[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
I've been trying to make a custom Toast-like Dialog and went with the theme-d constructor, but for some reason the view expands from top to bottom and the theme looks all weird. Also, Jason, if you made it already, could you tell me how you managed to position the Toast-like Dialog near the bottom of the screen, just as a normal toast does? Finally, is it possible to duplicate the non-selectable, non- interfering-with-UI behaviour of the Toast? I thought it would be done by setting the Dialog non-focusable, but apparantly can't do that. Thanks in advance, alkar On Sep 21, 5:00 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Dialog has a constructor taking a theme. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.comwrote: I was hoping I could simply apply the theme in xml rather than have to create an Activity and apply it in onCreate. Thanks for clearing that up. Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: (Btw, Api demos has one or two examples of creating custom themed dialogs, I believe in the app section.) On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You are making a theme, which is a kind of style that applies to an entire context, but just a UI element. You need to use it as the theme for an activity take or the second argument to the Dialog constructor, however you are creating the window. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dianne et al, My feedback was meant as constructive criticism in general - definitely not as a dis directed at you. I believe that an example is worth a thousand words - it works or it don't. I appreciate the time you spend with the board. I make it a point to star pretty much anything you write here so I can review it later. This particular thread was recalled exactly because of this. Your suggestion of altering the style of a dialog seems perfect for a step by step walk through of an app - which is what I am working on. Clearly we need more generous experts like yourself helping Android along. That being said ... I thought I had figured it out - but I am still stumped. If someone out there could help, it will help save at least one Android developer's weekend ... Here is my code: Within my theme.xml I have: resources style name=ToastyDialog parent=android:Theme item name=android:windowBackground@android:drawable/toast_frame/item item name=android:windowAnimationStyle@android:style/Animation.Toast/item /style resources Within my dialog layout I have: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? LinearLayout xmlns:android= http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:orientation=vertical style=@style/ToastyDialog TextView android:id=@+id/TextView01 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:text=@string/hello_world /TextView /LinearLayout NOTE: The Eclipse interface gives you a choice to pick a theme, and my theme does appear. Thing is, it does not write it in the XML. I added the style tag based upon this post: http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/understanding-android-them... I sincerely hope that I am making a stupid, obvious mistake. Thank You, Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). I post to this list in my (oh so copious) spare time; I can either post answers that I can do quickly, or just not post at all if it is going to take me time to put together and test an example. Your choice. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
I was hoping I could simply apply the theme in xml rather than have to create an Activity and apply it in onCreate. Thanks for clearing that up. Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: (Btw, Api demos has one or two examples of creating custom themed dialogs, I believe in the app section.) On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You are making a theme, which is a kind of style that applies to an entire context, but just a UI element. You need to use it as the theme for an activity take or the second argument to the Dialog constructor, however you are creating the window. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dianne et al, My feedback was meant as constructive criticism in general - definitely not as a dis directed at you. I believe that an example is worth a thousand words - it works or it don't. I appreciate the time you spend with the board. I make it a point to star pretty much anything you write here so I can review it later. This particular thread was recalled exactly because of this. Your suggestion of altering the style of a dialog seems perfect for a step by step walk through of an app - which is what I am working on. Clearly we need more generous experts like yourself helping Android along. That being said ... I thought I had figured it out - but I am still stumped. If someone out there could help, it will help save at least one Android developer's weekend ... Here is my code: Within my theme.xml I have: resources style name=ToastyDialog parent=android:Theme item name=android:windowBackground@android:drawable/toast_frame/item item name=android:windowAnimationStyle@android:style/Animation.Toast/item /style resources Within my dialog layout I have: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:orientation=vertical style=@style/ToastyDialog TextView android:id=@+id/TextView01 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:text=@string/hello_world /TextView /LinearLayout NOTE: The Eclipse interface gives you a choice to pick a theme, and my theme does appear. Thing is, it does not write it in the XML. I added the style tag based upon this post: http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/understanding-android-themes-and-styles/ I sincerely hope that I am making a stupid, obvious mistake. Thank You, Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). I post to this list in my (oh so copious) spare time; I can either post answers that I can do quickly, or just not post at all if it is going to take me time to put together and test an example. Your choice. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
