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How do I update Apple-hosted content without breaking old app versions?

I'm having a memory game in the store using Apple-hosted content for in-app purchases. The content is basically images - users can download new card packs for the game. I now want to update those ...
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How to restrict GLSL to core language?

I've been writing shaders like this: #version 330 core in vec2 tex_position; uniform sampler2D texture_in; void main(){ gl_FragColor = texture(texture_in, vec2(tex_position.x, 1.0 - ...
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Examples of forward incompatibility of the Android framework

For a report on Android fragmentation, I am researching about forward compatibility of the Android framework/SDK. It is widely stated, that the Android SDK is forward compatible, meaning, that ...
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same app, works on 2.2 up to 3.3 Android version but doesn't work on Android 4.0 and above

I'm testing a simple app, that use VideoView to play an http/rtsp video from internet. The app works fine into 2.2 versions up to 3.3, but when i test it on 4.0 and higher, crash!!! (tested both, on ...
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Tabs showing perfectly on api 14+ but on api <14 they are invisible or weird sized

I created a 5 tabbed application. On a 4.0+ system all is working and nice looking, but before 4.0 the tabs are weird behavior or really big :/ As you cas see in the images, the 1 is like i want (and ...
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Not getting onActivityResult() from an ActionBarActivity subclass

I am using Android's support lib (android.support.v7) for adding an ActionBar to my app (my Activity extends ActionBarActivity). I open a contact picker using the following code: Intent ...
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How to design backward compatibility and not turn your code into a mess?

I am developing a Java-based RESTful web application intended to be a centerpiece for its various client apps. Those client-apps can operate on the same assets in the main system (e.g. client-app A ...
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jQuery Dialog Widget Problems in IE10 Compatibility View and IE9

I will preface my post with the caveat that I am a brand-new jQuery user. I am an experienced programmer -- started programming on the IBM System/34 in 1985. I have only been doing web-development ...
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Compatibility between py2exe and GDAL for the creation of an executable file

My target is to produce a small executable (.exe) file to read shapefile format and do same easy processing. Before starting to code, I wish to know if the "OGR Simple Feature Library" (The OGR Simple ...
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Twitter Follow button issue in different browsers

I am working on social plugins integration on my local site and i m trying to add twitter follow button onto it...but it is behaving differently in different browsers..Normally its works in the ...
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JAX WS compatibility JRE 1.4

I have an application running over JRE 1.4.(Cannot upgrade, due to multiple reasons) I have another application which I need to invoke via a webservice. I have created the webservice client easily ...
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UIGetScreenImage with iPhone app used on iPad

My app uses the UIGetscreenImage () method to take a Screenshot, which works perfectly fine using iPhone simulator or an iPhone. Now I wanted to use my app, that is targeted for iPhone on my iPad ...
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IFrame Image Resizing

In any modern browser, when you visit an image url (eg, http://i.imgur.com/xrM9q.jpg), it automatically resizes that image and gives you the option to "zoom in" with a little magnifying glass. This is ...
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Keeping compatibility after refactoring without modifying older versions

I need to develop a kind of module that will be provided as a JAR that will make 2 products compatible. Let's say I have a product called ProductSource and another one called ProductDep. The ...
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Android: Market Developer Console “Device availability” doesn't work?

I have tried "Device availability" in Android Market Developer Console, but I think that either it has a lot of bugs or it is misleading. For testing it, I have uploaded a very simple application, ...
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AES decrypt on android

I use same decrypt code with same file on android and pc but it's not working on android. When i use the simple string decrypt function that's working properly: string decrypt example(working on ...
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Maintain MULTISELECT ListBox scroll position in update panel during postback, kinda works

I'm using the following code to maintain a ListBox's scroll position across post backs. <script type="text/javascript"> // Helps maintain scroll position on the Specialty list box. var ...
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From a security standpoint, it is ok to build target an application to java 1.6, but using 1.7 and deploy to run on the jre7?

My question has sort of been answered, however I was wondering if there was any specific Oracle documentation confirming that this is not a problem. related stackoverflow threads: Security issues of ...
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CodeIgniter MySQL multiple version and compatibility

I was wondering for the Codeigniter 2.2 framework if I use a MySQL version 5.0.XX is it possible later to transfer over to a newer version of MySQL (5.6) later with the same app and not run into ...
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Java compatiblity with older version's bytecode

This is a question about Java version compatibility, which I know has been asked before, but from a slightly different angle. Previous answers I've seen suggest compiling the older version java code ...
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How should make my app backward compatible form android 2.2?

I wrote an application that need to be backward compatible from android 2.2. For that I set up android-support-v7-appcompat and wrote on my AndroidManifest.xml file minsdkVersion is 8. My application ...
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Safari not playing video in background, working on other browsers

I have a video as the background on a site I'm working on, and the background isn't working on Safari (desktop, not mobile). It's doing fine on Chrome, Firefox, IE 11, and Opera. I checked which types ...
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Appcompat three dot menu not displayed on Android < 3

I would like to display three dot menu in my app also on devices with android lower than version 3.0. But on devices with Android version < 3 is menu displayed only after menu button pressing. ...
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How to overwrite getter function on HTMLElement prototype

Since Object.__defineGetter__() has been deprecated I was trying to use Object.defineProperty() to overwrite the getter function on HTMLSpanElement.prototype.offsetWidth such that all <span> ...
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Is it possible to test a Windows application for XP compatibility without running XP?

