Bug? Designer not working

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

how can I fix this designer? I have run the emulator and connected the designer but still not display

attached is the print screen..

 

[giga]

how can I fix this designer? I have run the emulator and connected the designer but still not display

attached is the print screen..

Are you loading the Layout in your code?

 

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

you mean the layout in the abstract designer (circle in red in the attached print screen)?

 

[Erel]

Seems like you didn't load the layout file. Choose File - Load Layout File.

 

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

How can I load layout file? is it the same on the print screen? Im just following this tutorial --> http://virtuscomputing.com/basic4android-hello-world-tutorial/ .. still the designer not working..

 

[giga]

Here is where your layout loads.

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime AsBoolean)
Activity.LoadLayout("Layout1")
End Sub

Replace Layout1 with the name of your layout

 

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

Cant I make the command button or the textbox via designer by drag and drop since the designer wont load? Do I have to type them one by one? Thanx

 

[giga]

Are you not doing this in your layout??

I create buttons and textboxes in designer while connected to a device or the emulator. You still need to load the layout to see what it looks like on the device(Size,Placement etc.)

 

[Erel]

You can load a layout file in the designer:

 

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

no layout displayed while im connected to emulator.

This is what I did, but the designer wont load properly
1. Open the Basic4Android application
2. Open the AVD manager
3. Load the Android emulator
4. Go back to Basic4Android then clicked file+save and type "sample1.b4a" then save
5. After the Android emulator loaded, Click the designer
6. 2 forms appeared, 1 named "designer" and the other one named "Abstract Designer"
7. Abstract Designer says: "This is the abstract Designer. Connect to the emulator or device to start the WYSIWYG"
8. I clicked on "Status: Disconnected. Double click on the icon to connect"
9. Status says: "Connected", Abstract designer says the same thing: "This is the abstract Designer. Connect to the emulator or device to start the WYSIWYG". Cant add a command button or a textbox on abstract designer

Did I miss something? or Something wrong with my configuration. Did B4Android wont work on windows 8?

thanx a lot

 

[Erel]

B4A is compatible with Windows 8.

Android emulator is far from being perfect. Sometimes creating a new AVD solves such problems. However did you add any view with Add View menu?

 

[giga]

no layout displayed while im connected to emulator.

This is what I did, but the designer wont load properly
1. Open the Basic4Android application
2. Open the AVD manager
3. Load the Android emulator
4. Go back to Basic4Android then clicked file+save and type "sample1.b4a" then save
5. After the Android emulator loaded, Click the designer
6. 2 forms appeared, 1 named "designer" and the other one named "Abstract Designer"
7. Abstract Designer says: "This is the abstract Designer. Connect to the emulator or device to start the WYSIWYG"
8. I clicked on "Status: Disconnected. Double click on the icon to connect"
9. Status says: "Connected", Abstract designer says the same thing: "This is the abstract Designer. Connect to the emulator or device to start the WYSIWYG". Cant add a command button or a textbox on abstract designer

Did I miss something? or Something wrong with my configuration. Did B4Android wont work on windows 8?

thanx a lot

Can you upload a screenshot of your code without the emulator in front of it?

 

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

here's my code

#Region Project Attributes
#ApplicationLabel: B4A Example
#VersionCode: 1
#VersionName:
'SupportedOrientations possible values: unspecified, landscape or portrait.
#SupportedOrientations: unspecified
#CanInstallToExternalStorage: False
#End Region

#Region Activity Attributes
#FullScreen: False
#IncludeTitle: True
#End Region

Sub Process_Globals
'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
'These variables can be accessed from all modules.

End Sub

Sub Globals
'These global variables will be redeclared each time the activity is created.
'These variables can only be accessed from this module.

End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
'Do not forget to load the layout file created with the visual designer. For example:
'Activity.LoadLayout("Layout1")

End Sub

Sub Activity_Resume

End Sub

Sub Activity_Pause (UserClosed As Boolean)

End Sub

 

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

by the way, I try to use the B4 bridge and it appears to have the same problem.. I thought its the Android emulator is giving me the problem but I guess its the B4Android has the problem. Ever since I have purchased this IDE I was not able to compile even a single application.. Good thing for Eclipse though but not with this IDE

 

[Erel]

From the pictures it seems like everything works fine. You just didn't add any view (I already asked you about it in my previous post).

 

[Franco Neil Glovasa]

it works....

thanx a lot for your help..

by the way.. how to load the compiled app on the emulator?

 

[Erel]

Just press on F5 (or the run button).

I recommend you to start with the Beginner's guide: http://www.b4x.com/android/documentation.html