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scala mailbox size limit

I can see that scala can solve the Producer-Consumer problem using actors. There is a couple of examples on the web but what is worrying me is the unlimited growth of an actor's mailbox. Suppose the producer produces on a much faster rate than the consumer can consume. Using the traditional synchronized threads approach, I can set up a ...

Overflow scroll bar colours

I am a newbie to HTML and CSS and am trying to design a website, where the majority of text will be in boxes on the screen. Each box will be coloured differently and will have more text than is visible directly My question Can I make the background colour of the scroll section, ie the bit between the two arrow heads match the existin...

How to prevent scanf causing a buffer overflow in C?

I use this code: while ( scanf("%s", buf) == 1 ){ What would be the best way to prevent possible buffer overflow so that it can be passed strings of random lengths? I know I can limit the input string by calling for example: while ( scanf("%20s", buf) == 1 ){ But I'd prefer to be able to process whatever the user inputs. Or can't...

CSS problems: with custom ul,li dropdown navigation in ie, especially with the ie6 overflow:visible bug

The essence of the ie6 bug (dropdown entries must be truncated via overflow hidden to prevent ie from incorrectly expanding instead of acting as overflow:visible) can be seen in it's current (hacky) form in the screenshot below, and at the site http://zd-cms.com Wrong (ie6): Right (FF, IE8, Chrome): The menu entry should show: C...

Internet Explorer: overflow and float

Hi folks, I have an img inside a div. I have set the img to "float: right", and the div to "overflow: hidden". Because the div is narrower than the img, I expect the left portion of the img to be cut off and hidden, which is indeed the case in Firefox. However, IE refuses to acknowledge the "float: right" property of the img, always ...

CSS or Table 'Dock Layout' Solution for Non Scrolling Header?

I have a variable height header that doesn't scroll with the content below it. The content will act like a regular web page, with overflow=auto, constrained to the size of the viewport. I have yet to find a table-free CSS solution, and using tables overflow doesn't work correctly - the bottom table row is not constrained to the viewport...

Tables overflowing with CSS in Firefox

I'm having trouble getting my table to behave. The content keeps overflowing and my attempts to restrict it are not producing the desired effect. This is my markup: <div class="repeatingdiv"> <div class="hastitle">Some title</div> <div class="hastable"> <table> <thead><tr><th></th></tr></thead> <tfoot><tr><th></th></tr...

Large dynamic array in c++

Short problem: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { double **T; long int L_size; long int R_size = 100000; long int i,j; cout << "enter L_size:"; cin >> L_size; cin.clear(); cin.ignore(100,'\n'); cout << L_size*R_size << endl; cout << sizeof(double)*L_size*R_size << endl; ...

How can I check if multiplying two numbers in Java will cause an overflow?

I want to handle the special case where multiplying two numbers together causes an overflow. The code looks something like this: int a = 20; long b = 30; // if a or b are big enough, this result will silently overflow long c = a * b; That's a simplified version - in the real app, a and b are sourced elsewhere at runtime. What I want ...

I have a floating-point overflow problem

Well, I'm a beginner, it's my year as a computer science major. I'm trying to do an exercise from my textbook that has me use a struct called MovieData that has a constructor that allows me to initialize the member variables when the MovieData struct is created. Here's what my code looks like: #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> #i...

Two column Overflow

I want to create a two-column content area with a max width of 700px and and two columns inside with a max width of 340px each. Here's the catch....can I make the content from the first column spill over into the second column after about 300px height? If so...how? Thanks. ...

html fieldset allows children to expand indefinitely

I want to put a scrollable box inside of a fieldset, but I've run into a quirk and I can't figure out my way around it. When you put your scrollable div inside of a fieldset, the fieldset expands instead of making the scrollable element scroll. Here's a test case. The following expands indefinitely (boo): <div style="width: 300px; over...

CSS Problem with Overflow with div

I want to use overflow on a div to show all div and image, and text to but for this example i used only images. i need a horizontal scroll, if i only use image its work well with the white-space: nowrap; css but if each images are in a div the sroll disapear and images don't show all. Example 3 here the first exemple work if i give a ...

CSS Problem with Overflow width div Part 2

Hi everyone, Related to this post stackoverflow.com/questions/1736910/css-problem-with-overflow-with-div The awser helped me ie: adding display: inline; i wanted to add some div into the div ".div-image" for title and description: i found that it worked if i replace display: inline; with display: inline-block; but guess what, it do...

Overflow bit 32Bit ALU VHDL

Hi folks, I'm currently writing a 32Bit ALU (Add/Sub) in VHDL. I've got a problem with the overflow bit. I can't see when to set the overflow depending on the operation (addition, subtraction) and the input values. Can you help me ? best regards, Andre ...

Horizontal menu with overflow-x:auto

Is it possible to have a horizontal menu that can scroll overflowed menuitems horizontally, but also display the vertical overflow when a submenu is to appear? ...

CSS Target IE6 Validly

Hi all, basically im in a lil dilemma.... As usual, IE6 is messing up some tiny line of CSS. All i need to fix everything is: overflow:hidden; Thats it. But, heres the problem. This is for a uni assigned piece of coursework and they say only 1 css file which must be valid. And no conditional comments :S so there goes my plan. Is ther...

Integer Overflow IA 32

How does overflow work in ia-32? For instance, what would happen to the following code? What flags would it throw? movl $0x1, %eax addl $7fffffff, %eax Thanks! ...

CSS Parent DIV Overflow

I have a problem with a website I'm putting together. I have a simple div layout. Which is as follows: <body> <div id="Container"> <div id="Logo"></div> <div id="Banner"> <div id="Nav"></div> </div> <div id="Content"> </div> <div id="footer">Footer</div> </div> </body> And my CSS is as follows: @charset "utf-8"; /* CSS Docum...

jQuery scrolling UL with hidden overflow

I have a UL with LI's set to display horizontally. The UL has a fixed width and it's set to hide the overflow. This is so I can display my images, which are to be used in a gallery, neatly. It works and looks nice. I want to, however, use jQuery to scroll the contents of the UL rather than set the overflow property to auto and be presen...