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Libgdx controller unresponsive after making application fullscreen

When making the application full screen with the following call:
Gdx.graphics.setFullscreenMode(Gdx.graphics.getDisplayMode());
I no longer have signals from my controller. The issue is not solved by changing the display back from full screen like:
Gdx.graphics.setWindowedMode(Gdx.graphics.getWidth() / 2, Gdx.graphics.getHeight() / 2);
I'm using Gdx version: 1.9.8. It appears this was an issue fixed in a previous version, but I'm not sure what the necessary steps are to get the work around functioning.
Here's some posts I found about the issue:
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/issues/4723
https://github.com/GoranM/bdx/issues/518
(this one is old) http://www.badlogicgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10692
Any help is much appreciated.
*Edit: This is using the controller extension that can be checked from the libgdx set up application. *
Edit2: I can get a responsive controller if I re-poll the controllers like the following:
Array<Controller> controllers = Controllers.getControllers();
However, this cannot be done instantly after changing the display mode; I have to wait some amount of time after. I'm not sure what I need to poll to determine how long I have to wait until the controller instances are valid (also, when it is valid to assign a listener).
Edit3: The only solution I've been able to come up with is to set a flag inside the resize callback like the following
#Override
public void resize(int width, int height) {
resizeDirty = true;
resizeTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
}
Then in my main loop call:
private void controllerCheck() {
if (resizeDirty) {
long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
if (currentTime > resizeTimestamp + controllerResetDelay) {
resizeDirty = false;
//get new controller instance | re-add a controller listener
}
}
}
This isn't ideal, I'd rather find a way to listen to when the change in context is done initializing then update the controllers. But I haven't been able to find a hook for that. I'd appreciate it if anyone knows a better way to go about maintaining controllers with change in display mode.

Why don't you try to use the immersive fullscreen?
If the objective is to set the fullscreen mode, I think this is the better way to.

define a Custom Property as a Data Object

Found the issue on my payment Input control. There was a small computed Text field that was failing but not throwing an error. Just stopped the whole process. In any case removed the computedText and it now works. The compositeData formula that returns pItem to the custom control still fires way to often but I can't figure out how to stop that. It is all memory resident so it is probably not a major performance hit, but still.....
This question is a follow up to my previous question and I will try to refine the issue
defining an object property in a compositeData on a custom control
Here is a picture of what I am trying to do:
The repeat control is bound to an arrayList generated by the Java method Payments.getAllItems(LinkKey) and that works correctly. The button in the repeat is fairly simple it just setts the viewScope.vsShowPayment = true and vsRIndex to the repeat Index value so I know which element in the ArrayList we are working with. It then does a refresh of the panelPaymentContainer which hides the repeat and renders the custom control ccTestPayment.
ccTestPayment has a custom property called pItem of the type java.lang.Object with this code:
<xc:ccTestPaymentInput rendered="#{javascript:(viewScope.vsShowPayment)}">
<xc:this.pItem><![CDATA[#{javascript:try{
var debug:Boolean = true;
if (debug) print("Open existing row = " + viewScope.vsRIndex)
rIndex = parseInt(viewScope.vsRIndex.toString());
if (debug) print("rIndex = " + rIndex);
pItem = Payments.getItem(rIndex);
return pItem;
}catch(e){
print("Failure in Custom Prop of add item " + e.toString());
return null;
}}]]></xc:this.pItem>
</xc:ccTestPaymentInput>
the method in the class Payments Payments.getItem(rIndex) then returns the PaymentItem Object from the ArrayList of PaymentItems and displays them in custom control. the fields in the custom control are bound to compositeData.pItem.getPaymentDate etc and to this point everything is cool.
I can edit any of the fields on the custom control and that all works fine. However, when I press the "Save" button none of the code in it gets executed.
try{
print("Start Payment save");
var debug:Boolean = true;
var pos:Integer = parseInt(viewScope.vsRIndex.toString());
if (debug) print("Working with pos = " + pos + " Call saveThisItem");
if (Payments.saveThisItem(compositeData.pItem , pos)){
if (debug) print("save Payments Worked ");
}else{
if (debug) print("save Payments FAILED ");
}
}catch(e){
print("payment save Error " + e.tostring);
}finally{
viewScope.vsExpPayDate = null;
viewScope.vsShowPayment = false;
viewScope.remove("vsRIndex");
viewScope.remove("vsGotItem")
}
None of the print statements get fired. I suspect it has something to do how pItem gets defined. the code behind the custom property gets fired over and over again and I'm wondering if that is getting in the way.

