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Get the Beta Linkage here! If you need this Beta program for Windows XP, send me an email and I’ll send it to you… There’s a new beta test version of the Linkage program. This new version has some bug fixes for things like the crash that sometimes…
Continue readingI’m not sure what to call them. On an actuator, there is a small circle that can be used to change the throw length. That little circle is an adjuster knob or adjustment controller or something like that. I’m working towards in-mechanism editing of cams and changing the…
Continue readingA new version is available in the usual place. I was finally able to spend the hour needed to fix the crash that happened when deleting links that were fastened to gears (or vice-versa). Version 3.3.13 has this fix. A few other changes and fixes: You can now…
Continue readingThe whole “fastening” thing is a bit troublesome for me. I originally wanted to be able to move drawing elements with links and decided to allow “fastening.” This worked pretty well, though there is a bug where deleting a fastened element somehow causes a crash. But fastening isn’t…
Continue readingI found a bug in my PHP code that caused strings to match when parsing the AutoResponder config file for responses to submitted text messages. I was using old DOS style wildcards * and ? to make it easy to write the config file. But my comparison functions…
Continue readingI was going to write some posts about the latest version of the AutoResponder but I got side tracked on making a word search puzzle generator. Word Search Generator I was trying to make a puzzle by hand and it was clear that it’s hard to do. I…
Continue readingI have been rewriting the AutoResponder code to be 100% PHP and not handle email submissions. This change lets me use a typical web page provider to handle the processing. I started this change a few years ago but didn’t get very far at that time. I decided…
Continue readingI have a new Beta test version of the Linkage program. This version has an okay link triangle handling feature as well as a few connector alignment tweaks. it also has a way of selecting links and connectors by name or identifier. It’s still all being tested by…
Continue readingI have a first draft working for the link triangle simulation. Like I said recently, I am opting to support the most common type of link triangle configuration and ignoring all others. Here are videos of the two variations of supported link triangles: What I did on this…
Continue readingI decided that I’m going to make an alternate link-to-link simulation function that accepts a link triangle as one of the links. It won’t work for both to start with because, well, no one makes mechanisms like that. The fact is, there’s only really one type of link…
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