Daniel Gonzalez
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5 Storyboard Designer Pro-Tips
Storyboard Designer is loaded with many helpful quality-of-life features to speed along development.However, even after spending a long time in Designer, you may not know them all.Today let’s take ...
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Marquee Scrolling Text Effect
There are quite a few ways to implement this behavior. Though currently there does not exist a type of setting you can simply check to make this happen. First we have to look at how we can scroll ...
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Creating A Drop Down Menu
Creating a Drop Down menu in Storyboard is actually very simple at a core level.There are a couple of ways to actually implement the specifics, but simply put a Drop Down is characterized by conten...
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The Benefits of the GREIO "queue" Option
In order to discuss what the -ogreio,queue option does, we first have to look at the default event processing behavior.Conceptually, there are two “queues”, one is the GREIO channel and the other i...
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How to Start and Stop a .gif
While a .gif can’t be paused, there are ways to control when it plays and when it stops.When the control containing the gif is rendered for the first time it will start running the frames of the im...
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Compiling the ClusterIO / ThermostatIO Sample Using a Makefile on Windows
If you’ve looked at either the ClusterIO or ThermostatIO samples that ship with Storyboard, you’ll have noticed there is a README file that describes how to build the source for the project. It des...
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Mouse turns into hourglass and becomes unresponsive
People running with Weston may have encountered an issue with mouse input where after a few seconds it becomes unresponsive and turns into an hourglass or "loading" icon. This is a known Weston iss...
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Lua Pattern Matching and Magic Characters
At some point in your project when you’re writing Lua code you will probably use various kinds of string manipulation. Some of the most useful manipulations use pattern matching. My personal favori...
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Problems compiling Storyboard demo source code
If you are trying to build a Storyboard demo's source code (ThermostatIO for example) and you are on version 7.1 then you will likely encounter errors. For example if you're using Visual Studio to...
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Modifying .gitconfig to use the Merge Tool on Mac
Git on Mac populates the values for the ${VAR} variables with the relative paths, whereas on Windows they are populated by the absolute path. This behavior can sometimes lead to confusion when work...