Author: Prashanth Udupa
I have been hearing about this for the past couple of weeks. It seems Qt will become free even for commercial developers. We actually held back our License Renewal POs after sensing that the rumors were very strong. Apparently Qt…
Problem: How to profile functions in my Qt app without using gprof or spending big bucks and buying profiling tools for VS2005? Solution: Have the following contents in a header file, Profiler.h for example. #include <QTime> class FunctionProfiler { public:…
Looking more closely at the look and feel, I thought we should ensure that a) the width of the menu-strip group should be same as that of the drawer when open.b) there should be some visual cue for a user…
A couple of weeks back I got this strange idea for MenuStrip-GCF based UI. I tried it out and tested the results on VTK Designer; to be honest I like it. MenuStrip-GCF based apps try to keep the number of…
I am right now in the last half of the last day of a course on C++ Internals conducted by Collosal Learning’s Mubarak. The workshop is really interesting; a must attend for anyone interested in becoming a really good C++…
FOSS.IN 2008 was about changed focus “show me the code”. I was at the opening ceremony today, I got to say that Atul was very clear about what to get from this edition of the event. But to be honest,…
The last three weeks were very interesting. The whole wedding, reception, honeymoon and then getting back home and setting it up for post-marital life was both fun and exhausting. Overall I am happy with all the changes, it is a…
Over the past few months we have been working with KDAB, the world’s leading Qt company. During FOSS.IN 2007, I got a chance to meet Till Adam of KDAB. We discussed at length about GCF and how to go about…
Starting from today the wedding events begin. 🙂 The events start from today all the way until Sunday, the 9th of Nov. The actual wedding happens on the 6th of November, but until then we have a bunch of poojas….
My colleague Brian wrote a vtkBezierSurfaceWidget that can work with vtkBezierSurfaceSource to help users in interactively manipulating the control points of a bezier surface; and hence manipulating the surface. If you checkout from the SVN, you can find both these…
Ever had this problem in Firefox, where you are on a page doing something important, and you accidentally click on a bookmark (in the bookmark tab) causing your current page contents to be lost? I just found an interesting plugin…
A new version of VTK Designer is now available. Changes include * Ability to add/edit notes in the pipeline * Moving to GCF Version 2 * A vtkBezierSurfaceSource algorithm * Lots of new examples * Lots of new wrappers *…
http://www.google.com/search2001.html Search for Qt, KDE etc and look at the cached versions of the search results. Brings back the gool ol’ days to memory.
I gave a talk on VTK Designer to a group of engineers working at Honeywell in Bangalore. During the presentation they asked me a lot of questions about how one can visualize Bezier surfaces in VTK and/or VTK Designer 2….
It is getting even more developer oriented: http://foss.in/2008/10/fossin2008-the-omelette-post/