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Flex: doing useful things while the transition effect is played

We have a Flex application which has several 'pages' worth of content. Each time a page is opened by the user some of the information on the page needs to be refreshed (takes less than a second to do so). We currently display a 'loading' animation. The idea is to replace it with some kind of transition effect for the whole page and load ...

Notify upon background jobs finishing running in bash

Hi, I am running some time-consuming executables with different parameters assigned in a loop as background jobs in parallel. Here is a toy example and its output: bash-3.2$ set -o notify bash-3.2$ for (( i=0 ; i < 4 ; i+=2 )); do > sleep ${i} & > done [1] 32394 [2] 32395 bash-3.2$ [1]- Done sleep ${i} [2]+ Done ...

How do I set a background image for a grouped table view?

I've seen some iPhone applications that use a custom image as the background for a grouped UITableView, instead of the standard gray lines. How is this achieved? ...

Preloading CSS Background Images

Hello guys, I have a hidden contact form which is deployed clicking on a button. Its fields are set as CSS background images, and they always appears a bit later than the div that have been toggled. I was using this snippet in the <head> section, but with no luck (after I cleared the cache) : <script type="text/javascript"> $(document...

Background showing up in IE, but no other browser.. Java setting

I'm working in wordpress theming and have a site set up that will detect an image from the database and then set that image to be the background of a div using simple javascript. I have this set up on my test site, and it works perfectly on all browsers. But now I have implemented the theme on the client site which has WP running WP...

TabControl transparent background

I'd like to know if there's some way to render the background of a TabControl transparent (the TabControl, not the TabPages), instead of taking the parent form background color. I've some forms with custom painting where I draw a gradient as the background but this gradient doesn't paint behind the tabcontrols. I tried setting TabControl...

PowerShell Job Progress Monitoring

Is there a way for a PowerShell job to report progress or to trigger events before it is complete? I just started playing around with executing background jobs in PowerShell and am wondering how far I can push the capability. ...

How can we do Background File Upload in iphone ?

Hi like qik.com , ustream.com , I hope to know how to upload file in background via iPhone SDK 3.0 . Pls let me know . Thanks ! ...

UITableViewController - UIButton behavior

I have a UITableViewController that has a button in the background the size of the screen. The button accepts touch events to hide the keyboard when the user touches outside of the tableView. The UITableView is set to Grouped style and has its backgroundColor set to [UIColor clearColor]. self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clea...

Best ASP.NET Background Service Implementation

What's the best implementation for more than one background service in an ASP.NET application? Timer Callback Timer timer = new Timer(new TimerCallback(MyWorkCallback), HttpContext, 5000, 5000); Thread or ThreadPool Thread thread = new Thread(Work); thread.IsBackground = true; thread.Start(); BackgroundWorker BackgroundWorker work...

how to set background image in a dialog box in vc++6.0

how to set background image in a dialog box in vc++6.0 ...

Background ad on website

Hi, I'm currently making a website where the owners want background ads (a ad as background on the whole site). It is quite easy to make in css: body { background-image: url('ad.jpg'); repeat, color..... } But, they want it to be a link. It is a little bit harder so I need some help with that. I have tried with something like...

slideshow for div's background image + jquery

Hi friends, I have a big div element at header and there are many text contents and some boxes in the div. and i have a big img as bg for this div, now i need to make a slideshow for this div's background :/ How can I make slideshow for a div's background image? I researched a lot, but could not find anything :/ Thanks a lot! apprec...

How do I remove background-image in css?

I have a general rule which gives all DIVs a background image. I have one div (with id='a') which I don't want it to have the background image. What css rule do I have to give it? ...

html, div, css - hover action and background image changing

Hi, I have such code: <div id="footer"> <a href="http:/tra-ta-ta.com"> <div id="logo"></div> </a> </div> #logo { position: relative; width: 100px; height: 18px; float: right; background-image: url('../images/logo_def.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 50% 50%; } #logo a:h...

Yellow text showing up on website, but hard to troubleshoot

We have gotten several emails and phone calls about yellow text appearing on our webpages at http://www.ciu.edu. We are specifically using a black text in the stylesheet. It is on a tan background. One person claimed to be color blind and I have tried various tests for colorblindness, but no such luck. We are at a loss as to what is g...

Changing background image of logon screen programmatically?

I'd like to replace the bitmap on the logon screen of Windows 7 64-bit with one that is on disk. I have a program that periodically switches the background image of my desktop, and it has a configuration to run a program after it has changed it, which I thought I could use to also copy the same bitmap to the logon screen. Does anyone kn...

How to reduce my flash game's background engine 600MB memory usage peaks?

I'm creating a flash game in actionscript 3 with an infinite universe. Because the universe is infinite the background is created dynamically using the following background engine: BackgroundEngine.as package com.tommedema.background { import br.com.stimuli.loading.BulkLoader; import com.tommedema.utils.Settings; import co...

Custom UITableView Index Headers on iPhone

I've seen apps that take the UITableView index header (i.e. the thing in the iPod application that separates songs starting in A, B, etc.) and put their own custom image as the background. Such apps are the myStarbucks app and the What's on TV? app. I've looked a little bit through the documentation and there doesn't seem to be a specifi...

Flex 3 loading background color

During loading of a Flex 3 built application, it always shows this blue-grayish background color. I've tried a handful of tips, building preloaders etc, and all that works, but even before the preloaders kick in, that blue-grayish color is displayed. I've tried lots of ways to change it, like editing compiler options, setting background ...