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avril 23rd, 2009

New spatial features at MySQL

While MySQL already provides some functionality to store and operate on geospatial data, the functionality leaves quite a lot to be desired and is far from providing full OpenGIS compatibility.

Most notably is that all functions that query spatial data only operate on MBRs (minimum bounding rectangles), to simplify the operations.  More >>

avril 21st, 2009

CPPToolTip v2.1

A class that allows you to display your data for a control as tooltip. written by Eugene Pustovoyt and published in Codeproject.  Very cool.

Features

  • Standard and balloon tooltip
  • Built-in HTML-lite language for a tooltip
  • Built-in support for CSS styles
  • Built-in support for menus and toolbars
  • Support for any size icons (max. 256 colors)
  • Support for bitmaps
  • Support for ImageList
  • Load icons, bitmaps and strings from resources, DLLs or files
  • Support Fade-in and Fade-out effects
  • Support for gradient shadow for tooltip and images
  • Support for applies miscellaneous effects over the any images (lighten, darken, grayed)
  • Support for hyperlinks
  • Support for hot areas
  • Support for tables
  • Support for CScrollView
  • Extended <br> and <t> tags
  • Extended resource strings for the menu and toolbars items
  • Every size can be customized
  • Change runtime a tooltip’s text
  • Implemented a Debug Mode (an idea from www.tooltips.net site with Vitaly Tomilov‘s permission)
  • Support for an animation – NEW in v2.1
  • Support a text wrapping – NEW in v2.1
  • Full source code included!
avril 8th, 2009

GPX – The GPS exchange format

GPX is a light-weight XML data format for the interchange of GPS data and it has been used/supported by hundreds of software applications. >>> GPX home

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