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February 2012
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Wiki Editing
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– Is there a Windows application that simplifies editing of Wiki-formatted documents? I would settle for a very basic one - all formatting can be displayed in wiki format on screen but I would like some helpful shortcuts and logic that would simplify multilevel list editing, basic formatting, cross- ...
January 2012
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OmniThreadLibrary Documentation–an Outline
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– That’s how it’s going to look. If you feel I have left something out, now is the time to raise your voice. Introduction Introduction to Multithreading Introduction to OmniThreadLibrary Tasks vs. Threads Locking (vs.) Messaging TOmniValue High-level ...
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A Sign of Maturity
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– No IDE is mature until it has a TSmiley component. --Anonymous This week I got a sudden urge to write TSmiley component for Smart Mobile Studio IDE. After all, what is a development environment without a smiley? My TSmiley is not an enterprise-y ...
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GpDelphiUnits update
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– Although I’m regularly pushing updates into Google Code repository, updates to my web pages and, incidentally, to my blog are dragging behind. Here is the last year worth of changes: Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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Handling Touch Events
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– I mainly started playing with the Smart Mobile Studio because I wanted to write some stuff for my iPad. OK, there’s a small issue of possibly producing client applications for my job and maybe for some freeware/shareware stuff I’m thinking about, but this is not on the horizon yet. Therefore, iPad. ...
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Improved Painting
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– When I wrote about my first Smart Mobile Studio program I mentioned that it failed on iPad (and would probably fail on iPhone too but I couldn’t test that) because the Paint code took too long and the iOS simply aborted it. As far as I know there are two ways to fix this in JavaScript – you can ...
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OmniThreadLibrary in Practice [2a]–Backround Worker and List Partitioning
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– Today I’m revisiting example from November 2011. This time I’ll solve it using the new Parallel.BackgroundWorker abstraction. Part of the Zarko’s requirements (see the original post for full text) was a cancellation support. At any time the "master" thread could be signaled to ...
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Background Worker
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– When I wrote OmniThreadLibrary in Practice [2]–Background Worker and List Partitioning in November, I noticed that OmniThreadLibrary needed another high-level abstraction, a background worker. I published some ideas on how the background worker interface could look. Those ideas were later developed ...
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Handling Mouse Events in Smart Mobile Studio
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– After I finished my very first Smart program, I wanted to enhance it with some interactivity. I wanted the user to be able to navigate through the Mandelbrot set by using mouse and touch. For now, I have only implemented the mouse part, touch events will be handled later (soon, I hope). I wanted to ...
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My First Smart Program
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– Last week I wrote about my first impressions about the OP4JS/Smart Mobile Studio project. This week I’ll show you my first program. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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First Steps with Smart Mobile Studio
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– “JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web” [original author unknown] I learned about that idea from the omnipresent Hanselmann and I fully agree with it. JavaScript has its good moments, but they are completely outweighed by the total mess and confusion that is the JavaScript language ...
December 2011
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OmniThreadLibrary 3.0
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– As promised, I’m releasing OmniThreadLibrary with 64-bit support today! Get it now: ZIP, SVN, UML diagrams (provided by Rich Shealer). If you’ll be using it in production, wait until Tuesday as I won’t be fixing any bugs over the weekend and on the Monday there is a public holiday here in ...
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OmniThreadLibrary 3.0 beta
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– OmniThreadLibrary 3.0 beta is available for download. Please test and report any problems. Version 3.0 will be officially released on Friday. --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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How to Find a Missing Release
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– For quite some time, thread pool in OmniThreadLibrary had a weird problem – if you scheduled more than 80 tasks in one go, FastMM would report memory leaks when application was terminated. It bothered me, of course, but I could never find the real reason behind the problem. And so I left the code ...
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… 62, 63, 64!
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– It is my pleasure to announce the availability of OmniThreadLibrary 3.0 beta. The main focus of this release is on the 64-bit support. Every part of OmniThreadLibrary is now compatible with the Windows 64-bit platform! The current status of the code is “It works on my machine”. That is not pretty ...
