Dialogs can't have an impact on the orientation. Just make an activity with a dialog theme, and set the orientation of the activity to the one providing the behavior you want.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM, André <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have created an activity for my game which handles all orientation > changes by itself and has a fixed "portrait" layout. Actually it uses > the accelerometer and is rendered using 2D canvas methods. If the > level has been completed I show up a highscore dialog in which the > user can enter his name. The dialog is floating above the underlying > level screen which gets blurred out nicely. This generally works. > > Problem is that the dialog does not get rotated if the orientation of > the phone changes. So even if the keyboard is exposed the dialog is > shown in portrait mode instead of landscape. I have tried to use an > activity with dialog theme instead but the behavior didn't change. > After several tries it seems that I have found the reason for this: > Once there's an activity with fixed orientation in the activity stack > then all subsequent activities keep this orientation, too. They will > not react on orientation changes anymore (e.g. if the keyboard gets > exposed). > > After upgrading to 1.5 SDK the described behavior changed a little > bit. Now at subactivities indead react on orientation changes like > expected. However, the need to have an opaque background! That means > that neither dialogs nor activities with dialog theme will work. Those > will stick with the orientation of the underlaying activity. > > So my workaround is to first start a sub-activity with an opaque black > background. This activity then shows my highscore dialog on top. It > looks quite okay but I wonder if there's a better solution? > > Is it possible to show a dialog above a fixed portrait or landscape > activity which automatically adapts to orientation changes? > > > > -- 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
