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May 2013

Computers & Programming

"Deployment optimization failed…"

I converted my Windows Phone 7 project to a Windows Phone 8 project. My project has about seven different configurations. Normally, there would be a Debug configuration and a Release configuration but I added more. The additional configurations let me created apps that have different branding and features…

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Windows SmartScreen Technology

Microsoft has this "feature" that has been around for a while in Internet Explorer that is now part of Windows 8. It is called SmartScreen. Unhelpful Message After Download The idea is to tell people that they are downloading something… something that has not been downloaded a lot….

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Linkage Program

New Wix-Based Installer for Linkage

I finished the minimal work necessary to use the new installation package. I don’t have time to do more extensive work on it but I think that it is good enough to send out. The user cannot pick a destination for the install and the program is installed…

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Linkage Program

Fixed That Bug!

The bug mentioned in an earlier post today was an easy fix. During the simulation, I do error checking to make sure that a set of links that are being moved into their new locations are not already stuck in their current location. Sort of. Invalid Connections Shown…

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Linkage Program

Bug In Linkage 2

Note: The bug mentioned below has been fixed and is described in This Post. I encountered a bug in the Linkage simulation code. I have error checking for mechanisms that won’t work and I was aware of some situations that were not working right. This new problem surprised…

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Linkage Program

I Didn’t Copy SAM

About ten years ago, I was building a robot and I found a demo of a 4-bar linkage design program that would synthesize a mechanism based on an input curve. It suited my needs but I wanted to do more. I ended up wanting to write software for…

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Linkage Program

Animated GIF in Linkage?

Animate Gif Converted from Linkage AVI File The image above was not created by the Linkage program. It was converted from an AVI file that was created with Linkage. I’m thinking about how I might be able to build in the GIF animation creation feature so that I…

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