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Useful RegEdit Commands

Published on 2023-02-24 in Windows

Disable Firefox Update Prompt

run in cmd

reg ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox /v DisableAppUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

or run ff_update_dis.reg

Disable Windows Keys

reg ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer /v NoWinKeys /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

or run win_key_dis.reg


RegEx: My Greatest Fear

Published on 2023-01-30 in Linux

Regex, Sed, and AWK are freaks in programming but they are pretty simple, well not at the beginning though.

Here I summarize some of the most amazing ones for RegEx

  1. To Be or Not To Be, is possible with: LookAround
  2. Stop Worrying! Regex101 is all you need to know

Qt MSVC vs MinGW

Published on 2022-12-31 in Windows

So exciting that even after 13 years of introducing to Qt by my great teacher, Mani Monajjemi there’s still a lot to learn.

I was trying to use WinRT with Qt today and now after so long time sticking to MinGW, I’m switching to MSVC. Here are the 4 reasons

  1. MinGW is opensource but deep down if you are in Win32, their compiler always offers better API compatibility
  2. WinRT is available only on MSVC
  3. If you ever get around to some dll that simply doesn’t work with your project, it’s because MinGW and MSVC ABI are not the same. and probably that DLL was compiled by MSVC not MinGW. Same OS and still a different ABI, sounds too Windowsy to me
  4. Because you are on Windows, show some support to the closed-source community!

COM Object and C++

Published on 2022-07-31 in Windows
• CoInitialize: Initializes the COM library for use by the calling thread, sets the thread’s concurrency model, and creates a new apartment
• CoInitializeEx: More advanced version CoInitialize that specify the thread’s concurrency model
• CoUninitialize: Should be called on deconstructor

And Bash Is Awesome!!!

Published on 2022-07-08 in Linux, Uncategorized

Here I list cool bash tricks I learned:

Bash Heredoc


Chrome DevTools Remote Control in Linux Bash

Published on 2022-05-06 in Linux

Ok the title is a bit long but why google create such a nice debug interface and make it so difficult to access it.

1. open chrome with remote debug enabled

chromium --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://github.com/

2. Install websocat to create websocket to chrome

sudo pacman -S websocat

3. Find magic chrome ws url. To do that visit following url

http://127.0.0.1:9222/json/list

4. Connect to the websocket

websocat ws://127.0.0.1:9222/devtools/browser/<GUID>

5. Execute magic command. Here just scrolling the page

{"id": 1, "method": "Runtime.evaluate", "params": {"expression": "document.documentElement.scrollTop = 600"}}

Few Notes


WDM, WDK, DDK, HDK, SDK and ….

Published on 2021-05-21 in Windows

On the way to develop a driver for Scarlet Solo Gen3 to harness the power of Shure SM57 Dynamic Microphone.

Useful links to preserve:

  1. Microsoft – Universal Audio Architecture: Guideline to for Sound Card Without Propriety Driver

  2. Microsoft – Introduction to Port Class

  3. Microsoft – AVStream Overview
  4. Microsoft – WDM Audio Terminology

  5. Microsoft – Kernel Streaming
  6. Microsoft – KS Filters

Update 1: Finished developing! Here is the link to the released driver

GitHub – BijanBina/BAudio Windows 7 x64


ZC702 FMCOMMS3 PetaLinux Starting Guide

Published on 2019-07-08 in Electrical Engineering, Linux, Xlinx

The combination of FMCOMMS3 and PetaLinux is working only on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, PetaLinux 2018.3, Vivado 2018.3

Required Packages:

sudo apt-get install -y gcc git make net-tools libncurses5-dev tftpd zlib1g-dev libssl-dev flex bison libselinux1 gnupg wget diffstat chrpath socat xterm autoconf libtool tar unzip texinfo zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib build-essential libsdl1.2-dev libglib2.0-dev zlib1g:i386 screen pax gzip

Installing PetaLinux

Create a new directory

sudo mkdir -m 755 PetaLinux 
sudo chown bijan ./PetaLinux

Install PetaLinux by running the following command.

./petalinux-v2018.3-final-installer.run .

