Posts by rproffitt

Mozilla wrote at this page that it's going away and may not work.

"Instead use specific event constructors, like MouseEvent()."

Odd how my link broke. Try this -> Microsoft's Cloud OS

No. I didn't get all of Office 2003 to work until I installed Office 2003's Service Pack 3. Then it worked. This service pack is not to be confused with an OS service pack. Also, if your OS has some other Office installed, results are mixed. Maybe, maybe not if you have a demo version or other office installed. Hope this helps.

For me it's up to the client. But that's not telling me enough. For example, the problem I had with WinForms is what happens when you move from say an old 640x480 VGA screen to an portrait view on a 1080p display and all those screens inbetween. WPF tries to tackle that for us. I'm not writing it solved it but it was a start.

Beyond that we have mobile screens, tablets and now the 4K screens. WPF may be the way to those screens.

As to MSFT's future is anyone's guess but for decade plus apps my office makes sure we can pickle the dev system. That is we make sure that we have a dev system that can be installed as well as complete systems in storage. In the past this was pretty horrible with desktops but in the last decade these are now just a pair of laptops in the filing cabinent filed under whatever legacy project we agreed to keep in cold storage. There are some that are going to bristle at the idea we would take perfect hardware and store it for the day a client comes back and wants "a small change." But it's paid off over the years so we do this without much noise except for the newer members of the staff.

If you know your target, I don't see any issue with going with WinForms for say a decade long deployment.

For reference http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/cloud-os/

Windows 10 is the GUI OS for the masses. It does not seem to have the underpinnings for running the cloud noted at link.

Item 1 sounds like the usual. Item 2 for HDDs is again sadly normal as not all ports have the same power available. For that reason I have a few USB Y cables to tap a second port for more power.

You should let the forum see that path as well as try the old CD to the folder and starting it from the cmd line. Your reply doesn't tell me you did what I asked.

Did you try the old uninstall and reinstall as well?

"understand why this one isn't working."

Remember that this has been kicked around in prior discussions so I went looking for what keycodes Mozilla and IE respond to. The keycode you tried didn't look to be in the article I linked to. Maybe there's another for mouse? Look for a document on that area.

Then one thing. I find trouble in front USB ports on many cases. That's not an error for your code to correct or to fix your client's PCs unless that's your choice. I'm sure that somewhere you will find some USB issue someday. For example I have this older XP all patched up laptop USB 2.0 and once in a while a BSOD due to some driver error. There is no hope of fixing that but on a newer laptop, never saw it happen.

A newer coder might think it was theirs to fix.

Then we have the USB device driver install headaches. While I've written instructions on the device I used in one system I support it never fails that folk will come back with "it doesn't work." Their laptop is shipped in and we run through the device install and it's all good. Makes you wonder at times but maybe not. A lot of folk don't want to deal with Windows, they just want.

This may or may not apply. I built a demo app years ago that worked to capture on the fly hand or print information to categorize images. While I can't tell all I did use Tesseract and Netpbm to dig through images for the information I was looking for. It was a fun thing since we used a simple camera with an EyeFi card that made it easy to take snaps of the product and automate it all.

Netpbm let me do some greyscale work then that image went to Tesseract which spit out what it could see. My app would orchestrate the whole thing then sift through the results for the information I would use to file the images from the camera. Again I can't reveal much more than this. But I can share the gist of the idea on how the app worked and tools used.

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1003/1003.5893.pdf is worth reading as it popped up along the research.

Can you share how you solved this years ago at https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/79586/interfacing-usb-ports-from-vb5

I see this question kicking around since about 2011 but no clear answer.

However as I read https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/keyCode I don't see an event for the keycode you are sending.

If you wanted to learn what Mozilla is listening for you might have to get into the source but the big clue here why it didn't respond is in the keycode article.

How to fix? May had to similate the control key down, then your mouse click down, up then a control key up.

That's a fair start but without knowing the device well, where to go next?

As to USB 1,2,3 as long as the device driver works, all good. About the only trouble could be if you happen to get a customer with some USB 1.0 on Windows 95 to ME machine. But you are likely to not write for those old platforms.

