DEV Community: ShaunTheGeek

Red Alert 2: set HD resolution and fix LAN battle component

ShaunTheGeek — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:29:32 +0000

Ra2Helper is a tool designed for Red Alert 2, engineered to boost your battlefield performance.

It swiftly fixes the LAN multiplayer component and supports high-definition resolutions, including:

3440x1440
2560x1080
1920x1080
And more

Reminder: Since the Microsoft Store no longer supports Windows 8, this software can only be installed on Windows 10 and later versions.

Download from Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p8k050zp0rb

WinUI i18n: how to create Resources.resw file

ShaunTheGeek — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:43:34 +0000

install Multilingual App Toolkit https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dts-publisher.mat2022
create dir MyApp/Strings/en-US/
open solution manager in VS, right click on the dir en-US -> Add -> New
select C# -> WinUI -> Resource

delete GitHub user and rename another GitHub username to it

ShaunTheGeek — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:22:10 +0000

I have two GitHub accounts:

the first one: have many projects, but it's not a good english name.
the second one: good english name

But I find it's very inconvenient to use two accounts, such as: 2FA, password.

So I decide: delete the second account, and rename the first account to the second name.

I checked the documentation and found that this is possible, but it will take 90 days.

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-your-personal-account/deleting-your-personal-account#deleting-your-personal-account

the second account: exit from groups, transfer projects, delete account

after 90 days, rename the first account to the second name.

done!

https://github.com/shaunthegeek

macOS cli install Android SDK 34

ShaunTheGeek — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:31:49 +0000

1 sdkmanager require Java 17

brew install openjdk@17

2 download Android SDK command line tools only

https://developer.android.com/studio?hl=en#command-line-tools-only

3 unzip command line tools

mkdir -p ~/Library/Android/sdk/
unzip ~/Downloads/commandlinetools-mac-11076708_latest.zip -d ~/Library/Android/sdk/cmdline-tools
mv ~/Library/Android/sdk/cmdline-tools/cmdline-tools ~/Library/Android/sdk/cmdline-tools/latest
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.zshenv
source ~/.zshenv
sdkmanager

Usage: sdkmanager [--uninstall] [] [--package_file=] [...]

warning: sdkmanager should be here, otherwise you will get error "flutter doctor error: Android sdkmanager not found."

# wrong
/Users/tom/Library/Android/sdk/cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager
# right
/Users/tom/Library/Android/sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager

4 set env

vi ~/.zshenv

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/bin:$PATH"
export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$PATH
export ANDROID_HOME=~/Library/Android/sdk
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=$ANDROID_HOME
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

5 download android sdk by cli not Android Studio

notice: macOS Android Studio default Android sdk dir: ~/Library/Android/sdk

sdkmanager --list
sdkmanager emulator
sdkmanager platform-tools
sdkmanager "build-tools;35.0.0"
sdkmanager "platforms;android-34"
sdkmanager "system-images;android-34;default;arm64-v8a"
sdkmanager "sources;android-34"
sdkmanager --list_installed

if you don't set env ANDROID_SDK_ROOT, you should use:

sdkmanager --sdk_root=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk --list

not --sdk_root=~/Library/Android/sdk.