Question

I am having an issue with creating a pop-up window. I have a game i’m developing, and I’m trying to have a window or sub-menu pop up after I’ve won the game so the user has an option of quitting or restarting. Everything I’ve seen on popup windows is done in the activity. I want to do this from my “controller” class, basically I want to check to see if the user has won within my logic class and if they did bring up a window, I have a feeling, I’m going to have to do this in my activity. Any help would be appreciated it. If you need any further details just let me know.

Answer 1

You will have to do it in the Activity. You have two options:

1) When you know the game is over, have a method in your “controller” class that returns whether or not the popup should be displayed. Something like isGameWon(). Call this from your Activity and respond accordingly.

2) Keep a reference to your Activity in your controller class, or allow access to your Activity as a singleton object. When the game ends, check if the player won in your controller class, and if so, call a function in your Activity to display the popup, like showGameWonPopup().

You can’t display a popup outside of the UI Activity. Your two classes need to communicate about the end result of the game and respond accordingly.