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  • IntentService android download and return file to Activity

    - by Andrew G
    I have a fairly tricky situation that I'm trying to determine the best design for. The basics are this: I'm designing a messaging system with a similar interface to email. When a user clicks a message that has an attachment, an activity is spawned that shows the text of that message along with a paper clip signaling that there is an additional attachment. At this point, I begin preloading the attachment so that when the user clicks on it - it loads more quickly. currently, when the user clicks the attachment, it prompts with a loading dialog until the download is complete at which point it loads a separate attachment viewer activity, passing in the bmp byte array. I don't ever want to save attachments to persistent storage. The difficulty I have is in supporting rotation as well as home button presses etc. The download is currently done with a thread and handler setup. Instead of this, I'd like the flow to be the following: User loads message as before, preloading begins of attachment as before (invisible to user). When the user clicks on the attachment link, the attachment viewer activity is spawned right away. If the download was done, the image is displayed. If not, a dialog is shown in THIS activity until it is done and can be displayed. Note that ideally the download never restarts or else I've wasted cycles on the preload. Obviously I need some persistent background process that is able to keep downloading and is able to call back to arbitrarily bonded Activities. It seems like the IntentService almost fits my needs as it does its work in a background thread and has the Service (non UI) lifecycle. However, will it work for my other needs? I notice that common implementations for what I want to do get a Messenger from the caller Activity so that a Message object can be sent back to a Handler in the caller's thread. This is all well and good but what happens in my case when the caller Activity is Stopped or Destroyed and the currently active Activity (the attachment viewer) is showing? Is there some way to dynamically bind a new Activity to a running IntentService so that I can send a Message back to the new Activity? The other question is on the Message object. Can I send arbitrarily large data back in this package? For instance, rather than send back that "The file was downloaded", I need to send back the byte array of the downloaded file itself since I never want to write it to disk (and yes this needs to be the case). Any advice on achieving the behavior I want is greatly appreciated. I've not been working with Android for that long and I often get confused with how to best handle asynchronous processes over the course of the Activity lifecycle especially when it comes to orientation changes and home button presses...

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  • Simple check authentication decorator in Python + Pylons

    - by ensnare
    I'd like to write a simple decorator that I can put above functions in my controller to check authentication and re-direct to the login page if the current user is not authenticated. What is the best way to do this? Where should the decorator go? How should I pass cookie info to the decorator? Sample code is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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  • How to create a screensaver?

    - by Dave
    Which is the best programming language to use for creating a screensaver? I am thinking of creating a screensaver to showcase projects i have done before for self satisfaction. How should i go about it? Thanks

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  • How can I measure the speed of code written in Java? (AI algorithms)

    - by Registered User
    Hi All, How can I measure the speed of code written in Java? I planning to develop software which will solve Sudoku using all presently available AI and ML algorithms and compare time against simple brute-force method. I need to measure time of each algorithm, I would like to ask for suggestions on what is the best way of doing that? Very important, program must be useful on any machine regardless to CPU power/memory. Thank you.

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  • SQL Select -> product -> comments -> user

    - by user1492716
    thanks for yout time helping on this ;) I'm new to SQL and wish to solve somethign in just one query and i dont know how to do it.- Basically I've a table of products, a table of users and a table of comments, linked by products.id - comments.pid and user.id - comments.uid , i wish to know what is the best practice to create just 1 query and get all products with child comments, including username.

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  • What's the quickest way to dump & load a MySQL InnoDB database using mysqldump?

    - by Josh Schwartzman
    I would like to create a copy of a database with approximately 40 InnoDB tables and around 1.5GB of data with mysqldump and MySQL 5.1. What are the best parameters (ie: --single-transaction) that will result in the quickest dump and load of the data? As well, when loading the data into the second DB, is it quicker to: 1) pipe the results directly to the second MySQL server instance and use the --compress option or 2) load it from a text file (ie: mysql < my_sql_dump.sql)

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  • Self Update in .net programs?

    - by Rev
    Hi, I`m looking for best mechanism for self update in .net programs! solution should cover this subject: 1) Server - Client Program 2) When new update released, after installing that on the sever-program, all client-program must update itself base on server version.(no need automatic-update for server) 3) Full-Update : for example if server on version 3 and last update package version is 5, update package must contain any older package.

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  • Pass a variable from postDispatch() to view instance in Zend Framework

    - by takeshin
    I have a controller plugin with postDispatch() hook, and there I have a $variable. How to pass this variable to the view instance? I tried Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->getView(), but this returns new view instance (not the application resource). The same with $bootstrap->getResource('view'). I don't want to pass it as a request param. Now, as a workaround I do it using Zend_Registry. But, is it the best way?

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  • Javascript variables

    - by Uli
    I'm learning Javascript right now. Can anybody tell me why the second code block traces a empty path for -launch(this)- but using the first code block it gives me the right path? "<form action='"+launchwebsite+"/subsite/' method='post' target='_blank' onsubmit='launch(this)'>" and this not: "<a onclick='launch(this)' title='launch' class='iblack' /></a></div>" Best Uli

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  • Start a list from a certain number

    - by Colin
    What's the best way to get a ul to start from 'x'? The start tag is depricated and everything I have found on Google has used the :before pseudo class which doesn't work in IE6 or 7. Didn't have much luck when searching stack either. Only thing I can think of is manually go through and number the lists myself and style accordingly? Any help appreciated.

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  • Should I use more than one CSS sheet?

    - by Robert
    I am updating a website to add some mobile friendly pages. At the moment we have one big css page with everything in. My idea is to put all the mobile specific css into a separate file and then link both sheets. The mobile css will overide anything in the default css (bigger buttons etc). Im quite new to css, what is the best practice?

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  • iPhone Quartz - Open GL

    - by user345473
    Hi all, Does anyone have an idea what do the mind mapping applications use for drawing: Quartz 2D or Open GL? What would be the best way to implement this kind of application? Any advice is welcomed! Thanks!

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  • How to guard against memory leaks?

    - by just_wes
    I was recently interviewing for a C++ position, and I was asked how I guard against creating memory leaks. I know I didn't give a satisfactory answer to that question, so I'm throwing it to you guys. What are the best ways to guard against memory leaks? Thanks!

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  • How to define a history chart in crystal reports .net (2008)?

    - by hp
    Hi, I want to display a Bar Chart in a Report that shows the sum of a measure grouped by month for the last 24 month. The months that do not have any tuples do not show up in the graph. I do not want that. I want exactly 24 groups/bars that are 0 if there are no tuples. What is the best way to do this? thanks

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  • SQLite editor capable of handling BLOB type for Mac

    - by Phil
    Hi, I am looking for a free/cheap SQLite editor that can handle BLOB type for Mac OS X. Basically, I just need to create a database that contains images, then load it to an iPhone app bundle. No need for fancy queries. Could someone recommend the best editor available out there for this purpose? Thanks a lot

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  • Zend Linked or Dependent DropDowns

    - by LookUp Webmaster
    Hello, Does anyone knows how to properly make dependent dropdowns using the Zend Framework? I've found several ways to do so, but none of them is using the framework features. Dependent Dropdown: The options shown on the "B" , depends on the option selected on the "A" . Thanks for your help, Best regards,

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