And to state it plainly I've yet to find anyone write a device driver in VB.

Remember I don't know which flash addin you used, it's capabilities or your SWF code.

That said there's always old school move the mouse to X, Y and do a mouse click and if needed SendKeys().

I agree about being on an older PHP. As I read http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.13 I find myself saying, I want that fix.

Ouch. typo. I meant "form" in VB.NET.

Then you opened a command window (I would run CMD) to cd to the folder and then run the .exe. This would tell us a bit more than the above. You didn't share how you checked the path or what the path was. So back to basics.

OK, that sounds like progress. A forum in VB.NET is well, just that. If I wanted to change a label in the form is usually simple.
textlablename.Text = "this"

But some new to this folk need a reminder to refresh the text. That's kicked around at many prior discussions like
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6848495/how-to-update-label-text-in-vb-net

For me when you talk about VB.NET and a form, that's talking about just that. For a flash object, that's not a form but an object.
Hope this helps.

Here's the deal. Since I can't guess what control you picked to use I can't comment much beyond there are examples for VB.NET
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/40173-embedding-a-flash-player-control/ for example has play, goto frame and maybe more.

BUT again, these controls vary with what control you happen to find or pick.

Small world. I needed a way to make this and other diagrams that anybody on the team could view, edit, create and more. Here's what I ended up with -> UMLET.

You can find it and see examples at https://www.google.com/#q=umlet+class+diagram

Daniweb kicked that around before at https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/239570/lotto-array-program-with-void-function

I see other ideas out there on the web. Hopefully this gets you started.

Your app will work on your gear and the machines you test on. Three are long debates about the end of Flash or not which I won't repeat or enter. I shared why Ionic doesn't work for me but maybe it will work for you.

You could share the path, as well as open a CMD prompt to cd to that folder and start the .exe.

All skill levels are out there. I can't know if you have the basic skills of the command line or can read the path or even if you know how to check the path. Right or wrong I'll take it you have the basic skills since you are or were running IIS.

Flash is almost gone already. I can't imagine a new app today that would start where others have left it for dead. But hey, if you feel you can make a go of it, why not?

If your app needs are met with this tool, why not? I shared my view but what if your app doesn't need to handle things like screen rotation, and the specific thing I noted? Then you are good to go.

By quality I mean does it handle screen rotation like a good app does. Games and some other apps don't but I've seen a few too many of thise app builders that don't address screen rotation and screen size changes.

Specifically look at Figure 4 and Figure 5 of http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/settings.html#PreferenceHeaders

While Ionic looks to be fast, it's also leaving much behind in regards to a quality app.

Let's hope you do better at other than app sales. Why? Read the sobering story at http://blog.soff.es/redacted-for-mac-launch

It hit #1 and you can see how it didn't come close to paying off his investment of an Apple machine, education and pizza.

I don't know what you are selling so let's hear a little more.

The answer to your question is yes. Folk have done such.

Can you ask a deeper question like "How does Ionic Creator handle my dozen different platforms and screen rotation?"

My look into this one found it lacking. Not bad for a quick thing but for a quality app, I'm back to Android Studio.

@lamatuer. That's 1 of 2 answers. Check your PATH.

Line 25 from above could be

25 if(no < 0.00001) // close enough for us to call it zero.

As James noted, you printed it to 4 places but didn't do same for the numbers themselves. Your code, your choice on what to set the small number to or to change it to print zero, not zero and "really close to zero."

This sounds like the old almost-but-not-quite zero number discussion. You can learn a lot more about floating point or just use prior ideas from prior almost-but-not-quite zero number discussions.

Example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9542391/float-double-equality-with-exact-zero

Is the inetmgr.exe file in C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv ?
Does your PATH include that folder?

I'll pause here since checking folders and pathes are skills you should have already.

The Dell adapter looks OK. While I've set these up over the years, I don't recall your exact monitor and PC. But this looks like the usual so I hope for the usual result (working.)

It's a shame there are folk making 5 dollar VGA to digital cables. I guess there are folk that will hope and buy such things even if they shouldn't work. That is, not one has been seen working here across a few hundred instances (I used to run a repair shop.)

