![]() There’s a disconnect, though, between the cel-shaded, pleasantly cartoonish COs and the plasticky toys they fight with. WayForward and Nintendo have dramatically improved the look of the first two Advance Wars games, turning the battlefield into something resembling a tabletop war game, where action figures and brightly colored toys do battle, bloodlessly. The game’s questionable AI certainly makes its share of lunkheaded mistakes, just like it did in the early 2000s. There are two difficulty modes: the easy Casual setting and more challenging Classic setting, if you find your enemies to be pushovers. Some of the abilities can feel overpowered or unbalanced, but Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is not particularly difficult you can often limp your way to victory. Enemy COs - who can be played in later missions and in the game’s Versus mode - have even more powerful abilities, like Olaf’s Blizzard, a snowstorm that inhibits movement, or Eagle’s Lightning Strike, which basically gives him two turns in one. ![]() Re-Boot Camp introduces each CO at a comfortable pace, starting with Andy and Max, an inexperienced young CO who can magically repair units, and a beefy, confident veteran who can give his units an attack boost, respectively. As you plunge further into Advance Wars’ battles, its strategic depth starts to show.įurther layering the game’s intricacies are the COs: cartoonish, archetypal characters that have passive strengths and weaknesses, and can unleash special abilities once they’ve charged them up. Submarines can be powerful stealth units, but the ability to dive underwater and out of sight means they eat up fuel. Short-range units need to position themselves out of the firing range of artillery and rocket launchers. Infantry can easily move through forests and mountains, and can capture structures, but they are no match for tanks or helicopters. For example, a tank is highly vulnerable to bomber planes, but those planes are vulnerable to anti-air units. Players instead need to be more mindful of striking distances, movement ranges, terrain advantages, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual units. Unlike some strategy games, there’s no frenzied resource gathering - cities give players funds each day to spend on new units, and factories and airports, when present on a map, offer reinforcements. Battles in Advance Wars are slow and methodical - but thanks to a number of variables to consider like terrain, fog of war, and the special abilities of commanding officers (COs), they are rarely dull or predictable. Missions often play out like chess matches, where players (and their enemy) have a set number of units and shared goals: wipe out the opposing army, capture their main headquarters, or meet some other map-specific victory condition. Players strategically move infantry, tanks, planes, submarines, and battleships to take control of cities and factories, as part of an international conflict. The Switch duology brings back the charming, cartoony roots of Advance Wars, and delivers the slickest versions of the first two GBA games.Īdvance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is, like the more popular Fire Emblem games, composed of turn-based battles on grid-based maps, in which players build and command military units across land, sea, and air. Thanks to Shantae and River City Girls developer WayForward, a new generation of Nintendo fans have a chance to experience Advance Wars in a sleek, remade collection known (somewhat clumsily) as Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. ![]()
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![]() IntPtr ptr = .SecureStringToBSTR(securePassword) Using (SecureString securePassword = this.SecurePassword) / Does not pass 2nd party SecureString to SetSecurePassword. / PublicOK: Does not pass unsafe data to native code. / Critical - The getter elevates to unmanaged code and has unsafe code block. / Doing so reduces the risk of revealing content that should be kept secret. / Use the SecurePassword property in place of this one when possible. / Clear all the content in the PasswordBox control. Selection.Select(TextContainer.Start, TextContainer.End) RoutedCommand command = ApplicationCommands.Paste / Replaces the current selection in the passwordbox with the contents (typeof(PasswordBox),įrameworkPropertyMetadataOptions.Inherits, (typeof(PasswordBox), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(new Propert圜hangedCallback(OnParentNavigationServiceChanged))) New FrameworkPropertyMetadata(new Propert圜hangedCallback(OnPaddingChanged))) Declaree listener for Padding propertyĬ(typeof(PasswordBox), New FrameworkPropertyMetadata(new Propert圜hangedCallback(OnPasswordCharChanged))) PasswordCharProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(PasswordBox), _dType = DependencyObjectType.FromSystemTypeInternal(typeof(PasswordBox)) , IAutomationPatternProvider, IAutomationPropertyProviderĭefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(PasswordBox), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(PasswordBox))) Public sealed class PasswordBox : Control, ITextBoxViewHost #pragma warning disable 1634, 1691 // suppressing PreSharp warnings Description: The stock password control. In the above code example, we saw how to custome WPF PasswordBox template to give it different appearance like Round Corner PasswordBox in WPF using style, I hope you have enjoyed it a lot./ Dotnetfx_Win7_3.5.1 / Dotnetfx_Win7_3.5.1 / 3.5.1 / DEVDIV / depot / DevDiv / releases / Orcas / NetFXw7 / wpf / src / Framework / System / Windows / Controls / PasswordBox.cs / 1 / PasswordBox.cs ![]() ![]() WPF Custom Datagrid Control(Filterable).WPF Round Corner Button with click effects.Apply Style for Round Corner PasswordBox in WPFThe below code describe how to use the above declared style in the default WPF PassworBox to make it roundable corner. ![]() To appear the Password as rounded corner, the border CornerRadius set to 3, you can specify the CornerRadius according to your requirement. The above code, customizes the appearance of default WPF PasswordBox by injecting border control into ControlTemplate. Here the XAML codes modify the default ControlTemplate to give the control a unique appearance.ĭeclare Style for Round Corner PasswordBox in WPF This code you can direct copy and past it in WPF resource to use it in your WPF Project. The below code example describes style and template to make a Round Corner PasswordBox in WPF. Note that never mark the event handled unless you intently want to disable PasswordBox native handling of these events, and be aware that this has notable effects on the control's UI. To handle above bubbling events you have to listen from the tunneling events(PreviewMouseUp and PreviewMouseDown) instead, or you can register the handlers with the HandledEventsToo argument through behind(C# or VB.Net) code only. ![]() Consequently, but the custom event handlers that listen for MouseUp or MouseDown events from a PasswordBox will never be called. The WPF PasswordBox has built-in handling for the bubbling events (MouseUp and MouseDown). Increment a counter each time the event fires. Void PasswordChangedHandler(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs args) The below XAML code creates a PasswordBox with PasswordChanged event and other properties such as Name,Height, Width, MaxLength, and PasswordChar. The default event of PasswordBox is PasswordChanged. The password box control is a special type of TextBox entering and handling passwords. This blog also provides code snippet to create a Round Corner PasswordBox in WPF using Style. In my prevous blog, we saw the code example how to create Round Corner Textbox in WPF using XAML. ![]() ![]() ![]() I like to tape up every fold to prevent any possible moisture damage. The first thing you can do is to mount your drawings with an acid-free mat board and cover them in florists cellophane wrap as a protective layer. What was once a drawing with some ‘zing’ is now flat and dull. The chances are, what you thought was white paper, is now a light grey. Take an eraser and rub out the highlights with a light touch. That’s not until you slip out your precious pencil artwork and see the impression of your drawing as a shadow on the underside of the plastic and your eyes roll in horror. If you store your drawings in a dedicated clear display sleeve, inside a portfolio folder, you will not always see the damage. You would think that any observant artist would be aware of damaging their own work, but it’s not always so. This is How to Repair Drawing Paper: 8 Ways to Rescue Your Artwork You don’t realize the extent until one day you remove the art from its sleeve.Īll is not lost. Every time you move your artwork there is friction between the drawing surface and the protective cover.Įven a thoughtless observer who touches the clear display sleeve protecting your drawing will disturb the surface, and the same happens each time you remove your artwork.Īll these micro-movements, insignificant in themselves, add up over time. The reason the drawings smudge is vibration. ![]() Protect Your Graphite Drawings in Transit If you allow anything to touch the surface of your pencil or charcoal drawings you risk lifting some of the media. How To Preserve Your Pencil Drawings in Storage and in Transit ![]() ![]() ![]() Update: I’m two more missions in and it plays great. And no they didn’t pay me to say this the games are just that good. Look at their awesome library of games on the iPad. By the way: Feral Interactive who released this game do absolutely fantastic work. I’ll update my review after a few more missions. Yes I know it was just the first mission, but I’ve played further on the Switch