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Custom Alert Dialog with EditText

void alertDialogDemo() { // get alert_dialog.xml view LayoutInflater li = LayoutInflater.from(getApplicationContext()); View promptsView = li.inflate(R.layout.alert_dialog, null); AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder( ...

Android • Dialog

Parsing JavaScript Generated Page with Jsoup and HtmUnit

page.html - source code <html> <head> <script src="loadData.js"></script> </head> <body onLoad="loadData()"> <div class="container"> <table id="data" border="1"> <...

Jsoup • Parsing Javascript Generated Pages

Using the default Form instance

VB.NET offers default Form instances. The developer does not need to create the instance as it is created behind the scenes. However, it is not preferable to use the default instance all but the simplest programs. Public Class Form1 Public Sub Foo() MessageBox.Show("Bar") ...

Visual Basic .NET Language • Working with Windows Forms

CRTP to avoid code duplication

The example in Visitor Pattern provides a compelling use-case for CRTP: struct IShape { virtual ~IShape() = default; virtual void accept(IShapeVisitor&) const = 0; }; struct Circle : IShape { // ... // Each shape has to implement this method the same way ...

C++ • Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP)

Create zip archive dynamicaly

' Create filestream to file Using fileStream = New IO.FileStream("archive.zip", IO.FileMode.Create) ' open zip archive from stream Using archive = New System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive(fileStream, IO.Compression.ZipArchiveMode.Create) ' create file_in_archive.txt in arch...

Visual Basic .NET Language • File/Folder Compression

Dictionaries are unordered

You might expect a Python dictionary to be sorted by keys like, for example, a C++ std::map, but this is not the case: myDict = {'first': 1, 'second': 2, 'third': 3} print(myDict) # Out: {'first': 1, 'second': 2, 'third': 3} print([k for k in myDict]) # Out: ['second', 'third', 'first'] Py...

Python Language • Common Pitfalls

Detecting when UIScrollView finished scrolling with delegate methods

scrollViewDidEndDecelerating: this tells the delegate that the scroll view has ended decelerating the scrolling movement. Objective C: - (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView { [self stoppedScrolling]; } - (void)scrollViewDidEndDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView w...

iOS • UIScrollView

SQLiteOpenHelper with fully qualified DB path name/databse in public folder

Normally Android-SQLiteOpenHelper does not allow fully qualified path names where the database should be stored. So public database files are not possible. You can use the SQLiteOpenHelper with a custom path if you provide a custom ContextClass and if you have write access in the target directory. ...

android-sqlite • SQLiteOpenHelper

Universal Module Definition (UMD)

The UMD (Universal Module Definition) pattern is used when our module needs to be imported by a number of different module loaders (e.g. AMD, CommonJS). The pattern itself consists of two parts: An IIFE (Immediately-Invoked Function Expression) that checks for the module loader that is being i...

JavaScript • Modularization Techniques

Immediately invoked function expressions (IIFE)

Immediately invoked function expressions can be used to create a private scope while producing a public API. var Module = (function() { var privateData = 1; return { getPrivateData: function() { return privateData; } }; })(); Module.getPrivateData(); // 1 Module.priva...

JavaScript • Modularization Techniques

Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD)

AMD is a module definition system that attempts to address some of the common issues with other systems like CommonJS and anonymous closures. AMD addresses these issues by: Registering the factory function by calling define(), instead of immediately executing it Passing dependencies as an array...

JavaScript • Modularization Techniques

Entity with sequence managed Id

Here we have a class and we want the identity field (userUid) to have its value generated via a SEQUENCE in the database. This SEQUENCE is assumed to be called USER_UID_SEQ, and can be created by a DBA, or can be created by the JPA provider. @Entity @Table(name="USER") public class User...

jpa • Basic mapping

Computed properties vs watch

template <div id="demo">{{fullName}}</div> watch example var vm = new Vue({ el: '#demo', data: { firstName: 'Foo', lastName: 'Bar', fullName: 'Foo Bar' } }) vm.$watch('firstName', function (val) { this.fullName = val + ' ' + this.lastName })...

Vue.js • Computed Properties

Setting the Title of a Displayed ALV

By default, when an ALV is displayed, the title at the top is just the program name. This method allows the user to set a title of up to 70 characters. The following example shows how a dynamic title can be set that displays the number of records displayed. alv->get_display_settings( )->set_l...

ABAP • ABAP GRID List Viewer (ALV)

Creating a multi-colored border using border-image

CSS .bordered { border-image: linear-gradient(to right, red 20%, green 20%, green 40%, blue 40%, blue 60%, maroon 60%, maroon 80%, chocolate 80%); /* gradient with required colors */ border-image-slice: 1; } HTML <div class='bordered'>Border on all sides</div> The above ex...

CSS • Border

Creating custom nested JSON structure

If you need some complex JSON structure that cannot be created using FOR JSON PATH or FOR JSON AUTO, you can customize your JSON output by putting FOR JSON sub-queries as column expressions: SELECT top 5 o.object_id, o.name, (SELECT column_id, c.name FROM sys.columns c WHERE o...

Microsoft SQL Server • FOR JSON

Media Player with Buffer progress and play position

public class SoundActivity extends Activity { private MediaPlayer mediaPlayer; ProgressBar progress_bar; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_tool_sound); ...

Android • MediaPlayer

Get UIButton's size strictly based on its text and font

To get the the exact size of a UIButton's text based on its font, use the function intrinsicContentSize. Swift button.intrinsicContentSize.width Objective-C button.intrinsicContentSize.width;

iOS • UIButton

Get UILabel's size strictly based on its text and font

NSString provides method boundingRectWithSize which can be used to predict the resulting CGSize of a UILabel based on its text and font without the need of creating a UILabel Objective-C [[text boundingRectWithSize:maxSize options:(NSStringDrawingTruncatesLastVisibleLine | NSStringDrawingUsesLineF...

iOS • UILabel

LinkedList

// initialize a LinkedList of integers LinkedList list = new LinkedList<int>(); // add some numbers to our list. list.AddLast(3); list.AddLast(5); list.AddLast(8); // the list currently is 3, 5, 8 list.AddFirst(2); // the list now is 2, 3, 5, 8 list.RemoveFirst(); // the list...

C# Language • An overview of c# collections