I have used Marmalade/Airplay for almost two years now in my indie game company. For me it’s a win because I’m just one programmer, and I can do virtually all my work in Windows using MS Dev Studio (which is my favorite dev environment by far) and because it shields me from having to deal … Read more
The next time you want to check out pre-defined macros supported by GCC on a platform, run the preprocessor with the flag -dM. It’ll list out all the predefined macros available on the system. For example: $ touch dummy.hxx $ cpp -dM ./dummy.hxx #define __DBL_MIN_EXP__ (-1021) #define __FLT_MIN__ 1.17549435e-38F #define __CHAR_BIT__ 8 #define __WCHAR_MAX__ 2147483647 … Read more
Windows service by itself is a console application which conforms to the interface rules and protocols of the Windows Service Control Manager. You can achieve the same on both platforms using .net core console application as a host.It will require to do some extra configuration to make it behave more like a real service / … Read more
Problems -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} This is enough for single-configuration projects. But for Xcode and Visual Studio, you need to set CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES plus call build . –config at the build stage. See my answer. COMMAND cd <BINARY_DIR> && make install This will work only for Makefile generators of course. To be cross-platform you can use: –build . –target … Read more
EasyGUI is a single file, and provides a simple way to work with Tkinter dialogs, but they’re still ugly non-native Tkinter dialogs. from easygui import msgbox msgbox(‘Stuff’) It can easily be installed using: $ sudo pip3 install –upgrade easygui There is a GitHub repository and documentation is very neat. Previously, there was also a fork … Read more
The only ‘standard’ thing about NDEBUG is that it’s used to control whether the assert macro will expand into something that performs a check or not. MSVC helpfully defines this macro in release build configurations by defining it in the project for you. You can change that manually by editing the project configuration. Other toolchains … Read more
YAML, for the simple reason that it makes for very readable configuration files compared to XML. XML: <user id=”babooey” on=”cpu1″> <firstname>Bob</firstname> <lastname>Abooey</lastname> <department>adv</department> <cell>555-1212</cell> <address password=”xxxx”>ahunter@example1.com</address> <address password=”xxxx”>babooey@example2.com</address> </user> YAML: babooey: computer : cpu1 firstname: Bob lastname: Abooey cell: 555-1212 addresses: – address: babooey@example1.com password: xxxx – address: babooey@example2.com password: xxxx The examples were taken … Read more
For Java 1.7+, use java.nio.file.Files.move(Path source, Path target, CopyOption… options) with CopyOptions “REPLACE_EXISTING” and “ATOMIC_MOVE”. See API documentation for more information. For example: Files.move(src, dst, StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE);
There isn’t a ‘Xamarin.Forms’ way of doing it that I know of. You need to hook into Android and iOS, what you could do is create one method that handles them both in the same way. A nice post about this is by Peter Norman. He describes that to implement it in Android you can … Read more
By the C standard, the compiler is free to store the bit field pretty much in any random way it wants. You can never make any assumptions of where the bits are allocated. Here are just a few bit-field related things that are not specified by the C standard: Unspecified behavior The alignment of the … Read more