windows

How to make the yuicompressor jar file a singleton, or globally accessible?

I'd like to put the yuicompressor jar file in a single folder so that I can call java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar ... from anywhere on my system, with cygwin. For bash files I use I simply put them in a common folder, and added the folder's path to my windows user's PATH environment variable and the bash commands were found in cygwin...

Using UNIX linebreaks in Windows Ruby

Is it possible to tell Ruby in Windows to use only \n instead of r\n? I'm having an issue where a file is being saved with \r\n and it is causing it to not function properly. Is there a setting somewhere I can change to fix this? ...

FileUtils.mv adding linebreaks in Windows

I am streaming wav data from a flash application. If I get the data and do the following: f = File.open('c:/test.wav', 'wb') f << wav_data.pack('c'*wav_data.length) f.close The wav file works perfectly. If I do this: f = Tempfile.new('test.wav') f << wav_data.pack('c'*wav_data.length) f.close FileUtils.mv(f.path, 'c:/') The file is...

Alternate to control+drag to connect view element with file owner in xCode interface builder?

Working on an iPhone application through a TightVNC connection into a Mac Mini; the control+drag operation in Interface Builder to connect a view element to file owner doesn't work - I don't see the connecting line. It does work when I connect keyboard, mouse and monitor to the Mini and work on it directly, however it is a lot more conv...

which format to use for software user manual/help/documentation

My requirements are: easy tools exist to create/format the help file from our software, we can launch the help file at a certain location, specified ideally by keyword or tag and not by page number. to be deployed with a Windows software. Thanks! ...

How can I generate an RFC1123 Date string, from C code (Win32)

RFC1123 defines a number of things, among them, the format of Dates to be used in internet protocols. HTTP (RFC2616) specifies that date formats must be generated in conformance with RFC1123. It looks like this: Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:31:05 GMT How can I generate an RFC1123 time string from C code, running on Windows? I don't ...

Need help with displaying the message correctly in the pole display always starting at the beginning

Hi, I am using an HP RS232 pole display with the following setting: Char type: USA/Europe (default) Command mode: EPSON (default) Baud rate: 9600, n , 8, 1 (default?) Passthru None (Default) Here's the code using System.IO.Ports; private SerialPort port; port = new SerialPort("COM2", 9600, Parity.None, 8, StopBits....

Get User SID From Logon ID (Windows XP and Up)

I have a Windows service that needs to access registry hives under HKEY_USERS when users log on, either locally or via Terminal Server. I'm using a WMI query on win32_logonsession to receive events when users log on, and one of the properties I get from that query is a LogonId. To figure out which registry hive I need to access, now, I n...

Make windows open with work with my application

Hi, I wrote an application which will be able to open files of particular extension and show it to users. Now I want the users to be able to just double click the file and have it open with my application. I tried to set the "Always use the selected program..." option in the windows "Open With" dialog box, but do not know how to receive...

Path variable to mso.dll and msoutl.olb

Hey, I'm trying to develop a toolbar for Microsoft Outlook. For getting it to work I need mso.dll and msoutl.olb as an import. My problem is: the path is hardcoded , but it varies for every OS and of course if someone doesn't install Office to the default path. I tried it this way http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234788/en-us/ but ...

Opening Word Document from IE

Hello all, I'm opening a word document through IE on a local network, it opens up fine but if a document is password protected then it should prompt for the password which it doesn't. Is there something that I should be doing to get the password prompt? The way I'm opening the document is by a link on a web page e.g. <a href="\\path\...

Does the COM server have to call SysFreeString() for an [out] parameter?

We have the following interface: [object, uuid("uuidhere"), dual ] interface IInterface : IDispatch { [id(1), propget] HRESULT CoolProperty( [out, retval] BSTR* result ); } Now there's a minor problem. On one hand the parameter is "out" and so any value can be passed as input, the parameter will become valid only upon the successf...

aborting computer shutdown from windows service

Hi, Is it possible to abort computer shutdown from windows service? ...

Problem with some auto-refresh that happens on a button when mousehover

I've been working on a windows application lately. It's build up from several classes that basically draw an image together. After that was done, I made 2 buttons with an event on click that changed a few colors of the drawn objects. Everything works fine including the buttons, but my problem is that each time I hover over the buttons w...

What's a good open-source debugger & memory analyzer for Windows?

In a Unix world I've been happily using gdb for debugging and valgrind for memory analyzation. Are there open-source quality alternatives for Windows? I'm looking for lightweight pieces of software that do what you need, and never get in your way (just like gdb and valgrind). ...

Remotely place a file on a windows folder

I need to take a file and move it to a windows machine on a specific folder where it is then to be printed automatically. How would I accomplish something like this? Is it possible with PHP? ...

Any way to profile code for cache behavior? (Windows / C++)

Hi all, as the title says I'd like to somehow get the cache behavior of my code. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit edition, compiling on Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, compiling C++ code. I understand that there's Valgrind under Linux, but are there any free alternatives I could use, or methods otherwise? Thanks! ...

clearCanvas image loading question how can i use ClearCanvas.Server.ShredHost?

How can i use "ClearCanvas.Server.ShredHost" to get all images on my servers? ...

How do I link gtk library more easily with cmake in windows?

I'm now doing it in a very ugly way by manually including all the required path(the gtk bundle is at D:/Tools/gtk+-bundle_2.20.0-20100406_win32): include_directories(D:/Tools/gtk+-bundle_2.20.0-20100406_win32/include/gtk-2.0 D:/Tools/gtk+-bundle_2.20.0-20100406_win32/include/glib-2.0 D:/Tools/gtk+-bundle_2.20.0-20100406_win32/lib/glib-2...

C++ application as a service with high performance

I need to provide a C++ application as a service. Client of the service and the service can be on the same machine or distributed on different machines based on the load. This application takes a ~2KB string as input and returns almost similar size of string after some processing. Turnaround time for the client should be really quick. Wh...