Alright, this is a rather odd question that doesn't have one true answer: What is the * Best || Easiest to Use || Most Powerful || Cleanest * GUI API or library (tk, SWING, Qt, etc.) you have had the privilege to use? I've had conversations with friends about how annoying XYZ API was to deal with and how someone could build a bette...
Does anyone know of a good free or cheap (under £100/$200) OCR library? It needs to run on Windows and preferably be a .NET library, though a COM interface is fine. ...
What are good libraries for C with datastructures like vectors, deques, stacks, hashmaps, treemaps, sets, etc.? Plain C, please, and platform-independent....
I want to write C/C++ programs that take input from a MIDI device. The MIDI device connects to my PC using a USB connector. I'm looking for a (C/C++ implemented) library that I can use to read the MIDI signals from the MIDI device through the USB port. I'm happy manipulating the MIDI data once I get it, I just don't want to have to ...
A researcher has created a small simulation in MATLAB, and we want to make it accessible to others. My plan is to take the simulation, clean up a few things, and turn it into a set of functions. Then, I plan to compile it into a C library and use SWIG to create a Python wrapper. At that point, I should be able to call the simulation from...
I recently discovered the org-mode in emacs and it works very well for me. I also like www.RememberTheMilk.com. I would like to be able to sync my org-mode file and RTM list. I know that RTM has its API exposed as web services. I am currently looking for a HTTP library that I could use to write my script. I found a couple of links but I ...
For developing Windows Sharepoint Service application, what is the best ajax library available now? I'm thinking of free, customizable, and easy deployment, and its compatible with sharepoint, meaning it can run in 'quirks' mode....
My requirements: Support .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 devices. Only need to unzip the contents to a directory on a storage card. Creation of zip files is not required. Must be able to use in corporate/commercial software. Can be open source, but not have GPL or other viral license. I've seen the Xceed Zip for CF ...
I'm integrating .NET support into our C++ application. It's an old-school MFC application, with 1 extra file compiled with the "/clr" option that references a CWinFormsControl. I'm not allowed to remove the linker flag "/NODEFAULTLIB". (We have our own build management system, not Visual Studio's.) This means I have to specify all neces...
Does anyone use have a good regex library that they like to use? Most of the regexes that you find online either contain bugs or are so focused on the edge cases that it turns into a competition to validate whatever spec 100%. Of course you can write your own, but when you are billing by the hour its handy to have a library around. ...
I am trying to code a flowchart generator for a language using Ruby. I wanted to know if there were any libraries that I could use to draw various shapes for the various flowchart elements and write out text to those shapes. I would really prefer not having to write code for drawing basic shapes, if I can help it. If someone could po...
I'm tired of adding ten link libraries into my project, or requiring eight of them to use my own. I'd like to take existing libraries like libpng.a, libz.a, libjpeg.a, and combine them into one single .a library. Is that possible? How about combining .lib libraries? ...
What is a good free library for editing MP3s/FLACs. By editing I mean: Cutting audio file into multiple parts Joining multiple audio files together Increase playback speed of file without affecting the pitch (eg. podcasts up to 1.3x) Re-encoding audio file from Flac -> MP3 or vice versa I don't mean software, I mean a library that ...
I'm developing a library alongside several projects that use it, and I've found myself frequently modifying the library at the same time as a project (e.g., adding a function to the library and immediately using it in the project). As a result, the project would no longer compile with previous versions of the library. So if I need to ro...
I am using java back end for creating an xml string which is passed to the browser. Currently I am using simple string manipulation to produce this xml. Is it essential that I use some xml library in java to produce the xml string? I find the libraries very difficult to use compared to what I need. ...
My good friend, Wikipedia, didn't give me a very good response to that question. So: What are language bindings? How do they work? Specifically accessing functions from code written in language X of a library written in language Y. ...
I would like to compare a screenshot of one application (could be a Web page) with a previously taken screenshot to determine whether the application is displaying itself correctly. I don't want an exact match comparison, because the aspect could be slightly different (in the case of a Web app, depending on the browser, some element coul...
I want to use Powershell to write some utilities, leveraging our own .NET components to handle the actual work. This is in place of writing a small console app to tie the calls together. My question is where I would find a good source of documentation or tutorial material to help me fast track this? ...
I'm looking for an rss library I can integrate into an existing windows MFC/C++ application. Does anyone know of such a thing? Or am I not finding one because people tend to use one of the many XML libraries out there and just enhance them to be specific to rss feeds? ...
Are there any good PL/SQL libraries for JSON that you've worked with and found useful? In PL/SQL, I'm having to tediously hand code the return of JSON values to JavaScript functions. I found one PL/SQL library for auto-generating JSON, but it doesn't do exactly everything I need it too. For example, I couldn't extend the base functions ...