Hi

I am using a custom title view in my application for each activity. In one of the activities, based on button clicks I need to change the custom title view. Now this works fine every time when I make a call to setFeatureInt.

But if I try to update any items in the custom title (say change the text of a button or a text view on the title), the update does not take place.

Debugging through the code shows that the text view and button instances are not null and I can also see the custom title bar. But the text on the text view or the button is not updated. Has anyone else faced this problem?
How do I resolve it?

Thanks.

Wondering if anyone knows the solution. Been 2 days

Please help...

Still haven't gotten a reply
Posting the code if that helps...

Here's what I tried

Hi,
For ur requirement , I would suggest the following : Instead of using the Window feature Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE , u can use a LinearLayout or a similar View as your title bar . In that case , u should have the Full Screen dimensions for ur use ( with default title bar disabled ) .
To set the Window feature , use :



To update the button text or the text of a textView , get the children of the LinearLayout that u use as title bar and update them.

Regards,
Satish

Thanks for the suggestion satishkumar.

Actually I am using the title view through out the app to give it a uniform look and this seems the best alternative. I trust the problem is not really because of using a custom title as the title bar appears.

The thing works file the first time the title bar is changed. Even the click listeners are registered the first time (I change it as many as 3 times in the activity). But if I change it after that, neither are the listeners registered, nor is the text changed on the textview.

Thought this might help someone else

The problem is that the only Window implementation (PhoneWindow) uses a LayoutInflater in its setFeatureInt method and instantiates the new layout with inflate and attachToRoot=true. Consequently, when you call setFeatureInt, the new layouts are not replaced but attached to the internal title container and thus drawn on top of each other.

Here's what I am doing now

Let's assume we have two custom title layouts:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/custom_title_1" ...
and

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/custom_title_2" ...

and we want to replace custom_title_1 with custom_title_2, we could hide former and use setFeatureInt to add the latter:

findViewById(R.id.custom_title_1).setVisibility(View.GONE);
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.custom_title_2);