Monthly Archives: July 2005

31.07.2005 - Rapicorn

31.07.2005 – 10:08

I have been asked some about rapicorn recently, so… In spring 2005, i started working on a gnome-canvas replacement for beast. A bunch of GUI/toolkit design ideas that accumulated over the last few years have influenced the design of this. For a change, i coded this up in C++ so i am not […]

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26.07.2005

26.07.2005 – 20:13

The user interface design newsletter from last years july has an interesting article on Adaptive Menu Design. The bottom line is: Do not use dynamic menus (i.e. hiding or moving menu items), since people learn by spatial location. For quick reference, and for everyone too lazy to read up on menu design, […]

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23.07.2005

23.07.2005 – 11:52

Implemented images in rapicorn. So far, the various pixstream formats produced by gdk-pixbuf-csource can be deserialized and displayed, here’s a screenshot. The next item on the list is supporting libpng natively, ideally i’d add support for simple animations along the way, but the Animated PNG specification doesn’t seem to be moving forward anymore…

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17.07.2005

17.07.2005 – 10:22

Been busy the last few days with creating a povray-rendered movie as part of a university project. Rendering can be very time consuming depending on the scene, so the resulting movie really is short, close to 2 minutes 30. Allthough we employed various measures to reduce rendering time, like creating a camera effect that […]

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06.07.2005

06.07.2005 – 11:49

Thanks to everyone who submitted hackergotchi mockups of my original image! Here is the resulting rambogotchi, you can stop contributing now ;)

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05.07.2005

06.07.2005 – 07:25

Help! I need artistic help, my problem is: i’m faceless! At least as far as the planet is concerned… Here is head shot of me which needs some editing to remove the background and add a drop shadow effect, in order to be accepted as a proper hackergotchi by jdub. If anyone is […]

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