Lockspot trivia picture round, on President’s Day so also a president. PDF Answers
Date Archives February 2012
Raster-to-Vector plus not bitching about significant whitespace
So this weekend I learned Python and implemented a basic raster to vector converter in it. It converts whatever file formats the Python PIL module supports to SVG. Here’s the little guys from Joust embedded…
Picture Round – 2/13/12
Our Lockspot picture round before Valentine’s Day … so famous couples. PDF Answers
Playing simultaneous sounds in Win32
There is a nice unscary Win32 API call for playing sounds that is unpretentiously called “PlaySound”. It is extremely easy to use. Unfortunately, PlaySound(…) has one problem that makes it unsuitable for even casual game…
Picture Round – 2/7/2012
Here’s the picture round from our pub trivia at Lockspot last night. PDF Answers
Blitting with per-pixel alpha in Win32
I don’t know how long the Win32 API has included an AlphaBlend() function. I mean, it came in whenever Msimg32.lib did but I’m not sure when that was, probably Windows XP era, I guess. It’s…