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How to know when my Android app is terminating?

I need to cancel a repeating alarm when my app terminates. The problem is I have several activities and since they can be killed at any time, how can I determine when the last activity is being shutdown so I can call my alarm canceling method? ...

How to properly invalidate an NSTimer

I've got an iPhone app with an NSTimer called pressTimer that goes off every time someone touches this button. The problem is they touch the button a lot, and I want the timer to stop when they lift up their finger. So I declared pressTimer in my .h and synthesized it in .m then assigned and started it on the TouchDown action I created. ...

C# - Multilingual string for "Cancel"

Hey I want to make multilingual buttons, like those of the messagebuttons. I have a form with a cancel-button, but I want to have a multilingual text. For example, in German it is named "Abbrechen, in French "Annuler" and in English "Cancel". Like for MessageBoxes, those buttons are also multilingual. Is it possible to find out the stri...

canceling timers during weblogic shutdown

hi all i have an EAR project which runs on weblogic i have some timers in my application and i want to cancel them when i redeploy my EAR project. I have tried using PhaseListener but i could not access to my web module classes in phase listener. how could i do this task? thanks in advance ...

.Net Treeview Event Handling

I am in the process of migrating a VB6 app to .Net and we must provide like-for-like functionality at all times. In one form is a treeview with checkboxes that has three levels of nodes. The first level serves only to group the next level down and they are not checkable. The second level nodes are checkable by the user and when checked o...

Efficient Cancel Event Implementation for Number Crunching Threads

What is the most efficient way to create a “cancel” event in a C# program that is crunching a large set of data in a loop on a separate thread? For now, I am simply using a cancel event that is triggered from my UI thread, which subsequently calls an “onCancel” function on the number crunching thread. That cancel function sets a variable...

How to display red "Cancel" button in UITableViewCell?

I am building a custom UITableViewCell which will be displayed while the user is downloading data from a web service, and which will include a "Cancel" button to allow them to cancel the URL connection. I'd like to emulate the look-and-feel of the "Delete" buttons which are displayed in the table editing view, like this: How can I cre...

Android: how cancel/interrupt/break pending SQLite query?

In my Android application user can fill database with imported data, then perform predefined, complex SQL query. With some data pattern, query will take very long (minutes and more on HTC Hero), while common usage will not exceed 10-15 seconds. Is there any way to cancel pending SQLite query on Android? Timeout would be as good as well,...

Android Notification intent to clear it self

Hello, I have read many examples of how to create notification messages. What i wanted to achieve, is because the notification will be executed by a widget, i would like the notification intent when clicked to clear it self when the user clicks on it.I do not have an activity to return to. The notification for my purposes will just plain...

vcalendar, method:cancel issue

Hello, i'm trying to cancel a created event on outlook 2010. The create event method works fine, but when i'm trying to cancel it, the email doesn´t display any attachment or any opcion to do it. At the beggining it shown an attachment called "not supported calendar message.ics" this was because i forget to put some fields on the reque...

iPhone - Change UISearchDisplayController "Cancel" button text

Sort question: Is there a way to change the "Cancel" button text within a UISearchDisplayController to "Done" or "Close"? Rationale: I have a UITableView that contains a list of options, each option can be checked or unchecked. I want to enable search through these options, so I've created and added a UISearchDisplayController. The...

Cancel insertion inside a trigger without a rollback.

For a certain assignment, I'm tasked with creating a very simple Q/A site, complete with tagged questions and commented answers. One of the requirements is to have a trigger to detect the insertion of duplicate tags and, if such is the case, increment the already-existing tag's usage counter. Problem is, I can't cancel the trigger with...

Exceptions and cancelling

This might be a bit of a stupid question but it has been bugging me so here goes I know that the normal advice is that Exceptions are only meant to be used in exceptional circumstances but I also read people advocating to use exceptions when a method fails to fulfil its contract Cancellation seems to me sit in a bit of a grey area bet...

JQuery sortable, dragging between two lists, cancelling the drop: How to animate?

I have two HTML lists, and am using JQuery sortable to drag between them. This works perfectly. The receive event is raised upon dropping a dragged list item into the second list. In this event handler, in some circumstances I am calling $(ui.sender).sortable('cancel'); which cancels the drop and returns the list item to its orig...

Cancel documents in the printer queue from java in windows

Is it possible to cancel a print job once it has already been put into the document queue in windows with java code? ...

jquery ui connected sortables: cancel, disable, destroy... nada

I have two connected sortable lists. For the sake of my question, when I start dragging an item from #sortable1 to #sortable2, in the start event I want to cancel/ disable/ the drop in #sortable2 Nothing works? $("#sortable1, #sortable2").sortable({ connectWith: "#sortable1, #sortable2", start: startDrag }); function startDra...

What if CancelIo fails?

There are a number of reasons to call CancelIo, but in my particular case I'm calling it in order to know that the system is no longer writing into a buffer. Once I know that, I can safely free the buffer. But what if CancelIo fails? What I do now is explicitly leak the buffer and throw an exception. Are there better ways to deal with t...

How do I add a cancel button to my jqgrid?

I've got a jqgrid (version 3.5.3) on my site which gets its results from an ajax call to a web service. Often the query is complicated and it takes a few seconds to load the result. While it is loading the user sees a box [Loading...]. In case the users realise they're searching for the wrong thing, the client has asked to add a cancel...

How to clear a notification if activity crashes?

In my app, I'm creating a notification with the FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT flag set as such.. Notification notification = new Notification(iconId, text, System.currentTimeMillis()); notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT; I'm cancelling the notification in onDestroy, but if my app crashes before calling onDestroy, is there an...