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(Rails) How do I mimic Finder/Explorer views with contextual menus, etc?

Hi All, I'm looking for some quality techniques for mimicking a Finder (or "Explorer View"). Eventually I want to have treeviews, contextual menus, etc. I'm guessing there is going to be a good deal of Javascript, which is fine, I'm just curious as to whether there are quality existing helpers, etc for any of these things. The curren...

Batch file I wrote will not close automatically or on EXIT

I made this batch file to close explorer before launching Worms because for some reason my colors get messed up if I don't. The batch file works fine except that it doesn't close when it's finished. What did I do wrong? @echo off echo Closing explorer and launching worms taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe "C:\Games\Worms Armageddon - New Edit...

What could cause VS2008 to crash and then take explorer.exe with it?

This happens to me quite frequently...at least once every 1 or 2 weeks...and it is currently driving me insane. I can be working in VS2008 performing the most basic of tasks and the entire program will stop responding. After waiting quite a while the only option I find myself with is to open the Task Manager and end the devenv.exe proce...

How to get a fully qualified path to MS Explorer in .NET?

How to get a fully qualified path to MS Explorer in .NET? The path will be used to launch a new instance of MS Explorer with some command line parameters. ...

Force IE draw screen while completing a PHP call

Hi, I have a PHP app that sends emails via the mail command (around 200) and would like to display them on the screen as they are sent, but IE only refreshes the screen at the end of the process. Is there a way to display the list as we go along? Thanks! ...

Selection StartContainer in IE

I have a selection object where in IE, I run range = selection.createRange(); I then try to get the startContainer but am unable to figure out how. All examples show me SETTING the startContainer, but I am basing this off highlighting text. How do I know which element to set it to without getting it first? I know in FireFox it's as ...

pushing screen saver as wallpaper

var ScreenSaver:String; var handle:HWND; begin Handle := FindWindow('Progman', 'Program Manager'); Handle := FindWindowEx(Handle, 0, 'SHELLDLL_DefView', 0); Handle := FindWindowEx(Handle, 0,'SysListView32', 'FolderView'); ScreenSaver := 'C:\windows\system32\Mystify.scr /P' + InttoStr( Handle ); WinExec(pAnsichar(screensaver), SW_SHOWNor...

Weird IE7 Bug/Error

Hi all, I'm having some problems with a certain piece of code which sits in my site; this error only occurs in Internet Explorer 7. Rather than post all my HTML/CSS markup here I have put up a version of the site here. As you can see I have "Widgets" in columns, for some reason IE7 adds an extra space under the Widget Header while FF ...

Creating new mail (default client) from Java/Windows

I want to open the "new mail" view using the default mail client (i.e. open a new mail form in Outlook). But when I go String cmd = "explorer.exe \"mailto:[email protected]?subject="+ subject+"&body="+body+"\""; Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); the mail shows up, but I have a problem: explorer.exe brings up an Internet Explorer inst...

IE, Javascript and Reflow

Hello, I have a javascript function that changes the css display ('block', 'none') of a large number of dom nodes (>5000). I am trying to make this as fast as possible. Will IE interrupt javascript to reflow and paint the screen, or will it wait until the javascript engine returns control to the browser? I want to avoid any extra wor...

JQuery (maybe SWFObject) not doing what it's supposed to in IE 7.0.5730.13 or 8.0.6001.18702 or 8.0.7100.0, but works in 7.0.5730.11

Hi guys, I have a website that has jQuery and SWFObject running on it. When the page loads, it sets a 2 second timeout then triggers an SWFObject instance to load a movie. When the movie finishes it's player callsback to JS to trigger another movie. The other movie loads fine and plays. When it's done playing, the second movie is also su...

Use Windows Explorer in .NET code?

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to use the bits and pieces of Windows Explorer in .NET code? That would be nice, for example, to write file management forms in other programs, and get that to look just like the explorer, and "follow" the different Windows versions. ...

PHP Session/Cookie problems with Windows XP, Vista, IE and certain users...

Hi guys, I've mentioned it on here before, but still have the problem, so have added some extra info :) We have a local intranet site that everyone on the network uses, maybe 5% (or even less) of the users that use the site have problems where the session isn't stored properly. I've tried defining a path manually and whereas most user...

Why does "open containing folder" not work when I run visual studio as a different user from the one I log in as.

I just asked and answered the general form of this question for explorer on superuser, How do you run windows explorer as a different user?. When I run Visual Studio I often right click on a documents tab and select "Open Containing Folder." However, this does not launch explorer if I run Visual Studio as a different user than the one I...

How to fix Internet explorer 7 bug when using percentage widths for layout?

Hello, Please help me in this. I need to create a layout using percentage widths. I have a wrapper that is 100% width. Now I have a DIV (the main wrapper.. I want to keep it at 94% width percentage.. 94% of 100% body).. okay fine So to make this simple. -> BODY 100% width set --> CONTAINER 94% width ---> FIRST CHILD DIV 70% float l...

explorer get image's thumbnail really fast, how does it work?

I am using explorer to view image in thumbnail mode. It is really fast to get thumbnail of each image(bmp, jpg). I am using the following code to generate thumbnails for each image. however it is much slower than the explorer, How can I write a part of code to generate thumbnail as fast as system and accurate(thumbnail generated by the ...

Invalid link forces Internet Explorer to close

I have a web page with some javascript like this: location = '../AnotherPage.html'; If AnotherPage.html exists, all is well. If it doesn't, then I get two behaviours. If this is all running on my local machine, I get an "Access is denied" error. But if the pages are on another machine and I'm accessing it via a share, Internet Expl...

Interesting observation with IE memory management and javascript

In windows, when an application is minimised the OS frees up memory associated with application by placing the data within a page file. Other garbage collection may also execute. In the case of internet explorer running my javascript app I find that if the memory usage starts at 60mb then minimising the browser reduces the memory to 17...

Issue with jQuery $.get() in IE

Hi! I am working on a small chat application that uses jQuery to get some info from a PHP file. The output of the file is a whole bunch of HTML data. The script works just fine in FF but not in Internet (f***ing) Explorer, lol. The code looks like this: $.get("index.php", {p: "chatData", type: "regular"}, function(data){ startPoin...

Flex and PHP code with IE Cache or POST issue

I have a Flex application that uses a rich interface. The user can create data and have it instantly show up in a list of data that they have created. The data is stored in a MySQL database using HTTPService POST requests from the Flex application and PHP forms to handle the data on the server side. For sake of explanation, let's say the...