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UPDATE December 30, 2015: I made a new and improved version of the progress ring control. The code is not shown below – that is older code – but you can get a complete Visual Studio project by downloading this zip file: http://www.rectorsquid.com/CircleprogressRing.zip Here’s a picture of the…
Continue readingI remembered seeing a clock app in the Petzold book, and I needed to make a spinning “I’m working…” indicator. It’s a fairly good book, although I’ve only read a small bit of it. So I looked back in it and found the clock app. It’s a nice…
Continue readingIn my last post, I ranted about the SmartScreen filter. Since then, I discovered that SS is one word with word capitals. I also discovered that it took about one day for my app to download without the SS filter warning from Windows 8.1. Apparently, my new certificate…
Continue readingMicrosoft does some really nice work sometimes. The half-assed Smart Screen filter is not one of those nice pieces of work. It is shit. I’ve posted about this before, but there have been no changes to this filter over the last few years and it still has some…
Continue readingI lost some old emails from people who wanted to use the Linkage program on Windows XP. This post is my only way of letting anyone know that I recently built the program for XP. I have not yet tested it. I don’t have a Windows XP system…
Continue readingThe internet has a lot of data about the NVG510 modem/router. Most of it consists of complaints. I will add to that list of complaints by adding one: The router will not let me use all five of my static IP addresses for five different computers. But first,…
Continue readinghttp://kugelbahn.blog.de/2014/01/29/erlesener-liftmechanismus-kugeln-david-rector-17653059/ I am proud to have been mentioned on the kugelbahn blog. It’s one of only two or three blogs that I read. The blogger is prolific and I can count on seeing something new almost every day. Now I need to get off my butt and work…
Continue readingWhile designing the lift mechanism for the new rolling ball sculpture, I found myself using a paint program and a lot of manual work to get printed plans with a 1:1 scale factor. In other words, I wanted printouts that were the actual size of the mechanism. This…
Continue readingI redesigned the ball lift to have two lifting arms. The ball holding “claws” will intertwine to allow the ball to be picked out of the lower arm by the upper arm. This video shows one of the variations of the lift that I designed. I’m making small…
Continue readingI just fixed a minor visual bug in the Linkage program. If a drawing connector draws for a while, it reaches a limit to the length of the path it can draw. It should just lose the earliest parts of the path, but the bug caused the drawing…
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