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In some blog posts, and in a few emails to colleagues and customers, I have mentioned the term “architecture.” I’m not sure if most non-programmers understand the issues surrounding software architecture. But I sure do. The Linkage program is familiar to people who read my blog (all 10…
Continue readingImage of Proposed Drawing Idea I want to be able to draw links in the Linkage program that look about like this (above). But I’m not sure what type of algorithm to design to do it. My plan is to create a semicircle at each and and a…
Continue readingI have an interesting programming problem. It has to do with the overall size, or area, of a mechanism. The dimension lines are draw so that the distance between them is always the same on the screen regardless of the zoom level. This is also true for videos,…
Continue readingThe Linkage program is written in C++ using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). MFC provides C++ classes for things like strings, but also provides a document-view architecture. The idea behind the document-view architecture is that your document is the information that needs to be displayed and the view…
Continue readingCam and Follower I was able to get a functioning cam simulation running in JavaScript. It was a little tricky and isn’t quite perfect yet. Mostly, I had to remember how my code works with the HTML5 canvas and with the coordinate system that I use for the…
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