Does anyone know how to use Boolean search functions? It seems that all my attempted searches have an implied .OR. between the terms, and I want a .AND. function available. I cannot find it in the FAQ.
Am I the only one, or am I missing something?
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I have been searching for 2 days now on this site with no luck. Didn't want to post this here as I am not really looking forward to the ....DID YOU SEARCH, DID YOU READ THE FORUM, responses.
I vaguely remember reading about a program that would allow my hardware keyboard to : Long press of key = Capital letter // quick double press = the function attached to the letter.
I have searched using google, and the forum search. I have read thru a LOT of posts looking for this with no luck. I have an AT&T Tilt, but as this would apply to ANY phone with a hardware keyboard, I posted it in the General Forum.
If someone could please give me a hand, I would appreciate it.
FOUND: Magikb.
hi I'm very very (very, very) inexperienced in WP7 app development, but so far I've used some tutorials to program simple WP7 apps.
I'm busy with a project now, the UI is quite done but I have a few questions, sorry if they are already asked, did search for answers, but im pretty stuck.
1) How can the time update automatically?
I used this code to display the time in 173x173 'tiles' (textBlock) but they only show the time the app loads.
Code:
timeBlock1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("hh");
timeBlock2.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("mm");
2) Is it possible to filter certain calendars from the WP7 api to my app?
3) How can i use the Visual Studio tools to fill a form (textBox, checkBox, listPicker etc) on a website and to retrieve the results in a textBlock (if not, just show the webpage)?
These are just a few of the questions i have, but I'm not that far with coding and stuff.
Any help would be highly appreciated!!!
1) It doesn't update because the code is only called once, you need to use a timer to update the textBlocks on an interval.
Example:
Code:
//create the timer
DispatcherTimer timer = new DispatcherTimer();
//1 second interval, can be any valid TimeSpan
timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1);
//method that gets run
timer.Tick += new EventHandler(timer_Tick);
//start the timer
timer.Start();
The Tick method:
Code:
private void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//can probably just use DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString() instead.
timeBlock1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("hh");
timeBlock2.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("mm");
}
2) I don't think there's an api for accessing calendar data for now.
3) U can't really do that from the VS tools directly, u would have to do in code either via the WebClient/WCF service. To display a webpage directly u can use the WebBrowser control.
I'd suggest running through some of the guides on AppHub. Or even picking a more general book on C# if your not already familiar with the language and then moving on to more WP7 specific stuff.
Thanks a million, yeah I'll have a look at C# code in general.
I only used some tutorials - which were very good to introduce in WP7 app development - but they were not enough to build full functional apps.
Gmic1000 said:
Thanks a million, yeah I'll have a look at C# code in general.
I only used some tutorials - which were very good to introduce in WP7 app development - but they were not enough to build full functional apps.
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Yeah even though you're not going to understand everything at the start, it's very important to take the time to actually write the code yourself to get the fundamentals down.
As for keeping motivated, there's a free e-book Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold which covers a lot of the basics regarding Silverlight/WP7 development that u could take a look at.
And there's also a ton of resources on the net like stackoverflow, AppHub forums and other .net/silverlight sites.
In addition to what was said before, you can also use MSDN
On this webpage you will not only find examples but if you actually navigate the page (or google search for some keywords) you will actually find detailed descriptions of all availble methods, namespaces etc with example code like here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.phone.tasks.sharelinktask.linkuri(v=VS.92).aspx
Maybe not so useful for an absolute beginner but at some point this website will be really helpful because it documents more or less everything available in C#/WP7 SDK.
slimshady322 said:
In addition to what was said before, you can also use MSDN
On this webpage you will not only find examples but if you actually navigate the page (or google search for some keywords) you will actually find detailed descriptions of all availble methods, namespaces etc with example code like here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.phone.tasks.sharelinktask.linkuri(v=VS.92).aspx
Maybe not so useful for an absolute beginner but at some point this website will be really helpful because it documents more or less everything available in C#/WP7 SDK.
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Thanks, its kinda complicated that way, but its good to know the namespaces and classes.
I googled the webclient, man it's complicated...
Any advice for understanding the WP7 webclient?
People here love to use [Brackets] in their thread titles as described here. That's a great way to identify what the thread is about.
HOWEVER...
I have yet to find a way to search this site and limit my results based on those identifiers. I must be missing something obvious.
In other words, if I want to search a forum for an unroot guide, searching for "unroot guide" will return a gazillion results. I'd rather search for "[Guide] unroot". But the search engine discards the brackets.
Any help?
roachkv said:
People here love to use [Brackets] in their thread titles as described here. That's a great way to identify what the thread is about.
HOWEVER...
I have yet to find a way to search this site and limit my results based on those identifiers. I must be missing something obvious.
In other words, if I want to search a forum for an unroot guide, searching for "unroot guide" will return a gazillion results. I'd rather search for "[Guide] unroot". But the search engine discards the brackets.
Any help?
