Question

I have an app in MonoTouch.Dialog where I try to use the ActivityElement.

My plan was to first show an activity element, then make my webservice call and when I got the response I would remove the activity element and instead add some new string elements.
This does not work. I am unable to remove or add elements once the view has been displayed.

How do I solve this?

rootElement = new RootElement ("Mobile Servicedesk"){
                (requestSection = new Section ("My requests"){
                    new ActivityElement()
                })
            };
            new Thread (() => {
                var incidents = IncidentProvider.LoadMyRequests ();
                requestSection.Elements.Clear ();
                foreach (var item in incidents) {
                    requestSection.Elements.Add (new StringElement(item.Name))
                }
            }
            ).Start ();

EDIT:

OK, now I got the updating part solved, at least in one part of my solution.

InvokeOnMainThread (() => {
                    ReloadData();
                });

ReloadData() works in my appDelegate view, but not in my subviews. I even tried to ensure that it is invokedd on the main thread but still no luck…

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Ah! Got it!

Since I had a second RootElement I needed call ReloadData on that specific root… now it works!