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Other Software / Developer's Corner / Re: Not Unicode?
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on: April 28, 2012, 02:45:24 AM
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Is there ever any compelling reason to not use Unicode?
1) When using a compiler/runtime lib that doesn't (natively) support unicode... (ex. Delphi / BCB < 2009)
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: windows xp sound device problems
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on: April 27, 2012, 04:33:52 AM
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A few silly questions, but they have to be asked: a) Do you have the correct drivers installed? (No exclamations/warnings in the system hardware configuration?) b) Does any sound produced give a VU-meter like animation in the extended volume controller? c) Are the speakers plugged into the right (green-ringed usually) output connector? d) Do the speakers work on another system?
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DonationCoder.com Software / Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility
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on: April 26, 2012, 04:39:47 PM
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Yes, a missing pgno is 0, I've made it somewhat tolerant for input, so that "pgno1", "pgno 1", "pgno-1", "pgno -1" or "pgno - 1" all result in page 1 (and multiple spaces are allowed as well). I could make it more flexible if needed, by also allowing "pg", "pgn", "pgnr" or "page" instead of "pgno", but I didn't do that yet.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building
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on: April 25, 2012, 02:30:59 AM
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Does that mean there are more then 1 chemical components described in 1 pdf file, or is this the kind of resulting pdf you want to have output eventually? And how are the chemical components in the 'word list' separated from each other, by comma's or each on a new line? Or just try to find a word as a pdf, if not there, add the next word and retry, etc.?
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DonationCoder.com Software / Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip
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on: April 25, 2012, 01:46:22 AM
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+1 for 7-Zip, and if you want to minimize clicks, turn off 'Cascaded context menu' in Options/7-Zip, so Extract Here and Extract to <folder> are directly available in the right-click context menu. Less than 2 clicks is useless imho, would you want all your zip-files to be extracted on double-click?
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service
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on: April 19, 2012, 12:10:22 PM
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if you can convince Java that it shouldn't be using so much of your system memory, and perform garbage collection more frequently
You actually can. By calling the static method System.gc(); a number of times (3 to 8 seems appropriate), that way you shift so many discarded objects into the 'destroy' bin that the memory is actually released. That can cost you performance for a few hundred milliseconds, but it is often worth the effort. It also helps to not have circular object-references within discarded objects in your application, but that's ofcourse a matter of carefully crafting your application, and/or null-ing an object or 2 in the right place & time  Memory management in (long-running) Java applications is just as important as memory management in a C/C++ application 
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