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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm pondering how to make a text editor very stable. In my experience, text editors are second only to games in exhibiting flaky behavior (hanging, corrupted files, etc.).
I haven't programmed for Windows, but I have maintained a lot of Windows machines since the mid 1990s, and it occurred to me that NotePad is perhaps the one application I have used a lot but have never had a problem with.
What about the design of the Windows 9x NotePad made it so stable? Did the very small file size limit (64 KB) allow a simpler internal structure?
Two reasons: it's pared down to the essentials, and it relies on the existing Windows text control for most of its functionality.
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I'm an experienced C/C++ programmer, but i never created Windows drivers before. Currently i need to create a very simple keyboard filter driver that will "prohibit" some key combinations (for illustrative purpose - it will prevent "ctrl" and "a" to be pressed at same time by filtering out "a" keydown in keys "ctrl" keydown was detected and to keyup yet).
I want to solve this task by myself and self-educate a bit, but reading all required literature and tutorials will be kind of overkill and will take very long time :(. Is it any good windows drivers development tutorials i can use for my task in order to save time?
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I would like to know if its posible to create a desktop application with ruby and the disadvantages,
please can you give me a example? a application to use in windows
thanks
Yes you can, Sir!
The disadvantages are like there might be some difficulties doing advanced stuff for interfaces but I'm just guessing as I have no experience at all in this field.
Take a look at some solutions you have:
http://shoesrb.com
https://github.com/larskanis/fxruby
https://github.com/maccman/bowline (this one I just found it now and seems interesting, BUT it's not maintained anymore :/)
http://macruby.org (for OS X only)
http://www.rubymotion.com (paid and OS X only)
Other I can think of is using Java Swing with JRuby
Also you might want to take a look at this -> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/GUI_Toolkit_Modules
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Closed 11 years ago.
In my current environment, I've implemented a login script system that uses Kixscript. I'm able to drop any kix script in the appropriate directory, after which the login script parsed that directory and executes each script.
I've noticed a decrease in the amount of people documenting/developing for KIX, as well as a lack of 64-bit functionality (not necessary, but nice to have). Therefore, I'm curious if there is anything that can be recommended (other than WSH or PowerShell) that would be easy to use/implement and be efficient. Maybe Lua??
FYI, I've seen this thread, but it's about 2 years old, so I'm looking for new input without "threadjacking".
Thanks
Maybe VBScript? Support is built into Windows.
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How necessary is it to learn VB6 and what are the advantages of using this language today? Does it really have advantages?
At this point, nobody should be using VB6 for new development work, however, there is a lot of existing VB6 code that needs to be maintained and/or ported. Much of the existing VB6 code will be internal line-of-business applications, so the question of whether to learn it or not would depend on your employeers needs.
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I have a presentation due in about three hours and rather than handing in something I drew in pencil, I'd rather turn in something nicer to the client.
Is there something out there that lets me pick and drag common controls to create mockups?
balsamiq
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
Balsamiq, hands down.
Visio isn't bad if your willing to pay for something. It comes with widgets that resemble actual windows components.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/fx100487861033.aspx