hey mark

yes! sry my browser is being a little sluggish

so i am working on a photo frame/slidshow app widget

and i want it to have different frames

currently i am using an imageview with a background of the frame

so the photo just goes over the frame (which is the background)

which seems to work fine except for two things

I want to make a bunch of different frames, so initially i wanted to just change the background of the image view and all would be good

but i need to use the remote view to update my appwidget

and it doesn't seem to allow me to change the background of the imageview

do you know how I could do this?

yeah i saw that, could you explain that answer a little more

how is the setInt doing that?

or what is the setInt for?

o ok

so i could really do anything in a remoteview that i can do on the imageview by using the setInt? or at least I should be able to?

ok, i'll try the setInt thing

the next thing I also saw a response from you on a message in the boards but want to try to get a little better explaination

Thanks Mark!

And you wrote when I was getting belated coffee.

so I want to implement image cropping in my app, since the cropImage app isn't official on all phones I decided to just copy it to my program. I was able to do this and everything seems to work fine except some variables such as mContext, mLeft/Right/Top/Bottom aren't initialized anywhere and I can't seem to figure it out

I know that you have talked before about using a database on the SD card. I found a working app that does that last night -- a 5MB database with an accompanying APK. You install the db on the S card and then use preferences in the app to point to the location of the database.

I wrote them and asked for it. I will send if I get it.

Yes, that is an issue.

Here is the link if you want it: http://blog.digitalbias.com/android-scriptures/

One would think that Google/Android would have made this an essential feature. It just makes no sense to store a database in precious main memory.

would it be possible to take a quick look and see if you can see where i might look to find these? the link for the source is here: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/… and its in the "ensureVisible" method

there is 2 classes in that sorce

the mcontext and mTop/bottom etc

are part of the second

class CropImageView extends ImageViewTouchBase

i didn't see it in imageviewtouchbase

but i didn't know if it has something to do with it being a custom view?

how can they do it without calling the methods?

so they put this line in their xml for the crop layout <view class="com.android.camera.CropImageView" ...> does this make it a view and allow them to reference the data members of the view directly?

I understand.

It is just that I know from experience on my phone that I often get down to 30MB of main memory or less on my phone as I use it and apps stay open so I am constantly having to kill them. A few 5-10 MB databases would tie up memory so that new programs would not load.

I understand but I would like to write some that do.

I have not explored the alternative -- pulling the data from the web.

The downside of that is that you have to be online and I spend a lot of time in airports, on planes, etc.

I just created an app for amusement in Oracle / PL/SQL and all I need to figure out the conversion to Java. Getting the data into SQLite is a breeze. By the way, the database in the link I sent is really a SQLite database -- I changed the extension and pulled it up in the Firefox add on.

He seemed to follow the instructions in another site I found. http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/using-your…

You are certainly allowed humble opinions. LOL I found it lacking in detail.

Great!

I have done IT for a long time but Java is very new.

I was hoping you would do that. You seem to have an incredibly solid grasp of the language and what is available.

mark, my appwidget works in portrait mode but in landscape it lays out funny (i think my images size needs to change) do you know what the best way to redo the widget on orientation change is?

And I appreciate all your help. I think it is incredible that you do this.

i'm sure there is a orientation change broadcast

but but how do i get just my appwidget id's?

Can you freeze orientation (not let it change despite the accelerometer)?

aww boo

lol

I meant in an app

OK

ok

yeah all i need is my code to run again to resize the image, i think i can get all the widget ids from the appwidgetmanager, and i could just look for my preferences and run my code using those ids

i'm pretty sure that is true, except for HTC sense, they do screwy things with the id's although i'm not sure if they do them on orientation change or just at reboot

well i know on orientation change its still ok because i save my ids in the preference names so i can have more than one instance of my widget, and my widget still works after orientation change

Thanks for all the information!

thanks mark

You too!