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| Mar 4 | 10:00 AM  | 
| NetApex | has entered the room  | 
| NetApex | 
     Good morning 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     howdy 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     I've
been playing around with the info you showed me last time. It's making
me redo most of what I had already done to make it "smarter" and better
coded. I feel so professional now lol. 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     :-) 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:05 AM  | 
| Mark M. | 
     anything I can help you with today? 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     Not this very second.  Still trying to work out some of the bugs I have left over 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:10 AM  | 
| NetApex | 
     Okay
here is one... getIntent().getStringExtra(whatever); brings up the
String like I wanted.. but apparently switch() likes integers 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     yes 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:15 AM  | 
| NetApex | 
     is there some type of string to int command or something? 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     let's back up a step: what are you really trying to do? 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     I am trying to pass the clicked cd cover to the java that plays/displays the music from that cd 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:20 AM  | 
| Mark M. | 
     ok 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     so when it gets the cd I can say, display this this and this, and que up this 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     Step #1: create an class that represents a CD 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     Step #2: create a HashMap<String,CD> 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     Step #3: use the string extra as the key to the HashMap 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     instead of a switch(), you now call a method on CD that displays stuff and queues stuff 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     Ok, now will I need to create a class for each CD, or just one that receives the info from the HashMap 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     one class for *all* CDs, ideally 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:25 AM  | 
| Mark M. | 
     different instances per CD 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     ok cool 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:30 AM  | 
| Mark M. | 
     howdy, Markus 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     hello mark 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     this chat is for android programming questions right? 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     yes 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     fire away~ 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     er, away! 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     I like to show a video in a dialog 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     1) It works, it plays, but: 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     problem numero 1 is that the video is dark, maybe because of the dialog transparent... 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     you may be better served making a dialog-themed activity 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     problem nr2 is, that I get an exception when I close the dialog... 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:35 AM  | 
| Markus G. | 
     what do you mean with "dialog-themed activity" ? 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     android:theme="Theme.Dialog" in your manifest 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     and instead of showing the dialog, I open the activity? 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     yes 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     more control over things like backgrounds that way 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     sounds good, I will try this ;-) 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     and closing this "activtiy-dialog" just with .finish() ? 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     yes 
    
  
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| Markus G. | 
     ok, I will try, nice greetings from vienna, and have a nice day! 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:40 AM  | 
| Mark M. | 
     you too! 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:45 AM  | 
| NetApex | 
     of
course I will need to read up on the whole dialog-themed activities
thing later and see if I can make something of interest from that too 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     not covered in the books yet 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     Ahh, then I wont even waste my time.  Your books make things so much easier to understand 
    
  
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| Mar 4 | 10:50 AM  | 
| NetApex | 
     I am going to take off for now.  Hopefully I will have more questions for you next time. 
    
  
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| Mark M. | 
     ok, see ya! 
    
  
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| NetApex | 
     Going to be working on pulling information from websites if possible 
    
  
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