Aug 20 2018Printf bit me

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Working on an Unreal Engine 4 project, I had a strage issue with their FString::Printf(format, args...) function (which is basically just calling _vsntprintf).

The final issue was that I was trying to build a SQL query along the lines of INSERT INTO Table(a, b …

Dec 14 2012Live to learn

Just spent a whole hour on a stupid problem:

//... (Storeable is an interface)

          HashMap<String, Class<? extends Storeable>> types = new HashMap<String, Class<? extends Storeable>>();

          //... (object is an instance of a class that implements Storeable)

          types.add(object.getTag(), object.getClass());

          //...

Thought it was a problem with the Generics, but …

Aug 31 2012Converting the Pink Mask

Spent an hour writing a procedure that converts the pink mask in bitmaps to alpha.

Noticed it was implemented in allegro 5.

Derp

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