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I just reinstalled OS X 10.5 Leopard on my laptop and restored my data/applications from a Time Machine backup. When I use urllib.urlopen() I get the following error: [code] >>> import urllib >>> u=urllib.urlopen(aUrl) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 82, in …

I was wondering which method I should use to declare a 2D array. First, I was going to declare a 2D array of char arr[15][100]. In each text file, there's a number on the first line, and that displays how many columns are in the text file, so I would …

Hi i'm planning to create a music player for linux. I actually dont knw if shell script allows you to create one. Please let me know what programming languages do i need to know to develop one.

Hello, I am using a Jtable in my application.I am entering values in last column of that table.Below the table, i have a Jbutton named as 'Save'.Suppose while clicking on 'Save', the entire row remains selected except the last cell in which I have entered the value.Then if I retrieve …

I have currently built a database (based on IMDB) that i can add dictionaries too, list them and exit. [B]I will put the program so far at the bottom of the page, just paste it in and run ti to see what it's like.[/B] I am trying to add a …

Hello, I have to create a product class that holds the item number, product name, units in stock, and the unit price. I also have to create a java application that displays the same info. I have been working on this for three days now... I am getting frustrated because …

Hi! I'm using a C program to open PDF files with this code: [code=c] ShellExecute(GetDesktopWindow(), "open", "c:\\someFolder\\myFile.pdf", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); [/code] Now I need to go furthrer; I need to open the PDF file at a certain page. I've tried [code=c] "c:\\someFolder\\myFile.pdf#page=5"... [/code] ...as is suggested in Adobe's docs, but …

Okay, so I am taking an intro class for java programming and my instructions for this program were to write a program that found the first 20 numbers that when divided by 2,3,4,5,6 all left a reminder of one and then when divided by 7, left a reminder of 0. …

I have a project with these requirements: > Create an array based phone directory which can load name and numbers of all the poeple in the phone book (which is an array) and can change numbers of existing entries, add new entries, delete existing entries and save any new changes …

So I got past my last problem using new[], but now I seem to have a new one... I created a char***, var. The goal was to build each dimension of the array to be different sizes at different times, based on separate user input... Here is the code: [code=cpp] …

How do you make different shaped controls (heart, star, circular etc.) ? I bought a book on custom controls, but they do not say anything on making them with a different shape to the norm :-( This is for a Uni project for developing a visual programming language for Neverwinter …

Hi friends... Can any one give me some tips or logic for dynamically defining a structure in C... Thanx for ur help.....

Well people... I already know that c++ is not what I want to do in the future, but I do have to pass this class. That said, I need help with this array. I understand how they work, but my instructor wants us to use them in a function!!!!! I …

Ok, here is the issue. I have a xyz.css file which I read using the streamreader. the file has text in the form .Addfont { ...... .GridLayout {...... a.Master Layout {...... Now I need to extract the text between the '.' and '{' In this case it would be Addfont …

On the advise of ~S.O.S~, i checked out code blocks. It's rather intuitve to use. (It has to be, the documentation is very limited.) The debugger works well with it. In fact i used the step function to find a place where i was stuck in a loop. The yellow …

Could anyone help me splitting a big file into subfiles. The file is something similar to this: 1.SYSTEM = UNIX 2.variable = value 3.>ACTIVATED 1 4.ALL: FILE1 5.ALL:FILE2 6.ALL:FILE3 7.ALL:FILE4 8.>ACTIVATED 1 9. ################* 10.>>CONDITIONS 11.################ 12.MODEL: 13.<one ExeSimpleName> : <one or more Flags> : [Options] I need to split …

Hi! I need help with a class project. It is basically an encoder/decoder program, with two parts. Part 1: Take text entered by a user, convert each character to a number, and save the result to a file. Part 2: Read each number from the file, convert it to a …

Several things have led me to writing this post However, late last week I did some poking around in the Windows C API from ctypes (not using pywin32) for a project I was finishing up, and I [I]loved it[/I]! Since then I've been playing around with ctypes and Windows function …

i am cesar and i want to know on how to query records from ms access to the vb.net....any reply will be appreciated! thank you!

Hi, I'm having issues with a program that concept-wise sounds very simple. The program should read in data from a text file (attached a2.txt), and perform stack and queue operations upon the data. The data consists of long math problems, dealing with order-of-operations. The correct output that should be appearing …

I have a few assignments to get done, but I figured I'll post one to see if I'm the right track. If so then what I did will greatly help me. Here are the requirements [quote]Create a simple Dog class that has the following private fields (age (int), gender(char), name(string), …

I have been giving the task of making a box using all asterisks, given an input of say 5. Im supposed to make something that resembles a 5x5 box with nothing in between... I am stuck at a dead-end here and any help would be appreciated! My code so far …

I want to dynamically update and display Label captions using hidden texbox which read from certain SOL DB table column. Am using label1.caption = text1.text Very New to Vb.net 2005

Hi C experts, In my code I have got #pragma extern_prefix (push, ""); Some extern function declarations #pragma extern_prefix (pop, ""); So that compiler does not prepend anything to those extern functions , I get an error error #14: extra text after expected end of preprocessing directive Does anyone know …

i am coding a program in vb.NET, it will be used for people to vot for their favourite food. I have let the users input the name of favoutie foods into an inputbox and tehn store the name of each favoutie food into an array called foodarray. Then the array …

I just have one question, when you have a class that is defined: [code=C++] class box{ public: int *value; box() { value=new int; *value=0; }; box(box &c) {*value=*c.value;}; }; [/code] If in the main you said class box b(a); it would work as expected. But I don't understand how that …

hii friends, i just want to know how to create if-else statement where we dont allow user to left any textbox blank in our window application , suppose we have 3 textbox then please suggest me how to create if - else statement for this in c#. thanx in advance.

