Author: Prashanth Udupa

Strange bug in the Windows Vista File System

I can reproduce this. 1. Create a file C:Program FilesMyDirectorySample.txt (May need permissions) 2. Write some text into it and save it (Launch the editor in admin mode) 3. Open the file to check whether the contents were saved. 4….

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VTK Designer 2.6 is out

We just released VTK Designer 2.6 Beta. Some of the interesting new features (on top of the obvious performance improvements because of moving to Qt 4.4 and updating the canvas code etc…) are 0. VTK Designer 2.6 now uses GCF…

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Taking notes in VTK Designer

VTK Designer is used as a teaching and design-communication tool by many people. While explaining a network design to somebody, it might be useful to insert notes in the pipeline and explain something. A recent commit to the repository makes…

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VTK Designer 2, GCF, svn:externals

Upto now, checking out a copy of the VTK Designer 2 code was a pain. First one had to checkout VTK Designer 2, then checkout GCF and then compile the whole thing. All of this was because I had no…

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Crash Course on GCF

Vasudha and I are rewriting the GCF Developers Manual. We decided to take a slightly different approach to the manual this time. The previous version of the developer’s manual was more like “GCF Reference Documentation in a Nutshell”. This time…

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New repository for GCF

GCF has moved, like I had mentioned in a previous blog. GCF is also undergoing a lot of changes right now. To ensure that we can develop GCF, branch it, tag releases of it more effectively, GCF has now adopted…

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Last day at Berlin

It is 11 PM right now, I am sitting in the lounge of my hotel “MotelONE”. Tomorrow morning at 7 I am catching a flight back to Bangalore. The last two weeks have been very eventful, which is perhaps the…

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More about GCF and KParts integration

It sure is getting better. The following lines of XML and screenshots are pretty self-explanatory. <!– KParts Demo –> <!– Text Editor Part –> <kpart mimeType=”text/html” title=”HTML Viewer” scriptName=”KHTMLPart” readOnly=”true” url=”file:///home/prashanth/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.1/doc/html/index.html” name=”khtmlPart” parentWidget=”CStdMainWindowComponent.rightDockArea” before=”CStdMainWindowComponent.viewMenu” /> <!– Browser Part –> <kpart…

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Changes in GCF structure and hosting

As in mentioned in my talk on GCF at Akademy, KDAB is going to be selling commercial variants of GCF as KDCF. I am right now at KDAB’s office and we are gearing up for making that GCF/KDCF marriage happen….

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VTK Designer 2: Forms within network editor

With Qt 4.4, it is now possible to show widgets in QGraphicsView. Since the network editor of VTK Designer 2is written using QGraphicsView, I thought we could provide an option to users where by they can loadforms designed in QtDesigner…

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ActiveX + GCF

<activex title=”Media Player” scriptName=”MediaPlayer” control=”{22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95}” name=”mediaPlayer” parentWidget=”CStdMainWindowComponent.window” parentWidgetHint=”RightDockWidgetArea” /> Gives you this 🙂 Not only can you load ActiveX controls, you view/edit properties in the standard property editor component and can also script them. Moreover, if you load KParts on…

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Support for ActiveX and KParts components in GCF

In my talk on GCF at Akademy, I said in my plan-of-action list that GCF would support ActiveX and KParts components. When I said that, I had imagined that the whole thing would take a couple of months time. Being…

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I heard the GODs speaking…

I can really salute to two godly talks and speakers today… Andreas Aardal Hanssen (on GraphicsView) Zack (on Gallium 3D)

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Akademy 2008 Day 0/1/2

I arrived here on Friday. Flew to Paris with Girish and from there took the train to Bruxels with a whole bunch of KDE devs.. By 4:00 we were at Friends Cafe and got all the registration done. There are…

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Company TShirts

We got a few TShirts printed with our company logo. Looks nice… and here is a team pic (all of us are wearing the TShirts). Meanwhile, I am all set to go to Belgium for Akademy. The flight is at…

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