The reason that the save was not working was that there was a computed Text field on the control that generated an error. The problem was that there was no error message reported on the client nor the console. After a lot of head scratching I noticed the text filed was no longer displaying the value it was supposed to. Deleted the field and the save and everything else started to work.
On the issue of the number of times the processes are called I think I have resolved many of them. I'm moving the control ccTestPaymentInput.xsp inside the repeat. It will now have direct access to the 'current' PaymentItem Object so I can access teh repeat var=pItem which is teh PaymentItem object I want to work with. Clean and far simpler than what I was doing. The only refreshes necessary are the ones related to the rpeat control and there is not much that I can do about that.

Tapestry5 Ajaxformloop limit number of rows

I am trying to limit the number of rows that a user can add in an ajaxformloop.
Short example:
For example, the loop found in the tapestry 5 documentation here: http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/AjaxFormLoop.html
If for example I would only like the user to be able to enter 3 phone numbers, how can that be done?
What I have tried:
1) I tried returning null from the onAddRow event, this causes an exception and the exception report page to display - these events shouldn't return null I don't think.
2) I tried adding my own add row button like this:
<p:addRow>
<t:addrowlink>Add another</t:addrowlink>
</p:addRow>
And then putting a t:if around it, like this:
<t:if test="canAddMorePhones()">
<p:addRow>
<t:addrowlink>Add another</t:addrowlink>
</p:addRow>
</t:if>
In this case, the "add another" reverts to the default "Add row" button and my add row link doesn't show.
3)I tried moving that t:if inside the , this had similar results.
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I am sure that this is a fairly common aim, is there any simple way to do it? Perhaps someone can provide an example, and if possible this can help to go in the documentation as i'm sure i'm not going to be the only one trying to do this.
Note: I did also ask on the T5 users mailing list and had one answer but I can't seem to get it working after the response from Lance (Which I am sure is probably correct, but i'm not sure how to use the AjaxResponseRenderer as per my reply last week, this is probably due to my own technical limitations or understanding of some parts of T5).
http://apache-tapestry-mailing-list-archives.1045711.n5.nabble.com/Ajaxformloop-add-row-link-max-size-tt5730840.html

I also tried using ajaxResponseRenderer.addRender as you did in your mailing list code, but it doesn't work because it seems that Tapestry has some problems dealing with updating a component that's busy updating another component. However, AjaxResponseRenderer also supports execution of JavaScript. Taking this approach on the AjaxFormLoop example in the docs, specify the addrowlink as follows:
<p:addrow>
<t:if test="canAddMorePhones()">
<t:addrowlink id="addRowLink" t:id="addRowLink">Add another</t:addrowlink>
</t:if>
</p:addrow>
Then add the following code right before return phone; in onAddRowFromPhones():
ajaxResponseRenderer.addCallback(new JavaScriptCallback() {
public void run(JavaScriptSupport javascriptSupport) {
if (!canAddMorePhones()) {
javascriptSupport.addScript("document.getElementById('addRowLink').style.display = 'none';");
}
}
});
This example was tested successfully in Tapestry 5.3.7.

JInput Multiple Controllers?

i'm somewhat new to jinput and java in general and was wondering, what's the easiest way to set up multiple xbox 360 controllers (particularly 4) with jinput? currently, i'm currently going off of theuzo007's tutorial on jinput with controllers, and have a basic working controller setup going on. it would be fantastic if i could set what controller moves certain entities around. (i'm using my friend's homemade library, just so you know.)
screenshot -
http://imgur.com/a/1Ocu5
top one is the main block of code, last one is the header (sorry for putting them in the wrong order, imgur does that sometimes!)
if anyone could help me out, that would be great, thanks!
edit: if there's no possible way to do it, if anyone could try to reccomend a new library to me, that would be cool.

