[pa4o85]

I have the main thread and another more thread running with the main thread...I need a dialog in the main thread that should close itself when the other thread stopped...Do I need this dialog extends thread?...Cause when the dialog is not a thread and is in the main thread, the main thread is stopping where the dialog is set because it is waiting for my choice...I used Dialog.ask(....);....but it is modal...so i tried with new Dialog(...) object...but in this case i cannot show the dialog when i want....I am confused and don't have a clear idea...Can s.o. help me?

[jfisher]

have you tried popping the dialog from the background thread?

UiApplication.getUiApplication().invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
UiApplication.getUiApplication().popScreen(UiAppli cation.getUiApplication().getActiveScreen());
}
});

[josecsm]

I use this in the constructor of a MainScreen

_singleton=this;
 _timer=new Timer();
_timer.schedule(new TimerTask(){
                public void run(){
                    synchronized(UiApplication.getUiApplication().getEventLock()){
                        UiApplication.getUiApplication().popScreen(_singleton);
                    } 
                }
        },60000);

that makes the window close 1 minute after

[pa4o85]

well...

jfisher, i didn't tried this...now i have a code like this...and i don't know why the dialog is not pushed to the screen....

Dialog closeDialog = null;
if (!cancel && isRunning) {
closeDialog = new Dialog("synchronizing...", new String[] {"Cancel"},
new int[] {Dialog.CANCEL}, Dialog.CANCEL, Bitmap.getPredefinedBitmap(Bitmap.INFORMATION));
closeDialog.show();
closeDialog.setDialogClosedListener(this);
} else {
//isCancelled = true;
closeDialog.close();
}

This code is in the main thread...i have not tried to put the dialog in the background thread...but where in your posted code is the Dialog which i need...i can not understand this...

[pa4o85]

Maybe you mean that this method getActiveScreen() is my Dialog...but i have a screen which is active at that time...i need to put a dialog above this active screen and hide it when the background thread stops

[jfisher]

The way i do this scenario is to set the thread going and then display a dialog akin to:

someThread sT = new someThread();
sT.start();
UiApplication.getUiApplication.pushScreen(myCustom Popup());
//or simply:
//Dialog.inform("Message");//or whatever you're using for your popup
//you could also use pushModalScreen to block

your dialog is now the topmost screen on the stack, your thread is doing whatever it's doing, when the thread has finished if you call the popScreen from the thread it'll remove the popup and if it's modal you can continue with your main thread.

[pa4o85]

Yes you are right but my case is not that easy...It is not working like this..I have this piece of code:

private void sync() {
Sync sync = null;
ProgressStatus prog = new ProgressStatus();
boolean isCancelled = false;
synchronized (prog) {
if (!isRunning) {
isRunning = true;
isCancelled = false;
sync = new Sync(prog, dataBase, isCancelled, dataLimit, isRunning);
sync.start();
isRunning = sync.getIsRunning();
}
}
cancelDialog = new Dialog("synchronizing...", new String[] {"Cancel"},
new int[] {Dialog.CANCEL}, Dialog.CANCEL, Bitmap.getPredefinedBitmap(Bitmap.INFORMATION));
cancelDialog.setDialogClosedListener(this);
while (isRunning) {
try {
Thread.sleep(100L);
} catch (InterruptedException exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
}
synchronized (prog) {
isRunning = sync.getIsRunning();
if (isCancelled) {
sync.setCancelled(isCancelled);
Status.show("Sync is cancelled");
}
}
if (!cancel && isRunning) {
//cancelDialog.show();
UiApplication.getUiApplication().pushScreen(cancel Dialog);
//add(cancelDialog);
} else {
cancelDialog.close();
isCancelled = true;
}
}
}

the sync object is my thread...this is happening when a button is clicked...on the device a screen is displayed...so i cannot see the cancelDialog (Dialog object) on the display...

Forget about this...I don't want to waste your time...I will handle with that somehow