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Programatic launching of application on windows startup

Hi. I have a particular piece of software that i wish to load on windows startup. Under normal circumstances i would simply place a shortcut in the startup folder or an entry in the run key in the registry. Unfortunately and for an unknown reason this application throws a win32 execption whenever that is done - and i am assuming it is b...

In Eclipse, how to have launch configurations relative to the project?

I usually have multiple copies of a project, for example: a copy of the trunk and another of the last release branch. To cleanly separate my project files from Eclipse, they are checked out from Subversion in a directory outside the Eclipse workspace. I want to make the project easily importable to Eclipse and followed instructions fro...

Launch Count on iPhone App

Ok I want to keep track of how many times my iPhone App has been launched. I will be using this number for a "leader board" for our most active user. I figured the code needs to be in the -DidBecomeActive method being that in iOS4 the app may remain in the background for sometime. Now I know it's probably trivial and i'm just making it ...

App doesn't work when build for Adhoc

Hi, I'm facing very strange problem - my app is working nice on a device when build with Debug configuration, but when it's build for AdHoc distribution, it does nothing when started. It simply shows blank screen, no log messages on console, no errors nothing, so I don't have a clue of what's going on, what makes me desperate. I examin...

How do i run a Java program from the command line using an Eclipse launch file???

Hi, i've been given the task of creating a ksh script which runs one Java program multiple times and another once. The idea is that the multiple runs test the ability of the single program to handle multiple threads. The issue i am having is that i want to use a .Launch file generated by Eclipse to specify the run time dependencies of ...

Can my Eclipse launch profile reference its containing project?

Hi all, I would like to add my Eclipse .launch files for JUnit tests to source control, but it doesn't work because I often checkout the containing project with a different name than it was committed under. The Eclipse .launch files for JUnit tests contain an attribute "org.eclipse.jdt.launching.PROJECT_ATTR", which seems to support no ...

Win7 quick launch bar icon size

Hey! I'm using Windows 7 with the good old quick launch bar. Since I'm usually working on a big screen with a lot of open windows my taskbar is two rows high which works well for open windows in general. The only problem is that the symbols in the quick launch bar are shown in one row wasting a lot of space underneath even though it ...

[Android] Problem launching Google Navigation

hey, i tried since many hours to launch navigation from my app. I want navigation without destination. i tried with Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("google.navigation:q=")); startActivity(i); That launches navigation but with destination not found I tried too to launch processName, packageName ...

Remote launching of iPhone applications (on device from connected Mac machine via commad line)

Hello, I am making an automated testing system which requires to install the app to the iPhone from a script/command line terminal (which I was able to do thanks to an answer to this question (look for "Manual Deployment over Wifi" on the page), and also remote launching of the app using something like: "ssh root@devicename:launch_my_ap...

Launching and database of png images - iPhone

Hello everyone! So, I'm actually making an iPhone app with a big library of guitar chords and scales. The scales are logical, so they are successfully draw by following musical theory. On the other hand, I have a library of 4500 small png files (3ko) for the guitar chords. My problem is that even if it's not used for the launch (but f...

Eclipse Helios not launching

I have used Eclipse in the past without problems over a year ago, but I downloaded Helios onto a new computer having Windows Vista and Java 1.6.13 currently. I extract the folder and try to run the Eclipse EXE and get an error stating "Java was started but returned exit code=13". I did some digging and it appears that the config file is...

iOS - In-App Purchase & applicationDidBecomeActive

Hey there, I'm working on an app for 4.0 using the background methods. I'm updating the user defaults with a number that is incremented each time the app is launched. Looks like in 4.0 didFinishLaunchingWithOptions doesn't fire each time the app is launched, only the first time it's launched if it's not already in the background. So ...

How to create a launch image or how to get an empty status bar

I want to create a launch image for my app. The HIG states: For iPhone and iPod touch create launch images that include the status bar region in the following sizes: 320 x 480 pixels 640 x 960 pixels (high resolution) I've tried to screenshot my app within the iPhone Simulator. But here the status bar is on the screen ...

Adding a UIView as a first run view only

I would like to add a Welcome view to my app which describes the instructions etc. I would like this to appear only once when the app is first launched... then with subsequent launches go to my app's main view... which is a navigation controller. What is the best way to track launches/ implement this idea? Thanks. ...

Android: Launch activity from clickable text

Is there any way I can launch an activity from a portion of a string. eg I have this in my strings.xml file: <string name="clickable_string">This is a <u>clickable string</u></string> I would like the text between the u tags to be underlined and launch an activity when clicked when inserted in to a TextView ...

Why is my Eclipse launch configuration not being added to the Run or Debug configurations list?

Just finally found a solution for this so thought I'd post it here as a question and answer so I find it next time I google it: I have a .launch file which I can run by context menu (Run As...), but it is not being added to the list of Debug or Run configurations like it should. Why not? ...