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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 9

Diamond text editor now has many new features, including backups. Here is a run-down. Yeah, it’s been a while. Life keeps getting in the way of actually writing something here. I’m also migrating from BlueHost.com through HostGator.com to inMotion hosting service. That gets its own blog post once complete. Despite all of that, a lot of code has changed in the repo. Just be sure you choose the diamond-themes branch. Themes work really well. Not … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 9Read more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 8

This post is actually what pushed the other two posts out the door. I wanted to write this one, but unless you understood how I got here, it would make no sense. In adding EDT numeric keypad support I’ve run headlong into a Qt design flaw I haven’t seen in years. Mainly, I haven’t seen it because I’ve been doing touchscreen development so the keyboard input stuff hasn’t matter. QKeyEvent doesn’t have a method that … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 8Read more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 7

Arrival of Overlord. What started out as “a few tweaks” has ended up becoming something of a gut and redevelop. I’m not saying there was anything wrong with the code, it just didn’t lend itself to easily doing what I want. Now that I’ve spent quite a bit of time with it I can understand how it happened. Barb can feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like Diamond was originally … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 7Read more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 6

Sorry I haven’t written in a while. Life has been busy and I’ve been hacking away at Diamond in my “spare” time. I guess I need to catch this post series up. I used GitKraken to clone the repository into ~/Projects/diamond. Then I created ~/Projects/diamond_build and ~/Projects/diamond_debug. Diamond had an additional dependency of hunspell. After that it was time to build. Change to the build directory and type the following: Yeah! We are ready to … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 6Read more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5

Sometimes trying to avoid creating a Debian package is more work than actually creating the package. Before I got deep into coding modifications of Diamond I wanted to get a GUI GDB front end. Yes, I can use Emacs GDB interface and have, but I quasi-suck at the command line. Yes, I would get better over time, but I had used Gede before and it works rather nice. Besides, I’m currently helping on the family … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5Read more