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Loksim3D Developer Stories – Part 2 – C++ template magic

In Loksim a rail track can have a lot of associated properties. Properties like maximum speed, signals, illumination characteristics, name, stops and so on, which can be seen in the following screenshot: So far the internal implementation of this system … Continue reading

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Loksim3D Developer Stories – Part 1

If you read the “About” section of this blog, you may know that I am one of the developers of Loksim3D. To be honest, at the moment I am kind of the project’s lead developer. Never really wanted to be … Continue reading

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Qt with Visual Studio Express – 1

As a student I have access to the standard editions of VisualStudio for free (MSDNAA). However, I am working with some people that just have the Express versions of Visual Studio. When we decided to start using Qt, we faced … Continue reading

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qtwinmigrate – VisualStudio 2013

A week ago I faced the challenge to start the migration of a legacy project that was built using MFC to Qt. The “weapon of choice” was qtwinmigrate There is an INSTALL.txt file included, that gives detailed instructed how to … Continue reading

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C++ – Image Dimension

Recently I needed to determine the image dimension of graphics files in C++. I was required to support BMP, PNG and TGA files. I thought that must be something many devs need to do now and then. However, I did … Continue reading

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Hello (Blog-) World!

Hi there, here I am, after I decided to start a small blog. I have no idea how regularly I will be blogging about stuff, if anyone will every read what I am posting and for sure I do not … Continue reading

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