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How to build our own Platform [closed]
I want to build New Platform like (OpenERP platform , moodle , , dropal ,facebook ,etc ) with our features may be use MVC and XML or other I want to start with this project
can anyone advice me how ...
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Is the Glade GUI designer a good option for a beginner?
I am a student of Computer Science and I already have basic programming experience in Python 2.x, 3.x, C++, and HTML. I never made a program with a GUI. I have just programmed games, scripts/plugins, ...
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Examples of applications released for Desktop, Mobile & Web? [closed]
What are some good examples of applications that are released for desktop, mobile AND web?
I know of at least one such application, Wunderlist (https://www.wunderlist.com/), it's deployed in browser, ...
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Porting a linux application to windows with Qt by a total noob [closed]
I have already started it seems with the wrong approach of creating a MSVC project and ripping out linux #includes. Then hacking in Glib and Boost libraries and watching MSVC project errors go from 4 ...
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Any Cross-Platform C++ GUI toolkit that doesn't use the Signal-and-Slot model? [closed]
I am not very comfortable with the signal-and-slot system which is employed by the Qt and
GTK+ toolkits.
Can anyone suggest me any Cross-Platform C++ GUI toolkit(s) which is active and reliable and ...
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How to organize cross platform js/web application?
My friend and I are working on an application that already works for Windows 8 and is written in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Our desire is to make it cross platform for areas like windows mobile, ...
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Is it possible to use the Intel C/C++ compiler on Linux to create object files to be linked on Windows?
Why?
Depending on your source the Intel compiler is likely or most definitely the compiler generating the fastest executables for the x86 architecture (5 to 100 % execution time improvement).
Intel ...
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HTML5 PhoneGap Mobile development? [closed]
I want some suggestions about the project concepts/ideas on HTML5 PhoneGap mobile app development. I want to develop some app that can be a learning curve to get to know about these technologies. Any ...
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How to unit test code which is intended to have different results on different platforms
I noticed some duplicate code in a codebase I am working on that appended a filename to a directory path, so I decided to refactor it into its own method. The application I am working on is not well ...
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Developing a cross-platform interface for writing to hardware like PicKit OR USB over the web?
I thought long and hard on weather to put this question in programmers or stack overflow. Please let me know if this is not the right place and I will post it to SO.
My friend and I am developing a ...
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Continuous “Platform” Integration?
We have accumulated a large codebase of somewhat-well-document projects, many of which aren't actively being used, but that we want to be able to start using again quickly if necessary.
What is the ...
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Audio Sync : Detecting current time of a program
I am trying to do some audio sync things (see Wikipedia on acoustic fingerprints).
I know it is possible to place watermarks in an audio signal to analyse it later, but how would I do to get the ...
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Has Java's reputation been permanently damaged by recent security exploits which have targeted applets in the browser? [closed]
I have to build several small(ish) business applications for various purposes. Primarily for myself but I would like to have the option in the future of selling them to other companies. Since I use a ...
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What would be the best Programming language for web applications so that code can compile and ship as a package [closed]
I want to create a web application and ship it to the clients as a package which would contain an embedded webserver, an embedded db and the compiled code.
I want the s/w to be very fast and use less ...
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Fastest native C++ multi-platform compiler & IDE & debugger [closed]
If I'll begin developing cross platform applications, The complied file speed is very important for me .
I have research before than and find same result about IDE :
(I ignored eclipse because very ...
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Bluetooth app that works on multiple platforms [closed]
I am prototyping a bluetooth microcontroller. I need to be able to connect and read data from the bluetooth microcontroller with a pc, mac, iphone and android. I it possible to write one app that will ...
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How to plan/manage multi-platform (mobile) products?
Say I've to develop an app that runs on iOS, Android and Windows 8 Mobile. Now all three platforms are technically in different program languages. The only 'reuse' that I can see is that of the ...
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Patterns to refactor common code in multi-platform software
I have a Django application and a PyQt application that share a lot of code. A big chunk of the PyQt application are copied verbatim from the Django application's views. As this is a game, I have ...
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What are the differences between AppMobi and PhoneGap?
I am new to the cross platform application development. I came across the very similar cross platform frameworks AppMobi and PhoneGap.
I want to know
Is there any differences between apk/ipa ...
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How are crossplatform/multiple-OS C++ projects planned in terms of code and tools?
I want to create a project in C++ that can work in Windows, Linux and Embedded Linux.
How are projects created when they have to work across many OS'es? Is it first created on one OS and then the ...
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JavaFX 2.0 vs Qt for cross platform stand-alone application [closed]
I need a bit of advice from you developers who deal with cross-platform applications (specifically programs with a GUI).
I will be creating an application soon that needs to be cross-platform and so ...
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Cross-platform desktop programming: C++ vs. Python [closed]
Alright, to start off, I have experience as an amateur Obj-C/Cocoa and Ruby w/Rails programmer. These are great, but they aren't really helpful for writing cross-platform applications (hopefully ...
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is it allowed to create a app with overscroll feature?
As Apple won lawsuits against Motorola and Samsung with the so called overscroll patent, I am asking myself what the legal consequences of releasing an application with such a feature are?
I think if ...
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What to learn after standard C++? [closed]
I switched to C++ a few months ago, learning its syntax, the main features
of the STL and what you can usually find in a "learn C++" manual.
Now I would like to go further. What would be your ...
