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• DirectX works for 64-bit but not 32-bit

  - by dtbarne

  I'm trying to play a game (Civilization 5) which was previously working but no longer. I believe I've narrowed it down to a DirectX issue because I get an error running dxdiag.exe in 32 bit mode. My goal (at least I believe) is to get Direct3D Acceleration "Enabled" in dxdiag (as it is in 64 bit dxdiag). A very similar issue is here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-gaming/direct3d-acceleration-is-not-available-in-windows/4c345e6e-dc68-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?page=1 The proposed answer, which looks very promising, doesn't seem to work for me. Like other users in that thread, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Direct3D\Drivers does not have a SoftwareOnly key to change. I even tried manually adding it as a string and dword, to no avail. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M, and before you ask, yes I've tried updating (also uninstalling, reinstalling) my drivers. I've also tried doing the same with DirectX (and Civilization 5 for that matter). Been debugging for some 4+ hours now after a full day of work and I've run out of ideas. I'm hoping somebody knows the solution here! :) Here's what I see when I open dxdiag: DxDiag has detected that there mgiht have been a problem accessing Direct3D the last time this program was used. Would you like to bypass Direct3D this time? No - Crash Yes - Works, but in Display tab: DirectDraw Acceleration: Disabled Direct3D Acceleration: Not Available AGP Texture Acceleration: Not Available If I click "Run 64-bit DxDiag", all three are "Enabled". I should also note that I've tried the following steps as Microsoft suggests, but I'm not able to do so as the "Change Settings" button is disabled. Some programs run very slowly—or not at all—unless Microsoft DirectDraw or Direct3D hardware acceleration is turned on. To determine this, click the Display tab, and then under DirectX Features, check to see whether DirectDraw, Direct3D, and AGP Texture Acceleration appear as Enabled. If not, try turning on hardware acceleration. Click to open Screen Resolution. Click Advanced settings. Click the Troubleshoot tab, and then click Change settings. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Move the Hardware Acceleration slider to Full. Full dxdiag dump: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 11/8/2012, 23:13:24 Machine name: DTBARNE Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Dell Inc. System Model: Dell System XPS L502X BIOS: Default System BIOS Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Available OS Memory: 8086MB RAM Page File: 2466MB used, 13704MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11 DX Setup Parameters: Not found User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent) DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode DxDiag Previously: Crashed in Direct3D (stage 2). Re-running DxDiag with "dontskip" command line parameter or choosing not to bypass information gathering when prompted might result in DxDiag successfully obtaining this information ------------ DxDiag Notes ------------ Display Tab 1: No problems found. Sound Tab 1: No problems found. Sound Tab 2: No problems found. Input Tab: No problems found. -------------------- DirectX Debug Levels -------------------- Direct3D: 0/4 (retail) DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail) DirectInput: 0/5 (retail) DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail) DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail) DirectSound: 0/5 (retail) DirectShow: 0/6 (retail) --------------- Display Devices --------------- Card name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 Manufacturer: Chip type: DAC type: Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0126&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_09 Display Memory: Dedicated Memory: n/a Shared Memory: n/a Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor Monitor Model: Monitor Id: Native Mode: Output Type: Driver Name: Driver File Version: () Driver Version: DDI Version: Driver Model: WDDM 1.1 Driver Attributes: Final Retail Driver Date/Size: , 0 bytes WHQL Logo'd: n/a WHQL Date Stamp: n/a Device Identifier: Vendor ID: Device ID: SubSys ID: Revision ID: Driver Strong Name: oem11.inf:IntelGfx.NTamd64.6.0:iSNBM0:8.15.10.2696:pci\ven_8086&dev_0126&subsys_04b61028 Rank Of Driver: 00E60001 Video Accel: Deinterlace Caps: n/a D3D9 Overlay: DXVA-HD: DDraw Status: Disabled D3D Status: Not Available AGP Status: Not Available ------------- Sound Devices ------------- Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device) Default Sound Playback: Yes Default Voice Playback: Yes Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0665&SUBSYS_102804B6&REV_1000 Manufacturer ID: 1 Product ID: 65535 Type: WDM Driver Name: HdAudio.sys Driver Version: 6.01.7601.17514 (English) Driver Attributes: Final Retail WHQL Logo'd: Yes Date and Size: 11/20/2010 22:23:47, 350208 bytes Other Files: Driver Provider: Microsoft HW Accel Level: Basic Cap Flags: 0xF1F Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000 Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0 HW Memory: 0 Voice Management: No EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device) Default Sound Playback: No Default Voice Playback: No Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0665&SUBSYS_102804B6&REV_1000 Manufacturer ID: 1 Product ID: 65535 Type: WDM Driver Name: HdAudio.sys Driver Version: 6.01.7601.17514 (English) Driver Attributes: Final Retail WHQL Logo'd: Yes Date and Size: 11/20/2010 22:23:47, 350208 bytes Other Files: Driver Provider: Microsoft HW Accel Level: Basic Cap Flags: 0xF1F Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000 Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0 HW Memory: 0 Voice Management: No EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No --------------------- Sound Capture Devices --------------------- Description: Microphone (High Definition Audio Device) Default Sound Capture: Yes Default Voice Capture: Yes Driver Name: HdAudio.sys Driver Version: 6.01.7601.17514 (English) Driver Attributes: Final Retail Date and Size: 11/20/2010 22:23:47, 350208 bytes Cap Flags: 0x1 Format Flags: 0xFFFFF ------------------- DirectInput Devices ------------------- Device Name: Mouse Attached: 1 Controller ID: n/a Vendor/Product ID: n/a FF Driver: n/a Device Name: Keyboard Attached: 1 Controller ID: n/a Vendor/Product ID: n/a FF Driver: n/a Poll w/ Interrupt: No ----------- USB Devices ----------- + USB Root Hub | Vendor/Product ID: 0x8086, 0x1C26 | Matching Device ID: usb\root_hub20 | Service: usbhub | +-+ Generic USB Hub | | Vendor/Product ID: 0x8087, 0x0024 | | Location: Port_#0001.Hub_#0002 | | Matching Device ID: usb\class_09 | | Service: usbhub ---------------- Gameport Devices ---------------- ------------ PS/2 Devices ------------ + Standard PS/2 Keyboard | Matching Device ID: *pnp0303 | Service: i8042prt | + Terminal Server Keyboard Driver | Matching Device ID: root\rdp_kbd | Upper Filters: kbdclass | Service: TermDD | + Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad | Matching Device ID: *dll04b6 | Upper Filters: SynTP | Service: i8042prt | + Terminal Server Mouse Driver | Matching Device ID: root\rdp_mou | Upper Filters: mouclass | Service: TermDD ------------------------ Disk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives ------------------------ Drive: C: Free Space: 26.2 GB Total Space: 122.0 GB File System: NTFS Model: M4-CT128M4SSD2 ATA Device Drive: D: Model: Optiarc DVDRWBD BC-5540H ATA Device Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 6.01.7601.17514 (English), , 0 bytes -------------- System Devices -------------- Name: High Definition Audio Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C20&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_05\3&11583659&0&D8 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard host CPU bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0104&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_09\3&11583659&0&00 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C1A&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_B5\3&11583659&0&E5 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0101&SUBSYS_20108086&REV_09\3&11583659&0&08 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C18&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_B5\3&11583659&0&E4 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6230 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0091&SUBSYS_52218086&REV_34\4&2634DE8D&0&00E1 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard ISA bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C4B&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_05\3&11583659&0&F8 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C16&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_B5\3&11583659&0&E3 Driver: n/a Name: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_06\4&109EAB2F&0&00E5 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) Management Engine Interface Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3A&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_04\3&11583659&0&B0 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C12&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_B5\3&11583659&0&E1 Driver: n/a Name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M Device ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DF5&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_A1\4&4DCA75F&0&0008 Driver: n/a Name: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C2D&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_05\3&11583659&0&D0 Driver: n/a Name: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C10&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_B5\3&11583659&0&E0 Driver: n/a Name: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C26&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_05\3&11583659&0&E8 Driver: n/a Name: Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_05\3&11583659&0&FA Driver: n/a Name: SM Bus Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C22&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_05\3&11583659&0&FB Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0126&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_09\3&11583659&0&10 Driver: n/a Name: Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_0194&SUBSYS_04B61028&REV_04\4&3494AC3A&0&00E3 Driver: n/a ------------------ DirectShow Filters ------------------ DirectShow Filters: WMAudio Decoder DMO,0x00800800,1,1,WMADMOD.DLL,6.01.7601.17514 WMAPro over S/PDIF DMO,0x00600800,1,1,WMADMOD.DLL,6.01.7601.17514 WMSpeech Decoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,WMSPDMOD.DLL,6.01.7601.17514 MP3 Decoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,mp3dmod.dll,6.01.7600.16385 Mpeg4s Decoder DMO,0x00800001,1,1,mp4sdecd.dll,6.01.7600.16385 WMV Screen decoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,wmvsdecd.dll,6.01.7601.17514 WMVideo Decoder DMO,0x00800001,1,1,wmvdecod.dll,6.01.7601.17514 Mpeg43 Decoder DMO,0x00800001,1,1,mp43decd.dll,6.01.7600.16385 Mpeg4 Decoder DMO,0x00800001,1,1,mpg4decd.dll,6.01.7600.16385 DV Muxer,0x00400000,0,0,qdv.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Color Space Converter,0x00400001,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 WM ASF Reader,0x00400000,0,0,qasf.dll,12.00.7601.17514 Screen Capture filter,0x00200000,0,1,wmpsrcwp.dll,12.00.7601.17514 AVI Splitter,0x00600000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 VGA 16 Color Ditherer,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 SBE2MediaTypeProfile,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7601.17528 Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder,0x005fffff,2,4,msmpeg2vdec.dll,6.01.7140.0000 AC3 Parser Filter,0x00600000,1,1,mpg2splt.ax,6.06.7601.17528 StreamBufferSink,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7601.17528 MJPEG Decompressor,0x00600000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 MPEG-I Stream Splitter,0x00600000,1,2,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 SAMI (CC) Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 VBI Codec,0x00600000,1,4,VBICodec.ax,6.06.7601.17514 MPEG-2 Splitter,0x005fffff,1,0,mpg2splt.ax,6.06.7601.17528 Closed Captions Analysis Filter,0x00200000,2,5,cca.dll,6.06.7601.17514 SBE2FileScan,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7601.17528 Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Encoder,0x00200000,1,1,msmpeg2enc.dll,6.01.7601.17514 Internal Script Command Renderer,0x00800001,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 MPEG Audio Decoder,0x03680001,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 DV Splitter,0x00600000,1,2,qdv.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Video Mixing Renderer 9,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Microsoft MPEG-2 Encoder,0x00200000,2,1,msmpeg2enc.dll,6.01.7601.17514 ACM Wrapper,0x00600000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Video Renderer,0x00800001,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 MPEG-2 Video Stream Analyzer,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7601.17528 Line 21 Decoder,0x00600000,1,1,qdvd.dll,6.06.7601.17835 Video Port Manager,0x00600000,2,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Video Renderer,0x00400000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 VPS Decoder,0x00200000,0,0,WSTPager.ax,6.06.7601.17514 WM ASF Writer,0x00400000,0,0,qasf.dll,12.00.7601.17514 VBI Surface Allocator,0x00600000,1,1,vbisurf.ax,6.01.7601.17514 File writer,0x00200000,1,0,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 iTV Data Sink,0x00600000,1,0,itvdata.dll,6.06.7601.17514 iTV Data Capture filter,0x00600000,1,1,itvdata.dll,6.06.7601.17514 DVD Navigator,0x00200000,0,3,qdvd.dll,6.06.7601.17835 Overlay Mixer2,0x00200000,1,1,qdvd.dll,6.06.7601.17835 AVI Draw,0x00600064,9,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 RDP DShow Redirection Filter,0xffffffff,1,0,DShowRdpFilter.dll, Microsoft MPEG-2 Audio Encoder,0x00200000,1,1,msmpeg2enc.dll,6.01.7601.17514 WST Pager,0x00200000,1,1,WSTPager.ax,6.06.7601.17514 MPEG-2 Demultiplexer,0x00600000,1,1,mpg2splt.ax,6.06.7601.17528 DV Video Decoder,0x00800000,1,1,qdv.dll,6.06.7601.17514 SampleGrabber,0x00200000,1,1,qedit.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Null Renderer,0x00200000,1,0,qedit.dll,6.06.7601.17514 MPEG-2 Sections and Tables,0x005fffff,1,0,Mpeg2Data.ax,6.06.7601.17514 Microsoft AC3 Encoder,0x00200000,1,1,msac3enc.dll,6.01.7601.17514 StreamBufferSource,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7601.17528 Smart Tee,0x00200000,1,2,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Overlay Mixer,0x00200000,0,0,qdvd.dll,6.06.7601.17835 AVI Decompressor,0x00600000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 AVI/WAV File Source,0x00400000,0,2,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Wave Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 MIDI Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Multi-file Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 File stream renderer,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder,0x005fffff,1,1,msmpeg2adec.dll,6.01.7140.0000 StreamBufferSink2,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7601.17528 AVI Mux,0x00200000,1,0,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Line 21 Decoder 2,0x00600002,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 File Source (Async.),0x00400000,0,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 File Source (URL),0x00400000,0,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Infinite Pin Tee Filter,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Enhanced Video Renderer,0x00200000,1,0,evr.dll,6.01.7601.17514 BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter,0x00200000,2,0,psisrndr.ax,6.06.7601.17669 MPEG Video Decoder,0x40000001,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 WDM Streaming Tee/Splitter Devices: Tee/Sink-to-Sink Converter,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7601.17514 Video Compressors: WMVideo8 Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,wmvxencd.dll,6.01.7600.16385 WMVideo9 Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,wmvencod.dll,6.01.7600.16385 MSScreen 9 encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,wmvsencd.dll,6.01.7600.16385 DV Video Encoder,0x00200000,0,0,qdv.dll,6.06.7601.17514 MJPEG Compressor,0x00200000,0,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Cinepak Codec by Radius,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Intel IYUV codec,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Intel IYUV codec,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Microsoft RLE,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Microsoft Video 1,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 Audio Compressors: WM Speech Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,WMSPDMOE.DLL,6.01.7600.16385 WMAudio Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,WMADMOE.DLL,6.01.7600.16385 IMA ADPCM,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 PCM,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Microsoft ADPCM,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 GSM 6.10,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 CCITT A-Law,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 CCITT u-Law,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 MPEG Layer-3,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Audio Capture Sources: Microphone (High Definition Aud,0x00200000,0,0,qcap.dll,6.06.7601.17514 PBDA CP Filters: PBDA DTFilter,0x00600000,1,1,CPFilters.dll,6.06.7601.17528 PBDA ETFilter,0x00200000,0,0,CPFilters.dll,6.06.7601.17528 PBDA PTFilter,0x00200000,0,0,CPFilters.dll,6.06.7601.17528 Midi Renderers: Default MidiOut Device,0x00800000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 WDM Streaming Capture Devices: HD Audio Microphone 2,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7601.17514 Integrated Webcam,0x00200000,1,2,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7601.17514 WDM Streaming Rendering Devices: HD Audio Headphone/Speakers,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7601.17514 HD Audio SPDIF out,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7601.17514 BDA Network Providers: Microsoft ATSC Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7601.17514 Microsoft DVBC Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7601.17514 Microsoft DVBS Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7601.17514 Microsoft DVBT Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7601.17514 Microsoft Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSNP.ax,6.06.7601.17514 Video Capture Sources: Integrated Webcam,0x00200000,1,2,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7601.17514 Multi-Instance Capable VBI Codecs: VBI Codec,0x00600000,1,4,VBICodec.ax,6.06.7601.17514 BDA Transport Information Renderers: BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter,0x00600000,2,0,psisrndr.ax,6.06.7601.17669 MPEG-2 Sections and Tables,0x00600000,1,0,Mpeg2Data.ax,6.06.7601.17514 BDA CP/CA Filters: Decrypt/Tag,0x00600000,1,1,EncDec.dll,6.06.7601.17708 Encrypt/Tag,0x00200000,0,0,EncDec.dll,6.06.7601.17708 PTFilter,0x00200000,0,0,EncDec.dll,6.06.7601.17708 XDS Codec,0x00200000,0,0,EncDec.dll,6.06.7601.17708 WDM Streaming Communication Transforms: Tee/Sink-to-Sink Converter,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7601.17514 Audio Renderers: Speakers (High Definition Audio,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Default DirectSound Device,0x00800000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Default WaveOut Device,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High De,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 DirectSound: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device),0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 DirectSound: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device),0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7601.17713 --------------- EVR Power Information --------------- Current Setting: {651288E5-A7ED-4076-A96B-6CC62D848FE1} (Balanced) Quality Flags: 2576 Enabled: Force throttling Allow half deinterlace Allow scaling Decode Power Usage: 100 Balanced Flags: 1424 Enabled: Force throttling Allow batching Force half deinterlace Force scaling Decode Power Usage: 50 PowerFlags: 1424 Enabled: Force throttling Allow batching Force half deinterlace Force scaling Decode Power Usage: 0

