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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 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") ...
I handle several projects that use yaml files for configuration, and load them with YamlDotNet. It is sometimes useful to log the effective configuration when the program starts, to aid future debu...
I consider to migrate a large MediaWiki website to Drupal 9. All the webpages include MediaWiki syntax, just one example is the link syntax: [[ARTICLE NAME|LINK_TEXT]] for internal links [URL ...
const body = document.body; const light = evt => { body.setAttribute('data-theme', 'light'); localStorage.setItem("theme", "light"); console.log("light"); } const dark = ...
I am working on a website which unfortunately uses a mix of linked and inline CSS and Javascript (and, even more unfortunately, I can't do a lot about the use of inline CSS and Javascript), and am ...
In the past I have read about the fact that some programmers use a variable to hold two or more variables (instead holding a mere value or an array). There might also be cases when programmers use...
Making a Nannou App that draws a line to the screen. My model only contains the window itself and a vector of tuples describing the points and color. Similar to this example(under Drawing Lines) ...
While learning JavaScript, I started to see sometimes the <script> is placed in the <head> and sometimes it is placed in the <body>, What's difference between placing the <scri...
I would say that the terms "property" and "method" are basic in JavaScript programming (at least in the context of web/front), but are they basic or common in other programming languages such as C,...
I would assume the following content types would be standard when creating a web shop with Drupal but maybe I am wrong: Home page Article page Product page Service page Another page Are t...
When working with a qmake subdirs project you may want to share configuration between multiple projects. In a less common case you may including a external project within your own as code and want ...
What I want: An object that contains a function that I can update after creation. I created a struct that contains a parameter b and a function(closure?) named Internal_Fn. struct MyThing { ...
Building a Nannou App from their template. I want a circle to slowly fade in color and randomly change color when hitting the boundary of the window. But there is something strange going on when ...
Hello folks, can someone resolve this seg fault with me please, i can't find the error where it occur. Thank you. #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int ft_ultimate_range(int *...
After upgrading a Web application from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to ASP.NET Core 5.0, it worked fine on an existing server. However, when deployed on a server that had only .NET 5.0 installed, the applicat...
I have developed an Atom package which calls SyncTeX (a utility for reverse lookup for LaTeX), and then opens in Atom the file specified in the SyncTeX response. I'm developing on Linux, but now a ...
Let I have a button <button type="button" onclick = "myfunction()" class="collapsible">Expand content</button> And, I have a JS function. function collapse() { var coll = docu...
I consider to create a multi page contact form in which there is one backend page but about 5 front-end pages (stage 1-5). Pages 1-4 are input pages and page 5 is for a submit button and a success ...
