I was expecting that when an item in an EV_COMBO_BOX is selected, the "index" and "item" of the combo box should change to reflect the selection. But they do...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jul 4, 2011 12:45 pm
... A lot of people would expect that, David, including me. But in fact 'index' and 'item' are for programmatic iteration of the items in the list, similar to...
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David Jenkins
djenkins99a
Jul 4, 2011 1:08 pm
Thanks Peter. I'll chew on that for a while, maybe I'll like your explanation better then. At the moment it seems pedantic and confusing to have "item" and...
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Emmanuel Stapf
manus_eiffel
Jul 4, 2011 1:41 pm
There is also "selected_items" which is used for EV_LISTs that have the ability to select one or more items. Manu ... explanation better then. At the moment it...
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werner.lioen
Jul 5, 2011 8:50 am
Hi, I have installed EiffelStudio 6.8 and am trying to create a .NET application. The "Targeted CLR Version:" drop down list does not contain every Microsoft...
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Thomas Beale
twbeale
Jul 6, 2011 12:28 pm
for those interested in the new Eiffel Technology Community Workshop outcomes, the report is now relatively complete - see ...
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CRISMER Paul-Georges
paul-georges.crismer@...
Jul 6, 2011 3:06 pm
Hello, The feature {EV_RICH_TEXT}.set_with_named_file (a_filename: FILE_NAME) fills a rich text widget with the content of an rtf file whose name is ...
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rfo@...
roger.osmond
Jul 6, 2011 3:44 pm
Hi Paul It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure you can simply use the set_text feature. If that's not working the way you wish (perhaps it's not rtf-smart), ...
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Emmanuel Stapf [ES]
manus_eiffel
Jul 6, 2011 7:18 pm
... Via the web_browser library included in EiffelStudio we get this ability. Manu...
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rfo@...
roger.osmond
Jul 6, 2011 10:59 pm
Hi Manu! This is good news indeed! Last time I checked, the example would not compile (might have been 6.6 or even earlier). It works nicely for HTML+CSS (on...
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David Jenkins
djenkins99a
Jul 9, 2011 2:05 pm
The scope of a local entity in a check instruction is limited to the check instruction itself. So in an_attribute: detachable A ....... check attached...
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Alexander Kogtenkov
kogtenkov
Jul 9, 2011 2:42 pm
Dear David, The issue with this kind of check instructions is that they can be turned off in the execution environment by user request. In other words the...
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David Le Bansais
dlebansais
Jul 9, 2011 2:43 pm
... One of the benefits of not extending the scope is that it allows the name to be reused. Also, with an extended scope, one could question the decision of...
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David Jenkins
djenkins99a
Jul 9, 2011 5:40 pm
Hi Alexander, Thanks for reminding me that there are not only 2 check instructions, but that 1 (conditional) can be turned off while the other (with the "then"...
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Alexander Kogtenkov
kogtenkov
Jul 9, 2011 5:57 pm
Hi David, I'd say there is not special syntax for stable attributes, only a convention that is supported starting from EiffelStudio 6.4. There is no new...
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Paul Cohen
pacoispaco
Jul 10, 2011 11:12 am
Hi, Has anyone implemented map & reduce functions in Eiffel? My first approach was: reduce (f: FUNCTION [ANY, TUPLE [ANY, ANY], ANY]; a: ARRAY [ANY]): ANY --...
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Eric Bezault
gobosoft
Jul 10, 2011 1:25 pm
... Ideally these functions should be part of class ARRAY, next to `do_all' and friends: reduce (f: FUNCTION [ANY, TUPLE [G, G], G]): G map (f: FUNCTION [ANY,...
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Paul Cohen
pacoispaco
Jul 11, 2011 10:29 am
Hi, ... Thanks Eric. Very nice! However do the map/reduce functions belong to the class ARRAY? One very important objective of a map/reduce implementation...
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andersoxie
Jul 17, 2011 9:09 am
Hi I have also run into the 'print' problem described below. Since this seems to be a general problem maybe you can post an implementation of the work-around. ...
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Gerrit
gerrit_leder
Jul 17, 2011 5:42 pm
Hello Anders, this is my code: print_computed_result (a_g: separate GRID) local l: INTEGER temp2: STRING do io.put_string ("%Na_g.losses: ") io.put_integer...
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Gerrit
gerrit_leder
Jul 18, 2011 9:31 am
For the Threads and SCOOP, I can only say that there are limitations described here: http://docs.eiffel.com/book/solutions/scoop-implementation These will be...
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Hal Webre
halwebre
Jul 20, 2011 10:14 am
Hi, Here is one way, although there may be more succinct solutions. This requires Provisional Syntax to be set in Project Settings. Assuming you have: ...
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finnianr
Jul 22, 2011 12:18 pm
Hi all I am trying to port my Eiffel interface to the VTD-XML parser and xpath navigator to work on the Windows platform. But I am running into some C syntax...
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Emmanuel Stapf [ES]
manus_eiffel
Jul 22, 2011 3:36 pm
... Usually when something like that happens, there is a mismatch/conflict in some C header files that are used to compile the C code. The best thing to do to...
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finnianr
Jul 23, 2011 12:28 pm
... Thanks Manu that helped. For anyone who has had similar problems here are the steps I would have taken with hindsight. Only after following some hunches...
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Paul Cohen
pacoispaco
Jul 24, 2011 10:39 am
Hi, I have two questions regarding shared libraries. 1. Is there any way to easily decide in Eiffel (or C) if a specific piece of code has been loaded as part...
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finnianr
Jul 24, 2011 11:59 am
I have been porting a library of routines for directory and file management to the Windows platform but I have run into a problem. This is because of an...
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明
larryliuming
Jul 25, 2011 1:12 am
Hi, Paul£¬ `API loader' library can load DLLs on Windows (or .so files on Linux). Maybe this library is the one you are looking for? Here are snippets: ...
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Emmanuel Stapf [ES]
manus_eiffel
Jul 25, 2011 3:32 pm
... The query `is_valid' is actually not checking anything and will always return True. The idea was that eventually it would check the intrinsic validity of...
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finnianr
Jul 27, 2011 3:03 pm
I think we should consider that {DIRECTORY_NAME}.extend has a bug as well because if it has the value "c:\" and we extend the path with: dir.extend...
