An application that runs stand alone in a desktop or laptop computer. Contrast with "Web-based application," which requires the Web browser to run.
Questions tagged [desktop-application]
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How to Add/Remove databases on HSQL server dynamically?
In my java based desktop application project,i need to create/remove new databases dynamically. I have implemented it properly for standalone machine. Now i am implementing my desktop application on LAN(Local Area Network) by running HSQLDB in…

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How can we read/display the data to be inserted in HSQLDB programmatically before data being written to disk?
I am running two instances of my java based desktop application on same HSQLDB database. I am trying to operate in such a way that when record is inserted from one instance it should be immediately reflected/displayed in another instance of…

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Opening a window over a grid in wpf
Hello everyone i have been working on a wpf project from some time & i got stuck at on point. here is the situation.... i m using a grid to show the data & on the double clicking on a grid row a new window pop ups to edit the same data as one…

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How to deploy Java desktop application using HSQLDB as central database on LAN?
My project is a java desktop application that uses HSQLDB as its backend database on standalone machine and it works perfectly.Now i want to implement my application on Local Area Network(LAN) by making centralized HSQLDB database in such a way that…

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How can I prevent my desktop application from breaking horribly when the user messes with its files at run-time?
Such as deleting the output file during run, directing two instances of the sw to the same IO etc ?

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How can I play Adobe Flash .SWF files in a Java Desktop Application?
I've done some searching around but there doesn't seem to be much from this decade that answers my question. I do my development in NetBeans. I found/was directed to a link to the DJProject, but integrating it into NetBeans seems to be quite…

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PowerShell - Disable Win+D Desktop-View for my Script/Form only
I want to know if it´s possible to disable Win+D Windows-Shortkey?
And the "view Desktop"-Button in the bottom right corner must be disabled, too.
Only for my Script and I´ve got the approach to catch this two processes and after completely…

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How to execute JSP in desktop application?
JSP can be regarded as nice template and/or preprocessor engine. I would like to generate some XML files by program with it.
What is the simplest way to accomplish this?

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Creating CMFCDesktopAlertWnd Control in Visual C++
MSDN contains an example for creating a desktop alert window:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb983515.aspx
The sample code starts with the following declaration.
CMFCDesktopAlertWnd* pPopup = new CMFCDesktopAlertWnd;
When I use it in my…

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How do I correctly ship licenses with my desktop app?
I'm at the tail end of development of a desktop application and I'm wondering how I go about shipping the required libraries with the app.
I'm using node-webkit as my UI framework and in the wiki it states that I should ship the MIT License, the…

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WCF Service client in Portable Library referenced from desktop app not firing Completed event
I have a NetHttpBinding WCF Service referenced in a portable class library. In my WCF service, I have a ValidateLogin(username, password) method.
The portable class library calls ValidateLoginAsync(username, password) and subscribes to the…

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Couchdb online offline synchronisation
I'm building a .NET application which will have a local CouchDB instance where all data is written to, and a central CouchDB where the local CouchDB is synchronised to. The difficulty is that there will be multiple clients which will synchronise…

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Desktop Payment Processing Application: Switching APIs from Authorize.Net to Paypal
My employer has an application he wants to make a change to. The application itself is used to process payment information and it is a desktop application.
It was pretty much just dropped in my lap. The former API used was Authorize.Net to handle…

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setting your IDE(eclipse) for java desktop application
I've an the Eclipse IDE with android sdk as I am an android developer. I want to develop a simple java desktop application consists of splash screen and a login screen which is connect to MS SQL through JDBC. Now, how will I enable my Eclipse to let…

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how to accept keyboard shortcuts when jframe is not in focus?
I made an application using java which takes and stores screenshots in the specified folder. I set the shortcut ctrl+K to take and save the screenshot and I managed to make my application minimize to system tray when minimize button of jframe is…

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