Can anyone recommend a reliable and cost effective TTS engine for use in a telephony application? Requirements are: Must support the Windows platform Must have rich language support including support for accents (ie US English vs GB English) Nice to have: Integration with the .NET platform Budget friendly Though the output will be...
I have a problem I'm trying to solve involving interfaceing a C++ program with Excel (an import interface, specifically). The SheetSelectionChange sounds like it will get me most of the way to where I need to be, but I can't find any good documentation or examples on registering the event, using its Range parameter when it's fired, and ...
For my current C++ project I need to detect a unique string for every monitor that is connected and active on a large number of computers. Research has pointed to 2 options Use WMI and query the Win32_DesktopMonitor for all active monitors. Use the PNPDeviceID for unique identification of monitors. Use the EnumDisplayDevices API, and...
Hi, I have followed all the instructions here: http://www.tonyspencer.com/2003/10/22/curl-with-php-and-apache-on-windows/ to install & config apache get the PHP5 packages and get the CURL packages. I run the apache and run a PHP script. no problem. but when I run the php script with curl, it fails. It returns: Call to undefined fun...
Hi, UPDATED: on win2k it seems it works OK. Sorry for the confusion. MS Windows Vista internal ftp client has a strange behavior. When redirecting its output and error to a file, the errors do not show up there: ftp -n -s:commands.txt host >output.log 2>&1 When running it from Task Scheduler inside a batch file, I don't get a...
XP-specific answers preferred, but others are welcome too. ...
How do I setup a Python enviroment on windows computer so I can start writing and running Python scripts, is there an install bundle? Also which database should i use? Thanks Sorry I should of mentioned that I am using this for web based applications. Does it require apache? or does it use another http server? What is the standard s...
Just that. I would like some information (links, reference, examples...) to guide me to do that. I don't even know if it's possible. My objective is to compile a program in Linux and get a .exe file that I can run under windows. ...
I am doing .net programming in addition to c and c++ development and want more flexibility on my home machine. I want to be able to have both Linux (probably Ubuntu) and Windows Vista on my home computer. Is there a way I can install both and on boot be prompted for which one to start? Is there a way to set Windows to default? I have...
Suppose some Windows service uses code that wants mapped network drives and no UNC paths. How can I make the drive mapping available to the service's session when the service is started? Logging in as the service user and creating a persistent mapping will not establish the mapping in the context of the actual service. ...
I am making numerous, minute changes to .php files in Eclipse PDT then committing them and testing on the server. The repetitive six-step commit process is getting tedious: right-click team Commit... click "choose previously selected comment" select in list click OK Does anyone know of a hotkey or other process to expedite this? UPD...
I have a compiled GUI application. I need to learn whether it is programmed using MFC libraries. Depends.exe does not return any dependency to MFC42*.dll. Is there any tool to get additional information about executables? (If possible not just the libraries, but the compiler being used, etc..) ...
Is there any way to determine a removable drive speed in Windows without actually reading in a file. And if I do have to read in a file, how much needs to be read to get a semi accurate speed (e.g. determine whether a device is USB2 or USB1)? EDIT: Just to clarify, USB2 and USB1 were an example. These could be Compact Flash, could be ...
Having a computer with multiple NICs, I need to specify somehow the one to use for the connection to SQL Server. ...
Does anyone know of a way to start PowerShell in a specific folder from Windows Explorer, e.g. to right-click in a folder and have an option like "Open PowerShell in this Folder". It's really annoying to have to change directories to my project folder the first time I run MSBuild every day. ...
Say you've loaded a text file into a string and you'd like to convert all unicode escapes into actual unicode characters inside of the string. Example: "The following is the top half of an integral character in unicode '\u2320', and this is the lower half '\U2321'." I found an answer that works for me and if follows. ...
How to force C# .net app to run only one instance in Windows? ...
Hello everybody. I need some help from the shell-script gurus out there. I have a .txt file (log) that traces the IP addresses of clients on several lines, in a format similar to this one: Line1 - Client IP [192.168.0.1] Other data Line2 - Client IP [192.168.0.2] Other data Line3 - Client IP [192.168.0.3] Other data Line4 - Client IP [...
I have an application that manages patient demographic information. Along with this data a user can scan a picture of a patient and assign that picture to a patient. When the user clicks the scan button a separate application is opened as a dialog in order to scan the image. When running this on XP everything worked fine. The imaging app...
Long time back, I used to do some home projects in Basic. It was fun and I could get things done without reading tons of documentation (or whatever documentation was available at that time). I guess it is the not the same anymore. Nowadays, programming languages comes with a heavy baggage of framework, environment setup etc. Even for w...