Dialog has a constructor taking a theme. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.comwrote: I was hoping I could simply apply the theme in xml rather than have to create an Activity and apply it in onCreate. Thanks for clearing that up. Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: (Btw, Api demos has one or two examples of creating custom themed dialogs, I believe in the app section.) On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You are making a theme, which is a kind of style that applies to an entire context, but just a UI element. You need to use it as the theme for an activity take or the second argument to the Dialog constructor, however you are creating the window. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dianne et al, My feedback was meant as constructive criticism in general - definitely not as a dis directed at you. I believe that an example is worth a thousand words - it works or it don't. I appreciate the time you spend with the board. I make it a point to star pretty much anything you write here so I can review it later. This particular thread was recalled exactly because of this. Your suggestion of altering the style of a dialog seems perfect for a step by step walk through of an app - which is what I am working on. Clearly we need more generous experts like yourself helping Android along. That being said ... I thought I had figured it out - but I am still stumped. If someone out there could help, it will help save at least one Android developer's weekend ... Here is my code: Within my theme.xml I have: resources style name=ToastyDialog parent=android:Theme item name=android:windowBackground@android:drawable/toast_frame/item item name=android:windowAnimationStyle@android:style/Animation.Toast/item /style resources Within my dialog layout I have: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? LinearLayout xmlns:android= http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:orientation=vertical style=@style/ToastyDialog TextView android:id=@+id/TextView01 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:text=@string/hello_world /TextView /LinearLayout NOTE: The Eclipse interface gives you a choice to pick a theme, and my theme does appear. Thing is, it does not write it in the XML. I added the style tag based upon this post: http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/understanding-android-themes-and-styles/ I sincerely hope that I am making a stupid, obvious mistake. Thank You, Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). I post to this list in my (oh so copious) spare time; I can either post answers that I can do quickly, or just not post at all if it is going to take me time to put together and test an example. Your choice. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Re: Android Toast Duration
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_frame And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation_Toast I am trying to do this and confused about the syntax for accessing the toast_frame via theme xml. Would appreciate example. Thank You, Jason On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Thank you. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
I am close to sorting this out ... I will post my code when I know I got it. There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). j On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_frame And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation_Toast I am trying to do this and confused about the syntax for accessing the toast_frame via theme xml. Would appreciate example. Thank You, Jason On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Thank you. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.comwrote: There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). I post to this list in my (oh so copious) spare time; I can either post answers that I can do quickly, or just not post at all if it is going to take me time to put together and test an example. Your choice. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
Dear Dianne et al, My feedback was meant as constructive criticism in general - definitely not as a dis directed at you. I believe that an example is worth a thousand words - it works or it don't. I appreciate the time you spend with the board. I make it a point to star pretty much anything you write here so I can review it later. This particular thread was recalled exactly because of this. Your suggestion of altering the style of a dialog seems perfect for a step by step walk through of an app - which is what I am working on. Clearly we need more generous experts like yourself helping Android along. That being said ... I thought I had figured it out - but I am still stumped. If someone out there could help, it will help save at least one Android developer's weekend ... Here is my code: Within my theme.xml I have: resources style name=ToastyDialog parent=android:Theme item name=android:windowBackground@android:drawable/toast_frame/item item name=android:windowAnimationStyle@android:style/Animation.Toast/item /style resources Within my dialog layout I have: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:orientation=vertical style=@style/ToastyDialog TextView android:id=@+id/TextView01 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:text=@string/hello_world /TextView /LinearLayout NOTE: The Eclipse interface gives you a choice to pick a theme, and my theme does appear. Thing is, it does not write it in the XML. I added the style tag based upon this post: http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/understanding-android-themes-and-styles/ I sincerely hope that I am making a stupid, obvious mistake. Thank You, Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). I post to this list in my (oh so copious) spare time; I can either post answers that I can do quickly, or just not post at all if it is going to take me time to put together and test an example. Your choice. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
