Sending a message to users that floats above everything

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2017-08-21 17:41, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> Monte's external works great on newer Android devices but seems to
> crash on older ones. That's why I had to replace it with a hacked up
> fake in my Android object library. There's a pull request in git for a
> native toast that is waiting for review and as soon as it's available
> I will switch to it. It's been waiting for a while, I hope it gets
> attention soon. Answer dialogs aren't appropriate for any OS any more.

Oops - that one slipped off our radar a bit (actually there's another PR 
from HedgeHao which has been languishing for a while fixing a bug in the 
browser widget... Sorry @HedgeHao). I'll see if I can get them sorted 
out tomorrow.

I wonder whether the 'toast' one might make a nice example of using LCB 
though - there are only three calls needed to do it. So I might convert 
it to LCB as an exercise - it makes it easier for others to adapt; and 
is a lot lower overhead than having it in C++/Java in the engine. 
HedgeHao has already done the hard part of figuring out the APIs to use, 
and how to use them :)

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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> On August 21, 2017 6:28:54 AM Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> I will check that out - thanks Dave
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 21, 2017, at 5:18 AM, Dave Kilroy via use-livecode 
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jonathan - how about a toast? (on Android that is), I haven’t tested 
>>> it but I would assume it would appear above a browser…
>>> 
>>> Monte did an external some time ago (mergAndroid I think) that I’m 
>>> pretty sure included support for toasting :)
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> 
>>> Dave
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