I was just reading a thread on Board Game Geek and noticed someone use the term “Eurobore.” There are two large classifications for games based loosely on things like theme, strategy, luck, and other gaming factors. The Ameritrash games have players relying on luck and have strong themes….
Continue readingI was debugging a new feature in the Linkage program and the program seemed to hang. I couldn’t select anything. I thought it was a symptom of debugging but now a user has reported the same problem, I think. I’m trying to figure out what I did recently…
Continue readingI’m working on a adding a text message under the dimensions entry box int he tool bar. When you click on a connector and the text box shows x and y coordinates, the text under the box will show “x, y coordinates” or something like that. If you…
Continue readingI updated the site so you can now get Linkage 3.7.10 from the Linkage download page. This version has that bug fix that I reported a while ago.
Continue readingSomeone asked me to add this to the program itself, and I’ll do that sometime. For now, here’s a playlist of Linkage tutorial on YouTube that I created: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGxa5y5etMwAY238yKu1orXTnzD9h5nL_ There are two or three simple tutorials that someone else made. You can find them doing a search. Since…
Continue readingI think I finally found a bug in the Linkage software that has been, well, bugging me, for months or even years. When deleting a link that has multiple fastened elements, sometimes the Linkage program would crash. The bug only happened intermittently because the order of links and…
Continue readingThe Linkage simulator works great when there are a lot of links that all chain together into some interesting complex movement. But one place I didn’t do much work on is related to links that just sort of hang on and move with others. Look at the picture…
Continue readingI’m currently adding features to an existing Android app. It is written in Java, a language that I can write in but not at all as competently as C++. The programmer is very skilled in many areas but I think that he lacks a little discipline in removing…
Continue readingIt’s really just a trammel thing that somehow got named after Archimedes. At least that’s one story I read. Archimedes Trammel in Action I had to add grid and element snapping for sliding connectors in the latest (not yet available) Linkage program. That was a tough feature to…
Continue readingThe MFC tooltip handling code has a bug. You can set the width of a tooltip but there is a hard-coded max width for the description text. It’s set to 200 pixels and a little trickery is needed to fix it. The trick is to add code to…
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