You are making a theme, which is a kind of style that applies to an entire context, but just a UI element. You need to use it as the theme for an activity take or the second argument to the Dialog constructor, however you are creating the window. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dianne et al, My feedback was meant as constructive criticism in general - definitely not as a dis directed at you. I believe that an example is worth a thousand words - it works or it don't. I appreciate the time you spend with the board. I make it a point to star pretty much anything you write here so I can review it later. This particular thread was recalled exactly because of this. Your suggestion of altering the style of a dialog seems perfect for a step by step walk through of an app - which is what I am working on. Clearly we need more generous experts like yourself helping Android along. That being said ... I thought I had figured it out - but I am still stumped. If someone out there could help, it will help save at least one Android developer's weekend ... Here is my code: Within my theme.xml I have: resources style name=ToastyDialog parent=android:Theme item name=android:windowBackground@android:drawable/toast_frame/item item name=android:windowAnimationStyle@android:style/Animation.Toast/item /style resources Within my dialog layout I have: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:orientation=vertical style=@style/ToastyDialog TextView android:id=@+id/TextView01 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:text=@string/hello_world /TextView /LinearLayout NOTE: The Eclipse interface gives you a choice to pick a theme, and my theme does appear. Thing is, it does not write it in the XML. I added the style tag based upon this post: http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/understanding-android-themes-and-styles/ I sincerely hope that I am making a stupid, obvious mistake. Thank You, Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). I post to this list in my (oh so copious) spare time; I can either post answers that I can do quickly, or just not post at all if it is going to take me time to put together and test an example. Your choice. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
(Btw, Api demos has one or two examples of creating custom themed dialogs, I believe in the app section.) On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: You are making a theme, which is a kind of style that applies to an entire context, but just a UI element. You need to use it as the theme for an activity take or the second argument to the Dialog constructor, however you are creating the window. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dianne et al, My feedback was meant as constructive criticism in general - definitely not as a dis directed at you. I believe that an example is worth a thousand words - it works or it don't. I appreciate the time you spend with the board. I make it a point to star pretty much anything you write here so I can review it later. This particular thread was recalled exactly because of this. Your suggestion of altering the style of a dialog seems perfect for a step by step walk through of an app - which is what I am working on. Clearly we need more generous experts like yourself helping Android along. That being said ... I thought I had figured it out - but I am still stumped. If someone out there could help, it will help save at least one Android developer's weekend ... Here is my code: Within my theme.xml I have: resources style name=ToastyDialog parent=android:Theme item name=android:windowBackground@android:drawable/toast_frame/item item name=android:windowAnimationStyle@android:style/Animation.Toast/item /style resources Within my dialog layout I have: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:orientation=vertical style=@style/ToastyDialog TextView android:id=@+id/TextView01 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:text=@string/hello_world /TextView /LinearLayout NOTE: The Eclipse interface gives you a choice to pick a theme, and my theme does appear. Thing is, it does not write it in the XML. I added the style tag based upon this post: http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/understanding-android-themes-and-styles/ I sincerely hope that I am making a stupid, obvious mistake. Thank You, Jason On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few threads on this topic that offer advice where an example would be more useful (IMHO). I post to this list in my (oh so copious) spare time; I can either post answers that I can do quickly, or just not post at all if it is going to take me time to put together and test an example. Your choice. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
I have found a stupid but effective way . I really wanted to see a
particular lengthy error message . and I found this
Idea...
try{
-
}
catch(Exception e) {
Toast t1,t2,t3,t4,t5;
t1=Toast.makeText(this, i+e.toString(),Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
t2=Toast.makeText(this, i+e.toString(),Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
t3=Toast.makeText(this, i+e.toString(),Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
t4=Toast.makeText(this, i+e.toString(),Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
t5=Toast.makeText(this, i+e.toString(),Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
t1.show();
t2.show();
t3.show();
t4.show();
t5.show();
}
I know it's very stupid but it works none the less.
