In the spirit of blogging…
October 5, 2010
I’m heading to Yosemite for three or four days of rock climbing, weather permitting. It is in the spirit of keeping my blog up-to-date that I write this entry.
Continue readingRibbon Bar Working in Linkage 2.0
October 4, 2010
I 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 readingTesting Linkages and a Random User Registered Here
September 27, 2010
First, 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 readingSolid Links and Thick Lines
September 24, 2010
I 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 readingAdding <style> Tag to Blog Content
September 23, 2010
I 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 readingForce Landscape Printing with MFC
September 22, 2010
I 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 readingAnother Special Case!
September 22, 2010
And 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 readingMore Special Cases
September 21, 2010
I 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…
Continue readingPolicy-based Design in C++
September 20, 2010
I have a programming problem at work and a possible solution. The only thing wrong with the solution is that it is too big. “Too big” will make sense once I’ve described the problem and the solution. The solution comes from the book Modern C++ Design by Andrei…
Continue readingHow the Simulator Works
September 16, 2010
I thought I might write down some points about how the simulator works for future reference and to help me think about it and make improvements. The linkage program is a bit experimental so I try to get something working and then worry about making it better later….
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