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Avif support for Qt – How it appears to work

Posted 01-20-2024 at 02:58 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 01-20-2024 at 02:39 PM by Michael Uplawski (Too many $ and stuff)

Tags avif, image formats, libqavif, qt-development

0.) Install libavif-dev
1.)

Code:

young_preacher@elysee:~/where_your/git_repos/are$ git clone https://github.com/novomesk/qt-avif-image-plugin.git

2.)

Code:

young_preacher@elysee:~/where_your/git_repos/are$ cd qt-avif-image-plugin/

3.)

Code:

young_preacher@elysee:~/where_your/git_repos/are/qt-avif-image-plugin$ ./build_libqavif_dynamic.sh

If you do not get a

Quote:

SUCCESS! in order to install libqavif.so type as root:
make install

, then do whatever is necessary before...

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Qt: Embedding Translations in the program-file

Posted 03-29-2023 at 02:41 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 03-30-2024 at 04:49 AM by Michael Uplawski (German version, French version)

Tags embed, localization, qmake, qt-framework

Embedding translations in Qt-programs

Introduction

Several techniques allow the internationalization of Qt -program.

I have worked out the procedure explained on this page, to embed translations in an executable file, so that they will be immediately available without having to keep

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spellcheck in qutebrowser

Posted 12-28-2021 at 02:43 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 12-28-2021 at 02:45 AM by Michael Uplawski

Tags config.py, dictionary, qutebrowser, spell-check

If you want to set a spellcheck dictionary for the running session, type

Code:

:set spellcheck.languages ['en-US'] 
:set spellcheck.languages ['en-US', 'de-DE']
:set spellcheck.languages ['en-US', 'de-DE', 'fr-FR']

for only one or several languages at once.

To persist these settings, open config.py and add something like:

Code:

# Spellcheck
config.set('spellcheck.languages', ["en-US", "fr-FR", "de-DE"])

Found...

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Ruby: reading from STDIN, if there is something to read.

Posted 09-25-2021 at 01:11 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 10-08-2021 at 11:49 PM by Michael Uplawski (Category)

The logic of ARGV and ARGF still escapes me, I am approaching perfection empirically by trial, error and surrender. Now I believe to do stuff the right way, which is highly unsatisfactory.

Today's sura goes like this:

To avoid a hanging program, when there are no data waiting at STDIN, thou shalt write

Code:

if !STDIN.tty?
  # do as you must
end

tty meaning “teletype-writer”, it stands for terminal/console/pseudo-terminal and the like....

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False statement

Posted 03-23-2021 at 12:57 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 12-06-2021 at 07:14 AM by Michael Uplawski

Tags doubt, neuroscience, pseudo-science

I just modified my comment to one of my own blog-entries but now feel that it is itself worth an entry.

If it sticks it may be sticky. Avoid.

This comment contained a false statement. I have to leave it here and mark it as false, because it is frequently repeated in a pseudo-scientific context, by right-wing political activists, by marketing-experts, by so-called “coaches”.

The story is that, around 1955, an American scientific formulated a hypothesis which was

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