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Can anyone imagine the amount of reviewers they have? HUUUUGE.

26000 per week is 2.58 apps per minute, or 115.000 per month.

Apple numbers are so huge...

where do you "join" this store?

According to an article in L.A. Times, Apple / Appstore receives around 26,000 new apps per week.  Although around a 30% are rejected, most of them are fixed and resent to Apple.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-26000-20120314,0,4704640.story

who wants to be millionare? Apple, for sure, is.

No, it is not DDGUI. It is a "library" I made called "filelists", as it was originally used for the "select a file window" you can see in photo-manager in the same app.

In the end I have 3 types of dilelist library: the original, the one you see in the settings menu and the one used in Navigator, called "iconlist" as it display lists of icons.

I will love also a way to read images from camera roll...

No, there is a single/alone z_print function on another post, but it also uses polyvectors, as it is "necesary" to have zoomed print.

Why do not want to use polyvectors?

When I was at 2gr High, 15 y.o., computers come to school: 3 Spectrum and 2 MSXs. I remember being there being the very best at it, as I was programing for almost 2 years.

I was so ahead of the rest of the class that the teacher (he was the math teacher, and was just learning with the rest of the class) had to put the exams "acording to our knowledge", being my exams more dificult than the rest of the class.

I remember that a exam was "ask the user for his born year and calculate his age" (more or less), and the mine being "print any number with just 2 decimals".

I started converting number to string, finding the ".", and using right$ and left$ or something like that. When the teacher saw it, he said "you can not use functions we have not teach in class". SO I said "them Im lost". I can remember his smile for being "superior" than me at least one time. "Just multiply by 100, remove decimals and divide by 100 again". As far as I saw it, it was just a matter of seconds to have it done. This has been very useful to me in my programing life, similar to switch=1-switch.

Another day, he was explaining how to make a bingo game: create a matrix of 90 elements, fill it with numbers from 1 to 90, then un-sort them, choose a random "ball" to display the number, remove the ball, move the bottom balls one position up and keep a pointer with the total number of remaining balls. It was sooo dificult to understand (for the rest of the class). He was trying to imitate the real thing, and not thinking in computer terms. So I raised my arm, and said: why not create a matrix of 90 elements. Choose any random number and check if it is 0 or 1. Repeat until it is 0. Display this ball and mark it as 1 so it is not displayed again.

He didnt understand this so I have to write the program on the blackboard (yes, all of this was done on blackboards). The class ended before he gets it; the next day he comes saying "your method is easier than mine, but has a problem. When only a few ball are left, he can take a bit long to find a "0" ball". My answer was: we are talking about computers, isnt it? they are fast!"


Also we have many homework, to write programs in basic. On paper. I remember he just read the other students, but mines were written (by him I suppouse) on real computers, as my exercices come back with notes as "this gives syntax error" and things like this. He always wanted to ...er... pick-up me (not sure about the english word). In the end, I am sure he learned more from me than me from him, but I remember this good-old times as one of the more happier.

BTW, I had at home a Commodore Vic-20, with 3583 bytes free for programming

Also I remember doign a karate game for the vic, that loaded in 2 parts (the first was graphic loading). After loading...:

Code (glbasic) Select Expand

print free(0)
2 bytes free

Amazing, just 2 bytes free of memory. Those were the times...

You can download DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME (it is in WebOS and free in Android) and you can see someking of GUI done by me (buttons and lists).

How the hell are we supposed to run/test iPad 3 resolution games?

Should we buy a 60 inches computer screen for this? Even a fullHD tvset has lower resolution than this... 

Digital cameras saves metadatas inside JPEG files, they are called EXIF. There is a metadata that saves the device's orientation, so the photos will be displayed correctly even if the camera was rotated.

Example: iPhone saves the photos as 2592x1936, no matter if the phone was landscape or portrait when taken it. If the phone was portrait, it saves a metadata saying "rotate 90º the image when displaying it"

When I have time, I will look for it.

Dont worry, MrToad inline code works fine, at least in windows and if you remember that "c:\" is "c:/" 

Can be the JPEG loading routine updated to read images with correct rotation using EXIF information?

Notice that if you use a "native" GUI (I mean, the iOS native GUI), your program will not be compatible with other devices.

If you really need a GUI and that works with all/most devices, you should use DDGUI or create your own.

Also, DDGUI images can be changed of you draw the buttons with your paint program, AFAIK.

V7 has MOVEFILE.

Was MOVEFILE ever implemented?

You should be able to call the C rename function, although you may need to change permissions for some devices...

I will try it later. Anyway, in "public" directory in iOS or Android, will i need special permisions?

Is there a way I can RENAME a FOLDER in all (mobile) devices?