You can set the dialog not to have a title(just like turning the Activity's title off), and then make your layout have a title bar of your choice. I normally extend the Dialog class and create my own.
Kumar Bibek http://techdroid.kbeanie.com http://www.kbeanie.com On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:38 AM, William Ferguson <william.ferguson.au@ gmail.com> wrote: > Its clearly easy to do, because some many apps do it, but I can't see > how. > I want to display a very simple dialog, with a Title and Content > (eother TextView or perhaps a WebView). > > But I want to style the dialog so that the background of the Title, > Content and the dialog window itself are something other than grey. > > I've tried constructing a Dialog and setting the ContentView and > Title, but the title always has the grey background. > > I've tried using an AlterDialog#Builder, but if I specify the title > string using #setTilte then I have no control over the background. ie > same as for new Dialog above. I also get the grey background of the > dialog window bleeding through above and below the title and content. > > I have tried setting a theme for the application that sets the dialog > styles using > <item name="android:alertDialogStyle">@style/ > myAlertDialogStyle</item> > But that doesn't seem to have any effect. Buut then again the doco > that I have found is extremely vague on details, so I probably messed > it up. If you can point me to some clean and coherent doco I'd be > obliged. > > The closest I have come is to construct using AlterDialog#Builder and > use both #setContentView and #setCustomTitle as I can style eahc of > those views, but I still have the grey dialog background bleeding > through.above and below the title and content. > > Unless someone can point me in the right direction, the only option I > can see is to ditch the Dialog altogether and just create an Activity > that displays the info I want with the styling I want. This is > trivial, but it feels SO wrong. If you can't easily style, what's the > point of the dialogs at all? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
