Category: Technical

VTK Designer 2.7.1 is out

VTK Designer 2.7.1 is now out. The last release was on 14th of October 2008. Some changes we have since then are 1. Support for Bezier Surfaces. Custom classes from VCL: vtkBezierSurfaceSource and vtkBezierSurfaceWidget are now supported.2. Thumbnail preview of…

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Interesting to read !

Somebody forward this story to me.. I thought it was amusing.. —— Once upon a time the government with Ruling Party XYZ.. had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Ruling Party XYZ Said.. – “Someone may…

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BI-BOX … A creative product

BiBox is a product from a startup-company, founded by one of my friends from JNNCE Shimoga. It targets the education sector, which in my opinion is a very huge market. It allows kids to visually design electronic gadgets and bring…

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Haptics Workshop at IIT Mumbai – Techfest

I am at IIT-Mumbai right now attending the Techfest. This year, among several parallel tracks, they have arranged for a Haptics track. Manav, a MTech student, who is organizing the track contacted us about a month ago asking us if…

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The rumor was infact true! Qt 4.5 will also be available under LGPL.

http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/licensing/a-letter-to-our-customershttp://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt It would be a good move if KDE decided to adopt the LGPL version of Qt 4.5 instead of the GPL one. That way people would be able to develop both closed and open-source software for Qt without having…

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Qt to become free?? The rumors are very strong!

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…

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Profiling and Performance Tuning…

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:…

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Menu Strip Drawer Update…

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…

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Menu Strip Drawer in GCF and VTK Designer

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…

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C++ Internals Course

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++…

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FOSS.IN and the change in focus..

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,…

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Back to work….

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…

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KDCF (Commercial GCF) 1.0 is out

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…

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The wedding begins

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….

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Interacting with Bezier Surfaces in VTK Designer 2

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…

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