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Well, here's the reasoning behind my thinking. A transparent overlay works for gaming, but I don't think it'll work with other programs. You could end up with something like this: Not too good. You could just create a single panel on top or on the side (the currently design), but that...

A bit more explanation. This gui would not overlay on top of the full-screen window, The entire window would be resized to fit in the center. The reason I wanted to maintain the aspect ratio is in case you have to scale the contents of a window down (like a game, for example) and not have it...

Maybe I should clarify a few things. First of all, I have nothing against Matchbox, as I haven't tried it. My laptop is down, so I can't experiment with Linux until its fixed. (BTW Wesbrown: Its vector, not bitmap. ;) ) Some people have pointed out that it tends to waste space, I think I would...

I recently saw the new matchbox interface being demoed, an although it looks reasonably functional, it also is ugly as sin. Of course you can skin it, change icons, but at the end of the day, it won't behave much differently. Some people pointed out that since the pandora has a wide screen...

You can figure it yourself using this helpful formula: Weight of Pandora = (Gravitational Constant)*(Mass of the celestial body you are standing on)*(Mass of the Open Pandora)/(Radius of the celestial body you are standing on)^2 Hope that helps!

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I thought I was safe. And then I got my refund email today. So it looks like a few are still trickling out.

November 30, 2008

Plus, don't forget one important thing: Battery life. An average Laptop will get you about 4 hours of usage away from the cord, some less and some more (depending on price). The closest laptop equivalent to the pandora is a netbook or umpc, but unless your willing to shell out some serious...

Suspend (to ram) / sleep is probably more desireable, depending on the amount of power the Pandora sucks out of the battery during sleep. But you can't deny that being able to take this thing from off to ready-to-go in 3 seconds would be cool.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5185504436.html ... Interesting, no?

I'm going to mod in another 128MB of RAM. That way I'll have 256MB of RAM total. I know its impossible to do, but potentially destroying this fine piece of machinery is a risk I'm willing to take for 256MB of RAM. Oh wait, did I miss something?

I looked at the SVG animation stuff, but I wanted a bit more modular approach with better control. It probably will be slow, but after I render the SVG file to a surface then it becomes essentially bitmap. If I keep the surface around in memory, then it shouldn't be too bad. I think. But then...

Inkscape is the one that usually gets mentioned, but to be honest I'm not a fan. If you can get your paws on Illustrator/Freehand/Corel-draw that's what I would recommend. The above was made with Illustrator CS2 and a text editor for the transformations on my Mac. The code is grouped kind of...

Here's how I think this is going to happen. SVG files can be manipulated by applying an "transform" attribute to a group tag. Pretend.svg CODE <svg> -----<g id="test1"> ----------(...) -----</g> -----<g id="test2" transform="rotate(20)"> ----------(...) -----</g> </svg> Now, if I want to...

Maybe, but then you have to keep a lot of junk in memory, don't you? I could run into ram limitations... It seems like an on-the-fly system would be faster than doing it all at the beginning of the program. But this is an interesting idea.

Maybe a better option is to use a mix. Say, SVG's for characters and animations, and Png's for backgrounds, projectiles, effects and the like. That way the machine won't get too bogged down rendering svg's but I can retain a lot of the functionality of the vector graphics. This could be an...

I was just using the SDL_svg lib. I threw together a rudimentary program that just displays the sprite, moves it around, yada yada, and it seems pretty responsive on my laptop (2ghz core 1 duo, ubuntu 8.04). However, I don't know if the Pandora will be able to keep up after I throw a million...

Hi, I'm a hobbyist/designer/coder in my other (real) life, and I've decided to try my hand at coding some sort of game. I decided to design a side-scroller using C++ (to easily apply physics to objects), SVG (so I can port to larger resolutions, maybe do some cool zooming effects w/o sacrificing...

Good God. Due you really want to infect your machine with this garbage? Thankfully, porting it seems unlikely, but don't worry. You can always watch Southpark at southparkstudios.com if you can get online. Ugh, realmedia, thank god that beast has (more or less) died.