there is configChanges that will allow you to be notified and allow you to decide orientation i guess.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:16 AM, tony obrien <[email protected]>wrote: > Since you call the "other" overlay when the orientation changes, a > cheap hack would be to have the BUTTON Click listener set a global > variable that the ORIENTATION listener can see and decide whether or > not to allow the orientation change. > > > On Apr 15, 3:44 am, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Well, preventing an orientation change is easy. But what about doing > > it at run time. > > > > Say, I have an activity which supports orientation change in normal > > situations. It has say three Edit Texts. > > > > There's also a button, which when clicked would do some processing in > > a thread while showing a ProgressDialog which is not cancellable. > > > > Ok, so till the user hits the Button, I want the activity to be able > > to adapt the orientation changes. I have two layouts files for each > > orientation with different layout schemes. > > > > What I want is this. Once the user clicks on the button, and the > > ProgressDialog is showing, I don't want the activity now to be re- > > created again when the orientation changes. So, before showing the > > ProgressDialog, is there any way to tell the Activity not to handle > > Orientation change? > > > > Also, once the process is complete, and the ProgressDialog is removed, > > I want the Activity again to be able to handle orientation changes. > > > > :) I know, we can save the state of all the things, and retrieve them > > back. But, just curious if this can be done? > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Kumar Bibek > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- 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
