Category Archives: Programming

Fandro 2 (Winforms)

Posted on June 9, 2023 by Arthur

Back in 2014, I mentioned briefly that I had started on the .Net version of Fandro (see: http://www.hoogervorst.ca/arthur/?p=2743): No timelines as of yet, though, but technically, the main algorithm was finished a couple of days ago. Time permitting, I expect … Continue reading →

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Fandro2

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Arthur

You heard it here first: I’ve started working on a successor to Fandro (at xsamplex), mainly because, firstly, I love diving into these kind of algorithms. Secondly, Fandro’s popularity (for an app written in the Windows XP age) surprised me. … Continue reading →

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Treeview and storage

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Arthur

I‘ve not written a while about programming, let alone anything about that mailing program, RoundAbout. Today’s subject is the Windows TreeView control and its data section, the TreeNodes. As you probably know, a TreeView shows data in an hierarchical way, … Continue reading →

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A slight return to Postgres

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Arthur

Years ago, I used to set up postgres on Debian servers. For a couple of test, I had to install Postgres somewhere: Installing on Windows is generally a breeze, but not needing the third-party tools, I decided to go back … Continue reading →

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Convendro, Soliendro

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Arthur

So, the last couple of weeks, I’ve finally decided to push for a 1.0 release of Convendro (Google Code downloads, Github code): the reason being that I thought it was getting obnoxious that it was still in ‘beta-ish’ mode. After … Continue reading →

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The devil is in the SerialPort

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Arthur

I‘m surprised how many people look here for help on the .Net 2.0 SerialPort component (reference, which leads to this posting). I have plenty of example code, but I haven’t had time to re-test the project or even try com0com … Continue reading →

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Find, you

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Arthur

Last weekend, I decided to pick up my Delphi compiler and work a bit on Fandro: in real life, I found out that I wanted to be able to launch Fandro from Explorer’s context-sensitive menu and henceforth, I worked on … Continue reading →

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A circular thing

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Arthur

I‘m extremely impressed with the Google Chrome download indicator: for some kind of reason, a circular progress meter makes a lot more sense than a linear one. Maybe it’s because of Pi. Since I was so impressed and because it … Continue reading →

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FFMPEG

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Arthur

I saw that ffmpeg 0.5 was released the other day (I don’t have any link here) and since my Msys/MingW environment was already ready to go I decided to compile my own ffmpeg executable. I expected it to be ‘an … Continue reading →

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Ice, Ice, Maybe

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Arthur

Everytime a Wix script (Windows Installer XML) fails to compile, it logs ICE errors. For some kind of reason, whenever these errors or warnings pop up, I keep humming the tune of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” (Youtube, if you’re … Continue reading →

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FFMPeg III

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Arthur

Note to self: the source version of ffmpeg comes with h264 presets. Earlier, I mentioned where to get the ffmpeg binary from (note, as far as I can see, the last build was done in 2008), so there may (indeed) … Continue reading →

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FFMpeg II

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Arthur

I have been making small progress on my own front-end for FFMPeg (earlier on xsamplex). Earlier I was rounding up the serializers (data persistence, data schmersistence): the threading code was finished months ago. I just have to connect the last … Continue reading →

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In Reverse

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Arthur

I thought this article (‘Learning the iTunesDB file format’) was an excellent background on the principles of reverse-engineering existing binary file-formats. I’ve done some ‘clean room’ reverse-engineering too and at the end of the project, I was able to extract … Continue reading →

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