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I am spliting my soft real-time application into two processes, one is the gui and the other is the hardware communications. I would like to to have both processes monitor each other as they send data back and forth. When one detects that the other has crashed it will launch …

I am programing VBA for excel and was wondering if anyone knows where I can fidn the documentation for the selection object. Also do you know how I can get the VB editor to recognize thet object so when I type Selection and put the period after it, it pops …

Does anyone know of an web based programming utility where I can program C++ in a web page and have it compile on my remote server. I run an LAMP server

I have recently voluteered to be a mentor for a local inexperienced FIRST robotics team. The main area I will be mentoring is the programming aspect of the competition. The controllers for last years robot was programmed using LabView but they also can be programmed in C++. The better teams …

I am trying to boost the performance of the startup of my realtime application. I have the interfaces laided out in a xml file that are parsed in and created into a data structure. Would it be worth while for me to struture my program so that once the interface …

Is there a way to determine what control I clicked using a global click event. I would like to be able to click a form text box table I created for my access app to enable to enable and unlock it without have a million on click event handlers

I am getting runtime error 424 when I try to access my global dictionary's count. It works fine when in the sub routine that initializes the dictionary and right after the sub routine was called inside the form_open event. Why would I be getting this error when I click a …

Why is it that when I call recordCount on a rescordset it returns 1 even when I know that there is two different records in it and able to access those two records in the set.

What would be a good book for me to learn about advanced networking (Setting up DHCP servers, Security, etc..)

I have two questions one is kind of a newbie question and the other one is a little more advanced. I have been coding C++ off and on for the past couple of years as a hobby and a little for my EE classes. I usually in my class reference …

I am still working on my realtime application for my car that will be running on Minimal Ubuntu and the gtkmm library. My current application runs alright for a singly thread application. I am in the process of multi-threading it (still learning threads). What I thought would be the best …

I am trying to draw a gradient in a rectangle using cairomm. I found the code below which helped a lot. My problem is I want to turn this rectangle into a progress bar. Is there a way to modify the code so that it at a certain percentage of …

I'm having some trouble finding a place to put this question, since I don't have any insight in coding. Please let me know if the thread is misplaced, and I'll move it. Question: I have an idea of an app for iPhone/any smart phone and before I move on with …

I have created a icmp ping function but it doesn't always work due to the firewall of the computer I am trying to ping. I heard you can get around this using a tcp ping. How can i construct a tcp ping packet. I did a little research and it …

Can I use libxml++ to parse html. I'm trying to find all the images in a xml file and store the image data directly into the src attribute of the web page. I know there is a bit of a difference between html and xml that's why I am asking …

I have been coding an IP scanner for god knows what reason. The program kind of works. It does find active computers on the network but for some reason it does not find my computer using its network ip or its internal ip (127.0.0.1). Also it can not find any …

I have a verizon fios router and would like to setup some subnets. Does anyone know how I could have all the wireless computer on the network have the ips 10.100.xx.xx and all my hardwired devices to have the ips 192.168.xx.xx.

I'm writing a shell script for I can launch a program from the terminal using ./AppName but how can i get the return value either 0 or 1 to determine if the program executed correctly

Does sqlite contain a function that would look at every row in a column and find the ones contain a string I supply it with. I'm trying to make a dynamic database search that would query retrieve rows from the database every time I type a new letter into my …

I can write a procedural application fine with graphics just fine. I have a new project where I am finally going to learn how to code with concurrency in mind. So I want to make an alarm clock that can have repeating alarms and selectable alarm tunes through itunes or …

Not really sure if this is the right forum but it seems to best match my question. I am looking for a computer tool kit that I can use for work. Requirements are able to carry basic tools to to fix computer hardware and also it needs to have a …

I need to produce a program that would process/read a magnetic stripe card within a windows kiosk environment and would prefer doing this in C or C++. Could someone suggest pointers/recommendations about where one should start?

Hi All, I recently made the move from Windows to Mandriva Linux 2010, in Windows I used an IDE to write my code then build my projects, in Linux I cant find a suitable IDE im really struggling to build my projects. Now I can write my projects in kwrite …

So I can crop an image in cariomm and display it to the canvas, but what I want to do is crop the image and save the cropped image to a Cairo::ImageSurface so that I can paint just the section of the overall image to the screen with out have …

I am revisiting my EE senior design project that I finished up about 8 months ago. We basically took your vehicles instrument cluster and replaced it with a computer and graphically rendered your vehicles metric with the help of a datalogger. For the graphics I used cairomm for its vector …

Last week I was goofing around with multidimensional vectors and removing an element from each row. I got my code to remove and element from each row working inside int main, but when I put all this code inside of a function I started to get errors. The common error …

Does anyone know how I would be able to remotely manage a couple of computers (Windows) where I can boot them up and shut them down remotely from a central low power computer. Also I would like to remotely schedule the power down of external monitors.

I have been posting a bit about my current side project, a scripting language interpreter. I have gotten past my getline error I talked about in a previous post and am now trying to get the results from the script. I created a map of all the labels in the …

I am creating a scripting engine that would execute my own scripting language. The engine does a double pass through the script, the first pass parses the file and builds the data structure and the second executes the script. The error I am getting is when I try to read …

can i have a sample code of a c++ program that reads in a jpeg file, and with comments please, i am trying to learn image processing using jpeg file formats... i would love to have advanced codes too, if any one of you can provide me with them. i …