Yes, I think I barked up the wrong tree by suggesting to get rid of
the DEFAULT category. Glad to know this works!
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bret & Mark,
>
> Sorry for interrupting, but I also got curious about this. It seems like a
> neat way to bring up the About box without making the context menu too
> large.
>
> This works, no problems at all:
>
> values/prefs.xml:
>
> .....
> <Preference android:key="aboutPref"
> android:title="About title"
> android:summary="About summary">
> <intent android:action="ABOUT_ACTION"/>
> </Preference>
> .....
>
> the manifest:
>
> <activity android:name=".AboutActivity"
> android:label="@string/about_activity"
> android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
> <intent-filter>
> <action android:name="ABOUT_ACTION"/>
> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
> </intent-filter>
> </activity>
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 30.07.2010 19:29, Bret Foreman пишет:
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Well, the manifest documentation is pretty sparse so it's not
>> surprising that it doesn't mention this case. A good example is the
>> screen of choices that face you when you look at the Application tab
>> in the manifest editor in Eclipse and click on one of the activities
>> or services. That calls up a form with about 25 choices, none of which
>> include an "action", by the way. A document that describes what all
>> these choices mean would be very helpful. Note that there's a choice
>> called "clear task on launch", a phrase that you can search in vain
>> for in the manifest documentation.
>>
>> It seems like people mostly build projects by copy-paste from other
>> projects, which is a fine approach as far as it goes but it can grow
>> into a nightmare if people start propagating unsupported hacks. Then
>> you have hundreds of apps that break at the same time when a new
>> release invalidates the hack.
>>
>> OK, down off my soapbox. The change you suggest below didn't work.
>> Same exception in logcat. I can think of several approaches to take it
>> from here:
>>
>> 1) I build a simple test project that illustrates the problem and
>> submit it as a bug.
>> 2) We decide that this approach is unsupported, in which case I submit
>> a bug against the documentation.
>> 3) We take another swing at it, recognizing that we are implementing
>> something that lives on shaky ground, since undocumented behavior can
>> change at any time.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Bret
>>
>> On Jul 29, 7:02 pm, Mark Murphy<mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I can't find where what you're doing is documented, so I have no idea
>>> what the right behavior is. Do you have a link to where it describes
>>> this<intent> child element of<Preference>?
>>>
>>> Regardless, I see where I went wrong before.
>>>
>>> Your error is:
>>>
>>> E/AndroidRuntime( 376): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No
>>> Activity
>>> found to handle Intent { act=com.shipmate.AboutShipMateActivity }
>>>
>>> Notice the "act=com.shipmate.AboutShipMateActivity" part. That says
>>> the Intent it is trying to use has an *action* of
>>> com.shipmate.AboutShipMateActivity. So, add an<intent-filter> with an
>>> <action> of com.shipmate.AboutShipMateActivity to your activity, and
>>> you should have better luck.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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