[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog
Dianne Hackborn wrote: Fwiw, you can just replace the entire menu view with your own so your custom UI slides out like a normal menu instead of popping up a dialog. This would give an experience much more consistent with what users expect. Ooo! Can you point us to an example? I'm guessing it would be via onCreatePanelView(), but that's not used in the SDK samples AFAICT. Thanks! -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 1.9 Available! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog
That worked nicely, thanks. On Dec 18, 1:19 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: mscwd01 wrote: I wish to replace the default Menu with a Dialog that consists of several TextViews. I suspect what you mean is: you want to display a Dialog that consists of several TextViews when the user presses the [MENU] key. Creating the dialog is easy, however how does one override the defualt Menu and have the dialoge show and dismiss in the same manner as the default menu? Step 1: don't create a menu Step 2: use onKeyDown() to detect the [MENU] press, and do what you want If I am misinterpreting your question, I apologize. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog
don't know the advantages of your solution Mark, but the solution of mscwd01 was not that wrong. just moving the dialog.show() to the overriden method onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) would have done the job. oncreatemenu is just called once. On 18 Dez., 13:30, mscwd01 mscw...@gmail.com wrote: That worked nicely, thanks. On Dec 18, 1:19 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: mscwd01 wrote: I wish to replace the default Menu with a Dialog that consists of several TextViews. I suspect what you mean is: you want to display a Dialog that consists of several TextViews when the user presses the [MENU] key. Creating the dialog is easy, however how does one override the defualt Menu and have the dialoge show and dismiss in the same manner as the default menu? Step 1: don't create a menu Step 2: use onKeyDown() to detect the [MENU] press, and do what you want If I am misinterpreting your question, I apologize. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog
the.victim wrote: don't know the advantages of your solution Mark, but the solution of mscwd01 was not that wrong. just moving the dialog.show() to the overriden method onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) would have done the job. oncreatemenu is just called once. There might be side-effects of pretending to go through the normal menu system when you're not planning on actually presenting a real menu. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009 http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog
Fwiw, you can just replace the entire menu view with your own so your custom UI slides out like a normal menu instead of popping up a dialog. This would give an experience much more consistent with what users expect. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: the.victim wrote: don't know the advantages of your solution Mark, but the solution of mscwd01 was not that wrong. just moving the dialog.show() to the overriden method onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) would have done the job. oncreatemenu is just called once. There might be side-effects of pretending to go through the normal menu system when you're not planning on actually presenting a real menu. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009 http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog
mscwd01 wrote: I wish to replace the default Menu with a Dialog that consists of several TextViews. I suspect what you mean is: you want to display a Dialog that consists of several TextViews when the user presses the [MENU] key. Creating the dialog is easy, however how does one override the defualt Menu and have the dialoge show and dismiss in the same manner as the default menu? Step 1: don't create a menu Step 2: use onKeyDown() to detect the [MENU] press, and do what you want If I am misinterpreting your question, I apologize. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009 http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
