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Update: I've got TVG partially working. It's rendering some documents but not others. I think it's funny that my much more complicated SVG code works better than the one that renders the simple TVG format.
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TVG is a compact, simplified vector graphics file format.
After speaking with the author of TinyVG[^] it's not as vaporwarey as I thought.
You can turn SVGs into TVGs by first running the SVG through a 3rd party tool called SVGO.
I've got an initial render (imperfect) in TVG now, so my code is working somewhat.
Currently the reference implementation provided by the author is in Zig, which is unfortunate, since it's a reference implementation and Zig is still a boutique language.
I intend to provide the author a couple of things.
1. A reference implementation, probably in C
2. A better SVG->TVG conversion tool that doesn't require running things though SVGO first.
But first I need to perfect my TVG support and wrap up my htcw_gfx 2.0 release.
I'm feeling pretty good about this.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified 4hrs ago.
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honey the codewitch wrote: But first I need to
"... crush your my enemies, see them driven before you me, and hear the lamentations of their women"
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That'll be old Genghis
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 1,205 4/6*
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Loads of possibles for that last one ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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thought I was going to lose
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Likewise!
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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For the past few years, I didn't have a version of Visual Studio on my main PC (desktop).
When I have had a bit of personal C# to write -- as for a challenge or similar here -- I used an old Win 8 thingy. Which has Visual Studio 2010 Express installed.
And it was good.
Now I have a proper laptop (Win 11) and I installed Visual Studio 2022 Pro.
Today I was copying projects over to the new system and I tested a few to determine whether or not they still compile. They do, but they had to be upgraded from .net 4 to 4.8 -- which is OK. BUT I had forgotten that some of these have an old Installer project which is no longer supported. 
Installers just aren't important enough to me to get me all excited about learning a new tool for creating them. I guess I just won't provide installers anymore.
Or maybe -- just because I probably can -- compile with one version and create installers with the other...
I suppose I can put Visual Studio 2010 Express on here for that.
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I've used NSIS for installers for years now. I don't particularly like it but it does its job and I've used the same template script for so long that I don't feel like changing it.
In the end is just like you said:
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Installers just aren't important enough to me to get me all excited about learning a new tool for creating them.
Oh BTW: lately I've got into shipping one EXE applications just like in the days of good old DOS. They are fancy C++ thingies with an embedded HTTP server and all the UI done through a browser. All nicely packed in a single EXE that contains HTML, CSS, SQL, etc. It would probably make for a nice (and long) article but I don't see many people following on this path, so why bother!
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: shipping one EXE applications
Yeah, that was supposed to be one of the major selling points of .net -- "install by copy" or whatever.
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DOS, .NET, whatever... plus รงa change[^] 
PS Believe it or not, I've survived 20+ years without touching .NET and I don't plan to start now 
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Oh BTW: lately I've got into shipping one EXE applications just like in the days of good old DOS.
That's one thing that Apple does right. When you "install" an app on a Mac, you're litteally just copying a single file over that's really an archive of executables, libraries, and settings. No registry edits. No worrying about what goes where. You just copy a single file over to your app folder... done.
Now, some Mac apps will have an "installer" but you don't need it since that's all it's doing... just copying over a single file.
Jeremy Falcon
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Most of the time I make my apps self-installing - even my services.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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They have to get onto the system somehow.
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Generally what I do (whenever possible) is a I ship a single executable. It contains the install code in it that runs on first launch.
Obviously that doesn't work if you need to ship a bunch of dependencies with it.
I made a thing called CSBrick that will take C# projects and turn them into a single large C# file so you can effectively wedge it into a project statically instead of linking to it as a DLL.
It's here on codeproject if you want to use that to cut down on external dependencies.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I have files in .7z format and need to unzip them to do further manipulation.
is this .7z format the same as .zip format in algorithm?
diligent hands rule....
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Maybe not.
I happened to find a .7z file on my system today and I see that 7zip reports it as "Method = LZMA2:14".
7zip doesn't report a Method for a zip file I checked.
File Explorer can open it, but it's possible it use 7zip to do so. I don't know, but 7zip was one of the first things I installed when I got this system.
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thanks for the info![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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0x01AA wrote: Call the 7z commandline tool from your application
That's what I've done in the past.
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thanks a million
diligent hands rule....
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Southmountain wrote: is this .7z format the same as .zip format in algorithm?
Yes, it just zips data up into seven internal zip files inside a single archive. 
Jeremy Falcon
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