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 | ##vbScript - Run an External Program and Capture the Output Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. When you want to execute an external program for a particular result (such as resizing an image, as shown in a previous snippet) you can simply use … Programming file-stream shell-scripting unix vbscript |
| | Over the last few days I have been converting old video files from avi to mp4. I've been doing this using the command line version of DivX. This is the process behing the DivXPro GUI and it is named `DivXEngine.exe`. Converting video files takes a big hit on the CPU … Programming gui vbscript windows-10 |
| | ##vbScript - An Application to Modify srt Subtitle Files Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. So far I've posted either functions/subs or code snippets to illustrate a technique. This time I am going to post a complete application. First, a few points. 1. … Programming vbscript |
| | ##vbScript - A Multi-column Sort With Minimal Coding Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. A previous post dealt with sorting. The code easily handles sorting simple things like lists of words, lines of text - cases where you only had to compare two … Programming vbscript |
| | ##vbScript - Some Useful String Functions Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. vbScript provides a number of functions for manipulating strings. I find that a few more simple functions would have made things a lot simpler. For example, I find myself checking to … Programming vbscript  |
| | ##vbScript - Identify File by Perceived Type Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. There are times when you want to operate on all files of a given type. For example, you may want to enumerate all files in a folder or a drive … Programming audio file-system vbscript |
| | ##vbScript - Get Drive Letter by Volume Label Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. I have all my computers partitioned with two partitions. The drive letters are C (OS and applications) and D (user data). I use Macrium Reflect to take monthly full … Programming hard-drive vbscript |
| | ##vbScript - Browse for Folder or File Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. Some scripts need input (other than from the command line) from the user. This can be read from the console (StdIn) or from a pop-up textbox (InputBox). This is fine … Programming file-system gui microsoft-access printer shell-scripting vbscript |
| | ##vbScript - Convert Integer to Binary String Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. vbScript has a number of functions for converting from one type to another. These functions are named C<type> as in CInt (convert to int), CDbl (convert to double), etc. There … Programming vbscript |
| | ##vbScript - Sorting With and Without Code Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. Sorting is something that must be done from time to time. I'm going to examine three ways. The first is the well known (at least by name) QuickSort method. Rather … Programming algorithm programming-construct storage vbscript |
| | This is the first in (hopefully) a series of posts about vbScript. Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. My wife and I take a lot of pictures. Naturally, we end up sending pictures to friends through email. I find it is unnecessary, and … Programming shell-scripting vbscript |
 | I recently had to mass insert a really large text file of strings into MySQL. Here's how I did it.  |
 | The snippet shows how to create a menu on a windows form and test it. Original code via BCX, modified to compile with Dev C++ as a Windows Application. This approach does speed up writing of GUI programs.  |
| | This code generates an ascii maze of up to size 30x30. If you try to generate a larger maze then you will likely run out of stack space. There is no way to increase the size of the stack in vbscript. Each cell in the maze is represented by a … Programming vbscript |
| | Over the years I've seen a lot of discussion (and several implementations) of the Quicksort algorithm. Most of what I have seen, unfortunately, lacks sufficient commenting as well as meaningful variable names. Hopefully the following vbScript code will more clearly show how Quicksort actually works. A couple of incidental notes: … Programming algorithm programming-construct shell-scripting vbscript |
| | An often underused control from vb.Net is the FolderWatch control. But sometimes you need to throw something together that doesn't need a fancy GUI. Or perhaps the task seems too trivial to go to the hassle of coding it up in vb.Net (or C#). Because the FolderWatcher is built on … |
 | There are many pictures of hearts out there. I just wanted to draw a picture of a heart on my own from a math formula I found on the net. Seems there are many formulas to find. This is how it looks:  Enjoy! Programming mathematics microsoft |
| | Several people have asked how to export data to Excel. This code snippet shows how to export the data from a listview in details mode to a new Excel spreadsheet. Take note of the comments in the header to avoid having orphaned Excel.exe tasks eat up your system memory. |
 | The present code snippet just does an especific task. This is, given an ordered sequence of natural numbers, starting at zero, generate all the different permutations there can be. When we talk about permutations, the order of the sequence does matter. So, the sequence 0, 1, 2 differs from 2, … |
 | Hey, i was just mucking around and improving my code etc and made a calculator, it's not the best calculator in the world, it only can handle 1 or 2 numbers but i think it's good my self :). |
| | Shows how to create a basic slide show with the Python Tkinter GUI toolkit.  |
| | Yes, WPF. The learning curve is steep, but what amazing things you can do with it! Look at this hexagon window for instance. Serves no purpose in a business environment I guess, but in a gaming situation it could work. For me, it was just fun to get this up …  |
 | Well inside the windows operating system there are predefinided dialog boxes. We can use it freely with little effort. Think that you have to get a input file name or file path. The traditional way of doing this is parsing the command line arguments.But here we are in win32 , …  |