There is a possible way
That tutorial is pretty good. Furthermore, I think you can do the 4 controllers stuff by copy-pasting some code inside the zip theuzo007 provides you and a bit more. By the way, that page that you liked says that there is a better version of that tutorial where you can download an also better version of his code -> theuzo007's JInput tutorial V2
Once you download the code you can see that in JoystickTest.java there is a method called searchForControllers() that you can put (With the corresponding private ArrayList<Controller> foundControllers; as field) in a class called ControllerChecker or some cooler name. Make them all static and you will get something like this:
public class ControllerChecker {
private static ArrayList<Controller> foundControllers = null;
/**
* Just used for checking all available controllers.
*/
private static void searchForControllers() {
Controller[] controllers = ControllerEnvironment.getDefaultEnvironment().getControllers();
for(int i = 0; i < controllers.length; i++){
Controller controller = controllers[i];
if (
controller.getType() == Controller.Type.STICK ||
controller.getType() == Controller.Type.GAMEPAD ||
controller.getType() == Controller.Type.WHEEL ||
controller.getType() == Controller.Type.FINGERSTICK
)
{
// Add new controller to the list of all controllers.
foundControllers.add(controller);
// Add new controller to the list on the window.
window.addControllerName(controller.getName() + " - " + controller.getType().toString() + " type");
}
}
}
/**
* Returns null if there is no controller available. Otherwise, it retrieves the last controller in the list by removing it.
*/
public static Controller getController() {
if(foundControllers == null) {
foundControllers = new ArrayList<Controller>();
searchForControllers();
}
return foundControllers.size() == 0 ? null : foundControllers.remove(foundControllers.size() - 1);
}
}
You would use the static method getController() to make the players have a different controller, checking if the returned controller is null, meaning that there is no available controller. Also you can change my code and check for controllers everytime you ask for one, but you have to check if the controller is already in use.
I hope this helps you in your purpose. This solution just checks for all available controllers and returns then in the last order it found them (maybe using a Stack is more efficient). But probably you will want more functionality like being able to tell the program to select a specific controller by pressing a button, maybe in a screen that says "Please, connect your controller and press any key/button". This can be achieve easily if you understand theuzo007's code (the JoystickTest.java has a lot of useful lines!).
Also you can make some mechanism to detect unpluged controllers and just by plugging in them again the system recognize it. Maybe there is some controller id, I haven't found it yet.
Finally, there is more code here.

a Service, a Thread, an Activity and a static ArrayList

I have a non-sticky service that's called on a regular basis via a broadcastreceiver to start a thread that'll perform some tasks. While the thread is running an ongoing notification shows some progress information, and a button to bring up a status page.
This status page shows a lists of items curerntly being processed, this list is a static ArrayList used by both the thread and this activity. When the status Activity is started I have a null check:
if(Global.statusItems == null)
{
Global.statusItems = new ArrayList<StatusPageItem>();
}
The thread is still running, and has perfectly fine access to the ArrayList, but as soon as the Status Activity is brought up it'll recreate the ArrayList as if it were null.
So far I haven't been able solve the issue without saving the list using an ObjectOutputStream and reloading when the status page is started. Is there a more elegant solution I could use?
Regards,
Quint.

Is it possible that your service is running on a different process?

You need to make sure that the 2 lines of code (null test and creation of a new list) are atomic and that the allocation is visible from other threads.
The easiest way to do that is to synchronize that piece of code:
synchronized(Global.class) {
if(Global.statusItems == null) {
Global.statusItems = new ArrayList<StatusPageItem>();
}
}
However, if you need to read the list from one thread and write to it from another thread, you will need to add extra synchronization when adding/removing/iterating to make sure that both treads see the same list - if you don't, it is possible that the writing thread adds an item to the list but the reading thread does not see it.
The easiest way would be to use a thread safe implementation of list:
synchronized(Global.class) {
if(Global.statusItems == null) {
Global.statusItems = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<StatusPageItem>();
}
}
If memory / object creation is a concern (CopyOnWriteArrayList is not very efficient from that perspective), you can also use a synchronized collection instead:
synchronized(Global.class) {
if(Global.statusItems == null) {
Global.statusItems = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<StatusPageItem>());
}
}
In that case, make sure you lock on the collection when iterating:
synchronized(Global.statusItems) {
for (StatusPageItem item : Global.statusItems) {
}
}