Get rid of all occurrences of getApplicationContext() from your code,
including the one shown in the snippet below. Use "this" instead
(minus the quotes), as that will be a perfectly valid Context, one
much better suited for your purposes.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Bret Foreman <bret.fore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting an exception when I try to pop up an alert dialog from
> within the onOptionsItemSelected method of an Activity. The exception
> looks like this:
>
> W/WindowManager( 57): Attempted to add window with non-application
> token WindowToken{43c4d3b0 token=null}. Aborting.
>
> I pasted the same code into a button's onClick method and it worked
> fine. Any ideas?
>
> Here's the code:
>
> AlertDialog alertDialog = new
> AlertDialog.Builder(getApplicationContext()).create();
> alertDialog.setTitle(R.string.confirmClear);
> alertDialog.setMessage(getString(R.string.areYouSure));
> alertDialog.setButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE,
> getString(R.string.yes), new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
> public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int
> which) {
> /*
> * This is where we clear all the events from
> the database.
> */
> // do something
> } });
> alertDialog.setButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_NEGATIVE,
> getString(R.string.no), new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
> public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int
> which) {
> // don't do anything
> return;
> } });
> alertDialog.show();
>
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