20100711 2012 (Eclipse Helios remix)

That said, it happened after a system crash, so Eclipse hadn’t been shut properly. And after killing Eclipse (because it wouldn’t stop popping up error windows) and reopening it again, it seems the evil goblin of mass destruction and agony had gone away. Thankfully an outline wasn’t available!

20100629 Diff’ing with RapidSVN

I thought I had to enter “diff” in the diff tool field, but I was wrong: it didn’t work. Apparently RapidSVN expects a graphical application instead of a text-mode application that runs on a terminal. But fear not! There’s an application for this. It’s called meld. So… sudo apt-get install meld And in RapidSVN → [...]

20090825 “is the CPU pegged?”, and friends

Lessons I learnt today is the CPU pegged? When is the CPU pegged? message shows up in the LogCat console tab, it means you are not filling in quickly enough the audio buffer for an AudioTrack. Or that it seems so. I happened to locate where the message is in Android’s source code, but since [...]

20090317 Eclipse tricks

Shortcuts These are the ones I use more often and that immediately come to my mind right now. I have ignored the usual CTRL+C, CTRL+V ones ;-) CTRL + Space code sense: a little dropdown will show up, with available functions/variables depending on what you have already written Alt + / They call it autocomplete, [...]

20090211 Stack overbooooom

This could be one of the reasons why I prefer to install a completely new version of Eclipse rather than updating its existing features – and probably why I haven’t done so since I set up Eclipse in this computer ;-) For the record, this happened when I clicked “Select required” while having PDT SDK [...]