It seems that my problem was due to using Activity.getApplicationContext as the context.
On Nov 29, 9:23 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would help if you would include the stack crawl of the error and such. > > One cause of this error may be trying to display an application > window/dialog through a Context that is not an Activity. > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello super smart people, I've got a strangle little bug to test you. > > > I have an application that tries to display an RTSP video in a view > > (Content View -> ScrollView -> AbsoluteLayout -> VideoView). However, > > in the emulator the MediaPlayer throws dispatches an error message > > which tries to display an Alert which throws the WindowManager > > exception. On device I hear the sound but do not see the the video > > then I get the exception when the MediaController is shown. WTF is > > going on? If I create a tiny Activity this works fine but once I get > > into a "real" application it all goes to hell. Is this Dalvik and the > > Android SDK showing it's immaturity? > > > Ash > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
