Posts by rproffitt

Let me share that my works in C# were the least troublesome over the years. My experience with .NET was without troubles so I tend to use that over and over.

I'd do that again.

It would alarm me. Why? If you created a non-Facebook method I would wonder if you were collecting FB data or something nefarious. FB has documented how to add a share button. Use that. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button/

I looked at other websites and not one has such an interface. Look at how Daniweb shares. What's wrong with that?

Here's a thing. Over time web browsers have built up barriers to keep web page data private to that page and the server. So when you cross to another browser page I see a basic design problem as in "I don't expect this to work without a server holding that information."

That is, any data you need would go back to the web server then the new page would use pull data from your web server.

My answer is "Design the system to put and pull data from your web server. Don't count on being to access what's on a web page when you change pages or use another web browser tab." I'm not going to get into logins, session cookies etc.

I won't write exactly here. I will note that anyone using any Cloud app still has to protect their data. Only the very new don't understand this.
And sometimes I hear that only old foggies are the ones talking about it. Sort of like this guy: Steve Wozniak.

So about your system. As it's a business your disaster plan should be in place now. That is, what happens when this cloud is offline? And the other issues like lost laptop, etc.

You have asked similar same question twice or more before. Why ask again? I'm starting to think you are spamming for Mobirise?

Frankly I'd walk your post back a bit and tell where you are going with this. For example you seem to want it to show you "Logitech something" but that's not always in the data.

What you can see is in USBView at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/usbview which has full source available for those that want to get into this.

But that's not what I'm asking or why I'm sharing here. I'd like to know what prompted you to go down this rabbit hole.

@EddiRae. There are so many tutorials out there that I'm going to pass up writing one here. Here's your search but add the language you used to narrow it down which shouldn't matter.

https://www.google.com/search?client=daniweb-b-1-ab&q=How+to+deploy+your+visual+studio+app

Try using VS's deployment tools next time as creating a folder and dropping exe's in there can be trouble as in permissions, ownership etc.

Keep in mind I and the gang don't add anything that didn't come with VS. So the answer is none.

But external to VS we do use WinMerge from time to time.

I don't know what you didn't understand in that sentence. But in short you try the SQL change manually. It's best to use the SQL submission string you created in your code. So you use a debugger or just echo that string to a file for you to pick up later.

Let's be clear here. You want to create something like https://www.google.com/webdesigner/ ?
Also, this site isn't about "gimme the code." You share where you are stuck such as "foo is undefined at line 42" and share what line 42 is and members may troubleshoot that. This site is also about many other things but your post has no question and sounds like a gimme the code/solution post.

@tun712. I've used VistaPrint and it's site has a boatload of technology behind it so I'm going to write that no WordPress person I know could match that even if I gave them years. Not only that but there appears to be backend processes where you submit a PDF for the print job and it seems to run it through various filters to show a web page with the expected result or tell you it failed. This means you must have prior experience or team members that have built some backend processing to handle such.

I'm going to stick to VistaPrint's site as an example of what I would estimate a few years of design work with same time under development.

Fast forward to today and you will get folk that want all that as a plugin. Yes, folk have asked for that!

What if it's not a code issue? Did you "publish" your content? Noted at http://www.bdnyc.org/2012/08/how-to-embed-a-live-google-docs-spreadsheet-into-a-webpage/

CHEAT! Place the numbers 1 to 999 across a row in your spreadsheet so you can see if data[i][35] is picking up the right number. I'm not offering to fix your code but will share how I worked a similar issue somewhere else.

This sounds like the problem you had at https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/518763/problem-with-graphic-interface-on-my-app-java

It's 2019 so can you share what changed from 2017 to 2018 then 2019?

You've tagged this with both vb.net and vb6 but need to write what you need here. Such as are you looking for a finished app with source code or are you stuck with how to read a file? Vb.net and vb6 syntax vary so you should pick one and not both.

When I check out a site for any issues I start with two reports. Here's the links I'm using today. These tend to change over time as we find better tests but here is now and what I'm using to see what's up.

1. https://gtmetrix.com/
2. https://validator.w3.org/

Some folk balk at the idea you should clean up what these report. For me it's like Lint but for the web.

