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First, designing a user interface has almost nothing to do with writing software. There are software limitations that affect the design but other than that, the underlying code and data structures should not be considered until after the user interface is fully designed. I ran into this issue…
Continue readingThis is some Microsoft code in an example program: CMFCRibbonColorButton* pBtn1 = new CMFCRibbonColorButton(ID_RIBBON_CBTN_1, _T(“&Simple”), TRUE, 0, 0); pBtn1->SetAlwaysLargeImage(); pBtn1->SetDefaultCommand(FALSE); pPanel1->Add(pBtn1); CMFCRibbonColorButton* pBtn2 = new CMFCRibbonColorButton(ID_RIBBON_CBTN_2, _T(“Simple with Options”), TRUE, 1, 1); pBtn2->SetAlwaysLargeImage(); pBtn2->SetDefaultCommand(FALSE); pBtn2->EnableAutomaticButton(_T(“&Automatic”), RGB(0, 0, 0)); pBtn2->EnableOtherButton(_T(“&More Colors…”), _T(“More Colors”)); pPanel1->Add(pBtn2); CMFCRibbonColorButton* pBtn3 = new CMFCRibbonColorButton(ID_RIBBON_CBTN_3,…
Continue readingI removed the option to show and hide the status bar in my linkage program but now I’m thinking about removing the status bar. With all of the popup tooltip help available in the ribbon bar and considering that no one looks at the status bar, what is…
Continue readingI now have the linkage program working with the new ribbon bar. I’m not sure if it’s much better than the old-style toolbar but it’s prettier. I wanted to use an image gallery in the ribbon bar to select sample mechanisms but even with 128×128 pixel images, it’s…
Continue readingFirst, some ass-wipe spam user registered on this blog. They didn’t even comment and just stuck a user account here. I hate these people. I’ve never been robbed at gunpoint but I get phone spam, email spam, and now blog spam, many times a day. I guess that’s…
Continue readingI am still stumped on how to simulate the link/slider/slider mechanism I described in an earlier post. I think that there is just no way to do this with math since the curve I need to intersect can only be described with an equation that includes a time…
Continue readingI wanted to change the style of my blog entries and the blog page itself but didn’t have access to any of the WordPress files on the web server. My blog is hosted by 1&1 and I used their built-in blog feature. I originally accomplished my style change…
Continue readingI found a few comments on the internet about how to force landscape printing with MFC. I didn’t find a clear and simple answer in the first page of Google results so I found a page that had more information than was needed and took just the part…
Continue readingAnd another and another. I found another case that requires special code to deal with the geometry that is different from all other cases. the thing to notice in this situation is the fact that connector C controls the location of link 1 horizontally in this case but…
Continue readingI was back at work last night writing code to handle special cases in the linkage simulator. It turns out that every type of connection is a special case, almost. Here is what I have working: There is one case I can see that is missing but the…
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