I am using gnome-terminal to create a clickable desktop application. The application should be downloaded in a zip folder, with a sub-directory bin containing my myapp.desktop. I would like to have...

My story is that I am designing a new app which must communicate with a Windows service. After much research I have come to the conclusion that Named Pipes are the recommended method ( How do I sen...

I have a python desktop application that needs to store user data. On Windows, this is usually in %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\AppName\, on OSX it's usually ~/Library/Application Support/AppName/...

I am developing a windows desktop application using node.js and backbone.js. I want to perform an action when the user closes the app by clicking on the close button on the title bar or right clic...

I wanted to create a desktop application with database, am using Visual Studio 2013 and C# , Can anybody suggest me what server I used to create my database, in order to run my application in my cl...

It seems Win 8 has a new user group "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES". This group seems to have Read permissions on all folders by default. However my requirement is to set some specific ACLs on a folder ...

Kivy seems to be very adapted for tablet and phone app , but I wonder how does it scale for a desktop application? Apart from the look (looking at the standard greyish button, the white label on b...

Been looking around on the web for one of these, but I'm only finding node.js/ruby hosted implementations. I'm keen to have a DynamoDB app, something like that of the navicat ilk that comes ...

I have a PHP/MySQL powered SaaS application which I want to deploy an offline version of. I don't want to use any of the numerous PHP GUI tools that are out there, as this would require rebuilding ...

As a two-monitor user at work, I've noticed that applications behave differently with regards to what monitor they open on (primary or secondary monitor, the last monitor the application opened on,...

When a JButton is added to a content pane, we can set an action by double clicking the button or Right click->Event->Action->actionPerformed.Let say, we set somthing to happen. Then we need to remo...

I am trying to program a feature, similar to that of CamTwist, with which a video file (on hard disk) can be broadcasted to other applications as video input. However, I am not sure where to begin...

In my OS X application, I am getting a warning(below) in the console when my web view loads certain webpages, but all webpages do not generate this warning on load, which seems strange to me, as it...

I wrote a simple native GUI script with python-gtk. Now I want to give the user a button to send an email with an attachment. The script runs on Linux desktops. Is there a way to open the user's p...

I have developed many desktop applications in Swing, even those a bit more complex, with Hibernate and Spring integration. I found out that many things repeats and should be done quickly and ...

Maybe my question is stupid but I still want to ask. I am always wondering whether I can use Python, HTML and Css to develop a desktop software. I know there are alrealy several good GUI frameworks...

I've always thought the hand cursor to be the ideal visual indicator for "you may click here" to the user. We are used to see it in this context daily because of it's usage on hyperlinks and ...

Just trying to get a more thorough understanding of the major differences between windows(desktop) application and web application development. All my knowledge and experience has been as a web app...

First, I'm not interested in doing this professionally. I am a web developer, a coworker of mine recently left for Spotify and said he will be working mostly in JavaScript for the Spotify Des...

We are a startup based in India with an application built on Qt Quick, which is deployed in HD touch devices in retail stores. The application runs more like a web-app rather than a desktop a...

I downloaded Netbeans 8.0 with all bundle from http://netbeans.org/downloads and installed it successfully on Windows 8. But I can't find Java Desktop Application which should be under Java catego...

The goal is to have occasionally connected clients belonging to one user running on an array of different platforms be able to share a common dataset. Server will be GNU/Linux. Platforms and device...

In a desktop application that runs in a Java SE environment (no DI, no frameworks other than JPA, plain Java) it is better to create a new EntityManager for each operation in the persistence layer ...

I have decided to design a desktop forms application in Visual C# 2012 which will download google map images within user specified coordinate and zoom level. Actually, the target is to create offli...

I want to access and manipulate, FROM A SERVER OR FROM MY DESKTOP MACHINE, my iPhone's iCloud data programmatically. For example... http://www.phonesheriff.com/investigator.html Does anyone know if...