1. I read the entire newsletter so I'd read this as well.
2. While I may not be that interesting to others, yes to both.
3. Advice for others or a lesson you learned that you wish others had shared.

What use "for" in this simple case? From https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/files/reading-and-writing-files-in-python

Maybe it's just 3 lines of code. Example:

file = open(“testfile.txt”, “r”) 
print file.readline(2): 
file.close()

Sorry that I don't have a tutorial on this one. While I do work on Android apps in AS and use the emulator I did have to be patient as the system finished setting up.

All of us at the office use this one. Good, bad or indifferent we use it. I went so far as to install Intel's accelerators to the emulator and it's very usable. The only thing that I wish it could do is better Bluetooth emualation. That is, if your PC has a Bluetooth system the emulator doesn't use it so you have an emulator with something missing. Our apps use SPP (serial port profile) on Android so 99% of the time we have a real Android target over USB.

It does here. I seem to install this about 4 times a year and each time I get an emulator. Maybe you need a clue on how to start it.
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline is just one of many pages about this one.

I don't know if this will work for you. It's rather large and has more than just the emulator. I use the emulator in Android Studio. Maybe someone has it "all on its own" but I haven't searched for that. If I was to search I think it would be this one: https://www.google.com/search?q=run+avd+emulator+without+android+studio

I do want to comment that miscreants have hijacked common searches so you look for a thing and end up at other sites, malware sites or worse.

I have favorite apps like VLC Player but when folk tell me they looked for such they got malware. PITR.

@Reverend Jim,

Windows 10 deliverery optimization has changed again. May want to check it out. Here's the screen where it shares among the local area network PCs.

Not that I am saying it works, but they did change it again.

Now it's starting to sound like an assignment. Can we see what book, class this is? Usually the preceding chapters build up to this sort of assignment.

Forget loops for a moment. What would you write to test any of the above now?

That explaination doesn't work for me either. Nested loops are over in the tutorial at https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/cpp_nested_loops.htm which covers 3 or more nested loop designs.

Never worry about asking questions. I don't want to get into what are bad questions.

This could be a side effect of your other changes. Such as different .h files? Why not run the code in some debugger so you can trace the code. OR do the old fashioned print or cout to see where your code goes. Sort of reminds me of Dr. Seuss, "Oh the places your code will go!"

"Luke, follow the code." As I read your code it looks to me that there are two input calls being made. Your code appears to do exactly what you wrote.

What I'm reading is line 11 gets something, line 12 gets something. That's two "get something"s.

"if I use my own..."

This means you either shouldn't do that or dive into how yours differs from the working version.

I'm ignoring the code dumps. I'll share how I research how to command line compile using a Google search.

1. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=compiling+from+the+command+line+%22Code+Blocks%22
2. That's pretty close. I think this link is the one you want: http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=11897.0

It appears this and other issues pop up when you try to move to the command line. (In ref to %Program Files or such.)

Looking at your tagline about dot.net training is this some form of shilling? You've done such questions before and why not reveal your company next?

Just me chiming in here. On that other forum I moderate, alert emails have been hit or miss for a lot of members. The ones that don't have issues are on gmail or something other than what Dani noted.

For those intrepid adventurers. Read https://www.howtogeek.com/398226/now-windows-10-has-c-b-and-d-updates.-what-is-microsoft-smoking/

This is more why my advice is "Don't force it." and "Don't ask for it."

That's the paradox of choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

Since he's a younger person I'd stick to the 15 inch models. About 1300USD gets you a nice enough gamer. Don't think about 4K gaming. Let's go 1080p and maybe over 60Hz display.

https://www.amazon.com/i7-8750H-Processor-GeForce-Gigabit-Windows/dp/B07F6K21HJ

Not that big on games? Drop to the 1050 Ti model for 700ishUSD.
https://www.amazon.com/i7-8750H-Processor-GeForce-Gigabit-Windows/dp/B07DY11M1F

PS. Due to the paradox of choice, there are many "best"'s.

A new question usually is best with a new discussion but let's get into "deploying" your app. In Visual C++ 2008 it was possible to create a standalone .exe so there was no installer required. Then again you could have DLLs and other files that need to be deployed so you use your choice of an installer program. There are so many out there but your app usually determines if you need an installer.

