How to bind signature byte array on signature pad xamarin forms? - xamarin.android

I have a signature pad in my xamarin forms app. User sign on the signature pad and moves to the next screen. But when user come back on signature pad screen, the previous signature gets remove from signature pad. How I can set that the signature should not delete until user do at current state of app?
I save the signature value as byte array when user moves to next screen. So can I bind this byte array at signature pad to show the signature?
Regards,
Anand Dubey

Since this is Xamarin Forms, I'm assuming you're using Allan Ritchie's Acr.XamForms.SignaturePad classes.
The SignaturePadView class exposes a method: LoadDrawPoints, that allows you to load the signature data into the view. Since this is a method, you can't really databind to it, but you can add code to the hosting view to load the signature:
// NOTE: The below assumes that
// A) You're using MVVM (as you should :) )
// B) The ViewModel class name is MyViewModelClassName (change appropriately)
// C) The property on the VM that exposes the signature points is named SignaturePoints (change appropriately)
protected override OnAppearing() {
LoadSignature();
}
protected override OnBindingContextChanged() {
LoadSignature();
}
private void LoadSignature() {
var vm = this.BindingContext as MyViewModelClassName;
if (vm != null && vm.SignaturePoints != null) {
this.signaturePadView.LoadDrawPoints(vm.SignaturePoints);
}
}
Lastly, you mention that you're saving the signature as a byte array; the above code assumes that it's an array of DrawPoint, which is a pair of floats, so you'd need to reverse whatever conversion you're currently doing.

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A C function pointer cannot be formed from a closure that captures context error

Here is the function that is defined within the C code:
typedef void (*spAnimationStateListener)(spAnimationState *state, spEventType type, spTrackEntry *entry, spEvent *event);
struct spTrackEntry {
...
spAnimationStateListener listener;
...
};
And, I am trying to use it in Swift like this:
class TrackEntry {
private let ptr: UnsafeMutablePointer<spTrackEntry>!
public func addEventListener(_ eventListener: #escaping () -> ()) {
let listener: spAnimationStateListener = { (state, type, entry, event) in
eventListener() //cannot use this
}
ptr.pointee.listener = listener
}
}
I saw some suggestion like passing "self" as a parameter but I could not figure out how to do that. I cannot change the C code and it is accepting four parameters. I also tried unsafeBitCast by using convention(block) and it compiled but data were broken.
I cannot use it as a static variable because listeners are separate between different TrackEntry instances.
As mentioned, C function pointers can only be called from static or global context.
There is a good reason : in C, functions are only declared in global context - ie. in the memory dedicated to instructions storage, not in the memory dedicated to data storage. You cannot have instances of a function. A function pointer can just point to one function or another. You cannot create code on-the-fly, neither pass it by value. You can only point to one part of the instructions or another.
So, if only one listener can be used at a time, you could declare a global variable for the closure, and change it before the listener is created, pointing to this listener ; and when another listener is created replace it.
But if you have several listeners at once, well you will have to globally create a closure for each of them (if you do not have too much, and not too generic).

Dart Generic Function with Subtype function call

I am not sure if this is even possible but here's my setup:
I have basically 2 Maps holding a special identifier to get some objects.
these identifier is like a versioning number, i may have data in version 8 that belongs to meta version 5. But at the same time, Meta versions up to 10 may exist and not every meta version holds information about every data, so here's where the _filter kicks in.
The filter is able to find to any given value the correct object. So far so good.
My question belongs to the following: (last codeline)
how am i able to say "if you have no matching candidate, generate me a default value"
For this purpose, i tried to force a named constructor with a super class for "Data" and "Meta" called "BasicInformation".
But even if i implement this, how do i call something like T.namedConstructor(); ?
class Repo{
Map<int, Data> mapData;
Map<int, Meta> mapMeta;
Data getData(int value)
{
return _filter<Data>(mapData, value);
}
Meta getMeta(int value)
{
return _filter<Data>(mapMeta, value);
}
T _filter<T extends BasicInformation>(Map<int, T>, int value)
{
//fancy filtering technique
//....
//speudo code
if (found) return map[found]; //speudo code
else return T.generateDefault();
}
}
I've found the following stackoverflow entry: Calling method on generic type Dart
which says, this is not possible without adding a function call.