Ok, I know how to overload an operator. I have successfully overloaded +, -,=, * for a matrix class. I am trying to do inversion of a matrix. I have the code working for the inversion but I do not know how to properly overload the function I want. I …

Hi guys, Not sure where to ask this so I figured I'll start with C#. I would like to write a windows service that will allow some external device or authentication provider to log a user into windows. For example, a finger print reader can log a user into windows …

I have written some code to dynamically allocate memory for a 2D matrix. I am using overload operator to perform functions on the matrix naturally. I am having memory issues (Unhandled exception at 0x... Access violation reading ...). Here is my class, header, and main code. The code builds fine …

Hi, I wish to read the file twice. I am using ifstream to read the file. I tried using rewind(File pointer). But i get an error. How can i do it. Thanks

Hi, This is my first question in the forum and I was wondering if anyone knew the answer. For the past 8 years or so, I have been using OLE to transfer information between perl and excel and word. I actually wrote a word version today for the first time …

I wrote the following function for my assignment at college. The whole thing is working flawlessly. This function requires me to create a box on the screen as follows: [QUOTE] int console_Box(int row, int col, int l, int h, char edge, char top_btm, char ls_rs) This function displays a box …

Recently I was interested in making a stock bot as a neat project for myself. It would run on a virtual stock exchange account, not using real money of course. The biggest problem I have run into is getting data to and from websites as I have no idea how …

Is it safe to assume that any object that is preceded with the letter 'J' is a member of the Swing package? Just trying to get lightweight versus heavyweight components sorted properly. Thanks. -- Curtis

i start to w3shools xsl tutorial and created one xml and xsl file and linked them together, after running the xml file i got the following error: The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh …

A friend convinced me to store a vector of pointers in my class: [code] vector<Point*> Points; [/code] In my class instead of a vector of "real" objects (what do you call this?). The problem now is that there are several functions (out of my control ie. in a library) that …

I have a title that is read in from the keyboard. I need to put it in quotation marks but i dont know how to do that...for instance, my program asks the user to put in a movie title and they input the title. Then i have to display the …

hello, I am using byte array to store values in it & then i am storing that byte array into database using [code] st.setBytes(1,myBytearray); [/code] while retreiving values it works fine if last byte value is not zero. But if it is zero, i think,last value is not getting saved …

would anyone explain the difference among "public static int " and "public final int " and "public static final int" ? thanks

I have an application with Hotkeys installed. when the hotkey is pressed, the application comes to the topmost, or bottommost z-order. I have used SetwindowPos api. The problem, however, is that in as much as the window is the topmost, it is not active, so it does not receive input. …

I am using a few combo boxes in my form and have set the DropDownStyle property set to DropDownList. I want to expand i.e. show ALL options when the control gets focus (similar to presing the F4). Also some entries of my list have a greater width then the width …

I have to write a program which generates a pascal's triangle. The user inputs the height of the triangle and it supposed to generate one. This is what I have so far and I don't know how you would keep adding rows after the second one. I'm so lost :( …

hi...can somebody give me a little help here. i get error message : 'file' object is not callable its a program that call shell script (shell script run "fusion.deb"). here`s the code: test.py [CODE]#!/usr/bin/env python import sys import os try: import pygtk pygtk.require("2.0") except: pass try: import gtk import gtk.glade …

I have Dictionary that I update time after time and the dictionary result get inserted to the wxListCtrl in report mode. The problem comes when I insert new data. It seems that the unicode character (u') is also get inserted as part of data. Is there any way to strip …

i need to be able to have python spit out a date like this (mm/dd/yyyy) even if the user doesnt add the "/" to there input. here is what i got so far. import string date = raw_input(enter your date:") print date[0:2]+'/',date[2:4]+'/',date[4:8] the output is mm/ dd/ yyyy. how would …

this is my struct [CODE] struct CropType { string crop; string farmer; string color; string order; }; CropType myCrop; [/CODE] and this is my tree [CODE] struct TreeNode { CropType info; TreeNode* left; TreeNode* right; }; [/CODE] how do i compare a string within my struct like crop to a …

Hi, I'm trying to get [URL="http://www.cgal.org/"]CGAL [/URL]working with VS 2005. So, I installed the [URL="http://www.boost.org/"]Boost [/URL]libraries as well as CGAL and tried to run the following example program: [ICODE]// file: examples/Polygon/Example.C //-----------------------------------------------------------------------// // This is just a simple example that demonstrates how to use the // class CGAL::Polygon_2. //-----------------------------------------------------------------------// #include …

How to redirect to another page (for Example: to my login page) using python.

Hello, Im creating a serial com port. I want to be able to store the default settings in the registry such has baud, stop bits etc etc. I have managed to do this but I just can't get my program to pull the stored settings out again. I have looked …