posted by sysrpl on Monday September 14, 2009 9:21 PM

Question: What do you think is the best approach to implementing advanced text wrapping when using gdi/gdi+? I had a basic idea of how to tackle the problem and here is the result.

posted by sysrpl on Wednesday February 25, 2009 6:59 PM

This is a brief write up (download at the end of the article) about a fairly nice implementation of a Vista style breadcrumb bar control. I think it's a pretty neat new control worth checking out.

posted by sysrpl on Monday December 29, 2008 2:06 PM

Here is a little utility I wrote up last spring to explore the available programming components on your computers.

posted by sysrpl on Friday December 12, 2008 11:10 AM

I was tired of boring Wizard dialogs, so I decided to spice them up with a little idea I had in my head: the step control. Click read more to see a screen shot.

posted by sysrpl on Tuesday July 8, 2008 11:14 PM

I was fooling around with some GPU shaders today and needed to input some colors values. Always looking to add common tasks to my codebase, I decided to create some color mixer controls from scratch. In the video there are three new controls: hue picker, saturation picker, and alpha picker.

posted by sysrpl on Sunday January 27, 2008 12:07 PM

Here is a small drawing desktop sprite animation demo. By desktop drawing I mean drawing right on the desktop without corrupting the contents of other windows. By sprite animation I mean moving, sizing, and rotating images.

posted by sysrpl on Monday November 5, 2007 10:43 AM

This small example demonstrates how to use Vista's new animated theme API to render an animated control.

posted by sysrpl on Tuesday August 21, 2007 1:12 PM

My friend Peter wrote asking about how I handle data access today. We had talked in the past about my objections to using business objects for data access. I replied to Peter with this message.