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A QT4 InfoBox w/ StaysOnTop, Gradients, And Some Other Junk

Posted 12-14-2012 at 04:04 AM by rainbowsally
Updated 08-06-2014 at 09:37 AM by rainbowsally

Tags computer mad science, gradients, makefiles, qt4, stays on top

A QT4 InfoBox

Today's Features

An Info Box, callable the commandline or a shell program that has scrollbars and resizes depending on content.
Using some of the LQ-qt lib functions.
A gradient stylesheet. Open the ui file with Designer and take a peek at the stylesheet syntax.
A snippet to make a window stay on top.
A way to resize a form window depending on text width and height of a TextEdit widget.
Using grid layout to make a resizable window and using 'widgets' instead

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Tooling Up: Clickable Script Programs

Posted 12-13-2012 at 02:10 PM by rainbowsally
Updated 12-23-2012 at 04:15 PM by rainbowsally

Note: shell-exec and lq-launch (the lq version) are now included in the mc2 libLQ d/load. They are in the examples/goodies folders and can be copied directly into your ~/bin folder and should be usable immediately with no changes to your paths required.
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Today's Features

Clickable sequential backup utility. You'll need to create a program to copy it to the directory you want to use it in. That's pretty easy, but well.. maybe not.

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Generic QT Signal/Slot --or-- Using Dummy Custom Widget in Designer -- No Plugin Req'd

Posted 12-13-2012 at 01:52 PM by rainbowsally

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

[This is FUN!! It works. What a freaking trip. :-)]

The previous entry on using Old Style callbacks wasn't much of a hit. Ooooooohhhh... it's a hit alright.

But here it is in it's second incarnation cleaned up a bit though it needs a bit more simplification due to the number of elements that are involved and where they need to go. But this is cool.

Today's Features

Using a custom widget in Designer without making the plugin.
Using the "Old

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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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CD-ROM data recovery - ddrescue respectively gddrescue

Posted 12-12-2012 at 10:00 AM by error_401 (LINUX mostly DEBIAN - hardware and software)
Updated 12-18-2015 at 05:27 PM by error_401 (Updated information)

Tags ddrescue cdrom

I have a lot of pictures stored on CD-ROM's which over time start to loose data.
I want to recover as much data as possible and store it on my NAS. I have assembled my experience in this blog sort of a tutorial and reference.

1. Install ddrescue (gddrescue)
2. How it works - Manuals
3. Figure out your devices and prepare ddrescue
4. Use it on a damaged CD-ROM (data loss due bad sectors)
5. Recover as much data from data CD-ROM as possible
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