Building Vivado Project

Clone Analog Devices HDL repository

git clone https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/hdl.git
git clone https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/meta-adi.git

Make HDL Project

export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/hdd1/Vivado/Vivado/2018.3/bin"
make fmcomms2.zc702

Creating a New PetaLinux Project:

source ../settings.sh
petalinux-create --type project --template zynq --name fmcomms3_linux

Then change directory to the created project directory.

petalinux-config --get-hw-description=<hdf file directory>

set Subsystem AUTO Hardware Settings -> Advanced bootable
images storage setting -> u-boot env partition settings -> image
storage media -> primary sd

/home/bijan/Projects/ADI_Linux/meta-adi/meta-adi-core
/home/bijan/Projects/ADI_Linux/meta-adi/meta-adi-xilinx

Download following files and write it down to meta-adi/meta-adi-xilinx/recipes-bsp/device-tree/files

device-tree.bbappend

pl-delete-nodes-zynq-zc702-adv7511-ad9361-fmcomms2-3.dtsi

zynq-zc702-adv7511-ad9361-fmcomms2-3.dts

Build PetaLinux:

To build petalinux run following command inside petalinux directory

petalinux-build

In case of error remove -e from first line of system-user.dtsi file inside build/tmp/work/plnx_zynq7-xilinx-linux-gnueabi/device-tree/xilinx+gitAUTOINC+b7466bbeee-r0/system-user.dtsi

Program ZC-702 FPGA Board Through JTAG

Install Digilent Drivers

<Vivado Install Dir>/data/xicom/cable_drivers/lin64/install_script/install_drivers/install_drivers

To program the board using jtag interface. First we should package the kernel with the following command.

petalinux-package --boot --fsbl images/linux/zynq_fsbl.elf --fpga images/linux/system.bit --u-boot --force

Then login to the root account and run following commands.

petalinux-package --prebuilt --fpga images/linux/system.bit --force
petalinux-boot --jtag --prebuilt 3 -v
petalinux-boot --jtag --fpga --bitstream images/linux/system.bit

Program ZC-702 FPGA Board Through SD-Card

Enable SW16.3 & SW16.4 on ZC702 Board.

Generate BOOT.BIN file by executing following command:

petalinux-package --boot --fsbl images/linux/zynq_fsbl.elf --fpga images/linux/system.bit --u-boot --force

copy image.ub and BOOT.BIN to SD-Card

Customize Username and Password

To change username and password open

meta-adi/meta-adi-xilinx/recipes-core/images/petalinux-user-image.bbappend

Change analog to your desired password. If you want to remove login requirement comment EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS and enable debug-tweak in petalinux-config -c rootfs.

Change UART BaudRate

To change UART baudrate run

petalinux-config

go to Subsystem AUTO Hardware Settings -> Serial Settings -> System stdin/stdout baudrate


Useful Links

Analog Wiki – Building with Petalinux

Analog Wiki – HDL Releases

GitHub – Analog Device No OS


AHK Binding not Works on All Application

Published on 2017-08-28 in Windows

I use AutoHotkey  in almost all my application but I notice some Qt applications (Like ADS) had some difficulty interpreting the AHK keys correctly. The problem turns out to be affiliated with UAC and Admin rights rather than the Qt library. To solve the issue simply add following lines to the top of your AHK scripts that you want to be applied on the specific app.

#SingleInstance Force
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
if not A_IsAdmin
   Run *RunAs "%A_ScriptFullPath%" ; Run Script as admin

This problem arises when you open a software instance with the admin rights while the AHK script doesn’t spawn with the same permission level. The above script simply run AHK with admin rights too so whether application is with or without admin right AHK script will always be able to set the key bindings.

Team Solid Squad


Evdev Wheel Emulation by keyboard

Published on 2017-05-27 in Linux

One of the great feature of XInput is “Mouse Wheel Emulation” that I graceful with it for more than 5 years. Lately I notice it relieve my hand If I could trig wheel emulation by a key on keyboard instead of a mouse button.

Unfortunately up to this time Evdev not support that and pushing a mouse button through a synthetic way (like using bash script or liunx API) won’t trick EvDev. The reason behind this is that Evdev Wheel Emulation is a device specific driver. you won’t be able to enable it on all devices so it only executed if a button is pressed only on the specific device that you enable emulation on . Moreover after the triggering, wheel emulation only apply to movement of this specific devices with trigger. The figure below show two scenario that lead to unsuccessful wheel emulation.

