I have some problems to implement Template10 controls in my UWP project.
When I create a PageHeader control into my MainPage.XAML, I can see the control, edit the control and run the application. But unfortunately the application will break until the components initialize.
There´s no error description.
#if DEBUG && !DISABLE_XAML_GENERATED_BREAK_ON_UNHANDLED_EXCEPTION
UnhandledException += (sender, e) =>
{
if (global::System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached) global::System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
};
endif
}
Visual studio will highlight this line.
What am I doing wrong ?
When I run the Template10 Hamburger template, everything seems to be working fine.
I hope you can help me to understand how template10 is working.
I´ve seen your MVA contents but for me it wasn´t clear how to use template10 in existing projects.
don't forget with this control it sort of needs other things to function correctly. 1 key item is a Frame from which is created at start of the application based on the NavigationServiceFactory if you reference the samples you will see what I am referring to. To drop it in an existing app and expect to run without some modifications, you should expect errors.
I would suggest referencing samples and other things associated. the nuget package can be install to any new project or existing with the right configurations set. theoretically you could set the Frame = {x:null} it should work but I haven't done it or needed to. Or don't set it at all, it's part of the back navigation tracking that the control watches for.
if you hover over the "e" in the method handler inside the ( ), you can look at the errors... e = exception :P, you might have to dig alittle.
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I would like to have many devices testing a game, and I find the best way to debug a game and solve specific code problems is to have the device connected and in debug mode in Adobe ANIMATE, that way I can catch any Errors in the Output window.
For Example, if I am debugging and connected to Animate, the output window will throw errors like :
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable bg_storage is not defined.
at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()
at Game/stageAdd()[/Users/**/Game.as:360]
Now I know exactly what the problem is and where to find it. I love errors like this.
My question :
If I didn't have a device connected to Animate in Debugging mode, is there a way to make the game detect any errors thrown and store them as a String, that way I can put up a big text block on the game of the error string and keep track.
or at least a way to log them some how?
Ex :
If an error is thrown, have that error text set as a String variable, then have a text box write out that String variable.
I hope that isn't too confusing. If I am going about debugging in a poor way, I would love to know what you guys do to keep track of errors without being connected to debug mode.
EDIT
I can see an approach is you to add an uncaughtErrorEvent event to each function to be able to catch these errors...
loadbar.uncaughtErrorEvents.addEventListener(UncaughtErrorEvent.UNCAUGHT_ERROR ... )
I am trying to make it so any error thrown in any part of the game will trace that error somewhere to a String value that I can call, so that I can see any error thrown during a play test session without being connected to debug mode.
Thanks!
Sure. There's a class intended exactly for that: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/events/UncaughtErrorEvent.html See examples at the bottom of the page to listen to the right instances for that event.
You are also free go grab my own class that does the thing you want: https://bitbucket.org/thydmitry/ru.delimiter/src/2756fadd741a6d44276fde1701470daf24cebfa8/classes/ru/delimiter/utils/Log.as?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default
You will need to add it to your project and then call in the main document class (in constructor, preferably):
Log.create(this);
Log.handleExceptions(this, true);
I'm attempting to create a version of the UWP app for the TipCalc sample here: https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross-Samples/tree/master/TipCalc
There already is a UWP version in the sample, which works fine. However I'm attempting to use Template10 (https://github.com/Windows-XAML/Template10) and I am having trouble getting the two libraries to work together.
MvvmCross wants me to modify the OnLaunched method, which has a reference to the root Frame. However, Template 10 instead abstracts this method exposing OnStartAsync which has no such reference...
There is an override in Template 10 for CreateRootFrame which seems like the right place to initialize the mvvmcross app, but this doesn't appear to work the way I expected...
Although the launched app DOES navigate to the appropriate page, and does also appear to initialize the view model (a breakpoint on the Start method in the associated VM does get hit), the page itself is blank.
comparing the Visual Tree of both apps reveals that while the existing UWP app from the sample has a Frame:
my Template10 App is loading a Modal Dialog:
I forked the original sample project and added the template 10 version, if you wish to try it for yourself: https://github.com/selaromdotnet/MvvmCross-Samples
Has anyone else been able to integrate MvvmCross with template 10? do you have any idea what i'm doing wrong, and any advice for the best practices in using both of these libraries together?
hmm it turns out that the ModalDialog is the expected behavior for Template10, according to the current docs here: https://github.com/Windows-XAML/Template10/wiki/Docs-|-Bootstrapper
I'm not familiar enough with Template10 to say why this is the case, but it does also say you can change this by overriding OnInitializeAsync, which I did, restoring the original frame in the same way the regular UWP project does:
public override async Task OnInitializeAsync(IActivatedEventArgs args)
{
Frame rootFrame = Window.Current.Content as Frame;
// Do not repeat app initialization when the Window already has content,
// just ensure that the window is active
if (rootFrame == null)
{
// Create a Frame to act as the navigation context and navigate to the first page
rootFrame = new Frame();
if (args.PreviousExecutionState == ApplicationExecutionState.Terminated)
{
//TODO: Load state from previously suspended application
}
// Place the frame in the current Window
Window.Current.Content = rootFrame;
}
if (rootFrame.Content == null)
{
var setup = new Setup(rootFrame);
setup.Initialize();
}
await Task.CompletedTask;
}
This did the trick! I'm sure I still have a ways to go (I believe Template10 has it's own way of restoring state, so I probably shouldn't be doing it here)...
but this at least change finally got me to a working app. IF you know more about what I'm doing incorrectly here or what I should be doing instead, your comments would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Been dealing with a casting exception during design time only that getting me nuts.
