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How do you create an application with a unique GUI like Valve's Steam?

Valve's game manager application, Steam, has a very unique user interface, with custom buttons and windows. How would you create a Win32 application that has such a look? ...

How to implement an file storage service in PHP (compatible with S3 or similar)

Is there a way to create the server side of something similar to S3, iDrive, Dropbox, etc in strictly PHP? The end goal would be to allow users to map a drive or folder to our servers using an app that already exists for one of those popular services. In other words, I don't really want to write the client on the OS side, but rather im...

ICMP win32 api declaration in vb6

Hello guys, Can anybody help me with the declaration of these fucntions Icmp6CreateFile, Icmp6SendEcho2, and Icmp6ParseReplies or an offline tool that list the declaration for the windows api up to windows vista or win7 ...

What scripting langugae has both ec2 library & easy to use ncurses api?

Hi, I'm looking to write a cli replacement for elasticfox. Would be nice to use python / ruby / bash or something alike. This is a side project to make our Ubuntu environment a bit more fun, so as much abstraction as possible - I'm loving it :). Any tips? Thanks, Maxim. ...

set "run as administrator" flag programmatically

Hi All, Is it possible to programmatically set the "Run As Administrator" flag on exe file or shortcut file? Does Installshield support this functionality if i'll do it as part of the installation process? I'm trying to find the relevant command line / API / installshield command for this. Thanks, Lior ...

What API can add checkbox to MS Word file using Java?

I wanna make a program to create MS Word file, but some API's can't add checkbox to the document. Someone have done that? Thanks. ...

Handling multiple file input mechanisms gracefully

I'm currently refactoring a library for internal use in Java. The library receives an XML document, and returns a Result data structure. Given that: There are two clients for this library, one has the XML document as an InputStream and the other has a file path as a String. The class that the clients use is passing around inside the l...

Why do the IsCOLUMN_XXXNull methods in Project Server 2010 seem to not be working?

I'm trying to use the methods from SvcProject.ProjectDataSet.ProjectRow, such as IsPROJ_INFO_CURRENT_DATENull to check if a certain property is null or not before I access it. However, whenever I try this, the method throws an ArgumentNullException saying that the column is null. Checking the stack trace, it's clear that the problem is...

TFS API VS2010 - How do I set the comment on a workitem revision?

I've been beating my head against the wall and can't figure this out. I would post an image to help show you what I mean, but I'm a newbie ;) ...

API's similar to GLUTesselator?

I'm looking for an API that is open sourced and that can take contours of verticies as input and return verticies of triangles. I would also like it to support different winding rules. Thanks ...

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What is API? What is Importance of it? give me example of it? how can developer use API? ...

Any Java Tree API which can be used to find distance between 2 terms

Hi friends My requirement is 1) I should construct a tree like the one which is given below in the figure. 2) I need to then compute the distance between two terms say C and D. or D and F. ( as per the figure A and B are categories C,D,E and F are terms under the respective categories. Expected results : Search Terms ---------- Di...

General: callback provided by API, deletion procedure

Hi there, I have a general interest in the following question and would like to hear your opinion. Setting: Imagine an API that provides a Callback-Interface Cb, that is you can create a Cb object and register it on the API. The API will call methods of your object in some other thread. This could be the case where you want to receive...

Bluehill 2 api help

Hello, I need to make a program that works with Instron Bluehill software. The program is irelevant, I just need help getting access to the Bluehill API. If anyone has ever worked with this software let me know. Thank you ...

How to Add RESTful Web Services to Joomla 1.5+

Hi - pretty straightforward question: Is there a good web services solution for Joomla1.5+? I've been searching all over, and have only found references to a poorly-documented new xml-rpc server that's built into Joomla: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=304&t=501897 Thanks a lot - I'm looking for a nice clean third-party a...

Programatically scaling rackspacecloud servers up and down through API

I was speaking with Rackspace tech support today looking for a simple solution to scale my server up / down based on load and he said that it could be done through their API programatically. Has anyone actually done this before or have any advice on how to best approach this? I'd love to know if someone has some outline code or notes b...

XML to PHP Array?

I am trying to edit an open source PHP wrapper to export an XML. Original: $new_invoice = array( array( "Type"=>"ACCREC", "Contact" => array( "ContactID" => "[contact id]" ), "Date" => "2010-04-08", "DueDate" => "2010-04-30", "Status" => "SUBMITTED", "LineAmountTyp...

MMS to web application

I've scoured over the questions here, but cannot seem to find an answer, so I thought to ask. I'm creating a web application that will take in pictures, using the EXIF information or other image meta data to automatically place it in a date specific location...which is fine and dandy when doing the normal upload via web. However, I'm t...

Static Analysis API's?

I am interested in static analysis tools that are out there. Or rather the API's that are supported to allow me to write my own tools using these API's. I've written dozens over the years at my present employment that scrutinize our source code (C++) for various things. But one thing I want to know is if there are other static analysis A...

IPhone Development - Chart From Google API

Hi all, I'm trying to use the Google API to put some graphics in my application but it's not workig. I tested the code for other images on internet and it worked. Code: - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; UIImage *myimage = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL: [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://chart....