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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: My dream is to be able to create apps that look like that!
Yeah man, there's a whole other side to software dev... the human side. IMO the quickest way to get you closer to that dream is ya know... hiring peeps.  Or go find a graphic artist buddy and con him/her with a cup of coffee. 
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: (That screenshot is from Mac, right?)
Maybe, it's just a random one I pulled off the Internet. Looks like it though.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I've become set in my ways over the past few years, and it's exciting to start learning a new framework, especially one that can create awesome UIs.
Nice. Totally get it. It's the same way I'm feeling about Zig. There's no reason tech can't be fun like it was when we were kids slamming down the jolt cola .
Jeremy Falcon
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: (That screenshot is from Mac, right?)
I'm not a Mac user, but a couple of things give it away:
- The red/yellow/green buttons in the top-right corner
- The rounded corners
- The skeuomorphism used, like that big knob control, and the shadow that is cast underneath it (which a coworker of mine would insist makes things look like they're dirty)
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Gary and George Harrison were neighbours in Esher in the UK ( near where I live ) and George said he was one of the best guitarists he'd ever known
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 1-Sep-24 16:18pm.
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No problem
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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For most things, the default keybindings have always been a enough... Ctrl+Shift+B for default build task, etc. I was happy, content, swapping over to the terminal for other crap. But, recently decided to make a few of my own and now I wonder what took me so long to embrace the awesome.
Here's my current one. It's just two key bindings that run tests in the current file and runs all tests. Given the fact I do this a lot, it's huge time saver. I can't go back to switching screens now.
[
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+meta+space",
"command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
"args": "Test All"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+space",
"command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
"args": "Test File"
}
]
Anyone have any good shortcuts too in their keybindings?
Jeremy Falcon
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I _might_ still have a copy of an old EDT macro file ...
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I gave up on figuring out an algorithm to shift bits of an arbitrarily long buffer so I asked Perplexity. Its' answer was not correct but it got me started. The reworked code almost works. All that remains is getting the byte order correct. I will finish it after watching a movie.
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BernardIE5317 wrote: Its' answer was not correct but it got me started
There's been numerous times where I couldn't figure out how to invoke some obscure API with little or no documentation, and some AI got me started. I never take for granted anything it comes up with will work, so I review and test everything carefully instead of blindly cutting and pasting into my code, so it does have its uses (and clearly, its limitations).
Obscure APIs, or writing boilerplate code that I've written a million times before, but can't be bothered to remember at that particular instant (or to refactor once and for all into something reusable, but that's a separate matter) 
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A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mr Fields your house is on fire - I always like to come to a warm home
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you." Dick Cavett
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Mine had seven - I had none ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Today I found a vector graphics library in C that can potentially run on little devices (at least after I'm done with it)
GitHub - sammycage/plutovg: Tiny 2D vector graphics library in C[^]
1. It supports text and it uses the same "STB" truetype engine as my library does in order to do so. What a happy coincidence! I've made some mods to my fork, but it's not a problem.
2. Someone else wrote an SVG engine that works on top of it, meaning I think it's feature complete enough for that that I can too.
3. It appears on first blush that it creates contours and edges upon document creation rather than upon render, which is a boon for performance compared to what I had been forced to do before.
4. It uses tables to do a lot of trigonometry required.
So now not only do I have my anti-aliased, alpha blended vector graphics additions to GFX, I can finally hopefully sidestep my crashing issue (The waterbed post from the other day) because my strong suspicion is the crash was coming from the SVG end of things. Since I'm replacing that entire mess with this, that will hopefully tie that in a bow as well.
Once finished GFX will be the premier embedded graphics library for doing vector graphics.
At that point I'll feel it's a worthy alternative to LVGL depending on the project needs.
Man, what a find.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I just use an 8-point font to save code space. 
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I take it it's open source ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yeah - MIT license, like my lib.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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That open source project appears to be unattributed and based off FreeType[^], make sure to add that to your tertiary licence chain after you refactor it to be unrecognizable. After you get it working on your MCU it should be easy to compare to the improvements over the LVGL offering[^]. Looks like FreeType on LVGL requires 24KB of stack.
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It uses some code from Freetype, and my license documentation will reflect that.
I'm actually pouring over all the code to convert it to C++ and do things like integrate it such that it uses my bitmap class instead of its own - that sort of thing, so I'm pretty familiar with where the codebase comes from.
And I've worked with FreeType before and am familiar with it, which is why I made TinyTTF - and contributed that to LVGL as it runs in more places.
That said, the freetype bits used in pluto isn't very heavy - just typedefs and rasterization algorithms.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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"Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle." - Jack Paar
I miss Jack Paar also.
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Why up a hill of course.
Jeremy Falcon
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"I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours." - Johnny Carson
I miss "Heeere's Johnny!"
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Quote: Where's Johnny?
Sounds like a song.Where's Johnny - YouTube[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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