First stable version of boxen (audio player written in D)

2011-09-25 Thread Michael Mittner
Hey there! I've just released the first stable version of my audio player (which is written in D1). If you want to try it out: http://shebang.at/blog/boxen0.1.0 Regards, Mike

Re: boxen - an audio player written in D

2011-01-20 Thread Michael Mittner
Oh, I forgot to mention D! I'll edit it in ASAP :) And you're right about the directory thing, I'll put it on my TODO list. Thanks!

Re: boxen - a media player written in D (preview)

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Mittner
bobef wrote: It requires zlib1.dll (not in the package). Blue screened my xp sp2 twice. Something audio driver related. Even when not crashing it is not playing anything I drop on it. Oh my. Looks like it's still in a lot worse shape than I thought. May I ask what audio interface you're

Re: boxen - a media player written in D (preview)

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Mittner
bobef wrote: Blue screened my xp sp2 twice. I've borrowed a couple of audio devices and I'm testing right now, and I got the bluescreen too. Being aware of the problem is halfway there to fixing it :)

boxen media player preview, part 2

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Mittner
For all who read my last post, I've fixed the bluescreen bug that was in the last preview (and tested with a couple of audio interfaces from different manufacturers, turns out that my own hardware is just immune to buffer overflows). So I figured I put up another .zip, this time with all needed

boxen - a media player written in D (preview)

2010-02-09 Thread Michael Mittner
Hi! I have hacked together a preview version of the media player I'm working on. It's developing rather nicely and last weekend I was able to tie together a lot of loose ends. The project is in a presentable state for the first time now, so I wanted to just release a quick preview for the D

Re: Progopedia - encyclopedia of programming languages

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Mittner
A KR type book for D, “The D Programming Language”, written by Andrei Alexandrescu and published by Addison-Wesley Professional is scheduled for publication in May 1010. D has come a long way!

Re: Is it possible that the Karmic upgrade interferes with dmd?

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Mittner
Don wrote: That's odd. Please try adding an 'L' to end of each of each constant. [0x1.a5f1c2eb3fe4efp+73L, 0x1.A5F1C2EB3FE4EFp-1L, 74], Oh, I'm really sorry, I copied the wrong line (this was 640). Here's the guilty line (641, this time for real): [0x1.fa01712e8f0471ap-1064,

Is it possible that the Karmic upgrade interferes with dmd?

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Mittner
I've got a very strange problem and I wanted to ask if you guys have any ideas. Yesterday I compiled my project with dmd 1.041 and Tango and it worked. Today I compiled the same code again to get started (I sometimes like to just do a full rebuild to get started) and I get this message:

Re: Is it possible that the Karmic upgrade interferes with dmd?

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Mittner
Walter Bright wrote: It could be that the C library routine strtold(), which the lexer relies on, changed. That has nothing to do with linking. Hmm. This is where dmd struggles: 641:[0x1.a5f1c2eb3fe4efp+73, 0x1.A5F1C2EB3FE4EFp-1, 74],// normal I have no idea how the lexer works,

Re: Brief interview by Intel: The Case for D

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Mittner
Audio seems to be broken from [5:45 .. $].

Linking Tango + QtD under Ubuntu (with Rebuild)

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Mittner
I'm trying to evaluate QtD. First step is to link something against Tango and Qt, but unfortunately I can't get it to work: rebuild main.d -debug -full -oqobj/ -I~/coding -llqtdcore -llqtdgui - llQtCore -llQtGui I have Tango installed via apt-get (and the Tango repository), as well as

Re: Contextualizing keywords

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Mittner
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: You referring to that blogger who said he was ready for languages with keywords enclosed in XML tags after seeing a D presentation? ;) No, I didn't see that one.

Re: Contextualizing keywords

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Mittner
Robert Fraser wrote: Thoughts? Maybe doing more things analog to scope(exit/etc) might be an idea, where we have one major keyword and a couple of minor ones that differentiate the meaning further. -Mike

Re: Contextualizing keywords

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Mittner
Ary Borenszweig wrote: Yes. Maybe every keyword could be just keyword(...). For example: keyword(static), keyword(final), etc. For example this code now: pure SomeType foo() { } would be, with this change: keyword(pure) SomeType foo() { } Hmm... Or maybe: @pure void foo() {