Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Reapir of LG L246WH

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As I said before I also had another broken monitor.
A LG Flatron L246WH and this is a good monitor. It have a IPS panel at a resolution of 1900x1200.
So if I could get this back into working order it would be great.

Opening it up was really easy this is what I found.

As you can see The capacitors are a bit bulky. (This is a good indicator of what probably is broken with it )


A better close up on them shows what a bad capacitor looks like.
They should not be looking like they are about to explode.

So I order two new 3300uF10V capacitors, replace them, put everything back together and...

It's alive.



Another monitors back from the dead.


Saturday, September 29, 2012

Repair a LG L2000C Monitor

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As I mention in my previous post I now have 3 broken monitor that should be easy to fix.

Two of the monitors are a LG L2000C monitors. They have a resolution of 1600x1200 and are using a IPS panel with good viewing angle. That makes them very good for the edge locations in a multi monitor setup.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Pile Of Broken Monitors.

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You can not have to many monitor, and when programming you need at least two to be efficient so at my developing machine at home I got three. Because three is always better then two.

I had a LG Flatron L246WH that is 24" with the resolution of 1920x1200, And the I had two LG L2000C 20" with the resolution of 1600x1200 and last two are also IPS panels with good viewing angle that is really good for monitor that are at the edges in a multi-monitor setup.

The nice thing about the screens is that they all are 1200 pixel in height. Almost all newer cheaper monitors are only 1080 in height and the extra 120 pixel in height is really nice and I really prefer it.

Then 1.5 year ago (Around March or April in the year 2011) the bigger of them, The 24" screen started to acting up. When start it up the power light was blink for a while before it started. And the time it was blinking before actually showing a picture got longer and longer. After around a month it took 3-4 minutes for it to start. And one day the monitor would never stop blinking, It did not start.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

MZCrumbBar v1.5

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I notice that I had not published the updates for my MZCrumbBar MFC Controller. So It was time to push out a new update. (Yes, MFC is actually still alive.)


This is a C++ MFC controller for Windows desktop development. It will allow you to present a clickable crumbbar. It does not have to be path it can also any string that is separated by a separator. 
Read more about it on the project page


Changes


There are 2 minor updates since v1.3.
The first change is an addition from Added by Iain Clarke that is good if you do some custom drawing.
The second change is a fix from me, It fixes a crash that happen in a rare situation. The inplace controller destroys and delete is self when losing focus.And in rare situations can you receive WM_KILLFOCUS before OnCreate on completed.

The article there is not yet updated


Saturday, August 25, 2012

Building Multi Commander with VS2012

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Since the C++ compiler in VS2012 do support a lot more of the new C++11 standard, this is a compiler that I want to move over to. So I spent some time upgrading the Multi Commander project so that it can be built with the new C++ compiler.
( C++ news in VS2012 )

The upgrade was almost flawless. Their was only some minor issue to get my VS2010 projects to be built with VS2012. Like I had to upgrade WTL to version 8.1 (I had not upgraded this in a while so it was about time anyway) and also some other minor issue.

Multi Commander builds pretty clean, no warnings with the exception of some 3de party code. (zlib/bzip2)
With VS2012 I do however get a couple of more warnings, most of them are
 "warning C4702: unreachable code" VS2012 is a lot better at finding unreachable code.

Build Time

The build time is a little longer with VS2012, But that was expected since VS2012 support so much more and optimize code a lot better then VS2010 (Like the auto vectorizer), Not that I think it will be noticeable in Multi Commander since it is not very CPU consuming anyway.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Multi Commander v2.7

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Multi Commander 2.7 is finally out.

This version has over 180+ changes since last version (2.5.1)

Read more and then download it

Sunday, June 17, 2012

VS2012 Get XP Support for C++

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It is incredible. Something happen that I would never believe would happen.

Microsoft and the Visual Studio Team actually listen to feedback and changed their decision about Windows XP support for C++ application in VS2012.

Their have been a uproar among developers that applications built with VS2012 did not run on Windows XP. Since a lot of businesses still uses Windows XP a lot of developers still need to support it. And the biggest reasons for C++ developers to upgrade to VS2012 is to get the new C++11 features.
But without XP support that would not be possible.

But they have now changed their mind.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Multi Commander v2.5

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Multi Commander 2.5 is finally out.

This version has over 345+ changes since last version (2.1.2)

Read more and then download it

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Visual Studio 2012 RC

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The release candidate for the new Visual Studio 2012 is now out.

Unfortunately the support for building application that runs on XP is still not supported with VS2012.

A lot of users complaints about that and it been hinted that it might be added in a SP or something. But I'm not buying that. I think they are trying to force developers to not support XP. And they are not going to back down from this.

There has also been a lot of complaint about the gray and ugly look of the new Visual Studio 2012. The new release candidate has more colors, But it is still very very ugly and dull.

There are so many bad think about the new Visual Studio 2012 that the only reason to explain it is that some boss/manager is on a power trip and making stupid decision just to justify him self. There is no chance this person has actually worked as a developer in the real world. His incompetents is shown in the result of the product. I can only hope that this person gets reassigned or something in the future before it is to late. Visual Studio used to be great. There C++ complier is good. But more and more people are moving over to use 3d party tools for editor and IDE.

The only positive think I can say about the new VS2012 is that it support a lot more from the new C++11 standard.
But without the XP support I don't think I will be using this version. I guess I be stuck on VS2010 for a while.

Only when my XP user base is so low so I can drop the support for XP will I upgrade, But then VS2014 will be out. And it will probably be even worse.



Friday, May 18, 2012

LIVE - VC++ and Win8 Metro apps event

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Today Microsoft has their VC++ and Win8 Metro apps event. And it is streamed live on channel 9.
It will also be possible to watch it later on demand.

The event is as it sound about how to develop Metro Apps for Windows 8 using C++.
And it look to be very interesting.

It starts 9:AM PDT. That is 18:00 CET (Central European Time, GMT+1, + Summer Timer )

Head over to Channel 9 to watch it





Core C++ Part 1

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Stephan T. Lavavej, has now a new video series over at channel 9.
This times it is about core C++ and the first part is about how name lookup is done in C++.

Even though I been programming C++ for many, I found this video to be very interesting.

Part 1 - Stephan T. Lavavej: Core C++, 1 of n



Sunday, February 12, 2012

Multi Commander v2.0

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Multi Commander 2.0 is after some delay finally out.

In this version I have added a lot of new features and many bug fixes. Over 300+ changes.

Read more and then download it