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Tuesday November 29, 2005 |
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[TIP] Change layout of your Flow Design
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I discovered from answers in NetCAT survey that lot of mobility users don't know that they can change layout of components in Flow design. I'm not talking about change of a component layout but only about change of positions of the components/transitions in Flow design. I briefly noticed it in my post about changes in a q-build of Mobility Pack 5.0
It's time to describe it a little bit more. I prepared little flash demo - link is at the end of post.
How you can change layout of components in Flow Design?
There are too modes of Flow Design - normal (default) and re-design. You'll switch to re-design mode when you hold CTRL (Control) in Flow design area.
- Normal mode - it's the default one. You can add components from palette to your MIDlet. You can move components - click on component with left mouse button, hold the button and move the component to new location. If you move component then its transitions will move too. New post will appear on component when you'll add command or list element to the component.
- Re-design mode - hold CTRL to switch to redesign mode -> there will appear red points in Flow design area. You can redesign port position or transition layout. Move the red points to redesign the layout.
Look at small demo of redesign of components layout in Flow design
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( Nov 29 2005, 06:20:00 PM CET )
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Friday November 25, 2005 |
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Mails aren't comming from nb.org
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It don't want to blame anybody! I won't cry. I won't send an email to mailing list on netbeans.org site for at least weekend. I'll be offline anyway 
There are again some problems with mailing list on NetBeans site so don't be suprised that your emails are returning back and you cannot read your favorite information stream.
Issue about problem has been already reported - see issue 69129
I hope that it will be solved quickly (right now I'm hoping for more then 2 days...)
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( Nov 25 2005, 04:00:00 PM CET )
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Thursday November 24, 2005 |
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My Guest Map - GoogleMap API usage
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 I found in posts on edschepis.net nice links to some web apps that use Google Maps API. I like mostly Spacecraft Tracker and Guestmap. You can see an example of GuestMap on the picture on right side.
I tried to create my own Guest Map  . You can visit it and left me a message and your actual location 
I find it very similar to my ClustrMap. The Clustr Maps remember visitor location automatically but it doesn't have such nice zoom as Google Maps
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( Nov 24 2005, 05:00:00 PM CET )
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Wednesday November 23, 2005 |
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Beta2 is rebuilt
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Serious issue was found by our NetCAT users in Beta2. They reported it on the NetCAT mailing list. Even if the issue doesn't look as serious issue because it happens only on localized windows we decided to respin Beta2. It means that the bug was fixed in Beta2. Beta2 build was re-built. Re-tested and then re-placed on nb.org download site.
Problem Description
It happend when we wanted to fix problem with locked files on windows for our user after Beta1. We workarounded this "lock" problem by copying jar and jad to system's default temporary directory and using it from this location instead of direct using jar/jad from dist directory. This caused another problem that we didn't expected - the name of the TEMP directory is in this location C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Local Settings\Temp\in English windows. The name of the directory is same in Czech windows too (that's the reason why I had no chance to find it  ) Unfortunatelly the "Local Settings" part of the directory is translated in Spanish, Swedish and other languagues and the directory contains non-ascii characters then. WTK2.2 cannot run jar/jad where there are non-ascii characters in path (it's known bug noticed in MP5.0 Release Notes). This was the main reason why our users started complain about Beta2 quality. Instead of running emulator they received exception.
Running with storage root DefaultColorPhone
java.io.IOException: storageOpen(): No such file or directory, C:\Documents and Settings\Alejandro\Configuraci?n local\Temp\nbrun17087\SMSTest.jad
at com.sun.midp.io.j2me.storage.RandomAccessStream.connect (RandomAccessStream.java:90)
at com.sun.midp.dev.DevMIDletSuiteImpl.create(DevMIDletSuiteImpl.java:169)
at com.sun.midp.dev.DevMIDletSuiteImpl.create(DevMIDletSuiteImpl.java:91)
at com.sun.midp.main.Main.runLocalClass (Main.java:453)
at com.sun.midp.main.Main.main(Main.java:126)
Execution completed.
