Hi! When I plug my HP Laserjet 3015, Windows detects the correct model and then tries to install the appropriate drivers. How can I detect the model of connected printer(s)? I don't want to use the list of installed printers because a Zebra printer can be installed with a Generic/Text only driver. I'm a Delphi and C# programmer, so an...
Is there a way (preferrably using JavaScript) to determine whether a URL is to a SWF or a JPG? The obvious answer is to sniff the filename for ".jpg" or ".swf" but I'm dealing with banners that are dynamically decided by the server and usually have a lot of parameters and generally don't include an extension. so i'm wondering if I co...
I would like to know how can I detect when the user attaches a removable drive on a computer ( in a Windows XP environment ) . There surely has to be a better way than constantly checking to see if the number of drives increased , right ? ...
Hi, I need to write a small program that can detect that it has been changed. Please give me a suggestion! Thank you. ...
There's this tech-festival in IIT-Bombay, India, where they're having an event called "Artbots" where we're supposed to design artbots with artistic abilities. I had an idea about a musical robot which takes a song as input, detects the notes in the song and plays it back on a piano. I need some method which will help me compute the pitc...
Is there any way to determine if a text file is currently open in a text editor? Or better yet, is there a way to trigger an event when a text file is opened (from any program)? ...
All I need is to be able to detect when text is dropped into a Textarea. I then take that text and do stuff with it and clear the textarea. There may be many of these textareas and very high UI expectations, so polling is a last resort. For IE, "onfocus" does the trick, since this event is fired after the user drops stuff into the tex...
Hello! I am trying to check how fast the Frame control can display a FixedPage object when it is assigned to Frame.Content property. I plan to check the tick count before and after the assignment to the Content property. Example: int starttime = Environment.TickCount; frame1.Content = fixedpage; int endtime = Environment.TickCount; ...
Is it possible to replace javascript w/ HTML if JavaScript is not enabled on the user's browser? I know I can use <noscript>this displays in place of javascript</noscript> That works fine, but it still runs the javascript. In theory I would want this: if javascript is enabled run javascript if javascript is not enabled don't r...
Anyone know of a way to programatically detect a parked web page? That is, those pages that you accidentally type in (or intentionally sometimes) and they are hosted by a domain parking service with nothing but ads on them. I am working on a linking network and want to make sure that sites that expire don't end up getting snatched by s...
Is there a way to detect the network speed and bandwidth usage in C#? Even pointers to open-source components are welcome. Thanks in advance. ...
Hi, I know that Ubuntu (and Fedora) uses Upstart istead of the classical System V init daemon (SysVinit). I would like to know how to detect when a USB-drive has been inserted, mount it and copy some files to it. I would like Upstart to call my own script for this. If it is possible I would like Upstart to call the script for a specifi...
I am looking to write a javascript function that will fire when a user submits a form, however I do not have edit access to the submit button so that I can add the onsubmit function. I am able to add a <script> tag, so if I can detect the submit, then I can execute my code. Anyone know how to do this? ...
I am currently working on a show listing website. I am going to display show information by location for the user sorted in a variety of different ways. I know I could ask the user where they are located when they first sign into the site, but I've seem to notice that many sites have this capability built-in to detect location automa...
I'm looking for the best (possible on most PHP 5.2 installs and still actively developed) way to detect a files MIME type in PHP. I'm aware of the mime_content_type() method and the Fileinfo extension, however mime_content_type() is unreliable and deprecated, and Fileinfo doesn't come in a "standard" PHP (5.2) install. Do I have any o...
I am not able to detect the keyboard event CTRL+V on a swf using AS3 in IE. It seems to trigger the default browser behavior, and im not able to do anything... Any workaround for this? ...
Hi I am hoping someone can help me to understand why I am getting varied results with some PHP code I have written to upload files to S3 then call an EC2 instance to perform actions on the uploaded file. Here is the order i do things - 1) use S3 class to put file $result = s3 -> putObjectFile($uploadDIR, $bucket, $name, S3::ACL) ...
In my application, the client is a Javascript set of functions in the browser, and it does some work - for example, playing a clip. It uses XmlHttpRequest to talk to the server. However, the server is allowed to abruptly close the connection since there is no other way it seems, to interrupt the client. Can the client detect, while it i...
There is a model property of the device, but it doesn't distinguish between iPhone and iPhone 3G. Is there a better way? ...
Thank you all for your help. A number of you posted (as I should have expected) answers indicating my whole approach was wrong, or that low-level code should never have to know whether or not it is running in a container. I would tend to agree. However, I'm dealing with a complex legacy application and do not have the option of doing a...