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Choosing a crossplatform for mobile development [closed]
I am creating a enterprise project and will develop the app for WP, Android and IPhone (Maybe also tablets) I have then done some research of what solutions are out there and have narrowed my choice ...
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Does Rhodes actually create a Native app or a Hybrid app
Rhodes claims to be able to build Native apps but I'm not sure or not if this means a native shell + embedded Web Browser like PhoneGap or does it create a true Native app like (I believe) Titanium ...
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Cross language remoting and serialisation [closed]
I need to create add network communication to a server written in the Java that will be connected to through a C# application.
I have very little experience in networking and I'm struggling to decide ...
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Mobile cross-platform SDK for computationally intensive apps
I am aware of the PhoneGap toolkit for creating mobile applications for virtually all mobile platforms with a significant market share. However, the code in PhoneGap that is shared between the ...
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Writing cross-platforms Types, Interfaces and Classes/Methods in C++
I'm looking for the best solution to write cross-platform software, aka code that I write and that I have to interface with different libraries and platforms each time.
What I consider the easiest ...
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Develop for Desktop and mobile use?
I am in the very beginning of developing an app / desktop program. I want it to be cross-platform and possibly also as a tablet version (preferably Android Icecream sandwich).
Note that I need to run ...
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Why most use Cygwin and not Uwin?
Most academic researchers I know target just *nix, and rely on Cygwin to make their applications available on Windows. I have tried many of these projects and always found them too unstable for ...
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What design pattern do you use to support graceful fallback on old platforms?
Let's say I need to add a drop shadow behind a box. Some old platforms do not support drop shadows, so I have to fake it by putting an image behind the box. Here's the pseudo code of how I'm currently ...
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Cross-Platform: Develop in parallel or series?
When starting a new software project that will be used on several platforms, how do you determine the best way to start development? Do you develop for one platform and then port to the next? Do you ...
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A single language to learn to develop desktop and mobile phone applications? [closed]
Is there a language that is capable of developing apps to cross platform OSs (win,*nix) and mobile apps (IOS, android) ..
I'm a pro web developer but want to explore more environment to deploy my code ...
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What do you suggest for cross platform apps, including web
I have always preferred cross platform development over most other concepts as long as I can remember. Which is one of the reason I never got into .Net. Currently, I use php/javascript/python as my ...
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Where do I start in regards to making a Gnome/Unity Form Application
Ok so I am familiar with developing Form and Console applications on Windows using Visual Studio .Net with C#, but where do I start when it comes to Linux distro's like Ubuntu, is there an equivalent?
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Is there such a crossplatform tool [closed]
I wanted to create an open source program for PC and mobile and I was wondering if there are such tools that allows you to write in HTML, javascript and CSS? Phonegap allows you to do it except it's ...
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Porting Software [closed]
I would like to know what would be needed to study and understand in terms of computing platforms and OS (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows) to become a software porting engineer.
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USB software protection dongle for Java with an SDK which is cross-platform “for real”. Does it exist?
What I'd like to ask is if anybody knows about an hardware USB-dongle for software protection which offers a very complete out-of-the-box API support for cross-platform Java deployments.
Its SDK ...
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Can cross-platform development be speeded by really specific, complete pre-coding design?
I'm green at programming but not entirely noobish. I taught myself some Java about five years ago, and I learnt me some Objective-C recently.
I was talking with a Unix guy a while back, and he said ...
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Steps required to start programming in C++ to develop native applications
I am dealing around with C# .Net for almost around a year now. I got lots of experience (I owe most of it to guys at stackoverflow).
Now I am thinking to start working with C++ as well. Mainly ...
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Experiences with Rhomobile positive & negative [closed]
I am about to embark on a project to re-develop a Windows Mobile 6 application; I originally had imagined doing it for Android, but the powers that be have decided they wanted a cross-platform ...
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Do platform independence and different paradigms deter newcomers? [closed]
I'm only 18, and as such my initial ventures into programming were the usual 2000s-dominating high-level, paradigm-saturated affairs, complete with obsession with platform independence and 'good' ...
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Cross “Machine” Code?
Some languages (mostly ones made in the last 2 decades or so) can now not only run (after some compilation step or directly) on several platforms, but also can be compiled to run on several virtual ...
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Looking for a lightweigh logging system in c/c++ [closed]
I got following requirements,
1. less than 10k, better in single or two source files
2. logging by priorities
3. multi-threading safe
4. cross-platform, in c or c++
thanks
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Is it misguided to label mobile web applications as cross platform?
Yes, you can access the mobile web site from a range different mobile devices, but the platform, I suppose, is still the web server and the client browser (the latter ideally being the "same" on any ...
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Is Java a good choice for cross-platform games?
I'm looking to create a game in Java and would like it to work on Windows, Linux, and Mac. I'm pretty sure C# is a bad choice for this, and I don't have enough experience in C or C++. I want to stay ...
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What language should I use for making a cross platform library?
I want to build a SyncML parsing library (no UI) which should be able to build up messages based on information provided by the host application, fed in by the library's methods. Also, the library ...
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What are the available tools for creating cross-platform, cross-browser multiplayer online commercial games? [closed]
HTML5+Javascript is not viable as the client-side code will be visible and, thus, stealable. Flash is not viable since it's not supported on ipads and thus not cross-platform. Said that, what are the ...
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How could I implement a cross-platform drag and drop?
I just found a video online that shows files being dragged from a Mac to a PC and vice versa.
I'm developing a backup and sync application, and I'd like to see if I could implement this. How is this ...
