I am submitting a "Tic-Tac-Toe" player app to Windows 8 Store. Do I need to include Game Definition File ? Will they certify my app even if I don't include one?
Be really careful with certification. Include all possible certificates and select only countries that accept these certificates. Yes, you should include GDF file. Again, you should include only certificates that you have to the GDF file. I lost more than a week while tried to submit right age raiting values for a simply puzzle game.
GDF file is very easy to create.
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I would like to save an Access database as an ACCDE and also have it trusted. The reason being every time I open ACCDE I keep receiving the message:
"A potential security concern has been identified..."
I know that I can sign a ACCDC file with SelfCert.exe but thats not what I need.
I want the Access File to end with ACCDE and have the message:
"A potential security concern has been identified..." not show up.
You can create a registry key that will add the directory as a trusted location and will not show the warning anymore. What's nice about this method is that you can easily automate this to happen on the computers where you deploy your app. See method #2 or #3 in this blog: http://www.accessrepairnrecovery.com/blog/fix-microsoft-access-security-notice
And in case the blog ever gets removed, here is the important bits: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Access\Security\Trusted Locations\Location20] “Path”=”C:\Database\” “Description”=”My Database location”
Explanation about the key: – The number “14.0” is the version of MS Office. You can change the numbers that represent the version you are executing.
– The “Location20” is a unique name that you assign. 20 can be any number that is not previously used. Other programs include default MS Access wizards, already have used other numbers. But if you want to make more than one path as trusted location, then each location must end up with different number.
– The “C:\Database\” is the physical path that you want to set to be as Trusted Location. You can place any path that you choose here.
By copy and pasting the above coding into a text file and save it with a name such as RemoveSecurityWarning.reg, you can then run the file into your PC’s registry just by making double click on the file.
While trying to import some Android projects into Eclipse, I have noticed that every file in the project is 0 bytes after they are imported. These projects are stored on Drive, so there is some chance of reverting them back to the previous version.
Reverting files to previous versions is easy to do when you've got a few files - you simply do it through a browser. However, I have hundreds of files and I need to fetch one revision back for each. I have been able to download a number of files by hand thus far, but there has to be a better way.
I have asked Google support and actually got a response back, but it's clear that there is no built-in functionality to do this. So I have started looking at the Drive API but I can see that there might be a bit of a learning curve.
Wondering if anyone has run into this before? Ideally I would like to identify one folder and for each file underneath, fetch the last version of the file. If anyone has a good approach for this, I would love to hear it.
thanks!
The pseudeo code to do what you want is
# get the id of the folder https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list
fid=file.list(q=title = 'foo')[0]
# get the children of that folder https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/children/list
children = file.children(fid).maxresults=999
# for each child,
for id in children.id
# get the revisions https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/revisions/get
revisions = file.revisions(id)
# iterate, or take item[1] whatever works best for you, and use its downloadUrl to fetch the file
With each call that you make, you'll need to provide an access token. For something like this, you can generate an access token using the oauth playground https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
You'll also need to register a project at the cloud/api console https://code.google.com/apis/console/
So ye, it's a disproportionate amount of learning to do something fairly simple. It's a few minutes work for somebody familiar with drive, and I would guess 3 days for somebody who isn't. You might want to throw it up on freelancer.com.
According to the Node-Webkit wiki the manifest for a program requires a name and this name must be globally unique because it determines the name of the directory that data files for the program are stored in.
I haven't been able to find anything else that this name is used for. Is it safe to just use a UUID as the name listed in the manifest? Or will that be exposed to the user somewhere potentially?
It's more typically related to the common program name that the user sees, but it doesn't have to be. For example on the Mac, the standard location for app specific data is ~/Library/Application Support/. When I look there I see things like GIMP, Skype, XDK &c. If your app happened to have the same name as another app, it would cause problems as they'd both writing to the same location, i.e. if I gave my app the name GIMP, both apps would try to write files to that dir.
Typically a user doesn't have to access this directly, so there's probably no harm in using a UUID here, though I would probably append it to a name related to my app name, just for clarity/simplicity, i.e. instead of making the name foo I'd make it foo-<UUID>.
But I'm no expert . . . .
I dont know if this is possible, but i have an SWF file which i want it to get info from an xml file only one time and then store it(keep it) there until a "newer" data will push into it
I know it sounds stupid but maybe there is a solution i don't know of...
1) i don't want to load the xml every time because of loads of traffic we have(a lot...will cost a lot to refresh everytime from amazon s3)
but how do we get a newer data without checking the external xml file?
2) if there was a way to broadcast(to "ping") to the swf that an update of the xml is ready to load....
if anything i believe there should be an AS3 script for that.
thanks!
but how do we get a newer data without checking the external xml file?
You could implement data file versioning. For example: urlToXmlData + "?version=" + myCurrentVesion As soon you ship new version of the application with extended data, it will work. It's global solution, so every new version of your product will work with latest data.
As for ping, you could create update strategy, for example: link is valid for 1 day. Idea is the same, concatenate stuff to the link, so browser will evaluate it as new: urlToXmlData + "?stamp=" + timestampForToday Tomorrow will be another timestamp, and browser will download updated version.
Use second xml which will contain the version first xml
I think you don't get the real subject.
You can't update a flash project without using any external update platform.
Because you cannot save all new XML data to a shared object because of "limitation of mb per data", so, flash going to delete all loaded data when application closed.
You cannot make a "permament update" in flash for "big files"...
BUT
You can update your main swf file with "EMBEDDED XML" files. Only that keeps your data updated when application is closed.
BUT that's not enough alone, also you need a "PRE-CHECK for Version of SWF" file, and that's what you can't do alone. You need a web platform featuring that way.
Mochi's "Live Updates" was offering that, but i couldn't make it work. But mochi is shutdown now... So forget about it...
I understand that your XML is BIG and you want to save trafic.
But how about small calls ?
You can have a call just to get the MD5 of your xml which is stored on the server.
Something like: myserver.com/getMD5
Once the server will return you a different md5 than the one you have already stored, then you reload xml and save new MD5.
I would like to create a quick tutorial for the app when it first time been opened.
Is there a way you can actually do this? Would you create a text file under the appIDfolder and update the value when first time it been open. so it will differentiated if it was first time used? or any better ideas or suggestion.
Thanks for any help
That's what I did - File.applicationStorageDirectory is your friend. Just write a small file there. You could store the version number, last access, etc. there so you'd have some options ("Welcome back, it's been a long time", "Here are the features in the new version", etc.).
It can as I do
1.) Create 2 Files 1 with a really short tut. and another with more stuff.
2.) Test if file exists tutorialShort.txt.
3.) Show this file as a quick tut.
4.) After viewing. ask Users, next time the App starts => they want to see this tutorial again.
5.) Answ:No => only delete or rename tutorialShort.txt