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PC’s, Memories and Electronic Recycling day.

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

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

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

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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Working through the zetcode wxWidget tutorials:WidgetsI:wxToggleButton

Ok…. Finally past this wxBitmapButton. wxToggleButton is next.. This is sort of interesting since I don’t recall this in Vb6.. Maybe it’s there, just never used it… The previous widget, wxBitmapButton had three states, selected, focused and displayed. WxToggleButton has … Continue reading

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Working throught the zetcode WxWidget tutorial:widgets I:wxStaticText

Ok..Sort Interesting static text quote.. Lets see if anything gets my attention in the code. Ok… This is a way to display one or more lines of static lines of text.. Nothing really there… On to the next one.

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Working throught the zetcode WxWidget tutorial:widgets I: wxSlider

This one looks sort of interesting. Its a vertical slider that looks like it fills up a container.. Although… It sounds as if the quite time is up….. Let’s see how far we can get through this. (Someone is watching … Continue reading

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Working throught the zetcode WxWidget tutorial:widgets I:wxStaticLine

Happy New Year. To business… Loaded up the sample of wxStaticLine. Not really getting thing anything profound out of this example. I guess wxStaticLIne is just a way to draw a pretty horizontal or vertical line Lets see. you can … Continue reading

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Working through the wxWidgets Tutorial:: Widgets I: wxBitmapButton

Ok… I need to get this train moving again…. The is the sample code that threw me for a little loop.. I notice that Bitmap button doesn’t automatically resize… My first bitmap was rectangular in shape and than the others … Continue reading

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Misc Stuff. Wxwidget bugs… Et all

I ran across what I think is a bug in wxframe… I wanted to come up with a single file deployment to see if people on ubuntuforums are also seeing this. anyway.. Anyway… I really like that Inkscape stuff.. It … Continue reading

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