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Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc.

Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc. Settings typically represent a set of options which a user can choose from adjust the interface or controls of a certain application to their preferences.

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.NET 3.5 - Configuration system failed to initialize exception

In my winform app, I am trying to add a userSetting, although the error is occuring with appSettings too. When the setting is added I get an exeption thrown that says: "Configuration system failed to initialize" with a Inner Exception "Unrecognized…
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Intellij: Adding 'Interface' to my context menu in the Project Pane

Currently in IntelliJ, if I right-click a package in the Project pane, I can see things such as: new > Java class new > File new > Package I want to add some new menu items in the 'new' context menu such as Interface and Enum. Does anyone know how…
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Eclipse SQL Editor normal text color

I was able to change all the other SQL syntax coloring in Eclipse Preferences, but the normal (non-Sql-syntactic) text is still black and I couldn't find where to find the setting for that. Black text is kind of hard to read against an almost black…
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Transfer IntelliJ settings to to Android Studio

I want to easily transfer over all my custom shortcuts and IDE idiosyncrasies that are present in IntelliJ to Android Studio so I can begin my Android app development career without the headache of individually configuring each custom setting. How…
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Creating iOS-like settings screen

I have been researching how I can create a settings screen for my app that looks identical to the iOS settings app however I haven't been able to find an iOS 7/8/Swift version. I have a custom designed settings screen currently, however it just…
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Maven private remote repository setup

I'm trying to set up a private remote repository for our team. Now the repository serves the following with so far I have tried - When a 'mvn compile' is issued, then it searches dependencies in "~/.m2". If it is not found there then it goes to the…
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Get font scaling factor to calculate the fontsize

This question is related to Android App: how to read Font Size under Settings? I read the answer of CommonsWare which points to use Settings.System.FONT_SCALE. So I wrote this few lines: float scale = -66.6f; try { scale =…
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Keep Secret Keys Out

One of the causes of the local_settings.py anti-pattern is that putting SECRET_KEY, AWS keys, etc.. values into settings files has problem: Secrets often should be just that: secret! Keeping them in version control means that everyone with…
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load/save settings in iOS

I have the following two procedures defined in my AppDelegate. saveSettings and loadSettings. I am calling my loadSettings procedure in the AppDidFinishLaunching method, and I am calling the saveSettings procedure in my settings view, once the save…
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VSCode interactive python output exceeds size limit

When I use VSCode interactive Python, sometimes I get this message: Output exceeds the size limit. Open the full output data in a text editor This has links to settings and the text editor. However, the text editor, my usual option, is littered with…
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Visual Studio Code - Can "OPEN EDITORS" panel be sorted?

Sometimes when I'm working I end up with several open tabs. My problem is that every time I need to switch to another file I need to constantly scroll until I find the desired file (which is not always easy to find). For example, I may have over 30…
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Visual Studio: reset user settings when debugging

In a C# Winforms-App I have several user settings stored. Is there an easy way to clear those settings each time I start debugging the project from Visual Studio 2008? Otherwise it always starts up with the settings from the last debug-session.
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Is it possible to add info or help text to an iPhone settings bundle?

Several of the Apple-provided apps have informational/help text in their settings. For example, the Keyboard settings screen includes, under the “.” shortcut toggle, the help text "Double tapping the space bar will...". I know I can do this in my…
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Backup Eclipse settings

I have had to re/install Eclipse across different platforms (windows and linux) several times this year. I have not found an effective single solution way to share settings/preferences across different versions of Eclipse. This is what I currently…
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iphone - how to add normal text to settings bundle

I've 3 groups created in iphone settings bundle Root.plist file. Its showing fine. But for every group, i want to add some description. It will be something like follows: GroupName Description Settings in that group. Is it possible. How to add…
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