September, 2009Archive for

My First Android App: Brainfuck

My first app! ** EDIT: Just realised input doesn't work: It brings up the input dialog, but I forgot to save it anywhere! Guess I was a little too excited to get publishing ;). I'll try to find time to fix it tomorrow! Apologies! ** Download: Okay, so it's not gonna get a very good rating... it's not very attractive, and I really don't think many people are going to understand Brainfuck. That said, it was a fun little app to write... and I must admit, I really didn't give the andro...

Google Android: Games by Square Enix

At the time of writing this article, there are currently three apps on the android market by Square Enix. I've just bought, and tested, each one, just to write about them here, for you. So I hope you appreciate it. :) The three games that I'm going to discuss in this article are: Arkanoid - A clone of the original Space Invaders - If you don't remember this, you're most likely incapable of reading this entry anyway. And a third, which is very different. I'll reserve any information until t...

wxWidgets: Keyboard Shortcuts without a Menu

Quick entry. Sort of a preview. I'm working on a tutorial for dream.in.code about creating keyboard shortcuts in a wxWidgets application (particularly using C++), and figured I'd share the code here, too. (After I've finally gotten around to installing this syntax highlighting plugin for WordPress) Aaaaannddd... Done! Right. Back onto the original topic. Damn sidetracked mind. So, when I write a tutorial, I write a whole chunk of code first, and then add the tutorial content around it. ...