I'm trying to create a custom control for winRT (a week view control just like windows phone 8.1). The control works fine during run time but in design time it gives me COMException. During my investigation of the cause of this COMException, I found out that there is a casting exception inside one of the component of my control. This component is a custom listview that implement ContainerContentChanging event. Inside this event there is a casting which raises this exception.
Here is a the custom list view class:-
The code is removed coz the source code is shared below.
The TemplatedListViewEntry cctor look like this one:-
The code is removed coz the source code is shared below.
And the AppointmentModel:-
The code is removed coz the source code is shared below.
OBS!!! while debugging using 2 instance of VS or VS+Blend and put a breakpoint before this line I can see that args.Item is of type ContentControl while during run time it is AppointmentModel.
Could it be a problem with the ItemsSource which is null at design time?
If yes how should I preceed and assign this_ If No, anyone here that can help me figure out what is the problem?
OBS!!! I anyone needs more info please ask and I would gladly share the entire code with you.
Edit 1
Even if i initiate my viewmodel in the cctor of the custom Control, it raises casting exception in Designtime and not in Run tim
Edit 2
After i wrote Edit 1 above i noticed that now i have to Cast exception in two different Styles (CustomWeekView style and TemplatedListView Style) this is if you open Generic.xaml inside Blend. It is really getting annoying and i'm out of thoughts now. That is why i decided to share the source code of this Project, hopfully someone will be able to help looking at it. Below you will see the source code.
CustomWeekView
I know that AngularJS by default catches all application exceptions and then logs them to the console. That makes the 'Pause on uncaught exceptions' button in Chrome (which I use a lot) useless.
Many times I encounter small javascript errors in my code (like accessing members on undefined variables) and I'm really used to pausing on the exception and inspecting the situation.
The only solution I have by now is either to put a breakpoint on the code which is triggering the error (impractical) or to use the 'Pause on all exceptions' button, but I have to continue on all errors generated by default by jQuery, Angular and other frameworks, and that's also very nasty.
I also tried overwriting the $exceptionHandler service, and put a breakpoint in it, but I don't have access from the call stack in the function that generated the error.
So, is it possible to use the 'Pause on uncaught exceptions' with AngularJS apps?
According to the Angular docs,
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$exceptionHandler
This example will override the normal action of $exceptionHandler, to
make angular exceptions fail hard when they happen, instead of just
logging to the console.
angular.module('exceptionOverride', []).factory('$exceptionHandler', function() {
return function(exception, cause) {
exception.message += ' (caused by "' + cause + '")';
throw exception;
};
});
This will cause them to be handled by the browser dev tools, which will allow pause on caught exceptions, usage of source maps for nice stack traces, etc.
Presumably you don't want this to happen in production, and also don't want to have to add/remove this code continuously during development. We solve this secondary problem by having a 'dev' module which adds to and overrides our production code during development. For example:
In dev.html:
<html ng-app="devApp">
...
In dev.js:
angular.module('devApp', ['mainApp'])
.factory('$exceptionHandler', ...)
The "Skip stepping through sources" is no longer available in Chrome, but - there is a new option - you can right click any script in sources/sources and choose 'Blackbox script'. Then you can turn on 'Pause on Caught Exceptions' without worrying about jQuery and other errors. Personally I use it always on jquery.js and angular.js.
You can enable Skip stepping through sources with particular names in DevTools and set it to something like this:
(jquery|angular|diigolet)
I am building a WinRT App, that uses proximity, and WiFi direct for peer to peer communication. As a result, when the app terminates, and then resumes I need it to start fresh (the connections will be closed, and can't be reopened without user interaction). The problem is that the Prism MvvmAppBase class that I am inheriting my app from is doing something that is causing it to try to resume from a saved state (that does not exist) and the app ends up on the last screen shown, but there is no ViewModel backing it, and so depending on the view, it will just sit unresponsive, or crash.
I am looking at this guide for guidance, and it says that unless there is a way to start fresh, but I cannot seem to find how to actually do that. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xx130647.aspx
I have been hacking around in the App.cs file to try and get it to work. There is really nothing at all in the App.cs file now except for the unity container and prism bootstrapping, and a call to NavigationService.Suspending() in the Suspending event handler.
The bootstrapping looks like this, but it is never called when the app is resumed from Termination.
protected override async void OnLaunchApplication(LaunchActivatedEventArgs args)
{
await BootStrapper.Config(_container);
await BootStrapper.RegisterPrismInstances(_container, NavigationService, SessionStateService, FlyoutService);
NavigationService.Navigate("Main", null);
}
If anyone has dealt with this before, and can point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it.
When a Prism WinRT app is re-launched after being Terminated Prism will try to restore the application state, the Frame's navigation stack and the Frame's state before being terminated (which will navigate to the last opened page and try to restore any properties in the view model that are marked with the RestorableState attribute.)
By looking at the MvvmAppBase's source code it seems that there are a couple of things you could try to prevent Prism for saving / restoring the application state:
Create a default constructor in your App class that would clear the handlers of the Suspending event. The default constructor of the MvvmAppBase registers to this event and saves the state when it's raised.
Override the OnLaunched method of the base class. In it, after executing the base method, check if the previous executing state is Terminated. If so, you could clear the navigation history of the NavigationService and navigate to your start up page. The saving and restoring operations will still execute though, so any registered service will still be restored to its previous state. (This cannot be done in the OnLaunchApplication as it's not invoked if the application's state was successfully restored.)
Also, you could also try to completely remove this functionality from the MvvmAppBase class. However, most of its methods related to saving / restoring the application state are private, so you might as well drop the MvvAppBase, copy its entire code in your App class and edit it accordingly.
I have not tried any of the approaches listed above so I'm unaware if they could generate any problem, but they might help you as a starting point.