I am willing to collaborate with anyone interested to implement this. I don't have the ability, knowledge or desire to implement it alone. BTW, are you the Dianne in the Android video here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aUjukCdPyQ
On Dec 12, 3:01 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoops, sorry I missed that you were talking about having the callback be a > method name. That would indeed be more possible to implement... but still, > this is not nearly as high a priority as many other things, so the way to > get this done is to contribute a patch. > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > (This would be more appropriate for the android-framework group to talk > > about changes to the platform.) > > > There is currently no plan for doing this kind of thing, because it is > > extremely problematic to deal with the case when the activity's process is > > killed and restarted between startActivityForResult() and eventually > > receiving the result. > > > If this is something you really want, you are welcome to work on a patch > > you can contribute to add the feature. On the priority list of the people > > currently working on the platform, though, it is very low because: > > > (1) Given the processing killing issue, an API as simple as being described > > is impossible to do, so it would need to be more complicated, making its > > utility unclear. > > > (2) Whatever "desired" API there is can just as easily be implemented by > > the application, it doesn't need to be done in the framework. There is very > > little additional capabilities the framework has to do this, except possibly > > the chance to change the result from an int to a string (and so being able > > to make it say a class name that it dynamically instantiates when delivering > > the result). > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Anil <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Objective: simpler and arguably more elegant design by making object > >> oriented and remove the mass of switch statements that result using > >> only > >> one fixed callback method - onActivityResult(), Request Code and > >> Result Codes. > > >> Suggestion: modify API so that calling startActivityForResult() will > >> be > >> instead startActivityForResult(callbackMethodName). > > >> where callbackMethodName is a method. We could simply use a String > >> rather > >> than Method, to keep things simple. > > >> callbackMethodName(Bundle result) { > >> } > > >> If an error happens in the sub activity, then the exception that is > >> thrown, > >> is delivered to callbackMethodName() which must contain an empty try > >> block > >> at the beginning. > >> try{ > >> } catch(e1){ > >> handle exception e1 thrown in the call to the sub activity > >> } catch(e2) { > >> handle exception e2 thrown in the call to the sub activity > >> } > >> now other normal code in callbackMethodName() > > >> Any other result information is communicated by the Bundle result > >> parameter. > > >> (I have submitted it as a suggestion in issue tracker. > >>http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1520) > > > -- > > 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. > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
