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 12
Let’s be honest. If you are a long time Ubuntu/Mint/YABU user you want a Debian package that fully installs. When it is a text editor you want to be able to select it as the default editor for various source files. You want to be able to add it to the “favorites” list so you can use it all of the time. Well, you can do pretty much all of that with the Debains I’ve … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt 12Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 10
Introducing OpenSuSE into this process was a whim. Bad whim! Bad whim! Don’t listen to that whim! The real problem with not creating The Four Holy Documents up front is that you tend to get distracted by bright shiny objects. As you learned in my last post I decided to give Diamond a Debian build script/process. I’ve done a few of these over the years and firmly believe both CopperSpice and Diamond won’t be picked … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 10Read more
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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