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• Receive MMS images and make album using iamge using j2me

  - by Abdul Basit

  I am trying to made application which receive MMS images and make a album from them user can view the pictures while running this application. I am facing problem while running application on mobile. while this application is fully working in wireless tookit emulator. Please guide me to fix this problem.`//package hello; import javax.microedition.midlet.; import javax.microedition.lcdui.; import javax.wireless.messaging.*; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Vector; import javax.microedition.io.Connector; import javax.microedition.lcdui.Display; //, ItemStateListener public class MMSS extends MIDlet implements CommandListener, Runnable, MessageListener { //-----------------------------------Receive MMS --------------------------- private Thread mReceiver = null; private boolean mEndNow = false; private Message msg = null; String msgReceived = null; private Image[] receivedImage = new Image[5]; private Command mExitCommand = new Command("Exit", Command.EXIT, 2); private Command mRedCommand = new Command("Back", Command.SCREEN, 1); private Command mBlueCommand = new Command("Next", Command.SCREEN, 1); private Command mPlay = new Command("Play", Command.SCREEN, 1); protected static final String DEFAULT_IMAGE = "/MMSS_logo.jpg"; //protected static final String DEFAULT_IMAGE = "/wait.png"; private Display mDisplay = null; //protected ImageItem mColorSquare = null; protected Image mInitialImage = null; private String mAppID = "MMSMIDlet"; private TextField imageName = null; //private Form mForm = null; private int count = 0; private int next = 0; private Integer mMonitor = new Integer(0); //----------------------------------- End Receive MMS --------------------------- private boolean midletPaused = false; private Command exitCommand; private Command exitCommand1; private Command backCommand; private Form form; private StringItem stringItem; private ImageItem imageItem; private Image image1; private Alert alert; private List locationList; private Alert cannotAddLocationAlert; public MMSS() { } /** * Initilizes the application. * It is called only once when the MIDlet is started. The method is called before the startMIDlet method. */ private void initialize() { } /** * Performs an action assigned to the Mobile Device - MIDlet Started point. */ public void startMIDlet() { // write pre-action user code here switchDisplayable(null, getForm()); // write post-action user code here } /** * Performs an action assigned to the Mobile Device - MIDlet Resumed point. */ public void resumeMIDlet() { } /** * Switches a current displayable in a display. The display instance is taken from getDisplay method. This method is used by all actions in the design for switching displayable. * @param alert the Alert which is temporarily set to the display; if null, then nextDisplayable is set immediately * @param nextDisplayable the Displayable to be set / public void switchDisplayable(Alert alert, Displayable nextDisplayable) {//GEN-END:|5-switchDisplayable|0|5-preSwitch // write pre-switch user code here Display display = getDisplay();//GEN-BEGIN:|5-switchDisplayable|1|5-postSwitch if (alert == null) { display.setCurrent(nextDisplayable); } else { display.setCurrent(alert, nextDisplayable); } } /* * Called by a system to indicated that a command has been invoked on a particular displayable. * @param command the Command that was invoked * @param displayable the Displayable where the command was invoked */ public void commandAction(Command command, Displayable displayable) { // write pre-action user code here if (displayable == form) { if (command == exitCommand) { // write pre-action user code here exitMIDlet(); // write post-action user code here } } // write post-action user code here } /** * Returns an initiliazed instance of exitCommand component. * @return the initialized component instance */ public Command getExitCommand() { if (exitCommand == null) { // write pre-init user code here exitCommand = new Command("Exit", Command.EXIT, 0); // write post-init user code here } return exitCommand; } /** * Returns an initiliazed instance of form component. * @return the initialized component instance */ public Form getForm() { if (form == null) { // write pre-init user code here form = new Form("Welcome to MMSS", new Item[] { getStringItem(), getImageItem() }); form.addCommand(getExitCommand()); form.setCommandListener(this); // write post-init user code here } return form; } /** * Returns an initiliazed instance of stringItem component. * @return the initialized component instance */ public StringItem getStringItem() { if (stringItem == null) { // write pre-init user code here stringItem = new StringItem("Hello", "Hello, World!"); // write post-init user code here } return stringItem; } /** * Returns an initiliazed instance of exitCommand1 component. * @return the initialized component instance / public Command getExitCommand1() { if (exitCommand1 == null) { // write pre-init user code here exitCommand1 = new Command("Exit", Command.EXIT, 0); // write post-init user code here } return exitCommand1; } /* * Returns an initiliazed instance of imageItem component. * @return the initialized component instance */ public ImageItem getImageItem() { if (imageItem == null) { // write pre-init user code here imageItem = new ImageItem("imageItem", getImage1(), ImageItem.LAYOUT_CENTER | Item.LAYOUT_TOP | Item.LAYOUT_BOTTOM | Item.LAYOUT_VCENTER | Item.LAYOUT_EXPAND | Item.LAYOUT_VEXPAND, "");//GEN-LINE:|26-getter|1|26-postInit // write post-init user code here } return imageItem; } /** * Returns an initiliazed instance of image1 component. * @return the initialized component instance */ public Image getImage1() { if (image1 == null) { // write pre-init user code here try { image1 = Image.createImage("/B.jpg"); } catch (java.io.IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } // write post-init user code here } return image1; } /** * Returns a display instance. * @return the display instance. */ public Display getDisplay () { return Display.getDisplay(this); } /** * Exits MIDlet. */ public void exitMIDlet() { switchDisplayable (null, null); destroyApp(true); notifyDestroyed(); } /** * Called when MIDlet is started. * Checks whether the MIDlet have been already started and initialize/starts or resumes the MIDlet. */ public void startApp() { if (midletPaused) { resumeMIDlet (); } else { initialize (); startMIDlet (); } midletPaused = false; /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// try { conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open("mms://:" + mAppID); conn.setMessageListener(this); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("startApp caught: "); e.printStackTrace(); } if (conn != null) { startReceive(); } /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// } /** * Called when MIDlet is paused. */ public void pauseApp() { midletPaused = true; mEndNow = true; try { conn.setMessageListener(null); conn.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { System.out.println("pausetApp caught: "); ex.printStackTrace(); } } /** * Called to signal the MIDlet to terminate. * @param unconditional if true, then the MIDlet has to be unconditionally terminated and all resources has to be released. */ public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) { mEndNow = true; try { conn.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { System.out.println("destroyApp caught: "); ex.printStackTrace(); } } private void startReceive() { mEndNow = false; //---- Start receive thread mReceiver = new Thread(this); mReceiver.start(); } protected MessageConnection conn = null; protected int mMsgAvail = 0; // -------------------- Get Next Images ------------------------------------ private void getMessage() { synchronized(mMonitor) { mMsgAvail++; mMonitor.notify(); } } // -------------------- Display Images Thread ------------------------------ public void notifyIncomingMessage(MessageConnection msgConn) { if (msgConn == conn) getMessage(); } public void itemStateChanged(Item item) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); } class SetImage implements Runnable { private Image img = null; public SetImage(Image inImg) { img = inImg; } public void run() { imageItem.setImage(img); imageName.setString(Integer.toString(count)); } } public void run() { mMsgAvail = 0; while (!mEndNow) { synchronized(mMonitor) { // Enter monitor if (mMsgAvail <= 0) try { mMonitor.wait(); } catch (InterruptedException ex) { } mMsgAvail--; } try { msg = conn.receive(); if (msg instanceof MultipartMessage) { MultipartMessage mpm = (MultipartMessage)msg; MessagePart[] parts = mpm.getMessageParts(); if (parts != null) { for (int i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) { MessagePart mp = parts[i]; byte[] ba = mp.getContent(); receivedImage[count] = Image.createImage(ba, 0, ba.length); } Display.getDisplay(this).callSerially(new SetImage(receivedImage[count])); } } } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("Receive thread caught: "); e.printStackTrace(); } count++; } // of while } } `

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• AS3 XML Slideshow Woes

  - by Chris

  Hello All, I am hoping someone out there can possibly shed some light on a couple issues I am having with an image slideshow I have been working on a simple slideshow for a project and everything was going great/as expected up until I created a function to hide the previous images before displaying the next. On the first pass through everything seems to run fine; once the slideshow starts over, the images don't show up, yet when it goes to load the following image, it plays the tween from the hide previous function which shows the image briefly before fading out. So essentially the display is blank, then the timer calls in the next slide and its a brief flash of an image fading out, and then blank again. Another issue I am having is the text that I am loading in from the XML does not seem to want to tween in or out as they are supposed to. Here is the code: import fl.transitions.Tween; import fl.transitions.easing.*; import fl.transitions.TweenEvent; import flash.display.BitmapData; import flash.display.Bitmap; import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.utils.Timer; import flash.events.TimerEvent; var filePath:String = "photo1.xml"; var iArray:Array = new Array(); var titleArray:Array = new Array(); var dateArray:Array = new Array(); var catArray:Array = new Array(); var descArray:Array = new Array(); var rotationSpeed:Number; var totalImages:Number; var dataList:XMLList; var imagesLoaded:Number = 0; var currImage:Number = 0; var rotationTimer:Timer; var oldTween:Tween; var imageContainer:Sprite = new Sprite(); var imageHolder:Sprite = new Sprite(); var titleContainer:Sprite = new Sprite(); var dateContainer:Sprite = new Sprite(); var catContainer:Sprite = new Sprite(); var descContainer:Sprite = new Sprite(); var theMask:Sprite = new Sprite(); theMask.graphics.beginFill(0x000000); theMask.graphics.drawRect(114, 25, 323, 332); addChild(theMask); var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete); loader.load(new URLRequest(filePath)); function onComplete (evt:Event):void{ var pigData:XML = new XML(evt.target.data); pigData.ignoreWhitespace; dataList = pigData.pic; totalImages = dataList.length(); rotationSpeed = pigData.@speed * 1000; stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; loadImages(); rotationTimer = new Timer(rotationSpeed); rotationTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, rotateImage); rotationTimer.start(); } function loadImages() { for (var i:Number = 0; i < totalImages; i++) { var imageURL:String = dataList[i].big; var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader(); imageLoader.load(new URLRequest(imageURL)); imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imageLoaded); iArray.push(imageLoader); var titleField:TextField = new TextField(); var dateField:TextField = new TextField(); var catField:TextField = new TextField(); var descField:TextField = new TextField(); titleField.text = dataList[i].title; titleField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT; titleArray.push(titleField); dateField.text = dataList[i].date; dateField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT; dateArray.push(dateField); catField.text = dataList[i].category; catField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT; catArray.push(catField); descField.text = dataList[i].description; descField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT; descArray.push(descField); } } function imageLoaded(evt:Event):void { imagesLoaded++; if (imagesLoaded == totalImages) { showImage(); } } function showImage():void { addChild(imageContainer); imageContainer.addChild(imageHolder); imageContainer.addChild(titleContainer); imageContainer.addChild(dateContainer); imageContainer.addChild(catContainer); imageContainer.addChild(descContainer); changeImage(); } function changeImage():void { var currentImage:Loader = Loader(iArray[currImage]); imageHolder.addChild(currentImage); currentImage.x = (stage.stageWidth - currentImage.width)/2; currentImage.y = (imageHolder.height - currentImage.height)/2; imageHolder.mask = theMask; new Tween(imageHolder, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, 1, true); var titleField:TextField = TextField(titleArray[currImage]); titleContainer.addChild(titleField); titleField.x = 107; titleField.y = 365; var titleTween:Tween = new Tween(titleField, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, 1, true); var dateField:TextField = TextField(dateArray[currImage]); dateContainer.addChild(dateField); dateField.x = 107; dateField.y = 375; var dateTween:Tween = new Tween(dateField, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, 1, true); var catField:TextField = TextField(catArray[currImage]); catContainer.addChild(catField); catField.x = 107; catField.y = 385; var catTween:Tween = new Tween(catField, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, 1, true); var descField:TextField = TextField(descArray[currImage]); descContainer.addChild(descField); descField.x = 107; descField.y = 395; var descTween:Tween = new Tween(descField, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, 1, true); } function rotateImage(evt:TimerEvent) { hidePrev(); currImage++; if (currImage == totalImages) { currImage = 0; } changeImage(); } function hidePrev():void{ var oldImage:Loader = Loader(imageHolder.getChildAt(0)); oldTween = new Tween(oldImage,"alpha", Regular.easeOut, 1, 0, 1, true); oldTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, onFadeOut) var oldTitle:TextField = TextField(titleContainer.getChildAt(0)); var oldTitleTween:Tween = new Tween(oldTitle,"alpha", Regular.easeOut, 1, 0, 1, true); var oldDate:TextField = TextField(dateContainer.getChildAt(0)); var oldDateTween:Tween = new Tween(oldDate,"alpha",Regular.easeOut,1,0,1,true); var oldCat:TextField = TextField(catContainer.getChildAt(0)); var oldCatTween:Tween = new Tween(oldCat,"alpha",Regular.easeOut,1,0,1,true); var oldDesc:TextField = TextField(descContainer.getChildAt(0)); var oldDescTween:Tween = new Tween(oldDesc,"alpha",Regular.easeOut,1,0,1,true); } function onFadeOut(evt:TweenEvent):void{ imageHolder.removeChildAt(0); titleContainer.removeChildAt(0); dateContainer.removeChildAt(0); catContainer.removeChildAt(0); descContainer.removeChildAt(0); } I'm no flash whiz, bet can generally figure most issues out by either analyzing the code, or digging around online; however, this has me stumped. Any help would really be appreciated, and I thank you all in advance.

