[malani_manish]

Hi,

I am trying to schedule a background Application at particular interval. When it executes it will fetch data from server and process it. I would like to show message to user if any error/exception occurs.

I searched forum and tried various things to show a Alert Dialog message from my background application but nothing helped. Most of solutions give me "Not in Event Thread Exception"

I referred to

and added following code in my background application.

synchronized(Application.getEventLock()){    UiEngine ui = Ui.getUiEngine();
    Screen screen = new Dialog(Dialog.D_OK, "Look out!!!", 
        Dialog.OK,           Bitmap.getPredefinedBitmap(Bitmap.EXCLAMATION),         Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLL);
    ui.pushGlobalScreen(screen, 1, UiEngine.GLOBAL_QUEUE);
}

This does not raise any exception but also does not show any dialog. Please help me or refer me to some code example of similar type.

[hippocamp software]

Actually scratch my previous answer - i see your getting the code from here so i must be wrong:

http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgec...20551&vernum=0

[malani_manish]

Originally Posted by hippocamp software

You don't need to get a handle to the UiEngine. You should just be able to use screen.show(); - although i'd advise against naming your Dialog instances as 'screen', it's a little confusing. Plus you're casting a class of type Dialog to Screen here so you're losing all the things in Dialog that make it a Dialog!

Thanks for responding

I have taken this code from Blackberry Knowledge base. As my number of posts are less than 10 I cannot put direct link here. But you can search for "How To - Alert a BlackBerry smartphone user from a Background application"

I tried following but didn't work

synchronized(Application.getEventLock()){    
   Dialog alert = new Dialog(Dialog.D_OK, error, Dialog.OK, Bitmap.getPredefinedBitmap(Bitmap.EXCLAMATION), Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLL);
   alert.show();
}

[hippocamp software]

looks like we posted at the same time - i was wrong when i said the cast would lose methods, i'm misunderstanding something there.

i use the following to display a screen that extends PopupScreen :

invokeLater(new Runnable() {

public void run() {
pushGlobalScreen(new yourPopup(app), 0, yourApp.GLOBAL_MODAL);
}
});