Even though the EOS date for Windows XP is quickly approaching many of our users are still using it and will likely continue to do so for some time. I'd like keep supporting them as long as possible ...
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Developing Excel 2007 Document-Level Solution in Visual Studio 2013

The Visual Studio 2013 documentation does not list Excel 2007 as one of the versions supported in the document-level customization solutions. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa942839.aspx If ...
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Browser specific bug in my Drag and Drop functionality

I have a problem with my drag and drop javascript code. With chrome it works but when I use firefox or internet explorer there are some problems. For instance, with IE div data set to NULL and with ...
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margin-left code only for internet explorer

I am attempting to code something specifically for IE since it works perfectly well on other browsers. I want to add margin-left: -1px; to all IE variations by adding that line of code to the ...
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No way around Quirks mode in IE

I'm writing a page for a Blackboard course and compatibility mode is rendering it useless. Blackboard uses iFrames to embed content so every page I create is essentially embedded using an iFrame. I've ...
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multiselect.js compatibility with older jquery

The stated minimum level of compatibility of the multiselect.js jQuery library is with jQuery 1.8+ I'm wondering what part of the codebase causes this dependency and what could I do to make the ...
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Using an empty clearing div to force the container enclosing floated elements to stretch: is it considered good style?

I would like to draw your attention to the following example. In wrapperA, the block-level header element which encloses the two floats is forced to stretch to the full height of the enclosed floats ...
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jQuery Liquid slider not working in IE

I am having trouble getting the Liquid Slider to work in IE. It works fine in Safari, Chrom and Firefox but fails in all versions of Internet Explorer including 9. In IE 9 it only shows navigation ...
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3DES encryption in C# and decryption in an existing Java application

I am trying to write an encrypt function in C# that generates a string that can be decrypted in a Java application. The existing Java decrypting code I received from my client: public static ...
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Source Code analyser Plugin (PMD,CheckStyle,FindBug) Compatibility Issue for RAD 7.5.3

I am trying to add Java source code analyser plugins - PMD,Checkstyle & FindBug in Rational Application Developer 7.5.3 but I am getting some dependency issues and it's not allowing me to ...
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Compatibility Settings for 64 bit applications are grayed out

I am trying to choose the setting "Disable Visual Themes" from the Compatibility tab for a specific 64 bit .exe application but the Compatibility options are grayed out. I tried several ways but ...
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Jquery Script not working properly on IE7

I have this script for a floor plan that changes individual apartment images on hover so they display a different color. It works on every single browser except IE7. On IE7 when hovered over, the ...
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ios - Regarding compatibility issue

I am making an iphone application. The target version is 6.0.. Recently I ran this app on ios 7.0 beta simulator and my app's user interface doesn't look good because of compatibility issue. MY ...
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Issue with IE10 and legacy site, Compatibility mode (Browser mode rather then Document mode)

I have a Legacy site that has an iframe in the page to run a JavaScript powered customer details update form. if this form is used in IE versions less than 10 it works correctly, in IE10 it ...
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Any reason to define a header-guard to 1?

Occasionally I observe such header guards: #ifndef FOO #define FOO 1 ... #endif // FOO But I learned it this way: #ifndef FOO #define FOO ... #endif // FOO Is the define to 1 an old ...
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OS X 10.6SDK compatible with 10.5 leopard system __ZNKSt13bad_exception4whatEV

My project is compiled with 10.6SDK and selected 10.5 as Deployment Target. When I run the binary in 10.5 leopard system it gives me Symbol not found: __ZNKSt13bad_exception4whatEV Referenced from: ...
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Do I have to build my program on the oldest Linux OS minor version I want to support?

If I want my software to run on Red Hat Linux 6.0, do I have to build it on 6.0? Or can I build it on 6.3? (Similar question for 5.X) I'm asking a general question about runtime implications of ...
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css ul li layout android 2.3 compatibility

I made this little web gallery http://chocochomp.com/ and I have two main problems: On my old Android 2.3 feature phone web browser (the one delivered with the phone), the divs are not wrapping ...
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Ajax.InPlaceEditor.prototype: spaces are encoded to '+' after upgraded prototype to 1.7.1

I use InPlaceEditor in my code and it worked fine with prototype version 1.6.0.3, but after I upgraded to 1.7.1. All the spaces in the text field are replaced with "+"'s after being saved. What I can ...
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Which versions of Flash versions are affected by the flash cookie bug?

Which versions of Flash are affected by the flash cookie bug?
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Application is not working on 10.6

I'm currently working on a port of my Windows game for Mac OS X, it runs fine on my Mac when compiled with Xcode 4.5.2 on OS X 10.8, but it crashes on a friends Mac running 10.6. At first I thought it ...
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Safety of using Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Object Library DLLs

In my C# program, I originally called an external VBS script to run some Outlook manipulation stuff (importing vCards into Outlook). I decided to change this though to straight C# code, due to the ...
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Fix IE error when adding two Minicslider (nivoliders)

I have the following error. My page looks bad on IE, but it looks ok in all other browsers. This problem happened when I tried to copy the Minicslider module by NivoSlider . There are not repeated ...
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PaX ASLR vs. Linux default ASLR (64 bit)

PaX's ASLR implementation for 64-bit x86 machines is much stronger than Linux's default 64-bit ASLR implementation. My question is simple, why is PaX's implementation not the default one? I'm ...
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Is ADFS 2.0 compatible with .Net 4.5?

I need to install .Net 4.5 on a ADFS 2.0 server (both proxy and server) Before I do, can anyone confirm if ADFS is compatible with .net4.5?
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Limitations of queries in CommandText property for EntityDataSource

I'm using EntityDataSource control in my ASP.NET application developed under Visual Studio 2012. It has a CommandText property which one can use to select the data for the control. While it is set as ...