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I was wondering if there are any GUI toolkits in python that create native-looking windows in Windows 7. I love python as a language, but I've always thought a lot of the GUIs look like they are from Windows 95. Any suggestions? Editor's note: [B]Again, don't clutter up the sticky …

I'm using the GreenDroid library for the actionbar. I can't get a title to show up no matter what I do. I have tried setTitle(), getActionBar().setTitle(), changing color in the styles. Has anyone else had this problem?

I am building a 2-3-4 tree animator as a favor for one of my teachers. I want to use animations to have the newest value traverse the tree to find where it goes and then insert the value into the node. The problem comes when I have more than 1 …

I'm trying to write out a series of objects as an XML file so they can be read in later. I have all the code to build the XML tree and set all the attributes, etc. I've looked through the whole tree in VS so I know all of my …

My program talks to a USB device over a serial connection. I have WMI ManagementEventWatchers watching for the device to be plugged in and unplugged. If I try to enable, disable, or change anything about the GUI from the event handlers for the WMI Events, I get a InvalidOperationException because …

I am writing a supplemental program for the software that came with a programmable robot. The DLL structure has about 6 DLLs that I can reference, with another set that I need to load at runtime. The ones I need to load at runtime have a class inside them that …

I have a project where I'm building a motion-sensing controller. It has around a dozen buttons plus the motion sensors. I'm having it wireless transmit the status of the buttons and sensors to the base station. I know interrupts are better than polling, but most people seem to recommend polling …

I am trying to update/modify/reverse engineer the software for a robot I have. The company went out of business and some friends and I are trying to add features to the program. I use RedGate's .NET Reflector to unpack the DLL and EXE files into VS solutions, projects, and code …

I am trying to modify and recompile a dll file. I disassembled it so I have the C# code. I also have the .resources file that is a Pack URI. I want my version to have it's own resources file, but I need parts from the original. How can I …

I am reading bytes from a FileStream. When I try to read 0x8000 bytes from the file (which are there) it says: "Offset and length were out of bounds for the array or count is greater than the number of elements from index to the end of the source collection." …

I am writing a script to rename and reorganize the mp3 on my iPod. For those who don't know, if you drag and drop your music from the iPod to a computer, there is a crazy F## folder structure and all the names are 4 random characters. I want to …

I use python for various personal projects and hobby stuff. I do mostly command line stuff, just cuz I don't need the gui for a lot of it. I would like to start moving on to GUIs, but I have run into a problem. I started with Python v3. All …

I have a ListBox using an ItemTemplate. Here is the XAML: [CODE] <ListBox Name="list_Sensors" ItemsSource="{Binding}" Grid.Column="0" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <GroupBox Header="Part Number/Description" Grid.Column="0" Margin="5" Width="200"> <StackPanel> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=PartNumber}" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/> <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" FontSize="8" HorizontalAlignment="Center"> <TextBlock.Text> <MultiBinding StringFormat="{}{0} {1}"> <Binding Path="Manufacturer" /> …

I am writing a flat-file database app using SQLite. That part works just fine, but the GUI not so much. The issues are arising in the bindings. I have a list of accounts displayed in a datagrid. The datagrid has its ItemsSource set to a List<Accounts> collection. That works fine. …

I am trying do a search and replace with Dreamweaver and regex. Specifically, I am trying to replace all the ' with &apos; but it keeps inserting &amp;apos; I can't find an option to change or anything else. Does anyone know how to escape the ampersand or where the option …

I have an ebook in HTML that is about 10000 lines long. I am looking to find and fix the misspelled words, words that don't have spaces etc. Is there anything out there that can take an input file and a dictionary file and find all the unrecognized words?

I have a couple radio button groups in my Windows Form that I would like to bind to a data table. When I query the database for a single record, I just grabbed row zero and used if-else to select the one i wanted. Unfortunately, when I get multiple records, …

I have a combobox that has state abbreviations. It is filled from a dataset table, which is read in from an xml file. The combo box populates just fine. I want the selected value and text to change when I load a record from an accounts table in the dataset. …

I have a combo box that is populated from entries in a SQLite table. The entries are city names. Here is the code for the data binding: [code] cbb_City.DataSource = data; cbb_City.DisplayMember = "Accounts.City"; cbb_City.ValueMember = "Accounts.City"; [/code] It gets the values just fine but it has an entry for …

I am writing a ping app for my networking class. I have the ping part of the code working perfectly, my issue is in shutting down my "ping" server. If I run it with while True, not even ctrl-C will shut it down till the next ping request. I can …

