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YouTubeThis tutorial is for an extremely specific and possibly unusual set of circumstances, but I’m hoping that it will prove useful to someone. For one of my courses this term, we’re building OpenGL apps using Nokia’s open source Qt framework. Qt provides some very nice scaffolding, and the Qt Creator IDE is among the best I’ve used, although I imagine it lacks flexibility for general-purpose applications—that is, you probably wouldn’t use it to build non-Qt applications. Qt also allows one to easily write cross-platform C++ GUI applications. That said, linking procedures can be a bit different on different platforms, and as a beginner it’s not always immediately obvious how instructions for Windows development translate into other environments.
Archive for September, 2011
How to link GLUT in Qt Creator on OS X
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011How to reinstall OS X from a disc image using only one computer
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011My internship recently ended, and as such, I had to move from Calgary back to Edmonton, where I’ll be completing the fourth year of my Computing Science degree at the University of Alberta. I hope to be able to write more about my internship later, but at the moment I want to share a handy trick I discovered for reinstalling OS X. The reason I bring up the move is that after I arrived in Edmonton, I found myself wanting to reformat my Mac Mini and re-install Snow Leopard, but my Snow Leopard disc was nowhere to be found. Luckily, as a semi-paranoid computer scientist with an abundance of disk space, I keep images of important discs on my network-attached storage device for just such occasions.