I was hoping someone could help me figure out how to change the setmessage dialog in a progress dialog with just a dummy timer that cycles through either an array of strings or any other way. For example While its loading it could say Loading... -> Building... -> Rendering... -> ect. on like a 1/2 sec timer (this is just for me play with it I can adapt it use real-time updating once I figure out how to change the dialog.) I've been using this tutorial for the progress thread minus the orientation code. Any ideas?
thanks!
It's not pretty but I was able to get it to work with this:
public class BadBaconJoke extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
ProgressDialog dialog;
int increment;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.progressdialog);
Button startbtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.startbtn);
startbtn.setOnClickListener(this);
}
public void onClick(View view) {
// get the increment value from the text box
EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.increment);
// convert the text value to a integer
increment = Integer.parseInt(et.getText().toString());
dialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
dialog.setCancelable(true);
dialog.setTitle("Loading...");
dialog.setMessage("Almsot done!");
// set the progress to be horizontal
dialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);
// reset the bar to the default value of 0
dialog.setProgress(0);
// get the maximum value
EditText max = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.maximum);
// convert the text value to a integer
final int maximum = Integer.parseInt(max.getText().toString());
// set the maximum value
dialog.setMax(maximum);
// display the progressbar
dialog.show();
// create a thread for updating the progress bar
Thread background = new Thread (new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
// enter the code to be run while displaying the progressbar.
//
// This example is just going to increment the progress bar:
// So keep running until the progress value reaches maximum value
while (dialog.getProgress()<= dialog.getMax()) {
// wait 500ms between each update
Thread.sleep(500);
// active the update handler
progressHandler.sendMessage(progressHandler.obtainMessage());
}
} catch (java.lang.InterruptedException e) {
// if something fails do something smart
}
}
});
// start the background thread
background.start();
}
// handler for the background updating
Handler progressHandler = new Handler() {
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
dialog.incrementProgressBy(increment);
int x;
x = dialog.getProgress();
switch (x) {
case 10: dialog.setMessage("Gathering Data"); break;
case 20: dialog.setMessage("Parsing Results"); break;
case 30: dialog.setMessage("Builindg Data"); break;
case 40: dialog.setMessage("TeraForming"); break;
case 50: dialog.setMessage("Contacting Server"); break;
case 60: dialog.setMessage("Ping Back"); break;
case 70: dialog.setMessage("Processing"); break;
case 80: dialog.setMessage("Communicating with Device"); break;
case 90: dialog.setMessage("Populating"); break;
case 100: dialog.setMessage("Displaying Data:"); break;
default: dialog.setMessage("..."); break;
}
if (x == 100){
new AlertDialog.Builder(BadBaconJoke.this);
dialog.setTitle("Complete");
//.setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit?")
// dialog.setButton(android.R.string.no, null);
//.setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit?")
}
}
};
}
Any ideas how to get it work with a spinner vs a process dialog? When I change dialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL); to dialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
it only displays the default from the switch case.
