I've run into a sort of impediment. I am trying to have 2 programs run at the same time, working with one another.
One is a Matlab program that accesses a piece of equipment (lets call it a camera) to take measurements. The other one is an android app (android studio was used) that has to change in between measurements.
Basically, I wish to start my app, showing a specific thing in my screen and take a picture of it. Then, I want the image that I'm showing to change and take another picture of it. And so on and so forth.
I already have the Matlab program to control the camera and take the measurements as well as the app, changing images on button click. I need to somehow make this automated, having them interacting with eachother to be able to perform simulation with 400+ images/pictures taken. Obviously, this would be very timewasteful to do manually.
My questions here are: Is there a way to call Matlab in my Java code in android studio? Should I create another piece of software from scratch, just to do this calibration with the interaction between the two? If so, would Java be a nice programming language to achieve this or should I work with something else that you might think is more accessible or easier to use?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I have never done this but I have heard of it.
See the documentation for this very thing.
You can execute MATLAB® functions from Java® using the MatlabEngine
feval and fevalAsync methods. These methods work like the MATLAB feval
function. Use feval and fevalAsync when you want to return the result
of the function execution to Java or to pass arguments from Java.
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For my weekend project I'm trying to create a simple program that waits for a program/process to output any sound, and when/if it does then do something.
in pseudocode:
if (application.outputsSound()) {
/* Do something */
}
For starters it could be any sound coming from the specific application, but if it's within reason to detect a specific sound based on a stored audio file, that would be really cool.
My thoughts:
I guess that I need some kind of native library (JNI / JNA), but since I'm new to that, it would be really neat if someone could point me in the right direction.
On Windows you could use the IAudioSessionEnumerator interface
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd368281(v=vs.85).aspx
Although this is not perfect, as third party audio stacks will not show up, like ASIO.
On Linux it depends on what kind of environment you are using.
How can I make it so Eclipse automatically updates my code in a window as I edit it? I've seen the feature before in youtube videos but I cannot find it. For example : I change a JApplet rectangle width from 20 to 10, I want to see it update immediately.
I've seen Notch do this on development videos (Minecraft), it is awesome but I don't know exactly how he does it.
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This has been bugging me so I went and googled "how does notch code" and found this on a blog page https://gun.io/blog/what-i-learned-from-watching-notch-code/. It doesn't say exactly how it was done but gives a good hint (HotSwap) and makes it seem like he set it up himself without external software. Here's the most relevant section:
Incredibly Fast Testing
He began by building the engine, and to do this he used the ‘HotSwap’ functionality of the Java JVM 1.4.2, which continuously updates the running code when it detects that a class has changed.
When building the engine, Notch wrote a function which would continuously pan the camera around and clip through the walls and keep the view on top, so he could make changes to the code and see the effects they made in real time. I’m used to testing by writing a function, building it, installing it on the device I’m testing on, and then seeing the result, which can take up to a minute at a time, so it’s easy to see how HotSwapping could save a lot of development time.
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I get a similar effect by using groovysh though, works smoothly and can use all your java classes as is.
What I'll usually do is write all my code in java, then go and fire up "Groovysh" where it will give you a little window to enter commands (You may have to ensure the classpath works correctly outside of eclipse). I can then "new" any of my classes and call methods on them one line at a time. When you do myFrame.setSize([100,100]) you will see it change immediately.
A good test is to just run groovysh and type something like:
import javax.swing.*
f=new JFrame()
f.setVisible(true)
f.setSize(100,100)
or the groovier version:
f=new JFrame(visible:true, size:[100,100])
and you will see your frame resize on the screen. You can even drag it bigger and then do something like:
println f.getWidth()
to show your new width. It's fun to interact this way but it's more complicated if you want to actually change your class definition and see it pick up the change, I have no idea how Notch did that. I looked into it a little--it's possible he was using something like JRebel
It requires something special since you would have to dynamically reload the classfile into your running system on every save--something that should have serious classloader issues.
By the way there is also a way to get your Java program to throw out a little GroovyConsole which will allow you to inspect and modify all the variables in your running code (but again you can't replace definitions of existing classes).
Also see answer here:
Change a method at runtime via a hot swap mechanism
I m currently working on my project of remote desktop administration. I m using robot class to capture images and send over network. It works well but bit slower.
Because all the time we need to captuure and send image its too costly. Is it possible to detect only a portion of screen which is changed and send only that portion?
Please any one guide me on this. Thank you!!!
The keyword you're looking for (in order to be able to look this up and figure the solution yourself) is dirty rectangles.
You can look into some code here.