version and this version on the bigger portable screen rocked. It plays fantastically and nothing took me out of the experience. It totaled a little over 8 gb on my iPad. Compared to the Switch the larger screen is nice and playing it on the go will work out great. Even though I have a Controller I started the game using finger gestures and it worked very well. The interface works great and the tutorial teaches you everything you need to know. It’s the complete game with all DLC included. The sounds and voice overs are exactly the way they should be. Graphics look great and the cut scenes are terrific too. I just wanted to do a quick review after the first mission. All other marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Feral and the Feral logo are trademarks of Feral Interactive Ltd. iOS and the iOS logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. Developed for and published on iOS by Feral Interactive. Take-Two Interactive Software, 2K, Firaxis Games, XCOM, XCOM 2, and their respective logos are trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. © 2020 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Lead the Resistance using a touch-screen Command Interface designed for mobile.Ĭustomise each soldier’s look, loadout and abilities.ĭirect your forces through a near-infinite combination of goals, missions, and maps.Īccess new missions, soldier types, and enemies with XCOM 2's DLC packs. At the edges of the world, the scattered forces of XCOM gather to defend humanity, ignite a global resistance, and reclaim the planet.īring down the alien regime from your iPad or iPhone with the XCOM 2 Collection the complete experience of XCOM 2: War of the Chosen and four DLC packs in a single package with no in-app purchases.ĭelivers all the turn-based tactical challenges of XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. If you require assistance, please contact our support team at rule Earth with a new order promising a brilliant future for those who conform, while silencing all those who do not.iPhone 12 / 12 mini / 12 Pro / 12 Pro Max.You will need 8.5GB of free space to install the game and all of its content, and we recommend having at least 17GB of free space to avoid installation issues. The XCOM 2 Collection requires iOS 14 or later. READ BEFORE BUYING: Please expand this description and read the full list of supported devices shown immediately below to confirm that your device is supported. ![]() ![]() You can either reformat them to 16 across, which would then give you 1 row of 16 and 1 row of 2 icons, or you can simply increase your image size (in the first step above) by 72 (24x3) and paste them directly. Save this image as IconSet.png in the Graphics/System folder of your game (NOT in the RTP folder under the main program or you will overwrite the default set with your new file).Ī quick note: if the icons you're using are formatted, for example as 6 icons across by 3 icons down, you have 2 options. (Make sure the icons you are using fit within the 24x24 grid). Open the icons you want to add to the default set in your image editing software and paste them into your open space at the bottom. Make sure it is aligned properly, which should be easy if snap to grid is enabled. Open the default icon set in your image editing software, and paste it into your new image. Set the grid size for your image to 24x24, and turn on snap to grid. you want to add 114 icons, which is 18 more than a 384x936 image could hold, so you need to increase the image height by 48, 24 to hold the first 16 icons, and then another 24 to hold the remaining 2). For every 1-16 icons over that, add 24 to the image height (e.g. So if you wanted to add 96 or fewer icons, you could set the image size as 384x936. ![]() ![]() Each icon is 24x24 (so the default set has room to include 6 more rows, each with 16 icons, for a total of 96 more icons). ![]() The default icons set is 384x936 and has 33 rows of 16 icons each. To determine the size, you need to know how many icons you're adding. Open an image editing program such as Photoshop, Gimp, etc. There's a few ways to do it, but here is one that pretty much anyone can do: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SUTTON'S PREDICTIONS SATURDAY, 6 MAY Bournemouth 1-3 Chelsea Visit your Premier League club's page with all the latest news, analysis and fan views, and sign up for notifications.Add that together with everything else and I think you can see why everything has caught up with us." Gower's band Gustaffson play gigs in Manchester (Night & Day) and Liverpool (The Cavern) next month Premier League - week 35Ī correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. "I think for a few years now, Everton have, technically, been the worst team in the top flight. That's the biggest difference between them and us. "Every single one of their players was pulling