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Ultra-Portable Laptop or Tablet PC for Development and Sketching

I am a software developer that primarily writes in PHP, [X]HTML, CSS, Javascript, C# and C++. I use Eclipse for web development, Visual Studio 2008 for C++ and C# work, TortoiseSVN, Subversion server for local repositories, SQL Server Express, Apache and MYSQL. I also use Office 2007 for word processing and spreadsheets and use Vista Ult...

Programming on the Asus EEE Pc in Visual Studio

Has anybody tried programming on the EEE Pc in Visual Studio? I'm considering buying one so I can show some apps on the fly, but also make small changes to them if necessary, without the inconvenience of a large laptop. Some key points I'm after: How fast it is Would it suit the needs of a developer making small changes to code? It...

Is there a way to access DELL XPS media buttons programmatically

If you have seen a Dell XPS in actions you probably have noticed its nice media buttons above the normal keyboard: They are flashing when the notebook is starting and when you touch them. Does anybody know how to make these buttons flash programmatically? ...

Adding/removing notebook pages in PyGTK/GTK on the fly

How to refresh a notebook on the fly? I have an application which is supposed to have various number of pages according to the data in the underlying model. In order to synchronize the appearance of the Notebook I'd like to refresh it every time a row is added/deleted from the model. I've tried this: ... def get_pagebox(self, ...

which open source project is most like Google Notebook?

As we knew, Google stopped the development of Google Notebook. Though lots of alternatives exist, no one satisfies me (see below for the reasons). Many suggest Google to open source it, but Google didn't response by so far. So I'd like to turn to open source world to develop one. In a nutshell, Google Notebook attracts me in the followin...

How to adjust the brightness of the screen on notebook displays

I have a slide bar to adjust the brightness of the screen on notebook displays in my application, but I found those articles from internet are adjusting the Gamma value, the behavior is not really like pressing the special key in keyboard. Is there a way to do it? Thanks in advance. Here is some links what I found. http://www.codeproj...

Take picture using webcam from command line

I have a Logitech webcam (QuickCam Pro for Notebooks), and I'd like to take a snapshot using the cam from a command line. Does it have any command line interface? If not, is there an API that will allow me to build a command line tool like this? Thanks! ...

initial notebook tab in monodevelop

I have tabs labeled 'page1', 'page2', 'page3' in notebook - monodevelop. When I run the application the window displays 'page2'. How can I, in the designer, specify that I wish 'page1' to be shown when the window is shown initially?? ...

Configuration of Java Developer's Notebook

For Java Platform, i use Eclipse Galileo IDE, Jboss Tools plugin, SpringSource IDE, MyEclipse IDE, Tomcat as Service, Mysql as Service, Oracle Sql Developer Client, Netbeans, Aptana Studio, also MonoDevelop etc. Which notebook configuration that i can use effectively ? ...

PyGTK: How do I make a custom widget look like a gtk.Notebook tab?

Hi, I'm writing a program and I need some extra functionality from the gtk.Notebook widget, so I have taken to creating my own. My only problem is styling my tabs so that they look like the tabs in gtk.Notebook and will change according to the user's theme. I really don't know where to start so any advice would be much appreciated, th...

PyGTK: Packing widgets before tabs in a gtk.Notebook

Basically, what I want to do is put some buttons before the tabs in a gtk.Notebook. I tried making my own notebook type widget and it worked well, but it would have required lots more work to make it as flexible as I would like, also it wasn't as efficient. Here is a mock-up of what I'm trying to achieve: http://imagebin.ca/view/84SC0d....

[pygtk] change tab-label in gtk.NoteBook

Hi to all. I have notebook on my form and on each notebook's tab i have gtk.TextView. textview adding automaticaly when new notebook's tab add. Let's say I want to open a file in 3 textview into 3 tabs and when i open file i want that in tab-label will be file path. Tab add: def new_tab(self): scrolled_window = gtk.ScrolledWindow(...

Python Tkinter Tix: How to use ScrolledWindow with grid in Tix NoteBook

Hi guys, I'm adding several widgets to a Frame which is located in a tix.NoteBook. When there are too much widgets to fit in the window, I want to use a scrollbar, so I put tix.ScrolledWindow inside that Frame and add my widgets to this ScrolledWindow instead. The problem is that when using the grid() geometry manager, the scrollbar ap...

Reattaching pages to a Notebook in GTK#

I'm using a Notebook widget to pull off a tabbed file view, and I've added code to allow detaching pages from an existing Notebook, which spawns a new window with a separate Notebook, containing just that page. However, I'd like the ability to move pages between multiple Notebooks as well. The Notebook.WindowCreationHook delegate gives...

Using the ttk (tk 8.5) Notebook widget effectively (scrolling of tabs)

I'm working on a project using Tkinter and Python. In order to have native theming and to take advantage of the new widgets I'm using ttk in Python 2.6. My problem is how to allow the user to scroll through the tabs in the notebook widget (a la firefox). Plus, I need a part in the right edge of the tabs for a close button. The frame for ...

How to make tab text orientation of a notebook vertical (in gtkmm)

Hi, I want my notebook tab labels to be rotated by 90°. I tried the set_angle() function of Gtk::Label but it doesn't work: #include <gtkmm.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Gtk::Main kit(argc, argv); Gtk::Window mainwindow; Gtk::Notebook sidebar; Gtk::Label tab; mainwindow.add(sidebar); sidebar.set_tab...

Why "netbook OSs" just run on netbooks?

What are the differences between a Netbook and Notebook? İs it CPU architecture? What are differences between a netbook CPU architecture and notebook CPU architecture? ...

Simulate Fn+F11 key press

Can you tell me how I can simulate key presses Fn + F11 on a laptop? Do I have to write a driver, or something like that? The platform is Windows XP Pro SP3. Programming Language is C/C++. The purpose is create a program that allow to change enable/disable via GUI some hardware device that can turned off/on only with this hotkey. The ID...

Need help with wxPython, NotebookCtrl in particular

I am trying to write a non-webbased client for a chat service on a web site, it connects to it fine via socket and can communicate with it and everything. I am writing a GUI for it (I tried writing it in tkinter but I hit some walls I really wantd to get passed, so I switched to wxPython) What I'm having a problem with: This applicati...

Why do we use graph paper?

Question just occurred to me today. So many folks in computer science/engineering and related disciplines always seem to be drawing/writing on graph paper. As I write this, I have 3-4 pads sitting on my shelf. It's something I've always done, but I can't say why. (I also can't remember the last time I drew a graph that required graph...