Sunday, August 3, 2008

Temperary Dual Monitor Setup


My little brother's computer hard drive fried so while he has been waiting for a new one, I borrowed his monitor. I got a very nice multimonitor called UltraMon. It allows for easy switching between monitors and lots of extra features. I want to get a new 20-22 inch monitor but I am still in the process of figuring out how because my parents will never go for the idea of buying another monitor just to have dual screen.

Wow, summer is half way gone

Between work and a personal Java project, I haven't been learning c++ at a steady pace yet. I have been working extensively on a GUI that is written in Java. Although the GUI is for personal use, I am planning on documenting the development of the project and using it for my senior project in high school. I also believe the mod team I was on died before production started but I do plan on holding onto the idea for later down the road.

More info on this GUI. This GUI will be used alone with a model conversion program. The current program doesn't have have any sort of GUI. The way the program uses information from the user is taking the information from a ..txt file the user edits in a special format. Once the .txt file is changed to use the information needed for the conversion, you need to put the .txt file in the same folder as the conversion program and a batch file. The batch file is used to take the information from the .txt file and input it into the conversion program. Once the batch file finishes moving the information, the batch file launches the conversion program and the conversion takes place. You will now have all of the new models in the same folder as the program.
This process is too complex for a new user, so I am writting this GUI to hopefully make the process less complicated and easier to do. I would like to in the long run, completely port the conversion program (currently written in C) to Java and implement the GUI into the program so there is even less confusion. That is far down the road.

That is my GUI so far. When it is finished, I will show/ describe all of its features.