Consider it lucky that she likes to watch from your shoulders as opposed to lying across your keyboard! The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

I was playing with XNA a long time ago and was doing a space thing where multiple transparent images of stars would be stacked to do parallax. The images were screen sized. They would wrap the screen so if the focal point (player) went a pixel left, the far right column of pixels would wrap to the left. This gets more complicated on diagonals. I had to grab a ruler and mark up a physical sheet of paper to work out the code for how to cut the rectangles and glue them back together in real time so that one image could be infinitely scrolled any direction.

I miss the days when you could test by telnetting to port 80 and issuing GET / HTTP1/1\nHost: foo.com\n\n Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

People still use outlook?? Whatever next? You’ll be telling me next that people actually have a Microsoft account. 🤦

Try the dish-of-the-day at Milliways for dinner.

I appreciate the vote of confidence. :) Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

It all kind of runs together for me but also I know what you mean. :) Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

honey the codewitch wrote: Which I will *never* *ever* use now. I've been saying this for years, and I plan to stick by it, too! No sense in reinforcing bad behavior by shopping for their products...

The issue with fixed size is non-monospaced fonts requiring varying glyph sizes, and while I could use the "largest" size for each, rendering the transparency map to the screen requires alpha-blending - non-trivial. So the smaller the glyphs the better. I found in my tests that I had a memory leak. Haven't seen many of those in recent years, but here we are. I fixed that, sorted my cache problem, and wrote a screen full of text in about 17KB of cache, truetype. Heap frag wasn't as big an issue as I thought - the leak was. What I'm currently doing is I allocate a buffer for the first glyph. I render the glyph as an alpha transparency map, and then send that to the draw callback which puts in on the display. If the next glyph is bigger, I realloc() the buffer, and go for it again. None of this happens if I find it in the cache first. The callback never gets called, nor does the glyph copy memory get allocated (if everything is already cached) This takes a small amount of memory for the (uncached) rendering on a glyph per glyph basis and seems to work well. Caching improves the results significantly (a factor of 2 at least) when it doesn't have to expire, and moderately when it does. So I'm ready to move on to the next thing for now. Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

So you should be :thumbsup: In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Mainly because Atmel tools stink. However, you can run Arduino on most of them rendering the issue largely moot, as long as you're willing to use Arduino. Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Part of my job at the tiny company I work for is to look after the licenses we sell our customers and to help them get going, or upgrade to newer versions, that sort of thing, and I can absolutely do some of the more advanced tech support for any part of the code that I've actually written (and some I haven't). Throughout the years some customers have gone out of their way to say how impressed they are with the support they're getting, our dedication to quickly finding solutions or going right ahead and implementing a bug fix that gets released within hours of a problem being reported. Those always make my day. I never use a condescending tone, or treat customers like they're idiots, and always try to walk them through solutions just as if I was sitting right next to them at their desk and having a conversation.

And thus mismatches are to be expected.

Wouldn't they have simply counted ClowdStrike installs?

Quote: Imagine lobbying a government to pass stricter laws and longer sentences so you can lock more people up in your prisons. In the 50's and 60's Larry Niven wrote a bunch of short stories on using prison inmates as a sort of living organ bank to draw on when a contributing member of society needed a transplant. He wrote that as the need for transplant organs grew, lesser and lesser crimes sentenced you to prison. One of his stories was about a man arrested that knew he would be sentenced to the organ bank. He escaped, caused murder, mayhem and destruction, then was insulted that when he was caught again they only convicted him for his original crime - his 3rd minor traffic offense.

honey the codewitch wrote: It's too hot. Really? We're having a cold snap this week - only 115° or so. Send me your brain, I'll let it work in coolness for a while and send it back. Will Rogers never met me.

Have you ever been to Georgia in the summer? I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.