Viewer2 Build 3782 Nov 17, 2007

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Here’s the new Viewer2 version:

More information in the hover info box.
Zooming in now also moves towards the mouse cursor. Set the option NavigateWhileZooming to zero if you don’t like this.
You can enlarge the areas that open the menu and the tag and file lists with HotSpotSize. A value of 16 would make the zone extend [...]

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Compare text files in SQL Nov 11, 2007

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Tags: Software, Source code, SQL, SQLite, Text files

Here’s a quick hack that allows loading text files as tables in a sqlite database. Why? It’s pretty nice to compare files in SQL.
txtsql can be run as follows: txtsql.exe file.txt file2.txt …
Every text file is loaded as a table with two columns: row (line number) and data (the actual text). When saved with save [...]

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What exactly does GCC optimize? Nov 07, 2007

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All compilers optimize code to some extent, some better than others. However, at least to me a great amount of the nature of the optimizations is unclear, outside the explicitly stated loop unrolling and like. Let’s find out which kind of programmer laziness and/or stupidity gets eliminated.

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There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom Oct 22, 2007

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Tags: 256B, Assembly, Demoscene, Geeks, Source code

This is the first part of the epic (two-part) series of articles about tiny intros, the next one will be about an actual intro.
I love tiny graphical presentations called “intros” in the demoscene and by tiny I mean 256 bytes tiny. Usually, at this point people mention a paragraph of text is well over 256 [...]

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Viewer2 Build 3664 Oct 17, 2007

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PNG support (i.e. I rewrote the loader code so it’s easier to add more formats - contact me if you are willing to write a plug-in)
Image details when hovering over a thumbnail
Progress dialogs for various actions
Added a white border around thumbnails, seems to be in the vogue (you can disable it in the config)
When viewing [...]

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