Resolved it by passing in the Activity context instead of Application context to the dialog.
On Sep 17, 11:15 am, Horchata Factory <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a custom dialog which contains an EditText control in it. If I > type something inside it, do a long press, and choose to add the word > to the dictionary, it crashes with this exception: > > 09-17 18:03:35.765: WARN/dalvikvm(994): threadid=3: thread exiting > with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): Uncaught handler: > thread main exiting due to uncaught exception > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): > android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from > outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK > flag. Is this really what you want? > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.app.ApplicationContext.startActivity(ApplicationContext.java: > 627) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.content.ContextWrapper.startActivity(ContextWrapper.java:236) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.widget.TextView.onTextContextMenuItem(TextView.java:6961) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.widget.TextView$MenuHandler.onMenuItemClick(TextView.java: > 6853) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl.invoke(MenuItemImpl.java: > 133) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.performItemAction > (MenuBuilder.java:813) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuDialogHelper.onClick > (MenuDialogHelper.java:120) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > com.android.internal.app.AlertController$AlertParams$3.onItemClick > (AlertController.java:884) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:283) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.widget.ListView.performItemClick(ListView.java:3132) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:1620) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run > (ZygoteInit.java:782) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540) > 09-17 18:03:35.775: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(994): at > dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) > > Is there a way to have a custom dialog with an EditText that won't > throw an exception when the user adds a word to the dictionary? I know > I can remove that option if I set the inputType to "textEmailAddress", > but in my case, I must set inputType to "textPersonName" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
