Hi Christine, Thanks for your help. That seems to only work in the initial loading screen. How do I go about doing the same when the user scroll to an image that I am still loading and then show the loading progress bar. Is there an example somewhere that i can follow?
thanks On Nov 11, 4:45 am, Christine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the start of your program, do > requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS); > > Then when you want to display a rotating little circle in the title > bar, do > setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true); > > When updating or whatever is done, do > setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false); > > Of course, you can use other types of progress bars in pretty much the > same way. > > On Nov 11, 9:00 am, chouman82 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am having a little problem of using progress dialog. Trying to > > figure out how and the optimal way of using the progress dialog. My > > application needs to grab information from different servers, so I am > > trying to show the progress dialog at the appropriate moment. > > > I am trying to use a gallery to grab different images. At the start of > > the activity, I will have a pop up that says loading, and then spin > > off a different thread to start retrieving images in the background > > and store the images in a bitmap array. And once I get the first few > > images, the thread would send a message to the activity to let it know > > that it can set up the adapter and start displaying the first few > > images. The user then can start flipping through different images. In > > the adapter getView method, I will check the bitmap array from the > > thread to see if the image in the specific position that the user is > > trying to view is loaded yet. If the bitmap array for the position is > > null then the adapter will send a message to the activity and asks the > > activity to display the progress dialog and at the same time the > > adapter will tell the thread that the user is trying to view the image > > at that specific position. Then the thread will then send a message to > > the activity to dismiss the progress dialog once the image of that > > specific position has been loaded. > > > That's the general idea, but for some reason the message been sent > > from the adapter to the activity for showing the progress dialog is > > not working. I can see the message been send because the logging is > > been printed out in the message handler but the dialog is not showing > > up. Anyone has a clue? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
