Android Question Reload a MsgBox after an Activity Pause

JohnC

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• Feb 21, 2020

• #2

I don't know if this will work depending on your program flow, but...

Before you display the MsgBox, set a Boolean flag in a variable, and then clear the flag if the user clicks OK.

Then in the Activity_Resume check to see if this flag is still set, and if so redisplay the MsgBox.

 

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rbirago

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• Feb 21, 2020

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It should be a good solution if in the activity there is only one situation of this kind...but if I have more than one similar case this way is very tricky. Is it possible that there is not a straight way to manage a msgbox answer after a Pause/Resume? It is not a so strange situation...

 

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JohnC

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• Feb 21, 2020

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So then set a numerical value to the flag so it will remember which "state" it was last in:

So when Flag=1 then display Msgbox("Do backup?")
or if Flag = 2 then MsgBox("Restore Data?"), etc.

The variable then acts like a "state machine".

 

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rbirago

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• Feb 21, 2020

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Yes, shurely it works. Don't you think that is really strange that there is not a straight way to manage it? If you think about this case could occur in all circumstances. So every time you want to have an acknowledge of a user you have to build this mechanism.
Anyway: thank you for the suggestion. If none has a simpler way I'll follow this way.
Roberto

 

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JohnC

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• Feb 21, 2020

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Yeah, I would think that the msgbox should stay visible on the activity even if the activity was hidden and then made visible.

 

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rbirago

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• Feb 21, 2020

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Exatly, I want to believe that there is a way to achieve this.
Also because in the previous example I cannot resolve the trick by a pointer: if I have different subs that have to wait for an acknowledge of the user the problem is not to show different messages, but to continue the different operations of each specific sub!

 

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Erel

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• Feb 23, 2020

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Use B4XDialog instead of Msgbox. It will not be discarded when the activity is paused.

 

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rbirago

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• Feb 23, 2020

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That's the solution, thanks!
but...at this point...it is a fact that Msgbox and MsgboxAsync have this important limit: don't you think that should both be considered deprecated? B4xDialog is the only all-purposes answer!
Roberto

 

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Erel

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• Feb 23, 2020

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Msgbox is deprecated. MsgboxAsync is not deprecated. This is how Msgbox(Async) always behaved. It was removed when the activity is paused.

 

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rbirago

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• Feb 23, 2020

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ok, thanks

 

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