Update:
Concerning my post about a secure X-Window System, someone else actually thought of this and even implemented it.
X Access Control Extension
-Richard
Hi,
I was wondering about a secure X-Window System, that protects applications from harming each other just like memory protection does for processes. Are you aware of the fact that for example your word-processor could easily make screenshots of your web-browser, and send mouse events over to control that app.
The whole desktop is a trusted space, […]
Bah, C++ is most definitly the weirdest programming language ever invented. I think I’ll refer to it as “Object Oriented Assembly” in the future? Why? Because every little itzi-bitzi detail has to be declared rigorously. First of all, methods are non-virtual by default, this is common knowledge, however it’s totally annoying. Why would someone ever […]
Hi,
The Open Movie Editor uses quite bit of casting, namely because there is a lot of interaction between the basic framework, that handels simple “Track” and “Clip” objects, and more specific upper layers that handle objects like “AudioTrack” or “VideoClip”. Up to now I always used the old C-style cast operator, like:
AudioTrack* at = (AudioTrack*)t;
This […]
Hi,
As some of you might know, I have two applications, written in different GUI-Tookits. One is the Gungirl Sequencer that uses wxWidgets and the Open Movie Editor that’s based around FLTK.
These two applications are of approximatly equal complexity. Let’s take a little peek at how long it takes to compile each of them.
OpenME (FLTK): user […]
Hi,
Whenever we do a calculation, that takes a little time, for example rendering a video project, we have to show a little dialog that displays a progressbar, or something similar.
But how to implement such a thing in a sensible way? The approach that I’ve choosen is the following:
First of all you define a simple abstract […]
… for providing me with a broken linked list implementation.
This is enough, after struggeling for hours trying to sort a linked list of pointers I gave up and decided to switch to a linked list library that’s designed for real work and not for obsfuscated code contests.
I proudly announce that OpenME will use the sl […]
Reading an article linked on Slashdot today made me think about the idea of rebuilding a piece of software from scratch. I am well aware that this is considered a bad thing by some authorities that I respect. However, during this summer I came to recognize another approach.
I wrote about 5 basic PHP based CMS […]
Browsing the Jahshaka Forums I found MLT today, it’s incredible, it seems to do everything I ever wanted to do in OpenME, I’ll definitely look into this. I skimmed the docs, and the APIs seem to be as simple as necessary but not any simpler
Really a remarkable Project.
-Richard
Reading the user comments on the following story, I think I have to add a little bit.
Anti-MS Group Aims to Block Vista
Most people are totally confident that there is no fault at microsoft, and that it’s natural for software to fail. Well, first of all I want to present a little quote by DJB:
“I often […]