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Questions tagged [detect]

"Detect" is overbroad and should not be used. Tag with the specific sort of detection you mean: collision-detection, face-detection, feature-detection, browser-detection, etc, etc.

This tag has an active burnination request. It should be removed from questions, not added.

Detection activity exist in many ways.

For example:

  • Detecting active bluetooth devices;
  • Detecting Internet Connection;
  • Detecting available ports;
  • Detecting incoming voice;
  • Detecting color scheme;
  • Detecting features.
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How to detect key presses?

I am making a stopwatch type program in Python and I would like to know how to detect if a key is pressed (such as p for pause and s for stop), and I would not like it to be something like raw_input, which waits for the user's input before…
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PHP script - detect whether running under linux or Windows?

I have a PHP script that may be placed on a windows system or a linux system. I need to run different commands in either case. How can I detect which environment I am in? (preferably something PHP rather than clever system hacks) Update To clarify,…
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iOS How to detect iPhone X, iPhone 6 plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5, iPhone 4 by macro?

How to detect device model by macro? i had using something like this but the result on the simulator alway IS_IPHONE_5 #define IS_IPAD (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) #define IS_IPHONE (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() ==…
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Javascript: How to detect if a word is highlighted

I'm writing a Firefox addon that is triggered whenever a word is highlighted. However I need a script that detects when a word is highlighted, and I'm stuck. An example would be nytimes.com (when you're reading an article and you highlight a word,…
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Is it possible to detect Android app uninstall?

My app is using Google's C2DM (push notification) to notify users about new activity from friends. Once they install the app I register the device with C2DM servers and store user's phone number. So I know that the user is using my app and I can…
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Getting the screen resolution using PHP

I need to find the screen resolution of a users screen who visits my website?
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Programmatically detect if app is being run on device or simulator

I'd like to know whether my app is being run on device or simulator at run time. Is there a way to detect this? Reason being to test bluetooth api with simulator: http://volcore.limbicsoft.com/2009/09/iphone-os-31-gamekit-pt-1-woooohooo.html
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Detecting network connection speed and bandwidth usage in C#

Is there a way to detect the network speed and bandwidth usage in C#? Even pointers to open-source components are welcome.
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Ruby Detect method

Select makes sense. But can someone explain .detect to me? I don't understand these data. >> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7].detect { |x| x.between?(3,4) } => 3 >> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7].detect { |x| x.between?(3,6) } => 3 >> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7].detect { |x| x.between?(3,7)…
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Detecting autocomplete on form input with jQuery

I have a form that detects if all the text-fields are valid on each keyup() and focus(); if they're all valid, it will enable the submit button for the user to press. However, if the user fills in one of the text inputs with a browsers autocomplete…
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Django: Detect database backend

I'm doing some "extra" queries in Django that need to work on both sqlite and postgres. The syntax of these queries varies between backend but I have no way of figuring out if I'm sending my queries to either postgres or sqlite. Is there a way to…
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How to detect with python if the string contains html code?

How to detect either the string contains an html (can be html4, html5, just partials of html within text)? I do not need a version of HTML, but rather if the string is just a text or it contains an html. Text is typically multiline with also empty…
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automatically detect web browser window width change?

i know that you with $(window).width() can get the size of the web browser. i want to detect when the user change the size of his web browser so i could readjust the columns width. is there a way to automatically detect this or do i have to use…
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Detect mobile browser

Possible Duplicate: Simplest way to detect a mobile device I have a site and I want to detect which browser is used and redirect them. I have a php index and the code must be in php. I've found many sites but they don't work or they don't detect…
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Detect browser TLS compatibility

We have a SSL website where the host has recently disabled older SSL protocols like TLS 1.0 and below. Depending on the browser, the site visitor gets a blank page or a cryptic error message when they visit the site if the browser they are using…
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