OK, I see how you're doing it now. #requestWindowFeature ..
interesting.

But if you're going to the trouble of creating a subclass of Dialog,
why not create an Activity?
What's the benefit of creating a specific dialog subclass vs an
Activity?


On Nov 24, 5:26 pm, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do it through code.
>
>  requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
>  setContentView(R.layout.confirm_dialog);
>
> Here, the layout file contains the title. And then you can override the
> Dialog's setTitle and setMessage methods, to update your own text views in
> the layout.
>
> Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM, William Ferguson <william.ferguson.au@
>
> gmail.com> wrote:
> > That sounds great. How?
> > I would normally turn the title off on an Actiivty by setting
> >   <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
> > in the style for the Activity. How do I do that for a Dialog?
>
> > On Nov 24, 3:28 pm, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > You can set the dialog not to have a title(just like turning the
> > Activity's
> > > title off), and then make your layout have a title bar of your choice. I
> > > normally extend the Dialog class and create my own.
>
> > > Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com
>
> > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:38 AM, William Ferguson <william.ferguson.au@
>
> > > gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Its clearly easy to do, because some many apps do it, but I can't see
> > > > how.
> > > > I want to display a very simple dialog, with a Title and Content
> > > > (eother TextView or perhaps a WebView).
>
> > > > But I want to style the dialog so that the background of the Title,
> > > > Content and the dialog window itself are something other than grey.
>
> > > > I've tried constructing a Dialog and setting the ContentView and
> > > > Title, but the title always has the grey background.
>
> > > > I've tried using an AlterDialog#Builder, but if I specify the title
> > > > string using #setTilte then I have no control over the background. ie
> > > > same as for new Dialog above. I also get the grey background of the
> > > > dialog window bleeding through above and below the title and content.
>
> > > > I have tried setting a theme for the application that sets the dialog
> > > > styles using
> > > >        <item name="android:alertDialogStyle">@style/
> > > > myAlertDialogStyle</item>
> > > > But that doesn't seem to have any effect. Buut then again the doco
> > > > that I have found is extremely vague on details, so I probably messed
> > > > it up. If you can point me to some clean and coherent doco I'd be
> > > > obliged.
>
> > > > The closest I have come is to construct using AlterDialog#Builder and
> > > > use both #setContentView and #setCustomTitle as I can style eahc of
> > > > those views, but I still have the grey dialog background bleeding
> > > > through.above and below the title and content.
>
> > > > Unless someone can point me in the right direction, the only option I
> > > > can see is to ditch the Dialog altogether and just create an Activity
> > > > that displays the info I want with the styling I want. This is
> > > > trivial, but it feels SO wrong. If you can't easily style, what's the
> > > > point of the dialogs at all?
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