I looked into this awhile back, and the image capture is implemented particularly inefficiently. I don't recall the specific detail, but it was pretty bad the way they did it. I felt, at the time, that the only way to do it better would be to implement it in JNI. Which you could use JNA to shortcut.
I don't know if any platform's screen capture routines will allow only changed sections to be sent, but you could implement a decent image diff; although that could get expensive too. You would really need to measure whats going on to see if it works for you.
I want to automate an external application, but I have several problems:
How can I recognize a button or other field of an external application in Java?
I use the Robot class in Java for making notepad automation where I open notepad, select file menu, and save or exit, etc.
The problem is, it needs X,Y coordinates for the mouse pointer to go to the proper location.
I want to make it more dynamic, i.e. it should recognize the file menu of a running notepad anywhere on the desktop.
How can this be done in Java? Is there any class in Java I can use to do this?
Thanks everyone to give me response, I want to be more specific i want to know how can i make ui automation by using any tool if it is not possible in java or using any api of java.automation tool must be freeware.....i am searching net for that i found AutoIt is like that.But if any one do this type of things please share his/her experiance means is it possible to do that in AutoIt or not possible if not then which tool do that kind of things.
It is easy to integrate Sikuli into a Java-application since it is written in Java. Sikuli uses image recognition to find elements visible on the screen like buttons and such. It is very easy to use and provides an alternative for tasks that are difficult to handle with static positioning, like finding moving windows and such.
Take a look at this: http://sikuli.org/docx/faq/030-java-dev.html
Hope this helps!
You should have a look at Sikuli. It takes as inputs images of the ui elements to select an area in the targeted app. It's a UI Automation Application
That's a bit difficult to install (at least on Debian/Ubuntu, where I tested it), as you'll need a recent version of OpenCV, a particular version of JXGrabKey but the quality of the program worth the trip. Good Luck
Java doesn't have an API to examine the UI of another application; that would be a very big security risk.
Which is why the Robot class can only record events (key presses, mouse movements and clicks) but not which UI element was involved in most cases.
It would be possible to do more if the external application was written in Java because then, you could analyze the objects in memory but for obvious reasons, this isn't possible for C++ or .NET applications.
I am a cameraman and I want to make an app for my Moto Droid that will
calculate my depth of field given four inputs.
I am literally brand
new to javascript and this programming stuff, so I was wondering if
anyone could help me out.
I have a very basic GUI set up using Droiddraw which allows me to
input my 4 variables, which are:
Focus (#+id/focust)
Focal Length (#+id/flt)
Aperture (#+id/apt)
Circle of Confusion (#+id/coct)
Equations for this calculation are located here
for example...
to get hyperfocal distance I need to get: ((f^2)/(N*c))+f
all of these variables will be drawn from inputs in the GUI, but I don't know how to call them, how to write the actual math, and how to address the results so I can make them appear in the "results area" on the bottom of the screen.
I've never done java before and I only want to make this app because the existing ones don't fit my needs.
Can someone help?
Thanks!
If I'm not mistaken, DroidDraw is a tool for building the XML user interface description used by the Java API. If you want to program for Android in JavaScript, something like PhoneGap might be a better choice. It lets you build real Android application using HTML and JavaScript.
On the other hand, if you want to use the XML and Java APIs, then you should probably run through the Android tutorials. The first one is Hello, World.
Since you're just getting started with programming, I can't stress tutorials enough. It's true that your idea shouldn't be too hard to implement, but you need to understand the basics first.
I don't mean to give the impression that one style (PhoneGap vs. Java and XML) is better. For your purposes, either should be fine. It's more a question of what you prefer. Java/XML is the paradigm supported by Google, and provides access to more functionality. On the other hand, if you already know HTML or JavaScript (or are interested in learning them), PhoneGap will certainly provide everything you need. I think PhoneGap is also intended to make it easier for beginners, though I haven't used it, so I don't know how successful they have been.
The XML file that is generated by DroidDraw can't be used within PhoneGap. If you do choose to use PhoneGap, then you will need to build the interface in HTML. You might be able to use something like DreamWeaver or FrontPage or one of any number of HTML editors to help you with this step.
The XML file is just a description of an interface. When you start your application, the Android platform uses this description to build the user interface that you see. Once that has happened, you can move data from the interface to Java, or from Java to the interface, without any hassle. You certainly won't be limited by the XML interface description - it's pretty flexible.
If you've been going through the Android tutorials, then it might be best to forget that I even mentioned PhoneGap. It's a wildly different alternative that is the right choice for some people and some applications. But the Android tutorials won't help you to understand it. I only brought it up because you mentioned JavaScript in your original post.