help needed to show popup window...

[nitin2304]

hello,

I want to show a LinearLayout (with other controls in it) as popup window on a button-click, could some one pls HELP me to solve it.....I googled but no luck.

many thanks in advance
Nitin

[Andcoder]

Best Place to look for solution is android source code i recently wanted to implement popup window and after long search on web i found solution in android calendar module source code in "calendarview" class in "updateeventdetails" method her is my experience http://www.ceveni.com/2009/09/popup-...e-program.html

[arnodenhond]

First inflate your layout.xml and assign it to a ViewGroup.
Prepare the controls in the viewgroup. (fe. assign OnClickListeners)

Personally I like to use AlertDialog.Builder to build a new alert dialog.
Use the setView method to assign your layout/viewgroup to the dialog.
Don't forget to call the create method.

Best to do all of this in the Activity's onCreateDialog method

    @Override
    protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
//inflate layout
            LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            ViewGroup aboutview = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.about, null);
//prepare controls
            Button button = (Button) aboutview.findViewById(R.id.button);
            siteButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View arg0) {
//add code here..
                }
            });
//create alert dialog with layout assigned as view
            return new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setView(aboutview).create();
    }

If you want to use a normal Dialog, use the setContentView method.

To open the dialog just call the Activity's showDialog method from your button click handling code.