subject:"\[android\-developers\] Re\: Styling Dialog title and background \- is this an impossible quest\?"

[android-developers] Re: Styling Dialog title and background - is this an impossible quest?

2010-11-25 Thread Doug

On Nov 24, 2:15 pm, William Ferguson william.ferguson...@gmail.com
wrote:
 Can you explain to me what the different use is for a Dialog vs an
 Activity?

Which would you use if you didn't want your underlying activity to
pause and stop when the dialog is to be displayed?  (and, by
extension, to be updating its UI while the dialog is present?)

Which would you use if you wanted it to be easy to know whether or not
to display the status bar and title bar while the dialog is
displaying?

Which would you use if you wanted to take advantage of Android's
notion of positive/negative/neutral button placement?

Which would you use if you wanted an easy way to display the progress
of some long-running operation within an activity while not allowing
the user to directly interact with the app?

Which would you use if you were trying to display an urgent message in
response to something that happened in a Service while the app was not
in the foreground?  (This is a little bit of a trick question and
requires some experience with Android, but it's a valid one.)

If you haven't guessed by now, that Dialog and Activity and really
trying to solve two different problems, and you're better off picking
the one that solves your problem in the best possible way.  If you
think another Activity solves your problem better, then go with it,
and understand the ramifications of your choice.

Doug

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[android-developers] Re: Styling Dialog title and background - is this an impossible quest?

2010-11-24 Thread William Ferguson

OK, I see how you're doing it now. #requestWindowFeature ..
interesting.

But if you're going to the trouble of creating a subclass of Dialog,
why not create an Activity?
What's the benefit of creating a specific dialog subclass vs an
Activity?

On Nov 24, 5:26 pm, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote:
I do it through code.

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.confirm_dialog);

Here, the layout file contains the title. And then you can override the
Dialog's setTitle and setMessage methods, to update your own text views in
the layout.

Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM, William Ferguson william.ferguson.au@

gmail.com wrote:
That sounds great. How?
I would normally turn the title off on an Actiivty by setting
item name=android:windowNoTitletrue/item
in the style for the Activity. How do I do that for a Dialog?

On Nov 24, 3:28 pm, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote:
You can set the dialog not to have a title(just like turning the
Activity's
title off), and then make your layout have a title bar of your choice. I
normally extend the Dialog class and create my own.

Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:38 AM, William Ferguson william.ferguson.au@

gmail.com wrote:
Its clearly easy to do, because some many apps do it, but I can't see
how.
I want to display a very simple dialog, with a Title and Content
(eother TextView or perhaps a WebView).

But I want to style the dialog so that the background of the Title,
Content and the dialog window itself are something other than grey.

I've tried constructing a Dialog and setting the ContentView and
Title, but the title always has the grey background.

I've tried using an AlterDialog#Builder, but if I specify the title
string using #setTilte then I have no control over the background. ie
same as for new Dialog above. I also get the grey background of the
dialog window bleeding through above and below the title and content.

I have tried setting a theme for the application that sets the dialog
styles using
item name=android:alertDialogStyle@style/
myAlertDialogStyle/item
But that doesn't seem to have any effect. Buut then again the doco
that I have found is extremely vague on details, so I probably messed
it up. If you can point me to some clean and coherent doco I'd be
obliged.

The closest I have come is to construct using AlterDialog#Builder and
use both #setContentView and #setCustomTitle as I can style eahc of
those views, but I still have the grey dialog background bleeding
through.above and below the title and content.

Unless someone can point me in the right direction, the only option I
can see is to ditch the Dialog altogether and just create an Activity
that displays the info I want with the styling I want. This is
trivial, but it feels SO wrong. If you can't easily style, what's the
point of the dialogs at all?

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Styling Dialog title and background - is this an impossible quest?

2010-11-24 Thread Kumar Bibek

Dailogs have a different use as compared to Activities. So, when you need a
dialog, you have to use one. :) Simple?

Kumar Bibek
http://techdroid.kbeanie.com
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM, William Ferguson william.ferguson.au@
gmail.com wrote:

OK, I see how you're doing it now. #requestWindowFeature ..
interesting.

But if you're going to the trouble of creating a subclass of Dialog,
why not create an Activity?
What's the benefit of creating a specific dialog subclass vs an
Activity?

On Nov 24, 5:26 pm, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote:
I do it through code.

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.confirm_dialog);

Here, the layout file contains the title. And then you can override the
Dialog's setTitle and setMessage methods, to update your own text views
in
the layout.

Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM, William Ferguson william.ferguson.au@

On Nov 24, 3:28 pm, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote:
You can set the dialog not to have a title(just like turning the
Activity's
title off), and then make your layout have a title bar of your
choice. I
normally extend the Dialog class and create my own.

Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:38 AM, William Ferguson
william.ferguson.au@

gmail.com wrote:
Its clearly easy to do, because some many apps do it, but I can't
see
how.
I want to display a very simple dialog, with a Title and Content
(eother TextView or perhaps a WebView).

But I want to style the dialog so that the background of the Title,
Content and the dialog window itself are something other than grey.

I've tried constructing a Dialog and setting the ContentView and
Title, but the title always has the grey background.

I've tried using an AlterDialog#Builder, but if I specify the title
string using #setTilte then I have no control over the background.
ie
same as for new Dialog above. I also get the grey background of the
dialog window bleeding through above and below the title and
content.

I have tried setting a theme for the application that sets the
dialog
styles using
item name=android:alertDialogStyle@style/
myAlertDialogStyle/item
But that doesn't seem to have any effect. Buut then again the doco
that I have found is extremely vague on details, so I probably
messed
it up. If you can point me to some clean and coherent doco I'd be
obliged.

The closest I have come is to construct using AlterDialog#Builder
and
use both #setContentView and #setCustomTitle as I can style eahc of
those views, but I still have the grey dialog background bleeding
through.above and below the title and content.

Unless someone can point me in the right direction, the only option
I
can see is to ditch the Dialog altogether and just create an
Activity
that displays the info I want with the styling I want. This is
trivial, but it feels SO wrong. If you can't easily style, what's
the
point of the dialogs at all?

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Styling Dialog title and background - is this an impossible quest?

2010-11-24 Thread Kumar Bibek

Morever, if you create your own dialog, which you want to have your custom
appearance, you can use it wherever you want in your application.