How would I go about generating a list of all possible permutations of a string between x and y characters in length, containing a variable list of characters. Any language would work but it should be portable....
I'm developing some cross platform software targeting Mono under Visual Studio and would like to be able to build the installers for Windows and Linux (Ubuntu specifically) with a single button click. I figure I could do it by calling cygwin from a post-build event, but I was hoping for at best a Visual Studio plugin or at worst a more W...
Hi. I'm looking for a tool which can generate makefile for a C/C++ project for different compilers (gcc, microsoft vc++, borland etc) and different platforms (Win, Linux, Mac). ...
Is it in best interests of the software development industry for one framework, browser or language to win the war and become the de facto standard? On one side it takes away the challenges of cross platform, but it opens it up for a single point of failure. Would it also result in a stagnation of innovation, or would it allow the indu...
What is the best mac based or even better cross platform UML Application available both costed and opensource / freeware? ...
I'd like to be able to track file read/writes of specific program invocations. No information about the actual transactions is required, just the file names involved. Is there a cross platform solution to this? What are various platform specific methods? On linux I know there's strace/ptrace (if there are faster methods that'd be goo...
Is there a way to shutdown a computer using a built-in Java method? ...
On Windows I can do: HANDLE hProcess = GetCurrentProcess(); FILETIME ftCreation, ftExit, ftKernel, ftUser; GetProcessTimes(hProcess, &ftCreation, &ftExit, &ftKernel, &ftUser); SYSTEMTIME stKernel; FileTimeToSystemTime(&ftKernel, &stKernel); SYSTEMTIME stUser; FileTimeToSystemTime(&ftUser, &stUser); printf("Time in kernel mode = %uh...
On Windows I can do: HANDLE hCurrentProcess = GetCurrentProcess(); SetPriorityClass(hCurrentProcess, ABOVE_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS); How can I do the same thing on *nix? ...
I am sketching the architecture for a set of programs that share various interrelated objects stored in a database. I want one of the programs to act as a service which provides a higher level interface for operations on these objects, and the other programs to access the objects through that service. I am currently aiming for Python an...
I have a very large code base that contains extensive unit tests (using CppUnit). I need to work out what percentage of the code is exercised by these tests, and (ideally) generate some sort of report that tells me on a per-library or per-file basis, how much of the code was exercised. Here's the kicker: this has to run completely unnat...
On my side job as programmer, I am to write a program in C++ to convert audio files from/to various formats. Probably, this will involve building a simple GUI. Will it be a great effort to build seperate GUIs for Mac and Windows using Cocoa and WinForms instead of a cross-platform toolkit like Qt or GTK? (I will have to maintain a seper...
In another question I posted yesterday, I got very good advice on how a Python script could be run as a service in Windows. What I'm left wondering is: How is Windows aware of the services that can be managed in the native tools ("services" window in "administrative tools"). I. e. what is the Windows equivalent of putting a start/stop sc...
What things should be kept most in mind when writing cross-platform applications in C? Targeted platforms: 32-bit Intel based PC, Mac, and Linux. I'm especially looking for the type of versatility that Jungle Disk has in their USB desktop edition ( http://www.jungledisk.com/desktop/download.aspx ) What are tips and "gotchas" for this ty...
Because Linux (and its variants) have a completely different set of fonts than Windows and Mac OS X, is there anyone with any experience of creating cross-platform font families - ideally finding equivalents to the common fonts found on the aforementioned operating systems? If so, what is the best route to take? ...
I was wondering if there is a more up to date alternative to libFoundation (which hasn't been updated since 2001) to develop modern cross-platform Obj-C applications. I don't need appKit features, only Foundation is needed. I know about GNUStep, but I've only heard bad things about it. The Cocotron seems nice, but doesn't seem like it ...
I'm working on porting a Visual C++ application to GCC (should build on MingW and Linux). The existing code uses __try { ... } __except(1) { ... } blocks in a few places so that almost nothing (short of maybe out of memory type errors?) would make the program exit without doing some minimal logging. What are the options for doing somet...
I write tools that are used in a shared workspace. Since there are multiple OS's working in this space, we generally use Python and standardize the version that is installed across machines. However, if I wanted to write some things in C, I was wondering if maybe I could have the application wrapped in a Python script, that detected the ...
What is the easiest way to create and verify PGP/GPG signatures from within a Python application? I can call pgp or gpg using subprocess and parse the output, but I was looking for a way that didn't require an external program to be installed (my application is cross-platform mac/windows/unix). ...
I want to open a folder window, in the appropriate file manager, from within a cross-platform (windows/mac/linux) Python application. On OSX, I can open a window in the finder with os.system('open "%s"' % foldername) and on Windows with os.startfile(foldername) What about unix/linux? Is there a standard way to do this or do I have...