tinyfiledialogs offers many modal dialogs and popup notifications (both for graphic and console modes). It is a cross-platform single C/C++ file (+ header) to add to your C or C++ project. It aims to be extremely easy to use, has no init, no main loop, and no external dependencies. It is used by hundreds of … Read more
I’m not sure how comprehensive this list is, but maybe this will help – http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/
Regarding Installer Program (for windows). I think what you are looking for is InstallForge. This is a tool that you can use to build your own installation wizard. This website pythonguis is a tutorial for PyInstaller and InstallForge. You can skip the PyInstaller part and go towards the middle to view the InstallForge tutorial if … Read more
It is much easier to compile it on the target OS than cross compiling it. What you need is a toolchain for every OS and a “make” tool. CMake has powerful crosscompiling abilities. This is not a necessity, but it will save some money: Get virtualization software (e.g. VMWare Player is free) and run on … Read more
This is what I’ve been using. It’s a mashup of the methods I posted above. I’d still like to see better solutions, though. # A function that tries to list serial ports on most common platforms def list_serial_ports(): system_name = platform.system() if system_name == “Windows”: # Scan for available ports. available = [] for i … Read more
In terms of Node.js, I can’t see it becoming a mainstream way of using javascript as a general purpose scripting language. The main reason for that would be the async nature of 99% of the libraries and functions available in Node.js. Because of the async nature, you have to completely change your thinking. Not having … Read more
You have two problems. Let’s tackle them one at a time 1: the difference between python 2.5 and 2.6 on the same platform with the same font These two versions of python use different versions of tk. On my mac box, 2.5 uses tk version 8.4.19 and 2.6 uses 8.5.7. In version 8.5.2 of tk … Read more
OpenCV has quite good performance. It should be sufficient for most cases. To improve performance, you can also use OpenCV together with Intel IPP, which is however a non-free commercial product. If OpenCV detects that IPP is installed it will use it where possible. As a third option you can use IPP directly. IPP was … Read more
Whether to use OpenGL ES 1.1 or 2.0 depends on what you want to do in your application, and how many devices you need it to be compatible with. All iOS devices support OpenGL ES 1.1, where only the iPhone 3G S and newer devices (iPhone 3G S, iPhone 4, iPad, and 3rd and 4th … Read more
To generate a mostly unique machine id, you can get a few serial numbers from various pieces of hardware on the system. Most processors will have a CPU serial number, the hard disks each have a number, and each network card will have a unique MAC address. You can get these and build a fingerprint … Read more