desktop-application

PHP GTK on how to use

I have no knowledge on desktop applications, but I have a project in our school desktop application and only I know is to make websites using php, javascript, css and etc. I heard about PHP GTK and I already read many articles and tutorial for windows. But still, I didn't understand on how can I start developing a PHPGTK desktop applicat...

Where should a WinForm app keep its logs?

I am working on a WinForm application, that allows working to work with "projects" (think about the application as Visual Studio, and projects as VS Solutions). My question is - where should the application keep its logging files? Some requirements include: the application might not be running as an administrator (so saving in the %P...

how to write a logical n-tier windows desktop application for both a physical 1-tier AND physical 3-tier deployment?

Hi - I'm working on a unique windows desktop application that requires both a standalone and distributed deployment mode. In standalone mode the entire program will run on a single desktop machine. In distributed mode there will be several thin clients running on desktop machines that will communicate with an app server (IIS) and databa...

How to deploy upgrade of desktop application from Visual Studio 2010.

I work on a desktop application and I send frequent betas to testers using deployment projects from Visual Studio 2010. I increase the minor version number each time. My testers are annoyed because they have to uninstall the previous version before they can install the new one. Is it possible to install a new version without uninstalli...

How to hide desk top icons using c#.net

Hi, I want to hide the desktop icons, am able to do with following code but the problem is if i press windows+D keys and try to hide the desktop icons, it is not happening. Can you please help on this? [DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow); [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)] sta...

Desktop Application using titanium

Is titanium desktop application supports PHP and mysql? or using an ajax? Should I use xampp to do this? or any suggestions you have.Thank you very much ...

Getting Icons for File Extensions in Adobe Air

I'm working on an Adobe Air Desktop App ATM. My question is how to get the icon for a given file extension, but without actually loading up a file of such type. I had the idea to just create a blank file for the extension and then delete it once i have the bitmap for its icon, but that seemed like too much trouble and kinda inefficient...

C# vs Adobe Air for desktop application

Okay, sorry if I'm a bit vague or little specific. First of all, I'm really new to the business of programming and that kind of things, so excuse my non-knowledge of much of this. :) Anyways; I've been reading a lot around on the internet on what technology to use and so forth when it comes to application development on the desktop (mai...

FullScreen in the Background

Im curious if their is a way to make a windows application ( in c# or any language really ) run in fullscreen in the background. But still allow other applications to run on top of it without losing the fullscreen view. Any leads would be appreciated. Edit: Unmarked the answer to see what else i could get. While the original was helpf...

Extra Space when Air Application is Maximized

I have an air desktop app im working on, and i have a custom chrome used for the title bar and such. However, when i maximize the application, theres always some space above the applications as if i were using the standard system chrome. And i can tell because i can just see the title bar of an app behind it, but none of that applicatio...

I want to Authenticate in a Web Application & use the Same Credentials for Desktop Application. How do I do that ?

I want to invoke a Desktop Application. Before invoking that Desktop App the user should login to the Web Application & the same credentials to be used in Desktop App. The Web Application is ASP.NET & Desktop App is a SWING based Java Application. Is it possible to authenticate in that case ? ...

upload docs and web pages using drag and drop interface using python desktop app.

hi friends, i have desktop interface in python which uses drag and drop and where users can login. right now if i drop a file it will be stored in local directory. now what i want is, i want to upload user dropeed file to remote web server. can anybody help me in direction ? i have been exploring python's ftp library's and everything i ...

saving running instance in netbeans

I've created a application in Netbeans IDE 6.9. I want to save my running application. I actually select various things in my applications. I want that if I run my application again then those things should be selected. I want to save the running instance of my application. Can anyone help me with this? -Thanks in advance ...

Display window no matter desktop state

What would I have to do to make a web page be displayed no matter the status of the desktop including logged on/off or locked? The web page in question is a javascript banner for an alert system. It works fine if the user is logged on right now, but I want it to display no matter what. Would making it a service work? ...

What's is the Better option for multi-platform environment

Hi In my company we want to make a desktop software, but we want to create the better experience in the most common platforms (Windows(XP/VISTA/7), Linux and MacOs (And iOS) and several smartphones (android, webOS, windows mobile) We have studied 3 options 1.- .Net, 2.- Java, 3.- C++ with Qt We discarded .Net because we don't like the...

Swing, Eclipse RCP or which way to go?

Hi there, I'm a developing primary Java webapplications at work. I would like to start creating a little java desktop app. It should be a simple CRUD app with database connection, 2 - 3 forms and a smart stats page. To be honest: I'm kinda lost in this topic. I've took some time to guide through swing but the tutorials are all old and m...

Disappearing System Tray icons

Im creating a system tray application in visual studio 2010, using C#. When the application starts i create my thread and a system tray icon. THe icon shows, however whenever i mouse over the icon, it disappears ( the application is still running ), and even if i click the button to show all hidden icons, it doesnt display. However, if...

Show user information on mousehover

Hi, On Mouse-over i wish to show user information such as User Id, User Name, User Location, User Age etc. All this info would be coming from database. As well, this information would be in a rectangular block that would actually come-up on Mouse-over. I am aware that JavaScript could be use to show div (in mouse-over) but don't know h...

Control website via desktop application

Is it possible for a desktop application to communicate with a javascript API that will affect the user's browser? For example, I would like to call a JS API of a web service even if the browser is not in focus. The user can select various functions from within the desktop application and it will take effect in the browser. thanks ...

How to select specific button by value? instead of ID - Windows Form Application

I'm trying to make an Aduto-Forum poster with VB.NET windows form application This is the page, http://www.inviteshare.com/community/viewforum.php?id=9 First I'm trying to log-in automatically I insert username & pass but I can't click the Login button because there are 2 buttons with the same ID on the page. ( input type="image" name="...