I'm currently in the process of adding the ability for users to extend the functionality of my desktop application (C++) using plugins scripted in python. The naive method is easy enough. Embed the python static library and follow any number of the dozens of tutorials scattered around the web describing how to initialize and call python...
Hi all i have main form with a treeview control with a set of files displayed under each node. If i had my mouse over that node i will read the values that are present in the text file by using the following code private void treeViewACH_NodeMouseHover(object sender, TreeNodeMouseHoverEventArgs e) { string strFile = string....
Hi all i will have some file name to be saved with the name i choose . Like when i click on save on my form i will show a save dialog option and on the file name of that window i would like to have the filename of my own like some or other name and when he clicks on save i would like to save that file... ANy idea.. Actually i have writ...
I am making a desktop music app. I want to make an option for user where he can choose to change the status of the currently running IM client something like "listening bla bla ". I can make it limited to popular clients only. But i have not idea how can i do it. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Edit: Making it in Adobe-Air html...
I have a desktop application which reads files from a specified folder, then deposits the files to a folder in a third party document management system based on criteria that the user provides. My question is: is it possible to somehow provide different parameters to the code, depending on which shortcut of the application the user cli...
from your experience, why do you think it's better to choose the web as a platform for such application? ...
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Is is possible for an Azure application to offer a service to end-users for carrying out long-running computation tasks that are going to be distributed over multiple Workers (with persistent storage)? And would it be possible to provide this through a web-service that is accessed by a desktop .Net application (the View) or do you alway...
I would like to develop a cross platform application, i'm not sure which is best to use for a desktop application Microsoft Silverlight Adobe Air Java? (don't want to do this) Firefox Add-On? ...
I want to use Ninject in my Windows application and I want to know if there is best practices that I can do; strategies to find a balance between performance and maintenance. The problem with Windows application and Web application is that in Web application, there is a scope easy to define that is the context but with Windows applicati...
Hi there, I have to make an application that will do the following: Open a video file embedded in the application Open some pdf files, preferably embedded in the application, but if it will have to open externally, it's no problem. Work in fullscreen on the user computer, with a minimal resolution of 1024x768. I'm thinking in make the...
I saw this Silverlight application that works inside the browser but if you clicked Install it will be downloaded on your machine and runs as Desktop Application how this can be done !! http://os75.com/apps/Translator.html ...
What are the benefits of choosing either: a file in the user's home directory, e.g. ~/.myapp/config using the user's gconf database I already know a couple of things; storing data in the user's gconf database makes it a little harder for the user to copy those settings out and onto another account or computer. On the other hand, is i...
Suppose I develop an application with the logic as a CLI program that can be compiled to various platforms. To add a GUI, I could develop native versions separately for each platform or I could use a cross-platform tool like Tcl/Tk, wxLua, or PyGTK. Some people, like Bruce Eckel and James Ward, promote Flash/Flex on Adobe AIR for this. ...
Hi guys, I am being asked to write a desktop application in .net and MSSQL for record keeping. I do have to build forms for keeping records printed in 15 pages or more related to single person. I am fine with seperating data layer and presentation layer. For future i am planning now. My client is gonna ask to make it live [web based] ...
Hi, I need to make a web app that I would be able to install as a desktop application on a client PC (database, jetty+war, firefox/chrome/sth portable). The application is a quite big search app (I MUST use Lucene). There are only few screens, some dependencies in search queue, etc. Now I need help in choosing correct components. A...
I made a desktop music application in adobe air. I want to update the status of some IM clients running EG: Yahoo messenger,Gtalk,AIM,MSN etc. with the current playing song. I am not desktop developer.This is first time i am making something for desktop. SO is there any way in any Programming language that i can make something which wi...
I built a vb.net desktop application. it works beautifuuly on my pc. I created an installer and gave it to a co-worker to run. The program does not work. Question: How can I figure out which .net components i need to provide along with my application? Thanks ...
I have just starting learning the MVC pattern today (for gui applications, not web), and have a few questions on where data validation should take place. From what i have read, it seems like most people are saying that all the validations should take place on the controller, and the model should pretty much only hold the state of the da...
I did a notifier app in C# that sits on the taskbar and display a balloon when i get something from it, similar to Google Talk when you receive a new email but at the momment it ignores if i am running an application on fullscreen or not and just do it is job. How can i detect and make sure an application is in fullscreen mode ? I dont ...