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The /etc/hosts file provides host to IP address mappings for the computer it lives on.

Your Windows computer is not going to read the data from your Linux computer's /etc/hosts file in order to know that it needs to make requests to 192.168.1.96 when it is asked to make a request to www.vk1.com.

You need to either:

• Configure that mapping in the DNS server for your LAN
• Put that information in the hosts file on the Windows computer

It's a question too broad to be answered, however, i have been in such situations in my early days where such decision-makings were what i needed to get started with, as i didn't have enough knowledge. So here it goes...

1. Should i go with GIF/AVI/MPEG etc... ?

Firstly, you need to have a good understanding of what Animations actually are. When it comes to a video, an animation is simply something that is being simulated by itself and is a part of the video. When it comes to softwares or apps, it means some objects needs to change some of it's properties based on some mathematics.

Once you're clarified on that, you'll have a better understanding of what to do. Now, using a GIF/MPEG or aka video file into an application can only create the illusion of it having an animation, not having an actual one. Say, you want a loading spinner in your application. You can either create a GIF of a spinner spinning with After Effects and embed it with an Image control somewhere in your app.

Or

You can actually draw a spinner/part of a circle and write codes to make it go round-and-round, thus creating an actual animation.

Anyways, getting back to the actual question, the answer is IT DEPENDS!. If we're talking about animations, then we need to understand our needs first. Also, we need to understand what is a video and what is an image. A Gif is just a set of images, aka an image file itself where as MPEG/AVI etc are video files. So of course, GIF is the way to go.

1. WinForms vs WPF

Well, that's the question i asked myself ages ago when i was intrigued by animations and all. See, in both cases, you can build the desired features if you know what logics to implement. However, to keep it short, the one liner you must know is, "WPF is a better choice compared to WinForms when you're making an interactive, complex GUI app".

Say you want to animate a menu sliding in and out. In WinForms, you have to use a Timer and set the position of the menu in the Tick event thus changing the property value every millisecond. That gets the job done, but when you actually implement it, you'll see issues like flickering, chopped off portions of screen etc.

All these are addressed in WPF which focuses a lot on animations. In WPF, we call them StoryBoards. There, all these property-value-changes are handled under-the-hood and you hardly need to code anything.

But that shouldn't be the only factor to decide between WinForm and WPF. You also need to consider you skillset. For example, in WinForms, you just drag-and-drop and create your design. Of course you can create complex Custom Controls with custom looks. That requires great knowledge of C# and also some great deal of design principles. In WPF, you need the knowledge of not just writing the logics in C#, but also creating designs in XAML. You also need a great understanding of some maths for easing functions and all(tho not necessary).

If you think you can put in the effort and must have a great GUI app, go with WPF with very few GIFs (only one or two in entire app) and create most animations through StoryBoards. If you just want a GUI app, maybe with good looks but not animations, go with WinForms. However, the efforts required to code animations in pure C#, in WinForms, are more than the efforts taken by doing it in pure XAML or After Effects.

Hope this answer helps you in making the right decision. Cheers!

Edit 0.1

The reason of suggesting to use one or two GIFs, at max, is because i personally believe WPF consumes more memory while playing such files via the Image control & may also have memory leaks. So be very careful about it.

Edit 0.2

Well, as i mentioned that complex GUI applications can be made with WinForms, let me explain a way of how it can be done.

Say you want a textbox with blue borders and a drop-shadow, you can't create it purely in WinForms. But it can still be done. If you know Photoshop, you can simply draw a rectangle with drop-shadow, export it, drag-and-drop a Panel in your Window, set it's Background or BackgroundImage to the rectangle you just exported, drag-and-drop a textbox inside the panel, set it's BorderStyle to flat, write some codes to remove the border/border color when the textbox is focuses.

Finally, you have an amazing textbox with drop-shadow and all. It's just one example. You can create other complex designs in WinForms with the help of these third-party tools, but yes, IT'S NOT PURE WINFORMS!. But once again, animations and WinForms are never a great combination.

unable to get a proper result. because string does not have any specific end. But every new string is starting with Author Name(s) following by year

This may be enough. I've written a regex that works on your whole sample,
however it is still subjective. Any add or subtract of name form or punctuation
will blow it out of the water.

You should reassign the data attribute of the chart object and then invoke the render() method every time you have a new dataset.

For your needs of assigning x1 to the slider's value right at the load time, you can easily figure it yourself by reading my sample code below.

@Ulrich Eckhardt Thank you for your comment. I have since looked into this further and found there isn't a get the desired functionality using inheritance.

Instead, I removed the inheritance and instead just called the setup_class method in the base_class from each of the classes setup methods. like so:

I found the solution. Quite a rookie derp now that I think about it.

In my ~/.bash_aliases I had an alias that was written like so:

The main problem with your code is that you are, on the one hand, iterating words in the for loop and, on the other hand, through the iterator myit. These two iterations are independent, so you cannot use next(myit) within your loop to get the word after i (also, if i is the last word there would be no next word). On the other hand, your problem can be complicated by the fact that there may be split words with parts that are too in the dictionary (e.g. printable is a word, but so are print and able).

Assuming a simple scenario where split word parts are never in the dictionary, I think this algorithm could work better for you: