Hi

hello, Kadrov!

how can I help you today?

Kadrov: do you have a question?

Do you know any easy to implement ways to make gift codes system for application? My application is free with in-app purchase for unlocking PRO version.

sorry, but I have never used the in-app purchasing system

I need this functionality to say thanks to my beta testers

you might try asking this on StackOverflow, or if there is a Google Group dedicated for the in-app purchasing stuff

ok, thanks

sorry that I could not be of greater help on that question

if you have other questions (not related to in-app purchases), feel free to ask -- nobody else is in the chat room presently

hello, Andrew!

how can I help you today?

hi Mark

nowt too crowded today eh? :)

another person was here earlier and left

otherwise, yes, rather quiet

qjuick question, I am finally getting around to implementing my dialogs as Fragments

I'm setting up a custom DialogFragment since I want to make the layout appear a certain way

The dialog just consists of a TextView that I have styled appropriately

meaning that you are using onCreateView()? or are you still creating a Dialog in onCreateDialog()?

onCreateDialog since I'm subclassing SherlockDialogFragment

so from onCreateDialog I inflate the XML and set it up etc

FWIW, onCreateView() still works with SherlockDialogFragment AFAIK -- the resulting View is wrapped in a generic Dialog

problem is, after that creation, I need to set some new text in that text field from outside the class

but your approach should be fine

I can't get a handle to it by any way I've tried

you inflated the layout

just find the TextView there and hold onto it in the SherlockDialogFragment

(though you will need to watch out for configuration changes, making sure you get the fresh TextView if/when the dialog is re-created)

well, right now the TextView is local to the inner class (DialogFragment child)

doesn't have to be that way but can I just refer to it directly after I inflate it or do I have to do getFragment().findById?

there is no findById() on the fragment IIRC

you can call getDialog().findViewById() on your DialogFragment, though

leastways, that should work -- haven't tried it

yeah I have tried the getDialog().findViewById() route but get a null back

that's odd

then I'd roll back to trying to hold onto the TextView after inflation

Honestly I don't fully understand the diferences between manually inflating with a Layoutinflator vs using the findVyewById of the root

those are apples and oranges

inflating a layout *creates* Views

findViewById() *retrieves* Views that somebody else created, perhaps via inflation

by specifying a layout in the xml - do you need to inflate those layouts or are they considered already inflated?

I feel like I never use the LayoutInflator

somebody, somewhere, is inflating layout XML resources

setContentView(), for example, uses LayoutInflater under the covers

ah

that was the key I was missing

yeah, any time there is a layout XML resource, somebody is using LayoutInflater

so if I wanted to do things with a laout specified in a different xml file (not the one set as content view) I'd have to inflate them myself

yes, such as having a very fancy Adapter where you have different row structures for different types of items

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I will tinker with this DialogFragment a bit more and if I have issue I'll try to be in next time earlier

OK

thanks Mark

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