Is it possible to take focus from another program to respond to an event, but then once the response has been handled, switch back to the previous program and restore the cursor where it was? This sounds like a weird question, but think of it along the lines of User is typing in a text box in Program A. A window for Program B pops up ...
The Google Adsense Terms of Service explicitly forbids exposing Adsense links from desktop applications: (vi) directly or indirectly access, launch, and/or activate Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons through or from, or otherwise incorporate the Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons in, any software application...
I want to add a very very simple auto updater to my apps. I want to start with the simplest thing that'll work. Any suggestions of how to do this? Any suggestions of improvements (or an alternative) to the option below? Here's one option I'm considering. App displays a form that offers to check for a new version, with option to ...
I need to build an application which will run on OS X, polling for data, and displaying that data full-screen in a purty, graphical way - generally "identifier: value" text in some sort of tabular format, but possibly with spark-lines to display historical changes, and "animations" (nothing fancy, just fading text and similar) to show up...
I want desktop gadgets for my vista . If i go to any download gadgets site then asked cost. so tell me any free download site ? Do you know which technology based to create desktop gedgets ? . i want more information about gadets . anybody help me ...
I've been unsuccessful in trying to find an example how to get a sqlite data based flare visualization (swf) to run in Adobe AIR desktop application. Here is what I have: ProjectA: a flare visualization sample done in FlexBuilder based on a tutorial; ProjectB: a desktop AIR app that is able to retrieve data from sqlite based on a tuto...
In the designer.cs portion of the code, I simply made the combo boxes database driven (it previewed the data fine, so that works) but when I try to compile, it throws me a 2 unique errors: 1) Error 1 The type name 'mtdDesktopApplicationDataSet' does not exist in the type 'DesktopApplication.DesktopApplication' 2) Error 2 The type...
Friends, I saw a program(RAPGET) which downloads a file from RapidShare for the given link? I like to design a program like this which gets the information about weather-forecast from a web-page and it should display in the textbox in vb6? Help me to do this? ...
I was wondering if its possible to interact with other programs someone with my program. For example clicking a button on another program etc. etc. I'm not sure if this is even possible but if it is could someone provide a little sample code in C#. Thanks ...
If it's possible to implement an idea as a desktop app and as a web app, which way would you go? I'm a little biased here, as as a user I tend to prefer desktop apps over web apps, for the ability to access information quickly: no need to open a browser, no need to login, more responsive, tray integration, notifications, global hotkeys ...
I am trying to click a button on an application in the systray using WSH. Is this possible? Could somebody provide an example written in Jscript please? THANKS ...
I'm a bit confused about all this OAuth bruhaha in the sense that all the examples I can find are for web applications and none of them for desktop applications. I understand the Web application work flow, but that includes some redirections between the web app and twitter. How does one do this in an desktop application? How does the ...
I am currently researching new technologies for our company's development road map and saw that Silverlight 3 has the ability to install an application on the client's desktop. Is this feature a full or partial emulation of a WinForms application and does it provide the ability to access all or limited local resources on the client's co...
I come from a C/C++ background and now do a lot of C# stuff. Lately I have become interested in doing some projects in Java since playing around with the Android SDK. I know that Java apps run in a sandbox that can limit their access to the system. In a desktop/server application environment what kind of things are restricted? ...
I want an app's main window to ignore mouse and keyboard events, passing them to applications underneath it in the window manager Z-order. I see how to make child widgets ignore keyboard or mouse events, but how about the main window? I'm trying to make a desktop widget that always sits just over the background and is totally invisib...
Hello all im trying to figure away to be able to export/save user ( banch of files/htmls ) to one single self contained exe file . and i have no idea how to do it . i was thinking about using windows gcc port , but its GPL and my app is commercial. how do i approach to solve such thing ? Thanks ...
I'm wondering what strategies people are using to handle the creation and editing of an entity in a master-detail setup. (Our app is an internet-enabled desktop app.) Here's how we currently handle this: a form is created in a popup for the entity that needs to be edited, which we give a copy of the object. When the user clicks the "Can...
Hello everyone, This is my first post on Stack Overflow and I'm just wondering on the options of making a system tray application. The application would run primary from the system tray while still operating, and could be brought up into a window when clicked on. It is also needed to have some support for global keystroke tracking, to b...
Hi Experts, I am using thread which will receive messages from the external application.So my thread shud be alive always. I want my thread to be running through out the application, untill application exits. Currently i am calling my thread in program.cs, which is the startup for windows application c#. Please see the code below t...
Our C# client applications always take a much longer time to load on their first run. I haven't gone so far as to test if it is the first run of any .NET app that is slower, or if the first run of each .NET app is slower, but it remains a problem in any case. How can we eliminate this one-time startup hit? My initial thoughts are that...