Hi Trans, *> But why did you answer the question if it irked you so much? I appreciate you providing an answer, and you never know who it might help in the future as an archival. But as a corollary to "if you don't have something nice to say....", if you are going to say RTFM, don't say anything at all.*
Your question didn't "irk" me (though your reply certainly did)... There are just a lot of people on here who post questions without ever bothering to do any work on their own. As I stated in my answer... I was not trying to be mean. Had I wanted to be mean I could have said "RTFM" and posted a link. But I didn't. I don't think my answer was RTFM-esque at all. Merely inquiring if you did look at the docs before posting the question is not out of line... *> That's exactly what I did (though it took me considerably longer as I am very new to Java and Android). I only asked the question b/c that's "where I was at" in the process when I followed up to my original question. And I hadn't had a whole lot of immediate success in finding answers up until then. It took me 12 hours yesterday to do something that would have taken me 12 minutes in Ruby. I would have followed up again and sooner but I had some trouble finding this post last night (I'm not liking this new groups interface).* Even if you are new to Java and Android... The fact that you were in the process of writing a Keyboard app means that you should have known about that class. That in turn means that you had the resources to find the answer to your problem. If I was able to find it in about two minutes without having any knowledge of writing a keyboard app then you should have been able to find the answer as well... even if it took 15 minutes to scan through the page (which is a huge exaggeration since the method you need is the 5th one in the list on the docs page) you would have gotten your answer quicker by doing that than by being lazy and posting a question and waiting for an answer without looking at the docs yourself first. Next time I'll just be sure to say "RTFM" and post the link so that you can be legitimately ticked off at me... :-) Thanks, Justin On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:32 AM, trans <[email protected]> wrote: > That's exactly what I did (though it took me considerably longer as I am > very new to Java and Android). I only asked the question b/c that's "where I > was at" in the process when I followed up to my original question. And I > hadn't had a whole lot of immediate success in finding answers up until > then. It took me 12 hours yesterday to do something that would have taken me > 12 minutes in Ruby. I would have followed up again and sooner but I had some > trouble finding this post last night (I'm not liking this new groups > interface). > > But why did you answer the question if it irked you so much? I appreciate > you providing an answer, and you never know who it might help in the future > as an archival. But as a corollary to "if you don't have something nice to > say....", if you are going to say RTFM, don't say anything at all. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
