Frank,
I wouldn't get too concerned about OT issues clogging up the Vort Collective. As the presidential elections draw closer, based on the previous election cycles, one can imagine what will happen within the continuum. It will return to normalcy afterwards. I suspect the younger generation will be interested in your android app once it's more fully developed. If it can control MIDI devices, you are likely to have some interest there. OTOH, I suspect your app is not likely to pique the interest of the older generation, like me. A tablet/cell phone display window is just too small for 60+ year old eyes! However, there are always exceptions to the rule. Incidentally, my wife and I just purchased two new Samsung Android cell phones. Looks like we are joining the android crowd despite the fact that my wife uses the IPad 2 tablet. I personally use a Samsung Galaxy note 12 Inch tablet. We can make the letters & numbers larger on our androids. I mentioned my desktop Sonar Producer software application because I enjoy creating full-fledged compositions using all the s/w tools I can get my hands on, assuming I can afford them. I need all the desktop real estate I can get my hands on. I'm pretty comfortable using Microsoft's Visual Studio Professional edition. I'm using the VS package in my Kepler research efforts. I'm fluent in both VB and C#. I could probably handle C++ if forced to, but I'd rather not. Never learned JAVA. I programmed in C back in the 1980s when I was a troglodyte computer programmer for Space Astronomy Lab, Madison, Wisconsin. I wrote GSE (Ground Support Equipment) software. Programmed primarily in C and FORTH. FORTH is an interesting RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programming language. Quite primitive, but deceptively powerful once you get a handle of it. Indeed, would suspect Jed would be interested in a thread discussing a CF thermal runway situation. Wouldn't we all. Wait a minute... didn't that happen to Rossi a couple of times when he first stumbled across the mysterious "Rossi Effect"? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson OrionWorks.com zazzle.com/orionworks
