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Will adding data members(At end) in Exportable struct cause problems ?

Exportable function has the struct as a one of the parameter. This dll is used by many Exes One of the Exe needs to send some additional data , so we have added one member at the end of the struct and distributed the dll. Now my question is, if we put the new dll in other Exes which is not aware of the Extra member cause problems ? ...

Compare and merge 2 MS Word documents with Java and OpenOffice API?

How do I compare and merge 2 MS Word documents with Java and the OpenOffice API? I just want to conform that is it possible to compare 2 MS Word documents with the OpenOffice API. ...

Extract text from a PowerPoint (.ppt or .pptx) file?

I'm currently using a combination of OpenOffice macros and a pdf2text program to extract text and would like to find an easier, more efficient way getting the text out of a PowerPoint file. I've tried using the Apache POI library and have not had much luck, encountered numerous exceptions within the library when trying to process the f...

Base64ToHex() on code sample.

I'm reading this code sample: And since I don't know C#, I decided to give it a go. While compiling I've got this message: Main.cs(32,65): error CS1061: Type `string' does not contain a definition for `Base64ToHex' and no extension method `Base64ToHex' of type `string' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly ...

Yahoo Messenger API For Flex

Is there an API to implement Yahoo chat in Flex? Or at least some calls? ...

Programmatically change phone ( symbian ) speaker volume

I have been developing a radio application for Symbian phones ( 2nd , 3rd and 5th editions ). It seems to me that changing the volume of the phone speaker programmatically is not straightforward. Please help me in understanding how the phone volume could be controlled in Symbian. Is there an API for controlling the phone volume? I ha...

Is there a way (API/Scripting) to work with Virtual PC?

Is there a way to interact with Virtual PC1? Looking to do basic things like startup and shutdown (with choice of save or turn off etc..) specific VM's. Any solution other than simulating key presses would be fine, for example WMI COM+ ADSI PowerShell 1 - Specifically for Virtual PC as in Microsoft Virtual PC (i.e. the one that r...

How to get data about a company's financials, balance sheet, cash flow, etc. via its ticker symbol

Are there any good, free (or cheap) sources to get information about a company's financials that I can access via an API or XML feed or anything besides screen-scraping? Specifically I'm looking for things like total assets, liabilities, revenue, etc. ...

Java equivalent of OpenLayers

I am looking for a Java library to display map data from various sources, including shapefile, WMS, WFS, Google Maps, possibly ArcIMS, etc. It seems like OpenLayers is the closest thing to what I want, except it's a JavaScript library, and I'm writing a Swing application. GDAL looks promising, but as far as I can tell there won't be Jav...

Any python library to access quickbooks?

I want to integrate my mobile POS system with quickbooks (I need customers, sellers, inventory & post orders & invoices). I have not not been able to find a python library for this. ...

How to use twitter api with "http basic auth"?

Hello How to use twitter api with "http basic auth"? I think I should use the "consumer key"! because twitter gave you limit rate of requests per hour, how can they count my requests if I didn't use my consumer key? ...

How to load Google API (UDS.JS) on demand (with jQuery)?

Tried this: $('.link').click(function(e) { $.getScript('http://www.google.com/uds/api?file=uds.js&amp;amp;v=1.0', function() { $('body').append('<p>GOOGLE API (UDS) is loaded</p>'); }); return false; }); Yes, it loads a primary "uds.js" file and then locks page by loading a locale JS file ("default+en.I.js", see line #48 ...

Latvian language thesaurus dictionary

Is there any public API for latvian language thesaurus dictionary? ...

Problem with inet_pton() call within Zend framework

Hello everyone, I have a problem with using Zend framework (for YouTube data API). I created very simple PHP script for uploading YT videos using this API and it works almost everywhere - I tried it on 3 different machines (both Linux and WinXP). But after intalling it to 4th machine, I got this error: Error: inet_pton() [function.inet...

Is there anyway to get text from an edit control?

Background: I am looking to extract text data from the program Samsung PC Studio. What I need (SMS data) is stored in edit controls (text boxes). I would like to automate the process of extracting that data. My first step was "GetWindowText" however MSDN itself clearly states that this does not support edit controls. It works with anyth...

How can I get google earth building mesh data?

Hi I'm making a an application and i would like to import the 3D buildings in google earth that you can find in Chi,NYC,SF, etc. Is there any way to do this? ...

How often to run the cron, to mine twitter public timeline?

The webapps that depend on the public timeline of twitter, how often do they collect the data? There must be hundreds of thousands of messages every minute, correct? How do they manage to collect all the tweets, without missing any of them? ...

Astronomy API

Hi, I am interested in charting the positions of the planets. If you have any information about API's or other means of accomplishing this on mac osx, I would appreciate a response. Thanks, Bill ...

Google Map Search with City/state or Zip

i would like to make a search with city/state or Zip within a 'X' distance . The corresponding results will be viewed in google map. is there any help regarding this?? i need it very urgent. Please help!!!! ...

Domain Registration service with REST API

Does anybody know of a domain registrar with good REST API? ...