Girish's Blog

Menu

Skip to content
  • About
  • Projects
    • Open Source
    • Commercial
  • Talks
  • Articles

Archive of posts filed under the Hack category.

~/research cleanup (part 2)

Posted by Girish Ramakrishnan on 8 November 2009, 11:15 am

Final part of my ~/research cleanup
1. slidelistviewselection – A widget in which item selection moves with animation from one item to another. I made this initially for an embedded device on which itemviews was too heavy.
2. skinnable mediaplayer – An example that shows how to create a skinnable Qt app (see my old blog post).
3. […]

Filed under ForwardBiasBlog, girish, Hack, Qt, Syndicated

~/research cleanup

Posted by Girish Ramakrishnan on 5 October 2009, 8:20 pm

A habit that I picked up from my job at Trolltech was to put all my experimental code in a directory called research. Each project gets its own sub-directory there. We used to also have a similarly named folder in p4 depot and it was totally unmanageable. I wonder what happened to all that code […]

Filed under ForwardBiasBlog, girish, Hack, KDE, Qt, Syndicated

Displaying html with animated gifs

Posted by Girish Ramakrishnan on 22 September 2009, 1:07 am

When consulting for Hyves, we wanted a light-weight widget that displays html and animated gifs (for smileys) for the chat client and for tooltips. The option to use Qt/WebKit was out since we intended to create numerous instances of this widget (it consumed lots of memory) and the rendering was not as fast we would like. […]

Filed under ForwardBiasBlog, girish, Hack, KDE, Qt, Syndicated

Non-selectable QWebView

Posted by Girish Ramakrishnan on 17 September 2009, 11:53 am

There are situations where you don’t want text to be selected and images to be dragged in your QWebView (See my previous post). Qt does not provide support out of the box, but this is fairly straightforward to do. I wrote a quick hack to demonstrate, get it here.

Filed under ForwardBiasBlog, girish, Hack, KDE, Qt, Syndicated

Recent Posts

  • Moved to Cloudron
  • Testing a specific github pull request
  • How remote debugging works in Chrome
  • Cordova plugin for UDP messages
  • JavaScript misfeature

Recent Comments

    Archives

    • March 2016
    • February 2014
    • January 2014
    • November 2013
    • December 2012
    • December 2011
    • November 2011
    • October 2011
    • August 2011
    • July 2011
    • June 2011
    • February 2011
    • January 2011
    • December 2010
    • October 2010
    • August 2010
    • June 2010
    • February 2010
    • December 2009
    • November 2009
    • October 2009
    • September 2009
    • October 2008
    • August 2008
    • July 2008
    • June 2008
    • May 2008
    • November 2007
    • September 2007
    • August 2007
    • July 2007
    • June 2007
    • May 2007
    • March 2007
    • January 2007
    • December 2006
    • November 2006

    Categories

    • Accelerated Compositing
    • ArchLinux
    • Cloudron
    • ForwardBiasBlog
    • girish
    • git
    • Hack
    • hyves
    • Itemviews
    • jobs
    • KDE
    • N900
    • News
    • Node
    • NPAPI
    • Plugins
    • Qt
    • Qtopia
    • QtWebKitBlog
    • Security
    • Styles
    • SVN
    • Syndicated
    • TrolltechBlog
    • Uncategorized
    • WebKit

    Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org
    © 2023 Girish's Blog
    Powered by WordPress | Theme F2.