libraries

Including pre-compiled libraries in source tree

Hello, I have a cross-platform C++ project. In this project, we use several third-party, statically-compiled libraries that are quite huge and not easy to build. Currently, our source tree looks like this: | +-3rdparty | +-include (initially empty) | +-lib (initially empty) | +-some-library | +-another-library | +-source Whe...

Python Extension Can't Use library_dirs

WHen specifying library_dirs in a Python distutils.core.Extension I get this error when trying to build: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py:263: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'library_dirs' warnings.warn(msg) Why is this? I am using Python 2.5 on Mac OS X. ...

Why does IntelliJ import extra libraries from JDK 1.6 for a simple hello world program?

I'm new to Java and IntelliJ and I am just doing a simple "hello world" program. IntelliJ has about 10+ libraries from JDK 1.6 added to my project even though I'm not importing anything in my classes that would seem to need them. I created a new project from scratch. Some of the libraries are alt-rt.jar, charsets.jar, deploy.jar, dnsns....

What Java Collections library do you recommend?

I've inherited a team and a (Java) code base. The code base makes use of a lot of explicit for each loops. I'd like to replace those (edit: in future code) with something like Commons Collections Transformers and Predicates and its collect and transform methods. However, Commons Collection isn't generic. The rest of my code base, whate...

Reflective helper java libraries

Hi all, There are some Java libraries that do stuff you would otherwise have to put in every single class. For example, I had to put a clone() method in every single class until I discovered Cloner, and I had to put XML handling code until I discovered XStream. Are there any more similar helper libraries like these? ...

Simple ruby interpreter problem : `require': no such file to load -- (LoadError)

I get this when I run a main.rb file from OSX command line `require': no such file to load -- EngineAPIWrapper (LoadError) I have tried putting all the files that it references within the same folder instead of sym links but I still get the problem if I require 'rubygems' at the top of the main.rb file I get this error instead: link...

Choosing platform for a specific program

Today I started thinking about a new project, and I found one. The goal is to get a first version working in the first three months. I'm going to write a "laser/light-show simulator" program, that you can generate such lightshows as you see on big events nowadays. The problem is the platform/language I'm going to write it in. I'm lookin...

Android NDK - OpenGL ES Tutorial/Libraries

Hey! Im looking for an OpenGL library/framework to handle basic drawing code etc for me. Otherwise im also looking for some NDK and OpenGL ES tutorials, I cant seem to find anything out there! Any information would be helpful cheers. Adam ...

java and C# libraries for wi-fi

hi guys,here is a tough question :D can anyone tell me the names of libraries concerning Wi-Fi as i want to build a mobile application that can connect to a local server through wi-fi and exchange information with it. also i want to know which library is better and which language too ?? thanks in advance ...

Rails - include and require methods over the modules.

Prawn::Document::Snapshot is a module in the prawn library, so we can include this in our modules. But Prawn::Document::BoundingBox is not a module and it is a class, so how am i suppose to use(include) it in my module? And is inheritance the only way to use that class? ...

Eclipse Automatically Download / Update JAR files

I just created a Web App project from a repository through Eclipse's SVN support. What I would be doing is have an ANT build going and then finally deploy through Tomcat. I am using Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers on an Ubuntu system. There are a number of jar files needed to support my project - like Struts, Hibernate, etc. ...

Where should I store third-party libraries for inclusion in IntelliJ IDEA projects?

This is not about how to add libraries to my project or module dependencies; it's about where to store the .jar files that are referenced by the project/module settings. Should I have a lib folder in each project, containing the third-party libraries; or should I store them elsewhere on my hard drive? What scheme has worked for you? ...

Summary/reference documentation on Scala standard library types

Details on the packages/types is in the Scala API documentation on scala-lang.org. But that's organised by class and I (as a Scala neophyte) find it difficult to locate the exact data type I need and work out what operation are supported on what (especially in the huge and powerful scala.collections.* tree). Is there an online or dead-t...

Blackberry component libraries

Blackberry UI components look so poor after seeing the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 platforms. Are there any third-party UI component libraries for BlackBerry? ...

Does C++ have good libraries to accelerate Windows Forms like software?

Hi Suppose you have to develop a software to access customer database, let's say for example "SQL Server". Are there good libraries to accelerate this job in order to give to my client a good UI? For example, I could show a grid where he can select his desired customer for updating and deleting existing customers data, also offer a bl...

Windows CE project with libraries problem

Hello, I am developing a Windows CE application which uses some libraries provided by other parts of our company. When I deploy my application on "My Computer" (.NET compact application running on standard PC), everything works, but when I deploy to the device, the application hangs when trying to use methods from the library. The syst...

Do tools exist for pair programming with a developer and a domain expert?

I would like to know if any tools exist to enable pair programing activities between a developer and non developer expert in the related field. An example of such a tool could be an IDE plugin that would require a plain language description of functions/methods inline with their arguments. This plugin could then render a section of cod...

Log4j - Excluding the logging of some classes

Hi, I am using Log4j in my application, and the libraries that I use that also use Log4j are also outputting their logs to the log files that I create. I have already created appenders to redirect the logs of one library to an "other.log" file, but the other libraries keep logging to my main "info.log" file. This is my log4j.properties...

Draw a music staff in C#

I am looking to draw a music staff on a .NET (C#) form. I am using Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express. I was wondering if anyone knew of existing code or existing free .NET libraries that can help with that. I am looking at drawing both the treble and bass clef staff and adding one quarter note to some where in the staff. I am making a...

The abbreviation impl is used in a lot of libraries; What does it mean?

I've seen impl used as namespaces and as a class suffix in a number of different .net and Java libraries. I just want to know what it means and why it is used. ...