You need to call .show() on the dialog to have it shown. There should be no problem with showing a dialog in onCreate(). (There was a problem with this in 1.0, but that was ages ago.)
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Lee Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I have a ListActivity that implements an ArrayAdapter list. I have > a control statement within onCreate() that checks if we have any Array > values to populate our list, if we do.. set up the list and display > it. The problem is, what happens when we don't. > > Ideally what I'd like to do is simply display an alert dialog telling > the user "no values exist" and then return to the previous activity, > what's the best way to do this? I've tried the following... > http://pastie.org/653790 > > But the dialog doesn't appear, which isn't really any surprise. What > would be the best approach for this? > > Regards, > Lee > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
