Android Question Weird effect with Activity.AddMenuItem

[Noelkman]

Hi All,
I have a curious effect here. I'm adding some menu items via Activity.AddMenuItems in Activity_Create.

Now I have some initializations like Table, LoadSQL etc... that all works perfect no problem with that.

When I'm trying to show a Busy Initicator during these inits via ProgressDialogShow it does not show the dialog.
When I'm using Sleep(100) right after the ProgressDialogSHow is shows it but then the Menu is not showing.

My question: Is it bad practice to use Sleep in Create of what has the menu todo with this. Invalidate Activity does not help either.


Regards.

 

[Erel]

Have you tried to add the menu items before you call Sleep?

 

[Noelkman]

Hi Erel,
regarding your question I just put the AddMenuItems at topmost and boom they are there. If I put them after Sleep they do not show.

 

[Erel]

Sleep is equivalent to Return from the calling parent perspective. Under the hood the menu is set after the code returns from Activity_Create.
So when you put Sleep in Activity_Create the part after the sleep is only executed after the menu is already set.

It is fine to use sleep in Activity_Create.