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Android: Can I get the Users Font Size preference Programatically?

I want to use SP when defining my fonts so that they scale according to my User's needs. However one screen which I have created looks great when on Normal or Smaller size but wraps text and looks messy on Large size. So where I have text which has…
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User email preferences - thinking of using rails-settings gem. Am I doing this right?

Question I want to implement email preferences for my users. I think that either the rails-settings gem or its rails-settings-cached fork is the way to go, but I'm not quite sure. Should I use the rails-settings (or rails-settings-cached) gem to do…
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Best way of handling user settings in a program

I want to know what are the best ways/practices of handling user settings in a program. I'm writing a program and want to allow users to save settings which can be loaded automatically as soon as the program starts. I'm not just asking for codes,…
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NHibernate Web Application - Managing User Preferences

I've got a web application with an NHibernate Data Access Layer. I have a large number of user preferences that can be stored, these are mainly booleans for example registering that a dialog has been dismissed and should not be showed again. The…
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iPhone settings bundle

I want to allow the user to enter a valid date using the iPhone’s settings application. I have experimented with many of the PreferenceSpecifiers data node types including date. I have two issues: When I specify date as the type, my app within the…
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Setting User Preferences for font family to a wpf mvvm application

How to set User Preferences for font family to a wpf mvvm application in c#?
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in-app User Preference using Slider / Utility Application

I'm using an Utility Application. On the flip side I have a slider which I want to use for setting the (in-app) User Preference. Say the user sets the value of the slider to 40 in the flip window, then click "Done" and return to the main window.…
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xcode 4 / ios5 - how to set textColor based on prefs

I have looked on SO but cannot find an answer that works for me, so here goes: I am trying to set color, font and size elements based on user preferences. I have no problem with font and font size, but I cannot seem to get the color to work. This is…
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How to save in iphone device user's favorite articles

I have newsportal application and i want user when hitting a button to save the whole article that is reading at the moment, to the iphone device so that he can access it whenever he wants. I also want to know if an article is save to the users list…
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How to persist Preference objects using a custom data store instead of using SharedPreferences

I have been working on a pet project where I initially used SharedPreferences to persist settings Preference objects. I decided to migrate it to use data store instead of SharedPreferences. So I started with the ListPreference for the dark theme…
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How do I disable IntelliSense for Visual Studio Mac?

I've tried following online instructions, but even though everything is unchecked and I save the changes, I am still getting word completion suggestions from IntelliSense. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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selected python interpreter is not written in user/workspace setting in visual studio code

I use VSC latest version (1.59) on mac/osx. When i modify some settings usually they should be recorded in the user setting. If i open my setting in json format , some lines will look like this : "workbench.settings.editor":…
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userPreferences acting weird, not saving or retrieving all key-values, what am I doing wrong?

I have an ultra simple calculator which outputs some numbers to 4 separate labels. It is essential to the users experience that the labels hold data over app kills, back button, etc. Currently I have userPreferences setup as per instructions. It…
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xamarin forms get byte array from image control

In my application I let the users select an image (of any size). The application will then load it to an image control, resize it if needed, and display it on the screen. I have all the saving / loading from the preferences working correctly…
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I can't get ios data saved on its memory (xamarin.forms - interface)

app delegate: public override void RegisteredForRemoteNotifications(UIApplication application, NSData deviceToken) { // Get current device token var DeviceToken = deviceToken.Description; if…
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