I am asking if anyone of you know the best solution for this case:
This semester I have to make a project with an eye tracker (Tobii Eyex), but the problem with the hardware is that it is only compatible with Windows. So my question is: Is it possible to code on Mac and then get the stuff with ease on Windows, but only in a few seconds?
I tried it with file sharing, but the problem is that I can't keep two Unity instances running on the same project.
The perfect solution would be, if I have made any changes, the Windows PC should automatically update the files.
Use Github. It will allow you to keep your entire project synced across all devices with minimal effort.
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I am lucky and thankful to be home for the holidays, and I wish everyone who reads this the best! I have an annual habit of doing windows clean installs on many of my family members' pcs along with my own.
I use dism in cmd/PowerShell on windows to create custom images for certain pcs, like adding drivers, removing preinstalled windows apps, updating preinstalled programs, etc. I made a small little PowerShell script that helps in the process as it is very tedious. (I normally do this while watching TV or something else.)
That got me thinking. Google created Android Flash Tool that sends commands to android devices directly from a website. It even can download new android images/builds and flash them to the device. I also stumbled upon Simon Chan's WebADB.
Those two examples are pretty cool; massive kudos to the developers of both. I was just hoping for some rough ideas. Is running say dism.exe possible on the web? Like taking a cloud file (like Google's android images) and running dism to make some user-selected customizations?
This process would entail being like a web-based Rufus by formatting and putting files on a user-selected USB Stick. (This should be possible?) However, the next step would require "talking to windows" and accessing dism.exe directly on the local windows machine. Then mounting an ESD/wim file that was just put on the USB stick, then making changes to it using dism, and then unmounting and committing changes to the stick. Would this be possible?
This is just a very early stage idea and would honestly probably be more hassle than it is worth. But I could totally work on it during my spare time just to learn. Frankly, before I should have asked the above questions, I should have asked:
Can a website talk directly to "windows."
Can a website say tell windows to unzip a file locally or zip a bunch of files?
Create folders or simple tasks such as writing files directly to a directory (without chrome/file explorer holding its hand)?
I have built websites before, I have used npm/node, angular, and familiar with Google Firebase/GCP. However, this seems more complicated and out of my knowledge base. Hilariously, I am a computing security/networking engineer, and I can't even begin to fathom the sheer amount of security issues that would be possible with something like this. The site basically needs access to run cmd/terminals on the client machine. The thought of that gives me nightmares.
As computing and, namely, the web continues to evolve with the advent of new APIs, PWAs, etc., it is interesting what one can do with a "simple" website. If what I am describing is not possible now, I hope that someday it can be—in a fully secure way.
Thank you to whoever reads this and responds! I am looking for a "yes/no, your crazy" and hopefully a rough description of how/what. However, I am open to anything! Thank you again.
We are a mid sized company and create a game engine by using C++ for all major operating systems (macOS, Windows and Linux). One issue we are facing is the amount of different configurations on developer machines. Some use different versions of Visual Studio, Xcode or other development tools. We have guide lines and a list with version numbers we officially use but at the end of the day we end up with these different configurations on everyones machine because everyone installs what they want.
Does anyone have experience with this problem, and how did you solve this? We often run into scenarios with "But it works on my machine".
I am eyeballing on (docker) containers to ensure everybody uses the same development environment, but I have my doubts its the right way to go for a C++ real time project. Any hints?
Disclaimer: I was wondering if SO is the right place to ask this question, according to MetaExchange, it is
This is a strange circumstance that my boss and I just got into this morning as we were trying to import my scene from the Team Foundation Server to his machine. I created a Unity Scene file and made my scene over the course of the past month or so and when I was finished I uploaded everything to TFS so he could pull it down and use it (we are quite far apart from each other so we can't just usb drive everything over to see what the problem might be). When he pulled the scene file down (and all the supporting scripts) one of the scripts that was in the scene was changed. It started out being a script called Smart_HUD4 but when he went in to the inspector the script was now called Smart_HUD2 and was an entirely different script than what I had written, not to mention I don't even have a Smart_HUD2 script on my machine. The same also applied to another script called laser (now called Laser1 and again, not something I wrote nor is it on my machine).