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• Customized listfield with image displaying from a url

  - by arunabha

  I am displaying a customized list field with text on the right side and image on the left side.The image comes from a URL dynamically.Initially i am placing a blank image on the left of the list field,then call URLBitmapField class's setURL method,which actually does the processing and places the processed image on top of the blank image.The image gets displayed on the list field,but to see that processed image i need to press any key or click on the list field items.I want the processed image to be displayed automatically in the list field after the processing.Can anyone tell me where i am getting wrong? import java.util.Vector; import net.rim.device.api.system.Bitmap; import net.rim.device.api.system.Display; import net.rim.device.api.ui.ContextMenu; import net.rim.device.api.ui.DrawStyle; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Field; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Font; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Graphics; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Manager; import net.rim.device.api.ui.MenuItem; import net.rim.device.api.ui.UiApplication; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.BitmapField; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.LabelField; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.ListField; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.ListFieldCallback; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.NullField; import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.FullScreen; import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.MainScreen; import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.VerticalFieldManager; import net.rim.device.api.util.Arrays; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.ListField; public class TaskListField extends UiApplication { // statics // ------------------------------------------------------------------ public static void main(String[] args) { TaskListField theApp = new TaskListField(); theApp.enterEventDispatcher(); } public TaskListField() { pushScreen(new TaskList()); } } class TaskList extends MainScreen implements ListFieldCallback { private Vector rows; private Bitmap p1; private Bitmap p2; private Bitmap p3; String Task; ListField listnew = new ListField(); private VerticalFieldManager metadataVFM; TableRowManager row; public TaskList() { super(); URLBitmapField artistImgField; listnew.setRowHeight(80); listnew.setCallback(this); rows = new Vector(); for (int x = 0; x <3; x++) { row = new TableRowManager(); artistImgField = new URLBitmapField(Bitmap .getBitmapResource("res/images/bg.jpg")); row.add(artistImgField); String photoURL = "someimagefrmurl.jpg"; Log.info(photoURL); // strip white spaces in the url, which is causing the // images to not display properly for (int i = 0; i < photoURL.length(); i++) { if (photoURL.charAt(i) == ' ') { photoURL = photoURL.substring(0, i) + "%20" + photoURL.substring(i + 1, photoURL.length()); } } Log.info("Processed URL: " + photoURL); artistImgField.setURL(photoURL); LabelField task = new LabelField("Display"); row.add(task); LabelField task1 = new LabelField( "Now Playing" + String.valueOf(x)); Font myFont = Font.getDefault().derive(Font.PLAIN, 12); task1.setFont(myFont); row.add(task1); rows.addElement(row); } listnew.setSize(rows.size()); this.add(listnew); //listnew.invalidate(); } // ListFieldCallback Implementation public void drawListRow(ListField listField, Graphics g, int index, int y, int width) { TableRowManager rowManager = (TableRowManager) rows.elementAt(index); rowManager.drawRow(g, 0, y, width, listnew.getRowHeight()); } protected void drawFocus(Graphics graphics, boolean on) { } private class TableRowManager extends Manager { public TableRowManager() { super(0); } // Causes the fields within this row manager to be layed out then // painted. public void drawRow(Graphics g, int x, int y, int width, int height) { // Arrange the cell fields within this row manager. layout(width, height); // Place this row manager within its enclosing list. setPosition(x, y); // Apply a translating/clipping transformation to the graphics // context so that this row paints in the right area. g.pushRegion(getExtent()); // Paint this manager's controlled fields. subpaint(g); g.setColor(0x00CACACA); g.drawLine(0, 0, getPreferredWidth(), 0); // Restore the graphics context. g.popContext(); } // Arrages this manager's controlled fields from left to right within // the enclosing table's columns. protected void sublayout(int width, int height) { // set the size and position of each field. int fontHeight = Font.getDefault().getHeight(); int preferredWidth = getPreferredWidth(); // start with the Bitmap Field of the priority icon Field field = getField(0); layoutChild(field, 146,80); setPositionChild(field, 0, 0); // set the task name label field field = getField(1); layoutChild(field, preferredWidth - 16, fontHeight + 1); setPositionChild(field, 149, 3); // set the list name label field field = getField(2); layoutChild(field, 150, fontHeight + 1); setPositionChild(field, 149, fontHeight + 6); setExtent(360, 480); } // The preferred width of a row is defined by the list renderer. public int getPreferredWidth() { return listnew.getWidth(); } // The preferred height of a row is the "row height" as defined in the // enclosing list. public int getPreferredHeight() { return listnew.getRowHeight(); } } public Object get(ListField listField, int index) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub return null; } public int getPreferredWidth(ListField listField) { return 0; } public int indexOfList(ListField listField, String prefix, int start) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub return 0; } }

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• Html2Canvas ...Google Map is not rendering

  - by eric maxfield

  I am running a Apache Server . I have a simple screen capture set up using Html2canvas .The capture function is rendering a blank Image . I have tried numerous ways to configure the javascript using related articles from this site to no Avail . The code is all working and tested because I can capture the image prior to "google maps api being loaded . Thank you and any advice would be much appreciated . <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <head> <title>Tester</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="html2canvas.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.plugin.html2canvas.js"></script> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAAAAwbkbZLyhsmTCWXbTcjbgbRSzHs7K5SvaUdm8ua-Xxy_-2dYwMxQMhnagaawTo7L1FE1-amhuQxIlXw"></script> <script> google.load("earth", "1"); var ge = null; function init() { google.earth.createInstance("map_canvas", initCallback, failureCallback); } function initCallback(object) { ge = object; ge.getWindow().setVisibility(true); } function failureCallback(object) { } function capture() { $('#target').html2canvas({ onrendered: function (canvas) { //Set hidden field's value to image data (base-64 string) $('#img_val').val(canvas.toDataURL("image/png")); //Submit the form manually document.getElementById("myForm").submit(); } }); } </script> <style type="text/css"> #map_canvas {position: fixed; top: 60px; left: 0px; right:0px; bottom:0px; } #target { border: 1px solid #CCC; margin: 0px; padding:0px; position: absolute; left: 10px;top: 80px;height: 580px; width: 580px; } </style> </head> <body onload='init()' id='body'> <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="save.php" id="myForm"> <input type="hidden" name="img_val" id="img_val" value="" /> </form> <input type="submit" value="Take Screenshot Of Div Below" onclick="capture();" /> <div id="target"> <div id="map_canvas"> </div> </div> </body> </html> This is the php document renders to save.php <?php //Get the base-64 string from data $filteredData=substr($_POST['img_val'], strpos($_POST['img_val'], ",")+1); //Decode the string $unencodedData=base64_decode($filteredData); //Save the image file_put_contents('img.png', $unencodedData); ?> <h2>Save the image and show to user</h2> <table> <tr> <td> <a href="img.png" target="blank"> Click Here to See The Image Saved to Server</a> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="index.php"> Click Here to Go Back</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <br /> <br /> <span> Here is Client-sided image: </span> <br /> <?php //Show the image echo '<img src="'.$_POST['img_val'].'" />'; ?> </td> </tr> </table> <style type="text/css"> body, a, span { font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; } </style> This sample works Correctly . I want to achieve this with above Code using "Google Earth" <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyDY0kkJiTPVd2U7aTOAwhc9ySH6oHxOIYM&sensor=false"></script> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src ="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.0.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="html2canvas.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.plugin.html2canvas.js"></script> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> function initialize() { var mapProp = { center:new google.maps.LatLng(51.508742,-0.120850), zoom:5, mapTypeId:google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP }; var map=new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("googleMap"), mapProp); } google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize); $(window).load(function(){ $('#load').click(function(){ html2canvas($('#googleMap'), { useCORS: true, onrendered: function (canvas) { var dataUrl= canvas.toDataURL("image/png").replace("image/png", "image/octet-stream"); window.location.href = dataUrl; } }); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <div id="googleMap" style="width:500px;height:380px;"></div> <input type="button" value="Save" id="load"/> </body> </html>

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• getView only shows Flagged Backgrounds for drawn Views, It does not show Flagged Background when scroll to view more items on list

  - by Leoa

  I am trying to create a listview that receives a flagged list of items to indicate a status to the user. I have been able to create the flag display by using a yellow background (see image at bottom). In Theory, the flagged list can have many flagged items in it. However in my app, only the first three flagged backgrounds are shown. I believe this is because they are initially drawn to the screen. The Flagged background that are not drawn initially to the screen do not show. I'd like to know how to get the remaining flags to show in the list. ListView Recycling: The backgrounds in the listView are being recycled in getView(). This recycling goes from position 0 to position 9. I have flags that need to match at positions 13, 14 and so on. Those positions are not being displayed. listView.getCheckedItemPositions() for multiple selections: This method will not work in my case because the user will not selected the flags. The flags are coming from the server. setNotifyOnChange() and/or public virtual void SetNotifyOnChange (bool notifyOnChange): I'm not adding new data to the list, so I don't see how this method would work for my program. Does this method communicate to getview when it is recycling data? I was unable to find an answer to this in my research. public void registerDataSetObserver: This may be overkill for my problem, but is it possible to have an observer object that keeps track of the all the positions in my items list and in my flag list no matter if the view is recycled and match them on the screen? Code: package com.convention.notification.app; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Color; import android.os.Bundle; import android.text.Html; import android.util.Log; import android.view.LayoutInflater; import android.view.View; import android.view.ViewGroup; import android.view.ViewParent; import android.widget.AdapterView; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; import android.widget.TextView; public class NewsRowAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Item> { private Activity activity; private List<Item> items; private Item objBean; private int row; private List<Integer> disable; View view ; int disableView; public NewsRowAdapter(Activity act, int resource, List<Item> arrayList, List<Integer> disableList) { super(act, resource, arrayList); this.activity = act; this.row = resource; this.items = arrayList; this.disable=disableList; System.out.println("results of delete list a:"+disable.toString()); } public int getCount() { return items.size(); } public Item getItem(int position) { return items.get(position); } public long getItemId(int position) { return position; } @Override public int getItemViewType(int position) { for(int k =0;k < disable.size();k++){ if(position==disable.get(k)){ //System.out.println( "is "+position+" value of disable "+disable.get(k)); disableView=disable.get(k); //AdapterView.getItemAtPosition(position); } } return position; } @Override public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { View view = convertView; ViewHolder holder; if (view == null) { LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); view = inflater.inflate(row, null); getItemViewType(position); long id=getItemId(position); if(position==disableView){ view.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW); System.out.println(" background set to yellow at position "+position +" disableView is at "+disableView); }else{ view.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); System.out.println(" background set to white at position "+position +" disableView is at "+disableView); } //ViewHolder is a custom class that gets TextViews by name: tvName, tvCity, tvBDate, tvGender, tvAge; holder = new ViewHolder(); /* setTag Sets the tag associated with this view. A tag can be used to * mark a view in its hierarchy and does not have to be unique * within the hierarchy. Tags can also be used to store data within * a view without resorting to another data structure. */ view.setTag(holder); } else { //the Object stored in this view as a tag holder = (ViewHolder) view.getTag(); } if ((items == null) || ((position + 1) > items.size())) return view; objBean = items.get(position); holder.tv_event_name = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_event_name); holder.tv_event_date = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_event_date); holder.tv_event_start = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_event_start); holder.tv_event_end = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_event_end); holder.tv_event_location = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_event_location); if (holder.tv_event_name != null && null != objBean.getName() && objBean.getName().trim().length() > 0) { holder.tv_event_name.setText(Html.fromHtml(objBean.getName())); } if (holder.tv_event_date != null && null != objBean.getDate() && objBean.getDate().trim().length() > 0) { holder.tv_event_date.setText(Html.fromHtml(objBean.getDate())); } if (holder.tv_event_start != null && null != objBean.getStartTime() && objBean.getStartTime().trim().length() > 0) { holder.tv_event_start.setText(Html.fromHtml(objBean.getStartTime())); } if (holder.tv_event_end != null && null != objBean.getEndTime() && objBean.getEndTime().trim().length() > 0) { holder.tv_event_end.setText(Html.fromHtml(objBean.getEndTime())); } if (holder.tv_event_location != null && null != objBean.getLocation () && objBean.getLocation ().trim().length() > 0) { holder.tv_event_location.setText(Html.fromHtml(objBean.getLocation ())); } return view; } public class ViewHolder { public TextView tv_event_name, tv_event_date, tv_event_start, tv_event_end, tv_event_location /*tv_event_delete_flag*/; } } Logcat: 06-12 20:54:12.058: I/System.out(493): item disalbed is at postion :0 06-12 20:54:12.058: I/System.out(493): item disalbed is at postion :4 06-12 20:54:12.069: I/System.out(493): item disalbed is at postion :5 06-12 20:54:12.069: I/System.out(493): item disalbed is at postion :13 06-12 20:54:12.069: I/System.out(493): item disalbed is at postion :14 06-12 20:54:12.069: I/System.out(493): item disalbed is at postion :17 06-12 20:54:12.069: I/System.out(493): results of delete list :[0, 4, 5, 13, 14, 17] 06-12 20:54:12.069: I/System.out(493): results of delete list a:[0, 4, 5, 13, 14, 17] 06-12 20:54:12.069: I/System.out(493): set adapaer to list view called; 06-12 20:54:12.128: I/System.out(493): background set to yellow at position 0 disableView is at 0 06-12 20:54:12.628: I/System.out(493): background set to white at position 1 disableView is at 0 06-12 20:54:12.678: I/System.out(493): background set to white at position 2 disableView is at 0 06-12 20:54:12.708: I/System.out(493): background set to white at position 3 disableView is at 0 06-12 20:54:12.738: I/System.out(493): background set to yellow at position 4 disableView is at 4 06-12 20:54:12.778: I/System.out(493): background set to yellow at position 5 disableView is at 5 06-12 20:54:12.808: I/System.out(493): background set to white at position 6 disableView is at 5 06-12 20:54:12.838: I/System.out(493): background set to white at position 7 disableView is at 5 This is a link to my first question a day ago: Change Background on a specific row based on a condition in Custom Adapter I appreciate your help!

