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chrisdiana / gist:aa64509aa50c518c54a5
Created September 9, 2014 17:27
Placeholder for UITextView in Xamarin
// sample text box
var descriptionField = new UITextView (new RectangleF (0, 230, UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width, 100)){
BackgroundColor = UIColor.White,
Text = " Description:",
TextColor = ViewHelpers.DarkGray,
Font = UIFont.FromName("Helvetica", 18f)
};
// some work arounds for UITextView placeholders
var Placeholder = " Description:";
descriptionField.ShouldBeginEditing = t => {
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chrisdiana / gist:04431f0c8cf75a1e90a7
Created September 9, 2014 17:32
Add Done and Dismiss Keyboard for UITextView in Xamarin
// sample text box
var deedDescriptionField = new UITextView (new RectangleF (0, 230, UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width, 100)){
BackgroundColor = UIColor.White,
Text = " Description:",
TextColor = ViewHelpers.DarkGray,
Font = UIFont.FromName("Helvetica", 18f)
};
// change the return key to done
descriptionField.ReturnKeyType = UIReturnKeyType.Done;
// dismiss keyboard on done
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chrisdiana / gist:5045a2322fe832fe32ca
Last active August 29, 2015 14:06
Text Box Validation for UITextView in Xamarin
// sample text box
var descriptionField = new UITextView (new RectangleF (0, 230, UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width, 100)){
BackgroundColor = UIColor.White,
Text = " Description:",
TextColor = ViewHelpers.DarkGray,
Font = UIFont.FromName("Helvetica", 18f)
};
// validation
descriptionField.ShouldEndEditing = t => {
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty (descriptionField.Text)) {
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chrisdiana / gist:39b8a7da06c1da5ce14f
Last active August 29, 2015 14:06
Text Field Validation for UITextField in Xamarin
// sample text field
var titleField = new UITextField (new RectangleF (0, 160, UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width, 50)){
BackgroundColor = UIColor.White,
TextColor = ViewHelpers.DarkGray,
Placeholder = "Title:"
};
// validation
titleField.EditingDidEnd += (object sender, EventArgs e) => {
if ( ((UITextField)sender).Text.Length <= 0 ) {
InvokeOnMainThread ( () => {
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chrisdiana / gist:b2c604c99409d0cd2a0b
Created September 15, 2014 17:00
SimpleXML Strip CDATA
<?php
// Grab XML
$xml_file = "rsform.xml";
// Load xml data.
$xml = file_get_contents($xml_file);
// Strip whitespace between xml tags
$xml = preg_replace('~\s*(<([^>]*)>[^<]*</\2>|<[^>]*>)\s*~','$1',$xml);
// Convert CDATA into xml nodes.
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml,'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
// Make variables
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chrisdiana / gist:c9e2851fd02b3d903849
Created September 30, 2014 17:22
Console dump objects one property at a time to JSON in C#
Console.WriteLine(Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(
someObject, Formatting.Indented));
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chrisdiana / gist:731aa653982e2d905776
Created October 22, 2014 21:20
Convert time to human readable time in Javascript
function millisecondsToStr (milliseconds) {
// TIP: to find current time in milliseconds, use:
// var current_time_milliseconds = new Date().getTime();
function numberEnding (number) {
return (number > 1) ? 's' : '';
}
var temp = Math.floor(milliseconds / 1000);
var years = Math.floor(temp / 31536000);
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chrisdiana / new_gist_file.html
Created November 11, 2014 06:35
The Best IE Warning
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<div style="background-color:#FFFFCC;padding:15px;border:solid 1px #000000;margin-bottom:20px;">
<h1 style="color:#000000;margin-bottom:10px;">Warning - Unsupported Browser</h1>
<p>You are using an outdated version of Internet Explorer that has security issues and does not support global web standards. To ensure you have a better user experience online, across all sites (that includes capitolsales.com), we recommend that you upgrade <a class="getie7" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx" target="_blank">your version of Internet Explorer</a> or choose any of these <strong>other excellent browsers</strong>: <a href="http://www.opera.com/download/" target="_blank">Opera</a>, <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/download/" target="_blank">Safari</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome" target="_blank">Chrome</a>. It's free!</p>
</div>
<![endif]-->
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chrisdiana / convert_hex_xterm.py
Created January 29, 2015 23:23
Convert hex color code to closest xterm-256 value
#! /usr/bin/env python
""" Convert values between RGB hex codes and xterm-256 color codes.
Nice long listing of all 256 colors and their codes. Useful for
developing console color themes, or even script output schemes.
Resources:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit_color
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
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chrisdiana / gist:c1b4a070454fdacaab9e
Last active August 29, 2015 14:14
Hide App Icon from Dock in OS X
# Locate the 'Info.plist' by right clicking app and 'Show Package Contents'
# Add this just before the closing of the `</dict>` tag near where you see
# something similar to `<string>MainMenu</string><key>NSPrincipalClass</key>`
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>