Re: [android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Why not use an activity? On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com wrote: I should also say that I'm kind of searching for a best practice here as well.  I get the vibe that opening the context menu in this way may not be the most sound way of doing it, but hey, if

Re: [android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-10 Thread Mark Murphy
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Why not use an activity? By which I mean pop up an activity (via startActivity()/startActivityForResult()) in the cases where you need to collect data from the user. Or, use a dialog. Popping up a context menu would be

Re: [android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-10 Thread Chris Stewart
Why not use an activity? That's the path I started going down last night. I think that makes more sense to me as it will give me more flexibility on the implementation. My initial thought, however, was to use a context menu. I don't think a dialog would work in this case just because I need

Re: [android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-10 Thread TreKing
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: I don't think a dialog would work in this case just because I need to display a list of items for the user to select from, unless the dialog can be extended to do that. Yes it will and actually I'd recommend that. You

[android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-09 Thread Chris Stewart
I have a need to capture some user input when an activity opens for the first time. I'm hoping to give the user a list of options to select from, which will be pulled in dynamically. I'll then store the selected value locally for future use. I'm not finding a way to do what I'm after and was

Re: [android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-09 Thread TreKing
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not finding a way to do what I'm after and was wondering if anyone has run into this before and how they solved it. I'm sure you tried this already, yes?

Re: [android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-09 Thread Chris Stewart
I have tried variations of that but getting the View is where I'm falling short. Something like: registerForContextMenu(this.getCurrentFocus()); openContextMenu(this.getCurrentFocus()); I'm not sure what View I should be passing in as right now this Activity doesn't really have any UI

Re: [android-developers] Opening a context menu in the onCreate of an activity

2010-08-09 Thread Chris Stewart
I should also say that I'm kind of searching for a best practice here as well. I get the vibe that opening the context menu in this way may not be the most sound way of doing it, but hey, if it works and it's not troublesome for the user, that works for me. Regards, Chris Stewart Fantasy