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I am getting to the stage of conquering Kotlin where I start feeling comfortable regarding myself as a Kotlin coder. Kotlin, of course, is the primary tool for writing code for the Android platform. Yes, Java can code for Android as well, but Java is getting long in the tooth.
A couple of days ago, I had to code a dialog box with CANCEL and PROCEED buttons, where the user can confirm some choice (or cancel out of it.) The idea was for the UI to stop and wait for user input. But I tried everything and there was no way to stop the UI. It would pop up my dialog, but instead of waiting it went on its merry way, continuing to execute statements. It nearly drove me nuts, until in desperation I googled the problem. And there was the answer: Some Android expert said there is no way to stop the Android UI, as everything in Android is async. Aaaargh! I wish somebody told me that! I bought 3 books on writing Kotlin code for Android and not one shared that little gem with me.
It seems you may have to make some fancy moves while waiting for user input, to make sure the UI doesn't wander off and do something stupid!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Not nearly as nuclear, but I found a nice replacement for js alert that is real cool and lightweight but unlike alert, does not stop execution. it's the last statement in the readme.md as if the dev is sorry about it. 
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UWP is the same way; the methods for their "content dialog" control are .Hide and .ShowAsync().
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Regardless of Java vs Kotlin, mobile apps in general are non-blocking (bad UX otherwise). That's one of the ways in which they differ from desktop apps.
Cp-Coder wrote: It seems you may have to make some fancy moves while waiting for user input, to make sure the UI doesn't wander off...
I've yet to have to resort to fanciness. It's mostly just making sure the design is correct and then taking advantage of what the OS already provides.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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And it often drives me crazy… after 35 years of CUA everywhere, mobile OSes decided to change everything to “happens now”.
Most mobile OSes have no OK/Cancel to commit a form at a time. It is a field at a time now.
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#Worldle #232 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #233 1/6 (100%)
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That's not the name I know it under! 
I admit, I had to google it under my name to find their name ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My sympathies to all you Brits. She was loved and respected in the U.S. almost as much as the Commonwealth. 
Watching all of the different YouTube videos of her past life, I am truly impressed by two things.
First, was her participation in the British armed forces during WWII, as an Automotive Mechanic! 
Second, was her sense of humor. The Paddington bear video and the James Bond video clip. 
My wife, a rabid anglophile, we would emigrate to England if I could get a job there. She put a life sized "sticker" of some sort on our refrigerator door, depicting a head shot of the queen smiling and waving.
She reminds me of my Mother-in-law who was one of the few people I have ever known that was selfless and totally good through and through.
Finally, I have to say that no one anywhere in the world does "Pomp and Circumstance" like the British! I guess that's what a Thousand Years or so in a country develops.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
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Earlier today I was watching the proclamation of the accession of King Charles the Third on BBC news and one of the commentators said something about the influence Queen Elizabeth the Second had on the world.
Apparently, in a typical German-English dictionary the translation for "the queen" is "die Königin" with a plural of "die Königinnen". There is also a translation for "the Queen" which is "die Queen"; there is no plural.
The fact that you could give this thread the subject it has confirms that around the world she was simply The Queen.
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It's official. I've just contributed to LVGL - Light and Versatile Embedded Graphics Library[^]
And big stuff too. A truetype engine that runs on middleweight MCUs. The lead on the project is super excited to have it, and I'm excited to provide it.
Also added a feature that was sorely lacking - a way to stream data out of arrays embedded in header files. Now my fonts can work off an array in flash as well as working off an open file.
This is cool. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Congrats
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer is finally available for download.
JaxCoder.com
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I was getting super frustrated. It's taking me longer to push this than it did to write it.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Message Closed
modified 11-Sep-22 1:49am.
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A new school year has begun.
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What's an "era" in this context? And a "business Pin"?
If you want this kind of flexibility, you should separate the GUI and server components of your application. You can then provide a GUI on various clients and run your server on various platforms. Which framework(s) are best for each component isn't something I can tell you, because I don't have much experience building these kinds of applications.
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Build using a technology familiar to you, and get a working solution ready. Then it can be ported to another technology with not much effort.
Better to get something in hand rather than spend time endlessly in deciding which way to proceed.
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A web server can run locally. In fact, many devices use an "on board" web server to present an interface.
This gets back to the proper definition of "requirements".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a pool?
Bob.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idea.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What do you call a deer with no eyes, and no legs?
Still no idea.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You didn't post the third part of the joke 
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
1.
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KSS!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nammit!!
You build up to that, just to post that you can't post the part that makes it a joke? It's not even Googleable due to the search terms! (Google "blind deer" is not yielding jokes)
So now I walk the rest of the day with an incomplete joke in my head.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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