I get a lot of shit for saying that Stack Overflow is the land of 12 year old boys, but it is the gospel truth. I don’t care how old they really are, they haven’t made it past the age of 12 mentally. Here is another shining example of why I make the statement. I stumbled across this while searching for all of the latest C++/C keywords so I could update a set of regular … The Closed QuestionRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 16
Now we must create a minimal GUI “Hello World” to use testing out the theory. It will also be needed as a bug report test case if this turns out to be a bug rather than “should have had this switch on when building CopperSpice.” In a terminal I did the following: In both CMakeLists.txt files I changed all cs_hello to cs_gui_hello and changed all Cs_Hello to Cs_GUI_Hello. I also updated the README.md. Then I … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 16Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 15
I do apologize for the burstiness of these posts and sometimes skipping around. I don’t have much free time so I write these posts when something tends to piss me off or befuddle me. Today it was an animated gif. I got that gif from Icons8. Yes, a site generating nice simple “loading” and/or “busy” animated gifs that are free to use and even has a little tool on the site that allows you to … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 15Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 14
Why EDT? The short answer is “Because I wanted it.” The slightly longer answer is “I needed something of value to do while kicking the tires on CopperSpice. Adding themes and EDT keypad support to Diamond not only fit the bill but would benefit the world at large for as long as it could still compile.” The much longer answer is the rest of this post. I started out on the PDP 11/70 running RSTS/E. … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 14Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 13
Why Themes? From time to time people ask that question. Why did I want to add themes to the Diamond text editor? There are many reasons. Some of the reasons I identified in an answer I gave on Quora. Since most of you don’t read Quora I will regurgitate a bit of it here. For eons I simply used whatever color scheme was default. I came up via terminals and you could have any color … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 13Read more