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I am making a text adventure and would like the command line window to be a specific size when you run the .py file in the command line window. eg. 300 wide by 250 height. I found a thread on here that shows how to specify the text colour which …

Howdy I have a timespan that contain in excess of 24 hours. For the example lets use a value of 1 day 6 hours and 32 minutes. I would like to get this into a string that displays "30:32". Have so far tried something along the lines of `string.Format("{0}:{1}", TimeSpan.TotalHours, …

I wanted to format this string but I don't know how I can do the formatting part at all. class MyTime: def __init__(self, hrs=0, mins=0, secs=0): self.hours = hrs self.minutes = mins self.seconds = secs if self.seconds >= 60: self.minutes += self.seconds // 60 self.seconds = self.seconds % 60 if …

Right now I'm typing in consolas, a favorite font among programmers but as soon as I submit this post, all that I've written will be in Arial. I'm sorry but, I hate Arial. I can't stand the narrow words. I almost always have to stop and examine each word individually …

Ok so I'm writing a program that outputs text to a file. Currently, I am writing it to a .TXT file for ease and convenience. Ideally, I would like to output some of the information so that it is formatted with Italics. I'm thinking that using a RTF file would …

I want to format today's date like this dd/mm/yyyy Please help me

Have a look at this thread... http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/databases/mysql/threads/466095/create-.mdf-file-from-mysql My machine shows seems to reformat this to plain text. So just plain page of text. Using Chrome/W7. Anybody else?

I am making a project in Number Theory and i want to display some formatting text in a textArea in my Gui. I have a method named padding which takes an integer as an argument and return a String consisitng of a number of spaces. This number is 12 - …

Hey Guys, I'm want to output a calculation to a JLabel. Example: double num1 = 14; double num2 = 3; double ans; ans = num1/num2; JLabel jl = new JLabel(); add(jl); jl.setText("The Answer is: " + ans); Currently the answer for this will be 4.666666667. Now if this was a …

Hi! Need help with conditional formatting of table rows... What i need to acheave is to change table row background in red if date_needed is <= than 48 hours than now(). This is what i have now `if (date('d',strtotime($data['date_needed'])) <= 2) $row["rowstyle"]='style="background:red"';` it works in a way... It changes background …

Hi all I'm trying to shade a cell based on a date difference between column 7 & 8. It seams to work accept column 8 seams to be the one being shaded instead of column 7. I have googled but can't find a solution to have the calculatin being made …

Hi there! I am new to daniweb.com and C++ CLI. I am trying to make a program that will tell the user the text for the ListItem number they type in. The ListItem information is stored in a text file with my custom file formatting, which is: <~ListItem 1> text.... …

[CODE] Dim mDocDtT As Date Dim mDtPeriod as Integer = 4 mDocDtT = DateAdd(DateInterval.Month, mDtPeriod, mDocDtT) mDocDtT = Format(mDocDtT, "yyyy-MM-dd") [/CODE] But the codes are not working the date is still in #01/27/2011# format I want it in yyyy-MM-dd format Please help!!!

Hello all, Ive done some googling around, and cant find anything that explains why my date isnt being formatted to what i tell it. my code: dim date_now as date date_now = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") So for example if the date/time is February 11 2015, 4:44:23pm it would be formatted as: …

Hi! I am coding a quite simple php form where many of the input forms are going to be filled with numbers. Is there a simple way I could get the numbers separated by thousands? Like the form showing 100 000 instead of 100000? Thanks in advance!

I'm writing an application for processing scientific data. The data is displayed in a jTable. I'm done with the data processing itself, now I want to do some conditional formatting to make interpretation easier for the end user. [LIST=1] [*]The last column of the table contains a threshold value, and …

Just trying to change the formatting of various bits of my print code. Is there a simple way to do it?

Hi all, I have a textblock that is bound to an xml document. This displays the innertext of an xml-node element and the width of the textblock is fixed at "auto". The issue is that of the display as the innertext may exceed the width of the textblock and therefore …

I want to PRINT the formatting marks (space, paragraph, soft return). I can view on the marks in my document on screen, but they do not print. I have been to TOOLS, OPTIONS, and VIEW tab, selected ALL under formatting marks this enable viewing. But when I go to PRINT …

hello.. i have to do substraction of two php variables which is having datatype varchar. i am trying like this.[CODE] $a=5; $b=3; $c=$a-$b; [/CODE] but for float values [CODE] $a=3000.90; $b=2000; $c=$a-$b; [/CODE] out put is $1000.9. ok even i echo $a i am getting 3000.9 how to get two …

Hi, Im trying to transfer some text from the richTextBox into an existing MS word template at a specific location. I am able to transfer text to any location i like, but i want to retain the formatting of the text from the richTextBox. Im trying to copy the text …