I recently added RocketDock to my computer and love it. It simulates the dock functionality from OS X. I want to add this docking/hiding feature to one of my C# programs. How do I program the ability to hide and show the dock when I roll over a certain space on my desk top? I understand this may be pretty difficult so just a nudge ...
I am a web and mobile application developer and I prefer to use MVC frameworks for development. I have just started to a desktop application (in C#). Application development is not a problem. I had written various desktop application before but they were for personal use or for small companies. Is there a good open source project that I...
I'm extending a QPlainTextEdit. When I double click on a word containing a pipe char ex : {"foo"|upper|reverse} the whole text is surrounded. I'd like to exclude the pipe char "|" from the selection and don't know what to do Is there a way to change the behavior of QTextCursor::WordUnderCursor? I'd like that char to act the same as a ...
Greetings, With all the existing development towards web development and emerging technologies in that area, I'm left wondering; what is a state of the art way to implement desktop applications in this day and age? If you were to start a new application of considerable size from scratch what technology would you invest your efforts in (...
Hi everyone, I've been researching about building desktop application with JavaFX framework. Does anyone have any good or bad experience that can tell us? Is Oracle committed to JavaFX? Thanks. ...
I would like eventual interaction with MS Dynamics SL and/or MindTouch Core (running on WMware) for eventual intranet and/or internet display. ...
I'm very new to web development, have many years background on the desktop, but nothing on web, only html. I want to make a simple dynamic webpage for a product I've been working on by myself, but I don't know which of the two, MVC or WebForms, would be easier for me. The lessons at asp.net didn't help me much, I took the "first step" t...
I have been writing a WPF DESKTOP application using NHibernate, WPF, Prism and Unity Container but have a problem in terms of Session Management in Services / Repositories and how to do it cleanly through dependency injection using Unity. Having read Building A Desktop To Do-Application With NHibernate I now have a Session Per ViewModel...
I'm writing a WPF NHibernate Desktop App using Session Per Presenter. I have a list view showing all the saved SalesOrders and an Edit Sales Order form when you double click on a Sales Order. Each of these forms has a Session Object which lasts for the lifetime of the form. When a SalesOrder is saved it publishes an Event which tells th...
Hi Stack Overflow! I've seen a few questions asked here about Adobe AIR, although an overall viability review is hard to find (both here and on Google). Some questions that could contribute to such a review: Is Adobe AIR the best cross-OS-compatible, browser-less runtime for RIAs? What are drawbacks unique to AIR? What are positives...
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? ...
I'd like to get and set the desktop icons sizes in Windows Vista and 7 - now the desktop allows to resize the icons dinamically with Ctrl-MouseWheel and I'd like to do it using C#. Yes, I can send the WM_MOUSEWHEEL message to the desktop listview handle, but that has two disadvantages: I don't have the current size, so I must send the ...
I've been doing web programming for a few years and not really done much desktop GUI programming except for a couple very small command line things. I would like to learn more about it just for the sake of learning but I'm not really sure where to start. The two main "camps" seem to be Java and .Net but I imagine there are others as well...
Is there anything I can use to have PHP execute in a self contained environment without having to install server software? haven't learned other languages :-( I wanted to write a simple php/XML webapp that can be used on a desktop machine with no admin rights. It's for daily data entry stuff myself and others have to do when certain ta...