Has anyone else come up against a problem like this? Found any solutions? It's strange because I went ahead a re-downloaded the files I uploaded and everything was exactly how it was supposed to be, proper names and scripts in their proper places. We think the issue is because we are moving from Windows to OSX and the differences in operating systems might be leaving behind some residual code or something that is causing things to be switched around?
TFS never asked me to merge any files so if it is the case that TFS might be auto-merging files, none of the files its merging even share the same name, its just picking ones whose names are close and doing so (the scene file's name was completely unique so it has nothing to merge that with).
OK, few things to check:
Have you checked that the files do not exist in the TFS with similar naming? regardless of TFS requesting name changes?
do you have any other projects effected?
Have you checked (I'm guessing you have) that the unity versions are matching exactly?
Now, something to consider, The unity system does vary between Windows and MacOS, mainly in the fact that Unity Makes use windows bases features that are not present on a Mac and this can cause file issues.
When moving between systems, Unity packages the scene data on windows in a global and local format. So, sometimes folder structure can change.
From experience, the most likely issue is more to do with file locations than OS discrepancies, as it might have been a clash between your project and other similar.
Remote file management is odd at times when doing colab stuff. Have you checked with other colleagues made sure they don't have anything similar uploading?
But, scripts changing names and data is not something that I would expect. So my guess is that the issue lies with the upload on the TFS and not the MacOS vs Windows move.
Hope this helps,
Glenn
As IT guys, we all help that friend or family member in need of our services. And we all occasionally have to install some program that we are never going to use again. So you install it, do your thing and remove it afterwards. But with installing and removing a lot of software, things get left behind: registry keys, profiles, logs, sometimes even a service. Now I don't like that mess, and it slows down my computer. So once every 4-6 months I have to do a clean install (got some images to fasten it up, but still annoying)
I'm looking for a way to "freeze" my system and start tracking all changes made, so I can remove them afterwards. Ideally I can store them as a file.
For example: I'm helping a friend out whose phone died, galaxy sWhatever. I have to install the drivers, KIES (I believe it was), some tools to get root access. After it's done I remove everything again. Two weeks later, he did it again. Reinstall drivers, kies, tools ... NOT convenient.
So I'm looking for a way to capture/virtualize/save/monitor programs, and installations. Perhaps get them to run modular. (Samsung problem? load my saved Android sdk session, load my Samsung drivers&tools session)
It would be perfect if it works with bigger stuff as well, like Visual Studio. It has several services (like slq) and resources and I only use it once every other month or so.
My search has led me to things like
VM's (which is my current solution) but it has large files, difficult to share files and devices, updates (every .. bloody .. time!).
Sandboxing (not what i'm looking for)
stuff like Docker. Which is somewhat what I'm looking for, but I need it on a personal level and not in a linux-VM
Any ideas? Anyone facing similar challenges? How do you deal with this?
Thanks!
I would like to know options to run custom windows application (delphi) on MacOS.
I know that the optimal solution would be to re-write the application in objective-c,
but that would take over a year of development.
I know that I could use "bootcamp" or virtual solution.
That includes the expenses of windows + virtual enviroments that is a no-go.
But I wonder if there is a way to actually run windows applications the easy (one click installer) way such as CrossOver or any other similar solutions.
I would be most grateful If you share your ideas!
The way I've done so, after getting feedback from others on other web sites for Beyond Compare, is use Wine. Now I am not certain what all the options are for wine, binary-wise.
I didn't have the time to invest in figuring it out, but someone on twitter, and the beyond compare account itself, recommended Wine Bottler.
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
When using wine/wine bottler, the windows apps will see the local file system in a curious way. The real mac local drive appears as "Desktop\My Computer\Z:", and what seems to be a new virtual drive appears as "Desktop\My Computer\C:" with the typical windows folders. Also under desktop: a folder called "/" which is the same as z:
I'm sure someone who has a lot of experience could have answered this question with better elaboration, but these are at least based in my own limited and successful experience.