[krishnanrajah]

Hi,

How can a popupscreen be customized ? I need to add images to the border and dropshadows to the window. Also is it possible to keep the application running in background and pop-up when a PIN message is recieved.

thanks
krishnan

[arifzaman]

Hi krishnan,

Originally Posted by krishnanrajah

How can a popupscreen be customized ? I need to add images to the border and dropshadows to the window. Also is it possible to keep the application running in background and pop-up when a PIN message is recieved.

You can create a custom Dialog by extending the net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog class and customizing it to suit your needs.

See the following link to create a background application:
http://www.blackberryforums.com/deve...to-starts.html

Sample code to show message from a Background application:

private void showMessage(String data) {
  UiEngine ui = Ui.getUiEngine();
  Screen screen = new Dialog(Dialog.D_OK, data, Dialog.OK,
    Bitmap.getPredefinedBitmap(Bitmap.EXCLAMATION),
    Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLL);
  ui.queueStatus(screen, 1, true);
}

Enjoy,
ARIF

[krishnanrajah]

Hi Arif,

Thanks for the response.

Originally Posted by arifzaman

You can create a custom Dialog by extending the net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog class and customizing it to suit your needs.

Is there a code sample available for Extending Dialog ? As far i have seen it allows the cutomization of the icon , the messages only. I need to design a totaly different looking alert screen, its like lets say a designing a popup screen with star-wars images for the background.

thanks
krishnan

[vikas1985]

Hi Arif,

Me too looking for code to change the background color of dialog box provided by net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog api.

Small code snippet for how to do it will be very helpful.

Regards,
Vikas

[arifzaman]

Hi Vikas,

Originally Posted by vikas1985

Hi Arif,

Me too looking for code to change the background color of dialog box provided by net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog api.

Small code snippet for how to do it will be very helpful.

Regards,
Vikas

Here is a sample code to change the background color of Dialog:

/**
 * Custom Dialog
 */
public final class CustomDialog extends Dialog {   
    
    public CustomDialog() {
        super(Dialog.D_OK, "Custom Dialog", 1,
        Bitmap.getPredefinedBitmap(Bitmap.EXCLAMATION), Manager.FOCUSABLE);        
    }
    
    public void paint(Graphics graphics) {        
        graphics.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);
        graphics.clear();
        super.paint(graphics);
    }   
}

/**
 * Add the following code, where you do like to show your custom dialog
 */
CustomDialog customDialog = new CustomDialog();
customDialog.show();

Cheers,
ARIF

[vikas1985]

Hi Areef,

Many thanks for your code.

But don't know its some how still not changing the color. I am running your code on Blackberry simulator 7290.

I am attaching the screen shot. In which on a button's click event I have called the custom dialog box.

Any more methods to do it?

Thanks & Regards,
Vikas

[Asskick]

Nice code! works like a charm.. but now I have a lil' variation i would like to get workign which I couldnt get... how can I make it show the dialog when an app is working on the background?? Let says it fires up something from an event that happens, and it pops up just a dialog to input something (dont want to load the full control of the app)