I'd like to mark a method as deprecated, so the people using it can easily check their code and catch up. In Java you set @Deprecated and everybody knows what this means. So is there a preferred way (or even tools) to mark and check for deprecations in Ruby? ...
Everytime I run rake or most rails commands, I get an annoying warning. I'm still a beginner with Ruby/Rails, and I would like advice on how to hack boot.rb to stop the annoying warning. I'm using Rails 1.2.6 and RubyGems 1.3.1. (I haven't upgraded Rails to 2.x because I'm still learning Rails from a book that uses 1.2.x.) I'm gratef...
I have at least 10 books that are now ‘deprecated’, for example Pro Spring covering Spring 1.2. Is there something better to do than to throw them away? What do you do with your ‘deprecated’ books? From now on I try not to buy books about a given version of a given product so I hope the books I buy will not be deprecated too soon… ...
I know that it's deprecated, and has been for a long time. However, I have a C++ browser plugin that still uses QuickDraw, and it isn't updating correctly. When I push a button, or scroll, it often won't do anything until some other event forces the screen to re-draw. I've traced through, and I'm drawing at the right time, and doing a QD...
Hi there, Somewhere back in time i did some C and C++ in college, but I didn't get to many attention to C++. Now I wish to pay some attention to C++ but when I'm using getch() function, i get the warning from below. Warning C4996: 'getch': The POSIX name for this item is deprecated. Instead, use the ISO C++ conformant name: _getch. Se...
I have been using ext::hash_map in a C++ project and notice that in g++ 4.3 it is deprecated in favor of unordered_map. I need to maintain compatibility with old systems that do not have unordered_map available. It occurs to me that this is just the sort of thing that could be handled by autoconf, which I am already using. I have been...
Does the Sun compiler have a notation to mark functions as deprecated, like GCC's __attribute__ ((deprecated)) or MSVC's __declspec(deprecated)? ...
I'm porting some code to Windows, and the Microsoft compiler (Visual C++ 8) is telling me that strerror() is unsafe. Putting aside the annoyance factor in all the safe string stuff from Microsoft, I can actually see that some of the deprecated functions are dangerous. But I can't understand what could be wrong with strerror(). It takes ...
In the mold of a previous question I asked about the so-called safe library deprecations, I find myself similarly bemused as to why fopen() should be deprecated. The function takes two C strings, and returns a FILE* ptr, or NULL on failure. Where are the thread-safety problems / string overrun problems? Or is it something else? Thanks ...
I've seen decorators that let you mark a function a deprecated so that a warning is given whenever that function is used. I'd like to do the same thing but for a global variable, but I can't think of a way to detect global variable accesses. I know about the globals() function, and I could check its contents, but that would just tell me ...
Once a method is marked as deprecated, are there any tools which replace these methods with non-deprecated workarounds ? ...
Code in the book Beginning iPhone Development (by Dave Mark & Jeff LaMarche) assigns to the UITableViewCell text property: UITableViewCell *cell = ... ... cell.text = ... This assignment brings up a "'setText' is deprecated..." warning. What should I use as an alternative? Also, how do I open the long URL in the warning (in Xcode) w...
Is there any magic tools i can use to scan source code that was written for PHP4 to highlight deprecated functions in PHP5? I'm currently running the latest version of PHP on a server and need to port this code. Is there anything out there that can give me a hand? ...
Hi, I have heard that using blinking text in a page to get user's attention is not a good practice. What is the alternative for that? ...
Consider the following simplified interface inheritence hierarchy: // Starting point: public interface Base { void Foo(); } public interface Derived extends Base { } It is intended to move the Foo method from the Base interface to the Derived interface: // Desired end-point: public interface Base { } public interface Derived ex...
I followed a great tutorial (http://iphone.zcentric.com/2008/08/28/using-a-uiimagepickercontroller/) on using a UIImagePickerController to get images from the Photo Album or Camera on the iPhone. The problem is, the tutorial is a bit dated and documentation cites a method used by the delegate as being depreciated since 3.0. The problem i...
I am building a twitter application that is currently using the classic login instead of OAuth. Does Twitter have any plans of deprecating this? I chose not to do OAuth because it is still being piloted as a beta. ...
I'm just curious to know why mime_content_type() is now considered deprecated. This method for determining the mime type is much easier than the replacement Fileinfo functionality. ...
For Java programming, what are some benefits of using the @Deprecated notation on and interface method but not on the class that implements it? public interface Joe { @Deprecated public void doSomething(); ... } public final class Joseph implements Joe { public void doSomething() { ... } ... } ...
I'm having some trouble getting CGColorGetConstantColor() to work on the iPhone. Apple's documentation claims you can pass any of the "Constant Colors" without linking to what the Constant Colors actually are, so I assumed you can simply use those documented for OS X: CGColorRef blackColor = CGColorGetConstantColor(kCGColorBlack); Thi...