Topics by ShawnCplus

This is just a little something for those of you used to using the Eclipse IDE, it's syntax highlighting almost identical to Eclipse save a bit of enhancement. Eclipse doesn't highlight ints, octal and hex individually but DevC++ can, there are a few other things in there that promote very …

As the title says: Is the XOR Swap algorithm still viable? I know that temp-swaps are supposedly faster but the shear coolness of an XOR swap makes it more attractive to me. What do you guys/gals think? For anyone that doesn't know what an XOR swap is here goes [code=c++] …

This is about as simple as it gets with menu generators. Everything is explained in the code. Note that the menu is simply an unordered list so to pretty it up it really relies on the CSS. If you don't want to write any CSS of your own here is …

I ran across the need to view a specific line of a file so I wrote this up. You can view a line or a range of lines for a file or compare two files. Check the command for the syntax. Drop it in /usr/bin/sln and enjoy.

This program was inspired by my college math 1 class. It takes the values of a1, a2, b1, b2, c1, c2 and solves, displays the equation and shows the work. It also stops if the equation is dependant or inconsistent (Zero division) Cramer's Rule if a1x+b1y=c1 and a2x+b2y=c2 then x=((c1*b2)-(c2*b1))/((a1*b2)-(a2*b1)) …

I created a bowling game, Which for the most part works correctly. I toiled for hours trying to figure out how to do the scoring so i gave up. Its fairly simple code so not much of a description needed.

Well its fairly self explanatory, its a program that shows that calculates the hypotenuse using the pythagorean theorum, It displays the values of the sides and shows a crappy ascii art right triangle with the values input and the later found values

Ok I greatly modified a tutorial to have a completely different interface, a highscore list and a little tiny really rare easter egg. to get the highscore list. I want to figure out how to sort the highscore list if it is possible. And dont worry about it freaking out, …

This is the first program I wrote, well besides Hello world. I put about a lot of hours into this code, it started as a divisional calculator than i evolved it so it would ask your name and calculate your average and i was messing around with the system ("") …

If you've gotten the error "Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL resource" you're in luck because so has everyone else that has ever used PHP... ever. The error is caused by a number of things including: Your query is wrong, you failed to connect to the database or you …

I wrote this FSM to tokenize HTML for my syntax highlighter, it works pretty well and its fast but its currently ugly as all heck and could definitely use some love so if anyone is up for taking a whack at cleaning it up or giving me some speed hints …

As many of you that have worked with VB.NET know, and have been irritated by, you can't use a nonconstant variable to size an array. A simple workaround, reply if this is a problem, is to take input on the size of the array (Yes, I know you can't do …

Is it just me or have serif fonts become the new go-to font of Web 2.0 sites. Out the window with you old, boring sans-serif Verdana. Who needs you Arial? We have Georgia, glorious Georgia, or even *gasp* Garamond. Has the serif laid it's pointy edge into the blunt broadside …

I've come across a bit of a conundrum. Firefox handles DOM manipulation based on the standard which (would'a'thunk-it?) works. However, Internet Explorer does not. So here's the situation. I've got a select box and a remove button which, in Firefox, works as advertised, ie., removes the selected element from the …

So Firefox 3.0b2 was released and though I'm constantly cringing since my add-ons obviously don't work yet I must say I am very pleased. There is a noticeable difference in the amount of memory being used, I've been using it all day long and I have yet to see it …

For those of you who haven't heard of or used AutoHotKey check it out here [URL="http://www.autohotkey.com/"]http://www.autohotkey.com[/URL] for the rest of you I made a really simple script for Dev-C++ to add some speed to it. (I had more in the script but they were things only I would remember and …

I've been trying to decide how to handle saving game data. At first I was using plaintext which is quick and straight forward but also very, very ugly. I wanted to delve into the world of XML to save data since although it is a bit slower since it has …

I'm having a slight problem. This particular function is crashing caused by the Loadfile ifstream being opened. [code=c++] void LoadChar(Entity players[], char saveNum) { string filename, saves; saves = saveNum; filename = "save/Save" + saves + ".sav"; char *file; file = const_cast<char*>(filename.c_str()); ifstream Loadfile(file, ios::in); //this little diddy right here …

Most likely you've seen a flash MP3 player or two while searching the web but I have a favorite. This is the [URL="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_MP3_Player"]JW MP3 Player[/URL], mainly because it has external JavaScript functions that can be used to access data about the player dynamically. I've written a few things for it …

Well this is my problem, I wrote a function to sort a 2d char array but right now the second dimension bound cannot be variable so it has to be hardset (which I don't particularly like) This is what I have [code=c++] void multi_charSort(char array[][5]) { int i,j; char temp2[5]; …

Hello, I have received some tips to take advantage of the whitespace on my homepage and I was wondering; What is a good way to utilize whitespace in a way that still pertains to my website and doesn't overcrowd the page? I was thinking of using more defined spacers between …

I am going to college after this summer for programming and applications development. I have a little knowledge of C++ and very little C. I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions to some exercises projects that would give me a head start if you will, before I get to …