I am getting my feet wet with Codename One. I have looked into more other options like Xamarin, PhoneGap, Ionic for cross platform but I kinda got hooked with Codename one as it really code once and run anywhere.
I've been going through ui elements and I am kinda blocked on populating a combobox (Alternative is Picker)
Let's say I have stores as value pair (storeId, storeName). I want to display the storeName in Picker but keep storeId as the value reference.
Once the store is selected I would like to pass the storeId to an API call.
Is this possible. This might be very simple question but seems bit difficult to implement (I am really new to mobile).
Thank you.
Our recommendation is to avoid ComboBox. It's a UI pattern that doesn't exist on iOS natively and would feel alien on modern phones. It exists in Codename One.
In this code from the sample above you can get a similar effect to a complex multi-field combo box:
Form hi = new Form("Button", BoxLayout.y());
String[] characters = { "Tyrion Lannister", "Jaime Lannister", "Cersei Lannister"};
String[] actors = { "Peter Dinklage", "Nikolaj Coster-Waldau", "Lena Headey"};
int size = Display.getInstance().convertToPixels(7);
EncodedImage placeholder = EncodedImage.createFromImage(Image.createImage(size, size, 0xffcccccc), true);
Image[] pictures = {
URLImage.createToStorage(placeholder, "tyrion","http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/game-of-thrones/character/s5/tyrion-lannister-512x512.jpg"),
URLImage.createToStorage(placeholder, "jaime","http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/game-of-thrones/character/s5/jamie-lannister-512x512.jpg"),
URLImage.createToStorage(placeholder, "cersei","http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/game-of-thrones/character/s5/cersei-lannister-512x512.jpg")
};
MultiButton b = new MultiButton("Pick A Lanister...");
b.addActionListener(e -> {
Dialog d = new Dialog();
d.setLayout(BoxLayout.y());
d.getContentPane().setScrollableY(true);
for(int iter = 0 ; iter < characters.length ; iter++) {
MultiButton mb = new MultiButton(characters[iter]);
mb.setTextLine2(actors[iter]);
mb.setIcon(pictures[iter]);
d.add(mb);
mb.addActionListener(ee -> {
b.setTextLine1(mb.getTextLine1());
b.setTextLine2(mb.getTextLine2());
b.setIcon(mb.getIcon());
d.dispose();
b.revalidate();
});
}
d.showPopupDialog(b);
});
hi.add(b);
hi.show();
If you insist on using a ComboBox you can use a model to give it any object data you want. Then create a cell render to display the data. This is all discussed in depth in the component section of Codname One's developer guide. Notice that since ComboBox derives from List a lot of the List tips and docs apply to ComboBox.
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So the problem I am facing is that when the viewModel data updates it doesn't seems to update the state of my bytearrays: ByteArray by (mutableStateOf) and mutableListOf()
When I change pages/come back to the page it does update them again. How can get the view to update for things like lists and bytearrays
Is mutableStateOf the wrong way to update bytearrays and lists? I couldn't really find anything useful.
Example of byte array that doesn't work (using this code with a Float by mutableStateOf works!).
How I retrieve the data in the #Composable:
val Data = BluetoothMonitoring.shared.Data /*from a viewModel class, doesn't update when Data / bytearray /list changes, only when switching pages in app.*/
Class:
class BluetoothMonitoring : ViewModel(){
companion object {
val shared = BluetoothMonitoring()
}
var Data : ByteArray by mutableStateOf( ByteArray(11) { 0x00 })
}
Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance!
You seem to come from IOS/Swift where using Shared objects is a common pattern
In Android, you're not supposed to create a viewmodel instance by hand, you are supposed to use ViewModelFactory, or compose viewModel() function. The ViewModel object basically preserves some data for you across activity recompositions, i.e. when activity is paused, resumed etc
The general good way of structuring your app is using UDF (Unidirectional Data Flow) where, data flows upwards towards the view/composable and events flow downwards towards the viewmodel, data layer etc. We use something called as Flow which is a reactive data stream, which updates the listener whenever some value changes
Keeping in mind these two points, I've created a very brief way of how you could restructure your code, so that it almost always works. Please adapt accordingly to your logic
class MyViewModel: ViewModel(){
// Declare a flow in the viewModel
var myData = MutableStateFlow(0)
fun modifyMyData(newData: Int){
myData = newData
}
}
And in your composable view layer
#Composable
fun YourComposable(){
val myViewModel = viewModel()
val myUiState by myViewModel.myData.collectAsState()
// Now use your value, and change it, it will be changed accordingly and updated everywhere
}
I also recommend reading this codelab
How I handle byte arrays over Bluetooth with kotlin and Android.