I like really clean code so I want to pull all of the common includes into a separate file and then include that single file in all my other files. Also makes it easier if I start using a new or different library cuz I only have to change it …

I have a HUGE text file (over 60,000 lines) and I'm using python to do regex fixing on the file. I want to wrap any lines over 100 characters, and wrap on a space. I know I can use ".{100}" to find 100 characters but when I do this: [code] …

I have a flat file database program I'm writing using SQLite3 and I've run into a problem and a question. Problem: I have the various fields on the forms linked to the results of my queries using databindings. They all work just fine except for 2. They are pulled from …

I'm pretty sure this isn't possible but I want to be sure. I have a form with text boxes. I want to be able to link the text boxes to members of an object. Is there anyway that I can make the text boxes reflect specific data members?

I have a windows form box that is supposed to just display a message. Unfortunately, whenever the box pops up, it has all the text selected. I cannot figure out how to stop that. Any ideas?

I am trying to use an existing access db file with my c# app. When I try to connect, it says that: "The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine." How do I register it/install it/whatever it is I need to do to make it work? Thanks. I …

I am trying to access a .accdb file from my c# app. when i run the app, it tells me that I don't have Microsoft.Jet.4.0 Provider installed. I know that I need the Jet provider to access MS Access files, I just don't know how to get or install it. …

I have an Access database that I use to keep track of account and inventory information for my job. I am currently writing a C# app to allow me to search through and pull up the information from a couple different tables and display them. How can I access the …

Does anyone know how to convert a .accdb file into a SQLite compatible format? I am looking to migrate an existing DB from Access to an app I am writing to add and retrieve the information for me without having to manually enter the stuff into 4 different tables.

I'm helping my dad out with some of his website issues, so any help is appreciated. He is getting an error (and no I don't have the exact text at the moment) that there was a fatal error in charlint.pl The problem apparently started when the site's host updated the …

I feel a little like an idiot for asking this but.... I have Apache 2.2 installed on my computer just to test my pages and scripts for my web engineering class. Whatever version of PHP that came with it is what I have installed. I can't even get a basic …

I am trying to do a store page for my class. I have a perl script that generates simple HTML tables. The store pages uses ajax to load the tables into the form. The form has all the elements, but when I submit, there query string is empty. I tried …

I am trying to move files and rename them with a date-time stamp I generate. I have a survey and my perl script processes the POST query string. Once I have the query string, I am using XML::Simple to get the stored results, update them, then write them back out. …

I am trying to process the results of a survey. I load the current results from an XML file, update them, then write them back to the file. I am get a 500 Internal Server Error when I run it from a browser, but it works fine in Windows and …

Just for fun, I want to write myself an app to read metadata from media files and optionally rename them. The renaming part isn't all that hard, but I don't know how to get the metadata from an AVI or MPG file. Any ideas?

I am trying to insert/hide a table in my page using AJAX. Works perfectly in Firefox. IE 7 gives me "Error: Access is denied" for the following line: [CODE]xmlReq.open("GET", url, true);[/CODE] Any ideas why?

Basically I have a table that I generating using javascript. I wrote a function to build the row and I call it a bunch of times with different parameters. I know the individual functions work because I can pull them onto their own page and attach them to an onclick …

I am trying to circumvent the whole "javascript can't read files, that's server-side" thing. basically i have a order form with a table inside it. I want to be able to load the rows of the table dynamically when the page loads. I am trying to get the "product" information …

I'd just like to start this thread by saying that I have absolutely NO knowledge of PHP what so ever. I do mostly C++, C#, and Java. But my dad is having a problem so I am posting this as a favor. My dad has his business run pretty much …

I am trying to write a fairly simple app for a Dell Axim running PocketPC 2003 and the Mysaifu JVM. I'm using NetBeans to develop the app. NetBeans emulators (weak as they are) can run my app just fine. But when I try it on the PDA I get a …

Here's the backstory real quick: Class project in my java class to write a program to help the lab assistants manage the students who need help. Trying to use a PDA in the project. Here's the question: How do you get JVM and .jar files to run on a Dell …

I am writing a program to batch rename files. I am trying to take the file name (which include folders) and remove everything before the last slash. The problem is that LastIndexOf("\\") always returns -1, even if the string contains a "\". And the Remove(0, index) doesn't ever remove any …

I am writing a program to batch rename files. I have a dialog box that gets the folder path from the user. I want to pass that back to the parent window. I need to know how to link the 2 windows and get the text from the dialog box. …