I was scanning Google images and came across some rolling ball sculpture (RBS) pictures that show a very interesting track design. It is the track itself that interests me because of its mechanical/industrial look. This is not my work… Flat Aluminum Track The track in these pictures…
Continue readingI found this video on YouTube while looking around for mechanism ideas. <p>I found this video on YouTube while looking around for mechanism ideas.</p>< p>I found this video on YouTube while looking around for mechanism ideas.</p><P></P></div></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>I need to learn how to make gears. There are just too many…
Continue readingI’m building a new RBS. The first thing I am working on is a new design for an atypical lift mechanism. I want to lift the ball on the end of a lever, but not use a gate mechanism to pick up the ball. This lift mechanism will…
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…
Continue readingI am using a copy of the WrapPanel code mentioned in an earlier post. The wrap panel measures UIElement items and then adds columns as needed to hold all objects at their desired size. The flaw in the existing WrapPanel code is that there is no way to…
Continue readingAfter my last post, I decided to write a WordPress plug-in that would upload text to a file and generate a script tag to use to reference that file in posts. This was just thrown together in an evening and most of the work was in learning how…
Continue readingI want to store source code for blog posts within their own files. This will allow a user to download the file instead of trying to copy/paste the formatted code from within the blog post. Although I do exclude line numbers from the code, I still replace >,…
Continue readingThe Windows Store ScrollViewer XAML has a bug. It causes a visual error on the screen when the ScrollViewer has no scroll bars. I discovered this because I have a main page in my app that uses the Visual Studio provided framework for a tiled app. The main…
Continue readingI have a Windows Store app written in C# that has some popups. These are Popup objects that work like modal dialog boxes. Mine are displayed as a band across the middle of the screen. The standard built-in on-screen keyboard (OSK) handling does not alter the position of…
Continue readingIn a C# Windows Store app that I am writing, I let the user tap a button and then I start a background task to do a bunch of work. While this working is being done, the user can see the results on-screen as they become available. But…
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