I want to make my Windows 8 app look good. That’s hard to do for any app and even harder given the structure that everyone expects to see in a Windows 8 Store app. Here are some images that I am using for reference to help me design…
Continue readingIn 1991, I wrote DiskPie. It is a program that scans a disk drive and displays directory sizes in a pie chart. DiskPie DiskPie was written for Windows 3.1. It does not use MFC or C++ or any modern technology. Download DiskPie in a zip file. As you…
Continue readingI’ve been using Windows 8 for a few weeks now as the main operating system on three computers. I also have Windows 7, XP, Linux, and OSX iMac, computers. I’ve gotten past the initial hatred of Windows 8 and I think that I can do a reasonable and…
Continue readingI converted my Windows Phone 7 project to a Windows Phone 8 project. My project has about seven different configurations. Normally, there would be a Debug configuration and a Release configuration but I added more. The additional configurations let me created apps that have different branding and features…
Continue readingMicrosoft has this "feature" that has been around for a while in Internet Explorer that is now part of Windows 8. It is called SmartScreen. Unhelpful Message After Download The idea is to tell people that they are downloading something… something that has not been downloaded a lot….
Continue readingI finished the minimal work necessary to use the new installation package. I don’t have time to do more extensive work on it but I think that it is good enough to send out. The user cannot pick a destination for the install and the program is installed…
Continue readingI will be using Visual Studio 2012 soon. I need it for Windows Phone 8 development and it is getting to be a bit annoying having multiple versions of Visual Studio installed. I already have VS 2008 for some of my day job projects and VS 2010 installed…
Continue readingThe bug mentioned in an earlier post today was an easy fix. During the simulation, I do error checking to make sure that a set of links that are being moved into their new locations are not already stuck in their current location. Sort of. Invalid Connections Shown…
Continue readingNote: The bug mentioned below has been fixed and is described in This Post. I encountered a bug in the Linkage simulation code. I have error checking for mechanisms that won’t work and I was aware of some situations that were not working right. This new problem surprised…
Continue readingAbout ten years ago, I was building a robot and I found a demo of a 4-bar linkage design program that would synthesize a mechanism based on an input curve. It suited my needs but I wanted to do more. I ended up wanting to write software for…
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