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Bluetooth Keyboard Pairing Problem (2019-05-09)
When the battery of my HTPC’s bluetooth keyboard needed replacement, it somehow lost the
connection during that process (I think I pushed the connect button by accident at the wrong time, or something).
Not a big deal, I thought…
After preparing the Qt framework,
I needed to check if everything works; therefore I built a very simple Qt (5.2.1) application,
the GUI-equivalent of a “Hello-World” program.
Although one can get pre-built binaries of the Lua (programming language) interpreter, to me that seems to be just a semi-offical or lackluster way.
But luckily, building it yourself from source is very easy (especially with the help of this post from Dennis D. Spreen).
But luckily, building it yourself from source is very easy (especially with the help of this post from Dennis D. Spreen).
Building Qt 5 on Windows with Visual Studio (2014-04-12)
Short guides on how to build your own copy of the Qt 5 framework from source.
These were originally separate blog posts, but since they are now pretty outdated (since they are for old versions of Qt, Windows and Visual Studio),
I combined them here on a single page, for archival purposes (with many dead links…), and edited them a bit.
Building Qt 6 on Windows with Visual Studio (2021-05-09)
Time for another short guidance on how to build your own copy of the Qt framework from source.
Building Qt for static linking (2015-03-31)
One of the drawbacks of using such a comprehensive framework as Qt is the massively increased size of you program.
When my pet project RandFill was only using the plain Win32-API, it was a single executable file of a couple of hundred kilobytes.
Now, using dynamically linked Qt, the whole package (with DLLs, MSVC redistributables, etc.) is bigger than 20 megabytes as a 64-bit build!
Clear Cached Credentials from the Windows profile (2022-02-14)
I had the curious case that on my domain-joined laptop from work, two applications kept asking for usernames and credentials after a recent change of my Windows password.
Distributing a Python program to Windows users (2016-07-10)
I use Python for several tasks (mostly small routine jobs or one-off scripts;
not to devalue the language, I just haven’t used it yet for bigger projects), but since it’s an interpreted language,
you can’t easily distribute the scripts to normal users on Microsoft Windows (my main ecosystem),
because that platform doesn’t come with any version of Python installed by default.
Icons: Visual Studio Image Library (2018-04-26)
Although not new, I stumbled just now upon a fine collection of icons from Microsoft1,
the Visual Studio Image Library:
So I’ve built Qt from source
and used it successfully in the last year or so.
Some time ago I turned my attention to multilanguage support and learned about Qt’s tools: linguist.exe, lupdate.exe and lrelease.exe.
Some time ago I turned my attention to multilanguage support and learned about Qt’s tools: linguist.exe, lupdate.exe and lrelease.exe.
SIM Info (2015-05-14)
SIM Info is a new small console program for Microsoft Windows
to display SIM identification data like ICCID, IMEI and IMSI.
A while ago, my Visual Studio installation was caught in a “please-reboot-loop” after an update.
Windows 7: (Elevated) Command Prompt Anywhere (2014-04-09)
(Elevated) Command Prompt Anywhere:
Windows 7: Cannot delete/rename/move MKV files (2014-04-10)
The Problem: When you try to delete, rename or move a Matroska/*.mkv file, you get an error message
that the file is currently in use — even if you just started the computer and haven’t opened that file.
Windows 7: Customize Logon Screen Wallpaper (2014-04-10)
Customize Logon Screen Wallpaper:
Windows 7: Programm-Icons verschwunden (2014-04-09)
Programm-Icons verschwunden:
Windows: Adding a font to the console (2014-04-08)
Adding a font to the console:
Windows: Find string in cmd (2014-04-08)
Not much to write about:
Windows: Process-Explorer mit vollen Rechten starten (2014-04-09)
Process-Explorer mit vollen Rechten starten:
Windows: The fc command (2022-05-13)
I recently stumbled upon the fc.exe (“file compare”) utility on Windows, when I needed to quickly compare two text files.
Windows: The tree command (2014-05-04)
The tree command graphically displays the directory structure of a drive or path on the command line
prompt — nice gimmick; haven’t used this in ages and completely forgot about it, but came in handy recently.
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