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• (PHP) Validation, Security and Speed - Does my app have these?

  - by Devner

  Hi all, I am currently working on a building community website in PHP. This contains forms that a user can fill right from registration to lot of other functionality. I am not an Object-oriented guy, so I am using functions most of the time to handle my application. I know I have to learn OOPS, but currently need to develop this website and get it running soon. Anyway, here's a sample of what I let my app. do: Consider a page (register.php) that has a form where a user has 3 fields to fill up, say: First Name, Last Name and Email. Upon submission of this form, I want to validate the form and show the corresponding errors to the users: <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" name="name" id="name" /><br /> <label for="lname">Last Name:</label> <input type="text" name="lname" id="lname" /><br /> <label for="email">Email:</label> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" /><br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> This form will POST the info to the same page. So here's the code that will process the POST'ed info: <?php require("functions.php"); if( isset($_POST['submit']) ) { $errors = fn_register(); if( count($errors) ) { //Show error messages } else { //Send welcome mail to the user or do database stuff... } } ?> <?php //functions.php page: function sql_quote( $value ) { if( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) { $value = stripslashes( $value ); } else { $value = addslashes( $value ); } if( function_exists( "mysql_real_escape_string" ) ) { $value = mysql_real_escape_string( $value ); } return $value; } function clean($str) { $str = strip_tags($str, '<br>,<br />'); $str = trim($str); $str = sql_quote($str); return $str; } foreach ($_POST as &$value) { if (!is_array($value)) { $value = clean($value); } else { clean($value); } } foreach ($_GET as &$value) { if (!is_array($value)) { $value = clean($value); } else { clean($value); } } function validate_name( $fld, $min, $max, $rule, $label ) { if( $rule == 'required' ) { if ( trim($fld) == '' ) { $str = "$label: Cannot be left blank."; return $str; } } if ( isset($fld) && trim($fld) != '' ) { if ( isset($fld) && $fld != '' && !preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z\ ]+$/", $fld)) { $str = "$label: Invalid characters used! Only Lowercase, Uppercase alphabets and Spaces are allowed"; } else if ( strlen($fld) < $min or strlen($fld) > $max ) { $curr_char = strlen($fld); $str = "$label: Must be atleast $min character &amp; less than $max char. Entered characters: $curr_char"; } else { $str = 0; } } else { $str = 0; } return $str; } function validate_email( $fld, $min, $max, $rule, $label ) { if( $rule == 'required' ) { if ( trim($fld) == '' ) { $str = "$label: Cannot be left blank."; return $str; } } if ( isset($fld) && trim($fld) != '' ) { if ( !eregi('^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4})$', $fld) ) { $str = "$label: Invalid format. Please check."; } else if ( strlen($fld) < $min or strlen($fld) > $max ) { $curr_char = strlen($fld); $str = "$label: Must be atleast $min character &amp; less than $max char. Entered characters: $curr_char"; } else { $str = 0; } } else { $str = 0; } return $str; } function val_rules( $str, $val_type, $rule='required' ){ switch ($val_type) { case 'name': $val = validate_name( $str, 3, 20, $rule, 'First Name'); break; case 'lname': $val = validate_name( $str, 10, 20, $rule, 'Last Name'); break; case 'email': $val = validate_email( $str, 10, 60, $rule, 'Email'); break; } return $val; } function fn_register() { $errors = array(); $val_name = val_rules( $_POST['name'], 'name' ); $val_lname = val_rules( $_POST['lname'], 'lname', 'optional' ); $val_email = val_rules( $_POST['email'], 'email' ); if ( $val_name != '0' ) { $errors['name'] = $val_name; } if ( $val_lname != '0' ) { $errors['lname'] = $val_lname; } if ( $val_email != '0' ) { $errors['email'] = $val_email; } return $errors; } //END of functions.php page ?> OK, now it might look like there's a lot, but lemme break it down target wise: 1. I wanted the foreach ($_POST as &$value) and foreach ($_GET as &$value) loops to loop through the received info from the user submission and strip/remove all malicious input. I am calling a function called clean on the input first to achieve the objective as stated above. This function will process each of the input, whether individual field values or even arrays and allow only tags and remove everything else. The rest of it is obvious. Once this happens, the new/cleaned values will be processed by the fn_register() function and based on the values returned after the validation, we get the corresponding errors or NULL values (as applicable). So here's my questions: 1. This pretty much makes me feel secure as I am forcing the user to correct malicious data and won't process the final data unless the errors are corrected. Am I correct? Does the method that I follow guarantee the speed (as I am using lots of functions and their corresponding calls)? The fields of a form differ and the minimum number of fields I may have at any given point of time in any form may be 3 and can go upto as high as 100 (or even more, I am not sure as the website is still being developed). Will having 100's of fields and their validation in the above way, reduce the speed of application (say upto half a million users are accessing the website at the same time?). What can I do to improve the speed and reduce function calls (if possible)? 3, Can I do something to improve the current ways of validation? I am holding off object oriented approach and using FILTERS in PHP for the later. So please, I request you all to suggest me way to improve/tweak the current ways and suggest me if the script is vulnerable or safe enough to be used in a Live production environment. If not, what I can do to be able to use it live? Thank you all in advance.

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• org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException:Connection to http://172.20.38.143 refused

  - by Passion

  I have developed client server Application .I am accessing mysql with php running on my machine and client running on my cell which is connected to machine.WI-FI is also switched ON. Internet Permission are also added in Manifest file but then also the i encounter error 172.20.38.143 is IP OF MY MACHINE 06-01 13:20:10.391: W/System.err(11157): org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to http://172.20.38.143 refused 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:183) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPoolEntry.open(AbstractPoolEntry.java:164) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPooledConnAdapter.open(AbstractPooledConnAdapter.java:119) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:360) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:674) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:511) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:489) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at nineandroid.net.example.library.JSONParser.getJSONFromUrl(JSONParser.java:42) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at nineandroid.net.example.library.UserFunctions.registerUser(UserFunctions.java:59) 06-01 13:20:10.401: W/System.err(11157): at nineandroid.net.example.RegisterActivity$1.onClick(RegisterActivity.java:52) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:3567) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:14224) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4517) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 06-01 13:20:10.411: W/System.err(11157): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:993) 06-01 13:20:10.421: W/System.err(11157): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:760) 06-01 13:20:10.421: W/System.err(11157): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 06-01 13:20:10.421: W/System.err(11157): Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: failed to connect to /172.20.38.143 (port 80): connect failed: ENETUNREACH (Network is unreachable) 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:114) 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:192) 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:459) 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:848) 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainSocketFactory.java:119) 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:144) 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): ... 20 more 06-01 13:20:10.431: W/System.err(11157): Caused by: libcore.io.ErrnoException: connect failed: ENETUNREACH (Network is unreachable) 06-01 13:20:10.441: W/System.err(11157): at libcore.io.Posix.connect(Native Method) 06-01 13:20:10.441: W/System.err(11157): at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.connect(BlockGuardOs.java:85) 06-01 13:20:10.441: W/System.err(11157): at libcore.io.IoBridge.connectErrno(IoBridge.java:127) 06-01 13:20:10.441: W/System.err(11157): at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:112) 06-01 13:20:10.441: W/System.err(11157): ... 25 more 06-01 13:20:10.441: E/Buffer Error(11157): Error converting result java.lang.NullPointerException 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/JSON Parser(11157): Error parsing data org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of 06-01 13:20:10.451: D/AndroidRuntime(11157): Shutting down VM 06-01 13:20:10.451: W/dalvikvm(11157): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40c0aa68) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): java.lang.NullPointerException 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at nineandroid.net.example.RegisterActivity$1.onClick(RegisterActivity.java:56) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:3567) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:14224) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4517) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:993) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:760) 06-01 13:20:10.451: E/AndroidRuntime(11157): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) UserFunctions.java to call jsonParser public class UserFunctions { private JSONParser jsonParser; private static String loginURL = "http://172.20.38.143/ah_login_api/"; private static String registerURL = "http://172.20.38.143/ah_login_api/"; private static String login_tag = "login"; private static String register_tag = "register"; // constructor public UserFunctions(){ jsonParser = new JSONParser(); } /** * function make Login Request * @param email * @param password * */ public JSONObject loginUser(String email, String password){ // Building Parameters List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("tag", login_tag)); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("email", email)); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", password)); JSONObject json = jsonParser.getJSONFromUrl(loginURL, params); // return json // Log.e("JSON", json.toString()); return json; } /** * function make Login Request * @param name * @param email * @param password * */ public JSONObject registerUser(String name, String email, String password){ // Building Parameters List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("tag", register_tag)); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("name", name)); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("email", email)); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", password)); // getting JSON Object JSONObject json = jsonParser.getJSONFromUrl(registerURL, params); // return json return json; } /** * Function get Login status * */ public boolean isUserLoggedIn(Context context){ DatabaseHandler db = new DatabaseHandler(context); int count = db.getRowCount(); if(count > 0){ // user logged in return true; } return false; } /** * Function to logout user * Reset Database * */ public boolean logoutUser(Context context){ DatabaseHandler db = new DatabaseHandler(context); db.resetTables(); return true; } } jsonParser.java public class JSONParser { static InputStream is = null; static JSONObject jObj = null; static String json = ""; // constructor public JSONParser() { } public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(String url, List<NameValuePair> params) { // Making HTTP request try { // defaultHttpClient DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url); httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params)); HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost); HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity(); is = httpEntity.getContent(); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (ClientProtocolException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } try { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( is, "iso-8859-1"), 8); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line = null; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line + "\n"); } is.close(); json = sb.toString(); Log.e("JSON", json); } catch (Exception e) { Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString()); } // try parse the string to a JSON object try { jObj = new JSONObject(json); } catch (JSONException e) { Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString()); } // return JSON String return jObj; } } RegisterActivity.java public class RegisterActivity extends Activity { Button btnRegister; Button btnLinkToLogin; EditText inputFullName; EditText inputEmail; EditText inputPassword; TextView registerErrorMsg; // JSON Response node names private static String KEY_SUCCESS = "success"; private static String KEY_UID = "uid"; private static String KEY_NAME = "name"; private static String KEY_EMAIL = "email"; private static String KEY_CREATED_AT = "created_at"; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.register); // Importing all assets like buttons, text fields inputFullName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.registerName); inputEmail = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.registerEmail); inputPassword = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.registerPassword); btnRegister = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnRegister); btnLinkToLogin = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnLinkToLoginScreen); registerErrorMsg = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.register_error); // Register Button Click event btnRegister.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View view) { String name = inputFullName.getText().toString(); String email = inputEmail.getText().toString(); String password = inputPassword.getText().toString(); UserFunctions userFunction = new UserFunctions(); JSONObject json = userFunction.registerUser(name, email, password); // check for login response try { if (json.getString(KEY_SUCCESS) != null) { registerErrorMsg.setText(""); String res = json.getString(KEY_SUCCESS); if(Integer.parseInt(res) == 1){ // user successfully registred // Store user details in SQLite Database DatabaseHandler db = new DatabaseHandler(getApplicationContext()); JSONObject json_user = json.getJSONObject("user"); // Clear all previous data in database userFunction.logoutUser(getApplicationContext()); db.addUser(json_user.getString(KEY_NAME), json_user.getString(KEY_EMAIL), json.getString(KEY_UID), json_user.getString(KEY_CREATED_AT)); // Launch Dashboard Screen Intent dashboard = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), DashboardActivity.class); // Close all views before launching Dashboard dashboard.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); startActivity(dashboard); // Close Registration Screen finish(); }else{ // Error in registration registerErrorMsg.setText("Error occured in registration"); } } } catch (JSONException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }); // Link to Login Screen btnLinkToLogin.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View view) { Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), LoginActivity.class); startActivity(i); // Close Registration View finish(); } }); } }

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• while I scroll between the layout it takes too long to be able to scroll between the gallerie's pictures. Is there any way to reduce this time?

