OpenCV is considered by many to be the best open source computer vision library. It has versions for Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android. As Windows installation is usually easier, I’ll focus on Linux/Mac. OpenCV uses cmake (Cross Platform Make) to configure and build the library. You can download cmake for the relevant platforms here …
Being able to make and run the Qt samples is cool, but to really dig into learning a framework I prefer to have the ability to easily navigate to declarations, easily debug, auto completion, in short – an IDE. There are two options that I recommend. The first is QtCreator – the IDE that comes …
After cd’ing into ever deeper directory structures the shell prompt made my console look like a mess. A great article about prompt magic gave me all that I needed to clean this up.
The goal – to create a cross platform application infrastructure for Linux, Windows and Mac that will serve as the basis for future cross platform application. I first thought of using wxwidgets but noticed that there were problems getting it to compile on Mountain Lion OS/X. In addition, Qt seemed more equipped to handle to …
The trick is to use the find command with the -exec or -execdir parameter. I needed to remove all the files named serials_dev.db3 from multiple backup directories. The following did the job: find . -type f -name "serials_dev.db3" -exec rm -f {} ; Here are the relevant parts from the find man page: -exec command …
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This is the previous content of the nocurve.com site, where the idea was to store information that will assist in saving precious time when trying to develop something or fix something. Geany ∞ This is the home page One crazy issue I had on Windows was that for some reason at some point the Geany …
The first thing mentioned in the GIMP developer plugin tutorial is that gimptool-2.0 is required to to install a plugin, however it does not mention where this tool is available. A search provided this site which explained it is part of the gimp development library. On Ubuntu just issue: sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev