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Android sliding effect animation

Hello, First of all I am completely new to animation on android but would like to include it in my next application. The application will be as follows: For example, I will be having 2 layers, each one containing their own data. Layer 1 will contain data 1 Layer 2 will contain data 2 And layer 1 will be superimposed on layer 2; that...

ORM with or without DAL wrapper.

In all the examples I have seen, ORM's tend to be used directly or behind some kind of DAL repository (presumably so that they can be swapped out in the future). I am no fan of direct ORM use as it will be hard to swap out, but i am equally no fan of losing the full domain change tracking it provides! In the past I would have written ...

Inappropriate use of Builder pattern?

For a design patterns class, the instructor asked my team to develop an application that supports drawing and persisting glyphs, very similar to the WYSIWYG editor from GoF. My team decided to use a Layered architecture, with descending layers: Presentation, Controller, Logic, Persistence. The Logic maintains a collection of glyph repr...

creating a Grid layer on SVG canvas

All, We could really do with some advice from SVG gurus. WHAT WE HAVE: There is a SVG canvas on which we have co-ordinates mapped (X & Y axis position of the cursor). When the user moves the cursor on the SVG canvas the co-ordinates are shown in real time on the top left of the webpage. WHAT WE WANT: We want to add a grid layer on top...

table with div layers

I have a table inside a div 1. Then after that div 1 added another div 2 with position:relative; top:-250; so that div 2 layer will be right on top of the table. But now below the table there is a big space before anything on the page can resume displaying (I guess the second div 2 would have normally been without the -250 position ch...

Multi-Shaped CSS Layers \ Non-rectangular CSS Layer

is it possible to make CSS Layers shaped like the following image... i know we can have images of this shape and with transparent backgrounds we can have Layers shaped like these... but no i want CSS Layers to actual borders like these shapes... is there a way CSS, jQuery or anything.... Note: by 'shapes like these i mean not just t...

how to darken a UIImageView

I need to darken a UIImageView when it gets touched, almost exactly like icons on the springboard (home screen). Should I be added UIView with a 0.5 alpha and black background. This seems clumsy. Should I be using Layers or something (CALayers). ...

How to use markup in an OpenLayers layer name

I have a number of data layers defined in the following manner: var mylayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.TMS("MY LAYER NAME", "", { type: "png", getURL: my_layer_geturl, isBaseLayer: false, visibility: false, attribution: 'Some Attribution text' }); Which I add to the map and it appears on the layer switcher and all is well etc. However, I ...

Need some advise on starting a New Life with MVC 2 and which Tools to use for RAD in MVC2 ?

Dear All I have finally decided to hop up on the train of MVC 2. Now i have doing alot of reading lately and following is the architecture, which i think will be good enough for most of Business Web Application. Layered Architecture:- Model (layer which communicates with Database). EF4 Repository (Layer which communicates with Model a...