZ

  I'm attempting to display multiple records, with each record displaying its own selection box. I would like to submit this form and pass a hash, having the Add.id function as the key of the hash, and the selection box option pass as the information in the hash. How could I fix my code? is this even possible with the select_tag method? <%= form_tag yardsign_adds_path, :method => :post do %> <%= select_tag "support_code[]", options_for_select([[ "1 - Strong Supporter", add.id ], [ "2 - Likely Voter" ], [ "3 - Undecided" ], [ "4 - Likely Opposed" ], [ "5 - Strongly Opposed" ]]) %> <%= submit_tag "Update" %> <% end %> Current terminal output: Started POST "/adds/yardsign" for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-04-17 01:36:03 Processing by AddsController#yardsign as HTML Parameters: {"commit"=>"Update", "authenticity_token"=>"VQ2jVfzHI7pB+87lQa9NWqvUK3zwJWiJE7CwAnIewiw=", "support_code"=>["1", "3 - Undecided", "3 - Undecided"]}

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