android alert dialog

Question

I have an alert box, created through the following code:

private AlertDialog makeAndShowDialogBox(){

        myDialogBox = 

            new AlertDialog.Builder(this) 
            //set message, title, and icon
            .setTitle("Terminator") 
            .setMessage("Are you sure that you want to quit?") 
            .setIcon(android.R.drawable.btn_star)

            //set three option buttons
            .setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { 
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) { 
                 //whatever should be done when answering "YES" goes here


                    functionShow(myDialogBox);

                }              
            })//setPositiveButton
        /*  .setNeutralButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { 
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) { 
                 //whatever should be done when answering "NO" goes here
                 msg = "Cancel " + Integer.toString(whichButton);   
                 txtMsg.setText(msg);
                }
                })*/


            .setNegativeButton("NO", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { 
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) { 
                 //whatever should be done when answering "NO" goes here
                 msg = "NO " + Integer.toString(whichButton);   
                 txtMsg.setText(msg);
             } 
            })//setNegativeButton

            .create();

            return myDialogBox;
    }

The alert box vanishes as soon as the user selects OK. But i want the alert box to still wait for a particular time before vanishing as i want to change the message on the alert box. How can i do it?

functionShow has following definition:

void functionShow(final AlertDialog dia)
    {

        dia.setMessage("Generating Unique ID ... Please Wait ");



        Handler handler = new Handler();
        handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() { 
            public void run() { 
                dia.setMessage("Notyfying the user ... Please Wait");         
            } 
       }, 10000); 


        Handler handler1 = new Handler();
        handler1.postDelayed(new Runnable () {
            public void run()
            {
                dia.setMessage("Your unique id is 0001. Kindly wait for the other person to respond");
            }
        }, 15000);

}

But the program checks out as soon as i click ok ... without showing other messages.

Seems pretty unintutive UI. If someone clicks to close something out, and it, instead, changes the text of the dialog, they may get confused. Can you show a Toast after the dialog closes? — Stealth Rabbi, Dec 09 '11 at 13:54
@StealthRabbi: The message changes when the user clicks ok and tells the user to wait to perform some action — Rebooting, Dec 09 '11 at 14:01
go to to add image and text you want to show in ur alert dialog box... http://stackoverflow.com/a/10861216/1428123 and edit in ur java code like below http://stackoverflow.com/a/10861174/1428123 — Amit Parjapati, Jun 02 '12 at 09:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '11 at 13:59

Use a custom AlertDialog like this:

MyAlertDialog.java

public class MyAlertDialog extends AlertDialog {

    public boolean allowedToDismiss = false;
    public void dismiss() {
        if(allowedToDismiss) {
            super.dismiss();
        }
    }
}

And inside the class where you hold your dialog:

MyAlertDialog myDialogBox;    
/*Code...*/

public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) { 
     myDialogBox.allowedToDismiss = true;
     /*Code...*/
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

0

Just some guessing from my side:

In another thread with with some kind of thread.sleep in it?

Or in a asynctask with a while loop that's waiting for a result when it can proceed and close the diaolog?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Dec 09 '11 at 13:54

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i tried post delayed and handler too .. but it ain't working :| – Rebooting Dec 09 '11 at 13:58

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