GTbrewer's introduction

[GTbrewer]

Hi, all. My name is Jim, and I'm completely new to all of this. I'm just now learning Java, and am still trying to get
everything working. I am a cancer survivor (late-June will be 4 years cancer free) living on a monthly disability
deposit, and am, eventually (when I learn enough to do so) hoping to make a little extra money selling Android
apps (I have a few ideas for what I'd make 99-cent apps). I was going to ask a question about getting Eclipse
running, but then I read the sticky saying no questions here. I'm not sure which group is appropriate, but I'll
figure it out. I'm probably not seeing the group because of problems related to cancer and cancer treatment.
The cancer made its way into my brain (3 tumors, 3 brain surgeries in one 10-hour session). After the brain
surgeries, my vision acts "strange" sometimes.... For example, in the lines above, where a line above ends
with "about getting Eclipse" and the next line starts with "running, but then I read" ... I might see the
the following:

.............about Eclipse
running, getting but then

Or, when typing, I find myself typing words backwards, and have to back up and correct..... Or, when looking
at a string of numbers or letters with one character (particularly o, 0, l, and 1) repeated more than 3 or 4 times,
I can't tell how many there are of that character without cut/pasting it into vi and splitting it up..... VERY
annoying.

My memory is also affected, but that's from chemo (it's commonly known as "chemobrain").

But what does still help is the fact that, at least before the cancer, my IQ was 153+ (I say + because the
test only went to 153, so I don't know what the real value was). Now...I have no idea if it's still up there,
but it's at least high enough that I can still learn new stuff quickly (and like most people, I learn best
by immediately applying things as I learn them).

More about me: I'm an advanced homebrewer, maintain my own yeast bank with about either 58 or
68 yeast strains, from the no-longer-existing Brewtek labs, Wyeast Labs, White Labs, and a few
strains from BrewLab (UK). Currently online: Tap 1) German Hefeweizenbier; 2) empty (next brew
is an American Blonde Ale); 3) a Munich Dunkel named Midnight Viper; 4) an American Pale
Ale called "American Patriot's Ale.

My brewing web pages are at Brewing-Related Sites . I am the author of two freeware
brewer's programs written in Tcl/Tk: GTbrew2---a brewer's recipe formulator, and GT-BrewDB,
an inventory database which works with GTbrew2. Both are listed on the main index of my brewing
pages.

I am also the author of a freeware hurricane tracking program (also Tcl/Tk) called JStrack (prn.
J S track). It's at JStrack (Tcl/Tk-based Hurricane Tracking Program) and, while it is freeware, I ask that if anyone
feels that they must send money, that they send it to the Red Cross/Red Crescent (depending
on what country they're in) or another disaster relief agency.

Well, that's about all of the relevant info about me......

Later,
--jim

 

[Martimus]

Welcome to the Android Forums!

 

[GTbrewer]

Welcome to the Android Forums!

(Actually, I'm replying to the text in red, about this not being tech support, and doing your homework
before posting---obviously not an exact quote, but close enough...I think)

As far as I can tell, there is no forum here (or anywhere) for beginning developers to ask for
help, so I've been looking elsewhere since I posted the intro. I found some posts on
stackoverflow.com that describe the same problems I'm seeing, but the code, presumably from
the same "Hello World" Android example doesn't match. So I'm still trying to find someone
posting about the same problem from the same Android example page
(Hello, World | Android Developers).

So far, no luck. And having to wait for as much as an hour or two to see if the virtual device will
actually produce the right results for once is getting rather tiresome, but I've seen posts all over
the stackoverflow.com site saying it takes a long time for it to load, so I guess that's just to be
expected.

Oh well. I'm heading back to trying to find out why the example isn't working here.

UPDATE: after posting this, I started back on the tabs with posts about similar problems, except I
started from the other end, and started finding examples. Then, I found the newbie developer forum
here ... not in the forum list, where I'd looked before, but in a search for "'Hello World' example".
So I'm back on the right track. Now, if I can just get used to the fact that this editor is not
vi (or more specifically, vim).....

 

[Martimus]

The challenge we sometimes face... is that many times people will ask for help, get that help, and implement the recommendations without doing any due dilligence... and then when the advice doesn't work out or causes unforseen problems, the individual will get upset or argumentative with the person who provided them the advise.

For that reason I feel it prudent to remind people that the folks here dishing out all of the good advise and help aren't professional tech support... they don't get paid for assisting others... they aren't trained by the phone manufacturers, and it's always best to make sure that what you do to your phone makes sense before you do it.

 

[GTbrewer]

The challenge we sometimes face... is that many times people will ask for help, get that help, and implement the recommendations without doing any due dilligence... and then when the advice doesn't work out or causes unforseen problems, the individual will get upset or argumentative with the person who provided them the advise.

For that reason I feel it prudent to remind people that the folks here dishing out all of the good advise and help aren't professional tech support... they don't get paid for assisting others... they aren't trained by the phone manufacturers, and it's always best to make sure that what you do to your phone makes sense before you do it.

I realize that this is not obvious or anything, but just so you know, I've been around the Internet since
before it was called the Internet (it was still Arpanet back then, but not for much longer), and Usenet
as well, back in the days when comp.sources.unix.* were all VERY active, and users and developers
all worked together in improving code for [whatever]. If someone gives me advice on how to do
something, and it doesn't work, I don't start placing blame...I ask what *I* missed.

And at this point (EDIT: wow, my brain really is in decline for the night...that makes zero sense!),
I started to rebuild my entire Hello World project to see if I could stop the AVD
from disconnecting every time it runs (I probably shouldn't have said that---don't respond to it here),
and just before my laptop crashed, I was having a nightmare re-creating the XML file that the wizard
made SO EASY the first time around...... But I'm not posting anything asking for help tonight...I'll
be looking through the Hello World example on the Android developer's site to see what I've
messed up THIS time.

If I can get that one app running on the emulator, without the emulator getting disconnected every
time, I can get started. With that in mind, my brain (thanks to chemo and brain surgery) is turning
to jello, so I don't have much time left to work on this before I can't even see the screen....

Later.....

 

[Martimus]

I realize that this is not obvious or anything, but just so you know, I've been around the Internet since
before it was called the Internet (it was still Arpanet back then, but not for much longer), and Usenet
as well, back in the days when comp.sources.unix.* were all VERY active, and users and developers
all worked together in improving code for [whatever]. If someone gives me advice on how to do
something, and it doesn't work, I don't start placing blame...I ask what *I* missed.

I hear ya... my first IT job was well over 30 years ago.

It's unfortunate that disclaimers are necessary in this world... but they are. And while that red line in my signature isn't aimed at anyone in particular it's there simply as a friendly reminder.

And at this point (EDIT: wow, my brain really is in decline for the night...that makes zero sense!),
I started to rebuild my entire Hello World project to see if I could stop the AVD
from disconnecting every time it runs (I probably shouldn't have said that---don't respond to it here),
and just before my laptop crashed, I was having a nightmare re-creating the XML file that the wizard
made SO EASY the first time around...... But I'm not posting anything asking for help tonight...I'll
be looking through the Hello World example on the Android developer's site to see what I've
messed up THIS time.

If I can get that one app running on the emulator, without the emulator getting disconnected every
time, I can get started. With that in mind, my brain (thanks to chemo and brain surgery) is turning
to jello, so I don't have much time left to work on this before I can't even see the screen....

Later.....

Good luck in figuring your application issue out!

 

[GTbrewer]

Good luck in figuring your application issue out!

I thought I had it last night....I re-built it all, following the instructions to the letter....was running it
under 1.5, per suggestions I saw somewhere, but after over an hour of it waiting for the HOME
application to start, I killed it. Then I moved it all to 2.2 and ran it again. I fell asleep, and when
I woke up, it'd been an hour and 20 minutes, and it hadn't started yet.....console said it was still
waiting. So something is still hosed. Even X11 starts faster (under Cygwin), with a window
maanager (ctwm) running from my FreeBSD system....that takes about 10 seconds, and X is a
REAL hog..... So it's back to the net to once again find something similar. :-(

 

[NightAngel79]

Welcome!!