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Adding waypoints to A* graph search

I have the ability to calculate the best route between a start and end point using A*. Right now, I am including waypoints between my start and end points by applying A* to the pairs in all permutations of my points. Example: I want to get from point 1 to point 4. Additionally, I want to pass through points 2 and 3. I calculate the pe...

How can I do a search of the text of all Stored Procedures in a SQL database

In Visual Studio 2k8, I press Ctrl-F and then type some text I want to search for in my project. I can quickly search many files at once. I have a SQL Server with some stored procedures. How can I easily search my stored procedures for arbitrary strings? I know that I can list the text of one stored procedure in SQL Server Studio and...

fast finding of small image in a bigger image

Hello everyone, I need to get the coordinates of a small image location residing in a big image (let say I need to search for a specific tree inside a forest photograph. If the sub-image is found then the result would be something like: x=120 y=354 by example). Is there a fast algorithm that I could use ? I'm using Delphi (can also us...

I want to create a search bar in android

Hi! I intrested in creating a searchbar just like the one in twitter app. I wounder how it is possible? http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html ...

Windows API in Java (Processing)? Do I need JVM?

I'm not sure I need JVM, or how'd I'd use it if I did. I basically want to a BFS for directories on a multi-drive system. I think I could pound this out using some of the Java examples I've found online, but if there is a faster, better way with Windows, I'd like to explore that option. Ideally I'd like it to work like the Window's Ex...

wordpress sort search results by date .

Is there any special parameter that i can pass to search url to sort it by date . And is there any parameter to increase the number of search results returned ? Thanks ...

Cakephp, searchable behaviour help, returning empty results.

Hi, I'm using the searchable behaviour from the bakery. It is all set up correctly with no errors, so there is no problem there. However when preforming a search it returns no results. I'm at a loss as to why this is happening because of a lack of any errors. I think it might have something to do with initial set up or the indexing o...

Search file system with Xcode Mac application.

Hello, my uncle challenged me to make an application in which you can search the file system of a Mac. I've never actually had to do this yet in my programming experience, but I think it would be good to know as well. I have a search field, and a button that says search. Does anybody know how I can make that search the file system, and d...

how to search a file or a text in file in the current folder and in all the subfolders using grep commond?

i have to search for a particular text in files and for that im using grep command but it searches only in current folder.What i want is that using a single grep command i can search a particular thing in the current folder as well as in all of its sub folders.How can i do that??? ...

What is a "predicate based search"?

I overheard this at a coffee table conversation and i wasnt able to fathom what this was about. A bit of googling didnt throwup anything useful... Clarification: Thanks guys for the initial take on it... but it appeared that the conversation was about "searching" through databses / internet, etc.... ...

PHP search array return key

i have an array that looks like this, I want to search for a saleref and get it to give me the key in PHP, i've tried using array_search but i get nothing back. Alternatively i just want to display the other values in the same array as the salesref searched if there's a better way. Array ( [xml] => Array ( ...

How can I find applications written in a specific language?

Hello :) I'd like to find applications written, for example, on the Microsoft Silverlight platform. However, popular search engines such as the one integrated into SourceForge only list the root language, such as C#, and say little about XAML or Silverlight. Does such a directory exist? ...

Substring matches within SOLR

I can't seem to figure out how to find substring matches with SOLR, I've figured out matches based on a prefix so I can get ham to match hamburger. How would I get a search for 'burger' to match hamburger as well? I tried burger but this tossed an error '*' or '?' not allowed as first character in WildcardQuery. How can I match substr...

best way to search data-base table for user input keywords?

I want to build a product-search engine. I was thinking of using google-site-search but that really searches Google's index of your site. I do not want to search that. I want to search a specific table (all the fields, even ones the user never sees) on my data-base for given keywords. But I want this search to be as robust as possible...

Image storage/search web application

Hi, I work for a multimedia department of the government and we have a lot of images that we would like to share with others departments. Here some information: We have around 20TB of images and photos to share. We already have a windows 2008 environment running .net mvc web applications. We already have a mssql cluster in place. We ...

Building SEO-friendly URLs for accented characters

Hello all, We are making our site an SEO-friendly site by following the pattern below: http://OurWebsite.com/MyArticle/Math/Spain/Glaño As you see, Glaño has a spelling character that search engines may not like it. On the other hand we cannot build up the last URL! Any suggestions to maintain our current URL generation code to hand...

Drupal search on content from username

I have a drupal site (d6) where the client would like to be able to search for content from a given user - at the moment a search for "Fred" will turn up any nodes that mention Fred, but none that are by him. There don't seem to be a lot of options on the search config screen, and while I am fairly experienced with writing drupal modu...

is a full featured phonetic search algorithm neccessary?

Hello together, i need some decision help today :-) interface A) an input field where the user can type his search parameters. interface B) next step he will come to some mask, where he can refine his search. if he enters some defined words (there are about 10) in A the corresponding checkboxes in B should be be checked. Next to the...

How do I search Android Market based on two-word Developer Name?

(Question also posted here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=68dc1f694537c7dc&hl=en ) http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html recommends searching for apps by Developer Name using the URL: market://search?q=pub: I can't get this to work for two word names. For instance, if I want...

How to search Media files available in iPhone?

Hi Friends, I am searching for a API that will let me find all the files of a type I mention(ex. video, Music, Images ) and retrieve their location of their files. That is like my app must be able to read all the images and videos available in my iPhone? Is there any one API available to do that? ...