We also need to think of our users. The more entry level the user, the more they need to see Setup.exe. They struggle to make a folder for the app and copy in the .exe.

Good news. Or rather a sip from the fire hose.

There are over 53 examples at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Arithmetic_evaluation including C++. In the C++ example they used the Boost library and in there you can see how they parsed the expression.

Now that's not ready to use for your question but very close. You can parse out your string up to the equal sign then use the Rosettacode example to get the answer then you parse out whats past your equal sign and see if that compares.

Small world. My son is doing the gig thing for the Amazon Whole Foods delivery. You can look at that to see the scale of the apps for the customer facing apps. You might think that such an app is "just one app."

SURPRISE! In the Amazon system you have their web system, their mobile apps which you can see right now. But woah! There are apps for the folk that pick the stock, bag and tag system (another app), then the delivery folk have their app (grubhub too) and then the app all the workers use to pick their shifts.

The more I see of this system the higher the price tag goes. The Amazon system I'm seeing would be in the millions of dollars since there are many apps plus their backend systems.

For the single shop, you may want to look at GrubHub and see if that is your cheap exit.

Good question. Sad answers so far. I've yet to find a source that runs say a "lint" on c++ code to tell you if you are using depracated API calls. So just like the decades before you test on the versions of Windows you are targeting.

As to 32 to 64 bit, the 64 bit versions of Windows 7 to 10 do run 32 bit apps. This has been true for over a decade so there's little question there.

I'll share I moved to W10 64 bit for reasons like you asked. My clients seem to be on W10 64 bit exclusively.

My longest life span product is in Visual Basic 6.0 SP6. With some minor tweaks I was able to keep it running on Windows 10. This app started back on Windows 95 so it's been in service for 23 years. Disparage this old horse all you want but it's getting up there in years.

Fortran and Cobol have seen app lifespans in the 40 plus years. (Oops, make that 50+ years.)

Those pictures look normal. No clues there. Let's check out your hardware. Supply the web links to the following tests.

1. Speccy. Read how to share at https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web
2. Userbenchmark.com Share that too.

This will be work but I'll share how I find the maker's remote part number for Samsung. A few ways.

1. www.samsungparts.com Put in the TV and for many models the remote is in there.
2. Google it. The full model number which for Samsung is some letters, numbers followed by 4 or 5 letters and then "replacement remote."

There are websites that may have build up such a database but they usually don't share since it's their pot of gold.

Good to read it's still the things I don't need or care about. 99.9999% of the time I just need a better battery health report.

I used the free version and it's still working fine days, years later. Are you sure you got the free version?

As to the DANIWEB eamail notification, I don't check since it may not be instant.

I no longer fix this. That is, I don't bother trying to get Windows to report this. I go get the free version of BatteryBar and get a better readout of the battery condition.

-> Second problem. Since the time remaining is not accurate it's probably best to not give remaining time. Why? Because how you use the laptop determines remaining time. The battery app can't guess if you are going to lower the brightness and browse the web, play a video or game. There is a 10 fold decrease in battery time for one activity to the next. Go get BatteryBar and call it a day.

Even at 2 minutes you might be doing better than Windows File Explorer (WFE.) Keep in mind that I won't go over a lot of prior discussions but will note that unless you build up some sort of cache to avoid a directory call the speed is limited by the speed of the OS, API and disk speeds.

It appears you search for files from the root so you may be traversing OS system areas which you would want to exclude. Maybe just search from the user home folder is best as your app usually doesn't need to go outside their home folder.

You left me confused. You wrote you don't share code then proceed to try to use shared code.

Beyond that, the C code you shared looks to be old command line stuff and no indication a windows system was in use.

For decades when I ran a small C app from the command line to today, it's the same as it was 2 decades plus ago with an exception I might be using Gnome or another system. Just open a bash shell, run the command or C app and all is fine. Not once does the base shell in a window system close on me.

In the news, Microsoft might be changing the render engine in Edge.

One of the banes of one lone web portal our group supports is to use many web browsers and devices. Thankfully that is not my job.