What I need is to instruct OS to open the file with the default program used for that file type. Exactly as if, i.e., that file was double-clicked by user under Windows. The purpose is, i.e., "your PDF file was generated. Click here to open it". In platform-independent way, if possible... I dont know exact terms for what I want, so if...
Specifically, this is for a .NET 2.0 desktop application. Currently we require the user to manually go through the update process via our website. What are the best ways of doing a silent or automatic upgrade of the client behind the scenes? Thanks! ...
I would like to develop a web conferencing system (or web classroom) as a graduation project using Silverlight similar to iVocalize which is a java applete . I don't know if what is possible for a java applete to perform on the PC is also possible for Silverlight, or is SL more restricted. There are two functionalities (which are r...
When we use Desktop.browse method to open a url in Internet Explorer, then it overrides the current web page in the browser. Hence if user was doing anything critical in current page in browser, then its all lost. This does not happen in IE8 and firefox. But the problem is there in IE6. Has anybody found a fix for this problem in IE6. ...
I tried to paint on my windows desktop using GetDesktopWindow(). But i failed because desktop repaints itself rapidly and my painting doesn't appear. So I need to replace my desktop window obtained by GetDesktopWindow() with ownerdraw application window Can anyone has an idea, how to do this ? Thanks in advance, Milan ...
Hi, i'm developing a .net winforms desktop application intended to be run at several bank's branches as a backup application whenever the main one (a web application) is unavailable due to connection issues with the bank's central node. The branchs themselves don't count with any enterprise services besides a SQL-Server database. For tha...
Sorry if this is a fundamental question and I'm just stupid :) I am building a sidebar application, it uses System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea to set the appropriate widths and heights and locations. I want to now reduce the working area of the desktop so that when forms maximise, the sidebar is still shown (in the ...
I have an interesting situation and here it is: My intention is to access a computer/desktop remotely, but there are some constraints. There are 2 machines. MC1 & MC2 respectively. Both of different networks. MC1 is behind a NAT. its has local IP addressing 192.168.x.x. MC2 is on a separate network. MC1 can access MC2 using its (MC2s)...
What solutions exist to persist data, without requiring a full-blown enterprise server? I am fairly new to Java. At uni the whole curriculum was based on Java, so I coded a bit already. But it never went into depth with the available frameworks. The only way we actually touched on persistens was using "vanilla" JDBC connections. I've do...
I need to find out default file opener for a given file on Windows so that I can customize the command arguments and open the file with the default opener/viewer. My real usage scenario is opening multiple multimedia files with user's default media player so that all the files will be added to user's playlist (For the players that can o...
i want to write a java rmi application which the server has the ability to share its desktop between several clients. what is its main method to share desktop? is there any where that i find a good sample code for this application? ...
Awhile ago i read about adobe coming out with an AIR app for Buzzword. I searched google and the most recent updates I can find about it are all the way back in 2008, which is REALLY strange, and I can't find a download ANYWHERE. Does anyone know what happened? Is there an AIR app for Buzzword? Or... ? ...
Hi all, I never do any windows programming. I also have no idea how I would start this project. Hoping I could get some high level steps. Problem: I have many versions of source on my computer. Each one may have a different description and a different state. I always get confused which one is in which state. I'd like it if I could...
Hi, I've been asked to write a cross-platform desktop app in Java. Targeted platforms are Windows/OSX/Linux. I learned Java 1.1 1997, and did a few small utilities and applets using the the AWT library. I've done nothing with it since. What modern technologies and libraries should I use for this project? I'm just looking for a li...
I am looking for Growl-like, Windows balloon-tip-like notifications library in Python. Imagine writing code like: >>> import desktopnotifier as dn >>> dn.notify('Title', 'Long description goes here') .. and that would notify with corresponding tooltips on Mac, Windows and Linux. Does such a library exist? If not, how would I go about ...
Hi, Just want to wrap a page inside a desktop window on Windows, Linux and Mac. The user see standard (for the given OS) look (window, close/minimise buttons etc). But it would basically just be a browser inside that window. Additional things I want to achieve (apart from the ones every browser has): Application should be able to r...
If you have a Java desktop application, what is the best way to store window-related settings like window position, window state (maximized, ...), ... Thanks! ...
I am currently experimenting with JPA in a desktop application, while using BeansBinding to make the GUI development easier. So far the results are quite good. As an example application I have a small DB with only one table. I successfully created the entity, the PU. Next I dropped a JTable into the main JFrame and bound it's columns to...
Is there an hosted example code (Javascript) that demonstrates Chrome desktop notifications? I'd like that use that in my own code. Update: Here's a blog post explaining webkit notifications with an example. ...
Hello everybody, i was wondering if somebody could help me out. I have a plan of making clone of geek tools for linux. But i have no idea if you can somehow use linux desktop as canvas for drawing text etc. I tried to google it up but i found nothing. What i need to do is basically be able to draw text on certain parts of desktop so it ...