Questions tagged [elevation]
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Stuck with Visual Studio 2010 in Administrator (elevated) Mode
There are many posts that tell you how to run Visual Studio 2010 as Administrator.
I will probably be very ashamed when I find my answer but...
My problem is that I can't start Visual Studio NOT elevated!
I always have the "(Administrator)" text on…

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Check if the script has elevated permissions
I would like to check whether the context in which my VBscript runs allows me to perform administrative tasks.
Requirements:
The solution should work on all Windows operating systems starting with Server 2003. (This rules out solutions which just…

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Vista UAC, Access Elevation and .Net
I'm trying to find out if there is any way to elevate a specific function within an application. For example, I have an app with system and user settings that are stored in the registry, I only need elevation for when the system settings need to be…

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Flutter: ClipOval clipper elevation
Bottom Shadow
Hi I am new to flutter and trying to create this design from Shakuro of dribble. I am getting trouble trying to create elevation for the clipper because the whole rectangle is getting the shadow instead of the clipper only.
Is there a…

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How do i programmatically adjust the height of an element in a Cesium promise method.
I am trying to move the element height of an entity that is loaded from a geojson file in cesium.js. I'm using the example App.js file from Cesium Workshop/
How would I modify the code below to adjust the height of the data entities so that they are…

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How to read .HGT files in R
I'm trying to read elevation data from NASA stored in .HGT files into R. I've checked rgdal library but apparently it does not read this type of file.
ps. The Stack Overflow community shows how to read this typee of file in Python and C++, but I was…

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How to show the scale bar and zoom controls on the map?
How to add scale bar on the map when zoom-in and zoom out value should change (scale bar) and got displaying zoom controls at bottom right corner but i want to replace just above it.
How to make it possible?
Thank you

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using CreateProcessAsUser to launch a url
Recently I bumped into an issue where I need to open a webpage from an elevated application. I need the browser to be opened non elevated so I looked around and found this solution
This would definitely solve my issue except that CreateProcessAsUser…

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Windows 7: Taking advantage of auto-elevation to elevate my own process?
From a July 2009 Technet article entitled Inside Windows 7 User Account Control, Mark Russinovish describes that it's possible for an application running as standard user to silently elevate and gain administrative rights:
...it's possible for…

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Solr: How to dynamically elevate limited number of documents? Has QueryElevationComponent to be modified?
my requirement is to elevate a limited number of (e.g. five) documents for a user request.
What I've got is a single document field which stores a numerical value similar to a boosting value which represents an elevator ranking value.
So a user…

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How to execute Powershell's "start-process -Verb RunAs" from inside a Batch where the elevated command inherits the Batch's environment?
1. Problem
I have a complicated batch file where some parts need to run with elevated/admin rights (e.g. interacting with Windows services) and I found a Powershell way to do that:
powershell.exe -command "try {$proc = start-process -wait -Verb…

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How can i add a shadow in ListTile flutter like 'elevation'
I need to add a shadow in my items listTile elements in flutter, but i could not do that with BoxShadow because it is only possible in Container
this is my listTile:
child: ListTile(
leading: const…

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Adding a shadow effect to a vector drawable
I want to add shadow effect (or elevation) to the vector drawable.
for example
1.My first file contains a download icon in ic_file_download_black_24dp.xml

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NSIS installer. UAC - can elevation happen only after user chooses path?
Currently I am participating in development of a NSIS installer. This installer uses the UAC plugin for elevation to be able to install to a directory inside Program Files. Now, the installer elevates in .onInit, in the very beginning. The user may…

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Elevation API for openstreetmap
Is there any Elevation API for openstreetmap like the one we have for google maps?
In google elevation API we can pass the coordinate and we get the elevation as a response.

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