[jrlawhorne]

I'm new to BB GUI development.

I'm trying to call something as simple as:

Dialog.alert("Alert!");

as soon as my application starts, from within a main screen that I've defined.

My setup is:

I have an App defined:

public class MyApp extends UiApplication {
    MyModel m_model;  // Is the data model
    MyView  m_view;    // Acts as both the view and controller.
                            
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyApp theApp = new MyApp();
        theApp.enterEventDispatcher();
    }
    
    // App ctor
    public MyApp() {
        // create model first so it can init before the view asks it for values
        m_model = MyModel.getInstance(); // singleton
        m_view = new MyView();
        
        // show the main screen.
        pushScreen(m_view);
    }
}

And the MainScreen/View (I've removed much to simplify):

final class MyView extends MainScreen implements MyResource {
    private MyModel m_model;
    private ResourceBundle _resources = ResourceBundle.getBundle(BUNDLE_ID, BUNDLE_NAME);
    
    public MyView() {
        super();
        m_model = MyModel.getInstance();

        // ... Init components
        LabelField title = new LabelField(_resources.getString(APPLICATION_TITLE), LabelField.ELLIPSIS
        | LabelField.USE_ALL_WIDTH);
        setTitle(title);

        Dialog.alert("Alert!");
    }
    
    protected void onDisplay()
    {
        Dialog.alert("Alert!");
    }
}

I've tried to call Dialog.alert() from both the constructor and the onDisplay method with the same result.

I get this exception:

"pushModalScreen called by a non-event thread"

Thanks

[Dougsg38p]

1) m_view is defined as MyView but instantiated as ToodledoView.

2) Following your code, your application has not yet entered the event dispatcher when you are calling the Dialog in the MyView constructor.

I guess you should escribe what it is that you are trying to accomplish. I've never tried to pop a modal dialog in the "onDisplay()" method before, obviuosly the system doesn't like it.

[jrlawhorne]

1) typo - This code is a simplified extract.
2) When my app starts up, I need to check it's configuration and get input from the user if the app has never been run before, for instance. There are other things that get checked but that's just one of them.

So, eventually, I'll need a more complicated dialog/screen to come up, conditionally, to gather this information. I'm using Dialog.alert() because it's simple and shows the same problem.