Displaying MsgBox from Service with Intent?

agraham

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• Jun 11, 2011

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Only Activities can display User Interface items, Services can't. The only thing a Service can display is a Toast message.

 

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Snant

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• Jun 11, 2011

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Thank you for the answer. I already know that ToastMessage is the only dialog that can be displayed from Service but i was wondering if there is any way to display MessageBox from an intent.

I have tried displaying e.g. WIFI_SETTINGS and it works but i don't know if this could happen with a MsgBox using an intent.

Thank you.

 

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agraham

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• Jun 11, 2011

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Snant said:

i was wondering if there is any way to display MessageBox from an intent.

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I don't understand what you mean by this but you got it right in your first post.

i have to inform the activity to display any data i want.

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Only activities can display stuff.

 

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• Jun 11, 2011

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Hmm, i'm sorry, maybe i haven't completely understood the meaning of intents.

Is this display-only-from-Activity issue is only for B4A? Because there are plenty of apps that act as services, that display information like AlertDialogs with buttons and interact with the user.

 

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Erel

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The wifi settings page is an activity. Your Intent should start an Activity. You can then show a Msgbox and close the activity.

 

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Snant

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• Jun 11, 2011

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That's right Erel, i thought about this but i must admit that i don't really know how to call a custom activity from an intent.

Thank you.

 

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Erel

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• Jun 12, 2011

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B4X:

StartActivity(Main) 'Starts the activity named Main.

 

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JMB

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• Jun 12, 2011

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You could use CallSub([Activity],Sub) from inside your service to allow your activity to do the UI stuff.

If you had a Sub called "Showinfo" inside an Activity called "MainAct", you would make the call:

CallSub(MainAct,"Showinfo")

That would allow your service to communicate its progress to the main activity which would then update information as required.

You do have to make sure that the Acvtivity has not been suspended of course

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Erel

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CallSub is useful when the Activity is expected to be active. If not then it is easier to:
- Set a process global flag in the target activity
- Call StartActivity
- In Activity_Resume check this flag and then act accordingly.

 

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