If I want to test in-app purchases in Windows 8 apps, I need to use CurrentAppSimulator with the WindowsStoreProxy.xml file defining the current state of the app and all products. The problem is I haven't found anywhere the full definition of the structure, that can be used inside this file, and the IntelliSense/autocomplete is not offering anything.
So the question is where is the specification of the WindowsStoreProxy.xml file structure?
I think the best available documentation is here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.applicationmodel.store.currentappsimulator
It includes file structure overview and xsd schema definition.
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Is there a way to get the raw XML text which another plugin has contributed to an extension point?
The normal way to access data that is contributed to an extension point is to use IConfigurationElement objects:
IConfigurationElement[] configElems = Platform.getExtensionRegistry()
.getConfigurationElementsFor(LANGUAGES_EXTENTION_POINT_ID);
But I already have JAXB parser for the kind of data that is contributed to this extension point. I'd like to use that one instead of Eclipse's classes.
EDIT 1: An alternative would be to use some kind of Eclipse-configuratoin-to-JAXB bridge library. But I don't find any.
EDIT 2: It's probably possible to find the plugin.xml of the contributing plug-in and read that manually... Probably not a good idea.
EDIT 3: I think I will do this: Instead of contributing the data directly clients get to give a file name. I then read that file using my old parser.
No, I don't see anything that would give you the XML.
getConfigurationElementsFor gives you information extracted from many different plugin.xml files so it is not clear what XML could be returned anyway.
org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionRegistry is the extension registry implementation, but a lot of the information that uses comes from org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.RegistryObjectManager.
I am a newbie in MTurk, and I am trying to create a very simple Categorization Project via their Requester UI (rather then the API).
Each batch I use has 10 items (question and possible answer). I have searched their documentation and forums with not help and so I have several questions:
When i use their Standard Categorization template, I have no option for modifying the HTML and layout (as shown for "Tagging of an image" project). the only formatting options are for the categories, instructions and includes/excludes. Is there a way to edit the HTML of the standard template they provide?
In the Standard Categorization template, while my input data file (csv file) contains 10 items, only 5 are shown (tried with 6, still only 5 are displayed in the preview). Is there a way to change this limitation?
When I try to use the "Create HITs Individually" (rather than the standard template, as explained above), I have the "Design Layout" options, but I cannot find a way to make the questions in the "form" required (which is possible via the API). Is there a way to achieve this?
If you stick to the standard project templates, you can't modify them. That's the reason to create HITs individually (through the RUI or via the API).
You'll have to show us your CSV file, because it's not really clear from your description what the issues could be.
Your third question is unclear, but basically for creating HITs individually, you simply do standard HTML markup and put in ${variablename} placeholders wherever you want one of your CSV upload variables to be placed.
If your project is at all large, I would definitely recommend going through the API. It's simply much more flexible than the RUI for creating any kind of customized design.
I'd like to store some additional information along with a document, but I can't use bundles or packages, and I cannot store it inside the document itself.
The application is a text editor, and I'd like it to store code folding and bookmark locations with the document, but obviously this cannot be embedded into the code directly, and I don't want to alter the code with ugly comments.
Can I use NSDocument to store information in the resource fork of a document? If so, how can I do this? Should I directly write to <filename>/..namedfork/rsrc or is there an API available?
First, don't use the resource fork. It's virtually deprecated. Instead, use extended attributes. They can be set programmatically at the BSD level via setxattr and getxattr. Extended attributes are used in many places... for example, in the latest OS X, the resource fork itself is implemented as a special type of extended attributes.
For example, the Cocoa text system automatically adds an extended attribute to a file to specify the encoding.
I thought NSFileManager and NSFileWrapper supported extended attributes since Snow Leopard, but I can't find any documentation :p You can always use the BSD level functions, though.
Does the state need to move with the file if it's copied to another computer? If not, you could do a lot worse than emulating the way Bare Bones handles document state with BBEdit. They store state for all documents in ~/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.PreferenceData/Document State.plist.
The resource fork documentation is here. But it contains plenty of suggestions to not use the resource fork.
I have a class on my web site for reading and writing resource forks, which I have never got around to moving to my GitHub repository because, as Yuji points out, they are not really used any more.
I was going to say alias files and web Internet location file are the only places they are used, but I used and tested it on Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion), and they are not even used there any more; they may still be used for custom icons. I didn't test for that exclusively. I will have to see how that affect my NDAlias class on 10.7.
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I'm new to Doxygen and I'm trying to document an API I am planning to open source. I'd really like to build two sets of documentation, one for end users of the API and one for those who intend to modify it. Is there a way to tag Doxygen comment blocks in a way such that I can generate "user" and "dev" documentation trees? Is there a better solution to my problem? Thanks!
Depending on how your code is structured, you might be able to get away with using two Doxygen config files each including separate source files. The "user" config file would only list the source files containing the public interface to the API, while the "dev" config file would list all source files for the whole project.
This does mean that all your interfaces (e.g. abstract base classes) will need to be documented with the user in mind, but that is usually not a problem as by definition there is unlikely to be any implementation details in an abstract base class.
All your "dev" documentation then sits in the actual classes implementing the interfaces, which are never seen by the API and can be safely omitted by the "user" Doxygen config file.
Of course if your code isn't structured this way it's not going to work, so the only solution I can think of is to fill your comments with a bunch of conditional statements.
In addition to what Malvineous already said, there is the \internal doxygen command.
\internal lets you hide or show part of the documentation by changing INTERNAL_DOCS in the Doxyfile
More information here: http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/commands.html#cmdinternal
Given an application path (or NSBundle to an application, etc), is there a way to easily/efficiently determine what content types that application can open?
My initial attempt was to read the application's Info.plist file and extract the content types listed under the kUTExportedTypeDeclarationsKey key. However, there are some flaws with this approach which I haven't been able to work around.
Not all applications use this key. For example, BBEdit does not, but instead lists a whole bunch of recognized file extensions.
UTIs are case-sensitive. Pages, for example, lists com.apple.iWork.Pages.pages as an exported content type, yet no Pages document actually has that type listed in its content type tree. Documents use com.apple.iwork.pages.pages, which is defined by the iWork quicklook generator (at /Library/QuickLook/iWork.qlgenerator).
In know that with some of the LaunchServices functions (LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL(), LSCopyApplicationForMIMEType(), etc), I can get the applications that can open a file (or a file type), but I'd like to do the inverse. (Perhaps I'll have to resort to parsing the output of lsregister -dump?)
Perhaps a simpler way to phrase the question would be: Given an application, what's the easiest way to find all files that it can open?
Any suggestions?
Take a look at LaunchServices and the provided LSCanRefAcceptItem() API.
It seems using the LSItemContentTypes key is the preferred method post-10.4.
Apple: Document-Based Applications