Category: Technical

Trying out something different with menus..

I have the following so far hmmmm.. I think it looks ok..

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Withdrawing Menu Strip

After several months of educating people that Menu Strip is not RIBBON, I have realized that most people do make that association unconsciously. To avoid any confusion, we have decided to pull the plug on the menu-strip. From the next…

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More on GCF Software Updater

In this blog I want to explain how the Software Updater module works in GCF. Towards this I have written a example program – “A simple browser”. The simple browser program provides a main-window with a address-bar (QLineEdit), where you…

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Software Updater Module in GCF

GCF is a application development framework for building large applications. Most real world apps out there automatically update themseleves whenever a new version is released by their vendor. We did not want apps developed using GCF to lag behind in…

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Sony 5.1 DVD Player + 5.1 Channel Speakers + Optoma Projector + Pulldown Screen = Proper Home Theatr

I was always a movie addict. I always wanted to have a proper home theatre, as in a PVR like theatre at home! About 4 months ago we bought a Sony DVD Player + 5.1 Channel Speakers. To be more…

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1000 downloads of VTK Designer in 51 days!

It has been 51 days since VTK Designer 2.7 was out (on 23rd Feb). We have had close to 1000 downloads (binary, source and pdf put together) since then! In the same period the new version of GCF got 360…

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Menger Sponge Fractal in VTK Designer

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Fractal Terrains in VTK Designer

http://www.gameprogrammer.com/fractal.html

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Fractals in VTK Designer

I am teaching a course on OpenGL programming to Computer Science Engineering students in VTU, through its EDUSAT program. In my next class I am supposed to teach rendering of fractal images/models in OpenGL. While preparing for the class, I…

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Barack Obama on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’

I particularly like one response from Obama…. MR. OBAMA: Well, and part of what happened over the last 15, 20 years is that so much money was made in finance that about 40 percent, I think, of our overall growth,…

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VTK Designer 2 – Downloads last week

The last versionof VTK Designer was out on 23rd of Feb. It is a little more than a week since the last release was out and we have had 141 (124 from SourceForge, and 17 from our own website when…

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Filmfare to Hrithik, Jodha Akbar

I am personally very happy about this year’s Filmfare winners. It is refreshing to see the awards not going to the default ones. My wife and I decided to not follow the proceedings as soon as we saw that SRK…

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Coming: Mobile Number Portability

Read more about this here: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Coming_Mobile_Number_Portability/551-84416-613.html The moment this is implemented, I am most surely going to change from AirTel to BSNL. The only reason I am not moving away from AirTel right now is because it is a pain…

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GCF 2.1.0 Tagged

Today, we tagged the release of 2.1.0. The main new feature of GCF 2.1.0 is menu-strip drawers. You can read more about it by clicking on the following links and by downloading the new release itself ! http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/35705.html http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/35933.html Download…

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