I have found how one can write an odf file, but did not found any natively supported by Qt methods that allow to read. Is it possible at all? A small example will be useful.
While you are told you cannot use external libraries, this is something that various companies (Nokia and SKF for example) are successfully using the Callibra engine to do. They are based on Qt, so may perhaps be an option for you. www.calligra.org has a good few bits of information on it :)
There isn't anything in Qt for this.
If you need to manipulate office documents from an application, you could look at using OpenOffice / LibreOffice in server mode controlled via the UNO bridge system. See the OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide for details. Note: this is not trivial to get working correctly.
For as far as I'm aware, this functionality does not exist natively within Qt. There have been requests in the past and there has been mention of ongoing work to read ODF back in 2008, but nothing has been done with this so far to my knowledge.
Perhaps, based on the sources of QTextDocumentWriter for the ODF format, you could fashion your own solution. But I'm not sure how feasible this is. Looking at the sources of QTextOdfWriter, it seems doable, but just a lot of work.
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I got an assignment at work to create a system which will be able to direct sound to different output channels of our sound card. We are using M-Audio ProFire 610, which has 8 channel output and connects through FireWire. We are also using a Mac Mini as our host server and I'm gonna be working in Xcode.
This is the diagram of what I am building:
diagram http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7865/diagramy.png
At first I thought that Java will be enough for this project, however later on I discovered that Java is not able to push sound to other than default output channels of the sound card so I decided to switch to C++. The problem is that I am a web developer and I don't have any experience in this language whatsoever - that is why I am looking for help from more experienced developers.
I found a Core Audio Primer for ios4 but not sure how much of it I can use for my project. I find it a bit confusing, too.
What steps should I take to complete this assignment? What frameworks should I use? Any code examples? I am looking for any help, hints, tips - well anything that will help me complete this project.
If you're just looking for audio pass-through, you might want to look at something that's already been built, like Jack which creates a software audio device that looks and works just like a real one (you can set it as default output for your app) and then allows you to route each channel anywhere you want (including to other applications).
If you want/need to make your own, definitely go with C++, for which there are many many tutorials (I learned from cplusplus.com). CoreAudio is the low-level C/C++ interface as Justin mentioned, but it's really hard to learn and use. A much simpler API is provided by PortAudio, for which I've worked a bit on the Mac implementation. Look at the tutorials there, make something similar for default input and output, and then to do the channel mapping use PaMacCore_SetupChannelMap, which is described here. You'll need to call it twice, once for the input stream and once for the output stream. Join the mailing list for PortAudio if you need more advice! Good luck!
the primary APIs are at CoreAudio/AudioHardware.h
most of the samples/supporting code provided by apple is in C++. however, the APIs are totally C (don't know if that helps you or not).
you'll want to access the Hardware Abstraction Layer (aka HAL), more details in this doc:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MusicAudio/Conceptual/CoreAudioOverview/CoreAudioOverview.pdf
for (a rather significant amount of) additional samples/usage, see $DEVELOPER_DIR/Extras/CoreAudio/
Is anyone aware of a good, general purpose file preview component for MFC/C++ desktop applications?
Specifically, I'm looking for a component that I could embed in my application that would allow a broad range of file types (text files, multimedia, etc.) to be previewed without the need for original applications (such as MS Word, etc.) to be installed.
I could only find one, via Google:
http://www.file-viewer-sdk.com/
Unfortunately, these folks want $60k for unlimited redistribution, which is outside of our budget.
Anyone have any recommendations? If not a component, is anyone using another general-purpose strategy that works well for them?
You can write your own shell preview host once you know the interfaces.
You might want to check out Autovue, originally made by Cimmetry since acquired by Oracle
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Our product makes limited use of their SDK to do some document conversions (Mostly RTF->PS) and that works well enough for us.
I'm trying to find open source applications using PostgreSQL that are written in C/C++ so I can study them. A few open source projects using PostgreSQL are Evergreen ILS, SpamAssassin, and pgpool. However, Evergreen and SpamAssassin are written in Perl, and pgpool (written in C) is a replication tool, not a typical application. Moreover, I looked at the SQL code in Evergreen, and it is quite voluminous and complicated.
Hence, I'm looking for one or more applications using PostgreSQL, preferably those that are somewhat trivial (but not too trivial).
seen libpqxx? try asking on its mailing list (but scour their wiki first)
http://pqxx.org/development/libpqxx
pgAdmin is written using c++ using wxwidgets.
how about pgAdmin 3 ?
Also, you may find Qt4 a very easy way interact with databases programming in C++.
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6-snapshot/sql-programming.html
Have you searched through the projects at http://pgfoundry.org ?
Two examples that are open-source:
Kexi (see kexi-project.org)
FOST4 (
http://support.felspar.com/Fost%204 )
It's pretty big, but the KDE Project's Amarok is written in C++ and can use a PgSQL backend (among several others). While it's pretty large, you may be able to find some interesting things in the database code. Since it uses a pre-defined schema (as opposed to the extremely general types of access that something like pgAdmin uses) it may have some good things to teach you. It will definitely be easier to pick apart than Evergreen, which actually has an entire middleware layer that actually does the data access through exposed services (The OpenSRF Project).
