Hi, Did you manage to find an answer to this yet?
I'm experiencing the same problem such that my surfaceview gets destroyed, (after calling setContentView to load another layout) but never gets created again! Thanks, Mun On May 9, 10:37 pm, tobias429 <[email protected]> wrote: > I've built an application that switches between two screens - a > LinearLayout and a SurfaceView - via the application.setContentView() > method. > > When switching between the two screens, the surface of the SurfaceView > gets destroyed, and never created new again. > > Here is what I do: > > During my application, I switch between the two screens via calling > setContentView() from my application. > > My SurfaceView starts a thread that renders the view, once the surface > is created. This works fine the first time I'm doing this: > 1. Create the SurfaceView > 2. Get a handle of the surfaceHolder, and add my SurfaceView as a > surfaceHolder callback > 3. Call setContentView(SurfaceViewScreen) from my app, to bring the > SurfaceView screen to the front > > This now nicely calls onSurfaceCreated() in my SurfaceView. > > Based on a user action, I later call setContentView(Layout) to display > my standard Layout again. This nicely calls the onSurfaceDestroyed() > mehod of my SurfaceView. > > The problem is now, that if I change back again to the SurfaceView via > calling application.setContentView(SurfaceView), the surface never > gets re-created, i.e. neither does onSurfaceCreated() get called, nor > does my view render correctly, as in the according thread > surfaceHolder.getCanvas() returns null. > > What am I doing wrong? > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
