Heidi's Journal

07/26/2010 19:14 #52299

nisha

nisha is watching uncle dudley's boyfriend through the kitchen door, occasionally woofing at him. she has trained him to feed her treats when he comes home in the evening. he claims to not like dogs.

(obligatory bug mention: i openwd the estrip app, took the pic of nisha, wrote the entry and now pics=0. reattaching now. both the orig size and stripped versions are in the gallery (separate issue with the motorola phone) how come the text doesn't wrap in the horizontal keyboard screen?)

paul - 07/26/10 20:18
Wow this is so super stupid. Apparently using android:singleLine="false" is not enough, you also need android:inputType ="textMultiLine" describing the same freakin text area to make it display line returns in the landscape keyboard. I would say that is an android bug.

I fixed that, version 1.10 is out.

paul - 07/26/10 19:36
Why is it sideways, argh.

07/25/2010 17:10 #52284

car stories

i participated in the infringement theatre piece "car stories" this afternoon. some pix:

also enjoyed lemonade at a kid's lemonade standin the middle of car stories. he wanted us to sign a paper if we liked the lemonade with a buzzy shock pen.

07/25/2010 00:54 #52279

annie's house

annie's husband cut down 140 logs to build their log cabin. it's gorgeous with views of hills and a valley and family horses. i love the stuffed deer staring up at the ceiling. i have to remember to take vertical shots lile (e:matthew)!

metalpeter - 07/25/10 16:12
those step look fun, except like in the dark or when messed up. I like how long the pictures look.

07/25/2010 00:27 #52277

testing .7

next works! checking picture issue by annoying china cat

metalpeter - 07/25/10 16:10
like the cat

paul - 07/25/10 00:41
You phone must handle it completely different then mine. On mine the estrip_tmpPhoto.jpg is gone. I think the motorola gallery app is scanning the card for pictures and adding it. Mine totally does not do that. Not sure how I could fix it.

tinypliny - 07/25/10 00:34
Oh man - looky those paranormal glow-visors!

heidi - 07/25/10 00:31
Basement Kitteh!

I still show both the full size and stripped, resized images in my gallery.

07/24/2010 22:59 #52274

chocolate in toronto

(crap! the main journal entry field clears itself when it i hit the back button! take two...)

Lilith fair was a big Lilith fail today. Lana and i made it to whole foods when it started to rain. not just a little rain, a real downpour. we didn't want to stand in the rain so we went to the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Toronto for an early dinner. I'll try to find the name later. Edit: Annapurna Vegetarian Restaurant.) It cleared up for about 20 minutes and then started raining again. We decided to bail on Lilith altogether. instead we went to visit her daughter at her new (first!) job at Soma, a fancy chocolatier in the amazing Distillery Historic District. omg. best. chocolate. eva. i had a spicy hot chocolate and got some pieces to go.

oh, Canadians are weirder than just milk in a bag. their marshmallows are square. and evidently my dog has an alternate life in Toronto.

heidi - 07/25/10 00:42
AHHHHHH thank you for the long-press-home info. Exactly what I need - I've been wondering how to alt-tab but hadn't put it into words.

I realized when I was typing the steps that's how the back button functions. Thanks for clarifying it for me.

Yea for save draft! :-) Thanks, (e:Paul)!!!!!

paul - 07/25/10 00:38
I played with the steps you gave and hitting the back button in a text area after typing is like clicking undo. That is a android default, not something I wrote. By hitting back you are essentially asking it to undo the text you just wrote.

paul - 07/25/10 00:37
Well the next button works now in the update. However, the save feature you are looking for also kind of exists.

If you want to leave the app and have your text as is, just hit the home key. It brings you to the home screen. Then get whatever data you want and then long press the home key. It will bring up all running apps. Then select the estrip app which is running in the background and you should be good to go.

To be extra safe you can select the title again before leaving. Whenever you switch between title and entry it saves the data to you phones local database until the publish button is pressed.

heidi - 07/25/10 00:37
The ready-to-eat bar at Whole Foods was $2.99/100 grams. I found a piece of cheese for comparison that was 92 grams - it was nothing! Way expensive. And I can't believe I forgot to get gas before leaving the US and paid >$4/gal. (That's C$1.049 per litre. Liter?)

tinypliny - 07/25/10 00:30
Apparently, "Annapurna peaks are the world's most dangerous mountains to climb, with a fatality to summit ratio of more than 40%". The wonders of wiki-surfing.

Well... at least they use SI units. We all know how weird it is to be Liberia, Burma and US. ;-)

heidi - 07/25/10 00:23
1. tap estrip icon
2. tap title field
3. type. (hit next, no response, hit the back button to return to the entry fields screen)
4. tap the blog field.
5. type. don't hit the done field because the next button didn't work. hit the back button, realize you want to look up the name of the first vegetarian restaurant in Toronto, hit back button again, it clears the blog field. *sigh* and retype.

I think this means I want a "save draft" feature.

paul - 07/25/10 00:23
Oh and there is an app update that should fix the next button and temp photo issue on your phone.

paul - 07/25/10 00:14
What do you mean by back button? It should cancel the back button so that you can't do that like we talked about the other night.