Hi Mark

I'm the guy from HP who fell asleep.

I have a question about TextView and ordered lists.

I didn't get answers on stackoverflow.

so far, i can use <ol> and <li>, but all I get is dots (*)

How can I get a numbered list?

hehe, :)

is my only choice then a webview?

i don't have an html requirement, just a numbered list requirement.

yeah, but they don't line up :(

unless there is html formating for indents, but I'm not familiar with html

ok.

i'm just glad to know what the options are.

interesting,

one column for the numbers, left aligned, another for the text.

Howdy Mark

Scott Smith from HP here. I'm the one that asked what kind of tree you'd be...

I told scott he has to wait until i'm done with my two questions.

We prefer the term 'infestation'

i'll move to the 2nd question.

what's a good way to do cascade spinners.

say one for the make of the car, gm, form, toyota

the other for the model, which depends on the make.

Should I wait my turn to ask my question - is that how this works?

Sure, no prob.

Hi! Mark, I just got around to buying your books; haven't got them downloaded, but based on your activities on the group, I'm looking forward to it.

I wonder what I'm going to find out what I didn't know I don't know... :) Don't let me distract you, I don't have a question, just havinng a look.

hehe

#1, how do you disable the spinner and why?

i was kind of running into a problem where if you had selected an item on the 2nd spinner

and rotated the view

then the first spiner listener would fire, and reset the adapter to the 2nd spinner

and i would lose the selection on the 2nd spinner.

awesome. thank you

those were my two questions.

OK

I have a layout where I'm displaying a drawable PNG in an ImageView

I want to rotate the image (let's say) 90 degrees.

It was trivial to find examples of how to set up the animation XML and trigger the animation

...but as you pointed out, at the end of the animation, the image snaps back to it's original (0 degree) state

I assumed that I'd find some way to transform the ImageView (or the drawable within) to match the end-state of the animation

...but I couldn't find anything that worked.

It almost seems as though I have to override the drawing and rotate the canvas to do this - that doesn't seem right.

From what I read, there were sort of three levels to animating stuff (or drawing complicated scenes with lots of movement)

The easy level involves using ImageViews, the other two required overriding OnDraw (I think)

So, that confused me.

Also (#2) - I'm not clean on what I have to do in order to have several of the same image resources appear on the screen in different rotations

You (and the literature) mentioned that rotating one causes all instances to rotate

I've seen this, but I'm not sure of the best way to have independent instances of the same drawable

-done-

You may not have talked about rotating - it may have been some other transformation

...or maybe I just popped a brain cell along the way

...hope not, I have so few working ones left.

OK, maybe I read that somewhere and dreamed the rest.

There is a RotationDrawable class (or something like that), but I didn't see a clear way to get the drawable out of the ImageView, rotate it, and put it back. Seemed like RotationDrawable was meant to be used with the "I'm gonna handle all the drawing by myself, bwa ha ha ha ha" method.

I'm force-choking you (ala Darth Vader). Can you feel it?

OK, I haven't seen this page before - I will read.

Sigh, been there, unfortunately.

OK, well - it's useful to know that it isn't something completely obvious.

I'm probably going to go with the "I'll draw everything myself" solution anyway - just wanted to check on this for completeness.

It's a PNG drawable resource.

Yeah, I may go that direction. Thanks Mark. :-)

NEXT!

I'm just here for the ambiance. Any chance I get to soak up some knowledge I am all over it

hehehe

Ciao all.

Well if no one has questions...

Remember the soundboard I was working on a while back?

It's up and in the wild now and only occasionally does it FC.. still no clue why, but that is another story

I have a question about arrays that would have made it a ton easier

I figured out a way to set up the buttons using an array but I was unable to get the Tag part to fit in there correctly

and of course without that, it was just a lot of buttons on the screen with no function

Where you showed me about using a Tag.. heck, let me pull up the code to make sure I say it right

ok, where I setTag(R.blah.blah) so I can getTag() later on to call that file.

Frankly it is a tough question to ask without being able to show you all of the current code vs the array I wanted to use code.

It's something that I will have to post somewhere and if you have some time I can ask you to look at it and give your thoughts on how my life could have been much easier lol

So.. enough with that, how about one that makes sense to answer instead

Yes, great guess

(Mark is busy reflecting...)

Hmm, ok I think that is something I may be able to work with.

How does that contrast with using Java reflection to iterate over the fields of R.blah? It may be better on the grounds of being semantically intended for the purpose, but other differences?

I was also starting to fool around more with the sqlite bits and wondered if there was a way to make that all work easier

oh sorry about that, got side tracked there

I was looking at using SQL Lite and was wondering about being able to share a database between programs

And would it be faster than accessing all of the button and text information from xml files

Ahh ok cool that sounds like a plan there

I've got a question: PreferencesActivity.addPreferencesFromIntent(Intent) -- what's the driving use case?

Is it just for the case where a particular set of preferences happens to be tied strongly to a single activity, and allows you to make that more clear? Or does it serve a larger purpose in a large system or over the life of a product?

Ah...

Trying to reverse engineer Intent there may be futile...

heck, the more I type the more my ideas start to come to mind... In theory (still talking soundboard here) it should be possible to have one start, go out to the Internet and query a database, create the buttons and items based off of the online database info, and be able to play the media that is stored online right? Which would make the app smaller, let me update content like mad, and still provide all of the local benefits except maybe speed. Even the save as ringtone/notification bit should be possible

Maybe you can set preferences for other apps signed with the same key & android:sharedUserId?

(Go ahead, I'm done)

Hmm true

You could cache.

I thought that too, but my phone (HTC Hero) is already complaining about lack of space

and the only thing it would be caching would be sound files really

Ok man, have a good night and stay out of the snow