You can get the parent activity object, and then call title related methods.
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Mark Wyszomierski <mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a TabActivity. Each tab hosts its own activity. I wanted to use
> a custom titlebar. I don't believe it's possible to access the custom
> titlebar from the child activities:
>
> // main tab activity
> public class MainTabActivity extends TabActivity {
> protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
>
> requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
> setContentView(R.layout.my_content);
> getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE,
> R.layout.my_header);
> }
> }
>
> I cannot move custom titlebar creation into the child activities,
> moving the above 3 lines into a child activity will throw an
> AndroidRuntimeException:
>
> "You cannot combine custom titles with other title features"
>
> I can only think of two possible solutions:
>
> 1) Replace tab activities with tab views - too late to do that now.
> 2) Create the custom header bar in the main tab activity as above. Let
> children activities broadcast a message that the main tab activity can
> catch when they want some part of the custom titlebar to change (like
> starting a progress bar etc).
>
> Any other possible solutions here?
>
> Thanks
>
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