But the reason I am using it is to fill the spinners with the db values. So after the background thread gets the database into the device , I want the progress dialog to be dismissed and the spinners to be updated with the db data values.
On Jul 1, 1:36 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't touch views from a background thread :) That's what AsyncTask is for. > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Georgy<[email protected]> wrote: > > > and also I am getting an error that only the original thread that > > created a view hierarchy can touch its views. > > > any idea how to avoid this? > > > On Jul 1, 12:44 pm, Georgy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You are right, I don't know why I was thinking that further... > > >> just one more thing. > > >> I started a dialog in the UI and i want it to be dimissed at the end > >> of that background thread. In the inner class, how can I access that > >> dialog to dimiss it? or is there a function to dismiss them all? > > >> thanks a lot! > > >> On Jul 1, 12:23 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Georgy wrote: > >> > > In here: > > >> > > class downloadfiles extends AsyncTask<Void, String, Void> { > > >> > > �...@override > >> > > protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) { > > >> > > downloaddata(); // a function that access the database > >> > > and pulls > >> > > the dumped SQL > >> > > Dbadapter db = new Dbadapter(this); // here I am getting > >> > > that the > >> > > constructor Dbadapter(universitymaps.downloadfiles) is undefined > >> > > because in the Dbadapter class in takes Context and not downloadfiles > >> > > db.open(); > > >> > If downloadfiles is an inner class of your activity, use > >> > ActivityName.this instead of this, where ActivityName is the name of > >> > your activity. > > >> > -- > >> > Mark Murphy (a Commons > >> > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > >> > Need Android talent? Ask on HADO!http://wiki.andmob.org/hado > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. 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 Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
