Topics by Will Gresham

Hello I am here seeking knowledge of people who actually know what they are talking about. In mobile development, specifically Andriod, is there any reason to use [icode] variable1 = variable1 + variable2[/icode] over [icode]variable1 += variable2[/icode]? This was a subject that came up recently and my lecturer simply said …

Very simple question, looking on google brings up plenty of MySQL resources on triggers but I can't find the answer I am looking for. What I want to know is; When I perform a query on a database from PHP, Does MySQL provide any way for PHP to know a …

Hello all, I have an issue with a class I am writing which is supposed to be able to multiple 2 matrices together. The issue I am having is not the actual multiplication (That bit works, thanks for the pointers yesterday). The problem, or so I assume, is with my …

Hello, I am having an issue with C++. I am relatively new to this language. The issue I am having is that I am unable to use a variable declared as private in my class. Definition: [code] class Matrix { public: Matrix(void); Matrix(int rows, int cols); Matrix(const Matrix& m); ~Matrix(void); …

Hello all. I am receiving Bluescreens when I boot my PC up, randomly one of the 3 above. This is not every time I boot the system, but at least 70% of the time. This started when I installed a new graphics card into the PC (ATI HD5770), so my …

Hi all. I am building a program to emulate a game 'Boggle', and have hit a dead end. I have tried to search for hints online as to what I need to do from here, but everything I find is either just a block of code sparingly commented or doesn't …

I was thinking about the DaniWeb badge earlier, and the possibility of putting it onto my site, but it really doesn't fit in with my sites colour scheme :( I would like to suggest customisation options for the current purple background. You are already generating the image from post counts …

Hi All. I think this is the right place for this post. Finally got around to connecting the HDMI cable between my PC and Monitor today, about time I got rid of the VGA. When reading the below, bear in mind that on VGA, there were 0 problems at 1440*900) …

New home page looks good :icon_smile: Don't know how long it has been there as I have only just seen it... a lot more useful than the previous one which just listed the latest topics. Nice update :)

Hello wonderful people :) Can my username be changed? I signed up last May and used the same username I use on most sites, but I have since dropped this alias on most sites :D Can it be changed to [B]Will Gresham[/B] please :P

Not sure if this has been mentioned before. One thing that irritated me for a while was seeing '1 hour ago' '2 hours ago' and such on posts. I like seeing the actual Date/Times, but maybe that's just me :) I have had a look in the CP today and …

It seems the search function on the site is broken. If I enter a phrase in the search box, it does return results. However, leave the box blank and click search to get the advanced options, and no matter what I put in, it came up with 'Sorry - no …

So, anyone else watch this? I am rather annoyed with one groups continued success so far, especially after they killed a Queen classic last night :(

Let this be a warning to any loud mouth drunk yobs... The next person you start on may not be as easy as you think :D [url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/07/we-re-very-cross-cross-dressers-115875-21728860/[/url] Good to see someone stand up to the violent youths :)

Ok, I have an iBook G3. I was restoring it to factory with the Software Restore disks which came with the unit as I was planning to move on to a new unit.. But there was a power cut in the middle of the process and the unit shut off. …

Hello all. Quick question. I have a table in my database with 'feedback' items which are assigned to pages/items in another database. I have a inner join to list all of the items on the feedback table and which items they are listed on. I have used a DISTINCT on …

I am building a program that will 'integrate' with a website I have built, the user wants a client based app that can be used to upload text from a .doc file to the website. The website uses a database to store the text in HTML format. The HTML produced …

Wasn't sure what to put as the title, but what is happening is this: I have div elements on a HTML page, when they click on the div it is replaced with a textarea containing the div contents in order to edit this (eventually there will be a form/submission button …

I am having some problems with HTML and CSS, firstly with links in a li element, I have it set to display: block so that the it will highlight when the cursor is placed within the li area, but this is not working in IE 6 (I know this is …

Hi All I have an Excel workbook (Excel 2002) which is accessed and modified by multiple people, there are 3 sheets within the workbook, 'Processing', 'Completed', and 'List Data'. On the processing sheet there are open jobs with drop-down validation in 2 cells which fetches options from the list data …

I have got a slight problem with the code below, I am getting entries into the Database with null values, which as far as I can see should not be possible I have both Client-side JS to validate the fields are not empty and PHP to do the same, Just …

Hi all Just a quick question, I have avoided the ternary operator type If statement a lot in my code, because personally I find it easier to read a statement like this: [code=php] if (empty($_POST['action'])) { $action = 'default'; } else { $action = $_POST['action']; } [/code] Rather than: [code=php] …

I have upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.14 on openSuse 10.3 and then downloaded Java 6u6 and installed that, created a symbolic link to java plugin for firefox but whenever I try to load a Java applet it will not show anything, not even the jigsaw piece saying Java is not installed. …