  - by Mateo

  Hello, this is my first question here, though I've being reading this forum for quite a while. Most of the answers to my doubts are from here :) Getting back on topic. I'm developing an Android application. I'm drawing a dynamic layout that are basically Galleries, inside a LinearLayout, inside a ScrollView, inside a RelativeLayout. The ScrollView is a must, because I'm drawing a dynamic amount of galleries that most probably will not fit on the screen. When I scroll inside the layout, I have to wait 3/4 seconds until the ScrollView "deactivates" to be able to scroll inside the galleries. What I want to do is to reduce this time to a minimum. Preferably I would like to be able to scroll inside the galleries as soon as I lift my finger from the screen, though anything lower than 2 seconds would be great as well. I've being googling around for a solution but all I could find until now where layout tutorials that didn't tackle this particular issue. I was hoping someone here knows if this is possible and if so to give me some hints on how to do so. I would prefer not to do my own ScrollView to solve this. But if that is the only way I would appreciate some help because I'm not really sure how would I solve this issue by doing that. this is my layout: public class PicturesL extends Activity implements OnClickListener, OnItemClickListener, OnItemLongClickListener { private ArrayList<ImageView> imageView = new ArrayList<ImageView>(); private StringBuilder PicsDate = new StringBuilder(); private CaWaApplication application; private long ListID; private ArrayList<Gallery> gallery = new ArrayList<Gallery>(); private ArrayList<Bitmap> Thumbails = new ArrayList<Bitmap>(); private String idioma; private ArrayList<Long> Days = new ArrayList<Long>(); private long oldDay; private long oldThumbsLoaded; private ArrayList<Long> ThumbailsDays = new ArrayList<Long>(); private ArrayList<ArrayList<Long>> IDs = new ArrayList<ArrayList<Long>>(); @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstancedState) { super.onCreate(savedInstancedState); RelativeLayout layout = new RelativeLayout(this); ScrollView scroll = new ScrollView(this); LinearLayout realLayout = new LinearLayout(this); ArrayList<TextView> texts = new ArrayList<TextView>(); Button TakePic = new Button(this); idioma = com.mateloft.cawa.prefs.getLang(this); if (idioma.equals("en")) { TakePic.setText("Take Picture"); } else if (idioma.equals("es")) { TakePic.setText("Sacar Foto"); } RelativeLayout.LayoutParams scrollLP = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT); layout.addView(scroll, scrollLP); realLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL); realLayout.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT)); scroll.addView(realLayout); TakePic.setId(67); TakePic.setOnClickListener(this); application = (CaWaApplication) getApplication(); ListID = getIntent().getExtras().getLong("listid"); getAllThumbailsOfID(); LinearLayout.LayoutParams TakeLP = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); realLayout.addView(TakePic); oldThumbsLoaded = 0; int galler = 100; for (int z = 0; z < Days.size(); z++) { ThumbailsManager croppedThumbs = new ThumbailsManager(Thumbails, oldThumbsLoaded, ThumbailsDays.get(z)); oldThumbsLoaded = ThumbailsDays.get(z); texts.add(new TextView(this)); texts.get(z).setText("Day " + Days.get(z).toString()); gallery.add(new Gallery(this)); gallery.get(z).setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this, croppedThumbs.getGallery(), 250, 175, true, ListID)); gallery.get(z).setOnItemClickListener(this); gallery.get(z).setOnItemLongClickListener(this); gallery.get(z).setId(galler); galler++; realLayout.addView(texts.get(z)); realLayout.addView(gallery.get(z)); } Log.d("PicturesL", "ListID: " + ListID); setContentView(layout); } private void getAllThumbailsOfID() { ArrayList<ModelPics> Pictures = new ArrayList<ModelPics>(); ArrayList<String> ThumbailsPath = new ArrayList<String>(); Pictures = application.dataManager.selectAllPics(); long thumbpathloaded = 0; int currentID = 0; for (int x = 0; x < Pictures.size(); x++) { if (Pictures.get(x).walkname == ListID) { if (Days.size() == 0) { Days.add(Pictures.get(x).day); oldDay = Pictures.get(x).day; IDs.add(new ArrayList<Long>()); currentID = 0; } if (oldDay != Pictures.get(x).day) { oldDay = Pictures.get(x).day; ThumbailsDays.add(thumbpathloaded); Days.add(Pictures.get(x).day); IDs.add(new ArrayList<Long>()); currentID++; } StringBuilder tpath = new StringBuilder(); tpath.append(Pictures.get(x).path.substring(0, Pictures.get(x).path.length() - 4)); tpath.append("-t.jpg"); IDs.get(currentID).add(Pictures.get(x).id); ThumbailsPath.add(tpath.toString()); thumbpathloaded++; if (x == Pictures.size() - 1) { Log.d("PicturesL", "El ultimo de los arrays, tamaño: " + Days.size()); ThumbailsDays.add(thumbpathloaded); } } } for (int y = 0; y < ThumbailsPath.size(); y++) { Thumbails.add(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(ThumbailsPath.get(y))); } } I had a memory leak on another activity when screen orientation changed that was making it slower, now it is working better. The scroller is not locking up. But sometimes, when it stops scrolling, it takes a few seconds (2/3) to disable itself. I just want it to be a little more dynamic, is there any way to override the listener and make it stop scrolling ON_ACTION_UP or something like that? I don't want to use the listview because I want to have each gallery separated by other views, now I just have text, but I will probably separate them with images with a different size than the galleries. I'm not really sure if this is possible with a listadapter and a listview, I assumed that a view can only handle only one type of object, so I'm using a scrollview of a layout, if I'm wrong please correct me :) Also this activity works as a preview or selecting the pictures you want to view in full size and manage their values. So its working only with thumbnails. Each one weights 40 kb. Guessing that is very unlikely that a user gets more than 1000~1500 pictures in this view, i thought that the activity wouldn't use more than 40~50 mb of ram in this case, adding 10 more if I open the fullsized view. So I guessed as well most devices are able to display this view in full size. If it doesn't work on low-end devices my plan was to add an option in the app preferences to let user chop this view according to some database values. And a last reason is that during most of this activity "life-cycle" (the app has pics that are relevant to the view, when it ends the value that selects which pictures are displayed has to change and no more pictures are added inside this instance of this activity); the view will be unpopulated, so most of the time showing everything wont cost much, just at the end of its cycle That was more or less what I thought at the time i created this layout. I'm open to any sort of suggestion or opinion, I just created this layout a few days ago and I'm trying to see if it can work right, because it suits my app needs. Though if there is a better way i would love to hear it Thanks Mateo

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• I am trying to insert value from combo box to database !! but this is not working

  - by user3675488

  At first I have taken some string in which I am trying to save the input values of textboxs and there is a combo box, I am trying to save the input value of the combo box to database, but this following code is unable to do that !!! what is the prob please help me. private void OK_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string sTxtcmpnyName = ""; string sTxtcmpnyAdd = ""; string sPhoneno = ""; string sTxtFax = ""; string sPanNo = ""; string sTxtTin = ""; string sTax = ""; string sAccYr = ""; string sComboSt = ""; foreach (Control c in this.Controls) ////*Adding Validation to the textbox.*// // Here the control is entered into GroupBox Grpcmp where c is denoting the name of the control into the groupbox. { // c1 is another control which denotes the textboxes under the GroupBox Grpcmp. foreach (Control c1 in c.Controls) { /////Now this following code snippets reperesents that the name of the company should not be blank. if (c1 is TextBox == true) // simpler that what you've done there { TextBox temp = (TextBox)c1; //The control is entering into Txtcompany. if (temp.Name == "Txtcompanyname") { //Condition checking is the TextBox is empty or Null then the following message will be shown. if ((temp.Text == "") || (temp.Text == "NULL")) { MessageBox.Show("Company Name should not be Blank"); } sTxtcmpnyName = temp.Text; } else if (c1.Name == "TxtcompanyAddress") { sTxtcmpnyAdd = c1.Text; } else if (c1.Name == "Txtphoneno") { sPhoneno = c1.Text; } else if (c1.Name == "TxtFax ") { sTxtFax = c1.Text; } else if (c1.Name == "Txtpanno") { sPanNo = c1.Text; } else if (c1.Name == "TxtTin") { sTxtTin = c1.Text; } else if (c1.Name == "Txtservicetax") { sTax = c1.Text; } //Now I am converting the TxtAcYr into Date format. //For this purpose two conditions are checked first. //First If the TextBox TxtAcYr is Null or empty it will show the message to enter the accountyear!! //Second If the length of the TextBox TxtAcYr is less than 10, it will again generate a message The date format should be in DD/MM/YYYY // Then the value of the use input will be picked using a For loop. if (c1.Name == "TxtAcYr") { sAccYr = c1.Text; //Here a string is taken named as yearlength and the value of the TxtAcYr is assigned to it by using control c1. //Condition Checking If the TextBox TxtAcYr is Null or empty it will show the message to enter the accountyear!! if ((c1.Text == "") || (c1.Text == "NULL")) { MessageBox.Show("Account Year should be entered!!"); } //Condition 2 is checking. Here the length of the string yearlength is whether equals to 10 or not is checked. //Because there are total 10 characters in Date Format along with special character. else // MessageBox.Show(yearlength.Length.ToString()); if (sAccYr.Length != 10) { MessageBox.Show("The Data Format DD-MM-YYYY"); } //Now the value of user will be picked by using the code snippets. else { //A string named as JK is taken for further use. String JK = ""; //This following loop is initiated to pick the user input. //The loop will check wheather the value of i is less than the length of string yearlength or not. //If Yes then it will go further. for (int i = 0; i < sAccYr.Length; i++) { //This condition is checking special characters. //The positions of special characters(Here '-') are placed at 2nd and 5th numbers. //So, the value of i can not be equals to 2 && 5. if ((i != 2) && (i != 5)) { //The new of value of year length i is assinged to the variable JK. JK = JK + sAccYr[i]; } //If the value of i is equals to 1, then enter the following. if (i == 1) { //*Should add the function of TOInt32* // If ToInt32(JK)>= the maximum length of days of a month then the following alert message will be shown. if (Convert.ToInt32(JK) >= 32) { MessageBox.Show("The Data Format DD-MM-YYYY"); } //**Comment should be added.** JK = ""; } else //If the value of i is equals to 4, then enter the following. if (i == 4) { //*Should add the function of TOInt32* // If ToInt32(JK)>= the maximum length of month then the following alert message will be shown. if (Convert.ToInt32(JK) >= 13) { MessageBox.Show("The Data Format DD-MM-YYYY"); } JK = ""; } } } } } else if (c1.Name == "state_cmb") { //sTxttate = c1.Text.ToString(); sComboSt = c1.Text; MessageBox.Show(c1.Text); } } } //////DATABASE CONNECTION///// try { SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(); conn.ConnectionString = ("Data Source =192.168.0.2 ;database= Mee_Company; Persist Security Info =true; User ID =sa;Password = soso654321@"); conn.Open(); cmd.CommandText = ("INSERT INTO CompanyMaster(CompanyName,Address,State,Phone,Fax,PAN,TIN,STAX,AccountsYear)values('" + sTxtcmpnyName + "','" + sTxtcmpnyAdd + "','" + sComboSt + "','" + sPhoneno + "','" + sTxtFax + "','" + sPanNo + "','" + sTxtTin + "','" + sTax + "','" + sAccYr + "')"); //('" + sTxtcmpnyName + "', '" + TxtcompanyAddress.Text + "', '" + Txtphoneno.Text + "', '" + TxtFax.Text + "', '" + Txtservicetax.Text + "','" + TxtAcYr.Text + "')"); cmd.Connection = conn; cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); conn.Close(); //cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue } catch (Exception ee) { MessageBox.Show(ee.ToString()); } } //An event is created here so that when the user will click on the Cancel Button, the Form will be closed. private void BtmCancle_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { //this means the form. this.Close(); } //Another Event is created here named as TxtAcYr_KeyPress. //It is for making the TextBox TxtAcYr only allowance of numeric input along with special character '-'. private void TxtAcYr_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e) { //If the input is number or '-' is checked //And also the backspace and delete option is enabled here. if (char.IsNumber(e.KeyChar) || e.KeyChar == (char)Keys.Back || e.KeyChar == (char)Keys.Delete || e.KeyChar == '-') { e.Handled = false; //ok } else { e.Handled = true; //not ok } }

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• JQuery dynamic .load - works for 1 and not for the other??

  - by Alvin

  UPDATE: Site is online http://qwickqual.com/memorial/create/ under "Memoria Media" - Click on "Our Videos" and it loads the list of categories click on any sub category and it goes through the process below ---------------- end edit ---------------------------------- UPDATED DESCRIPTION OF ERROR: All code is based on <li> objects being linked If I click on an <li> from the Initial page load to load: section 1: I can click on an <li> to load sub-categories section 2: I then click on an <li>, the query is made server returns section 3, section is not loaded to screen / and callback function is skipped over perhaps someone has run into a similar issue before?? ---------------- end edit ---------------------------------- I've also added comments to the code I have a jquery function that is setup to load categorized lists of thumbnails. So far the function is in use in 3 location. Each of them generates HTML using the same template under django. The function works perfectly in 2 of the 3 locations, and I"m plain stumped as to why the 3rd won't work. Below is the complete set of relevant javascript, the page load HTML for the relevant section. And 2 examples of HTML that is loaded through the script, 1 of them works, 1 of them doesn't and both are loaded into the same page load HTML Any ideas what I'm missing here? Or information I need to add to help debug? Currently posting this to a live server to interact with, been local only till now... Error: Script works properly through all levels of title="our_photos" Script loads 1st level of title="our_videos" Script will not load sub-category of title="our_videos" Example: From HTML below: Click on Script will query the server properly: GET http://localhost%3A8000/memorial/media%5Ftype/our%5Fvideos/4/ Script will not load the returned HTML into the #select_media div scopeChain: [Call, Call multi=false uri=/memorial/media_type/our_videos/, Window # 0=Call 1=Call 2=window] relative vars: label = "our_videos" wrapper = "media" uri = "/memorial/media_type/our_videos/" multi = false Javascript <script type="text/javascript"> // this piece is where I'm having trouble in the grand scheme of things // label = piece of class tag // wrapper = tag to load everything inside of // uri = base of the page to load // multi = not relevant for this piece but needed to pass on to next function function img_thumb_loader(label, wrapper, uri, multi) { if(!(wrapper)) { wrapper = label } $('.'+label+'_category').click(function () { // show the loading animation $('div#'+wrapper+'_load').show(); // get var of current object type = $(this).attr('title') || ''; // load it into the screen - this is the error // when I click on an <li> from section 2 below it will query server // (Tamper data & server see it - & return section 3 below // But will not load into the screen on return // also skips over the callback function $('#select_'+label).load(uri+type+'/', '', function() { $('div#'+wrapper+'_load').hide(); $('input.img_'+label+'_field').each(function() { img = $(this).attr('value'); $('li#img_'+label+'-'+img).css('selected_thumb'); }); img_thumb_selected(label); window[label+'_loader'](); }); }); $('.img_'+label).click(function () { if($(this).hasClass('selected_thumb')) { $(this).removeClass('selected_thumb'); id = $(this).attr('title'); $('.img_'+label+'_selected[value="'+id+'"]').remove(); } else { if(!(multi)) { previous = $('.img_'+label+'_selected').val(); $('#img_'+label+'-'+previous).removeClass('selected_thumb'); $('.img_'+label+'_selected').remove(); } $(this).addClass('selected_thumb'); id = $(this).attr('title'); $('#select_'+wrapper).after('<input class="img_'+label+'_selected" id="img_'+label+'_field-'+id+'" type="hidden" name="imgs[]" value="'+id+'" />'); } }); img_thumb_selected(label); } function img_thumb_selected(label) { $('.img_'+label+'_selected').each(function() { current = $(this).val(); if(current) { $('#img_'+label+'-'+current).addClass('selected_thumb'); } }); } function media_type() { $('.media_type').click(function () { $('#media_load').show(); type = $(this).attr('title') || ''; $('#select_media').load('/memorial/media_type/'+type+'/', '', function() { $('#select_media').wrapInner('<div id="select_'+type+'"></div>'); $('#select_media').append('<ul class="root_link"><h3><a class="load_media" onclick="return false;" href="#">Return to Select Media Type</a></h3></ul>'); load_media_type(); $('#media_load').hide(); window[type+'_loader'](); }); }); } media_type(); function load_media_type() { $('.load_media').click(function () { $('#media_load').show(); $('#select_media').load('{% url mem_media_type %}', '', function() { $('#media_load').hide(); media_type(); }); }); } function our_photos_loader() { img_thumb_loader('our_photos', 'media', '{% url mem_our_photos %}', true); } function our_videos_loader() { img_thumb_loader('our_videos', 'media', '{% url mem_our_videos %}', false); } </script> HTML - Initial Page load <fieldset> <legend>Memorial Media</legend> <div style="display: none;" id="media_load" class="loading"/> <div id="select_media"> <ul style="width: 528px;" class="initial"> <li title="your_photos" class="media_type"><div class="photo_select_upload"><h3>Your Photos</h3></div></li> <li title="our_photos" class="media_type"><div class="photo_select"><h3>Our Photos</h3></div></li> <li title="our_videos" class="media_type"><div class="video_select"><h3>Our Videos</h3></div></li> </ul> </div> </fieldset> HTML - Returned from Click on section 1 this section can make calls to subcategories and it will work <br class="clear" /> <ul class="thumb_sub_category" style="width: 352px;"> <li id="our_photos_category-29" class="our_photos_category" title="29"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/stuff_004_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Birds 1</p> </div> </li> <li id="our_photos_category-25" class="our_photos_category" title="25"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/dsc_0035_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Dogs 1</p> </div> </li> </ul> HTML - Returned from click on Section 2 Having trouble with sub-categories from this area <br class="clear" /> <ul class="thumb_sub_category" style="width: 528px;"> <li id="our_videos_category-1" class="our_videos_category" title="1"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/forest-1_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Video 1</p> </div> </li> <li id="our_videos_category-3" class="our_videos_category" title="3"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/mountain-1_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Video 3</p> </div> </li> <li id="our_videos_category-4" class="our_videos_category" title="4"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/mountain-3_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Video 4</p> </div> </li> </ul> HTML that fails to load inside - Section 3 <br class="clear" /> <ul class="thumb_sub_category" style="width: 528px;"> <li id="our_videos_category-1" class="our_videos_category" title="1"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/forest-1_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Video 1</p> </div> </li> <li id="our_videos_category-3" class="our_videos_category" title="3"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/mountain-1_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Video 3</p> </div> </li> <li id="our_videos_category-4" class="our_videos_category" title="4"> <div> <span style="background-image: url(/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/mountain-3_thumbnail.jpg);" class="thumb"><span></span></span> <p>Video 4</p> </div> </li> </ul>

