Using preference screen like a dialog

[cheese]

Is it possible to use the preferences screen like a dialog?

I think to do this I would have to settle for persisting the dialog's choices and settling for that, right? Also I assume I'd have to capture the user input in Activity_Resume? This is cloudy for me how I would do that. How do I know the preference activity even ran?


I am currently using a custom dialog but I find it a pain to place widgets on a panel programmatically. I wish there were some layout grid bag or auto-positioning in b4a or Android. Is there something I can use?

All the best
Geoff

 

[Erel]

You cannot use it as a modal dialog. Did you see the PreferenceActivity tutorial? It covers the issues you raised.

 

[warwound]

I just tried this and it works, updating the manifest file entry for the PreferenceActivity to:

AddApplicationText(
<activity android:name="anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.preferenceactivity" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog" />)

Is that what you wanted to do?

Martin.

 

[joneden]

Hi Geoff,

Nice idea - I'm also using a custom dialog and running into issues with it - I wish I had time to write a customdialog form builder tool!

Could you post if you get anywhere with this idea?

Cheers,

Jon

 

[cheese]

thanks for your replies!

I don't have the time for custom dialog builder though it is nice to have. I wonder if we can use the new Java interface builder somehow to accomplish that... which is a different thread.

Cheesr