Category Archives: Coding

portal2 2.8.1 API documentation

Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2010 by micolous

There have been some requests that I make portal2‘s API documentation available online and not just available at LANs. So I have published a copy of the portal2 API v2.8.1. This covers the (at the time of writing) current version … Continue reading →

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TrolledFS: A filesystem with fake file contents

Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 by micolous

My friend [gm] had this idea for a filesystem. It would take a real filesystem, and then whenever a user requested to open a file, it would instead give them a contents of another file from another folder, determined by … Continue reading →

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Smooth scrolling marquees in GTK#

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by micolous

Marquees aren’t normally supported in GTK#. You have to write an implementation yourself, using the ViewPort and Label controls. You can do that with this bit of code. It’s a bit of a hack, you need to add a bunch … Continue reading →

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SDL VNC Server module (v2)

Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by micolous

Time for a version two! There’s a new version of the patch to SDL 1.2.14. You need a clean source tree with this, so remove v1 of the patch before applying this one. Changes: Mouse cursors now work correctly. You … Continue reading →

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SDL VNC Server module

Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by micolous

I keep writing things related to VNC, and coding in C. It’s seriously starting to worry me. I’ve spent the last couple of days writing a new SDL video output module, which acts as a VNC server using libvncserver. Here … Continue reading →

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