long day

I feel like I should have gotten more done for all the time I spent today. I did manage to get JSON queries against the cocos live service working. So the high scores are coming in. Reading JSON from Android was very helpful. As were the docs on HTTP services. Haven't gotten score posting working yet.

I was able to get the app to save and restore it's state. The key was to reload all the gl textures in the onResume - and to reset the variables that may refer to them in the onPause. You also have to be careful because the onResume will be called when the app first starts. So liberal protections from double init - double free, etc. Somehow I managed to break this in the last hour of working. Of course I don't have revision control setup. So this was the straw.

I create a git repository for all my local source. I usually always work with source control. Not sure what I was thinking. It's great to put a bookmark in when you have features working. I downloaded and built the osx client GitX. It's been a while since I used git and this made settings things up very easy.

btw, I wasted a lot of time tracking down the weird error. You find code like this in many examples. It doesn't work with Android SDK.

void Java_com_trial_filesys_SimpleTest_main(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jstring filename) {     const char *fnameptr = env->GetStringUTFChars(filename, NULL);

    env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(filename, fnameptr);

}

which will give this hoaky error:

error: request for member 'ReleaseStringUTFChars' in something not a structure or union

The fix for this is:

void Java_com_trial_filesys_SimpleTest_main(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jstring filename) {     const char *fnameptr = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, filename, NULL);

    (*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars(env, filename, fnameptr);

}