Install Debian Etch as guest in Virtualbox
In order to prepare Linux executables for distribution, it’s a good idea to compile the executable in an old Linux distribution. Thus it depends only on “old” versions of libraries and the executable...
View ArticleMy User options file for SciTE
SciTE is a great text editor – in fact I tested a lot of text editors on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, but always come back to SciTE since it is comfortable but still fast and small. Everytime I install...
View ArticleInstall Gnuplot 4.4.0 on Mac OS X
In a former post I showed how Gnuplot 4.2.6 could be easily installed on Mac OS X. In the meantime Gnuplot 4.4.0 was released and although the wxWidgets terminal still doesn’t work on Mac OS X, there...
View ArticleSolution for “My Mac OS X GUI program doesn’t get focus if it’s outside an...
This problem regularly comes up at the wxWidgets mailing list: You write an application for Mac OS X which utilizes a GUI and when you start the program, you can see the user interface, but the window...
View ArticleUse curl to download a file from sourceforge (mirror)
Sometimes one wants to download a source package or similar from sourceforge with curl and not with the browser, e.g. in a script where one wants to download a package automatically. It turns out, that...
View Articlecmake module to find Gnu Scientific Library, FindGSL.cmake
There is no official FindGSL.cmake module in the cmake distribution to “automagically” find the Gnu Scientific Library on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I have written such a module which works for my...
View ArticleThe Greens library by Peter Koval and Stephan Fritzsche
In of my former research projects I wrote a Single Scatter Cluster code (called YaSC) where I made use of “The Greens library”. I found it quite useful to test my own routines against functions of this...
View ArticleRemove duplicate entries in “Open With…” Popup in Mac OS X (Mountain Lion)
After running Mac OS X for some years I encountered that the “Open With…” popup menu had multiple entries of one program listed, which was kind of annoying. I tried to find solutions for this, but...
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C++ code to strip html tags from strings using wxWidgets
I’m writing a small app (NoteSearch) to search through OneNote pages better than the standard OneNote search function. Since OneNote returns html strings and I’m only interested in the text itself I...
View ArticleAdding doxygen support to CMakeLists.txt
There might be a lot of discussions which build system is the best – I once decided to invest into understanding cmake and never looked back. It’s not perfect, but it’s really easy to set up a build...
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