I'm talking sic (communication) to arduino over bluetooth in the app I'm making. Kotlin likes Byte and Arduino likes UBYTE so I do all of those translations in the app because Kotlin threads are inline code easy and the phone has more power for such things.
Add toByte() to everthing that is outbound. <- (actual solution)
outS[8] = Color.alpha(word.color).toByte()
outS[9] = Color.red(word.color).toByte()
outS[10] = Color.green(word.color).toByte()
outS[11] = Color.blue(word.color).toByte()
outS[12] = 0.toByte()
outS[13] = 232.toByte()
outS[14] = 34.toByte()
outS[15] = 182.toByte()
//outS[16] = newline working without a newLine!
// outS[16] = newline
val os = getMyOutputStream()
if (os != null) {
os.write(outS)
}
For inbound data...I have to change everything to UByte. <- (actual solution)
val w: Word = wordViewModel.getWord(i)
if (w._id != 0) {
w.rechecked = (byteArray[7].toInt() != 0)
w.recolor = Color.argb(
byteArray[8].toUByte().toInt(),
byteArray[9].toUByte().toInt(),
byteArray[10].toUByte().toInt(),
byteArray[11].toUByte().toInt()
)
//finally update the word
wordViewModel.update(w)
}
My Youtube channel is about model trains not coding there some android and electronics in there. And a video of bluetooth arduino android is coming soon like tonight or tomorrow soon. I've been working on the app for just over a month using it to learn Kotlin. The project is actually working but I have to do the bluetooth connection manually the app actually controls individual neopixels for my model train layout.
At this moment I'm only testing my app in the simulator (as I'm having issues with "Send iOS Build" mentioned in another thread [Errors with Codename One "Send iOS Build" and "Send Android Build")
I'm experiencing some layout issues where it is not making use of the width and height correctly. The elements are left-aligned and there is unused space on the right side. And I need to scroll up and down instead of having everything fit within the visual area. Please see images.
The code are:
private final void show() {
loginSignupForm = new Form("Company", new BoxLayout(0));
Tabs loginSignupTabs = new Tabs();
Style loginSignupStyle = UIManager.getInstance().getComponentStyle("Tab");
prepareAndAddSignupTab(loginSignupTabs, loginSignupStyle);
prepareAndAddLoginTab(loginSignupTabs, loginSignupStyle);
loginSignupForm.add(loginSignupTabs);
loginSignupForm.show();
}
private void prepareAndAddLoginTab(Tabs loginSignupTabs, Style loginSignupStyle) {
loginID = new TextField();
loginPassword = new TextField();
Button loginButton = getLoginButton();
Component[] loginComponents = {
new Label("Email Address"),
loginID,
new Label("Password"),
loginPassword,
loginButton,
};
Container loginContainer = BoxLayout.encloseY(loginComponents);
FontImage loginIcon = FontImage.createMaterial(FontImage.MATERIAL_QUESTION_ANSWER, loginSignupStyle);
loginSignupTabs.addTab("Login", loginIcon, loginContainer);
}
What do I need to changenter code heree to get the elements to:
1. expand to the maximum width (no free space on the right)
2. fit within the visual area (for top-to-bottom)
Please note that I'm coding the elements because I find the (new) GUI Builder quite a challenge to use.
Firstly, don't pass a constant value as an argument to Layouts, coz the values might change in future Codename One updates and this will be difficult for you to debug. new BoxLayout(0) should be new BoxLayout(BoxLayout.Y_AXIS) or simply BoxLayout.y().
The above is where the problem arose but not the only problem because BoxLayout doesn't recognize 0 as a valid argument as it has only 3 which are X_AXIS = 1, Y_AXIS = 2, and X_AXIS_NO_GROW = 3.
If you change the above to use BoxLayout.Y_AXIS, it will work, but from the screenshot above, that's not the best solution.
In conclusion, change your code to below:
private final void show() {
loginSignupForm = new Form("Company", new BorderLayout());
Tabs loginSignupTabs = new Tabs();
Style loginSignupStyle = UIManager.getInstance().getComponentStyle("Tab");
prepareAndAddSignupTab(loginSignupTabs, loginSignupStyle);
prepareAndAddLoginTab(loginSignupTabs, loginSignupStyle);
loginSignupForm.add(BorderLayout.CENTER, loginSignupTabs);
loginSignupForm.show();
}
Hi I am a newbie in CodenameOne am now creating a eCommerce app using CodenameOne resource editor ,I have used multilist for displaying products . I have checked the checkbox feature wherein I got the checkbox for all my items .My question here is by code in statemachine how do I get the name of product checked by the user and how to get whether the checkbox is checked or not .I tried implementing findMultiList().getSelected() but it returns always true if I check r uncheck.
Please help me also it would be great if you could tell me how to integrate google drive in my project because I need to pull data from excel sheet and populate it in the list.
You need to get the model and traverse the elements within it:
ListModel<Map<String, Object>> model = (ListModel<Map<String, Object>>)findMultiList(c).getModel();
ArrayList<Map<String, Object>> items = new ArrayList<>();
for(int iter = 0 ; iter < model.getSize() ; iter++) {
Map<String, Object> current = model.getItemAt(iter);
String checked = (String)current.get("emblem");
if(checked != null && "true".equals(checked)) {
items.add(current);
}
}
I haven't tried this code but it should work. Notice that the name "emblem" is the default name used for the MultiButton/MultiList but you can change it to be anything.
You can place a break point on the for loop and inspect the map elements as you traverse them to see how this works.
Codename One doesn't have dedicated support for google drive api yet...
However, it does support Firebase (noSQL, so no table type data)
THis means you'll have to work with variable pairs.
There are resources for table databases, though :
https://www.codenameone.com/javadoc/com/codename1/db/Database.html
check out these libraries
https://github.com/shannah/cn1-data-access-lib
(Accessing data from web, sqlite support)
https://github.com/jegesh/cn1-object-cacher
(cache from web db)
These resources should help; good luck with your development :)
I am developing an AIR application using Actionscript 3.0. The application loads two native windows on two separate monitors. Monitor 1 will play a video, and monitor 2 will synchronously play an overlayed version of the same video (i.e. infrared). Presently, I am hung up with figuring out the best way to load the videos. I'm thinking about using arrays, but am wondering, if I do, how can I link arrays so to link a primary scene to its secondary overlay videos.
Here is my code so far. The first part of it creates the 2 native full-screen windows, and then you'll see where I started coding the arrays at the bottom:
package
{
import flash.display.NativeWindow;
import flash.display.NativeWindowInitOptions;
import flash.display.NativeWindowSystemChrome;
import flash.display.Screen;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageDisplayState;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
public class InTheAirNet_MultiviewPlayer extends Sprite {
public var secondWindow:NativeWindow;
public function InTheAirNet_MultiviewPlayer() {
// Ouput screen sizes and positions (for debugging)
for each (var s:Screen in Screen.screens) trace(s.bounds);
// Make primary (default) window's stage go fullscreen
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;
stage.color = 0xC02A2A; // red
// Create fullscreen window on second monitor (check if available first)
if (Screen.screens[1]) {
// Second window
var nwio:NativeWindowInitOptions = new NativeWindowInitOptions();
nwio.systemChrome = NativeWindowSystemChrome.NONE;
secondWindow = new NativeWindow(nwio);
secondWindow.bounds = (Screen.screens[1] as Screen).bounds;
secondWindow.activate();
// Second window's stage
secondWindow.stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
secondWindow.stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
secondWindow.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;
secondWindow.stage.color = 0x387D19; // green
}
//Create array of PRIMARY scenes
var primary:Array = ["scene1.f4v", "scene2.f4v"];
//Create array of SECONDARY scenes for scene1
var secondary1:Array = ["scene1A.f4v", "scene1B.f4v"];
//Create array of SECONDARY scenes for scene2
var secondary2:Array = ["scene2A.f4v", "scene2B.f4v"];
}
}
}
EDIT: Users will cycle through overlays using LEFT and RIGHT on the keyboard, and will cycle through the scenes using UP and DOWN.
