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Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Map Keys on Bluestacks - Play Clash of Clans efficiently on Bluestacks

The biggest headache while playing on Bluestacks is the delay in troop deployment due to no multitouch capabilities. Each time you need to drag your cursor to appropriate place in map to drop a troop and then again drag your cursor to switch to some other troop then take your cursor back to the location

Current troop deployment:
1. Drag your cursor to appropriate place in map to drop a troop (T1).
2. Drag your cursor to switch to a different troop (T2).
3. Again Drag your cursor to that appropriate place in map to drop T2.
4. Loop from 1 to 3 until battle ends.

How to fix this:
You can map keyboard keys in Bluestacks to tap on the screen at some predefined places(In this case the troop selection spot). Then you can just press 1 on keyboard to Select your troop 1, press 2 on keyboard to Select your troop 2 and so on for all troops.
Just train 9 types of Troops+Spells.
Then go to a farming attack.
Click the keyboard icon at the bottom to open settings to map keyboard keys. Then at the top right you will see the pencil icon, click that.
Now you will see Tap, D-Pad, Swipe, Tilt and Zoom options on top. Drag the Tap icon to where your first troop is and Map it as 1 (keyboard key). Do this again and again for all troops, you can see 11 types of Troop+Spells, so map 1-0 keys. I mapped P as the last one. These are the keyboard keys you will use to switch between troops.
Save.

Restart Bluestacks.

Open Clash of Clans. This time during an attack using 1 you will be able to switch to troop 1, using 2 you will be able to switch to troop 2 and so on.

Additionally you can also set swipe keys. I have set them as W,S,A and D.

Finally now my mapping looks like this:

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

jDeveloper display driver crashes while Scrolling - Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

If your display driver crashes while scrolling in jDeveloper and you get the message saying "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" then this is the thread for you.
This can be fixed by modifying jdev.conf file. This file can be found at $JDEV_HOME/jdev/bin/jdev.conf or jdevbin\jdev\bin

Close jDeveloper. Make a backup of this file somewhere. Now go to the original file and add this line at the end of file:

AddVMOption -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true

Save the file. Now start your jDeveloper (it may take 2-3 minutes for the first start after this). Scrolling should be fixed now.

If for some reason your jDeveloper does not starts then replace the original file back in jDeveloper.