Animator Vs Animation

It's amazing how people can create these videos using just Flash, a lot of time and effort must have been put in for this creativity!

Packages!!

Found today's xkcd comic strip quite funny, now looking at eBay, you don't get quite the level of quality for 99p, see http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MAKE-150-A-DAY-WITH-BUM-MARKETING-SECRETS-EBOOK-ON-CD_W0QQitemZ290309278574QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item290309278574&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A3%7C294%3A50 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tesco-Clubcard-point-codes-4-life-30-000-points-a-year_W0QQitemZ170327122070QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Tickets_Trave_Vouchers_Coupons_LE?hash=item170327122070&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50.

Addition for the Visual C++ Developer

For those of you developers that are still using Visual C++, a new Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has been added :) for Visual Studio 2008, so now it has been updated from a couple of years ago, click on here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en for the download.

The new and improved feature and functionility includes a much more modernised user interface with now the supply of the Office Ribbon User Interface, see above diagram, amongst many other new controls like dialogue boxes to the Standard C++ library. Hurrah!

There is also an updated feature called Smart Pointers that allow dynamically created C++ objects to be carefully handled and ensures objects to be deletely safely with the library function auto_ptr in handling these C++ pointers. For instance the code below, allows the transfer of ownership from one application to another for the auto_ptr copy constructor, for allowing to share the same memory resource: -

shared_ptr sp(new int(123));

ASSERT(0 != sp);

// increase reference count of shared object
shared_ptr sp2(sp);

ASSERT(0 != sp2);
ASSERT(0 != sp);

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc507634.aspx for more information.

Double check the logic

As part of the task, I had been given some logic from a specification like this, and have to code (similar to this) in C++: -

On paper

There are 6 categories, A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Two images, image1, and image 2.

if (category == "A" || cateogory == "B")
[
Output Image1
]

if (category != "B" || category != "B")
[
Output Image2
]

The code that I wrote: -

if (category == "A" || category == "B")
{
output(image1);
}

if (category != "A" || category != "B")
{
output(image2);
}

Now this is wrong in terms of the logic, which I had found out that if it specifies this in the logic, the code doesn't reflect this.
This is because, say category A can fall into both the if statements, its an OR statement so it can meet the criteria of category B

Solution :

if (category != "A")
{
//Fall into the next one
if (category != "B")
{
Output(image2);
}
}

This solves the logical error.