This is a typical situation when you program a GUI for an application. You have just created a new control, you start your application and... no control. But now: Is it obscured? Is it misplaced? Is it completely transparent or set to 'invisible'? Is my custom OpenGL-stuff broken or is the item actually not created […]

(NOTE: this blog post has been edited many times since its original publication) You've heard of valgrind before, its default tool (memcheck) is such a life saver, being able to detect memory-related bugs in your code (leaks, double deletions, use of deleted memory, use of uninitialized memory, etc.). Well, it turns out that valgrind also […]