Software / Technology Tips

The below Tip describes, How you can send email in Servoy by adding images inline to your message body. We can create the email attachments by using the createBinaryAttachment() method of the mail plug-in and pass the array of attachments to the sendMail() method to send the mail along with attachments. The code snippet below…

HTML is very simple, just a list of links. Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Test 6 CSS is little bit complicated this time, therefore, I have put a lot of comments. I hope it will explain everything you need to know. body { background:#222; } #navMenu { margin:0; padding:0; list-style:none;…

What is Skype? Skype is one of the most popular free messenger tool used to do text & voice chat over internet. You can also make a call to any Landline or Mobile Phones through Skype. For more information, please browse www.skype.com. In this Tip, we will see how to integrate Skype with your Servoy…

Servoy’s inbuilt mechanism to handle exceptions is quite effective but there are times when you may want to handle the exception programmatically. For instance, in some situations you may want to customize the Exception Handler to show some custom messages to the user? Whenever Servoy encounters an error, it throws an exception with the pre-defined…

The below TIP explain you the use of “elementName” while writing custom Plug-ins for Servoy. When you write any Plug-ins for Servoy, you must have a provider class, which must implement the IScriptObject Interface and the class needs to be referenced to the Servoy Application Server through the getScriptObject() method of the Plug-in’s main class.…

Much has changed in Web Development but HTML has remained unchanged for a long time, the last major update HTML 4 having been brought in 1999. However, W3C is now coming up with HTML 5 specification with new features to meet demands. The W3C Working Draft of HTML 5 can be found here HTML5 introduces…

In my current project, it was very surprising to find that some of the records had vanished from the foundset after sorting and listing them. I was shocked, what could I have done that causes loss of data. Then I tried to find the issue. Issue: If you are showing a list of records of…

During installtion of a windows application, if we have to show a custom message box, then the custom message box always comes behind the installtaion wizard form. To handle this issue one can create a form with topmost property set to true and open the message box having this form as owner. Following is the…

Creating rounded corners in pure CSS is pretty simple and straight forward.  The following lines of code demonstrate it. -moz-border-radius:10px; / Firefox / -webkit-border-radius:10px; / Safari and chrome / -khtml-border-radius:10px; / Linux browsers / border-radius:10px; / CSS3 / If we write the above CSS for any element (say a div), it works fine for every…

When we will create installer of any application by default it will not write the installation path (InstallLocation) in the registry when we will install that installer. For this we have to insert the InstallLocation in the CustomAction table of msi database. Step 1: and we have saved it at c:\app folder. Create a vb…