You need to shut down the dialog in your onPause method. Use cancel() or dismiss() depending on your use case. View normally shut themselves down automagically, but I think dialogs are special because they're not part of the view tree of the content view of the hosting activity.
Cheers, Justin Android Team @ Google On Aug 27, 11:12 am, snowcrash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i have an application running a background thread to do xml-parsing > while the ui-thread displays a progressdialog. the activity has a > handler to queue runnables from the other thread, mainly to display > messages. when the xml-thread is finished and the activity is left > using the back button on the emulator, i'm getting the following > error: > > android.view.WindowLeaked: Activity <Name> has leaked window > [EMAIL PROTECTED] that > was originally added here > > what am i doing wrong? i also can't find information on > 'android.view.WindowLeaked', it seems to be undocumented. > > thanks > snowcrash --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