How to pass data down the reactive chain

Whenever I need to pass data down the reactive chain I end up doing something like this:
public Mono<String> doFooAndPassDtoAsMono(Dto dto) {
return Mono.just(dto)
.flatMap(dtoMono -> {
Mono<String> result = // remote call returning a Mono
return Mono.zip(Mono.just(dtoMono), result);
})
.flatMap(tup2 -> {
return doSomething(tup2.getT1().getFoo(), tup2.getT2()); // do something that requires foo and result and returns a Mono
});
}
Given the below sample Dto class:
class Dto {
private String foo;
public String getFoo() {
return this.foo;
}
}
Because it often gets tedious to zip the data all the time to pass it down the chain (especially a few levels down) I was wondering if it's ok to simply reference the dto directly like so:
public Mono<String> doFooAndReferenceParam(Dto dto) {
Mono<String> result = // remote call returning a Mono
return result.flatMap(result -> {
return doSomething(dto.getFoo(), result); // do something that requires foo and result and returns a Mono
});
}
My concern about the second approach is that assuming a subscriber subscribes to this Mono on a thread pool would I need to guarantee that Dto is thread safe (the above example is simple because it just carries a String but what if it's not)?
Also, which one is considered "best practice"?
Based on what you have shared, you can simply do following:
public Mono<String> doFooAndPassDtoAsMono(Dto dto) {
return Mono.just(dto.getFoo());
}
The way you are using zip in the first option doesn't solve any purpose. Similarly, the 2nd option will not work either as once the mono is empty then the next flat map will not be triggered.
The case is simple if
The reference data is available from the beginning (i.e. before the creation of the chain), and
The chain is created for processing at most one event (i.e. starts with a Mono), and
The reference data is immutable.
Then you can simple refer to the reference data in a parameter or local variable – just like in your second solution. This is completely okay, and there are no concurrency issues.
Using mutable data in reactive flows is strongly discouraged. If you had a mutable Dto class, you might still be able to use it (assuming proper synchronization) – but this will be very surprising to readers of your code.

JNA: invalid memory access with callback function parameter (struct)

To lone travelers stumbling upon this: see comments for the answer.
...
Writing a Java wrapper for a native library. A device generates data samples and stores them as structs. Two native ways of accessing them: either you request one with a getSample(&sampleStruct) or you set a callback function. Now, here is what does work:
The polling method does fill the JNA Structure
The callback function is called after being set
In fact, I am currently getting the sample right from the callback function
The problem: trying to do anything with the callback argument, which should be a struct, causes an "invalid memory access". Declaring the argument as the Structure does this, so I declared it as a Pointer. Trying a Pointer.getInt(0) causes invalid memory access. So then I declared the argument as an int, and an int is delivered; in fact, it looks very much like the first field of the struct I am trying to get! So does it mean that the struct was at that address but disappeared before Java had time to access it?
This is what I am doing now:
public class SampleCallback implements Callback{
SampleStruct sample;
public int callback(Pointer refToSample) throws IOException{
lib.INSTANCE.GetSample(sample); // works no problem
adapter.handleSample(sample);
return 1;
} ...
But neither of these does:
public int callback(SampleStruct sample) throws IOException{
adapter.handleSample(sample);
return 1;
}
...
public int callback(Pointer refToSample) throws IOException{
SampleStruct sample = new SampleStruct();
sample.timestamp = refToSample.getInt(0);
...
adapter.handleSample(sample);
return 1;
}
Also, this does in fact deliver the timestamp,
public int callback(int timestamp) throws IOException{
System.out.println("It is " + timestamp + "o'clock");
return 1;
}
but I would really prefer the whole struct.
This is clearly not going to be a popular topic and I do have a working solution, so the description is not exactly full. Will copy anything else that might be helpful if requested. Gratitude prematurely extended.

Vaadin - Disable Column reordering for particular column

I'm doing a project in Vaadin 7.
In my project, I need to disable column reordering feature for particular columns in Treetable?
I'm really searching for function like this 'setColumnReorderIds()'.
Is it possible to do it in Vaadin 7.
Or else I need to write some code with 'ColumnReorderListener()'?
Update
This code is to set the first column fixed in a TreeTable. I want to disable reordering in Hierarchy column in the tree table.
public class CustomTreeTable extends TreeTable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private Object[] visibleColumns;
private KeyMapper<Object> columnIdMap = new KeyMapper<Object>();
#Override
public void paintContent(PaintTarget target) throws PaintException {
super.paintContent(target);
paintColumnOrder(target);
}
private void paintColumnOrder(PaintTarget target) throws PaintException {
visibleColumns = this.getVisibleColumns();
final String[] colorder = new String[visibleColumns.length];
int i = 0;
colorder[i++] = columnIdMap.key("Column 1"); // Logic to keep the first column fixed
for (Object colId : visibleColumns) {
if(!colId.equals("Column 1")) {
colorder[i++] = columnIdMap.key(colId);
}
}
target.addVariable(this, "columnorder", colorder);
}
}
Update 2
I tried what Oskar said..
In addition to
paintColumnOrder(target).
I'm calling
paintVisibleColumnOrder(target),
paintAvailableColumns(target),
paintVisibleColumns(target).
i'm able to stop reordering only for the table headers. But, the body is still reordering. Any guesses on this issue?
In the documentation there is only setColumnReorderingAllowed() which allows to control reordering of all columns. So if your case is to control particular ones it looks to me as a very custom behaviour and I would go with own implementation. Also ColumnReorderEvent is generated after processing the action itself therefore implementing own ColumnReorederListener won't help us here I think.
All actual magic which we want to change happens in private Table.paintColumnOrder() called from public Table.paintContent(), called from public TreeTable.paintContent() (see sources of Table and TreeTable). The solution would be:
extend TreeTable
override paintContent() with merged copies of Table.paintContent() and TreeTable.paintContent()
replace paintColumnOrder() call with your custom logic.
Update
Ok, now I see it's more tricky then I thought at the beginnig, since there is no easy way to access most of required fields and methods after subclassing TreeTable... Moreover, columns are reorered on the client side and only the change event status is sent to inform the server. I don't know how to handle custom reordering without creating custom gwt widget :(

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