Nokia 9500 - Front User Interface Screwing Up

For some strange reason the graphics on the front user interface on my 9500 get all scrambled up and messed up for no discernable reason. Initially, I thought that the problem was due to a possible low memory level or maybe a software conflict issue. However, I have performed a hard reset on several occassions and have run only the most minimal of applications with zero items added to the phone's memory and I have received the same result. Thankfully, the front interface is the only part of the phone that has given me any probelms. Can anyone out there help??? Please!!!

Send it back, my friend. This seems to be a serious error. My phone did the same. With only a few weeks to run for the warranty to end, I sent my phone to Nokia for repairs. The had to change the phone (I got a new IMEI) which meant that even they could not fix it.

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Ok let's say you're writing a user interface and nothing involves
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Joseph Oravec wrote:
> Ok let's say you're writing a user interface and nothing involves
> special-resources like a daqcard so there's no constraints on using things
> at once. These are some kind of stupid questions and ideas but I'm really
> not sure how to write a quality app with user interface at the moment.
>
> My current design is bad, it is a mainVI which checks the menu and
> frontpanel buttons, decides which operation or calculation (if any) is
> selected, and sends that to a case structure to perform the operation.
>
> This is sloooow but the most common way in examples that I've seen. The
> major problem is that while processing the interface isn't checked and
> therefore mouseclicks might be lost. Let's say the processing takes like
> 500ms on average, that is kind of slow between user-interface querys so it
> would feel unresponsive in the mean time.
>
> So here's my three ideas so far, I'd love some comments on what will be FAST
> and what would be worthwhile to spend my time on:
>
> 1. Leave the app as-is, latch the booleans. However you can't latch
> mouse-clicks on a picture indicator that I knew of. I emailed NI before
> about this and they just suggested adjusting execution priorities. Anybody
> else messed around with this? Probably the worst option, but would take zero
> programming.
>
> 2. Divorce the user interface and the processing. Create two parallel
> while-loops in the same VI, one checks the buttons/menu on the front panel
> the other processes the request or calculation. Let's say on average UI
> checking takes 1.2ms and processing takes about 500ms. Also in this case is
> the watch icon still really my best option (since checking buttons/menu only
> takes like 1.5ms on average) for not wasting time repeatedly checking when
> there's no input and dividing up cputime accordingly? Seems like there'd be
> some overhead in switching back and forth repeatedly.
>
> 3. Going all-out and changing to somewhat of an object structure. That way
> the UI could create a new "execution" refnum, maintain some list of created
> objects, process, return values, destroy any object, so everything could be
> going on in parallel. That way one slow calculation won't bog down the rest
> of the things the UI requests. The idea is far too abstract to me at this
> point, but on a single CPU w98 system is it even worth my thinking about
> such a structure? I get the feeling I'd see zero performance change between
> the two, in fact maybe worse from any labview thread overhead!
>
> Thanks for any comments. I have seen DAQ intensive apps discussed often, but
> don't usually catch much on large user interface apps.
>
> -joey

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GerdW,
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Each GUI is it's own top level Queued Message Handler that sends its information to seperate QMHs through shared API. Essentially this means that each module has its own Master portion that can send its data to another module's Slave and vice versa. This architecture would allow for near-simultaneous user inputs from different locations because the first one to be written to the queue would just get handled first, then overwritten by the other, which isn't a problem.
Can you link to an example of pulling a VI in to a subpanel while simultaneously running another instance of the VI? Every time I try this, I get an error.
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Thanks,
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