Re: [android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-29 Thread John Goche
Hi Ryan, I downloaded your code and tried it out. At first it seemed really cool and working out well for the most part. Then I realized that if the user presses the Esc key on the dialog instead of pressing on one of the buttons the user is left with a small square hidden below the dialog (this

[android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-29 Thread Studio LFP
The easiest way I've found is to just do a normal activity and float it with a transparent background. style name=Theme.Transparent parent=android:Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen item name=android:windowBackground@drawable/bg/item item name=android:windowIsFloatingtrue/item item

[android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread Ryan Mattison
Yo John, I've made a blog post for you entitled: Android Custom Transparent Dialog Alarm Style @ http://www.ryangmattison.com/ It is clearly formatted there, I'll also include it below: Running out of topics to blog about, so I'm going to randomly select questions off the Android Developer

[android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread Ryan Mattison
These forums have mad lag: http://www.ryangmattison.com/post/2011/09/26/Android-Custom-Transparent-Dialog-Alarm-Style-.aspx If it didn't go through before ... I made a post for you. On Sep 26, 3:00 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:50 PM, John Goche

Re: [android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Murphy
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Ryan Mattison rmattis...@gmail.com wrote: These forums have mad lag: http://www.ryangmattison.com/post/2011/09/26/Android-Custom-Transparent-Dialog-Alarm-Style-.aspx If it didn't go through before ... I made a post for you. I'm getting a 404 on that URL. --

[android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread Ryan Mattison
Sorry Mark, Not sure what is up with Blog Engine .NET .. when I link the URL it works locally, but seems to break when I put it on forums. If you navigate to http://www.ryangmattison.com and go to the first post, Android Custom Transparent Dialog Alarm Style it should have all the information

[android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread Ryan Mattison
Is there moderation time or something on these forums, why do posts appear, go invisible, appear again. Honestly, worlds greatest search engine fails at forums. http://www.ryangmattison.com/post/2011/09/26/Android-Custom-Transparent-Dialog-Alarm-Style-.aspx Ryan Mattison On Sep 26, 1:37 pm,

Re: [android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread John Goche
Hi Ryan, Thanks for posting the tutorial. I was indeed looking for something like that. Just that since I have one to N messages to display inside the popup I will have to include a listview in there and am not sure this will be possible (I don't know how long or how many messages I will have,

[android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread Ryan Mattison
Hey John, The only way to learn a lot of stuff is to browse the Android source tree (http://source.android.com/source/index.html) I think the tree is down right now. This source code should be easily adaptable into a ListView, I actually have an implementation of it in a project ListViewDialog,

Re: [android-developers] Re: standalone popup: UI question

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Murphy
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Ryan Mattison rmattis...@gmail.com wrote: The only way to learn a lot of stuff is to browse the Android source tree (http://source.android.com/source/index.html)  I think the tree is down right now. Note that Google Code Search still has it indexed, at least