"The discussion of me in the article is pretty amusing, even if it never actually happened." So then what *did *actually happen? Ralph Dratman ... [Non-text...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 8, 2010 10:42 pm
... The real chain of events was addressed in my comments at the bottom of the article, including a quote of what I *actually* wrote. I've learned a good...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 20, 2010 4:36 am
This new release adds some fun but not-really-reliable language translations from Google's Translate engine. Also included are functions to guess the language...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 26, 2010 4:06 am
New Member jmlugrin@... posted the following message that I approved earlier but seems to be lost in Yahoo, so I'm quoting it here ... Hi, I tried...
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hb9duj
Jul 26, 2010 4:14 pm
Thanks, I may try to find a less precise algorithm, need to digg in the Meeus books and some others I have. -- hb9duj...
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hb9duj
Jul 26, 2010 4:22 pm
I would like to take some actions at specific time (more precisely give a warning using speak[] every couple of minutes based on a simple algorithm). Using...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 26, 2010 6:49 pm
... The algorithm I used is the same as the one in Meeus*, with the only difference being that I use *all* the terms of the full VSOP-87 theory, rather than...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 26, 2010 8:40 pm
... Short answer: * You could obtain a wake lock (perhaps a PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK) using android.os.PowerManager to keep the system from going to sleep, but that ...
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hb9duj
Jul 27, 2010 2:11 am
Hi, I tried drawSolarSystem on the Android (HTC desire, on 2.1) but had an out of memory. Before investigating if I can free some memory, I would like to know...
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hb9duj
Jul 28, 2010 5:13 am
Hi, As I go away a week without access to network, I had to find another way to look at the documentation of Frink on the Android. I simply loaded the html...
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Don Groves
pollyfonic
Jul 28, 2010 5:45 am
I've had an idea for long time now that a programming language should allow any Unicode symbol as a variable name to improve conciseness and also readability ...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 28, 2010 8:30 am
... Hmmm... have you actually tried doing it? It just might work. It just might have always worked. :) Well, like any other variable name, it has to begin...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 28, 2010 8:44 am
... Also see: http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#UnicodeInFrink which explains a more portable way of specifying Unicode identifiers that isn't dependent on other...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 28, 2010 9:04 am
... Since Android's standard browser doesn't let you load file:// URLs, I can't package the HTML documentation with Android and let you view it that way. So I...
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Don Groves
pollyfonic
Jul 28, 2010 9:00 pm
... Thanks, Alan! No, I haven't tried it in Frink. Not much time right now either. I've already decided that Frink will be one of my main languages when I do ...
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hb9duj
Aug 1, 2010 10:30 am
On the desire, the line than contains the buttons "", [], ... slightly overflow, so the last button ^() ends up using two lines. I think that the space between...
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hb9duj
Aug 1, 2010 10:40 am
Ooops, while creating the mail to ask how to get the up arrow functionality on the Android, I realized that the 'trackball' is used for that and works fine...
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hb9duj
Aug 8, 2010 7:35 am
The following code tesults im a forced closed (htc desire 2.1): startGPS[] p=getGPSLocationJava[] stopGPS[] println["done"] -- hb9duj...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 8, 2010 11:21 am
... Thanks for the nice, concise test case! This was a weird race condition that could happen if you stopped the GPS before the GPS-receiving thread even had...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 8, 2010 11:25 am
You'll probably find that the recent releases of Frink for Android greatly improved the behavior of both conversion and programming modes when the display is...
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hb9duj
Aug 8, 2010 1:20 pm
Thanks,I confirm that the correction works, there is no more forced close. I was able to display locations using the following programs. However a couple of...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 9, 2010 3:04 am
... That's probably normal if you haven't had the GPS on in a long time. Your unit will have to download ephemeris data from at least 4 satellites before it...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Oct 6, 2010 12:08 am
My friend installed Java 6.0 on his vista machine and then installed Frink from the website. He's not sure which method and it didn't work so he fiddled with...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 6, 2010 12:53 am
... From that, it's clear that he used Java Web Start to initially launch Frink, and is trying to use that cached file to start it again. That's not really...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Oct 6, 2010 9:45 am
Hi Alan! Everything is working great, thanks! I grabbed frink.jar and modified the batch file. Now Frink starts in programming mode with plenty of stack space...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 10, 2010 11:41 pm
... Glad to hear that it works! ... Interesting! I looked up the Eternity II puzzle. Has someone won it yet? Their website is stuck in 2009, and says...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Oct 14, 2010 9:44 pm
I don't think anyone has solved the Eternity II puzzle yet. Submissions received during the year are not looked at until very late December - so they can keep...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 24, 2010 10:52 am
This is why Android will forever be cooler than the iPhone: I noticed the following call in the Android API: 'ActivityManager.isUserAMonkey() : Returns "true"...
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Daniel Kersten
dkersten@...
Oct 24, 2010 9:29 pm
That is, by far, the most awesome API call ever created. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 8, 2011 8:30 pm
The latest version of Frink has some interesting new features: * The "input" function can now prompt the user for multiple pieces of information with a nice...
