WIP to get an alert dialog show

- new String() fails, somewhere deep on the android run-time, with no exception or some kind of logged error on my N4. WHY?
- The android debugger is a huge PITA.
- Eclipse is best left unused

shell/android/jni/src/Android.cpp

@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_reicast_emulator_emu_JNIdc_run(JNIEnv *env,jobje
     coreMessageMid=env->GetMethodID(env->GetObjectClass(emu),"coreMessage","([B)V");
     dieMid=env->GetMethodID(env->GetObjectClass(emu),"Die","()V");
 
+	
+	msgboxf("HELLO!", MBX_OK);
+	
 	dc_run();
 }
 
@@ -324,10 +327,9 @@ int msgboxf(const wchar* Text,unsigned int Type,...)
   jbyteArray bytes = jenv->NewByteArray(byteCount);
   jenv->SetByteArrayRegion(bytes, 0, byteCount, (jbyte*)S);
 
-  //puts(S);
   jenv->CallVoidMethod(emu,coreMessageMid,bytes);
 
-  return(MBX_OK);
+  return (MBX_OK);
 }
 
 JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_reicast_emulator_emu_JNIdc_setupMic(JNIEnv *env,jobject obj,jobject sip)

shell/android/src/com/reicast/emulator/GL2JNIActivity.java

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ public class GL2JNIActivity extends Activity {
 			fileName = Uri.decode(getIntent().getData().toString());
 
 		// Create the actual GLES view
-		mView = new GL2JNIView(getApplication(), config, fileName, false,
+		mView = new GL2JNIView(this, config, fileName, false,
 				prefs.getInt(Config.pref_renderdepth, 24), 0, false);
 		setContentView(mView);
 

shell/android/src/com/reicast/emulator/config/EditVJoyActivity.java

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public class EditVJoyActivity extends Activity {
 		config.getConfigurationPrefs();
 
 		// Create the actual GLES view
-		mView = new GL2JNIView(getApplication(), config, null, false,
+		mView = new GL2JNIView(this, config, null, false,
 				prefs.getInt(Config.pref_renderdepth, 24), 0, true);
 		mView.setFpsDisplay(null);
 		setContentView(mView);

shell/android/src/com/reicast/emulator/emu/GL2JNIView.java

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.reicast.emulator.emu;
 
 
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -688,7 +689,12 @@ public class GL2JNIView extends GLSurfaceView
 		}
 		
 		void coreMessage(byte[] msg) {
-			showMessage(new String(msg, Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
+			try {
+				showMessage(new String(msg, "UTF-8"));
+			}
+			catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+				showMessage("coreMessage: Failed to display error");
+			}
 		}
 		
 		void showMessage(final String msg) {