I’ve added links to my lecture notes I used for teaching interface design at Doğuş University to my wiki.
Android VM Manager release 0.2.2
A new release of Android VM Manager (Android VM Manager update
A new version of of Android VM Manager is available in the repos (Bitbucket, Github) along with a new video showing how to set it up with Android-x86.
An even newer version with more system tray goodness in imminent.
PixelPlayer
I added an entry to my wiki that documents development I’m doing on Processing-based sight-to-sound mapping.
Git tags
If you are using git-gui to manage your Git repositories, you may be perplexed that you can’t find support for tags anywhere. If that’s you, then you might also be overjoyed to learn that tagging support is actually part of gitk, git-gui‘s sister app.
To create a tag, open the repository and branch you want in gitk. An easy way to do this is to use git-gui‘s Repository > Browse xxx’s Files menu items. Then in gitk, right click on the commit you wish to tag (on the actual text, not any labels) and select the Create tag from the context menu.
Once you get that sorted, you might next be perplexed that when you push your repository to the remote origin, tags don’t go along for the ride. That’s because, “By default, the git push command doesn’t transfer tags to remote servers.”
You can remedy this with some command-line foo. I have used the shell command:
$ git push origin --tags
to push all tags in a local repository to the remote.
Thermometer update
I’ve revised my tutorial on making a thermometer to work with Processing 2 and have made other code fixes and enhancements.
Of Compasses and Randomness
I’ve added a Processing tutorial on my wiki that tries to demonstrate how different kinds of randomness and noise “feel”.
Android VM Manager
I just released a tiny Qt widgets-based app that makes it more convenient to connect an Android virtual machine to your development environment. Here’s a quick (but possibly not quick enough) demo of configuring it to work with AndroVM and the Eclipse-based ADT Bundle:
I’ve successfully used it with Android-x86 as well. I gotta say that doing development with either of these VMs is much faster and more rewarding than using the emulator that ships with the ADT.
The code is available on my Bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/mithat/androidvmgr and is licensed under the GPLv3.
Qt Quick Controls have arrived
Qt Quick Controls are officially part of the brand new Qt 5.1 release. I’ve been waiting a long time for this!
There’s also a bunch of Qt Quick Layout Managers and Dialogs in the release. This is cool.
Changing Processing’s Look and Feel
The Java Look and Feel that Processing uses by default on Linux can get a bit wonky. Depending on the GTK theme you are using, menubars can actually become unusable!
You can change the Look and Feel to something that works by editing the file:
/home/USERNAME/.processing/preferences.txt
Be sure that Processing is not running when you do this. To use the standard Swing Metal Look and Feel, change the lines that read:
editor.laf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel
editor.laf.linux=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeelto:
editor.laf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
editor.laf.linux=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
Metal may not be pretty, but it seems to be pretty robust!
Note that because Processing uses its own JRE, it will ignore LnF and other settings you may have configured for your default JRE.