together and, no matter how good or bad they were, they all knew their jobs. "I live in London now so I go to a lot of games down here and, when I went to watch Fulham against Tottenham earlier this season, I sat there and thought to myself 'so why are Fulham doing so much better than us?' and a lot of it comes down to the fact that they are a proper team, who have got a plan. I remember the first summer we kind of had an open chequebook, in 2017, we went out and signed four number 10s. "We are on to our third director of football since 2016 and there is no continuity with anything we try to do. "We have paid an enormous amount for players heading into their 30s but have never strengthened the squad in the right way, and the way the club has been run ever since Farhad Moshiri arrived in 2016 is just unbelievable really. "For the same to happen again this year, and be in such deep trouble again, is down to an amazing lack of foresight from the board and some terrible decisions. "We had to go through all of that and then, under Frank Lampard, had one of the craziest seasons of survival there has ever been - and I remember the Gareth Farrelly goal against Coventry that kept us up on goal difference in 1998, which is one of my earliest memories. "I was honestly so relieved whenever we had an international break then because I just didn't have to think about Everton. "It often gets misconstrued in the media, but a lot of what the Everton fans are unhappy about now is how exhausted they are from that period - the Rafa Benitez summer when he took charge, up until Frank Lampard took over at the start of 2022. "Carlo Ancelotti's departure to Real Madrid in 2021 was unexpected but we replaced him with Rafael Benitez, who the fans didn't want, which is when a lot of people lost faith in the board, myself included. "We have five permanent managers in the past five years, not including Duncan Ferguson's stints as caretaker boss, and taken a completely different direction each time we've changed," Gower added. Gower believes Everton's lack of strategy, especially compared with teams such as Brighton or Brentford, is behind their struggles. We left it until the last day last season, but this time we really need to get a win beforehand too - hopefully it is at the Amex!" Everton's remaining Premier League games 2022-23 "I look at the games we've got left and wonder where that will change. The big moments in games are going against us, and all those missed opportunities are costing us. ![]() "We've had some good results in the last few weeks and have played quite well at times but we are just not beating anyone. He told BBC Sport: "We just can't get these wins over the line and time is running out. Gower is going to the Toffees' game at Brighton on Monday and is desperate to see them end their seven-game winless streak, which continued with a 2-2 draw at Leicester in their last match. Gower appeared as Cutler in BBC Three's long-running comedy-drama Being Human and starred in Netflix thriller You earlier this year Carnival Row is streaming on Amazon Prime. Gower's band Gustaffson have a new single, Northern Baby - their first release since their debut EP, The Jacaranda, which was record of the week on Guy Garvey's Finest Hour show on BBC 6 Music. This weekend he is taking on actor and musician Andrew Gower, star of Victorian fantasy drama Carnival Row and an Everton fan. Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches this season, against a variety of guests. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have used Accordance almost since they first started it. But Accordance is the one that serves me best, it's the one that I keep on using, and continue to invest in by adding new modules fairly regularly (and I don't mean old public domain out-of-copyright works.) And I don't regret a penny of that investment.Īs I said, if you want to have the Bible on your Mac (or PC or iOS device), you cannot ignore Accordance. I've stuck with it even though now and then I will try a demo or a free Bible program that is new or novel or innovative. I reluctantly switched to Accordance from Online Bible years ago when OLB wasn't available for Mac OS X (NB it is now) after seeing it demoed at a Mac Expo (remember them?). If you want to have the Bible on your Mac (or PC or iOS device), you cannot ignore Accordance. It has speed, it has depth, it has a broad range of Bible-based resources, it has active and ongoing development from a brilliant and dedicated team, it has stellar customer support, it has a vibrant and friendly and helpful online community forum, it is competitively priced, there is no hard sell, you can download a free/demo version and try it out for yourself. No longer does it command a niche corner of the limited Mac market of Bible programs, but it dominates on both the Mac OS and Windows platforms. Crash that could occur when entering data with the character palette.