What solutions are there? I know only solutions for replacing Bookmarks in Word (.doc) files with Apache POI?
Are there also possibilities to change images, layouts, text-styles in .doc and .ppt documents?
I think about replacement of areas in Word and PowerPoint documents for bulk processing.
Platform: MS-Office 2003
What are your platform limitations?
Obviously Apache POI will get you at least part of the way there.
Microsoft's own COM API's are fairly powerful and are documented here. I would recommend using them if a) you are not running in a server (many users, multithreaded) environment; b) you can have a proper version of powerpoint installed on the production machine; and c) you can code against a COM object model.
It's a bit pricey, but Aspose.Slides is a very powerful library for manipulating PowerPoint files
If you include using other Office suits as an option, here's a list of possible solutions:
Apache POI-HSLF
PowerPoint 2007 APIs
OpenOffice.org UNO
Using POI you can't edit .pptx file format, but you don't depend on the apps installed on the system. Other two options, on the contrary, make use of other apps, but they are definitely better for dealing with presentations. OpenOffice has better compability with older formats, by the way. Also if you use UNO, you'll have a great choice of languages, UNO exists for Java, C++, Python and other languages.
My experience is not directly with Power Point, but I've actually rolled my own WordML (XML) generator. It a) removed all dependencies on Word, b) was very fast c) and let me build up documents from scratch.
But it was a lot of work to create. And I was only creating a write only implementation.
I'm not as familiar with Power Point, so this is conjecture, but you may be able to roll your own by reading XML (Power Point 2003??) and/or cracking the Office Open XML file (zipped XML), then using XPath to manipulate the data, and then saving everything back to disk.
This won't work on older OLE Compound Document based Power Point files though.
I've done something like that before: programmatically accessed and manipulated PowerPoint presentations. Back when I did it, it was all in C++ using COM, but similar principles apply to C#/VB .NET apps, since they do COM interop very easily.
What you're looking for is called the Office Document Model. Basically, Office applications expose their documents programmatically, as trees of objects that define their contents. These objects are accessible via an API, and you can manipulate them, add new ones, and do whatever other processing you want. It's exceedingly powerful; you can use it to manipulate pretty much all aspects of a document. But you'll need an installation of Office and Visual Studio to be able to use it.
Some links:
Intro: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d58327k6.aspx
Hope this helps!
Apparently new users can only include one link per posting. How lame! :)
Here's the other link I meant to include:
Example of manipulating PowerPoint documents programmatically: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668192.aspx
So I understand that there are a few options available as far as parsing straight XML goes: NSXMLParser, TouchXML from TouchCode, etc. That's all fine, and seems to work fine for me.
The real problem here is that there are dozens of small variations in RSS feeds (and Atom feeds too), so supporting all possible permutations of feeds available out on the Internet gets very difficult to manage. I searched around for a library that would handle all of these low-level details for me, but came out without anything.
Since one could link to an external C/C++ library in Objective-C, I was wondering if there is a library out there that would be best suited for this task? Someone must have already created something like this, it's just difficult to find the "right" option from the thousands of results in Google.
Anyway, what's the best way to parse RSS/Atom feeds in an iPhone application?
I've just released an open source RSS/Atom Parser for iPhone and hopefully it might be of some use.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on it too!
"Best" is relative. The best performance you'll need to go the SAX route and implement the handlers. I don't know of anything out there open source available (start a google code project and release it for the rest of us to use!)
Whatever you do, it's probably a really bad idea to try and load the whole XML file into memory and act on it like a DOM. Chances are you'll get feeds that are much larger than you can handle on the device leading to frequent memory warnings and crashes.
I'm currently trying out the MWFeedParser #Michael Waterfall is developing.
Quite easy to set up and use (I'm a beginner iPhone developer).
His sample code for using MWFeedParser to populate a UITableViewController implementation is helpful as well.
take a look at apple's XML Performance sample -- which points to using libXML directly -- for performance and quicker updates to the display. Which may be important if you are working with very large feeds.
Check out my library for parsing Atom feeds, (BSAtomParser) at GitHub. It doesn't care about validating the feed, it does its best at returning whatever is valid. The parser covers most of RFC 4287, even extensions.
Here's my solution: a really simple yet powerful RSS parsing library: https://github.com/H2CO3/RSSKit
Have you looked at TouchCode yet? I don't think it has an RSS processor, but it might give you a start.
http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/
I came accross igasus project on sourceforge today. I haven't used it or really checked it, but perhaps it might help.
From their site:
igagus is a web service for the iPhone that allows aggregation of RSS to be delivered in an iPhone friendly format.
Actually, I was trying to suggest you ask on the TouchCode discussion board, because I remember someone was trying to expand it to support RSS. That might be a decent starting point. But I was being rushed by my wife.
But I see now that TouchCode doesn't have a discussion board. I'd still ask the author, though, he might know what came of that effort.
This might be a reasonable starting point for you. Atom support isn't there yet, but you could help out?