Solution
There was big discussion about possible solutions. Starting with ignoring it, providing a patch for affected users and even recommending crazy workaround to change path to TEMP directory in Environment Variables.
Finally we decided to do the best for our users. The best thing is to re-spin the Beta2 build with the bugfix of this issue. The fix is easy - the jar and jad will be still copied to a temporary location but it won't be system's default temporary directory anymore. It will be copied to an temporary directory that is created in the dist directory of your project. This directory will be automatically deleted when you'll finish emulator's session.
Who Is Affected?
Users with localized windows installations. If you cannot run any MIDlet in emulator then you should re-install your Mobility Pack with re-builded Beta2 build. There is no need to re-install NetBeans only the Mobility Pack. You don;t have to un-install it before installation this will be done as part of new installation. The installer will ask you if you want to un-install existing Mobility Pack Beta2 during installation steps.
Download Re-builded Beta2
The new re-builded Beta2 build of Mobility Pack 5.0 can be downloaded from the same location as the "old" Beta2 build. We replaced the "old" build with "new" one.
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( Nov 23 2005, 07:45:00 PM CET )
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Monday November 21, 2005 |
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I got married
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There isn't any reason to keep it in secret no more. I got married on Friday November 18th. It was only small ceremony with our families. Bride was cute - look at the pictures
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( Nov 21 2005, 06:00:00 PM CET )
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Wednesday November 16, 2005 |
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Beta 2 for Mobility Pack 5.0 is live
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Download from here... don't forget to download NetBeans Beta2 too.
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( Nov 16 2005, 08:00:00 PM CET )
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Sun Studio 11 x Sun Java Studio Enterprise
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I'm always confused with all the names and product lines. It can get even more complicated when a product line is re-named or re-numbered. I used to remember names like j2se, j2me, jdk 1.5, jdk 1.6, Forte CE, Forte EE, Nokia 5110 etc. And they renamed it It's progress and I have to live with that
I wrote about free Sun Studio 11 and from Iwan's comment it seems that he's talking about Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8. It's time to briefly explain the difference.
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( Nov 16 2005, 02:00:00 PM CET )
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Sun Studio 11 - for free
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First I noticed this announcement I was suprised. I remember that Sun Studio cost lot of money and they are giving it for free now. Are they crazy? but they aren't. We( SUN) have a
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N. It started with NetBeans. Now we have so much tools for free and even operating system with OpenOffice. Wow. I won't rather not read my previous sentences 'cause it seems to me like a marketing guy letter but it isn't...
Back to Sun Studio 11. I was curious what NetBeans version is it build on. I remember that I participated on testing of previous versions of Sun Studio 9 and 10 - they were build on NetBeans 3.5 I expected that version 11 should be build on something newer... FYI it is still builded on NetBeans 3.5
Well, I know that they schedule is little bit different from NetBeans' schedule (which is a little bit tought) but why this C++/Fortran guys always get stucked. There has been three next releases 3.6, 4.0, 4.1 Isn't it time to switch? I expect that customers of Sun Studio are some hardcore programmers that like the emacs, vi and command line most but these will ignore the change anyway...
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( Nov 16 2005, 02:00:00 AM CET )
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Tuesday November 15, 2005 |
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Jonathan on Java Posse
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I'm really busy with coming Beta2 of Mobility Pack but I found this interesting post in my JavaPosse rss feed reader (thank you, thunderbird),
I've heard only a half of it and it was interesting - I should listen this podcasts more often...
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( Nov 15 2005, 01:00:00 PM CET )
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Sunday November 13, 2005 |
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Breh is on board
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 Martin B. well-known as Breh finally made the big step and started his "blogging" era. I know Martin for looong time and I'm glad to see him in blogosphera. He has almost everytime something to say.
He is the from Mobility Development Team and he is one of fathers of the famous Visual Mobile Designer. Are you interested to his blog? Follow this link please.
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( Nov 13 2005, 11:59:00 PM CET )
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