Īccordance is Bible software for everyone, whether you are a casual reader of the Bible, a serious student, a pastor or scholar or even a postgraduate researcher.Crash in Targums word map when doing “Search for -> lexeme” using the right click menu.“About this text” for Targums WordMap would show old information.Bookmark snippets was using garbled text in certain cases.Issue that caused "copy as Transliteration" to fail when pasting within Accordance.Easy Install was not installing Tools in the correct category.Updated the "Set Diagram Display" dialog array of Greek colors for parts of speech to support the addition of Greek Crasis.The Text results in a Live Click Word Usage tab would potentially be corrupted after using Library > "Set Default Display" on various Text modules.Cross highlighting from MT-ETCBC-A to MT-LXX tool should now work.When "Show Book Headings" is selected in a Hebrew text, right-clicking on any word in the first verse of any book in the OT and selecting "Search for->Inflected" now works.Highlighting all hits was misaligned in Hebrew Texts.Negation in a wildcard search was not working properly.HCSB Bullet footnote lookup was not working.Alignment pane misalignment due to Hebrew variant (ketiv/qere) codes.Display of Greek variant forms in Instant Details, where the last variant was not being displayed, either for variant words or for crasis forms in Greek.Targums Wordmap would potentially not display the proper word in Instant Details.Minor Japanese, French, and German Localization updates.Now Accordance will maintain the "Enable" state of Live Highlight when closing the Highlight palette during an Accordance session. ![]() ![]() ![]() HTML5 is becoming more and more widely used as it needs less processing power and doesn't require any plugins. The main reasons for the death of the software are that competitors are now lightyears ahead of Flash in terms of functionality and what is offered, and that plugins, in general, are dying out. Use of the software is more trouble than it is worth, and because of this, Adobe recently announced that it will end updates and distribution of the flash player at the end of 2020. If you have an iPhone, you won't be able to use anything that has Flash in it as none of the devices support it due to the repeated security issues and because it isn't really open sourced. ![]() Flash supports the use of local shared objects which, like cookies, store user data and can be potentially problematic if a lot of web browsing information is compiled over time.ĭue to the amount of moving parts, playing games or using software that has Flash will drain your device battery significantly, which is a hassle since it's not good to constantly have your devices plugged into a charger will in use. To this day, a lot of animators still use Flash in their animation software because it is simple to learn how to use.Īlthough Flash Player was the backbone of the internet, due to a lot of privacy and security concerns most users have moved away from using it. YouTube, the most popular video sharing website around, was one of the many websites that used to be powered by Flash Player. Once embedded into a website's GUI, it morphed the site from flat into exciting and interactive. When it was first released, the browser plugin was free so it was incorporated into a lot of web browsers. This meant that loading times for games and other software that needed Flash to run were shorter. There are a number of reasons that Flash Player was so popular, one being that flash files were very small. It works by running content from SWF files, which is an Adobe specific file format for multimedia and animations. The software is a runtime, or a system that describes the library that coding language runs on. At one point, the software was required to run most interactive applications on the internet. In its prime, Flash Player was a must-have. Outdated, unsafe software has met its end-of-life Software to view multimedia has long been surpassed by competitors ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s great but what’s a Shortcut and how do I add one…? These changes are a major improvement on organising your shortcuts and folders and the functionality of OneDrive and we’re hoping Microsoft keeps these time-saving updates coming for the future! Once completed, you’ll receive a notification that the items were moved to a new location. Then simply select your desired folder and once inside the folder, hit “Move here” and you’re done.ģ. ![]() You can simply highlight any existing ones you have (you’re able to select multiple shortcuts at once if need be) and click the “Move to” function within OneDrive.Ģ. In addition to being able to rename a shortcut you can now even move shortcuts from their original location to somewhere that may be more convenient for you! Let’s say you have a multitude of shortcuts and you’d like to keep track of all of them in their own “shortcuts” folder.