Is there any event to detect internet conectivity in flex or actionscript3.I tried URLMonitor and networkInfo classes,is there any other event to detect because in URLMonitor class I need to add an url to it which is not possible in my case and in networkInfo class,it does not get called every time.
My requirement is when the application and suddenly if the connection goes off I need to raise an error.Any ideas??
Thanks in advance!!!
What I do in my applications is (I'm using amfPhp) have a onFault handler. So when x amount of time nothing comes from the server show the user a popup message. Yes, it's not as fast as you would want it , but it works.
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I'm using the web speech API but once a bit of time passes by (a minute or 2) without any vocal input, it stops listening entirely. I know this because I have it log its parsed text to the console, however, it stops doing this when I do not talk for a minute or two.
Is there any way to fix this?
You can listen to the end event and then restart the recognition on the SpeechRecognition object.
You should use a boolean flag for deciding (in the onend event handler), when to restart the recognition (and when not to restart).
You could use the other recognition-related events for this.
E.g. Chrome triggers the following event handlers when recognition is started:
1. onstart
2. onaudiostart
(only if sound / speech is detected)
3. onsoundstart
4. onspeechstart
If no sound speech is detected, only the first 2 will be triggered, and then, after some timeout, the corresponding end events (in reverse order).
A simple solution for this could probably be to listen for the end event and restart the recognition
recognition.addEventListener('end', recognition.start);
recognition.addEventListener('end', () => recognition.start()) works but Chrome browser seems to obstrruct the continuity by generating a pop-up to Allow or Block the microphone every 5-7 seconds.
I am quite new to windows 8 phone and I don't know all the life cycle methods and when what is called.
My problem is the following: I have a page that loads some data from the disk and when the user exits the program ( or suspends ) the data should be saved. As far as I can tell Page doesn't have an OnSuspending method only someOnNavigatingFrom, but those are not called when you just exit the program. So I read that I should use the OnSuspending in my App.xaml.cs, but this class doesn't have this data and also shouldn't have it, maybe only for OnSuspending. But I don't know how to get the data from my page in the OnSuspending method.
The OnSuspending event is quite fragile and you cannot expect it to run and save the state for a long time. But it depends on how long it would take for you to save. It doesn't even get triggered when you hit the home key while closing the app. If you really want an easy way. Just register a background task. While your app is in the background, the state can be saved and when you open the app again things are in place.
There are certain constraints With Background task as well, you cant do heavy lifting etc...here's a link you could use.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh977056.aspx
Implement an observer pattern (i.e. pub/sub) for your view-models to subscribe to in the event that your app is being suspended.
Your app handles the suspended event. As a result, publish a message for your view-models to respond to within your app's method handler for the suspended event.
You can use an EventAggregator or MessageBus (that I wrote).
I have a Chrome kiosk app that basically just uses webview to allow someone to browse through a catalog.
I found the chrome.idle API, and believe I understand how to set idle time and query if the device is idle, but can I have it restart the application when the state changes to idle or at least navigate back to a set URL?
The end goal is to have the catalog reset itself for the next user after being left idle for a set period of time.
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/idle
Well, the documentation is pretty clear..
First, you need to declare in the manifest that you want to use this API, as it needs a permission.
"permissions" : ["idle"],
You could go with a poll-based approach as you suggested, but why? There's an event provided. So, we go on to use that.
You need to inform Chrome how long an interval without user input you consider an idle state.
chrome.idle.setDetectionInterval(120); // 120 seconds
Lastly, you need to react to a change to an idle state.
chrome.idle.onStateChanged.addListener(function(newState) {
if(newState == "idle") {
// Reset the state as you wish
}
});
We are using a Cumulus server as our RTMFP server to implement a voice chat.
The voice streaming with NetStreams works perfectly fine almost no delay here, but we also want to transfer the activity level of the microphone of each member of the NetGroup.
So we tried transferring the data using NetGroup.post(data). That worked well, but had a delay of ~500ms even when testing with multiple clients on the same machine!
Obviously, half a second in microphone activity is just waaay to much delay to display it in any way.
Now we are trying to use direct routing with NetGroup.sendToAllNeighbors(, but it simply does nothing. I have read all the documentation on it and normally a NetGroup status event with "NetGroup.SendTo.Notify" should be triggered on the receiving clients. Instead, nothing happens.
Here is the code, which is called each frame:
var tsObject :TimestampedObject = new TimestampedObject();
tsObject.timestamp = (new Date()).getTime();
tsObject.sender = _netConnection.nearID;
tsObject.object = _mic.activityLevel;
_netGroup.sendToAllNeighbors(tsObject);
I know each frame is a bit much, but for now it is just a test case.
What are we doing wrong? As I said, voice communication itself works fine. As does Netgroup.post(data), which is just way too slow to use for this use case.
We want to create a Windows desktop version of our weather widget
There are 2 special things about the widget.
It consumes a lot of processor time
while active - it displays an
animated picture (Flash without GPU acceleration, unfortunately).
It updates the weather from our
server (frequent server requests from all widget users).
When the user does not look at the widget there is no need for animation and weather loading.
So I have an idea of putting my widget to sleep when it is not visible and hense not used.
Is it possible to detect whether the widget is used or not.
Speaking precisely I need to know whether the widget is covered by other windows?
I mostly interested in Vista/7 gadgets engine, however I also would like to know if this problem is solved in these widget engines
Yahoo widgets
Google desktop
Hope to find some desktop widget guru here.
Pasha
If you InvalidateRect and don't get a subsequent WM_PAINT message, than your window is hidden. You can call UpdateWindow after InvalidateRect to force the WM_PAINT message to happen (or not happen) right away.
So you could do something like this
request server data (and cancel request timer if any)
when data arrives InvalidateRect
when WM_PAINT message arrives, draw the data and set a timer for next request
when timer arrives, goto 1
When you stop getting WM_PAINT messages, you stop re-setting your timer, and you therefor stop requesting updates from the server. When the WM_PAINT message happens (because you are no longer covered). You start requesting data again.