Yes! I was changing the title of a note in the db in the called activity, but failing to update the cursor in onActivityResult... so in onResume, it was pulling the old title. .requery()ing the cursor in onActivityResult got it, thanks all!
Paul On Jan 12, 1:47 pm, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote: > I just tried a sample program, and it seems fine. There must be something > going on in your onResume part... > > Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > UPDATE: > > > Ok, so it looks like the following is happening... User starts the > > activity, title is XXXXX. As a test, I then change the title in > > onCreateOptionsMenu to YYYYY, and the UI changes immediately. > > Finally, when the options-menu launched activity returns it's value, > > ZZZZZ to onActivityResult, I then attempt to change the UI title again > > from the currently shown YYYYY to ZZZZZ... but the title is instead > > changed back to XXXXX..., even though an immediate call to getTitle > > tells me that it should be ZZZZZ... > > > Any ideas why this may be happening? > > > Paul > > > On Jan 12, 1:26 pm, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Agreed, which is why it's so frustrating. > > > > As a test, in onCreateOptionsMenu() > > > > @Override > > > public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { > > > setTitle("changed"); > > > . > > > . > > > . > > > return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); > > > > } > > > > Works fine. In onActivityResult() (this is the code, verbatim) > > > > @Override > > > protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, > > > Intent data) { > > > super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data); > > > > // check the activity results > > > switch (requestCode) { > > > case RESULT_RENAME: > > > if (resultCode == -1) { > > > // activity ended successfully > > > Log.d(LOG_TAG, "onActivityResult(): > > > Changing title from " + getTitle() + " to " + > > > data.getStringExtra(StylePad.Notes.TITLE)); > > > setTitle(data.getStringExtra(StylePad.Notes.TITLE)); > > > Log.d(LOG_TAG, "onActivityResult(): > > > New title " + getTitle()); > > > } > > > break; > > > } > > > } > > > > And the logging tells me that the title's been changed, but yet the UI > > > is NOT updated... Have tried this on both a Galaxy Tab (2.2) and the > > > 2.2 emulator. > > > > On Jan 12, 12:16 pm, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It's a relatively simple problem. I am not sure what are you doing > > wrong. > > > > The title can be changed anytime from anywhere. > > > > > Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com > > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I posted this over at StackOverflow, but not much of a response... > > > > > maybe someone else can run this on their testbed and verify? A > > > > > strange problem... > > > > > > == > > > > > > Hi all. I have a simple app based on the Notepad demo application, > > > > > and when a user is viewing/editing a note they can launch a dialog > > > > > activity (TitleEditor) that allows them to change the title of a > > note. > > > > > Currently in the app, when viewing/editing a note, the notes' current > > > > > title is shown as the activity title. > > > > > > So, I launch the TitleEditor dialog activity with > > > > > startActivityForResult(), and in onActivityResult() I am successfully > > > > > getting the new title back, no problem. > > > > > > The issue relates to then updating the notes view/edit (the active > > > > > activity) title... using setTitle() in onActivityResult() with the > > > > > data passed back does seem to set the title internally (a subsequent > > > > > call to getTitle() shows the new title has been set), but the actual > > > > > UI title is not updated until the activity is closed and then re- > > > > > launched. > > > > > > I've used setTitle() in onResume(), onPrepareOptionsMenu(), etc and > > it > > > > > worked like a charm, but not working here... any ideas or > > suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > <android-developers%[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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