Category: Technical

Force New Tabs in Firefox

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…

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VTK Designer 2.6.1 Now Available

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 *…

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Very nostalgic…

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.

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Bezier Surfaces in VTK Designer 2

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….

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FOSS.IN 2008

It is getting even more developer oriented: http://foss.in/2008/10/fossin2008-the-omelette-post/

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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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