Use of Help Popup and Closing

[drj]

Hi,

I have about 20 displays in my app and each display has a help button , when the user clicks the help button then I expect a popup display to popup with a Webview and a button in the display. The user is supposed to click the button to close the display and return the display he or she is working with.

I load a help file into the webview when the user clicks help. That part works fine.

What I do not know how to do is how to close the popup display by the user pressing the button on the popup to return to the display he or she was working on.

The routine I use to display the popup is simple as shown below. There will be a routing like this for everyone one of my displays except the html file changes depending on the function of that display.

Any ideas of how to close the popup?

Thanks Jerry

Sub PanPop
Activity.LoadLayout("PopUpLayout")

WebView1.LoadURL("file:///android_asset/mathcalc.html" )


End Sub

 

[Erel]

You do not need to load the layout each time. Instead you should load it once to a Panel and then change the panel visibility.

You should also catch the back key with Activity_KeyPress and then if the Panel is visible hide it instead of closing the activity.

See AnotherDatePicker class for an example.