ġ. This change will update the name wherever the shortcut is accessible from. Select “Rename” from this and change the name of the shortcut to whatever you want. ![]() From there, click the 3 vertically arranged dots and a sub-menu will appear.ģ. To rename a shortcut, navigate to your OneDrive either in file explorer or through your browser and select the shortcut you wish to rename.Ģ. With this simple change a shortcut can be rename with a few clicks on a button helping you to tidy and streamline your use and access to shares you use regularly.ġ. A recent change made by Microsoft has now allowed for SharePoint shortcuts within OneDrive to be renamed, something that previously was not possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() 3-4 minutes).Īdd the chopped green chiles and minced garlic to the veggies in the skillet. Cook until the veggies have softened (approx. The first thing to do is cook the chopped onions, mushrooms and red bell pepper in butter in a skillet on medium heat. Scroll Down For A Printable Recipe Card At The Bottom Of The Page How To Make A Southwestern Bacon Quiche You can save time by using refrigerated pie pastry dough or buy a frozen deep dish pie crust (uncooked). I used my base recipe for quiche as my starting point, then added ingredients as I went, to give it some great flavor! I’m not kidding- this turned out to be a delicious quiche, and it is NOT too spicy (in case you were wondering)! NOTE: I made a homemade pie crust from scratch for this quiche. This Southwestern bacon quiche is what I came up with, and it was absolutely FANTASTIC! We LOVED it! I decided to create a homemade quiche with the Tex-Mex flavors I love. Recently I had an open carton of heavy whipping cream open that I needed to use up. Quiche, to me, tastes great for lunch OR for breakfast! There are so many way to transform a traditional egg “custard” quiche. ![]() Remove the crust from the oven, cool and fill according to recipe instructions.Bacon, jack cheese, green chiles, salsa, peppers, mushrooms and onions give this Southwestern Bacon Quiche in a flaky pie crust it’s fantastic flavor! YUM!ĭo you enjoy quiche? I sure do. ![]() Once the pie has baked at 325 for about 20 min, you can remove the foil and beans (or what have you) and continue to bake for about another 15 minutes to get a good brown on the crust.Ĩ. You can buy pie weights, but I just cover the crust with Al foil and throw in some dry beans or rice. For blind baking (baking just the crust with no filling), you will need to weight down the crust so it doesn’t bubble and form air pockets while it’s baking. Once the dough has been chilled, roll it out and shape it into your greased pan, making sure crust reaches all the way up the sides of the pan (tall crust = lots of room for filling).ħ. Grease a 9-inch springform pan or cake pan with 2 inch high sides and preheat your oven to 325 degrees. Flatten the dough into a disc, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 15-20 minutes before working with it further.Ħ. If 1 oz of water doesn’t seem to be enough, you can add a bit more, but add it a little bit at a time, and use the least amount of water possible to hold the dough together.ĥ. Add the salt and the water (very cold) a little bit at a time, mixing until the dough is all incorporated into a ball. ![]() Using your hands, work the butter into the flour until the pieces are small (about the size of a pea) and the mixture has a grainy texture.Ĥ. Being careful to handle the butter as little as possible (we need to keep it cold, and body heat will warm it up), cut the butter into small pieces, then add to the flour.ģ. Cool quiche completely, slice, and serve.Ģ. Place pan on a baking sheet and bake quiche at 325 degrees until top is golden brown, and filling is just set, but still jiggles slightly, about 90 minutes.Ħ. Pour half of the egg mixture over top, followed by another layer of greens, and the rest of the egg mixture. Spread half of the greens mixture evenly in the bottom of your pre-baked crust. Stir in the feta and half of the parmesan cheese.Ĥ. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, heavy cream, salt, and pepper. Add the greens, and lemon juice, and cook until greens are just wilted, about 3-4 minutes.ģ. 1 cup grated parmesan cheese (I used Sartori’s SarVecchio Parmesan )Ģ.Cook bacon pieces in a pan over medium heat until they begin to crisp up.mustard, kale, arugula, chard), roughly chopped 4-5 slices bacon, chopped crosswise into small pieces.1 9-inch pie crust, pre-baked in a 2 inch high cake or springform pan (recipe follows).Yes, you should most definitely make your own crust for this. Bitter Greens and Bacon Quiche with Feta and Parmesan ![]() |
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