To get a feeling of the challenges with WPF I want to share the work to create a functional Property Editor in WPF. A Property Editor is a complex component, so it’s worth examining the challenges – that said – I am only exploring one path here – Both QML and WPF have multiple alternatives…
Having a good Property Editor is important for BSA. In QML I had no choise but to start making my own, but I have ended up doing the same on every platform I tried. In WPF I could get a free one or buy one, but do I want to? My objects will have sub-tables…
One of the hardest things you do in Windows development is to change the Title bar and integrate that better in your application. What you basically need to do is to switch off the Windows Title bar and create your own. I have done this in Forms and Qt/QML, but WPF stunned me with how…
This is the WPF version of BSA after a few hours of work. It’s not much to look at, but I will focus on BSA itself and not the dark theme/cool look this time. Firstly I need to learn WPF so I can generate code for it anyway – but, I also expect to find…
Most of my focus is on SW for the time being, and it is sadly less interesting to write about yet. My BSA project is ambiguous specially since I keep switching development platform. Back in the early days I did vector graphics on DOS. The challenge then was that you needed to even develop raster…
This simple drawing illustrate how I can create a gauge with several separate layers. In this case I draw a background and a needle on top of that. The final gauge is illustrated at top. This is exacly how I plan to embed a gauge editor in BSA – by using a table with x…
This board can be purchased from Sparkfun for 215.- USD and is basically a breakout board for ZED-F9P from ublox. ZED-F9P can be purchased for 148.- USD in quantum of 10 units, but I only wanted two of these boards for now for my robot project. What is important with this is the 10mm precision…
This example is a valid Plain Logic Diagram. Since the start and exit symbols are drawn on the same diagram this will count as a single diagram then it is re-used. It will be a block with 3 entry points and 3 possible events. Ignore the fact that Start3 and Exit3 is a separate diagram…
This is just an auto-generated demo (new application) using Visual Studio/MFC. I use Visual Studio Community so you can download this and try for yourself. I switched from DOS to Windows back in early 90’s using Windows SDK and C at first – I remember the day I got my hands on Visual C++ 1.0…
I have written about this issue before, but ST never fail to suprice me on their SW quality – crap that don’t work: Bugs, bugs and bugs! I updated STM32CubeIDE to version 1.6.0 yesterday and discovered that the IDE fail to load the images – I had to default to STM32-Link Utility to be able…