Programming: Lars Muldjord Graphics: Lars Muldjord
Website: http://www.muldjord.com/boris
The candle was programmed using the Qt framework (http://www.qt-project.org) and C++.
Bug reports, suggestions and / or comments can be emailed to me at: muldjordlars@gmail.com.
Copyright 2012 Lars Muldjord. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Be sure to read the license in COPYING.TXT or check out the web page http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.
- Qt 5 dev libs including multimedia package
- qmake
- make
- ./Boris
I have tested it on several Core 2 Duo machines with no problems. Most important thing is that it has a decent graphics adapter.
It might run on older hardware aswell, just test it, read "known issues" below and judge for yourself.
Version 1.0.1:
- First public release
- Burn time adjustment (Now about 2,5 hours per date)
Version 1.0.0:
- Internal test release
- Flame flickering now no longer cpu dependent
Version 0.9.0:
- Internal test release
- With some graphics drivers / vendors, the candle might eat up a lot of cpu time. The cause of this is out of my hands, since it has to do with how the driver and Qt makes the window borderless and the background translucent. This has only been observed with an onboard Intel display device on Windoze. Linux doesn't seem to have this problem. If you have a lot of tearing in the graphics while moving the candle around on the desktop, you too have this problem.
Any issues and / or comments concerning the candle can be emailed to me at muldjordlars@gmail.com