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If you want to search for a particular type of guide for a particular device is what you can do is navigate to that devices section, then go to the devices General section (Where most guides will be posted) or Development section (If the guides are particularly development related guides, I.E compiling a kernel from source, or building a ROM from source for a particular device), and then in the upper right hand corner is a "Search this forum" search box that you can then search for what your looking for. For example building on your example say I wanted to unroot my Nexus 10, I would navigate to the Nexus 10 General section and then using the "Search this forum" search box I would search "[GUIDE] Unroot Nexus 10" or similar search terms and I should be able to more easily find what I'm looking for. For other topics try narrowing your search range by visiting a particular forum section then using the forum specific search box. Another example might be say I wanted to learn more about ROM development I might navigate to the Android Chef Central forum and then using the "Search this forum" search "[GUIDE] Build your own ROM" or similar search time. Overall I would recommend trying to search in a particular forum section to get more accurate search results. Also you can try using Google search for example and including specific keywords like "xda unroot Nexus 10 guide" which would return a guide for unrooting the Nexus 10, while as you mentioned just searching "xda unroot guide" will return many results. Let me know if you still have questions.
Thanks for your reply!
shimp208 said:
using the "Search this forum" search box I would search "[GUIDE] Unroot Nexus 10"
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I've tried doing what you've suggested. My problem, however, that the brackets, [], get discarded in the search, such that the results return anything with "guide" (be it a title or message body search). This occurs whether I search from the site or from Google.
I was hoping to limit my searches, for instance, to only threads that specifically have [Guide] in the title, rather that every thread with "guide" in it.
roachkv said:
Thanks for your reply!
I've tried doing what you've suggested. My problem, however, that the brackets, [], get discarded in the search, such that the results return anything with "guide" (be it a title or message body search). This occurs whether I search from the site or from Google.
I was hoping to limit my searches, for instance, to only threads that specifically have [Guide] in the title, rather that every thread with "guide" in it.
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Another suggestion would be click on the search button in the upper right hand corner and then you should be presented with advanced search options. A couple options you could try is the search keywords section selecting the search titles only option, or the search by tag option searching for the guide tag.
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Use the search plug in for XDA built for Firefox or IE
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zelendel said:
Use the search plug in for XDA built for Firefox or IE
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this still discards the brackets
shimp208 said:
Another suggestion would be...advanced search options...search by tag option searching for the guide tag.
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It appears "tags" are not the same as the [notations]. In other words, if I go into a particular thread and do an advanced search putting "guide" or "[guide]" in the tags section, I will not get a list of all threads with "[guide]" in the title
roachkv said:
this still discards the brackets
It appears "tags" are not the same as the [notations]. In other words, if I go into a particular thread and do an advanced search putting "guide" or "[guide]" in the tags section, I will not get a list of all threads with "[guide]" in the title
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Did you try searching the thread title only in advanced search options for the "guide" keyword?
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shimp208 said:
Did you try searching the thread title only in advanced search options for the "guide" keyword?
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Yes
Anybody?
No search gurus with existential wisdom to spare?
roachkv said:
Anybody?
No search gurus with existential wisdom to spare?
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Don't use the XDA search engine. Use El Goog and in the search box put;-
site:forum.xda-developers.com [GUIDE]
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as well as the keywords you want.
Not perfect, but more likely to return results for you.
Hey all, thanks for reading... I've got a question that seems like it should have a simple answer, but I've been trying to Google it for an answer for a few months now with no luck because I am apparently wording it wrong.
Q: What is the proper, industry standard, textbook term for a phone's alternate name? (I.E. Leo for HTC HD2, Speedy for HTC Shift, etc)
I've tried Googling "project name" "development name", "beta name", "short name", and most other terms, but cannot seem to find an answer to this question and am trying to Google the alternate name of some Samsung Galaxy series of phone and tablet to help a friend locate his device on Cyanogen (which uses only the Leo/Speedy/Ruby/etc. obscure silly names on their downloads page... guess they got rid of the "hover to show phone's marketed name" feature :/)
Sorry for such a noobish question... I also was unable to find this question pre-answered in the forums. I just want to know what these names are called so I can easily search for "[manufacturer] [model] [version] development name" and easily figure out what they all are...
Thanks so much!
Hi all,
I am facing the following phenomenon: I'm looking at some forum thread, say with 50 pages or so. At the top right I see a button labeled "Search this thread". Sounds like a useful tool to quickly search that thread for a certain term. I click that button, type in my search term(s) and underneath a drop down box with OTHER threads, which I do not want to search appears. Often times the thread I'm currently looking at doesn't even show up in that list underneath the search box.
So, what am I doing wrong? With the search feature as it is, I truly have a hard time finding things.
Thank you very much in advance. Driving me nuts.
@rogerwilco75 A similar question has been raised here. Maybe the replies there answer also your question?
@Oswald Boelcke Thank you for the link.
I was using a Chromium-based desktop browser and observed this somewhat inconsistent behavior on both Linux and Windows.
I will make a comparison using FF, and then both browsers with their extensions/addons enabled (most likely uMatrix and/or uBlock Origin to "interfere". DecentralEyes or HTTPSEverywhere not so much I guess), in a private window/tab and with more lowered "shields" settings in the respective browsers (cookies, trackers, DNT ...).
Back to the original question: once or twice clicking the "Search this thread" led to exactly that, then on some other occasions it didn't. I'll have to figure out that pattern.
Anyway, thanks once again for the link, since it let me get around using the ...drum roll... search function.
I guess this can be marked as "SOLVED... kind of", since I'll need to look into it deeper and get more data points/a clearer view.