Jose Cuervo posted:

poopiehead, do you know of a good way to search for a particular key in a dictionary without actually knowing the key, but only a unique characteristic? I know that the key I am looking for is the one the has the longest string length (and there is a key with a longest string length in my dictionary). Right now I am useing the following loop to get the key:

code:

         For Each key As String In myDic.Keys
            If key.Length > theLongestKey.Length Then
               theLongestKey = key
            End If
         Next

where I initially have theLongestKey set as an empty string. This works, but I thought there might be a cleverer (and hopefully more efficient) way to do it.

Professor Science posted:

Oh that series that people have on their bookshelf so they can be like, "Oh, yes, I've read the Art of Computer Programming, yessssss, I am smoking a pipe now?"

Mister Biff posted:

Edit: Er, this may be more appropriate for the C/C++ thread... if so, just tell me.

Kaiju posted:

I have a client at work that has two mirror sites translated into German and Spanish. All three sites are hosted on the same server. The translated sites are relatively new and since they launched, they've started having submissions to their contact forms that include non-english characters. When the form outputs the submission emails anything not english, say, letters with accents, umlauts or tilde (for spanish characters) they are replaced in the email body with strange approximations and not the correct characters.

And if it matters, the sites are all in ASP classic.

I've never had to deal with anything like this in the past and I'm not sure how to fix it. I've been letting this one slide for a while and people are starting to ask questions.

Any ideas?

Dog Named Duke posted:

A C# question

Appa Time! posted:

code:

if(mylist==null)
{
	return mylist;
}

dougdrums posted:

So I was (not now, earlier) and programming and thinking about the finally statement. Is there any god drat reason for the finally statement? The only situation I see using finally in is if I didn't want to put a catch statement after a try which is a horrible practice anyways. And even if I did want to do that, couldn't I just use catch { } instead?

Sorry if I'm retarded and there actually is a good use for finally and I just never figured it out.

Edit: C#.

Milde posted:

Newer versions of Python have a nicer syntax for that:

code:

with open('/dev/null') as f:
    # do some stuff

No need for the explicitly finally/close, the with statement sets it up so f.__exit__ is always called, which simply calls close() (and this __enter__/__exit__ protocol can be adapted to other kinds of classes, like database cursors, thread locks, etc.)

tef posted:

Aside: I'm tempted to write a FAQ but really the only frequent question is "WHat Language should I learn?"

karuna posted:

Just did a quick search there and it seems control arrays are no longer supported, I'm using visual basic 2008 express edition..
Would you know of any other way i can refer to the labels with a variable?

Cheers

Careful Drums posted:

In Assembly, I need to print out the string

"The sum of the integers is"

And after hauling rear end doing messed up packed binary addition in Assembly, I can't do this WAAGH HALP

MEAT TREAT posted:

What about something like Dominoes and we each have to create a client that has to beat the rest.

astr0man posted:

I've been looking into writing a vista sidebar IM client using libpurple (gaim/pidgin/finch libraries) but I wasn't sure if it would even be possible. The IM interface would be in C++. I know you can execute C++ code with a DHTML interface, but I don't have enough experience with DHTML to know if something of this magnitude would be possible. So any suggestions as far as the best way to go about doing this or a pointer to some good reference material would be appreciated. Or just shoot the idea down if it's not feasible.

Blacknose posted:

When using Eclipse to code java I know there is a way to make it automaticaly insert stubs for javadoc comments, but I can't for the life of me find out how. Anyone know if it's an add-on or pre-installed, and how to use it? Can't find anything useful on google.

Presa Canario posted:

GT_Onizuka posted:

It would probably be better to store the depth of nodes, along with the nodes themselves, so you don't have to handle any incrementing.

NotAok posted:

I've been able to successfully load these by just using the assembly class, but I used the easier LoadFile method. This method may be what's tripping me up here.

6174 posted:

http://www.wotsit.org/

6174 posted:

I couldn't remember it offhand either, but it was #2 for "file specifications" at Google.

darfur posted:

I've searched the web for this, but can't really find a good answer.

What good is an interface? I understand what one is, and how I would implement one, but I don't understand the benefit of using one instead of just writing the classes that would use it by themselves without using the interface. It seems like if your class "inherits" and interface, it must include all of the methods in the interface, but why not just write the class with all the methods anyway?

Can anyone clarify this for me?

Incoherence posted:

Another example: event handlers. All event handlers for a given event implement the same interface, but they may (and hopefully do) have different behavior, and you may have multiple different event handlers for a particular event.

MEAT TREAT posted:

e: csammis where those methods come from? You have to inherit them from some place and in languages that don't allow multiple inheritance you have to use interfaces so that you can have multiple even handlers for one object. I think Incoherence said it wrong, I'm sure he meant that one object can have multiple even't handlers like keyboard and mouse, not that many objects can share the keyboard event handler. Because in that case you are correct, interfaces have nothing to do with it.

Tomed2000 posted:

I don't know if this thread is the best place to ask this but:

What is the most common programming environment in the industry? By that I mean is it most common that you will be working in a Unix/Linux environment with some editor like Emacs are is it more common to have a Windows environment with something like Visual Studio?

Zombywuf posted:

Also, how do I stop smilies appearing in code blocks?

Kino posted:

I've googled around a bit, but the only thing I can find is someone asking the question on experts-exchange where the usual google cache trick won't work.

Counter Punch posted:

Any ideas? [on slowing down copy and paste speed]

Am I asking this in the wrong place?

Thanks...

Avenging Dentist posted:

Actually, it depends on the storage medium used by the clipboard data. For something like Excel data, it's probably stored in global memory, so you'd be out of luck there, but it's totally possible to pass an IStream interface as the storage medium, and you could put in arbitrary delays when reading from the stream.

This would be a pretty complicated task and would require the terminal to support reading from an IStream interface, though.

JoeNotCharles posted:

I'm not familiar with NetTerm, but it might be easy to write a small app in Python or something which just watches for anything copied to the clipboard, reads it all, and then writes it back to the clipboard in smaller chunks with a pause between each chunk. I'd use PyQt for this because the Qt clipboard API's pretty easy to use, but that's because I'm already familiar with it and I have it set up - the Windows clipboard API is easy to use to so a small VB script might be just as good.

Daedalus256 posted:

I'm completely loving new at this so bare with me.

I need some code to stop a script from dying. Right now what I have is whenever you click on a button, the script launches whatever exe is specified. If you cancel that installation however the script gives an error and whatever else saying "Operation Canceled by User"

Is there some sort of easy vb I can throw into this so that doesn't happen?

Mr. Jive posted:

So how can I build a practical skill set? I'm just assuming that most of you have been through a similar phase, how did you bridge the gap between theory and practice?

fletcher posted:

Kinda off topic, but why is the message board software they use on sourceforge so horrible?

mnd posted:

What's the closest thing to Core Animation on Windows? In a quick look, it seems to be WPF, and some WPF-related links I've followed seem to indicate that WPF supports an implicit animation model like Core Animation (set start, end, and interval, and it figures out interpolation for you). It's probably less elegant than Core Animation, but is it functionally accurate?

mnd posted:

More simple .NET-related questions: