heres the code
var _obj;
if (instance_exists(obj_text)) _obj = obj_txt_queued; else _obj = obj_text;
with (instance_create_layer(0, 0, "text_layer", _obj))
{
msg = argument[0];
if (instance_exists(other)) originInstance = other.id else originInstance = noone;
if (argument_count > 1) background = argument[1]; else background = 1;
}
with (obj_phae)
{ if (state != scr_player_state_lock)
{
lastState = state;
state = scr_player_state_lock;
}
}
[layers](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9u9tD.png)
I tried removing any extra rooms that were not needed and I tried changing the layer name to something else.
I also tried using var instance_create_layer() but that obviously didn't work
I'm a bit confused at this part:
with (instance_create_layer(0, 0, "text_layer", _obj))
Especially the with(), as that function will go through every object in the room if it sees an object within the parameter, since you suggested to create a new object with it, I'm surprised it doesn't create an infinite loop. Maybe it works, I've never tried it myself, but I think there's a more logical way to assign variables from one object to a newly created object.
Assuming you want to use the With() statement to address the variables within the _obj, I think you can manage something similair through this function:
var object = instance_create_layer(0, 0, "text_layer", _obj)
object.msg = argument[0];
object.originInstance = id
if (argument_count > 1) object.background = argument[1]; else object.background = 1;
It's probably a given at this point, but double-check that this part of code can only run if it's in the same room that has a layer called "text_layer"
In the worst case, you may also try out instance_create_depth() and use the build-in depth variable from the object instead of the layer names. Using depth is more flexible, but less organised than layers.
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Is there a better way of doing this seems mundan to be retyping every var I think though automaper is to much for such a record however.
It works fine but I cant help but think could be neater I want to copy people cache also into the poi record
public POI FindPersonOrVessel(POI poiRecord ,int CaseId)
{
//each person that will be saved here will have a urn unique record number
var findPersoninCache = _context.PeopleCache.Where(w => w.PersonUrn == poiRecord.Id);
{
PeopleCache peopleCache = new PeopleCache();
peopleCache.FirstName = poiRecord.FirstName;
peopleCache.LastName = poiRecord.LastName;
peopleCache.DOB = poiRecord.DOB;
peopleCache.Age = poiRecord.Age;
peopleCache.Alias = peopleCache.Alias;
peopleCache.MISObjectId = CaseId;
peopleCache.FacialFeatures = poiRecord.FacialFeatures;
peopleCache.PersonUrn = poiRecord.Id;
_context.PeopleCache.Add(peopleCache);
_context.SaveChanges();
_toast.AddSuccessToastMessage("Saved Poi to Cache");
}
}
You could place the copy function into it's own method (passing into it whatever objects u need), then call that method in findpersonorvessel. On the surface its neat, the "messy details" are encapsulated.
Or putting it more accurately, I want to be able to get the distance between the top of a control to the top of one of its children (and adding the height member of all the above children yields specious results!) but the process of getting the absolute coordinates, and comparing them, looks really messed up.
I use this function to calculate the height between the tops of 2 tags:
private static function GetRemainingHeight(oParent:Container, oChild:Container,
yParent:Number, yChild:Number):Number {
const ptParent:Point = oParent.localToGlobal(new Point(0, yParent));
const ptChild:Point = oChild.localToGlobal(new Point(0, yChild));
const nHeightOfEverythingAbove:Number = ptChild.y - ptParent.y;
trace(ptChild.y.toString() + '[' + yChild.toString() + '] - ' +
ptParent.y.toString() + '[' + yParent.toString() + '] = ' + nHeightOfEverythingAbove.toString() + ' > ' + oParent.height.toString());
return nHeightOfEverythingAbove;
}
Note that oParent.y == yParent and oChild.y == yChild but I did it this way for binding reasons.
The result I get is very surprising:
822[329] - 124[0] = 698 > 439
which is impossible, because the top of oChild does not disappear below oParent. The only figure I find unexpected is ptChild.y. All the other numbers look quite sane. So I'm assuming that my mistake was in subtracting two figures that are not supposed to be comparable.
Of course, if anyone has a method of calculating the difference between two points that doesn't involve localToGlobal(), that'd be fine, too.
I'm using the 3.5 SDK.
I found a partial answer by looking to http://rjria.blogspot.ca/2008/05/localtoglobal-vs-contenttoglobal-in.html (including the comments). It dithers on whether or not I should be using localToGlobal() or contentToGlobal(), but it filled in some blanks that Adobe's documentation left, which is that you get the global coordinates by feeding the function new Point(0, 0). In the end, I used this:
public static function GetRemainingHeight(oParent:DisplayObject, oChild:DisplayObject,
yParent:Number, yChild:Number):Number {
const ptParent:Point = oParent.localToGlobal(new Point(0, 0));
const ptChild:Point = oChild.localToGlobal(new Point(0, 0));
const nHeightOfEverythingAbove:Number = ptChild.y - ptParent.y;
return nHeightOfEverythingAbove;
}
See question for an explanation for the seemingly unnecessary parameters, which now seem like they might really be irrelevant.
However, I didn't need this function as often as I thought, and I'm not terribly happy w/the way it works anyway. I've learned that the way I've done it, it isn't possible to just make all those parameters to the function Bindable and expect this function to be called when changes to oChild are made. In one case I had to call this function in the handler for the updateComplete event.
I'm currently developing an android app for reading out multiple sensor values via Bluetooth and display them in a graph. When I stumbled upon jjoe64's GraphViewLibrary, I knew this would fit my purposes perfectly. But now I'm kind of stuck. Basically, I wrote a little function that would generate and display the values of three sensors in 3 different graphs one under the other. This works just fine when the activity is started first, all three graphs a nicely rendered and displayed. But when I want to update the graphs with different values using the resetData()-method to render the new values in each graph, only the last of the three graphs is updated. Obviously, because it's the last graph generated using this rather simple function. My question is: Is there any other elegant way to use a function like mine for generating and updating all three graphs one after the other? I already tried to set the GraphView variable back to null and different combinations of removing and adding the view. Passing the function a individual GraphView-variable like graphView1, graphView2... does also not work.
Here is the function:
private GraphView graphView;
private GraphViewSeries graphViewSerie;
private Boolean graphExisting = false;
...
public void makeGraphs (float[] valueArray, String heading, int graphId) {
String graphNumber = "graph"+graphId;
int resId = getResources().getIdentifier(graphNumber,"id", getPackageName());
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(resId);
int numElements = valueArray.length;
GraphViewData[] data = new GraphViewData[numElements];
for (int c = 0; c<numElements; c++) {
data[c] = new GraphViewData(c+1, valueArray[c]);
Log.i(tag, "GraphView Graph"+graphId+": ["+(c+1)+"] ["+valueArray[c]+"].");
}
if (!graphExisting) {
// init temperature series data
graphView = new LineGraphView(
this // context
, heading // heading
);
graphViewSerie = new GraphViewSeries(data);
graphView.addSeries(graphViewSerie);
((LineGraphView) graphView).setDrawBackground(true);
graphView.getGraphViewStyle().setNumHorizontalLabels(numElements);
graphView.getGraphViewStyle().setNumVerticalLabels(5);
graphView.getGraphViewStyle().setTextSize(10);
layout.addView(graphView);
}
else {
//graphViewSerie = new GraphViewSeries(data);
//graphViewSerie.resetData(data);
graphViewSerie.resetData(new GraphViewData[] {
new GraphViewData(1, 1.2f)
, new GraphViewData(2, 1.4f)
, new GraphViewData(2.5, 1.5f) // another frequency
, new GraphViewData(3, 1.7f)
, new GraphViewData(4, 1.3f)
, new GraphViewData(5, 1.0f)
});
}
And this is the function-call depending on an previously generated array (which is being monitored to be filled with the right values):
makeGraphs(graphData[0], "TempHistory", 1);
makeGraphs(graphData[1], "AirHistory", 2);
makeGraphs(graphData[2], "SensHistory", 3);
graphExisting = true;
Any help and / or any feedback in general is greatly appreciated! Lots of thanks in advance!
EDIT / UPDATE:
Thanks to jjoe64's answer I was able to modify the function to work properly. I was clearly having a mistake in my thinking, since I thought I'd also be changing a GraphViewSeries-object I would handle my function as additional parameter (which I tried before). Of course this does not work. However, with this minor Improvements I managed to make this work using a Graphviewseries Array. To give people struggling with a similar problem an idea of what I had to change, here the quick-and-dirty draft of the solution.
I just changed
private GraphViewSeries graphViewSerie;
to
private GraphViewSeries graphViewSerie[] = new GraphViewSeries[3];
and access the right Series using the already given parameter graphId within the function (if-clause) like this:
int graphIndex = graphId - 1;
graphViewSerie[graphIndex] = new GraphViewSeries(data);
In the else-clause I'm updating the series likewise by calling
graphViewSerie[graphIndex].resetData(data);
So, once again many thanks for your support, jjoe64. I'm sorry I wasn't able to update the question earlier, but I did not find time for it.
of course it is not working correct, because you save always the latest graphseries-object in the member graphViewSerie.
First you have to store the 3 different graphviewseries (maybe via array or map) and then you have to access the correct graphviewseries-object in the else clause.
I have a global variable 'csId' of string type. In the code below under drawChart() function, in for loop, csID variable should be set to '1' by the modelLocator when i=0 and csId should be set to '2' by modelLocator when i=1.(considering lengh=2).
Alert in drawchart() (for csId) seems to be printing the right 'csid' values(both 1 and 2) but in the dataFunction() 'columnSeries_labelFunc' i am always getting the csId Alert value as '2' and never as '1'.
Please find the code below:
drawchart() function::
public function drawChart():void
{
var cs:ColumnSeries= new ColumnSeries();
var lenght:Number=AppModelLocator.getInstance().ctsModel.productSummary.getItemAt(0).collMgmtOfcList.length;
myChart.series = [cs];
var tempObj:Object;
for(csLoop=0;csLoop<lenght;csLoop++)
{
cs = new ColumnSeries();
this.csId= new String(String(AppModelLocator.getInstance().ctsModel.productSummary.getItemAt(0).collMgmtOfcList[csLoop]));
Alert.show("csId="+this.csId);
cs.id=this.csId;
cs.displayName = 'Exposure';
cs.dataFunction=columnSeries_labelFunc;
myChart.series[csLoop] = cs;
}
columnSeries_labelFunc() function::
private function columnSeries_labelFunc(series:Series, item:Object, fieldName:String):Object {
var col:Number=0;
Alert.show("value of csid in columnSeries_labelFunc="+this.csId);
if(fieldName == "yValue" && series.id==csId){
return(item.exposureUSDList[0]);
}else if(fieldName == "yValue" && series.id==csId) {
return(item.exposureUSDList[1]);
}else if(fieldName == "xValue"){
return(item.rptType);
}else
return null;
}
Please Help!!!
First: Assigning a value to a global variable repeatedly inside a loop is a bad idea. Nothing good will happen from that.
It's hard to tell from the context here, but the most likely reason that you're having this problem is that the flow of execution is as follows:
drawChart() executes synchronously, counting through each step in the loop, creating the ColumnSeries, which are each invalidated, meaning they will redraw on the next frame. The function ends, with csID at the last value it held.
The app goes into the next step in the elastic racetrack and validates the invalidated components.
columnSeries_labelFunc is called, with csID still holding the terminal value from the loop.
The end result being that columnSeries_labelFunc isn't called until you're already completely finished in drawChart.
The simplest fix would be to read the id that you're setting on the series in the label function, rather than relying on a global variable at all.
When the first cell of an excel sheet to import using ExcelStorage.ExtractRecords is empty, the process fail. Ie. If the data starts at col 1, row 2, if the cell (2,1) has an empty value, the method fails.
Does anybody know how to work-around this? I've tried adding a FieldNullValue attribute to the mapping class with no luck.
Here is a sample project that show the code with problems
Hope somebody can help me or point in some direction.
Thank you!
It looks like you have stumbled upon an issue in FileHelpers.
What is happening is that the ExcelStorage.ExtractRecords method uses an empty cell check to see if it has reached the end of the sheet. This can be seen in the ExcelStorage.cs source code:
while (CellAsString(cRow, mStartColumn) != String.Empty)
{
try
{
recordNumber++;
Notify(mNotifyHandler, mProgressMode, recordNumber, -1);
colValues = RowValues(cRow, mStartColumn, RecordFieldCount);
object record = ValuesToRecord(colValues);
res.Add(record);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Code removed for this example
}
}
So if the start column of any row is empty then it assumes that the file is done.
Some options to get around this:
Don't put any empty cells in the first column position.
Don't use excel as your file format -- convert to CSV first.
See if you can get a patch from the developer or patch the source yourself.
The first two are workarounds (and not really good ones). The third option might be the best but what is the end of file condition? Probably an entire row that is empty would be a good enough check (but even that might not work in all cases all of the time).
Thanks to the help of Tuzo, I could figure out a way of working this around.
I added a method to ExcelStorage class to change the while end condition. Instead of looking at the first cell for empty value, I look at all cells in the current row to be empty. If that's the case, return false to the while. This is the change to the while part of ExtractRecords:
while (!IsEof(cRow, mStartColumn, RecordFieldCount))
instead of
while (CellAsString(cRow, mStartColumn) != String.Empty)
IsEof is a method to check the whole row to be empty:
private bool IsEof(int row, int startCol, int numberOfCols)
{
bool isEmpty = true;
string cellValue = string.Empty;
for (int i = startCol; i <= numberOfCols; i++)
{
cellValue = CellAsString(row, i);
if (cellValue != string.Empty)
{
isEmpty = false;
break;
}
}
return isEmpty;
}
Of course if the user leaves an empty row between two data rows the rows after that one will not be processed, but I think is a good thing to keep working on this.
Thanks
I needed to be able to skip blank lines, so I've added the following code to the FileHelpers library. I've taken Sebastian's IsEof code and renamed the method to IsRowEmpty and changed the loop in ExtractRecords from ...
while (CellAsString(cRow, mStartColumn) != String.Empty)
to ...
while (!IsRowEmpty(cRow, mStartColumn, RecordFieldCount) || !IsRowEmpty(cRow+1, mStartColumn, RecordFieldCount))
I then changed this ...
colValues = RowValues(cRow, mStartColumn, RecordFieldCount);
object record = ValuesToRecord(colValues);
res.Add(record);
to this ...
bool addRow = true;
if (Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(RecordType, typeof(IgnoreEmptyLinesAttribute)) != null && IsRowEmpty(cRow, mStartColumn, RecordFieldCount))
{
addRow = false;
}
if (addRow)
{
colValues = RowValues(cRow, mStartColumn, RecordFieldCount);
object record = ValuesToRecord(colValues);
res.Add(record);
}
What this gives me is the ability to skip single empty rows. The file will be read until two successive empty rows are found