All 5 dollar adapters do not convert VGA (analog) to DVI-D (digital.) Since that's so well discussed, let's not repeat why it doesn't work.

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd001803 notes a DisplayPort. That might work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158234 and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812816166 is from your PC's displayport to DVI-D (which your M9177LL seems to have. Both are digital so that's what I would have chosen for an adapter.

You'll want to check which DisplayPort size is on your PC

Given there are free versions of VB .NET I can't imagine dragging out VB6 for a new app today. Do a little time travel to 2015 today. We're waiting.

Is this the M9177LL/A ? If so DVI-D to VGA would be more than a few dollars. I continue to find folk trying 5, 10 buck adapters and that's a dead end. Sometimes they want a technical reason why it doesn't work. That's on the web.

Let's here more about the exact models of the machines and what else you from from the Lenovo other than VGA.

That tool here is a batch file. Almost every update has a commandline quietinstall option. So it should be easy to collect the updates on a stick and write a batch file to run each update.

As to the script it's batch 101 as in very easy so why would a tool be needed for that?

ISO wouldn't be my choice. My choice was a folder on the USB stick and the batch file I wrote for this month.

https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232#map seems to come close.
Other ideas at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/baw9A5LuS3o

Remember that folk rarely write the code for you but this looks like you can do this from a spreadsheet or other source.

There's a few videos on how to do that. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJiSG5aQ3g&feature=fvwrel

Small world. OK, I never had to install ANY tools to receive codes from the barcode reader. All our barcode readers looked like keyboard input. Which is a GRREAT THING since if the barcode reader is dead or can't read they can type in the code.

So with that out of the way, can you take input from the user?
If yes, you can use a barcode reader.

Just checking. Is yours like the one in this 10YO discussion? Probably not. I'm sure you googled and found a lot of dead NV53a's on the web so one last hurrah.

Unplug the charger.
Remove the battery.
Press and hold the power button for 60 seconds.
Release, plug in the charger and try again (a battery is not required for this test.)

If it still fails try a new CMOS/BIOS battery and repeat the reset I noted. Past that it's on the web what the most common failure was.

Remember I am not running your code but I do see an issue. The variables to the API call look to be integers so a rounding error could have your size off by 1 character. That is if you did get your pixel count per fixed spaced font in question, it may work out to 39.5 and lop it off at 39. So you may have to fudge this aby adding 1 to your calculation to avoid the scrollbar.

Also, you would have single stepped your code to see all the variables to check your math.

From what I did in C and C++, the data types are the same. Since you only get so many decimal digits in each floating point representations you choose which fits your needs.

If you feel you need formatted output, there's still printf() and other ideas at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15106102/how-to-use-c-stdostream-with-printf-like-formatting

So, yes. There are only so many decimal digits in various floating point reprentations.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13931062/double-10-decimal-point-precision kicks it around a little so why not use the type that fits your needs?

It's been over a decade since I saw my last Novell server. But as to the resources I fear it's not a lack of resources on the web today but you may be overwhelmed by all that is out there. I'd start with https://www.google.com/#q=active+directory+tutorial or maybe take a class on Windows Server.

Why does this look so much like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7052219/php-to-delphi-and-back-encryption-decryption-using-rijndael
Is this a common homework assignment?

And skip down to the code "The PHP and Delphi functions now give me the same answer."

Sure. When it does come up, look in the bios for a power resume on loss mode. Turn that off. Such a PC has priors and tracked to heat, PSU, motherboard and other parts. The first time of the day points me more to the old BAD CAPS PLAGUE (see google) or a PSU that was barely big enough in the first place. PSUs lose capacity over time so new PC techs often must learn about that.

Where is the right } for the left { on line 199?

So item 4 is where you start working. There are many ways to do this, it's your app so you decide.
And item 5 is where you wrote how you want it done. That is you start coding to make that happen.
Same for item 6. Your DB design to meet your goals.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26379161/jquery-lightbox-opening-html-content-instead-of-an-image and other folk wrote no.