This morning I was modifying my timeline using the Playground and also with my own Glassware and the updates were showing in under a couple seconds.
I did a factory reset to get rid of a bunch of images and nonsense on my timeline.
Updates now take minutes to populate to the Glass.
How might factory resetting the device affect the update intervals? Is anyone else having this problem?
In general a factory reset should not impact the sync behavior of your device.
Sync may be slow for a short time while it catches up and synchronizes your existing timeline, but once that's complete, it should work great.
Since this sounds like a bug with a core Glass feature, your best bet is to reach out to the Guide team via the support link on MyGlass. Alternatively, if you're curious, and you'd like to investigate yourself, adb logcat might reveal more about what's going on.
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I've been playing with the glass GDK and glass 'native' (Java) development in general. I've got a open GL app that works well enough on Glass (using standard android conventions) and I'm looking to port it to the GDK to take advantage of voice triggers and what not.
While I can certainly use it easily enough as an Immersion (I think anyway) what I'd like to do is use it as a Live Card. I'm just not sure how possible or practical this is. The documentation seems to imply that with a high frequency rendering card this should be possible but before I dive in I was hoping someone with more experience could weigh in.
(Forgive me if this is obvious -- I'm new to Android having spent the last few years in IOS/obj-c land)
XE16 supports OpenGL in live cards. Use the class GlRenderer: https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/reference/com/google/android/glass/timeline/GlRenderer
I would look at your app and determine if you want to have more user input or not and whether you want it to live in a specific part of your Timeline or just have it be launched when the user wants it.
Specifically, since Live Cards live in the Timeline, they will not be able to capture the swipe backward or swipe forwards gestures since those navigate the Timeline. See the "When to use Live Cards" section of: https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/ui/index
If you use an Immersion, however you will be able to use those swipe backwards and forwards gestures as well as these others: https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/input/touch This will give you complete control over the UI and touchpad, with the exception that swipe down should exit your Immersion.
The downside is that once the user exits your Immersion, they will need to start it again likely with a Voice Trigger, whereas a Live Card can live on in part of your Timeline.
You should be able to do your rendering in both a Surface, which a LiveCard can use or in whatever View you choose to put in your Activity which is what an Immersion is. GLSurfaceView for example may be what you need and that internally uses a Surface: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/opengl.html Note that you'll want to avoid RemoteViews but I think you already figured that out.
I have made an application in C++ and would like to know how to go about implementing a usage statistics system so that I may gather some data regarding how users use the program.
Eg. IP Address, Number of hours spent in application, and OS used.
In theory I know I can code this myself if I must, but I was wondering if there is a framework available to make this easier to do. Unfortunately I was unable to find anything on google.
Though there is no any kind of such framework, you could reduce the work you have to do (in order to retrieve all these information) by using some approaches and techniques, which I tried describe below. Please, anybody feel free to correct me.
Let's summarise, what groups of information do we need to complete the task:
User Environment Information. I suggest you to look at Microsoft's WMI infrastructure, in particular to WMI classes: Desktop, File System, Networking, etc. Using this classes in your application can help you retrieve almost all kind of system information. But if you don't satisfy with this, see #2.
Application and System Performance. Under these terms I mean overall system performance, processor's count, processes running in OS, etc. To retrieve these data you can use the NtQuerySystemInformation function. With its help, you will get an access to detailed SystemProcessInformation, SystemProcessorPerformanceInformation (retrieves info about each processor) information, and much more.
User Related Information. It's hard to find a framework to do such things, so I suggest you simply start writing code, having in mind your requirements:
counting how many times each button was pressed, each text field was changes, etc.
measuring delay time between consecutive actions in some kind of predefined sequences (for example, if you have a settings gui form and you expect from the user to fill very fast all required text fields, so using a time delay measuments can give you an information if the user acted as we expected from him or delayed after TextBox2 for a 5 minutes).
anything that could be interested to you.
So, how you could implement the last item (User Related Information) requirements? As for me, I'd do something like folowing (some may seem very hard to implement or too pointless):
- creating a kind of base Counter class and derive from it some controls (buttons, edits, etc).
- using a windows hooks for mouse or keybord while getting a child handle (to recognize a control, for example).
- using Callback class, which can do all "dirty" work (counting, measuring, performing additional actions).
You could store all this information either in a textfile or an SQLite database or there wherever you prefer.
I would recommend taking a look at DeskMetrics. This StackOverflow post summarizes the issue.
Building your own framework could take you months of development (apart from maintenance). With something like Trackerbird Software Analytics you can integrate a DLL with your app and start tracking in 30 minutes and you get all the cool real-time visualizations.
Disclaimer: I am affiliated with company.
Having a problem with a spinner actually spinning while ember.js is doing it's thing. I have a very generic jsfiddle example that illustrates the issue:
http://jsfiddle.net/h4ZcZ/2/
I assume there has to be a simple way to make this work as expected, but I am not finding it. I have tried using a JavaScript/CSS implementation of a spinner (spin.js) with the same results. I saw some stuff indicating this was typically an IE issue, but that is not the case here. This happens on all browser on Windows and i have tested on Mac Safari as well.
The problem is your for loop--you're basically locking up the thread. I would use timeouts and chunk up the work to be done to give other processing needs on the page the ability to execute.
As far as root cause, #ChristopherSwasey is correct. I asked a few other Ember developers about this. No solution, but two interesting thoughts that might help:
1) One developer reported that he has run into this problem and gotten around it by making sure the animated gif started before the long javascript execution.
2) Another developer suggested that using a virtualized list is the right path, so that only visible nodes are rendered. However, I'm afraid I don't know of an open source Ember virtualized list class yet.
Hope that helps.
