Monthly Archives: January 2009

Removing Pulse Audio from Ubuntu hardy 8.04 and replacing with esound and back again

Posted on January 18, 2009 by admin

Ok… My sound system has pretty much hosed ever since I installed 8.04. It hasn’t been a big deal, but my little one has been wanting to play games on my computer and it sort of stinks not having sound. … Continue reading →

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Working through the zetcode wxwidgets tutorial:Device Contexts:Gradient

Posted on January 16, 2009 by admin

Ok… The air has been let out of my sails a bit with this LGPL but darn it, I made a commitment to myself that I was going to finish this tutorial….. So onewards…. So this example uses gradient, which … Continue reading →

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Working through the zetcode wxwidgets tutorial:Device Contexts:Pen/Regions

Posted on January 15, 2009 by admin

Everything, is fairly straight forward in the pen example. It uses wxDC::DrawRectangle where is an abstract data class for wxPaintDC. Basically a bunch of rectangles are drawn with different patterns. The patterns are defined constructor in wxPen So… on to … Continue reading →

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Qt and the game plan

Posted on January 15, 2009 by admin

Ok… So I get emailed this press release by Nokia that their changing their licensing model from GPL to LGPL..  In my little world this is a huge deal.  In my digital wanderings I stumbled on QT and started working … Continue reading →

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Searching on history on wxWidgets.

Posted on January 11, 2009 by admin

Ok… It’s Sunday morning, its quite, I should really be pounding away at the zetcode tutorial, but I catch myself surfing.. Well, at least I’m surfing on topics related to wxWidgets. I found a couple of interesting links that I … Continue reading →

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Working through the zetcode wxwidgets tutorial:Device Contexts:Point

Posted on January 10, 2009 by admin

This pc of sample code is sort of fun… It brings back lots of memories.. from my qbasic days…. (Oh boy… am I dating myself…) Anyway… Need to load it up and see what catches my eye. #include “points.h” #include … Continue reading →

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PC’s, Memories and Electronic Recycling day.

Posted on January 9, 2009 by admin

Ok… So we electronic recycling this weekend, and my wife has people coming over so there was a slightly accelerated urgency to get my computer graveyard moved into the van.   I guess in one way of me not being able … Continue reading →

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Working through the zetcode wxwidgets tutorial:Device Contexts:Simple Line

Posted on January 6, 2009 by admin

If anyone besides myself is reading this blog will notice that I’m blowing off to pieces of sample code.. Basically, I’m ignoring (for now) zetcode:widgets II: scrolled window zetcode:drag and drop. I don’t tend to use that stuff in my … Continue reading →

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Working through zetcodes’s wxwidgets tutorial:Widgets II,wxNotebook

Posted on January 4, 2009 by admin

So…. One day left before I head back to work…. I really should be painting at the moment, but this is so much more fun.. Ok.. I’m looking at this applications which uses the grid control. It’s sort of cute … Continue reading →

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Working through zetcodes’s wxwidgets tutorial:Widgets II,wxListbox

Posted on January 3, 2009 by admin

I’ve made it to the next section, Widgets II of the zetcode tutorial.   I’m running out of vacation time, and I probably s/b painting but, this stuff brings me pleasure.. Anyway….. bunch of things on my mind…. none of which … Continue reading →

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