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by hgilbert
Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:49 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: DataMaker
Replies: 15
Views: 26802

programming is very hard
and timelines are impossible to predict
i sort of sympathize :)
by hgilbert
Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:17 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Megafont XXL -- how to install selected fonts?
Replies: 9
Views: 17157

i was thinking of something more interactive anyway i will do it as an exercise for learning python or lua. tcl/tk should be easy too. but with all those you need the libraries installed not all linuxes have python or lua or tcl/tk as standard. so best is leave it up to you where you can make a slic...
by hgilbert
Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:39 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Megafont XXL -- how to install selected fonts?
Replies: 9
Views: 17157

Visual Script for Linux?

maybe there should be a visual script for linux i know that installing all 10000 or so is not a very clever thing to do even in Linux. while in Windows it would slow the operating system to its knew - with possible dire consequences Linux is not free from trouble either. Performace is the same (ther...
by hgilbert
Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:06 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Why not create a WYSIWYG Web Editor
Replies: 4
Views: 8243

everything its an over-hyped offshoot of Mozilla Composer. But hardly any difference. Well .. apart from being much slower under Windows. Firefox which is also another offshoot of Mozilla evolved very fast and rapidly. NVU is being sponsored by Linspire but for months on end you see hardly any real ...
by hgilbert
Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:15 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: making SoftMaker products open source
Replies: 6
Views: 11265

There is one software I really think should be made open-source That is Revolution . It is educational and teaches the principle of object oriented programming. But by being closed source (and somewhat expensive for the curious person to buy more for playing than serious programming .. millions of p...
by hgilbert
Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:02 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Why not create a WYSIWYG Web Editor
Replies: 4
Views: 8243

Netfusion Objects shamefully removed support for Mac and Linux. The number 1 software request for Linux is a WYSIWYG Web Editor. Competition is zero (I wouldn't call the bad Moz-Composer clone NVU or the pitiful OO web writer serious competition). Next time people shout "We want a Macromedia Dr...
by hgilbert
Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:37 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Softmaker entire portofolio for 2005
Replies: 3
Views: 7608

No sorry

They've launched HeartBreaker instead :-({|=
by hgilbert
Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:50 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Softmaker entire portofolio for 2005
Replies: 3
Views: 7608

Softmaker entire portofolio for 2005

Sorry but I don't think its fair me keeping the secret from the public. But SoftMaker has been secretely writing a lot of competing products all to be launched at once around Spring 2005. It will run on most platform and the widgets will still look pretty and shiny. Now you've heard about the develo...
by hgilbert
Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:08 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: DataMaker
Replies: 15
Views: 26802

I will definitely buy it for Linux
Make it better than Access.
by hgilbert
Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:37 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Why not create a WYSIWYG Web Editor
Replies: 4
Views: 8243

Why not create a WYSIWYG Web Editor

Now that is something badly missing in Linux.
And I guess not as hard to code as a SVG Graphics program.

You could call it WebMaker :)
by hgilbert
Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:47 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Beyond planmaker?
Replies: 19
Views: 33496

I want your toolkit to play with :( But yeah I know what you mean, reading programming X from scratch most pages had code like: static unsigned char arrow_bits[] = { 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x...
by hgilbert
Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:22 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Beyond planmaker?
Replies: 19
Views: 33496

I guess I am a masochist when it comes to programming I've tried reading J.Robert Brown's X Window Programming from Scratch but because I've been busy with other things never got round trying the concepts out. I'll try today. Also today I was playing with QNX Momentics Development Suite For a second...
by hgilbert
Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:34 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Beyond planmaker?
Replies: 19
Views: 33496

what do you use to code your applications?

Is it just pure XLib? or do you use some third-party widgets? I've been wanting to learn to program for Linux for quite some time. But its such a hard area to penetrate into. Of course coming from the Window world I've been spoiled with easy IDE and drag-and-drop activeX controls. before i plunge in...
by hgilbert
Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:58 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Beyond planmaker?
Replies: 19
Views: 33496

Corel Draw substitute

I know this is extremely challenging. But there is no real / good SVG editor for Linux. And Corel Draw keeps coming with more unstable versions supporting less and less platforms (they pulled out of Windows 98 / ME / NT and Mac OS) Because softmaker's application are all pretty cute shiny lightweigh...
by hgilbert
Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:47 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: making SoftMaker products open source
Replies: 6
Views: 11265

this is a strange way of thinking: but i believe that if we have a reasonable number of closed-source proprietory businesses and application - that could send the positivie message at least for Linux that open-source is not an absolute must. Definitely a lot of software-houses coming to Linux are me...

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