Software / Technology Tips

By using import script, a script can be imported to any other system which are in network, Then script steps can be copied and pasted in  the existing script at the client end. What needs to be done ? Need to host the application file from where the script can be imported to any other…

Initializations /* The progressbar which will be synchronized with the on going voice recording.*/ ProgressBar mProgressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.mSeekBar); mProgressBar.setMax(120); /*The relative layout and textview which will show the  animation with the voice recording.*/ mRelativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.voicerec_progresslayout); mProgressTxv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.voicerec_progressText); A countdowntimer is used to increase progress regularly after an interval of 1…

The Android Developers documentation specifies the constructor as follows: =============================================================== public TranslateAnimation (int fromXType, float fromXValue, int toXType, float toXValue, int fromYType, float fromYValue, int toYType, float toYValue) Since: API Level 1 Constructor to use when building a TranslateAnimation from code Parameters fromXType Specifies how fromXValue should be interpreted. One of Animation.ABSOLUTE, Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, or Animation.RELATIVE_TO_PARENT.…

Solution: To prevent this senario, we need to do 2 changes as follows :          1. We need to set a flag “full_screen” on the “rhoconfig.txt” to 0. Make sure that this flag in not commented out.                 # 1 – true,  0 – false                 full_screen = 0         2. We need to add…

Recently I was required to write a password strength meter in Filemaker,here I am sharing the  logic behind evaluating password strength, which will give you a clear idea for writing one in your own working platform.As we know, the instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords, with…

In many code reviews, I have seen we miss out proper object parsing from SqlReader or end up with repeated lengthy codes or there is no fail safe mechanism to handle, if parse fails out. I will be extending an approach that I have been using in dynamic forms for parsing to make it compatible…

What/how does cause this issue/problem? We have done so many experiments. Based on those experiments here are the findings>> Condition 1: “It generally happens to the webservice that require client user to provide credentials.” Condition 2: It is a general happens in Visual Studio 2005, not in Visual Studio 2008. From the Web Service Client Point…

Suppose, we are having an array of string or integer containing few duplicate values,  for instance:  int[] duplicateNumbers=new int[]{1,2,2,3,44,4,4,44,4,4,4,33,4,5,7,8,1}; Now we need to iterate through unique numbers only, for that we  can write //a query to iterate over unique numbers only. var uniqueNumbers = (from num in duplicateNumbers                          select num).Distinct(); We are now able to iterate…

n filemaker we can’t execute sort functionality directly on a list of records on a portal as the portal sort records is defined in the portal definition. To handle sorting records dynamically on a portal we can follow the below steps. 1.Create one global field(let’s say gSortKey) in the table on which the portal is…

What is ‘plink‘? Its a command-line SSH connection method provided by PuTTY. Lets say, you have an application running on windows platform and this application needs to connect to a DB residing on some other platform like Linux, via SSH connection. And you don’t want to manually go and establish the PuTTY connection for each…