We would like to be able to create intermediate releases of our software that would time-bomb or expire after a certain fixed time or number of uses that would not easily be manipulated. We are using Visual C++ with mixed native and managed assemblies.
I imagine we may need to rely on a registry tag but this seems to be insecure.
Can anyone offer some advice on how to do this?
I was working on a "trial-ware" solution a while back and it used a combination of registry keys, information stored in a flat-file at a certain position surrounded with junk data, and then also had an option to reach out to a webservice that would verify it back with the software creators.
However, as FrustratedWithFormsDesigner stated, there is no 100% fool-proof way to do this. There is always a way that a hacker can get around whatever precautions you put in place.
If you are using a database for the application, then it might be better to store a install (datetime) and a numberofusers (int) and then make code that checks those fields when the program is starting / loading / initing. If they are past a certain number or time (this could also be in the db) then exit the program.
This is very hard if not impossible to do in a foolproof way. In any event, there's nothing to stop somebody removing and reinstalling the software (you do support that, right?).
If you cannot limit the function of these intermediate releases (a much better incentive for people to move to official bits), it might be more trouble than it's worth to implement such a scheme.
Set a variable to a specific date in the program then every time the program is run access the system date and check if that date is equal to or greater than the specified date. If true then start the expiry process and display a message or alert panel to the user.
Have the binary download a tiny bit of code on startup from one of your servers.
Keep track of the activation counter on the server, when the counter reaches the limit, return a piece of code that displays the 'sorry!' message.
You could deploy it as a ClickOnce application with a certificate that expires at a certain date. If I recall correctly, the app will err on startup after that date.
A couple caveats:
The only option for the user may be to uninstall the app, which is a jerk move.
You will end up maintaining a ton of different deployments.
It will be a shock to the user as it will just happen without warning.
What I am looking for is a tool that easily or automatically sends coldfusion error messages to their system.
Then I can use the web-based interface, to manage priorities, track who fixed what and so forth.
But I want to use this to help us deal with errors better, but also to show the importance of a bug tracking system to my fellow works.
System Requirements: Apache, Windows, Coldfusion 8 Standard, Sql Server 2005.
Financial Requirements: Free or Open Source
Goal Or Purpose: To encourage my fellow workers to want and use a bug tracking system.
Does this re-write make more sense?
Thanks
Craig
Wiki has a list of issue tracking software, maybe this list could help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems
You may be able to find a hosted service and use either email or web services to create the ticket using onError. With that said, a simple issue tracking app could be created for your site using the same DB used to drive the content. 2 or 3 tables would take care of the data storage and you're already using CF so the application layer is already there.
HTH.
I have been heavily using this type of a setup for several years by email only, and the last 3 years with a Bug Tracking Software.
I must say, the bug tracking software has made my life so much more peaceful. Nothing is left, forgotten, or slips through the cracks. It's easy to find trends in errors, and remember "all the times" it happened.
Our setup is like this:
1) Coldfusion + Appropriate framework with error reporting - It doesn't matter what you use. I have used Fusebox extensively and am making the transition to ColdBox. Both are very capable, in addition to Mach-II, FW/1, Model-Glue, etc. The key part you have to find in them is their ability to catch "onError", usualy in the application CFC.
2) Custom OnError Script - Wherever an error occurs, you want to capture the maximum amount of information about that error and email it in. What we do is, when an error occurs, we log the user out with a message of "oops, log in again". Before logging them out, the application captures the error and emails it to Fogbugz. Along with it, at the top we include the CGI variables for the IP address, browser being used, etc. Over time you will find the things you need to add.
3) Routing in Fogbugz. A 2 user version of Fogbugz is free, and hosted online. There are two main ways to submit bugs. One is to email one in at a time. So if an error happens 2000 times, you get 2000 emails, and 2000 cases. Not always the best to link them together, etc. They have a feature called BugzScout, which is essentially an HTTP address that you do a form post to with cfform with all of the same information you would have put into the email. There's plenty of documentation on this and something I've always wanted to get around to. I had a scenario of 2000 emails for the first time happen a few weeks ago so I'll be switching over to this.
Hope that helps. Share what you ended up doing and why so we all can learn too!
I'm surprised no one mentioned LighthousePro (http://lighthousepro.riaforge.org). Open source - 100% free - and ColdFusion. As the author I'm a bit biased though. :)
Hard question to answer not knowing what kind of restrictions are there? Do you have any permissions to install anything? Also most bug-tracking systems require some kind of database support.
I have a suggestion. You can put in place a basic bug-tracking system, that just allows people to create tickets, and allows you/someone else to close it.
More Windows based tools are mentioned here
Good open-source bug tracking / issue tracking sofware for Windows
Any reason why coldfusion specifically?
I really like Fogbugz from the makers of Stack Overflow. For one user it's quite reasonably priced. I enter some bugs manually and have others emailed in.
A lot of bug tracking software will expose SOAP methods for entering data into them.
For example, we used Axosoft's OnTime and that exposed some WSDL pages that I consumed in my application. I was told that Jira did as well.
There are few in CF411 list: Bug Tracking/Defect Tracking/Trouble Ticket/Help Desk Tools Written in CFML
We use HopToad. There is another bug-tracking app called LightHouse that integrates with HopToad so you can easily create a [bug] ticket from an incoming exception. HopToad has an API of which there are many clients, you want the CF based one:
http://github.com/timblair/coldfusion-hoptoad-notifier
Even if you dont use HopToad and you end up using a different service or roll your own, if you needed to write your own API client you could leverage the code or pattern(s) of the above HopToad client.
A lot of good information from everyone, and I really do appreciate the efforts given. But not the answer i was looking for. Which maybe means, that what i want does not exist, yet.
So i may have to roll my own solution...Or maybe integrate with another existing app...
Thank You all.