Re: [android-developers] Dialog dismiss()

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com> wrote:

How can I keep my dismiss() calls from blowing up?

Keep a class-level reference to the dialog and dismiss it if you're being destroyed. Or use showDialog() / dismissDialog().

The issue (I ran into this):

1 - You show your dialog in Activity instance A.

2 - You rotate device while it's still showing.

3 - Background thread is still running in Activity instance A which is now being destroyed.

4 - Background thread finally finishes and tries to dismiss a dialog that is no longer attached to the original Activity instance A.

5 - Boom.

 

 Why doesn't try/catch work?

I *think* because dismiss is asynchronous - calling dismiss just puts the dialog in the queue for cleanup. I think.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Android Developers" group.
To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
android-developers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en