howdy, Sanjeev!

hi Mark

how are you

this is my first time in the office hgours

it's been a somewhat stressful day, but I'm OK now -- and you?

its been a long day at work

i just got home

do you have any questions regarding Android?

I have a question, i believe its more of a java part of the android

go ahead

give me 5 mins that way i put the question the right way

no problem

on pg 37 on the busy coders guide, how can i get more than one text to display

Well, page 37 shows a full-screen Button

by that i mean if i wanted, altitude, direction (compass) etc

if you want more than one widget on the screen, you will need some sort of container class.

such as a LinearLayout or RelativeLayout

those are covered in Chapter 6 of that book

even if i wanted to display just text, not widget

i wanted to display,

well, text normally is displayed via a TextView, which is a widget

alt: ---- m

a Button can only have a single caption

time:----m

you are welcome to make that caption as long as you want

oreientation:---m

but your users will be expecting something better formatted than a single long captoin

er, caption

i agree with you.

but if i wanted to just display more than one parameter (like alt, time, direction)

what would be the best way to achieve that

probably a LinearLayout or RelativeLayout, holding a set of TextView widgets

ok

ok

i will try that and get back to you with the result

sounds good

probably not in this session, but in next office hours

that too sounds good

another question regarding eclipse, i am not able to open the device manager

I do not use Eclipse, so I may not be able to help much

i don't know if this is a appropriate question in this caht

chat

What do you mean by "not able to open"?

i just did an update last night, and since then i am not able to open the AVD manager

when i click on the icon, nothing happens

try running the "android" command (without the quotes) from your Command Prompt or Terminal window, and see if the AVD Manager launches

you may need to be in your SDK's tools/ directory, if that is not in your PATH

oh wow, it does

thank you

well, that will help somewhat

however, Eclipse may or may not be able to work with the debugger on an emulator launched outside of Eclipse

it does mean that your Android installation is OK

and that your problem is specific to Eclipse

I do not know how to fix your menu choice, though

thank you

the office hours are almost over -- do you have any other questions?

no i am good for the day

thank you once again

no problem

have a pleasant evening!