Public Road Trailhead

Beautiful day in Colorado so we tried a new-to-us trail by home.

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Beautiful day at berry patch

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Flat Irons Mall

Flat Irons has changed a lot since last time here.  Like the toys.

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Flat Irons mall has changed a lot.

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gas overnight

James says mixes that use Mg or Al (possibly any metals?) mix til
change then gas overnight - good for density and also splits process
to 2 days.

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Deer at the Office

I was attempting to take a picture of the giant deer resting by the truck but you can't see it at all (well, you can see it's butt but the head and antlers were the impressive part). I thought the picture turned out nice so I'm posting it :)

trouble with ViewFlipper

I got totally side-tracked in my Android app trying to do a quick implementation of onFling. The intent was to not have to worry about my GridView filling up with buckets - I thought I could just max out the current view at 9 and implement onFling to take in the swipe gesture from the user to move over and look at the next (or previous) 9 buckets.

My first surprise was that it was harder than I expected! I shouldn't have been surprised :) Seriously, I thought that I could just wrap my existing view with the ViewFlipper and provide an index for 'paging'. I ended up implementing (hard-coding) 3 static pages with the intention of just ignoring the swipe if there weren't any next / previous screens. My second surprise was that I couldn't get the onFling / GestureDetector to fire. I thought I had grown a solid understanding of Android but sheesh - this should be trivial stuff.

Added to onCreate

        mViewFlipper = (ViewFlipper) findViewById(R.id.main_flipper);
        mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(new FlingGestureDetector());
        mGestureListener = new OnTouchListener() {
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                Log.d(getClass().getSimpleName(), "HERE onTouch");
                if (mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event)) {
                    return true;
                }
                return false;
            }
        };

Then I added this inner class. Just a quick reminder, this doesn't currently work - I'm just recording the notes here.

    class FlingGestureDetector extends SimpleOnGestureListener {
        @Override
        public boolean onFling(MotionEvent eventStart, MotionEvent eventEnd, float velocity, float unusedVelocity) {
            Log.i(getClass().getSimpleName(), "onFling (" + eventStart + ", " + eventEnd + ", " + velocity + ")");

            try {
                if (Math.abs(eventStart.getY() - eventEnd.getY()) > FLING_MAX_DEVIATION) {
                    Log.d(MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(), "onFling too much Y in motion, not fling");
                    return false;
                }
                if (eventStart.getX() - eventEnd.getX() > FLING_MIN_DISTANCE && Math.abs(velocity) > FLING_MIN_VELOCITY) {
                    mViewFlipper.setInAnimation(AnimationUtils.makeInAnimation(MainActivity.this, true));
                    mViewFlipper.setOutAnimation(AnimationUtils.makeOutAnimation(MainActivity.this, true));
                    mViewFlipper.showNext();
                } else if (eventEnd.getX() - eventStart.getX() > FLING_MIN_DISTANCE && Math.abs(velocity) > FLING_MIN_VELOCITY) {
                    mViewFlipper.setInAnimation(AnimationUtils.makeInAnimation(MainActivity.this, false));
                    mViewFlipper.setOutAnimation(AnimationUtils.makeOutAnimation(MainActivity.this, false));
                    mViewFlipper.showPrevious();
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Log.w(MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(), "onFling ignoring unexpected exception: " + e);
            }
            return false;
        }
    }

    OnTouchListener mGestureListener;

    /**
     * Most people will probably just have the 1 page of buckets but for the
     * people lucky enough to have more than 9 / 12 / whatever the number is,
     * they can fling thru the pages.
     */
    private int mViewIndex = 0;

Blah blah blah - just a distraction. I need to get back to fixing sync'ing and adding buckets.