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I'm building a desktop application in Flex/AIR, and one of the current items on my TODO list is to develop a help system.
Throughout the GUI, there are little (?) buttons. When the user clicks one of those buttons, a HelpPanel appears, displaying some relevant information from the docs.
Simple enough.
But I'd really like to build a full-fledged help system, just like the ones normally deployed in desktop apps: a hierarchical table of contents, the ability to search for keywords, hyperlinking between help topics, etc.
Also, since my app will provide an API for plugin authors, I'd like to also provide hooks for third-party plugins to integrate their own documentation in with the core help system.
With my app, the user may not always be online, so all of the help data must be available locally (though it'd be very cool if new help content could be synchronized periodically from a server).
Building that kind of help system from scratch would be relatively straightforward, but it would also take a lot of time away from actually developing the core features of my application, so I'd rather use an off-the-shelf solution.
I've done a bit of googling, but can't find anything that fits the bill.
Any suggestions?
You might consider using the AIR html control to display html help files bound to links in your app, and built using any number of available tools for constructing HTML help screens.
If you design it using a conventional web server directory and file structure, there are plenty of tools for maintaining synchronized files.
This link references an AIR-based help system, and a possible interface to RoboHelp.
Here is a link to the RoboHelp "Packager".
Another page of possible interest.
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What is the best way to test a multiplayer network game in unity without build the app ?
It is something like in editor unity there is two editor which one is a copied editor. So we can login in one editor and login in second editor with different user. Is there a tool like this ?
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Is there a tool like this ?
As far as i know, there is not.
What is the best way to test a multiplayer network game in unity
without build the app ?
When i test, I usually build the game, and then run another instance in the editor, on separate monitors. That should work like normal.
But you need one build. :/
If you are using the built in Unity Networking
Host from the editor
Connect the build as a client
Many issues can be resolved just by changing the host, and in these cases you don't have to rebuild.
That being said, don't forget to rebuild every now and again to be safe. And remember, sometimes you change things that you don't realize affect the client.
I would suggest ParallelSync for anything Unity 2018+, it's basically the closest successor to uecho. You can add it as a package in Unity and it will copy your project to a new folder and run however many instances you require.
https://github.com/VeriorPies/ParrelSync
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I'm developing a PHP application that connects to an Alfresco instance for application content storage. Never having used Alfresco before, I'm looking for some good tutorials that explain the structure and organization of an Alfresco repository, i.e. how Nodes work, etc.
I haven't found much beyond the Alfresco Docs on the alfresco.com website, and while they do a good job explaining how to setup and configure an alfresco solution, they don't seem to talk as much about how the content repository is structured. A google search doesn't reveal much in the way of free online tutorials for Alfresco development.
Anyone know any good free tutorials for this, or will I have to end up finding a book written on the subject?
I'll humbly submit the set of Alfresco tutorials that I have written on my blog, ecmarchitect.com. They cover things like custom content models, custom actions, web scripts, behaviors, and workflows.
If you are using Alfresco 4, read the "2nd Edition" of the tutorials, where available. Those cover the most recent stuff.
Also, as you are developing a PHP app, you will be interested in the CMIS section of the "Custom Content Types" tutorial. Learn CMIS, then go grab the PHP API from the Apache Chemistry project. You can then use that to remotely perform CRUD functions against the repo from your PHP app.
Thay aren't that many good resources on the web.
But you can check out Alfresco blogs: http://www.alfresco.com/blogs/
Alfresco wiki is a good source: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Main_Page
And this book (may be the best book for starting with Alfresco): http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-Alfresco-Practical-Solutions-for-Enterprise-Content-Management.productCd-0470571047.html
Have fun with Alfresco! :)
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Is there a module out there that would would sort of allow a user to run SQL queries and simple tables to a database directly from Drupal?
http://drupal.org/project/dba . But beware! you are opening a security hole: allowing random database-queries to be ran from your CMS is considerd a severe risk. If correctly configured, however, that hole is not exploitable, but a hole nonetheless :)
The tablewizard module will allow you to import an arbitraryt table. This cab then be sent to the views module for refining and display. Works very nicely.
Module Forena seems like a valid alternative to consider. For more details about Forena, 2 types of documentation are available:
Community documentation.
Documentation that comes with Forena, which you can access right after install and enable of the module. Checkout the demo site for an online example of the current:
Forena documentation - use the link 'Reporting documentation' or visit relative link /reports/help.
Forena samples - use the link 'Reporting samples' or visit relative link /reports/samples (these samples are fully functional, so make sure to experiment a bit with it, such as the drill downs available on the SVG Graph sample).
The newest 7.x-4.x version also includes an amazing (I think) UI for either creating your reports (the WYSIWYG report editor) and/or for creating your SQL queries (the Query Builder).
Disclosure: I'm a co-maintainer of this module,
I hope this does not violate the site's policy on self-promotion.
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Does anyone know of any good resources (books, articles, existing software, etc...) for learning how to implement A/B split testing in ASP.NET?
FairlyCertain is an AB Testing library for ASP.NET that's worth checking out. It drops seamlessly into your project and doesn't require any of the javascript voodoo that Google Website Optimizer uses (which kills your site's performance and SEO all in one shot).
I've been using it for a few of my projects for several months now with good success.
I have just written a short article describing a technique for doing split testing in ASP.Net MVC. You can check it out here
It will not take much work to make it work with traditional asp.net.
For anyone running into this post again, you may find this useful:
http://github.com/htayebi/AbTestMaster
It's an open source a/b testing framework for ASP.NET MVC which allows you to write the results either in sql database or csv file. You can download the nuget package or if interested, go through the code in github.
Google website optimizer?
http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/b/index.html
http://www.google.com/support/websiteoptimizer/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=14309
http://www.google.com/support/websiteoptimizer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=71976
I suggest you use Display Modes to achieve A/B testing.
But Display Modes just support simple problems by default.
If you already implement Display Modes in some other scenario. You can consider DisplayModeMatrix (just google it). It helps you use Display Modes more efficiency.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/DisplayModeMatrix/
Wth Display Modes you can simply delete/rename views after A/B testing to clean up your project.
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I know some of you will discourage scanning through a web page, unfortunately, it is a requirement.
I want to view my options in the situation, and maybe, some of you may have already gone through this and had a workable solution.
Problem is, we need to have a universal approach in scanning documents through the webpage without any external helper apps that does this for us.
I know this is a tall order, I would simply want to know the best next thing.
Thank you!
You can't do it with just a browser and JavaScript, full stop, you'll need to include something else -- a Java applet, a .Net "No Touch Deployment" application (mostly IE-only), a Flash or Shockwave application, something like that. In the Windows world, Flash has a huge installed base on browsers, but I don't know if it can do what you want (not knowing much about Flash). Next up would be a signed Java applet.
The user will then need to give your thingy permission to access local resources, a process that varies depending on the technology used. It's quite a simple process with a signed Java applet, much more involved and awkward for the end user with a .Net "No Touch Deployment" app.
I've seen this done with a Java applet successfully. ActiveX might also work.
Here is what appears to be a working TWAIN applet.
Here is question with answers related to TWAIN and Java.
I've successfully used Morena for implementing web scanning. It requires only that the user have Java installed. (With older versions of Java you can run out of memory when processing the scanned image. I had to cut large images into 100 pixel strips and send them individually to the server.)
Here's a small scan-to-email project that I used Morena with.