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I define a software event as any state of a program to which we can probably respond. In JavaScript, how does event delegation differs from more simple and probably more common event handling patt...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg version="1.1" id="Capa_1" x="0px...
I was trying to install Netbeans in Xubuntu. I had installed Netbeans using Snapd. sudo snap install netbeans --classic I was trying to start Netbeans then I got an error which was looking like...
MarkFuncs has really gotten huge progress, at least in my eyes, and now, I want to make math possible in the language. Background MarkFuncs is a programming language that I have been working on f...
When reading questions about C programming from beginners, I very often see them describing peculiar run-time errors and crashes, segmentation faults and similar. They have spent a lot of time chas...
If I have a one-dimensional array, I can get the length of it quite easily: var x = moves.Length(). However, if the array is multi-dimensional, .Length() returns the total number of elements. If ...
Could not find com.github.Kunzisoft:Android-SwitchDateTimePicker:1.9. Required by: project :app Search in build.gradle files I was trying to use the library. I had searched for 2.1, 2.0 a...
query = "CREATE TABLE "+TABLE+" ("+COLUMN1+" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, "+COLUMN2+" VARCHAR(255), " + COLUMN3+" VARCHAR(255), "+COLUMN4+" TEXT, "+ COLUMN5+" VARCHAR(255)...
In the code below, the value of order variable should change according to i's value: String order; switch (i){ case 0: order = CallLog.Calls.DATE + " DESC "; contactViewAda...
What's the better way to store base64 in SQLite Database? I was thinking to put base64 as TEXT since base64 has lots of chars. CREATE TABLE name (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, image TEXT)...
How can I monitor an Angular frontend with Prometheus? I was able to create metrics for my Node.js API using the express-prometheus module. But I can't find any Angular/Prometheus integration. Basi...
I have a .html file containing only the following data, and I keep that file on top of my website's directory. <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/mobile_general_structure.css"></link> ...
In my browser's JavaScript console I can add to the <body> element one file (index.html) with the following AJAX code: const whereToLoad = document.querySelector("body"); const ajax = new X...
I was using static method few moments ago. But I noticed that I was returning a variable using that static method. According to the article, Static is a keyword that identifies the class-related...
I was trying to show transition on activity changes. I had followed two method from SO. I lost those link so I can't add them here. My first method was I had used overridePendingTransition on onCr...
managedQuery is recently deprecated. ManagedQuery was used for using Cursor. What should I use since managedQuery was deprecated? Without it, I can't work with Cursor. So there must be alternative ...
This is the worst bug I have ever seen.. I was fetching CallLogs following way. ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> callLog= new ArrayList<>(); HashMap<String, Strin...
Why ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE always returning contact number. The number is available in Google Contacts. Here what I am doing... Cursor c; if (contactID==""...
This is intended to be a canonical post for this problem which is pretty common. Especially among beginners. I've heard that I should avoid using floating point variables for representing curren...
What should I use instead of ContactsContract.Contacts.LAST_TIME_CONTACTED? According to documentation, LAST_TIME_CONTACTED variable was deprecated. Even it was written in ContactsContract.class /...
What does ems in xml do? I saw that I was using following line in EditText. But, I never thought what it does. I was trying to check what actually it does by removing the line. I couldn't see any d...
I have created two PHP modules, one is a contact form module and one is a a sticky "call now" module. I can access the contact form by example.com/contact_form.php but in contrast, example.com/cal...
I'm trying to parse lines like "THIS. THAT..OTHER " so that "THIS. THAT." is found. There can be more than one <word><dot> separated by a space except no space after the last one. ...
How to get image of contact list? I was using cursor to get contact list. Here how it looks like. ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> contactList = new ArrayList<>(); Has...
I personally use git for deploying my hobby projects into cloud like Heroku. I came across the concept of sftp for uploading files. Now please differentiate these two deployments like when to use w...
It's a very old question came to my mind. Whenever I start building some applications for Android using Android Studio. In every update, lots of tools get deprecated. I know I can use deprecated "t...
I'm rather new to using git, so I'm not sure about the best practices regarding it. I have a feature branch branched off, and periodically when the feature needs to be updated I will add some commi...
How to break line in XML? I was trying to follow the answer. But, It wasn't helpful for me. I had tried <br/> and <br />. None of them works. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&g...
I'm still in the process of making MarkFuncs and having given up from copy-pasting open-source interpreters, them using OOP too, I decided to make one without OOP and with scratch alongside with th...
How to make the placeholder so that it goes to the top of the border line on click? For example, when you go to Gmail and click on the input field, the placeholder text goes up and arranges itself...
Try It Online! is an online interpreter for many supported languages, including PHP. I'm trying to solve coding challenges using the language, specifically "Hello, {name}!". In PHP, you can litera...
I work for an IoT company. We recently got secure boot to work for a customer-visible product. For secure boot to work, the images we generate must be signed. Obviously, we want customer-visible sy...
Situation: I have an Azure account which has management permissions for various subscriptions in various directories (tenants). I have a GUI tool to do various management tasks whose details are ir...
While compiling the code for production in Tailwind CLI using: npx tailwindcss -m -o ./build/tailwind.css --purge "./**/*.html" I get: node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:941 const err = new ...
It's possible to use Angular 8 http.get to get a page from the frontend itself ? My local frontend url: https://192.168.0.177:4200/ I tried in a service: test(): Observable<string> { ret...
All the ways I know of to mutate a DOM are JavaScript. Just for broadening general knowledge I want to know if there is any common way to mutate the DOM via HTML itself, without involving any Java...
I wish to fill an array with strings, using Bash scripting. The strings are in a file, one per line. Here is what I've tried: declare -a my_array=() while read line; do my_array+=( "$line"...
int arr[] = {10,123,14,14,15,16}; cout<<sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]); I was reading the article. When sizeof() is used with the data types such as int, float, char… etc it simply ret...
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int linearSearch(int array[], int n, int key){ for(int i=0;i<=n;i++){ if(array[i]==key){ return i; } } } int main() { int ...
I made carousel image slider by following tutorials. To slide images , I made the below function. const moveToSlide = (track, currentSlide, targetSlide) => { track.style.transform = 'translat...
No, I'm not trying to get the full program written completely in C by you guys. I only need some way to implement the functionalities of each function I found confusing. In this challenge in Code ...
Trying to make a nannou app from the template but with a customizable model() function. The template has this main(): fn main() { nannou::app(model).update(update).run(); } The model t...
I wanted to print to browser console the number of li list items of a given ul list. This didn't work (console output was undefined): console.log(document.querySelectorAll(".example").length); ...
I develop an HTML-CSS-JavaScript-PHP contact form and I have a large HTML file which is very long and very wide (lots of horizontal scrolling due to nesting) and it's hard for me personally to work...
For some tasks, I find git show-branch easier to follow than git log. For example, inspecting the history on someone's PR before merging it. git show-branch master topic stops at the first common ...
I have a variable defined using const keyword. function Text() { const variable = "Hello!"; } console.log(variable); When I try to access this variable, I get: Uncaught ReferenceError...
The problem I am working on a simple drawing app for Android. I have a custom view on which the user can draw. This means that a lot of data (a list of points) is generated in this View. I want t...
I'm using SimpleDateFormat to parse a string containing a date/time, but the result has a different date, hour, minute, second and millisecond: SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM...
I would define a hook as: A piece of code which changes the response to a certain event, without changing the original code that caused the event How is that different than "code injection", if a...
from tkinter import * from tkinter import messagebox, filedialog import pyttsx3 import PyPDF2 import os import webbrowser root = Tk() # root.geometry("500x500") root.title("Audio Book") ...
