On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own > dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this > background to make it look like a toast: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_frame > > And this animation style for the same fade effect: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation_Toast
I am trying to do this and confused about the syntax for accessing the toast_frame via theme xml. Would appreciate example. Thank You, Jason > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? >> >> I have tried this code >> >> Toast t = new Toast(this); >> View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); >> t.setView(v); >> t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); >> t.show(); >> t.show(); >> t.show(); >> >> By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a >> similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I >> didn't see any difference. >> Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be >> called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and >> further calling has no effect? >> >> Any ideas to increase that duration? >> >> Thank you. >> > > > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