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• Android chess development design [on hold]

  - by Plejo

  I want to develop human vs human android chess game and I have bunch of new questions. I would like to have screen where online players are shown(nickname, rating) and when player challenge antoher player and he accpet it game begins. These are my questions: When player install application, does he have to create account/login or does every instance of installed application have some kind of ID so I can recognize it on server side? I want to have also ratings of players saved in my DB so login procedure will probably be necessary. When player connects to server server updates online players list. When he challenge another player and he accept server exchange ip`s(and ports? which port to use?) between players. Then they connect to each other and game begins. What is best practice for connection between server-android and android-android? Probably sockets, right? Is there any library for handling lost connection etc.? Which server do you recommend?

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• What does the BIOS setting XHCI Pre-Boot Mode do?

  - by Jamie Kitson

  I have a BIOS setting called XHCI Pre-Boot Mode. If I have this enabled USB devices which aren't plugged in at boot are never recognised, if I set it to Disabled then USB devices work normally. The brief BIOS description says "Enable this option if you need USB3.0 support in DOS." Which I don't, but it also says "Please note that XHCI controller will be disabled if you set this item as Disabled." So does that mean that USB3 is disabled with this option? Here's a picture of the screen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiekitson/8017563004/

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• Openfire: Closing session due to incorrect hostname

  - by cvista

  I have a fresh install on a windows sevrer 2008 box. I can connect adium to the server from a remote machine and from the admin console/sessions I can see my session. My friend can aslo connect and I can see his session. I can send an admin message out and both of us can see it in the adium clients. We can't see each other though. I also get these logs in the warn window in the log viewer: Closing session due to incorrect hostname in stream header. Host: prjatk.com. Connection: org.jivesoftware.openfire.net.SocketConnection@1b1fd9c socket: Socket[addr=/109.109.248.82,port=56258,localport=5269] session: null prjatk.com is the server - however in the server settings on the admin screen I see the computer name as the hostname - is that the issue? If so how can I change that?

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• Remotely Schedule and Stream Recorded TV in Windows 7 Media Center

  - by DigitalGeekery

  Have you ever been away from home and suddenly realized you forgot to record your favorite program? Now Windows 7 Media Center, users can schedule recordings remotely from their phones or mobile devices with Remote Potato. How it Works Remote Potato installs server software on the host computer running Windows 7 Media Center. Once the software is installed, we’ll need to do some port forwarding on the router and setup an optional dynamic DNS address. When setup is completed, we will access the application through a web based interface. Silverlight is required for Streaming recorded TV, but scheduling recordings can be done through an HTML interface. Installing Remote Potato Download and install Remote Potato on the Media Center PC. (See download link below) If you plan to stream any Recorded TV, you’ll also want to install the streaming pack located on the same page. It isn’t required to stream all shows, only shows that require the AC3 audio codec. Click Yes to allow Remote Potato to add rules to the Windows Firewall for remote access. You’ll likely need to accept a few UAC prompts. When notified that the rules were added, click OK. Remote Potato will then prompt you to allow administrator privileges to reserve a URL for it’s web server. Click Yes. Remote Potato server will start. Click on the configuration button at the right to to reveal the settings tabs.   One the General tab, you’ll have the option to run Remote Potato on startup and minimized in the System Tray. If you’re running Media Center on a dedicated HTPC, you’ll probably want to enable both startup options. Forwarding Ports on Your Router You’ll need to forward a couple ports on your router. By default, these will be ports 9080 and 9081. In this example we’re using a Linksys WRT54GL router, however, the steps for port forwarding will vary from router to router. On the Linksys configuration page, click on the Applications & Gaming Tab, and then the Port Range Forward tab. Under Application, type in a name of your choosing. In both the Start and End boxes, type the port number 9080. Enter the local IP address of your Media Center computer in the IP address column. Click the check box under Enable. Repeat the process on the next line, but this time use port 9081. When finished, click the Save Settings button. Note: It’s highly recommended that you configure the home computer running Media Center & Remote Potato with a static IP address.   Find your IP Address You’ll need to find the IP address assigned to your router from your ISP. There are many ways to do this but a quick and easy way is to visit a site like checkip.dyndns.org (link available below) The current external IP address of your router will be displayed in the browser.   Dynamic DNS This is an optional step, but  it’s highly recommended. Many routers, such as the Linksys WRT54GL we are using, support Dynamic DNS (DDNS). What Dynamic DNS allows you to do is affiliate your home router’s external IP address to a domain name. Every time your home router is assigned a a new IP address by your ISP, the domain name is updated to point to your new IP address. Remote Potato’s user interface is accessed over the Internet is by connecting to your router’s IP address followed by a colon and the port number. (Ex: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:9080) Instead of constantly having to look up and remember an IP address, you can use DDNS along with a 3rd party provider like DynDNS.com, to sign up for a free domain name and configure it to be updated each time your router is assigned a new IP address. Go to the DynDNS.com website (See link at the end of the article) and sign up for a free Domain name. You’ll need to register and confirm by email.   Once you’ve signed in and selected your domain name click Activate Services. You’ll get a confirmation message that your domain name has been activated.    On the Linksys WRT54GL click on the Setup tab an then DDNS. Select DynDNS.org, or TZO.com if you prefer to use their service, from the drop down list.   With DynDNS, you’ll need to fill in your username and password you signed up with at the DynDNS website and the hostname you chose. Note: You can connect over your local network with the IP Address of the computer running Remote Potato followed by a colon and the port number. Ex: 192.168.1.2:9080 Logging in Remote Potato and Recording a Show Once you connect, you’ll see the start page. To view the TV listings, click on TV Guide. You’ll then see your guide listings. There are a few ways to navigate the listings. At the top left, you can click on any of the preset time buttons to jump to  the listings at that time of the day.  Click on the arrows to the right and left of the day and date at the top center to proceed to the previous or next day. Or, jump to a specific day with the date and date buttons at the top right.   To setup a recording, click on a program.   You can choose to record the individual show or the entire series by clicking on Record Show or Record Series.   Remote Potato on Mobile Devices Perhaps the coolest feature of Remote Potato is the ability to schedule recording from your phone or mobile device. Note: For any devices or computers without Silverlight, you will be prompted to view the HTML page. Select Browse Listings. Select your program to record. In the Program Details, select Record Show to record the single episode or Record Series to record all instances of the series. You will then see a red dot on the program listing to indicate that the show is scheduled for recording.   Streaming Recorded TV Click on Recorded TV from the home screen to access your previously recorded TV programs. Click on the selection you wish to stream. Click on Play. If you receive this error message, you’ll need to install the streaming pack for Remote Potato. This is found on the same download page as installation files. (See link below) The Begin from slider allows you to start playback from the start (by default) or a different time of the program by moving the slider. The Quality (bitrate) setting  allows you to choose the quality of the playback. We found the video quality on the Normal setting to be pretty lousy, and Low was just pointless. High was the best overall viewing experience as it provided smooth quality video playback. We experienced significant stuttering during playback using the Ultra High setting.   Click Start when you are ready to begin. When playback begins you’ll see a slider at the top right.   Move the slider left or right to increase or decrease the size of the video. There’s also a button to switch to full screen.   Media Center users who travel frequently or are always on the go will likely find Remote Potato to be a blessing. Since being released earlier this year, updates for Remote Potato have come fast and furious. The latest beta release includes support for streaming music and photos. If you like those nice network TV logos, check out our article on adding TV channel logos to Windows Media Center. Downloads and Links Download Remote Potato and Streaming Pack Find your IP address Sign Up for a Domain Name at DynDNS.com Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Schedule Updates for Windows Media CenterUsing Netflix Watchnow in Windows Vista Media Center (Gmedia)Add a Sleep Timer to Windows 7 Media CenterStartup Customizations for Media Center in Windows 7Enable Media Streaming in Windows Home Server to Windows Media Player TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips DVDFab 6 Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 FoxClocks adds World Times in your Statusbar (Firefox) Have Fun Editing Photo Editing with Citrify Outlook Connector Upgrade Error Gadfly is a cool Twitter/Silverlight app Enable DreamScene in Windows 7 Microsoft’s “How Do I ?” Videos

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• Cannot enable network discovery on Windows Server 2008 R2

  - by dariom

  I'm trying to enable the Network Discovery feature on a newly installed Windows Server 2008 R2 instance. The network connection is in the Home or Work profile (it is not domain joined). These are the steps I've followed: Within the Network and Sharing Center I select Change advanced sharing settings Then I select the Turn on network discovery option for the current network profile (Home or Work) I then click Save changes If I then go back to the Advanced sharing settings screen the Turn off network discovery option is selected and the machine is not visible to others within the Network node in Windows Explorer. Things I've checked: I can ping the server and connect to it using the machine name/IP address. The Windows Firewall has exceptions for Network Discovery for both Private and Public networks. File and Printer sharing is enabled and I can transfer files to/from the server by connecting to the server using a UNC path. What am I missing here?

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• Installing Ubuntu on an Asus Vivotab Smart Windows 8 32-bit processor tablet

  - by Ikenna

  Good day, I just got an Asus Vivotab Smart with Windows 8 but the processor is actually a 32-bit type. I am kinda confused with the Ubuntu version to install (32-bit or 64-bit). I have read all the tips and guidelines on installing Ubuntu on a Windows 8 machine. I have disabled fast boot, quiet boot, secure boot, and still cannot boot from the usb. I tried this with Ubuntu 12.04.2, 12.10, and 13.04 (the 64-bit versions only). I am yet to try a 32-bit version but I'm reluctant since Canonical says only the 64-bit version was developed to handle the Windows 8 UEFI issues. Also, I have a boot-override field in my UEFI options which I think force-boots from the boot option one selects. I selected to force-boot from my pendrive containing Ubuntu, but the screen just blinks momentarily and nothing happens. Please help me to figure out how to load ubuntu on my machine. I don't really want the Windows 8......just Ubuntu on my tablet. Thank you.

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• Firefox 3.6 Kiosk mode

  - by David Murdoch

  I've developed a FF 3.6+ only web app that needs to run in kiosk mode. I has assumed that since nearly every other browser has a built in kiosk switch FF would have this too. I haven't been able to find this. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments does not have a kiosk mode listed. R-Kiosk doesn't work in FF 3.6. Apparently their is a new "experimental" version of R-Kiosk (v0.8.0) but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know of anyway to put Firefox in kiosk mode? I'd be especially great if the solution forced full screen, hid all toolbars and context menus, disables (Ctrl+) Alt + * combos, and disables "Windows Key" + * combos.

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• Debian error : edac mc0 internal error

  - by Xantra

  I have a problem on last Debian Server. I have this error written every seconds on my screen : EDAC MC0: INTERNAL ERROR: csrow value is out of range (7 >= 4) edac-utils give that : mc0: 0 Uncorrected Errors with no DIMM info mc0: 44747 Corrected Errors with no DIMM info mc0: csrow0: 15330 Uncorrected Errors mc0: csrow0: mc#0csrow#0channel#0: 0 Corrected Errors mc0: csrow0: mc#0csrow#2channel#0: 0 Corrected Errors mc0: csrow2: 0 Uncorrected Errors mc0: csrow2: mc#0csrow#1channel#0: 0 Corrected Errors mc0: csrow2: mc#0csrow#3channel#0: 0 Corrected Errors mc0: csrow3: 0 Uncorrected Errors mc0: csrow3: mc#0csrow#1channel#1: 0 Corrected Errors mc0: csrow3: mc#0csrow#3channel#1: 0 Corrected Errors Nothing on Memtest. What's the problem? How to solve it? Thank you.

