Five Hundred – Steam Release It’s been a few hundred hours of work, a whole lot of testing, a huge amount of reading of the Steamworks API – but Five Hundred – Steam Edition – is coming this week! Screenshots New Features As previously discussed, the Steam Edition includes a very large amount of new
I’m currently designing a minimalistic user interface in FPC (Freepascal), and I wanted it to blend in with the existing Windows desktop. So naturally, I started looking for how to obtain the user’s chosen accent color (I’m deliberately alternating American and British spelling of colour/color to help anyone that needs this to be able to
This post is kind of an open question. I’m hoping that I can get some comments, any comments, on it 🙂 Let’s set up a situation with a problem, and look at different solutions for addressing the problem. Which one do you think is best, and more importantly, why? The Setup There is a multithreaded
So, using thread Suspend and Resume functionality is deprecated in Delphi, Freepascal, and even Windows MSDN itself warns against using it for synchronization. There are good reasons for trying to kill this paradigm: suspending and resuming other threads from the one you’re currently on is a deadlock waiting to happen, and it’s typically not supported at all
A short and simple post for today. Playing a video file in Freepascal, without using Lazarus. I honestly couldn’t find any examples on the internet of how to do this, so I made one. The DirectX9SDK has examples of how to use DirectShow/ActiveMovie to play back video files in C++, however, the common version of
A small break from Icefall. My network has been a bit flakey recently, and it was irritating because it wasn’t always immediately obvious when it died. So I wrote a little application that can sit in the notification area and send a regular ping to a designated address/site, and make a sound if it suddenly