Android Question BlinkTextView added in Designer

[mmieher]

Are you still out there? I am not having any luck with a SMMBlinkTextView simply added with the Designer. Should not have to do anything right?

I tried adding Reflection library, but to no avail. Also, the log is not happy at all: "Library 'BlinkTextViewWrapper' is not used. (warning #32)"

I just want to blink, man.

*** Service (starter) Create ***
** Service (starter) Start **
** Activity (main) Create, isFirst = true **
Error occurred on line: 20 (B4XMainPage)
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.keywords.Common.CallSubDebug2(Common.java:1058)
    at b4a.example.b4xpagesmanager._createpageifneeded(b4xpagesmanager.java:1060)
    at b4a.example.b4xpagesmanager._showpage(b4xpagesmanager.java:417)
    at b4a.example.b4xpagesmanager._addpage(b4xpagesmanager.java:245)
    at b4a.example.b4xpagesmanager._addpageandcreate(b4xpagesmanager.java:259)
    at b4a.example.b4xpagesmanager._initialize(b4xpagesmanager.java:165)
    at b4a.example.main._activity_create(main.java:415)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.runMethod(Shell.java:732)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEventImpl(Shell.java:351)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEvent(Shell.java:255)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.ShellBA.raiseEvent2(ShellBA.java:144)
    at b4a.example.main.afterFirstLayout(main.java:105)
    at b4a.example.main.access$000(main.java:17)
    at b4a.example.main$WaitForLayout.run(main.java:83)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7656)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.debug.Debug.CallSub4(Debug.java:336)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.debug.Debug.CallSubNew2(Debug.java:285)
    ... 24 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.debug.Debug.CallSub4(Debug.java:318)
    ... 25 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassCastException: smm.SBlinkTextViewWrapper.BlinkTextViewWrapper cannot be cast to anywheresoftware.b4a.keywords.Common$DesignerCustomView
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.keywords.LayoutBuilder.loadLayout(LayoutBuilder.java:170)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.PanelWrapper.LoadLayout(PanelWrapper.java:134)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.B4XViewWrapper.LoadLayout(B4XViewWrapper.java:312)

 

[mmieher]

This all works. vxAbort is just a dummy label added in the Desginer that is not enabled or visible.

Dim Blink As SMMBlinkTextView
    Blink.Initialize("vxAbort")
    Dim b4xBlink As B4XView = Blink
    b4xBlink.SetLayoutAnimated(0, vxAbort.Left, vxAbort.Top, vxAbort.Width, vxAbort.Height)
    b4xBlink.SetColorAndBorder(0xFF7FFF00, 2dip, clrApp, 6dip)   '  the illusive ColorDrawable
    b4xBlink.SetTextAlignment("CENTER","CENTER")
    b4xBlink.TextColor = vxAbort.TextColor
    b4xBlink.TextSize = vxAbort.TextSize
    b4xBlink.Text = "A B O R T"
    Blink.AddToParent(xPage, vxAbort.Left, vxAbort.Top, vxAbort.Width, vxAbort.Height)
    Blink.BringToFront

 

[Erel]

I'm not familiar with this library. Based on the error message it isn't implemented as a custom view.

 

[mmieher]

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/blinktextview.61009/#content

 

[Alexander Stolte]

Shouldn't be that hard to create a B4X view, then you can add it in the designer and additionally in all IDE's of B4X.
If that's a solution for you, I'll do it quickly.

 

[udg]

Just blinking? Did you have a look at this very old lib of mine.?
If not for the lib itself, it could give you a simple hint on a standard Android component.

 

[mmieher]

Just blinking? Did you have a look at this very old lib of mine.?
If not for the lib itself, it could give you a simple hint on a standard Android component.

I have seen this. Need to study it more. Thank you.

 

[mmieher]

Shouldn't be that hard to create a B4X view, then you can add it in the designer and additionally in all IDE's of B4X.
If that's a solution for you, I'll do it quickly.

Thank you, Alexander. Doing something exactly like that is high on my "to learn" list.

I was mistakenly hung up for a bit thinking that events would not fire during a Sleep. Turned out that the click would not work when the view was briefly "off". Transparent label over the blinking thing fixed it.

I use so much of your stuff. If I ever make a dime on anything, I'll be hitting the Donate button.

 

[Alexander Stolte]

Thank you, Alexander. Doing something exactly like that is high on my "to learn" list.

I had a short break earlier, so I did this quickly, since I'm not at home, I could only test the whole thing in B4J, later I'll publish it officially, but you can see if it works as well as the other library.

You can add this view with the designer or per code

'Creates as view per code
Dim Blink As AS_BlinkTextView
Blink.Initialize(Me,"Blink")
Blink.AddToParent(Root,0,0,50dip,50dip)
Blink.Text = "Test"
Blink.Font = xui.CreateDefaultBoldFont(20)
Blink.TextColor = xui.Color_White
Blink.AnimationDuration = 250
Blink.StartBlink

 

[Alexander Stolte]

I use so much of your stuff. If I ever make a dime on anything, I'll be hitting the Donate button.

Hehe, thanks

 

[Alexander Stolte]

[B4X] [XUI] AS BlinkTextView

A TextView that blinks, just like the good old HTML tag. https://github.com/frakbot/BlinkTextView https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/blinktextview.61009/#content i spend a lot of time in creating views, some views i need by my self, but some views not and to create a high quality view...

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