Hi. I'm writing a cross-platform Qt-based program that from time to time needs to play back audio supplied externally (outside my control) as raw PCM. The exact format is 16 bit little-endian PCM at various common sample rates. My first obvious idea was to use Qt's own Phonon for audio playback, but there are two problems with this appr...
I would like it to run on Linux, OS X, and Windows (XP/Vista/7). Thanks for any input. ...
I'm trying to write a small gui app in pygtk which needs an html-rendering widget. I'd like to be able to use it in a windows environment. Currently I'm using pywebkitgtk on my GNU/Linux system, and it works extremely well, but it seems it's not possible to use this on Windows at this time. Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to...
I keep getting myself in knots when I am manipulation paths and file names, because I don't have a common naming system that I use. I need to come up with a naming standard and stick to it, and I would like to be clear and consistent with others, so I am opening up to learn the canonical answers. Consider this toy problem: (Windows exa...
I have a need to make my data part of the machine's file system. In windows it seems I have 3 options: Eldos' "Callback File System" (http://www.eldos.com/cbfs/) Dokan (dokan-dev.net) Pismo File Mount (http://www.pismotechnic.com/pfm/) Of these 3 option 1 (Eldos) is by far the best looking option. But ideally I would like to get a...
I am familiar with the Netbeans IDE, but I want to know about people's experience with using Netbeans as a development platform (i.e. using its prebuilt modules for fast gui development). I have a program that I want to write, and I am thinking about using this platform. ...
I am looking for Growl-like, Windows balloon-tip-like notifications library in Python. Imagine writing code like: >>> import desktopnotifier as dn >>> dn.notify('Title', 'Long description goes here') .. and that would notify with corresponding tooltips on Mac, Windows and Linux. Does such a library exist? If not, how would I go about ...
Hi, Just want to wrap a page inside a desktop window on Windows, Linux and Mac. The user see standard (for the given OS) look (window, close/minimise buttons etc). But it would basically just be a browser inside that window. Additional things I want to achieve (apart from the ones every browser has): Application should be able to r...
I've recently released a cross platform Java application. For distribution we created a NSIS installer for Windows and used a DMG for Mac (that has JarBundled .app file). We also plan on creating Linux RPMs, DEBs and tarballs. In total that's 5 different distribution methods to look after. My question is: What is the best cross-platf...
I would like to have my Python program run in the background as a daemon, on either Windows or Unix. I see that the python-daemon package is for Unix only; is there an alternative for cross platform? If possible, I would like to keep the code as simple as I can. ...
Hi, I don't want to build the Thunderbird functionality. I just want to build a project with plug-in features, cross platform, and easy to install. Is there any document which point to the development of Firefox or Thunderbird? I know the Thunderbird is build in C++, then how can i get these kind of graphics and all other function. P...
Is there any pros to use HTML 5 doctype <!DOCTYPE html> even if i'm not using any new HTML 5 tag? Is there any benefit to replace XHTML doctype with HTML 5 doctype even if i'm not using any new HTML 5 tag? or in new projects which i'm going to start? or it can create problems in any type of functionality if i 'm using any thing XML rel...
I want to create a program. Part of its gui is similar to mindmapping or yahoo-pipes (you got the idea). And I want to be able to port this program to Windows, Linux and Android (don't really care about Macs). So can you help me to choose a cross-platform library for drawing and operating such GUI? I haven't chosen the language yet. I ...
Hi, I have a Bluetooth service that I programmed for .Net on a Windows machine and I would like my Android 2.1 phone to connect to it. The server is listening for the same UUID which the Android is using to connect. But the connection is failing. When I try to connect to devices that are not listening for that UUID, I get an exception w...
Does anyone know of any UI automation cross-platform (Windows and Mac OS X) open source APIs/frameworks available for automating external GUI applications from inside a separate application programmatically? Through searching, I've found a couple commercial cross-platform UI automation products, but obviously they wouldn't allow embeddi...
Do you know how strong VLIW architectures support exists in GCC compiler infrastructure? I know that there are some VLIW architectures supported by GCC. Looking at them, it seems that the pipeline optimizations are left to another optimization layer. Are there good (not GCC internals doc) materials on this? ...
It may sound like a lot, but I am looking for a language that is cross platform that I can compile into a single stand alone exe. The source code needs to be secure (Not just hidden) and have some sort of gui toolkit. Do any exist? ...
I'm trying to code up an Emacs script that has to manipulate the clipboard (just getting the last entry and manipulating it as a string). The problem is that I work on Linux (at home) and Windows (at work). In Windows, I have to use the function (w32-get-clipboard-data), whereas Linux uses (x-get-clipboard) for the same purpose (and each...
Is there any difference in C that is written in Windows and Unix. I teach C as well as C++ but some of my students have come back saying some of the sample programs does not run for them in Unix. Unix is alien for me. Unfortunately no experience with it whatsoever. All i know is to spell it. If there are any differences then i should be ...
Is there a cross-platform network library for the iPhone? Is ACE available for the iPhone? I would like the networking library to be available for iPhoneOS, OS X, Windows (XP, Vista, and Win7 would be nice but at least XP), Android, and Blackberry. ...