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I am trying to put together a solution for our office to map the cubicle and office layout. We currently have both php and C# applications, so the solution can be built in either. We have something in PHP already, that allows us to move people from one cubicle to another, but it is based off a static image size and point coordinates. For example, cubicle one is at (3px, 4px). While this solution is working, it doesn't allow for the image size to change, or for the image to change at all without significant coding to realign all of the points on the image. Is there a better solution that can be used or an open source library that would be helpful? A coworked suggested that the Google Maps API might be helpful, or Leaflet.js. However, these both use geocoding, so unless our current Lat and Long is accurate to like a foot, I don't see how these could help.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Here is an image similar to the one we are using. We add absolutely positioned clickable divs over the image to show who sits there.
What your co-worker suggested is not so much the GMaps API itself but the implementations of rotations/geosync translation/zoom algorithms that would allow you to flip an image and all the points related to the image.
No specific code implementation, so I can't be more specific.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Currently, I am looking for a (commercial or free) .NET/C# image processing library for a WinForms project to apply customizable effects like Instagram or Microsoft Office Word does, e.g.:
I found plenty of image libraries like:
ImageMagick
Lead Tools
Free Image
DotImage
...
Unfortunately, all these libraries seem to provide a rather low-level way of manipulating images. When it comes to high-level effects like borders, rotation, vintage filters like Instagram, etc., I found zero libraries.
(Ironically, for JavaScript, there are quite a few libraries out there)
Maybe there is no market for such a library, still I would love to have this function in my application without doing everything on my own.
Therefore my question is:
Is there a .NET library available to have a customizable and extendable way of applying various high-level filters to images?
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Closed 10 years ago.
I've been googling methods for interacting with PowerPoint via C# and have had a play with Interop and VSOT (I think - is this a wrapper around Interop).
Does anyone have any tips or pointers on best practice ? I seem to find several different methods for dealing PowerPoint files. I essentially need to replace text, apply styles and update charts and tables. I'm not creating them - everything will be done from template files.
The best option, especially if you are working with newer extensions (pptx, xlsx, etc) is OOXML.
Have a look here and samples on working with powerpoint here
replace text, apply styles and update charts and tables.
I think VBA is the simplest way to do that. But if your needs, in future go past these, into more advanced territory, you'll have no choice but to switch to a different approach. VBA is limited in many ways.
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I would like to create an application that shows the history of disk usage.
I have already create a backend for geting data and now I would like to show this data in a line chart like this:
As you can see, I get date (DateTime) and usage (int) foreach disk.
My question:
Which silverlight component/tools should I use, to show the charts?
I'm looking for a free solution that is easy to understand/use.
There are a few options:
Visiblox, fast, high performance chart
Silverlight Toolkit a Microsoft chart, but a bit slow
Visifire, high performance chart with great looks and interactivity
My recommendations is to use Visifire. Its easy to use and has simple XAML structure. Visifire does most of the work automatically like placing AxisXLabels in multiple rows, AxisLabels in angled form, and auto skipping of those labels if there is an overlap. Apart from it there are other great exciting features provided by Visifire like Indicator, Zooming etc.
Last but not the least, it is the high performance charting component.
http://www.visifire.com/high_performance_silverlight_examples.php
For more info, please check out the exhaustive documentation.
http://www.visifire.com/visifire_charts_gauges_documentation.php
I would recommend you Silverlight Toolkit
see this and this for more details, sample code and sample charts
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I am looking for an open source tool to help me create mosaic images based on a series of given images. I've been searching the web but couldn't come up with anything web oriented solution.
Do you know any such tools?
Thank you
This might be what you are looking for: http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/39934
If you download the code and make a new refresh.jpg it should work. The code is written in processing which is very similar to java and can be run as an applet online if the user has java enabled in the browser.
Creating images is normally something you would do on the server side but this might come close to what you are looking for: http://ajaxian.com/archives/mosaic-image-builder-with-ajax
if you just want to show your images in an mosaic way you could use something like masonry: http://masonry.desandro.com/index.html
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Need to do a remote image capture from a "prosumer" camera into a C#/.NET app (for capturing pics at a higher resolution and more control than a webcam).
Any advantage for Canon vs. Nikon remote capture SDK's? Is one better supported than another? Looking for a developer perspective before embarking on this one...
I looked at both SDK's when I was picking out cameras. I ended up going with the Canon EOS 50D and their EDSDK. Canon has a wrapper class in their code with all the P/Invoke ready for you to use. That was the primary reason I used it. Some of the P/Invoke types are a little odd. I had issues with figuring out some object reference types needed to be casted to some internal structures... Lot's of trial and error. Eventually I got it to work, and it works well. I have live image capture and static image capture working for it.
I'm sorry I cannot speak for Nikon's SDK. I just chose Canon's because the P/Invoke was already there. The downside to EDSDK is it only works with the EOS line.
Here is some more information.