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• Error while installing vmware tools v8.8.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 beta

  - by Dipen Patel

  I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10 using update manager. I use it as virtual machine on VMWare Player 4.xx. As usual I installed vmware tools to enable full screen mode and shared folder functionality. But while installing I got an error while building modules for shared folder and fast networking utilities for vmware tools. Error is ============================================== /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.c: In function ‘HgfsChangeFileAttributes’: /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.c:610:4: error: assignment of read-only member ‘i_nlink’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/file.c:128:4: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/file.c:128:4: warning: (near initialization for ‘HgfsFileFileOperations.fsync’) [enabled by default] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.c:53:30: error: expected ‘)’ before numeric constant /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.c:56:25: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’ /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.c:59:33: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-22-generic' make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only' The filesystem driver (vmhgfs module) is used only for the shared folder feature. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work independently of this feature. Let me know if anyone has encountered and solved this problem. Regards, Dipen Patel

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• Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListItem

  - by Joe Mayo

  One of the things that might be surprising in the LINQ Distinct standard query operator is that it doesn’t automatically work properly on custom classes. There are reasons for this, which I’ll explain shortly. The example I’ll use in this post focuses on pulling a unique list of names to load into a drop-down list. I’ll explain the sample application, show you typical first shot at Distinct, explain why it won’t work as you expect, and then demonstrate a solution to make Distinct work with any custom class. The technologies I’m using are  LINQ to Twitter, LINQ to Objects, Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010. The function of the example program is to show a list of people that I follow.  In Twitter API vernacular, these people are called “Friends”; though I’ve never met most of them in real life. This is part of the ubiquitous language of social networking, and Twitter in particular, so you’ll see my objects named accordingly. Where Distinct comes into play is because I want to have a drop-down list with the names of the friends appearing in the list. Some friends are quite verbose, which means I can’t just extract names from each tweet and populate the drop-down; otherwise, I would end up with many duplicate names. Therefore, Distinct is the appropriate operator to eliminate the extra entries from my friends who tend to be enthusiastic tweeters. The sample doesn’t do anything with the drop-down list and I leave that up to imagination for what it’s practical purpose could be; perhaps a filter for the list if I only want to see a certain person’s tweets or maybe a quick list that I plan to combine with a TextBox and Button to reply to a friend. When the program runs, you’ll need to authenticate with Twitter, because I’m using OAuth (DotNetOpenAuth), for authentication, and then you’ll see the drop-down list of names above the grid with the most recent tweets from friends. Here’s what the application looks like when it runs: As you can see, there is a drop-down list above the grid. The drop-down list is where most of the focus of this article will be. There is some description of the code before we talk about the Distinct operator, but we’ll get there soon. This is an ASP.NET MVC2 application, written with VS 2010. Here’s the View that produces this screen: <%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<TwitterFriendsViewModel>" %> <%@ Import Namespace="DistinctSelectList.Models" %> <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server">     Home Page </asp:Content><asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">     <fieldset>         <legend>Twitter Friends</legend>         <div>             <%= Html.DropDownListFor(                     twendVM => twendVM.FriendNames,                     Model.FriendNames,                     "<All Friends>") %>         </div>         <div>             <% Html.Telerik().Grid<TweetViewModel>(Model.Tweets)                    .Name("TwitterFriendsGrid")                    .Columns(cols =>                     {                         cols.Template(col =>                             { %>                                 <img src="<%= col.ImageUrl %>"                                      alt="<%= col.ScreenName %>" />                         <% });                         cols.Bound(col => col.ScreenName);                         cols.Bound(col => col.Tweet);                     })                    .Render(); %>         </div>     </fieldset> </asp:Content> As shown above, the Grid is from Telerik’s Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. The first column is a template that renders the user’s Avatar from a URL provided by the Twitter query. Both the Grid and DropDownListFor display properties that are collections from a TwitterFriendsViewModel class, shown below: using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Web.Mvc; namespace DistinctSelectList.Models { /// /// For finding friend info on screen /// public class TwitterFriendsViewModel { /// /// Display names of friends in drop-down list /// public List FriendNames { get; set; } /// /// Display tweets in grid /// public List Tweets { get; set; } } } I created the TwitterFreindsViewModel. The two Lists are what the View consumes to populate the DropDownListFor and Grid. Notice that FriendNames is a List of SelectListItem, which is an MVC class. Another custom class I created is the TweetViewModel (the type of the Tweets List), shown below: namespace DistinctSelectList.Models { /// /// Info on friend tweets /// public class TweetViewModel { /// /// User's avatar /// public string ImageUrl { get; set; } /// /// User's Twitter name /// public string ScreenName { get; set; } /// /// Text containing user's tweet /// public string Tweet { get; set; } } } The initial Twitter query returns much more information than we need for our purposes and this a special class for displaying info in the View.  Now you know about the View and how it’s constructed. Let’s look at the controller next. The controller for this demo performs authentication, data retrieval, data manipulation, and view selection. I’ll skip the description of the authentication because it’s a normal part of using OAuth with LINQ to Twitter. Instead, we’ll drill down and focus on the Distinct operator. However, I’ll show you the entire controller, below,  so that you can see how it all fits together: using System.Linq; using System.Web.Mvc; using DistinctSelectList.Models; using LinqToTwitter; namespace DistinctSelectList.Controllers { [HandleError] public class HomeController : Controller { private MvcOAuthAuthorization auth; private TwitterContext twitterCtx; /// /// Display a list of friends current tweets /// /// public ActionResult Index() { auth = new MvcOAuthAuthorization(InMemoryTokenManager.Instance, InMemoryTokenManager.AccessToken); string accessToken = auth.CompleteAuthorize(); if (accessToken != null) { InMemoryTokenManager.AccessToken = accessToken; } if (auth.CachedCredentialsAvailable) { auth.SignOn(); } else { return auth.BeginAuthorize(); } twitterCtx = new TwitterContext(auth); var friendTweets = (from tweet in twitterCtx.Status where tweet.Type == StatusType.Friends select new TweetViewModel { ImageUrl = tweet.User.ProfileImageUrl, ScreenName = tweet.User.Identifier.ScreenName, Tweet = tweet.Text }) .ToList(); var friendNames = (from tweet in friendTweets select new SelectListItem { Text = tweet.ScreenName, Value = tweet.ScreenName }) .Distinct() .ToList(); var twendsVM = new TwitterFriendsViewModel { Tweets = friendTweets, FriendNames = friendNames }; return View(twendsVM); } public ActionResult About() { return View(); } } } The important part of the listing above are the LINQ to Twitter queries for friendTweets and friendNames. Both of these results are used in the subsequent population of the twendsVM instance that is passed to the view. Let’s dissect these two statements for clarification and focus on what is happening with Distinct. The query for friendTweets gets a list of the 20 most recent tweets (as specified by the Twitter API for friend queries) and performs a projection into the custom TweetViewModel class, repeated below for your convenience: var friendTweets = (from tweet in twitterCtx.Status where tweet.Type == StatusType.Friends select new TweetViewModel { ImageUrl = tweet.User.ProfileImageUrl, ScreenName = tweet.User.Identifier.ScreenName, Tweet = tweet.Text }) .ToList(); The LINQ to Twitter query above simplifies what we need to work with in the View and the reduces the amount of information we have to look at in subsequent queries. Given the friendTweets above, the next query performs another projection into an MVC SelectListItem, which is required for binding to the DropDownList.  This brings us to the focus of this blog post, writing a correct query that uses the Distinct operator. The query below uses LINQ to Objects, querying the friendTweets collection to get friendNames: var friendNames = (from tweet in friendTweets select new SelectListItem { Text = tweet.ScreenName, Value = tweet.ScreenName }) .Distinct() .ToList(); The above implementation of Distinct seems normal, but it is deceptively incorrect. After running the query above, by executing the application, you’ll notice that the drop-down list contains many duplicates.  This will send you back to the code scratching your head, but there’s a reason why this happens. To understand the problem, we must examine how Distinct works in LINQ to Objects. Distinct has two overloads: one without parameters, as shown above, and another that takes a parameter of type IEqualityComparer<T>.  In the case above, no parameters, Distinct will call EqualityComparer<T>.Default behind the scenes to make comparisons as it iterates through the list. You don’t have problems with the built-in types, such as string, int, DateTime, etc, because they all implement IEquatable<T>. However, many .NET Framework classes, such as SelectListItem, don’t implement IEquatable<T>. So, what happens is that EqualityComparer<T>.Default results in a call to Object.Equals, which performs reference equality on reference type objects.  You don’t have this problem with value types because the default implementation of Object.Equals is bitwise equality. However, most of your projections that use Distinct are on classes, just like the SelectListItem used in this demo application. So, the reason why Distinct didn’t produce the results we wanted was because we used a type that doesn’t define its own equality and Distinct used the default reference equality. This resulted in all objects being included in the results because they are all separate instances in memory with unique references. As you might have guessed, the solution to the problem is to use the second overload of Distinct that accepts an IEqualityComparer<T> instance. If you were projecting into your own custom type, you could make that type implement IEqualityComparer<T>, but SelectListItem belongs to the .NET Framework Class Library.  Therefore, the solution is to create a custom type to implement IEqualityComparer<T>, as in the SelectListItemComparer class, shown below: using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Web.Mvc; namespace DistinctSelectList.Models { public class SelectListItemComparer : EqualityComparer { public override bool Equals(SelectListItem x, SelectListItem y) { return x.Value.Equals(y.Value); } public override int GetHashCode(SelectListItem obj) { return obj.Value.GetHashCode(); } } } The SelectListItemComparer class above doesn’t implement IEqualityComparer<SelectListItem>, but rather derives from EqualityComparer<SelectListItem>. Microsoft recommends this approach for consistency with the behavior of generic collection classes. However, if your custom type already derives from a base class, go ahead and implement IEqualityComparer<T>, which will still work. EqualityComparer is an abstract class, that implements IEqualityComparer<T> with Equals and GetHashCode abstract methods. For the purposes of this application, the SelectListItem.Value property is sufficient to determine if two items are equal.   Since SelectListItem.Value is type string, the code delegates equality to the string class. The code also delegates the GetHashCode operation to the string class.You might have other criteria in your own object and would need to define what it means for your object to be equal. Now that we have an IEqualityComparer<SelectListItem>, let’s fix the problem. The code below modifies the query where we want distinct values: var friendNames = (from tweet in friendTweets select new SelectListItem { Text = tweet.ScreenName, Value = tweet.ScreenName }) .Distinct(new SelectListItemComparer()) .ToList(); Notice how the code above passes a new instance of SelectListItemComparer as the parameter to the Distinct operator. Now, when you run the application, the drop-down list will behave as you expect, showing only a unique set of names. In addition to Distinct, other LINQ Standard Query Operators have overloads that accept IEqualityComparer<T>’s, You can use the same techniques as shown here, with SelectListItemComparer, with those other operators as well. Now you know how to resolve problems with getting Distinct to work properly and also have a way to fix problems with other operators that require equality comparisons. @JoeMayo

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• SDL2 sprite batching and texture atlases

  - by jms

  I have been programming a 2D game in C++, using the SDL2 graphics API for rendering. My game concept currently features effects that could result in even tens of thousands of sprites being drawn simultaneously to the screen. I'd like to know what can be done for increasing rendering efficiency if the need arises, preferably using the SDL2 API only. I have previously given a quick look at OpenGL-based 2D rendering, and noticed that SDL2 lacks a command like int SDL_RenderCopyMulti(SDL_Renderer* renderer, SDL_Texture* texture, const SDL_Rect* srcrects, SDL_Rect* dstrects, int count) Which would permit SDL to benefit from two common techniques used for efficient 2D graphics: Texture batching: Sorting sprites by the texture used, and then simultaneously rendering as many sprites that use the same texture as possible, changing only the source area on the texture and the destination area on the render target between sprites. This allows the encapsulation of the whole operation in a single GPU command, reducing the overhead drastically from multiple distinct calls. Texture atlases: Instead of creating one texture for each frame of each animation of each sprite, combining multiple animations and even multiple sprites into a single large texture. This lessens the impact of changing the current texture when switching between sprites, as the correct texture is often ready to be used from the previous draw call. Furthemore the GPU is optimized for handling large textures, in contrast to the many tiny textures typically used for sprites. My question: Would SDL2 still get somewhat faster from any rudimentary sprite sorting or from combining multiple images into one texture thanks to automatic video driver optimizations? If I will encounter performance issues related to 2D rendering in the future, will I be forced to switch to OpenGL for lower level control over the GPU? Edit: Are there any plans to include such functionality in the near future?

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• IE8 Developer Tools won't open

  - by Dave

  Just installed IE8 on WinXP. Trying to use the Dev Tools but, clicking on the menu item or hitting F12 doesn't do anything. I can see the option in the tools menu, just can't use it. I've checked to make sure it wasn't opening minimized or off screen and I've checked the registry settings used to disable them. Those registry keys don't even exists. Suggestions? I was going to reinstall, but, thought I'd check here first.

