[android-developers] Re: onTap display toast or message

2009-07-14 Thread alexdonnini
Thanks. Good point. I have seen the behavior described in the thread you pointed to. Alex On Jul 14, 3:37 pm, skink wrote: > On Jul 14, 7:35 pm, Mark Murphy > > > > > Just pass in the activity to your ItemizedOverlay's subclass' > > constructor, and use it to create your Toast. > > be careful t

[android-developers] Re: onTap display toast or message

2009-07-14 Thread skink
On Jul 14, 7:35 pm, Mark Murphy > > Just pass in the activity to your ItemizedOverlay's subclass' > constructor, and use it to create your Toast. > be careful though, since passing Activity context to Toast can in some situations be dangerous, see: http://groups.google.com/group/android-develo

[android-developers] Re: onTap display toast or message

2009-07-14 Thread Mark Murphy
alexdonnini wrote: > Thanks. What I meant is that I thought that in your example, > SitesOverlay is an inner class of the map activity "NooYawk". In my > case, the custom itemized overlay class is not an inner class of the > map activity. This means that an entry like NooYawk.this will not > work.

[android-developers] Re: onTap display toast or message

2009-07-13 Thread alexdonnini
Scott Mikolyski (sc...@mikolyski.com) solved my problem. He suggested I add a private context to the custom itemized overlay, modify the itemized overlay constructor to assign a context to the private contxt. Then pass the context of the map activity to the instantiation of the custom itemized ov

[android-developers] Re: onTap display toast or message

2009-07-13 Thread alexdonnini
Hi Mark, Thanks. What I meant is that I thought that in your example, SitesOverlay is an inner class of the map activity "NooYawk". In my case, the custom itemized overlay class is not an inner class of the map activity. This means that an entry like NooYawk.this will not work. Am I wrong? I hav

[android-developers] Re: onTap display toast or message

2009-07-13 Thread Mark Murphy
alexdonnini wrote: > I looked for any information about onTap event processing for itemized > overlays in this group. There is a lot of useful information but I > could not find the answer to one question. > > The tutorial by Mark Murphy on itemized overlays, > http://androidguys.com/?p=1413 >