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I am using eclipse 3.4.1 Java EE under Vista. It seems to like getting stuck when building my workspace. Canceling the build doesn't seem to do anything as well. Why is this happening and how do I fix the problem? You may want to take a look at How to report a deadlock . You may also want to check the Error view and/or the error log ([workspace]/.metadata/.log). If that doesn't help, you'll probably need to include more info about which plugins you have installed and which projects you have. Can you create a minimal workspace which reproduces the problem? James Beninger I was able to fix this

For example \b backspace prints as quad (shown as [] in example below). But \n newline is Ok. >>> print 'abc\bd' abc[]d >>> print 'abc\nd' abc d Im running under Vista (pro), python 2.7 Ive tried googling this issue generally and in SO and cant find anything relevant, which seems odd and makes me wonder if theres some setting or other may be wrong in my setup. Not sure what to look for. What am I doing wrong or what should I be looking for? Is it reasonable to expect backspace, specifically, to work? No, IDLE does not support backspace, nor carriage-return, nor formfeed, nor ANSI escape

I'm working on the bootstrap application of a new installer for some of our products. So far, I've been relying on two things that I read about somewhere: Applications whose name contains "setup" or "install" will run elevated by default. Applications that run elevated will launch other applications in elevated mode. Recent testing has found that one or both of these statements is false, because one of the applications that I'm launching is a third party installer that requires elevation, and it's failing because of the elevation requirement. How do I set my application to require elevation? I

I'm using a Delphi 2009 VCL TProgressBar as a kind of "empty/full" gauge. On Vista, with Aero theme enabled, this has an animation associated with it, which is annoying and inappropriate for an gauge. Is there any way of disabling this (NOT by adjusting user's theme settings!) to prevent the animation on this control? To clarify, I want something basically identical to the 'disk space used' meters in Windows Explorer. No animation, but still with a nice border and shading effects. Update: I understand that I need a "meter", rather than a true progress bar. How can a themed meter be implemented

Is it possible to ask for elevated permissions from within a Java Application? Suggestions I've seen seem to all be centered around running an external executable or setting up a manifest to request privileges on launch. These aren't available to, for instance, applets. Is there any way to request elevation from a running application? UAC is not something that a running process can request (doesn't matter what language you are running in). You have to request elevation at launch time. The way that most windows apps handle this (and make it look like they are requesting elevation) is to spawn

I'm working on an app that saves a file in Path.GetDirectoryName(FilePath) where FilePath = Application.ExecutablePath that contains some information about licensing. If I run the program from VS it works OK but if I make an installer and install and then run it, the program thinks that the file already exists. I changed my program to show on a message box my FilePath and whether File.Exists(FilePath) returns true or false . So I looked in that path, enabled showing hidden and system files, F5'd several times and nothing. The file doesn't exist, but File.Exists(FilePath) returns true. Any idea

Is there a way to detect which programs or modules are listening to a keyboard hook? By Sysinternals maybe? This blog post has instructions: http://zairon.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/any-application-defined-hook-procedure-on-my-machine/ It largely depends on what level of abstraction are you obtaining your key presses. For maximum detection you could use hardware directly or go as low as possible (some hooks work at HW driver-level). For security purposes, you could also use a virtual keyboard - hooks would have to be targeted specifically at your application to simulate key presses. Nope. You