Maybe we need a "Self Help" section. ;-) Thanks for posting your self-answers, since they still help everyone.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:08 PM, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well i am answering my own question again. I figured out a working > solution, for those who are interested, see > > > http://bend-ing.blogspot.com/2008/11/properly-handle-progress-dialog-in.html > > On Nov 4, 9:52 am, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, any example codes? > > > > On Nov 3, 8:28 pm, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > When you change orientation your Activity is destroyed and then re- > > > created. When you re-create the dialog view object that was sent to > > > the background process is no longer valid, thus the error. > > > > > There are probably several ways to handle this but the first that > > > comes to my mind is: > > > > > 1) The background thread should not be trying to manipulate views > > > directly. Have it send a 'cancel' message to a handler in one of your > > > UI classes (like the main activity). The UI class can then take the > > > appropriate action to cancel the dialog. > > > > > 2) If orientation can change while you have the dialog up (which it > > > can), then you need to save that state when the activity is stopped > > > and have your restart handler take care of recreating the dialog and > > > displaying it when the activity is restarted (after orientation > > > change). > > > > > Your message handler should then take the cancel message from the > > > background thread and dismiss the dialog if it exists. > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > > Greg > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
