Alert Dialog vs Dialog vs ?

avolovoy · by **avolovoy** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:58 pm

Hi All, i'm trying to build an about screen for my application which should have title with icon and body with custom view. By custom, i mean i want to change background, fonts, get some urls in and couple of buttons.
So basically AlertDialog type of the window will work but i need to customize the body. So, having my layout defined in xml i'm trying the following:

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 private void onAbout() {
 
        final Builder winAlert;
 
        Dialog winDialog;
 
        OnClickListener okListener = new OnClickListener() {
 
            // @Override
 
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
 
                dialog.cancel();
 
                return;
 
            }
 
        };
 
        winAlert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setIcon(R.drawable.icon)
 
                .setTitle("My title").setPositiveButton(
 
                        "Ok", okListener);
 
        winDialog = winAlert.create();
 
        // winAlert.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);
 
        // winDialog.setContentView(R.layout.about);
 
        // winDialog.addContentView(findViewById(R.layout.about),
 
        // new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
 
        // LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));
 
        winDialog.show();
 
    }
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it works until i do set content view to it , and after i do it's crashes ( never mind commented code i was trying different things). When i'm trying just use the Dialog , i'm losing control over the title ( i mean i can't add / change icon ).
So what should i do here ? I mean I can go towards creating AboutWindow and extending Dialog and set content in onCreate, but it feels like an overkill

avolovoy · by **avolovoy** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:24 pm

Ok this seemed to work

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LayoutInflater li = LayoutInflater.from(this);
 
        View view = li.inflate(R.layout.about, null);
 
        winAlert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setIcon(R.drawable.icon)
 
                .setTitle("Smart Tac Toe by Mobile Dynamix")
 
                .setPositiveButton("Ok", okListener).setView(view);
 
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is there anything i can do about the title ( font/background wise ? )

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:32 pm

I don't know about such options. Actually I hope you can't change too much about the title. It's supposed to be the same system wide, for the user to not get disoriented.

avolovoy · by **avolovoy** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:34 pm

good point. i'll let title stay standard.

Alert Dialog vs Dialog vs ?

Alert Dialog vs Dialog vs ?

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