On Jul 27, 2:14 pm, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote:
Any ideas to increase that duration?
as Dianne said, use Dialog for that but if you really, really, really
want Toast for that there is a dirty, tricky workaround (hack) of
showing the same Toast in say two seconds after the first time Toast
was shown.
something like this:
postDelayed(showToastAgainRunnable, 2000)
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[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
Toast.LENGTH_LONG and Toast.LENGTH_SHORT are not numbers of milliseconds. If you print out the values you get: Toast.LENGTH_LONG = 1 Toast.LENGTH_SHORT = 0 If you give a value other than 1 or 0, it seems to default to LENGTH_SHORT. Toast.LENGTH_LONG is ~4 seconds Toast.LENGTH_SHORT is ~2.5 seconds Based on using a stopwatch and watching the emulator running on my laptop. On Jul 24, 3:13 pm, Scott scott.mikoly...@gmail.com wrote: Toast.LENGTH_LONG is only a constant number of milliseconds. You can use any number of milliseconds if you like but there might be a maximum. Example: t.setDuration(); Scott On Jul 23, 10:31 pm, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for all those who replied. But Toast is the only UI component I could find that appears over the incoming call dialog. I need to show some information when an incoming call arrives. This is why I am using the Toast. On Jul 24, 1:34 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_... And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation... On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Thank you. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
actually its 3.5 seconds and 2 seconds: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=services/java/com/android/server/NotificationManagerService.java#l74 -- Urs On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Sydneysydney.p...@gmail.com wrote: Toast.LENGTH_LONG and Toast.LENGTH_SHORT are not numbers of milliseconds. If you print out the values you get: Toast.LENGTH_LONG = 1 Toast.LENGTH_SHORT = 0 If you give a value other than 1 or 0, it seems to default to LENGTH_SHORT. Toast.LENGTH_LONG is ~4 seconds Toast.LENGTH_SHORT is ~2.5 seconds Based on using a stopwatch and watching the emulator running on my laptop. On Jul 24, 3:13 pm, Scott scott.mikoly...@gmail.com wrote: Toast.LENGTH_LONG is only a constant number of milliseconds. You can use any number of milliseconds if you like but there might be a maximum. Example: t.setDuration(); Scott On Jul 23, 10:31 pm, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for all those who replied. But Toast is the only UI component I could find that appears over the incoming call dialog. I need to show some information when an incoming call arrives. This is why I am using the Toast. On Jul 24, 1:34 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_... And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation... On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Thank you. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
Any ideas to increase that duration? as Dianne said, use Dialog for that but if you really, really, really want Toast for that there is a dirty, tricky workaround (hack) of showing the same Toast in say two seconds after the first time Toast was shown. something like this: postDelayed(showToastAgainRunnable, 2000) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
Toast.LENGTH_LONG is only a constant number of milliseconds. You can use any number of milliseconds if you like but there might be a maximum. Example: t.setDuration(); Scott On Jul 23, 10:31 pm, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for all those who replied. But Toast is the only UI component I could find that appears over the incoming call dialog. I need to show some information when an incoming call arrives. This is why I am using the Toast. On Jul 24, 1:34 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_... And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation... On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Thank you. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
Thank you for all those who replied. But Toast is the only UI component I could find that appears over the incoming call dialog. I need to show some information when an incoming call arrives. This is why I am using the Toast. On Jul 24, 1:34 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_... And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation... On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Thank you. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
On Thursday 23 July 2009 08:17:25 Mohamed Amir wrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Toast.makeText(mContext, Some comment goes here., 4); Thank you. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Kent Loobey k...@uoregon.edu wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 08:17:25 Mohamed Amir wrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Toast.makeText(mContext, Some comment goes here., 4); That won't work, because the duration parameter is expressed in milliseconds, but as one of two constants. That being said, toasts are meant to be transient. If you need something on screen for an extended period of time, use an activity or dialog. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Marco Nelissenmarc...@android.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Kent Loobey k...@uoregon.edu wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 08:17:25 Mohamed Amir wrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Toast.makeText(mContext, Some comment goes here., 4); That won't work, because the duration parameter is expressed in I meant is NOT expressed, of course. milliseconds, but as one of two constants. That being said, toasts are meant to be transient. If you need something on screen for an extended period of time, use an activity or dialog. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android Toast Duration
It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_frame And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation_Toast On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir mohamed.a...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? I have tried this code Toast t = new Toast(this); View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); t.setView(v); t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); t.show(); t.show(); t.show(); By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I didn't see any difference. Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and further calling has no effect? Any ideas to increase that duration? Thank you. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