 | This is a remake of the Simple Equation Solver snippet that is written in Java. This is an equivalent version written in C++.  |
| | This class gives a specified Tkinter widget a tooltip that appears as the mouse is above the widget. You can improve the code by putting in a time delay.  |
 | This is one small snippet of after event usage. You could express if you find this kind of simple code to be usefull as snippet. Notice also vegaseat's sticky message threads in begining of Python forum in addition to code snippets.  |
| | A while back I came across an article that mentioned genetic algorithms. For those unfamiliar with the term, simply put, rather than finding a solution to a problem by iterating over all possible cases, a genetic algorithm attempts to find a solution by starting with a guess, then generating a … Programming mathematics vbscript  |
| | PySide (public license PyQT) is my preferred Python GUI toolkit. Here we explore how to test some of the widgets available and create a digital clock. |
| | I am building an e-commerce website i found one error in last night in my site Error: If user enters the zipcode in zip code field & without clicking on CHECK OR GO Button, when he clicks on ADD TO CART button then products are getting added in Shopping cart. … |
| | This code creates a sound file in Sun's simple AU audio format of a sine wave of given frequency, duration and volume.  |
| | Here's an interesting little scenario. You get challenged to a game of coin toss. Both players pick a sequence of coin toss results (heads or tails). The coin is repeatedly tossed until the sequence for one of the players occurs. The loser pays the winner a dollar. You'd assume that … |
| | Sometimes when you get a large check from your employer, the value is written out in words. I get those all the time of course. So I wrote this little Python code to convert an integer value to english words. Numbers as high as 999 vigintillion can be used. In …  |
| | Another application of Python module base64, this time to embed midi music data in your program. You also need the module pygame to execute this Python code. Enjoy the music!  |
| | [OH noo, please not that again!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvShTJKuy2w) Yeah, primes sigh. But they play a minor role here as a perfect victim to explain some other things. Would not advise to use the algorithm here to calculate them in real life. There are languages like Python, F#, Haskell etc. who have list … |
| | You can put an image and text on a Tkinter button widget. This small code shows you how. The GIF image file you want to use for the button should be in the working directory, or you have to give it the full path. Incorporate the Python Image Library (PIL) …  |
| | Hey everybody, Lately I have written the game Hangman in many different languages (C, JavaScript, Java and PHP so far). Here is the code snippet for C! It uses a words file, on the bottom of this post you will see a small example of a few words. You can …  |
 | Hello everybody. I'm starting to build an event calendar for employees in my company, and the first thing I needed was an working calendar to build from, so I wrote a simple one. Hope it can be usefull for someone. Cheers.  |
| | Just a relatively simple calculator using the Tkinter GUI. It has a few nice features such as correcting division by an integer (for older Python versions), error trapping, to and from memory buttons, and an editable display. The editable display allows you to backspace mistakes, and also to enter things …  |
| | This snippet defines a function restart_program() which restarts your python program from within your python program. |
 | **Usage:** Provides a secure frontend object with restricted access to attributes of the backend object. |
 | Computer programs are complex enough beasts when they are just doing one thing at a time When you start to explore the world of threads, you end up with programs that do more than one thing at once, and life can get very complicated. There are two specific conditions that …  |
| | Short snippet in C# to do this classic trick, I could not find one on the web. Little, (even none!) error checking is done here. |
 | As it seems to come up often enough I figured I'd throw together a quick snippet outlining basic methods for data manipulation in SQL Server using C#. In all examples the coder will need to substitute their own connection string details and variables. I utilised parameters for 3 of the …  |
| | A little calculator written in BCX basic and then translated to C code and modified to compile with Dev C++ (GCC/G++). Once you find your way past the standard GUI gibberish you can figure it out. For those who need some hand holding with the Dev C++ IDE: In the …  |
 | A program that uses hooks to detect keypresses and write them to a file.  |
| | A little fun with Python's turtle module drawing a number of random stars in the dark sky.  |
 | This is a little discussion/example of design for modularity and re-use, inspired by javaAddict and Orlando Augusto posts in their thread “Dynamic Multidimensional Array Printing” https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/code/305580/dynamic-multidimensional-array-printing That thread has 3 solutions to printing the contents of a multi-dimensional array of arbitrary dimensions - although in fact all the solutions will … |
 | Hi All. This is my first code snippet. I don't know how practical it is, but I came up with the idea, so I wanted to do it. Assuming you have an array. You use a for loop to display its data. For 2D arrays you use 2 for loops. … |
 | # BlowFish? # BlowFish was the brain child of Bruce Schneier back in 93. Since BlowFish was released to the public domain, Bruce Schneier has released new encryption algorythems, TwoFish and ThreeFish. BlowFish is an increddibly popular and very strong algorythem. Because it conforms to Kerckhoffs's Principal [Explained Here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle), even …  |
 | ###Simple Advice This is just a reminder. When setting environment variables through **.htaccess**, **CLI** or **dotenv** use `filter_var()` to evaluate a boolean. For example, start the built-in PHP server with these variables: DEBUG=FALSE LOG=TRUE SMS=1 SMTP=0 CONNECT=yes BACKUP=no php -d variables_order=EGPCS -S localhost:8000 And then test through `boolval()`: if you … Programming php |
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