Topics by Reverend Jim

I would like to see a "Subscribe to Thread" feature added. There are occasions when I want to be notified if there are new postings to a thread, even when I feel I have nothing to contribute. I (generally) don't like posting unless I can make a contribution to the …

Could someone please undo the negative vote I made on [url]http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/threads/411073[/url] I didn't intend to ding the OP and I can't see any way of undoing it myself.

Could somebody please put a sticky post like [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/366794"]this[/URL] at the top of the VB.NET forum? It's gotten to the point where people are now posting blocks of uncommented code and no actual question. It might help if the first thing at the top of the page was [B][COLOR="Red"]"Read This …

I've noticed an appalling number of first time posters who post threads with titles like "Help! Urgent!!!!". The posts can be almost as useless as "I'm trying to program something and I'm getting an error. What am I doing wrong?". It would seem that few people are reading and following …

In the last few days I have lost the ability to render certain images on DaniWeb. For example, the icons to the left of the threads now show only as text. Likewise with the "buttons" in the edit window. Any ideas what might have caused this or how to fix …

I download a lot of articles for offline reading and archiving. When I download an article, it gets saved as AuthorFirstName AuthorLastName - title.ext Once I have read the article (assuming I want to keep it) I rename it to AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName - title.ext I wrote a python script (swapnames.pyw) …

I have a NumericUpDown control that I want to allow the user to change with the mouse scroll wheel. The problem is that even with the following code [code] Private Sub numSeries_MouseWheel(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles numSeries.MouseWheel If e.Delta > 0 Then numSeries.Value += 1 Else …

Well, this is embarrassing. I had to completely rebuild my laptop from scratch. I usually keep 3 or 4 items pinned to the taskbar and launch them with WINKEY-1, WINKEY-2, etc but somehow or other this no longer works. I really should know how to do this but I just …

I have an app I wrote in Python/wxPython. When I click a button, the action that is taken will depend on whether or not a modifier key (such as CTRL) is currently pressed. I can't toggle a swich based on a keypress event (eg ctrldown = True or False) because …

I wanted to upvote another user's post. When I clicked on the upvote link I got a popup which stated "[user] currently has 537 reputation points. You have the power to influence pyTony's reputation by 4 points." I felt his assistance was worth more than one point but there was …

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Is anyone ever going to fix the dead link on [url]http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/10915[/url] with the label User Maintenance, General forum usage, Reading and posting messages. I would really like to find the guide that explains the finer points of the Daniweb user interface. I think this is it but it had been …

I thought I'd play around with vPython so I wrote a 3D breakout game (I used to have one on my Amiga and I haven't seen one for Windows). Everything is done except for one wee problem. I want to idle while waiting for the user to click the left …

I was doing a little playing around with some scrollbar controls and I noticed an odd behaviour that I was hoping someone could explain. I create three horizontal scrollbar controls, one for each primary colour. Possible values for each R, G or B are 0 to 255. When I set …

I have a textbox control for which I want to fit twelve double spaced lines of text so that the textbox is optimally filled (as little whitespace at the end as possible). So far the best I have come up with is [code] Dim fh As Integer = txtCategories.Height \ …

I have two forms that are called by the main form. One is named frmEdit, and is invoked by the ShowDialog (modal) method. The other is named frmSearch and is invoked by the Show (non modal) method. In both cases I want to preserve the last window position so each …

I would appreciate a snippet of code for adding groups at run-time to a listview. I am currently listing books (and stats) without groups via the following code which is executed in a loop (one pass per book title). [code] item = New ListViewItem item.Text = seq.ToString item.SubItems.Add(Mid(titlenode.Nodes(N_CSTAT).Text, 3)) item.SubItems.Add(Mid(titlenode.Nodes(N_JSTAT).Text, …

Am I missing something here? I am writing a game that requires some random number generation. I decided to use the System.Random class but I was getting strange results. The documentation says that if I have an instance of the class (let's call it r), the call r.Next(1,6) returns a …

I'm running Windows 7 Pro on a Dell Inspiron 1720. I have desktop slideshow enabled and pointed to a folder of my favourite pictures. Occasionally I will force a switch to the next picture from the desktop context menu item "Next desktop background" which appears between the "NVIDIA control panel" …

When I try to build a C++ project I get the error message in the title line. I am trying to help my son move his development from a unix cluster to his laptop. He is running Windows XP Pro and has installed the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers. The …

In the book, wxPython in Action (page 65), the following code shows how to bind an event to a frame (self) and to a button. In the case of the frame event (wx.EVT_CLOSE), no source argument is specified because the event is being bound to the object refenced as "self". …

Can someone please fill in the missing line of code in OnPageChange? I have a notebook control and on a page change event, I want to retrieve the label of the tab that was just selected. GetLabel and GetLabelText both return '' [CODE] import wx import wx.lib.mixins.inspection class Frame(wx.Frame): def …