Software / Technology Tips

Developers have always found the windows registry to be a suitable place for storing application specific information and configuration settings. The popularity of the registry can be attributed to the fact that: (a) registry access is faster than file access . (b)it is a very secure system-wide data repository. A folder in the registry is…

Have you ever, thought up for taking the screenshot of your desktop in Servoy? Just like the Print screen button of Windows keyboard. Here is a quick Tip to show how you can do that in Servoy application. Here is a Servoy method I have written which takes screenshot of your desktop and returns the…

Playing Video files in Servoy is still a bit of R&D work for developers. There are no direct Servoy beans and plug-ins available to play video files in Servoy application. And while creating beans and plug-ins for Servoy to play video files, we also need to think about the different video codecs supportability which is…

Have you ever came across in a situation, where you need to update a column for all records in the foundset? Like for an example, you need to modify the current date time stamp of ‘modified_on’ column for all the records in the foundset. To achieve the same, you will update the column for all…

LocalStorage:-This is one of the many awesome features provided by HTML5 to store the data locally on the machine. Many of us have already heared about it but do not know how to use it. So here i am mentioning the common questions first arises when discussing localStorage. Q:-What is HTML5 LocalStorage? Ans:- Local storage…

The below Tip describes you, How we can run/trigger external application directly from your Servoy Solution. For triggering an External Application, You can use application.executeProgram() method. Here, I am quoting the syntax of the method. //Execute a program and returns output specify the cmd as you would do in a console var program_output = application.executeProgram(…

I want to share some cross-browser compatible CSS techniques to create shadow effect without using an image. We have to first remember that shadow means it should be black and should fade gradually as light effect on the div. If the light effect is from a particular side of the div, the shadow will be…

We can create an impression of a 3-dimensional cube using only CSS properties.Using skew property and rotating the rectangles,individual faces of cubes can be aggregated to draw a 3D object. Supported browsers: Fire­fox 3.5+,  Safari 3.2+, Google Chrome. We need to create separate div, class and contents for each face.The top face of the cube…

In one of my recent applications I had to use a jQuery plugin which need to run when the HTML elements are ready. This plugin creates fancy tool tips for HTML elements having title attribute. The elements were created and appended dynamically to document body, by javascript. So I found that the plugin is not…

Servoy Plug-ins are used to extend Servoy’s capability to some extent. We can add Servoy Plug-ins to add more feature to our application which can not be doable with the default installation. Servoy default installation is also coming with number of Plug-ins. We can use them in our application or we can also use Free…