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Closed 10 years ago.
I am trying to make a program to change the colour Start Screen of Windows 8 periodically. I've found the registry value to make the change but the problem is that the user must log out then log back in to see the changes. Is there a way to send the system a message or something that changes the colour of start screen instantly like how you set it in the Personalization slider?
I'm using C++ as a programming language and Visual Studio 2012.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. I would also like my program to change to Lock Screen picture periodically too. It would be nice if someone could share a pointer to that also.
I don't believe you could set the system theme colour, at least in a Windows Store app. You can't even read from the system theme colour, according to this thread:
Windows 8 theme color - accessing it programmatically
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Closed 9 years ago.
Is there any way to find out if I am within village/city or out the village/city using iOS SDK (geocoder information) or Overpass API for OSM?
I know there are commercially APIs providing this feature, but I am wondering if it exists any API or service for free? I am working on pseudo-navigation app and I need this info about my current location.
Edit: For now I am using geocoding - placemark info about location - if thouroughfare is null or some number (street or road No.) - I am out the town. If there is some 'string' - it is street name and I am in the city. But this approach is very inaccurate. I am also considering using Overpass API for Open Street Maps and I am wondering if OSM provides such information. Thanks for any sugestions.
Thank you
iOS location services provide information about the device's position, but not information about the context of the position, such as which city they are near and how close they are to it. Geographic data such as what you're interested in comes at a price, which is why there are commercial SDKs providing it.
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Is there a way to create a program with tabs with C++ without MFC? Just pure WinAPI for example. With Propert Sheets, or Tab Controls. I'm not sure Tab Control is a MFC-specific class or not.
I couldn't find a good example about doing this with Property Sheets, or anything else. Every example uses MFC, but I need a non-MFC example.
Is there a way of doing this without MFC? With Propery Sheets, or with the Tab Control?
Thank you.
These are basically your possibilities:
Use the standard Win32 property sheets, see this;
Make use of a GUI library that implements it;
Create a dialog with a tab control and add pages to it (you would create the pages as child windows and handle the show/hide yourself), but let Windows the deal with the dialog message loop, see this;
Create a window with a tab control and make it look and act like a dialog using this.
The last one offers the most flexibility, but is also the hardest to implement.
Of course, it is possible. MFC is just a wrapper around Windows APIs. If you are willing to spend more time developing "pure" Win32 application, then see this sample for Tab Control -Tab Control in Win32
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My company wants users to be able to gather different documents from our website (for instance, manuals, installation instructions, etc) and put them all in one place (kind of like a shopping cart) to then print out all at once when their visit is over. Are there any applications that I can leverage to do this? We want something that's fairly plug-and-play because this is a late-stage requirement. I feel like I've come across something like this before but can't remember where.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
There should be scripts where it bunches all of the selected documents into a zipfile for you. I've seen it on Joomla sites where you select different modules you want to download and it puts it into one package. Sorry I can't help with actual code.
You say "shopping cart" but are users paying for these documents?
If so, you can outsource the downloads to a third party like PayPal to handle the digital downloads. PayPal API will let you handle a shopping cart.
If not, why not just have a link to a PDF on the document's description page? Then they can save, print, whatever. (My two cents, of course, but I don't see the big advantage to bundling a bunch of documents just to unbundle them on the other end.)
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Closed 10 years ago.
Ok here it goes, hope this is an original idea. Scenario is this. I have hosted a personal website, which contains a wordpress blog as well. I have a windows mobile connected to internet via GPRS.
I want to write an application for my windows mobile, which would track my current GPS coordinates (I don't have GPS but have figured out a way to find out the coordinates), and upload them to my site, where I'd provide a web service which can get or set GPS coordinates. Then I want to display my current location in my blog (as a wordpress plugin) or in another page, where it talks with my web service again to obtain my latest GPS coordinates.
So am I reinventing the wheel or there's a complete solution available for me to achieve such a thing?
Any pointers please. It's not directly programming related, but it sure involves programming!!!
Sounds like Google Latitude.
There are quite few of these types of applications/systems.
I myself have written a similar system to try to recover my phone if it gets stolen.
On codeplex you can find This (not mine).
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Closed 11 years ago.
Where can I find a Qt tutorial in PDF format. I have looked all over google but can't find one. I need to be able to read it offline as I can't always be on the internet. Thanks!
If you're looking for a tutorial or a book, rather than QT docs have a look at this free ebook :
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4
The author has released the first edition with an open license. If you like it You can still buy the printed second edition in amazon.
There is no PDF directly from trolltech that I know of, but all of the docs are under
Qt\200x.xx\qt\doc\html
where 200x.xx represents the version of the Qt SDK. Mine is 2009.01 for example.
You could use one of many HTML to PDF converters to achieve what you're looking for.
You can actually use an html to pdf converter created with QT... http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
am i too late?
you can also use an html spider that downloads an entire website.
The second edition is also freely available (but only in HTML format):
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, second edition. Click the Sample Content tab to access them. The chapters are all there (but in the wrong order---however, the table of contents is listed at the bottom of the page so you can see the correct order). All the examples are available from the Downloads tab.
A more advanced book is also available (but it is not free): Advanced Qt Programming