 

In a nutshell if you press mouse button source from a bash script emulation not work because EvDev driver won’t get it at all thus the button press have to come from a event-based device and not a complete virtual software. Additionally the movement and button press should come from same device. So as shown in the image, movement on Mouse #1 won’t do the emulation triggered from Mouse #2. To recap:

  1. The button press should come from an event-based device
  2. Trigger and movement should be on same device

Solution: Uinput-Mapper

Uinput is a kernel module to create event-based device. Uinput-Mapper is a wrapper around uinput in python that can create duplicate from a physical device and then manipulate it. Unfortunately python and Uinput-Mapper are slow and that can cause unexpected lag on mouse movement so the idea in here is to only use Uinput-Mapper under necessary cicumstances.

Uinput-Mapper can be cloned from this github repositories. If you get a glimpse of uinput-mapper, you notice two files input-read and input-create. input-read is a python script that read all event from a event-based device and spit all events out  in form of pickle to stdout. For those who like me that don’t know what pickle is, pickle is a saving format. It can save and restore any type of variable so with power of pickle you can save a complex class and restor all variables and function in the state that it had been saved before.

Now what is input-create? input-create is twin of input-read that first create a event-base device and then get all event from stdin in form of pickle and then execut the events on a virtual device that has been just created by the script. To summerize input-read capture all events from an actual device and convert it to pickle, and then input create duplicate device and execute captured events coming from input-read.

So you had to pipeline all output of input read to input-create with something like command shown below

$ ./input-read -D /dev/input/event3 | ./input-create

The -D option in above command imply that input-read output is in format of pickle(not in a human readable format).

Keycode Based Shortcut Trigger

Now the time hase come to manipulate uinput-mapper to our requiment. I think posting all codes in here will clutter the post structure so I explain basic of modification applied on uinput-mapper and leave all codes to my github Bijoux repository.

First we need a script to trigger on pressing a key on keyboard. For sake of simplicity and because of my extra experience with bash I use bash over python to do the key detection and then used stdio to pass it to input-read. The big picture here is first using input-mapper we create a duplicate of our physical mouse. How? by running exact command mentioned above. Then we disable the physical mouse in XInput by running

$ xinput disable $MOUSE_ID

Now instead of data passing directly to EvDev, it pipelined through synthetic event-base device and then pass to EvDev. Here the trick is to write a script (we call it shortcut from now on) to detect a shortcut and then when a shortcut is detected we inject a synthetic event into virtual mouse that we have been created previously. Now from EvDev perspective, this won’t be any different from the event Physical Mouse #1 generate so it trigger the emulation wheel and moving in x/y direction actually scroll the screen on the active window. The figure below demostrate the forgoing concept.

 

 

shortcut script detect a key press -> send a notification to input-read -> input-read load a previously recorded button press -> send recorded event to uinput-create -> uinput-create execute synthethic event as the same as other event come from mouse #1 -> …

Performance Issue

As remark previously, python scripts are slow intrinsically passing all mouse events through it cannot be accepted from performance point of view. Furthuremore in my brief test script runtime speed create not dramatic but noticable lag on mouse movement. To solve this issue bridge solution described above should only applied if and only if the wheel emulation should excute on that time. To do that following vivid shortcut (script) clears how this can be done.

The script is nothing more than a program than switch between physical mouse and virtual mouse on the fly. This is accomplished by using enable/disable function of XInput

 

#!/bin/bash
MOUSE_ID=($(xinput list | grep -m 1 MOUSE_MODEL | awk -F "=" '{print $2}' | awk -F " " '{print $1}'))
VIRTUAL_ID=14

while read -r line
do
    #echo $line
	if [ "$line" == "key press   108" ];then
		echo 1 #inform input-read
		xinput disable $MOUSE_ID
		xinput enable $VIRTUAL_ID
		while read -r line
		do
			if [ "$line" == "key release 108" ];then
				echo 0 #inform input-read
				xinput enable $MOUSE_ID
				xinput disable $VIRTUAL_ID
				break
			else
				break
			fi
		done < <(xinput test 12)
	fi
done < <(xinput test 12)

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