This is Qt Creator 4.12. I have worked with Visual Studio for many years, so every IDE get compared to VS. QtCreator does the job as an editor, but it suck as a debugger. Even STM32CubeIDE that uses the same GDB is far better that Qt Debugger. And working with QML you might want to…
This demo is made in Qt using 2D raster graphics and works very well, but performance drops as I start adding animation effects into the screen. Performance was the reason I wanted to try out C#/.NET 4.6.2 and newer which also is much easier to work with than Qt. Performance is different in the later…
I did an attempt of using the 2D raster engine in Qt and while the graphical result was stunning I had to face the fact that performance was not. I moved back to C#/.NET because performance there was better after .NET 4.6.2. With C# I can do 10 x line plots at 40ich frames per…
Working on HMI in C#/.NET is fun, but it is a large task to get dark themes right. Below is a list of components that I want to complete: clEditCtrl Simple text edit control. clHScrollBar Horizontal Scroll Bar. clObjectEditor Advanced grid alike editor to edit an “object” with a tree of items. clPopUpMenu Classic pop-up…
Many modern applications use custom theme/styles, but this is actually far more difficult to implement than you would expect on Windows. Windows have a lot of standard GUI components where you can control most, but not all colors and styles. So, if you want dark theme you either need to buy a library or start…
UML is a well accepted standard for modeling complex software solutions, but it has never reached executable accuracy. The standard lack a technique that allow executable logic, which is exactly what PLD does. This is key to having a tool with 1:1 between diagrams and code. I started modeling with Entity-Relationship Diagrams years ago, and…
Just showing a rude alpha version of the designer – I have yet to settle for a name I like. Notice the scroll bars on the diagram. Modifying Windows Scrollbar to dark theme is actually a bit of work. Windows Controls always leave out a few bits you can’t control per application, so getting a…
UML State Diagram is a standard, but I find it’s implementation into tools to be wage. So, I implement my own adaption because I intend to have a 1:1 with actual source code. This is not uncommon as most automation tools will have to make adaption in areas where executable accuracy is weak. I was…
Just showing a test diagram on the UML State Engine Designer I am making. It is stoll lots of work and details left, but progress is actually going fast the days I work on it. As for now this is just an experiment. A state engine can visualize some top level flow, but the details…
A quite like UML State Diagrams as they give a good high level view of what happens in the code on functional levels. I was first introduced to this by a tool that actually let you create embedded code. This overlap a bit with PLD, but it creates a better overview of event-flow and an…