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• Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension

  - by ScottGu

  Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site.  A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search engine queries.  This can directly or indirectly increase the money you make through your site. This blog post covers how you can use the free Microsoft URL Rewrite Extension to fix a bunch of common SEO problems that your site might have.  It takes less than 15 minutes (and no code changes) to apply 4 simple URL Rewrite rules to your site, and in doing so cause search engines to drive more visitors and traffic to your site.  The techniques below work equally well with both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC based sites.  They also works with all versions of ASP.NET (and even work with non-ASP.NET content). [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Measuring the SEO of your website with the Microsoft SEO Toolkit A few months ago I blogged about the free SEO Toolkit that we’ve shipped.  This useful tool enables you to automatically crawl/scan your site for SEO correctness, and it then flags any SEO issues it finds.  I highly recommend downloading and using the tool against any public site you work on.  It makes it easy to spot SEO issues you might have in your site, and pinpoint ways to optimize it further. Below is a simple example of a report I ran against one of my sites (www.scottgu.com) prior to applying the URL Rewrite rules I’ll cover later in this blog post:   Search Relevancy and URL Splitting Two of the important things that search engines evaluate when assessing your site’s “search relevancy” are: How many other sites link to your content.  Search engines assume that if a lot of people around the web are linking to your content, then it is likely useful and so weight it higher in relevancy. The uniqueness of the content it finds on your site.  If search engines find that the content is duplicated in multiple places around the Internet (or on multiple URLs on your site) then it is likely to drop the relevancy of the content. One of the things you want to be very careful to avoid when building public facing sites is to not allow different URLs to retrieve the same content within your site.  Doing so will hurt with both of the situations above.  In particular, allowing external sites to link to the same content with multiple URLs will cause your link-count and page-ranking to be split up across those different URLs (and so give you a smaller page rank than what it would otherwise be if it was just one URL).  Not allowing external sites to link to you in different ways sounds easy in theory – but you might wonder what exactly this means in practice and how you avoid it. 4 Really Common SEO Problems Your Sites Might Have Below are 4 really common scenarios that can cause your site to inadvertently expose multiple URLs for the same content.  When this happens external sites linking to yours will end up splitting their page links across multiple URLs - and as a result cause you to have a lower page ranking with search engines than you deserve. SEO Problem #1: Default Document IIS (and other web servers) supports the concept of a “default document”.  This allows you to avoid having to explicitly specify the page you want to serve at either the root of the web-site/application, or within a sub-directory.  This is convenient – but means that by default this content is available via two different publically exposed URLs (which is bad).  For example: http://scottgu.com/ http://scottgu.com/default.aspx SEO Problem #2: Different URL Casings Web developers often don’t realize URLs are case sensitive to search engines on the web.  This means that search engines will treat the following links as two completely different URLs: http://scottgu.com/Albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx SEO Problem #3: Trailing Slashes Consider the below two URLs – they might look the same at first, but they are subtly different. The trailing slash creates yet another situation that causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and so split search rankings: http://scottgu.com http://scottgu.com/ SEO Problem #4: Canonical Host Names Sometimes sites support scenarios where they support a web-site with both a leading “www” hostname prefix as well as just the hostname itself.  This causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and split search rankling: http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx/ http://www.scottgu.com/albums.aspx/ How to Easily Fix these SEO Problems in 10 minutes (or less) using IIS Rewrite If you haven’t been careful when coding your sites, chances are you are suffering from one (or more) of the above SEO problems.  Addressing these issues will improve your search engine relevancy ranking and drive more traffic to your site. The “good news” is that fixing the above 4 issues is really easy using the URL Rewrite Extension.  This is a completely free Microsoft extension available for IIS 7.x (on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Windows Vista).  The great thing about using the IIS Rewrite extension is that it allows you to fix the above problems *without* having to change any code within your applications.  You can easily install the URL Rewrite Extension in under 3 minutes using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (a free tool we ship that automates setting up web servers and development machines).  Just click the green “Install Now” button on the URL Rewrite Spotlight page to install it on your Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Vista machine: Once installed you’ll find that a new “URL Rewrite” icon is available within the IIS 7 Admin Tool: Double-clicking the icon will open up the URL Rewrite admin panel – which will display the list of URL Rewrite rules configured for a particular application or site: Notice that our rewrite rule list above is currently empty (which is the default when you first install the extension).  We can click the “Add Rule…” link button in the top-right of the panel to add and enable new URL Rewriting logic for our site.  Scenario 1: Handling Default Document Scenarios One of the SEO problems I discussed earlier in this post was the scenario where the “default document” feature of IIS causes you to inadvertently expose two URLs for the same content on your site.  For example: http://scottgu.com/ http://scottgu.com/default.aspx We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the second URL to instead go to the first one.  We will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve.  Let’s look at how we can create such a rule.  We’ll begin by clicking the “Add Rule” link in the screenshot above.  This will cause the below dialog to display: We’ll select the “Blank Rule” template within the “Inbound rules” section to create a new custom URL Rewriting rule.  This will display an empty pane like below: Don’t worry – setting up the above rule is easy.  The following 4 steps explain how to do so: Step 1: Name the Rule Our first step will be to name the rule we are creating.  Naming it with a descriptive name will make it easier to find and understand later.  Let’s name this rule our “Default Document URL Rewrite” rule: Step 2: Setup the Regular Expression that Matches this Rule Our second step will be to specify a regular expression filter that will cause this rule to execute when an incoming URL matches the regex pattern.   Don’t worry if you aren’t good with regular expressions - I suck at them too. The trick is to know someone who is good at them or copy/paste them from a web-site.  Below we are going to specify the following regular expression as our pattern rule: (.*?)/?Default\.aspx$ This pattern will match any URL string that ends with Default.aspx. The "(.*?)" matches any preceding character zero or more times. The "/?" part says to match the slash symbol zero or one times. The "$" symbol at the end will ensure that the pattern will only match strings that end with Default.aspx.  Combining all these regex elements allows this rule to work not only for the root of your web site (e.g. http://scottgu.com/default.aspx) but also for any application or subdirectory within the site (e.g. http://scottgu.com/photos/default.aspx.  Because the “ignore case” checkbox is selected it will match both “Default.aspx” as well as “default.aspx” within the URL.   One nice feature built-into the rule editor is a “Test pattern” button that you can click to bring up a dialog that allows you to test out a few URLs with the rule you are configuring: Above I've added a “products/default.aspx” URL and clicked the “Test” button.  This will give me immediate feedback on whether the rule will execute for it.  Step 3: Setup a Permanent Redirect Action We’ll then setup an action to occur when our regular expression pattern matches the incoming URL: In the dialog above I’ve changed the “Action Type” drop down to be a “Redirect” action.  The “Redirect Type” will be a HTTP 301 Permanent redirect – which means search engines will follow it. I’ve also set the “Redirect URL” property to be: {R:1}/ This indicates that we want to redirect the web client requesting the original URL to a new URL that has the originally requested URL path - minus the "Default.aspx" in it.  For example, requests for http://scottgu.com/default.aspx will be redirected to http://scottgu.com/, and requests for http://scottgu.com/photos/default.aspx will be redirected to http://scottgu.com/photos/ The "{R:N}" regex construct, where N >= 0, is called a back-reference and N is the back-reference index. In the case of our pattern "(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$", if the input URL is "products/Default.aspx" then {R:0} will contain "products/Default.aspx" and {R:1} will contain "products".  We are going to use this {R:1}/ value to be the URL we redirect users to.  Step 4: Apply and Save the Rule Our final step is to click the “Apply” button in the top right hand of the IIS admin tool – which will cause the tool to persist the URL Rewrite rule into our application’s root web.config file (under a <system.webServer/rewrite> configuration section): <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Because IIS 7.x and ASP.NET share the same web.config files, you can actually just copy/paste the above code into your web.config files using Visual Studio and skip the need to run the admin tool entirely.  This also makes adding/deploying URL Rewrite rules with your ASP.NET applications really easy. Step 5: Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://scottgu.com/ http://scottgu.com/default.aspx Notice that the second URL automatically redirects to the first one.  Because it is a permanent redirect, search engines will follow the URL and should update the page ranking of http://scottgu.com to include links to http://scottgu.com/default.aspx as well. Scenario 2: Different URL Casing Another common SEO problem I discussed earlier in this post is that URLs are case sensitive to search engines on the web.  This means that search engines will treat the following links as two completely different URLs: http://scottgu.com/Albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the first URL to instead go to the second (all lower-case) one.  Like before, we will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve. To create such a rule we’ll click the “Add Rule” link in the URL Rewrite admin tool again.  This will cause the “Add Rule” dialog to appear again: Unlike the previous scenario (where we created a “Blank Rule”), with this scenario we can take advantage of a built-in “Enforce lowercase URLs” rule template.  When we click the “ok” button we’ll see the following dialog which asks us if we want to create a rule that enforces the use of lowercase letters in URLs: When we click the “Yes” button we’ll get a pre-written rule that automatically performs a permanent redirect if an incoming URL has upper-case characters in it – and automatically send users to a lower-case version of the URL: We can click the “Apply” button to use this rule “as-is” and have it apply to all incoming URLs to our site.  Because my www.scottgu.com site uses ASP.NET Web Forms, I’m going to make one small change to the rule we generated above – which is to add a condition that will ensure that URLs to ASP.NET’s built-in “WebResource.axd” handler are excluded from our case-sensitivity URL Rewrite logic.  URLs to the WebResource.axd handler will only come from server-controls emitted from my pages – and will never be linked to from external sites.  While my site will continue to function fine if we redirect these URLs to automatically be lower-case – doing so isn’t necessary and will add an extra HTTP redirect to many of my pages.  The good news is that adding a condition that prevents my URL Rewriting rule from happening with certain URLs is easy.  We simply need to expand the “Conditions” section of the form above We can then click the “Add” button to add a condition clause.  This will bring up the “Add Condition” dialog: Above I’ve entered {URL} as the Condition input – and said that this rule should only execute if the URL does not match a regex pattern which contains the string “WebResource.axd”.  This will ensure that WebResource.axd URLs to my site will be allowed to execute just fine without having the URL be re-written to be all lower-case. Note: If you have static resources (like references to .jpg, .css, and .js files) within your site that currently use upper-case characters you’ll probably want to add additional condition filter clauses so that URLs to them also don’t get redirected to be lower-case (just add rules for patterns like .jpg, .gif, .js, etc).  Your site will continue to work fine if these URLs get redirected to be lower case (meaning the site won’t break) – but it will cause an extra HTTP redirect to happen on your site for URLs that don’t need to be redirected for SEO reasons.  So setting up a condition clause makes sense to add. When I click the “ok” button above and apply our lower-case rewriting rule the admin tool will save the following additional rule to our web.config file: <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Lower Case URLs" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://scottgu.com/Albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx Notice that the first URL (which has a capital “A”) automatically does a redirect to a lower-case version of the URL.  Scenario 3: Trailing Slashes Another common SEO problem I discussed earlier in this post is the scenario of trailing slashes within URLs.  The trailing slash creates yet another situation that causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and so split search rankings: http://scottgu.com http://scottgu.com/ We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the first URL (that does not have a trailing slash) to instead go to the second one that does.  Like before, we will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve.  To create such a rule we’ll click the “Add Rule” link in the URL Rewrite admin tool again.  This will cause the “Add Rule” dialog to appear again: The URL Rewrite admin tool has a built-in “Append or remove the trailing slash symbol” rule template.  When we select it and click the “ok” button we’ll see the following dialog which asks us if we want to create a rule that automatically redirects users to a URL with a trailing slash if one isn’t present: Like within our previous lower-casing rewrite rule we’ll add one additional condition clause that will exclude WebResource.axd URLs from being processed by this rule.  This will avoid an unnecessary redirect for happening for those URLs. When we click the “OK” button we’ll get a pre-written rule that automatically performs a permanent redirect if the URL doesn’t have a trailing slash – and if the URL is not processed by either a directory or a file.  This will save the following additional rule to our web.config file: <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Lower Case URLs" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Trailing Slash" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*[^/])$" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://scottgu.com http://scottgu.com/ Notice that the first URL (which has no trailing slash) automatically does a redirect to a URL with the trailing slash.  Because it is a permanent redirect, search engines will follow the URL and update the page ranking. Scenario 4: Canonical Host Names The final SEO problem I discussed earlier are scenarios where a site works with both a leading “www” hostname prefix as well as just the hostname itself.  This causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and split search rankling: http://www.scottgu.com/albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the first URL (that has a www prefix) to instead go to the second URL.  Like before, we will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve.  To create such a rule we’ll click the “Add Rule” link in the URL Rewrite admin tool again.  This will cause the “Add Rule” dialog to appear again: The URL Rewrite admin tool has a built-in “Canonical domain name” rule template.  When we select it and click the “ok” button we’ll see the following dialog which asks us if we want to create a redirect rule that automatically redirects users to a primary host name URL: Above I’m entering the primary URL address I want to expose to the web: scottgu.com.  When we click the “OK” button we’ll get a pre-written rule that automatically performs a permanent redirect if the URL has another leading domain name prefix.  This will save the following additional rule to our web.config file: <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Cannonical Hostname">                     <match url="(.*)" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^scottgu\.com$" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="http://scottgu.com/{R:1}" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Lower Case URLs" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Trailing Slash" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*[^/])$" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://www.scottgu.com/albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx Notice that the first URL (which has the “www” prefix) now automatically does a redirect to the second URL which does not have the www prefix.  Because it is a permanent redirect, search engines will follow the URL and update the page ranking. 4 Simple Rules for Improved SEO The above 4 rules are pretty easy to setup and should take less than 15 minutes to configure on existing sites you already have.  The beauty of using a solution like the URL Rewrite Extension is that you can take advantage of it without having to change code within your web-site – and without having to break any existing links already pointing at your site.  Users who follow existing links will be automatically redirected to the new URLs you wish to publish.  And search engines will start to give your site a higher search relevancy ranking – which will list your site higher in search results and drive more traffic to it. Customizing your URL Rewriting rules further is easy to-do either by editing the web.config file directly, or alternatively, just double click the URL Rewrite icon within the IIS 7.x admin tool and it will list all the active rules for your web-site or application: Clicking any of the rules above will open the rules editor back up and allow you to tweak/customize/save them further. Summary Measuring and improving SEO is something every developer building a public-facing web-site needs to think about and focus on.  If you haven’t already, download and use the SEO Toolkit to analyze the SEO of your sites today. New URL Routing features in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms 4 make it much easier to build applications that have more control over the URLs that are published.  Tools like the URL Rewrite Extension that I’ve talked about in this blog post make it much easier to improve the URLs that are published from sites you already have built today – without requiring you to change a lot of code. The URL Rewrite Extension provides a bunch of additional great capabilities – far beyond just SEO - as well.  I’ll be covering these additional capabilities more in future blog posts. Hope this helps, Scott

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  “Google Reader Play” is the new Web browsing feature launched by Google on Wednesday which allows users to browse and explore the content in Google reader  like a TV rather than the hierarchical tree view.  Google reader finds and displays the coolest things on the net using the same “Recommended Items”  feature in the Google Reader. if you are a Google user then it tries to filter the content based upon the “Items that several of your friends have shared” and “based upon your past reader History” “Google Reader Play” makes the personalization of content automation by allowing the users to mark , like and share items as shown below It also allows you to personalize the content by choosing the from the list of available categories The interface looks simple and and now users can feel reading news is like watching TV.This is what what  Google is saying about it In Google Reader Play, items are presented one at a time, and each item is big and full-screen. After you’ve read an item, just click the next arrow to move to the next one, or click any item on the filmstrip below to fast-forward. Join us on Facebook to read all our stories right inside your Facebook news feed.

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