Use a generic Object for each video, store each in an array, and then store the secondary videos in an array within each object:
var videos:Array = [
{
primary:'video1.mp4',
secondary:[
'overlay101.mp4',
'overlay102.mp4'
]
},
{
primary:'video2.mp4',
secondary:[
'overlay201.mp4',
'overlay202.mp4'
]
}
{
primary:'video3.mp4',
secondary:[
'overlay301.mp4',
'overlay302.mp4'
]
}
]
Then when you to play a video, you can loop through the videos array. Each object has a primary video and its associated secondary videos. You could take it a step further, as well, and use the object to store metadata or store more Objects within the secondary array, rather than strings.
EDIT: Quick response to the first comment
In Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) languages, everything is an object. Every single class, every single function, every single loop, every single variable is an object. Classes generally extend a base class, which is called Object in AS3.
The Object is the most basic, most primitive type of object available — it is simply a list of name:value pairs, sometimes referred to as a dictionary. So you can do the following:
var obj:Object = {hello:'world'};
trace(obj.hello); // output 'world'
trace(obj['hello']); // output 'world'
trace(obj.hasOwnProperty('hello')); //output true (obj has a property named 'hello')
What I did was create one of these objects for each video and then save them to an array. So say you wanted to trace out primary and find out how many videos were in secondary, you would do this:
for (var i:int = 0; i < videos.length; i++) {
var obj:Object = videos[i];
trace('Primary: ' + obj.primary); // for video 1, output 'video1.mp4'
trace('Secondary Length: ' + obj.secondary.length); // for video1, output 2
}
That should show you how to access the values. An dictionary/Object is the correct way to associate data and the structure I supplied is very simple, but exactly what you need.
What we're talking about is the most basic fundamentals of OOP programming (which is what AS3 is) and using dot-syntax, used by many languages (everything from AS3 to JS to Java to C++ to Python) as a way of accessing objects stored within other objects. You really need to read up on the basics of OOP before moving forward. You seem to be missing the fundamentals, which is key to writing any application.
I can't perfectly understand what you're trying to do, but have you thought about trying a for each loop? It would look something like...
prim1();
function prim1():void
{
for each (var vid:Video in primary)
{
//code to play the primary video here
}
for each (var vid:Video in secondary1)
{
//code to play the secondary video here
}
}
Sorry if it's not what you wanted, but what I understood from the question is that you're trying to play the both primary and secondary videos at the same time so that they're in synch. Good luck with your program ^^
I am facing an issue where my graph is tree layout and looks fine initially. However, if I choose to change GraphSource upon user input/ clicks using PopulateGraphSource like in the OrgChart example, I get all the nodes stacked on top of each other with no links and all in corner.
I tried resetting graphSource by creating a new one
this.graphSource = new GraphSource();
I also tried to use the Clear method for GraphSource. Neither did solve the problem, I keep having the same issue.
I am using
ObservableCollection<Node> hierarchicalDataSource;
to fill up my GraphSource object.
All I do is create a new one and then call
PopulateGraphSource();
method.
Similar issues: question in telerik support , telerik support different question
Try calling the Layout method on the diagram control. Here is a little fragment of code
TreeLayoutSettings settings = new TreeLayoutSettings()
{
TreeLayoutType = TreeLayoutType.TreeDown,
VerticalSeparation = 60,
HorizontalSeparation=30
};
if (this.diagram.Shapes.Count > 0)
{
settings.Roots.Add(this.diagram.Shapes[0]);
this.diagram.Layout(LayoutType.Tree, settings);
this.diagram.AutoFit();
//this.diagram.Zoom = 1;
}