Posts Tagged ‘WTL’

Common Controls: Versions, Compatibility, WTL

Posted: 30th October 2011 by Roman in WTL
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An application appears to be not working in Windows XP in a weird way: rebar control appeared to fail showing up. Where the application is expected to look much nicer with rebar control as a container for menu (implemented as command bar WTL control) and toolbar with buttons: A WTL sample project generated by a [...]

This adds a small update to the recently published GPS Location/Coordinate Converter utility: Seconds in Degrees, Minutes & Seconds notation are shown and are accepted as floating point numbers More shortcuts to popular online map services (note that only Google Maps and Yandex Maps are still accepted as input via clipboard): Bing Maps Yahoo Maps [...]

Utility Clearance: Rasterize Font

Posted: 24th April 2011 by Roman in Utilities
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RasterizeFont utility takes a font on the input (such as Windows .TTF – True-Type Font) and paints individual characters into bitmaps. Utility output includes separate bitmap (.BMP) files for requested characters and C++ source code of the bimap arrays (this was included into microcontroller project). A configuration .INI file defines rasterizer parameters: [General] Width=48 Height=72 [...]

LogicalProcessorInformation is a fronend GUI around GetLogicalProcessorInformation API and reveals CPU configuration of the system. If you are fine tuning stuff, you might want to know what sort of CPUs are powering the applications: how many? fully featured cores or HyperThreading technology? mutli-processor configuration and how exactly physical processors are distributed over affinity mask API [...]

You cannot remove RBBS_NOGRIPPER flag from rebar band

Posted: 31st March 2011 by Roman in Source, WTL
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It is as stupid as it sounds: you can add RBBS_NOGRIPPER flag to a rebar band to implement “lock controls” feature, but as soon as you start removing it – you miserably fail. A related thread on WTL group is dated year 2006. You can find the same dated 2003. Now it’s 2011 and it’s [...]

ProcessSnapshot is a utility to take a snapshot of process call stacks, and the snapshot taken is written into a human friendly text file. Additionally to this, the utility has been given a capability to create process minidump files, on user request. The minidump files can be used with debugger to analyze the context of [...]

Recently it was the time to sort out an issue with a video DMO, which outputs YV12 video and in the same time is capable of supporting extended video strides in order to efficiently make a direct connection to Video Mixing Renderer Filters. From past experience, I already knew that some bugs are definitely involved [...]