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A Stand Alone executable QT MsgBox with Stays On Top attribute

Posted 12-13-2012 at 07:59 AM by rainbowsally

Tags c++, computer mad science, makefiles, qt4

A Stand Alone executable QT MsgBox with Stays On Top attribute.

Today's Features:

A non-modal qt based dialog/message box that STAYS ON TOP of the window stack.
How to center a window on the screen.
Using the short optargs to parse the options.

The msgbox utility in the 'extras' folders of the mc2 d/load (see link below) uses xmessage for the display widget. That makes it independent of QT so it can run on any computer that has the X windowing system.

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"Old Style" Callbacks In QT4 (commandline tester)

Posted 12-12-2012 at 08:25 AM by rainbowsally

Tags c++, callback, compiling, computer mad science, qt4

What would be involved in creating a generic callback that we could control ourselves, rather than using QTs rather complicated system?

How about a windows style system with a windproc to handle messages?

QT's API is better than windows in that you can see how things are done, especially if you have the C++ sources. It's as visible as you can stand! ;-)

The Windows API is better than QT's only in one respect, and that is that the type safety is somewhat...

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A stand-alone TextDisplay widget in QT

Posted 12-10-2012 at 02:47 PM by rainbowsally

Tags c++, computer mad science, make, mc2, qt4

A stand-alone TextDisplay widget in QT

Skip this part if you know about mc2 (makefile creator, the second generation)

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Before we start, if you haven't tried mc2 yet, don't be put off by the installation location. The Computer Mad Science Team uses 4 levels of installation for various kinds of apps.

The most basic type is the HOME/bin sandbox. This allows instantly running applications because that folder is usually in the...

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Playing with the blog.

Posted 04-02-2010 at 12:09 PM by squirrel-the-tire

Tags c++

Here's a hello world C++ program to test the formatting:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout<<"Hello, World!\n";
cin.get();
}

Quote:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout<<"Hello, World!\n";
cin.get();
}

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memory allocation

Posted 03-30-2010 at 12:01 AM by amused

Tags c++, memory, memory allocate, memory allocation, struct

How do we allocate memory of struct?

what i did was

Code:

int main()
struct amp
{
    string z;
    char y;
    float x;
    int w;
};

cout <<"The size of 'struct' is"<< sizeof(struct amp)<<"and it is located at"<<struct amp*s = malloc(sizeof(struct amp))<<endl;

it gives me an error---

In funtion 'int main()':
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