compatibility

.lib and .dll Backward Compatibility

I currently have a VS6 unmanaged C library that I deliver as either a .lib or .dll. I want to upgrade to VS2010 but I still have users that are in VS6, VS2005, and VS2008. Can a .lib or .dll built in VS2010 be used in VS6, VS2005, or VS2008? Thanks! ...

Problems running a 32-bit Delphi app on a 64-bit Windows platform

I have a Windows 32 bit app written in Delphi that is giving problems when running under Windows Server 2008 64-bit. Details are sketchy ("having all kinds of printing issues" was the best report I could get so far) and the app behaves fine on all the Win64 platforms I have access to, but aside from that, I would have thought that an ap...

Cheap Code signing to be "Windows 7 compatible"

Hi all, I am currently looking for "Windows 7 compatible" certification, and to get it, you need to implement code signing. Now I look for a cheap certificate, and I found in this thread some cheap alternatives to Verisign certificates. Somewhere one the net I found comments that Microsoft only accepts Verisign certificates. Is this t...

how to make Device 3.1.3 not pass if(NSClassFromString(@"MPMoviePlayerViewController") != nil) this condition

when Run on Device 3.1.2, why it also pass if(NSClassFromString(@"MPMoviePlayerViewController") != nil) and do code of iOS4 then it will crash , how to fix this issues? if(NSClassFromString(@"MPMoviePlayerViewController") != nil) { // iOS 4 code NSLog(@"MPMoviePlayerViewController"); MPMoviePlayerVi...

Identifying unoficial Android devices

I might not like it, but the number of unofficial Android devices is growing and most of them have custom modifications to the Android OS or do not comply with the Android Compatibility Definition Document. For example, the aPad/iRobot has made changes to the way the system handles screen rotations and the Eken has a virtual Menu button...

Thread issue in Android

I'm making a simple 2d game for the android platform, which works perfectly from version 2.0 and above, but when testing it on a 1.6 device, it crashes immediately. On running the debugger, it seems that I'm getting a null pointer exception in the thread class. I was just wondering if anybody has any ideas as to where the problem might b...

git svn rebase resulted in byte order is not compatible error

Following is the error I am getting when I tried 'git svn rebase': Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into ../../lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/Memoize/Storable.pm line 21 The version of perl I am running is: $ perl --version This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cyg...

is it ok to use different css files for different browsers and load it accordingly

I am getting rid of browser compatibilty issues. so i come up with idea to load the only css according to browser. So say if user uses IE then only styleIE.css get loaded if firefox styleFF get loaded and so on. my question is it correct method if not what care should taken to avoid this compatibilty issues. because when i solve issue...

How can I disable plugin version compatibility checking in Eclipse?

Hi all, When I try to install Eclipse plugins, I often get an error with details like: An error occurred while collecting items to be installed No repository found containing: org.eclipse.equinox.concurrent/osgi.bundle/1.0.0.v20090520-1800 This is clearly a bug in Eclipse. The bundle I'm installing doesn't need any special...

Code compatibility with browsers

How to check whether my code is compatible with all browsers or not? ...

Issues with screen sizes and activity rendering

I'm currently developing my first android app, and my first game. I've been developing on a netbook with a CliqXT (HVGA). Things are going well, it renders perfectly on the smaller screen. I knew I'd have some issues when rendering on larger screens, but the issues I'm having are not what I was expecting and I'm kind of stuck. So b...

Are all Smalltalk implementations compatible?

I'm newbie on Smalltalk. I'm going to try Seaside framework. And Pharo seems best suitable choice for this. My plan is developing on Mac OS X, servicing on BSD. However, there is no BSD port of Pharo yet, but there are some other Smalltalk ports like Squeak. But I'm afraid of any kind of incompatibility. So I'm asking any kind of incomp...

Kohana3: compatibility between versions

Hi there, I would like to know about the compatibility between upcoming versions of KO3. I have heard that once 3.1 comes in, it won't be easy to simply upgrade to it from kohana 3.0 (Wordpress upgrade is pretty swift from 2 to version 3) If I create my project in KO3 (currently using 3.0.6.2), what are the chances that my project will...

Why does the browser go crazy when I write things like <div/>?

I mean, aren't <div/> and <div></div> supposed to be exactly the same thing? By browser I mean the latest Firefox and Internet Explorer. And by go crazy I mean ignore styles of tags that contain the <div/>. ...

How to make 64 bit dll compatible with 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows XP?

I have compiled a dll on Windows Server 2008 64 bit edition. It works fine on that version of Windows, but if I switch to Windows 7 or XP 64 bit edition the dll does not work. How can I make the dll compatible with all three versions of 64bit edition windows? I am using Visual Studio 2010. ...

Tool to determine .NET assembly framework dependencies

I'm looking for a tool that can tell me what frameworks a .NET assembly will work under. Or more specifically, what BCL (base class libraries) versions the methods within it requires. What triggered me was this: Today I got a bug-report against an application we're making that basically said: "you're using WaitOne(Int32) but that only w...

How can my .so find its dependent .so in different Ubuntu version?

Hi Everyone? I have one libA.so. It is used by JNI method. And I have two different version of Ubuntu. One is Ubuntu 8.04 and the other is Ubuntu 9.10. libA.so has a dependency. libA.so depends on libB.so and libB.so depends on libC.so. ie. libA.so -> libB.so -> libC.so (Actually libB.so and libC.so are related with GTK) The li...

Facebook videos and iPad compatibility

Hi, I am developing an iPad application using Facebook Query Language. We can get the list of videos of an user along with its meta data by querying the table "video". The meta data of the video are: video id, title, description, src, src_hq etc. Now, I want to play the Facebook video in my iPad using the URL given in the field src/sr...

Automating compatibility testing against many programs

Short version: What's the best way to automate compatibility testing against a large number of third-party programs? The details: I develop a program whose core feature is interacting with a variety of different pieces of music player software via their respective RPC interfaces. The RPC itself typically happens either via D-Bus or vi...

XSD Namespace backword compatibility

Hello All, We are struggling with some namespace compatibility issues. Currently we store some external data in our database as XML files with namespace as xmlns="http://xyz.com/prodresponse/v2", recently the vendor has changed the namesspace to xmlns="http://xyz.com/prodresponse/v4". The issue is we need to deal with both old and new ...